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Pioneering Women

Mar 01, 2021 11:52AM

History reveals South Carolina’s unsung business leaders

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Lilly Stern Filler, M.D.

Mar 23, 2020 09:35AM ● By Kiki Wooley

"We had the creation of the sides [of the monument] with the goal—we had three goals in mind. One was to remember the six million; one was to honor the survivors and the liberators; and one was to educate South Carolinians about the Holocaust."

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Dr. Mary Thornley

Mar 23, 2020 09:28AM ● By Kiki Wooley

She believes in the transformational power of education and is passionate about the community college’s role in making our communities and our nation stronger, more adaptable, and better able to face the challenges of the future.

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Chief Justice (Ret.) Jean Hoefer Toal

Mar 09, 2020 04:49PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal began her service as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of South Carolina on March 17, 1988, becoming the first woman to serve as a Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.

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Rosylin Atkinson Weston

Mar 09, 2020 04:45PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Rosylin believes that knowledge is power and therefore, she is committed to sharing her story wherever and whenever she can in hopes that it will help others who happen to find themselves on the receiving end of one of life’s many curve balls and needing to find their own…….Steel Magnolia.

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Inez M. Tenenbaum

Mar 09, 2020 04:41PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Her advice for young people: “… I’ll say, what really makes you happy, what do you love doing? And they’ll tell me what their interest is. I’ll say, then find a job that focuses on that interest. And then you’ll never work a day in your life.”

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Hope Blackley

Mar 09, 2020 04:36PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Ms. Blackley has served on numerous boards such as the United Way of the Piedmont, Converse College Board of Visitors, South Carolina Coalition for Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Spartanburg Regional’s Women’s Advisory Council, Carolina Pregnancy Center, Spartanburg Village Network, Circle of Friends for Mobile Meals, the South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind Foundation Board, the University of South Carolina Upstate Foundation Board, the 2016/2017 President of the South Carolina Clerk of Court and Register of Deeds Association, Tri- chair member of the Spartanburg Chamber of Commerce’s Community & Economic Strategy Steering Committee and was the recipient of the 2014 Upstate Urban League’s Whitney M. Young, Jr Humanitarian Award.

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Tameika Isaac Devine

Mar 09, 2020 03:44PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Mrs. Devine is the first African American female to serve on City Council and the first African- American to be elected At-Large in 2002.

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Anita Zucker

Mar 09, 2020 03:35PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Education advocate and South Carolina philanthropist Anita Zucker currently serves as chair and CEO of The InterTech Group, Inc.

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Dawn Staley

Mar 09, 2020 03:33PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Dawn Staley has made the Gamecocks a mainstay in the battle for SEC

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Roslyn Clark Artis

Mar 09, 2020 03:32PM ● By Kiki Wooley

Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis has earned, for the second time in history, the distinct honor of serving as the first female president of a collegiate institution in the United States.

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