{"id":1839,"date":"2016-02-22T15:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/riley-institute-announces-annual-wilkins-awards\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:25:33","slug":"riley-institute-announces-annual-wilkins-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/riley-institute-announces-annual-wilkins-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Institute announces annual Wilkins awards"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wilkins awards are given out annually in recognition of outstanding legislative and civic leadership in South Carolina.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Riley Institute at Furman University has announced that South Carolina Sen. Paul Campbell (R-Berkeley-District 44) and the late Steve Morrison of Columbia are recipients of the Institute\u2019s annual David Wilkins awards recognizing outstanding legislative and civic leadership in the state.<\/p>\n

Campbell is the winner of the Wilkins Award for Excellence in Legislative Leadership, while Morrison, a prominent Columbia attorney who died in October of this year, will be honored with the Wilkins Award for Excellence in Civic Leadership.\u00a0 Morrison\u2019s widow, Gail, will accept the award.<\/p>\n

The awards will be presented in Columbia Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 at the Riley Institute\u2019s ninth annual David H. Wilkins awards dinner, which takes place in the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.\u00a0 The evening begins with a reception at 6 p.m., and the dinner and awards presentation will follow at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The speaker for the event will be former South Carolina Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $125 each and can be purchased by calling 864-235-8330 or visiting the Riley Institute website<\/a><\/b>.\u00a0 Table sponsorships are also available.<\/p>\n

Campbell, a Republican, has served as the state senator for the Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester County areas since 2008.\u00a0 He is a member of numerous Senate Committees, including Finance, Agriculture and Natural Resources.\u00a0 He retired in 2003 as regional president of Alcoa Primary Metals, and currently serves as director of airports for the Charleston Aviation Authority. \u00a0Campbell has served as chair of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and as president and campaign chair of Trident United Way.\u00a0 He is a graduate of Clemson University, and holds a M.B.A. degree from Jacksonville State University.<\/p>\n

Morrison was a partner with the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, where he was a member of the organization\u2019s executive committee.\u00a0 He was a civic leader in Columbia and was well known throughout South Carolina for his efforts to promote justice and racial equality.\u00a0 Morrison was the chief litigator who represented the rural school districts in the landmark case, Abbeville vs. the State of South Carolina<\/i>, also known as the \u201cCorridor of Shame\u201d lawsuit.\u00a0 He was a graduate of the University of Michigan, and received his J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law.<\/p>\n

Previous winners of the Wilkins Award for Excellence in Legislative Leadership are James Harrison (2012), James Smith (2011), Wes Hayes (2010), Dan Cooper (2009), Gilda Cobb-Hunter (2008), Hugh Leatherman (2007), Bobby Harrell (2006) and John Drummond (2005).<\/p>\n

The Excellence in Civic Leadership Award, which was established in 2010, has gone to Anita Zucker (2012), Ed Sellers (2011) and Minor Mickel Shaw (2010).<\/p>\n

The Riley Institute offers a broad array of programs designed to engage students and citizens across South Carolina in the various arenas of politics, public policy and public leadership.<\/p>\n

The Institute created the David H. Wilkins Legislative Leadership Program in honor of the South Carolina politician who served as speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives and as U.S. Ambassador to Canada.<\/p>\n

For more information, contact the Riley Institute at 864-294-3546 or e-mail judith.mckenney@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Riley Institute at Furman has announced that South Carolina Sen. Paul Campbell (R-Berkeley-District 44) and the late Steve Morrison of Columbia are recipients of the Institute\u2019s annual David Wilkins awards recognizing outstanding legislative and civic leadership in the state. Campbell is the winner of the Wilkins Award for Excellence in Legislative Leadership, while Morrison, a prominent Columbia attorney who died in October of this year, will be honored with the Wilkins Award for Excellence in Civic Leadership. The awards will be presented in Columbia Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 at the ninth annual David H. Wilkins awards dinner, which takes place in the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,32,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-centers-and-institutes","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}