Jonathan N. Pinson, '93
| Chairman, SC State Board of Trustees 400 Hemingford Circle Simpsonville, South Carolina 29681 Spouse (Pamella) Current job-Owner, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Professional Staffing Solutions, Inc. Greenville, South Carolina and Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Pinson is partner with the Brix Stone Group, LLC, Lexington, SC; Co-Owner with Hilton Convention Center Hotel, Columbia, SC; Travinia’s Italian Kitchen Restaurants and Arizona’s Steak, Chops & Seafood, locations in SC and GA. Memberships-Liberty Fellows of South Carolina, Henry Crown Fellow of Aspen Institute, Minority Business Development of South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, Palmetto Horizon, Peace Center for Performing Arts & New Carolina. Formally served as a member of The African American Business Roundtable and Big Brother & Big Sister of the Upstate, Foothills Minority Supplier Development Council and the Urban League of the Upstate. Former director of Greenville Chamber of Commerce, and Carolina Minority Supplier Development Council. Board of Trustees since June, 2005; Seat #10, At-Large Committees- Chair, Executive Committee |
John H. Corbitt, '62
Vice Chairman, SC State Board of Trustees
202 Dove Tree Road
Greenville, South Carolina 29615
Spouse (Betty)
Current job-Pastor, Springfield Baptist Church
Memberships-Life Membership, NAACP; Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.; National Baptist Conventional, USA, Executive Board; Past Memberships: Faculty Member, Baptist World Youth Congress; President, Baptist Ministers Fellowship of Greenville and vicinity.
Board of Trustees since June, 2001; Seat #4-District #4
Committees-Vice Chair, Executive Committee; Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty-Liaison Committee; Research, Economic Development and 1890 Program Committee
Robert M. Nance
| Secretary, SC State Board of Trustees 2910 Landing Way Orangeburg, South Carolina 29118 Spouse (Tasha) Current job-District Director, US House of Representatives, S.C. Sixth Congressional District Memberships-South Carolina Educational Television Foundation Board, South Carolina Bank and Trust Advisory Board, Orangeburg Airport Commission, Secretary of The Palmetto City Classic Committee, Congressman’s Clyburn’s Designee for Brookgreen Gardens Board of Trustees, Palmetto Conservation Foundation Board of Trustees, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity and Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity. Formally served as a member of Governor-elect Jim Hodges Transition Team, Midlands Technical College Foundation, Global Leaders for the South, Leadership South Carolina Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Historic Columbia Foundation. Board of Trustees since May, 2008; Seat #7, At-Large Committees- Secretary, Executive Committee; Chair, Budget, Facilities and Grounds Committee; Research, Economic Development and 1890 Programs Committee |
Linda Edwards-Duncan, '76, '81
| 106 North Poplar Springs Drive Gaffney, South Carolina 29341 Spouse (William) Current job-Retired Educator Memberships-Member of the Cherokee County Education Association, South Carolina Education Association (Delegate Assembly) National Education Association (Delegate), Cherokee county Strategic Planning Team, Superintendent’s Advisory Council. South Association of Colleges and Schools Visiting Team; XI Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. (treasurer) Board of Trustees since July, 2004; Seat #5-District #5 Committees- Executive Committee; Chair, Athletics and Student Affairs Committee; Academic Affairs and Faculty-Liaison Committee |
Anthony T. Grant ‘82
| Post Office Box 23527 Columbia, South Carolina 29224 Spouse (Helen) Current job-CEO, Grant Business Strategies, Inc. Memberships- Current Member of The Risk Management Association; Connectional African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency (SADA); United Methodist Church Global Council on Finance and Administration; Bethel AME Church Stewardship and Finance Commission; Columbia Urban League Treasurer; Connectional AME Church Investment Reserve Fund; Midland Area Chairman; United Negro College Fund Campaign (2009-2011); Former Member of United Way of Columbia, SC and United Way of Charlotte, NC. Board of Trustees since July 2011; Seat #2, District #2 Committees-Vice Chair, Budget, Facilities and Grounds Committee; Institutional Advancement and Public Relations Committee |
General (Retired) Walter F. Johnson, III
| 102 Pine Grove Lane Georgetown, South Carolina 29440 Spouse (Doris) Current job – Chairman of Eagle Group International, Inc., personnel scattered in over 30 different states and seven foreign countries.
