On this last day of Black History Month as we transition into Women's History Month, meet the Honorable Abigail Rogers, South Carolina’s first Black female judge. 🏛️✨ WATCH the full interview here: https://t.co/zexmGsqlgm
Highlighting Chief Justice Donald Beatty, a distinguished legal figure & trailblazer in our state who has served on the South Carolina Supreme Court since 2007. Chief Justice Beatty is only the second Black Chief Justice in SC since Reconstruction. ✨ #BlackLegalVoices#SCBarBHM
This week’s property is of the ca. 1908 Abbeville County Courthouse, which was added to the Survey of Historic Resources around 1981. Patrons can find additional details on this property on the South Carolina Historic Properties Record at https://t.co/5zzuPZU0VQ.
South Carolina @SC_Courts and @SCBAR lost a legal giant and a wonderful person with the passing of Judge John C. Hayes. He was a brilliant jurist and public servant.
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As we continue to highlight history making women of South Carolina’s courts, today we recognize Associate Municipal Court Judge Jasmine Twitty, who in 2015 became South Carolina’s youngest municipal judge at age 25, a distinction she held for six years.
@Judge_Twitty After graduating from the College of Charleston as a political science major, the Greenville native was hired as a night clerk at the Greenville County bond court. https://t.co/Wc6u34m2Qz
As we continue celebrating Women’s History Month in South Carolina, today, we are honoring recently retired Justice Kaye G. Hearn, who’s remarkable career has inspired many.
In 2010, she received the SC Women Lawyers Association's Jean Galloway Bissell Award; and in 2012, Governor Nikki Haley presented her the Woman of Achievement Award from the SC Commission on Women.