1976
Clay Allen retired as the 7th Judicial Circuit Public Defender on July 2, 2020, after serving in that position for 12 years. Before that, he was the Spartanburg County chief public defender for two years. He is currently living with his wife, Elisabeth, in Greenville and in Pumpkintown, S.C.
1978
Tom Bolt has been appointed chair of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress. He also serves on The Salvation Army National Advisory Board, and he continues to practice law on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands.
1984
Kevin Mundy was sworn in as a member of the Winston-Salem, N.C., City Council on Dec. 7, 2020. Mundy, who has lived in Winston-Salem since 1987, represents the city’s Southwest Ward.
1986
Jerry Lanford and his wife, Jodi, retired from the Florida school system after 30 years and moved to Sylva, N.C. He is currently teaching at Blue Ridge Early College in Cashiers.
1987
Dr. Tracy Harrell Dunn has been named dean of the Benedict College Tyrone Adam Burroughs School of Business and Entrepreneurship in Columbia, S.C. She is the fourth dean to head the college’s business school and the first woman to hold the position. She has been the interim dean for the past three years. Dunn holds a Ph.D. and MBA from the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. She joined the faculty at Benedict College in 2002.
1988
Laura Thomson McCarty was featured in the Executive Function column of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities, fall 2020 issue. She is the president of Georgia Humanities.
1990
Wen Crenshaw graduated from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Leadership Academy. He serves as a division director for Murdoch Developmental Center, a 500-bed, state-operated health care facility serving persons with behavioral challenges, developmental and intellectual disabilities, and autism.
Michael Dennis received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Addiction Professionals of South Carolina. Dennis is the executive director of the Tri-County Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, serving Bamberg, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties.
1991
Dr. Paige West is among the honorees in the Explorers Club’s inaugural EC 50 program, which recognizes 50 explorers who are changing the world. She’s one of the 21 women named to the list. More than 400 explorers were nominated from more than 50 countries. West holds the Claire Tow Professorship in Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University, where she serves as the director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Social Difference. She has worked in Papua New Guinea since 1996 and studies the biodiversity and traditions of indigenous peoples while supporting the conservation of their cultures, languages and environments. She’s the author and editor of several books and the co-founder of two nonprofits that are conservation focused.
1993
Chad Stamper has been named co-leader and broker-in-charge for Allen Tate Companies Vest Mill Road and Hanes Mall Boulevard offices in Winston-Salem, N.C. He has worked as a Realtor since 2005, and as a sales agent, property manager and broker-in-charge.
1994
Dr. Chuck Carter was recently appointed by Prisma Health as the regional graduate medical education executive and designated institutional official for the Midlands Region residency and fellowship programs. Carter also is assuming the role of associate dean for graduate medical education for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia.
1995
Derek Brown has been named associate dean for development at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He will lead medical school and hospital fundraising.
1999
Dr. Anthony Leigh was a featured presenter at the 2020 Institute for Chief Academic Officers and Academic Team Members, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges. His presentation was during a panel on integrating general education and career preparation.
2002
Bailey King, a litigation partner at Bradley in Charlotte, N.C., was named to the Top 25 Charlotte and Top 100 North Carolina Super Lawyers list. He has more than 15 years of experience representing businesses and individuals in commercial litigation.
2007
Erin Coy Levy and her husband, Ethan, welcomed their daughter, Eliza Clare, on Aug. 20, 2020. They have two other children, Caroline and Grayson.
2009
John Robert Barth recently became a franchise owner of The Flying Biscuit Café in Columbia, S.C.
Brent Owen has been elevated to partner with the international law firm Squire Patton Boggs. Owen lives in Denver, and is licensed in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico. He has been with the firm since 2015.
Amelia Wilson Simmons and her husband, Brandon, welcomed a son, Wilson Ray Simmons, on Nov. 19, 2020. They live in Atlanta.
2010
Matt Abee was elected to the partnership of the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough in Columbia, S.C., where he practices as a litigator in the areas of employment, insurance and business litigation.
Dave and Allyson King Moffat welcomed their daughter, Merrill “Taite” Moffat, on Dec. 18, 2020. Taite joins big brother Wells.
