ALBERT J. "A.J." DOOLEY SR. became a U.S. Army Reservist during law school and spent two years on active duty as an instructor at Fort Jackson after graduating. He practiced law in Lexington and retired in 1995; his law firm still stands as his children carry on the tradition. While maintaining his practice, he served his community on the Lexington One School Board, in the South Carolina House of Representatives for eight years, and in the South Carolina Senate for six years. He is a member of St. David Lutheran Church, where he has served on the church council and taught Sunday school. His long and distinguished career of public service was recognized when Governor James Edwards awarded him the Order of the Palmetto in 1978. He and his wife of 53 years, Connie, have five children and 10 grandchildren with whom he attends many ball games, dance recitals, and school functions. He enjoys spending his retirement hunting, bush hogging, and traveling with Connie.

HARVEY L. GOLDEN has been a trial lawyer with a primary practice in family law in South Carolina for over 50 years. He was the recipient of the American Bar Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 and the South Carolina Bar’s first Family Law Public Service Award. Golden is a certified fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a member of its National Board of Governors. He is a founding fellow of the U.S. Chapter of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He also has been a diplomate of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers since 1989. Golden has authored or co-authored various publications dealing with matrimonial and family law and has served in several positions for the S.C. Bar. Golden also lectures at colleges and universities around the country. He and his wife, Heide, have three children and one granddaughter and will soon have a grandson.

MARION H. "SON" KINON joined the Air Force ROTC while an undergraduate at the University of South Carolina. Kinon served in the National Guard for 34 years after graduating from law school and rose through the ranks from second lieutenant to brigadier general. He was the first South Carolina Army National Guard aviator to receive the rank of brigadier general. In 1955, Kinon returned to his hometown of Dillon, S.C., and opened a law practice. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1957 and served several terms. Kinon was also elected to a judgeship in 1979. He is one of the few persons to receive the Order of the Palmetto twice, once for his military service and then again for his dedication to Dillon County and the state of South Carolina. Kinon married Reba Anna Bryce in 1951, and they have three children, seven grandchildren, and one great granddaughter.

H. HUGH ROGERS served as Lexington County magistrate while studying at the University of South Carolina School of Law. From 1960 to 1965, he served as South Carolina Legal Counsel for the U.S. Small Business Administration. He was in the U.S. Army, active and reserve, between the years of 1954 and 1983, retiring as colonel, Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Rogers has had a private law practice from 1966 to the present. Between 1967 and 1975, he served as the mayor of Lexington, S.C. He is a member of the Lexington County Bar, S.C. Bar, S.C. Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Trial Lawyers Association. In 1956, he married Maro Kouyoumjian, with whom he has four children and five grandchildren.

BOB THOMAS graduated from Wofford College and at the age of 21 became a certified public accountant. He was inducted into the Order of the Wig and Robe after his first year at the School of Law. He graduated near the top of his class and in 1956 began his own private practice in Columbia. Thomas joined the law school’s faculty as an adjunct professor from 1957 to 1959, at the request of then Dean Samuel L. Prince. He practices primarily in civil law and has engaged in appellate advocacy, representing clients in over 90 appellate cases. He is also a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. Thomas and his wife, Barbara, have four children and five grandchildren.

ROBERT P. WILKINS SR. has been a practicing lawyer since 1960. After graduating from the School of Law in 1954, he received his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law School in 1957. He then served in the U.S. Army. In 1968 Wilkins became the founding editor and publisher of Sandlapper magazine. From 1971 to 1978, he was an adjunct professor at the School of Law. Wilkins also served as chair of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association. Between 1981 and 2000, he founded five nationally circulated computer and law newsletters. He was the recipient of the Platinum Compleat Lawyer Award from the School of Law and the Diamond Circle Award from USC’s College of Mass Communications and Information Studies. Wilkins is a certified mediator and arbitrator and is involved in various civic and political activities. He and his wife, Rose, have four children, seven grandchildren, and one stepgrandchild.