Pee Dee lawyers take S.C. Bar offices
Jamie Rogers/Morning News
Published: May 8, 2008
Published: May 8, 2008
Two Pee Dee lawyers were installed as South Carolina Bar Association officers during the bar’s House of Delegates meeting at Francis Marion University on Thursday in Florence.
The house of delegates is the legislative body for the association and consists of representatives from each of the state’s 16 judicial circuits.
Florence attorney Flo Lester Vinson was sworn in as president of the S.C. Bar Association, making her the first lawyer from Florence in almost 30 years to be elected to the position.
Saunders Bridges Sr., of the Aiken, Bridges, Nunn, Elliott & Tyler Law Firm in Florence, was elected president in 1980.
Vinson, a civil litigation attorney with the Folkens Law Firm, is only the third woman in the bar’s history to be elected president. Betsy Gray of Columbia was the last woman to serve as president in 2001.
Diversity within the bar is extremely important, Vinson said in a previous interview.
“I think that a female, someone from a small town, as well as racial diversity and age are important and so I’m willing to step up to the plate and perhaps encourage some of my friends from the Pee Dee and small towns to get involved with us,” she said.
Vinson attended Wilson High School in Florence and graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1985.
Also during Thursday’s meeting, Darlington public defender Robert L. Kilgo Jr. was sworn in as the S.C. Bar Association’s treasurer.
Kilgo said he was nominated for the position by a committee within the association.
“I am excited about the responsibilities (and) I am challenged to fulfill those responsibilities and I look forward to the next year,” he said.
Kilgo was involved with some of the bar’s financial matters as the 2007 S.C Bar Association’s secretary, and he said this has prepared him for his role as treasurer.
In 1996, Kilgo was a bar delegate representing the 4th Judicial Circuit, which is made up of Chesterfield, Dillon, Darlington and Marlboro counties.
He graduated from the USC School of Law in 1975 and has been a full-time public defender since 1998.
Also during Thursday’s meeting, Johnsonville attorney Holly Wall was presented with the association’s Law Related Education Lawyer of the Year Award for her work with Florence School District 5 students.
Wall volunteered as the attorney coach at Johnsonville Middle School, where the mock trial team won two state titles and its regional competition for three consecutive years. She also coaches the Johnsonville High School mock trial team.
The S.C. Bar, which has a membership of more than 12,000 lawyers, is dedicated to advancing justice, professionalism and understanding of the law.
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