Trial and Appellate Advocacy Section

Mission

This Section maintains interest in a variety of activities related to lawyers and judges. It sponsors or supports programs on litigation skills, effective advocacy and specialized areas of litigation practice in an effort to improve the art and technique of trial advocacy. It promotes professional values in trial advocacy lawyers, cosponsors a CLE seminar at the Bar Convention and encourages members to submit articles to South Carolina Lawyer. 

The Section will recognize a lawyer who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to trial and appellate advocacy in the legal profession. 

2025-2026 SECTION COUNCIL

SUSAN HACKETT

SECTION CHAIR

BRITTANY CLARK

CHAIR ELECT

BRETT H. BAYNE

VICE CHAIR

ASHLEY A. McMAHAN

SECRETARY

LINDSAY JOYNER

IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

BENJAMIN GOODING

SECTION DELEGATE

MARK FARTHING

COUNCIL MEMBER

JOSHUA P. GOLSON

COUNCIL MEMBER

BESS J. DURANT

COUNCIL MEMBER

TAYLOR GILLIAM

COUNCIL MEMBER

SHANON N. PEAKE

COUNCIL MEMBER

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Trial and Appellate Advocacy Award 

  • 2025: Kathrine “Kat” Haggard Hudgins
  • 2024: Robert T. Bockman
  • 2023: April W. Sampson
  • 2021: T.F. “Biff” Sowell
  • 2020: Mark Farthing
  • 2019: Whitney Harrison
  • 2018: Brett H. Bayne
  • 2017: John I. Mauldin
  • 2015: John S. Nichols
  • 2014: Richard H. Willis
  • 2013: Robert E. Stepp
  • 2012: William W. Wilkins
  • 2009: Robert J. Thomas
  • 2007: E. Warren Moise