Dr. Lauren Jamison Pinckney and Justin Pinckney ’08 welcomed their first child, James “Jay” Cotesworth Pinckney, on Nov. 28, 2020. The family lives in Greenville, S.C.
2011
Dr. Jim Allen Shuman and Kaitlyn Bradshaw Shuman ’12 welcomed their daughter, Kennedy Grace Shuman, on Sept. 29, 2020. The couple has two other children, Brooklyn (3) and Banks (1). In August, Jim Allen joined Palmetto Family Medicine in Taylors, S.C. The family now resides in Greenville, S.C.
In addition to her current role as commercial lines manager at Kinghorn Insurance Agency of Beaufort, S.C., and TW Insurance Agency in Summerville, S.C., Charlotte Perrow Law has recently become a partner at the new TW Insurance Agency in Greenville, S.C., where she will continue to lead the commercial lines team across the organization from Beaufort.
2012
Bates Adair and Emily Adair welcomed Weber Bates Adair to their family on Jan. 1, 2021. They live in Charlotte, N.C.
Kaitlin and Joe Bailey welcomed their son, Davis Cole Bailey, on July 1, 2020. The family lives in Baltimore, Md.
Jesse Dixon received a master of science degree in computer science with a specialization in interactive intelligence from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He’s a web programmer at Florence-Darlington Technical College.
Haley Sims Hines married Brandon Hines on June 14, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. They reside in Lyman, S.C. She is a senior financial analyst at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System.
Brandon Robinson was recently promoted to tax partner by Bradshaw, Gordon & Clinkscales in Greenville, S.C.
2013
Laura Douglass Marion married Richard Bowen Tibbetts Jr. on Oct. 10, 2020, at Sankaty Head Lighthouse in Nantucket, Mass.
Sara Shealy married Thomas Victa on Dec. 19, 2020, in Columbia, S.C. She is a development officer in the business school of Stevens Institute of Technology in Columbia.
2016
Ashley Ann Cantey has been hired by The Beach Company as an experience navigator at The Jasper in Charleston, S.C. Before joining The Jasper, she was an assistant community manager with Greystar, also in Charleston.
Mariah Fuller and C.J. Neumann were married on Sept. 5, 2020, in Mendota Heights, Minn.
Justin Gordon was named MVP of the British Basketball League Cup Final. He scored 17 points and grabbed a BBL Cup Final record 15 rebounds to lead the Newcastle Eagles to their fifth cup title in the last decade and seventh overall. Gordon was a member of Wofford’s back-to-back Southern Conference Championship teams in 2014 and 2015.
2017
Kendall Eoute was admitted to the S.C. Bar Association in October 2020. She is an attorney with Cate & Brough in Spartanburg, S.C.
2018
Conner Michelle Wood and Charlie Kanel were married Oct. 10, 2020.
2020
Joshua Adams married his high-school sweetheart, Alexa Bagwell, on May 31, 2020. Their planned large church wedding was instead an intimate family wedding at an outdoor chapel in their hometown. Joshua has accepted a position as YouTube strategist for Elevation Church in Charlotte, N.C.
Jennings Brackett and Jordon Accetta ’17 were married in Monroe, N.C., on May 30, 2020. Jennings works as a social media associate for a boutique branding and marketing firm in Belmont, N.C., and Jordon is a financial advisor based in their hometown of Rock Hill, S.C.
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Dr. Grace Schwartz, assistant professor of chemistry, had the article “Demethylation or Sorption? Fate of Methylmercury in the Presence of Manganese Dioxide” accepted for publication by the journal Environmental Engineering Science.
Masha Vlasova, assistant professor of studio art, in collaboration with Moira O’Shea of the University of Chicago, had the article “Fluid Objects: On the Impermanence of Monuments” accepted for publication by the ASAP/Journal, Johns Hopkins University Press. She also had the paper “Psycho-geographical Choreography: Hand-held Filmmaking and Pedagogy” accepted for the edited volume Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Practice and Theory in Documentary-Based Filmmaking by Intellect Books.