Memberships – Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity; Chairman, Georgetown Marine Institute Board; Member, Georgetown County Economic Development Commission; Member, West Virginia State University Foundation Board; Former Member, Butler Street YMCA Board – Atlanta, Georgetown County Mentor Board, Georgetown Chamber of Commerce Board; Member, Teach My People Board; Member, St. James Santee Health Center, Inc.; Board Member, Brook Green Garden Board; Co-Vice Chairman, the Clara Barton Society; Georgetown Red Cross. Board of Trustees since April, 2011; Governor Designee Committees- Vice Chair, Institutional Advancement, Public Relations Committee; Chair, Research, Economic Development and 1890 Programs Committee
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Gail Joyner-Fleming
| 1844 Greenmore Drive Charleston, SC 29407 Spouse (Henry) Current job - Retired SC State University Faculty and Administrator Memberships - American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; SC Association of Colleges of Teacher Education; Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development; Phi Delta Kappa; National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Consultant; Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; National Dance Association; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.; Continental Societies, Inc (President, 2009-2011); Mt. Zion AME Church(Class leader; Women’s Missionary Society; Lay Organiztion); YWCA; South Pinepoint Civic Association Board of Trustees since October, 2010; Seat #1, District #1 Committee- Vice Chair, Athletics and Student Affairs Committee; Institutional Advancement and Public Relations Committee |
Patricia B. Lott, '63
| 755 Five Chop Road Orangeburg, South Carolina 29115 Current job-Retired Educator Memberships-Immediate Past President of South Carolina State National Alumni Association; Orangeburg County Chapter of SC State University National Alumni Association (Past President For 4 years); Member of Trinity United Methodist Church and a member of the Church Board of Trustees; Vice Chairperson of the SC State Foundation Board; Member of the Orangeburg Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. (Past Financial Secretary and Treasurer); Member of the Orangeburg Branch of the NAACP; Life member of the SC Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Member of Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.; and Daughters of Elk #1243. Past memberships; SC Association of School Administrators; SC Council of Supervisors of Mathematics; Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development and National Staff Development Council. Board of Trustees since July 2010: Seat #9, At-Large Committees- Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty-Liaison Committee; Budget, Facilities and Grounds Committee |
Matthew T. Richardson
| Post Office Box 12247 Columbia, South Carolina 29211 Spouse (Beth) Current job- Attorney, Wyche Burgess Freeman & Parham, P.A. Memberships-S.C. Association for Justice (formerly S.C. Trial Lawyers Association), Officer; S.C. Appleseed Legal Justice Center, Board; Federal Bar Association, Past President of S.C. Chapter; Democratic National Committee; Central Carolina Community Foundation; Advisory Board, Palmetto Horizon Foundation Board Board of Trustees since July, 2009; Seat #8, At-Large Committees - Chair, Institutional Advancement and Public Relations Committee; Budget, Facilities and Grounds Committee
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Walter L. Tobin, '63
| 40 Woodpine Court Columbia, SC 29212 Spouse (Bernice) Current job- CEO- Marketing and Consulting Firm Retired South Carolina School District Superintendent Memberships-Board of Deacons, Second Calvary Baptist Church, Columbia, SC; Active supporter and fundraiser-Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Past boards include: Orangeburg Chamber of Commerce, Indian Waters Council-Boy Scouts of America, Rotary International (Columbia, Orangeburg, Newberry, and Spartanburg), Habitat for Humanity, SC Sistercare, Inc., First National Bank of SC (now SCB&T); Past President- South Carolina School Superintendents and Secondary Principals Associations; Life Member- NAACP Board of Trustees Member since May, 2008, Seat #11, At-Large Committees- Academic Affairs and Faculty-Liaison Committee; Research, Economic Development and 1890 Programs Committee |
Robert L. Waldrep, Jr.
| Post Office Box 2367 Anderson, South Carolina 29624 Current job-Attorney Memberships-Chairperson, Governor’s Savannah River Committee of South Carolina; Board Member, Savannah Maritime Commission Board of Trustees since July 2010, Seat #3, District #3 Committees - Institutional Advancement and Public Relations Committee; Athletics and Student Affairs Committee |
Maurice G. Washington, '85
| 114 Grove Street Charleston, South Carolina 29403 Spouse (Violet) Current job-President of Trustee Management, LLC Memberships-Charleston City Council 1992 – 1999.; Board of Directors, Bank of America, Charleston; Spoleto Festival USA; South Carolina ETV; Junior League, Charleston; Boy Scouts of America, Charleston; Mason Gothic Lodge 212; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.; and Charleston Alumni Chapter. Board of Trustees since July, 2001; Seat #6-District #6 Committee- Athletics and Student Affairs Committee; Budget, Facilities and Grounds Committee |
Lancelot D. Wright
| 534 Windward Lane Columbia, SC 29212 Spouse (Adrienne) Current job-President/CEO National Direct Home Pharmacy; First Savers Advisory Board Memberships-Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy; Medicaid Health Plans of America; NAACP; African American Business Roundtable; South Carolina Chamber of Commerce; South Carolina Alliance of Health Plans; South Carolina Medical Equipment Services Association Board of Trustees since July, 2008; Seat #12, At-Large Committees- Vice Chair, Research, Economic Development and 1890 Programs Committee; Athletics and Student Affairs Committee |