Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Area
Founder, CEO, and President: Operations management, leadership, communication, customer service, business strategy. Mediator for mediation conferences. Arbitrator, at times on arbitration panels: as Chairman at times. Negotiator. Lawyer: in Georgia and Washington, D.C. In South Carolina through Court Rule 19 for ADR as a certified court-appointed neutral. Personalized consultations and coaching for leadership skills, organizational skills, and well-being aspects. Mentor to students at: Montana State University Jake Jabs College of Business & Entrepreneurship; Clemson University, including but not limited to with the Wilbur O. and Ann Powers College of Business; and Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business. Award the annual Leadership, Ltd. Co., Up-and-Coming Award, established 2025.
“The purpose of the Institute for Ethics is to encourage discussion on [the Clemson University] campus, in businesses and in the community about how ethical decision-making can be the basis of both personal and professional success.” – Robert J. Rutland Member Board of Advisors: Elected on the 25th anniversary of the Founding of the Rutland Institute for Ethics as of April 2026 with term to begin July 2026. Also, Judge for the annual Rutland Institute for Ethics High School Ethics Competition. "Clemson University’s Ina B. Durham Annual High School Ethics Case Competition engages high school students in a hands-on, methodical approach to solving ethical dilemmas in a professional setting. Teams of two high school students propose a solution to an ethical dilemma using the Clemson University STAR Decision-Making Model in front of a panel of professional judges. Up to two teams per high school are allowed to compete the competition." 2019-2023, 2025* - Present. (*Online competition was canceled.) Attended the March 30, 2026, TIDE conference session on political perspectives of students as an observer.
“Prisma Health is a private nonprofit health company with over 32,000 team members, 19 acute and specialty hospitals, 3,131 licensed beds, 320 practice sites, and more than 5,900 employed and independent clinicians across its clinically integrated inVio Health Network. Each year, Prisma Health serves more than 1.6 million patients in South Carolina and Tennessee.” Prisma Health website. Member of Prisma Health’s Oconee Memorial Foundation’s Women in Philanthropy Council: a group of women philanthropists who come together to provide monetary grants to further the medical profession and healthcare through Prisma’s Oconee Memorial Hospital in Oconee County, South Carolina, at a minimum. Invited to join the President's Circle: term began October 20, 2025. Serving on the Grants Committee. To date, almost $500,000 has been given toward this endeavor by the members. In 2025, we joined with the Oconee Memorial Hospital (OMH) Foundation donors to contribute "$6, 896, 729,”[1] the “highest fiscal year revenue for Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation[.]”[2] Sources: [1] 2025 Year-End Annual Statements and [2] Prisma Health 2025 Gratitude Report. In 2026, the OMH Foundation "raised a net of $204,000 through proceeds from its annual Pass the Purse event, continuing its support of cancer care services in Oconee County.” “[T]he event’s total surpassed last year’s net proceeds of $193,000[.]” Source: OMH foundation announces proceeds of annual event, The Journal Newspaper, page B1, Saturday, May 30, 2026. Serving in this leadership role in honor of my mom, Judy Carr: Chairman of The Doyle and Judith Carr Foundation. For more information: Oconee Memorial Hospital Foundation 298 Memorial Drive Seneca, SC 29672 (864) 885-7912 Office (864) 885-7945 Fax Prisma Health Carol Barnes: [email protected] or Cortni Nations: [email protected]
"As a Fellow of the Foundation, you exemplify the Foundation’s high standards for Federal practitioners and are an ambassador for the Foundation. Your contributions—both financial and volunteering—change lives across the United States through programming, especially civics education." “The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association provides the best way for practitioners to give back to the Federal legal community. Chartered by Congress in 1954, the Foundation serves people in communities across the United States through its generous grants, scholarships, and programming." "The Foundation Fellows program began in 2002 to recognize individuals who have 1) demonstrated exceptional commitment to, and leadership within, both the FBA and the legal community; and 2) provide financial support and service to the Foundation. Fellows are part of an exclusive, distinguished group;” “currently, 315 Fellows of the Foundation make up just 1.8 percent of the Federal Bar Association membership.” “Fellows of the Foundation exemplify the Foundation’s high standards for Federal practitioners and act as ambassadors for the Foundation.” Foundation of the FBA Fellows website. The foundation “has continued to grow with the help of substantial donations by the Federal Bar Building Corporation in 2021 and 2022 to the point where its corpus is approximately $4.5 million. …. [I]t continues to live its mission by funding scholarships, such as the Robert A. McNew Law Student Scholarship, the Earl W. Kintner Public Service Scholarship, and the Dr. J. Clay Smith, Jr. Scholarship for the Advancement of the Legal Profession. In addition, it is actively supporting civics education with the Civics Education Grant, along with the Community Outreach Grant and the Pathways to the Profession Grant.” Source: Federal Lawyer magazine, Fall 2025 ed., Raising the Foundation’s Visibility article by Stephen Jackson. Invited to become a Fellow May 2025. Inducted 2025. Serving on the Scholarships Committee.
Pro bono attorney; advocate on several matters; policy advisor; national security leader; and/or published author: during membership and bar admittance(s), as applicable. As a member of the Science and Technology Section of the ABA part of "[t]he ABA Section of Civil Rights & Social Justice (CRSJ) [focusing on] an AI-related project related to national security and civil liberties, and privacy issues in sensitive data and mercenary spyware” with the National Security Committee. (December 2025-Present); SciTech Science and Technology Law Working Group on the Privacy Act - Resolution 515 (2025); SciTech Science and Technology Law Leadership: Space Law Committee co-Vice Chair; Privacy, Cybersecurity and Digital Rights Committee (2025-Present); International Law Section International Human Rights Committee: area of focus - rape as a form of torture during wars, conflicts, hostilities, and/or peace; International Law Section Africa Committee; Cyberspace Law Task Force; Books to Africa Committee; New Technology Task Force; Judge of multiple competitions. Disaster Survivor Pro Bono Attorney (Texas Attorney-at-Law Pro Bono, temporarily August 2017- August 31, 2018, North Carolina Attorney-at-Law Pro Bono, temporarily October 2018-January 16, 2019, South Carolina intermittently during my admittance to practice law in that jurisdiction 08/2017 - 11/2022) and Pro Bono Attorney (Georgia 06/2024-Present). Guest Lecturer multiple years through Southern Illinois University School of Law and Udmurt State University in Izhevsk, Russia (10/17, 04/18).