Awards and Recognition​

• 2021 Louis Wainwright Award 

• 2013 Leadership in Law Award

• 2012 Midlands Legal Elite

• 2011 Order of the Palmetto

 

Professional, Civic, and Community Involvement

• Board of Trustees, SC Center for Fathers and Families

• Board of Directors, JUMPSTART SOUTH CAROLINA

• SC Business and Industry Political Education Committee

• South Carolina Sentencing Reform Oversight Commission

• Columbia, SC Police Chief Selection Committee

• Former Director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections

• American Correctional Association

  • Past Chair, Staff Safety Committee

• Correctional Leaders Association (CLA)), Associate Member

  • Past Chair, Staff Safety Committee

  • Past Chair, Legal, Legislative and Policy Committee 

  • Past Associate Representative to the Board

• Reserve Legislative Affairs Counsel to the Chief of Naval Operations, Readiness, and Logistics, Washington, D.C.

• Board of Directors, Oliver Gospel Mission

• Former Chief General Counsel for the SC Department of Labor Licensing and Regulation (LLR)

• Former Member, Sentencing Reform Commission

• Former Member and Vice-Chair of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Training Council

• Former Member, Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force

• Former Deputy Attorney General and Chief Prosecutor for the State Grand Jury, (1994 – 2000)

• Former Reserve Administrative Law Attorney, Office of the Judge Advocate General,  Washington D.C.  

• Defense Research Institute

• International Society of Primerus Law Firms

• South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys’ Association

 

Education

• University of Alabama, Juris Doctor

• The Citadel

  • Cum Laude

  • Alegernon Sydney Sullivan Award

 

Bar & Court Admissions

• South Carolina

• Alabama

• U.S. Court of Military Appeals

• U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina

• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit

• U.S. Supreme Court