Riley Fellows in the News: February 3, 2021

Sh’Kur Francis (Statewide Class I, Fall 2020), senior pastor of New Hope United Methodist Church in Anderson, received the Order of the Silver Crescent. Read the article.

Chris Manley (Upstate, Spring 2020) leads Rebuild Upstate, which received the 2020 Best Practices in Stewardship of Volunteers Award. Read the article.

Otis Rawl (Midlands, Spring 2010) received the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest civilian honor. Read the article.

Lee Ann Watson (Midlands, Spring 2019), general counsel with the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission, was named a Paul Harris Fellow Plus-One by Columbia’s Capital Rotary Club. Read the story.

Richard “Dick” Wilkerson (Upstate, Spring 2006) is now the South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health board chair. Among those elected as board members are: Anne Graham Masters (Upstate, Fall 2003) and Virgil Miller (Midlands, Spring 2018), president of Aflac Group Insurance Company and executive vice president and chief operating officer of Aflac U.S. Read the article.

Melvin Williams (Lowcountry, Fall 2019), vice president and senior business developer with S&ME, Inc., joined the Society of American Military Engineers Academy of Fellows. Read the article.

This Friday, February 5, tune into the Riley Institute and Charleston Law Review’s virtual Law & Society Symposium, Sexual Abuse and Sex Trafficking: Protecting Children, Supporting Victims, and Seeking Justice. More than two dozen speakers will explore a variety of topics ranging from children’s civil rights to the clergy abuse crisis to sex work decriminalization. Register for the Symposium.