Folks about town
Kenneth Nesbit Jr. was awarded a SolvayCARES cystic fibrosis scholarship for 2007- 2008.

Thomas McCants

Rose E. Jackson, founder of the S.C. Women in Business, received the Diplomat of the Year Award from the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce.

Jamin D. McCallum, CPA, has become a certified evaluation analyst at Kirkland, Thomas, Watson, & Dyches, LLC.

M. Malissa Burnette of the Burnette and Rothstein Law Firm has been chosen

for the 2008 edition of The

Best Lawyers in America.

Frank D. Thomas andW. Dale Dyches of Kirkland, Thomas, Watson, & Dyches were delegates to the recent CPA Connect Practice Management Roundtable. Felicia Morant was appointed to the nine- member Board of Commissioners for the S.C. State Housing Finance & Development Authority.

Thomas McCants joined First Citizens as vice president/ HR technology and services manager. Eileen Davis was named outstanding individual volunteer by the Department of Mental Health.

Robert E. Stepp, managing partner at Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte, LLC, has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Robert E. Stepp

Ashwin Shahani, Matt Doucette, and Jay Wright, students at Spring Valley High School, received Merit Awards at the S.C. State Fair.

Catherine Eaker, Gene Eaker, and Marshall L. Meadors Jr. are the recipients of Columbia College's 2007 Medallion.

Denise Birt of Gilbert, S.C. won first place in the Eagle Brand Great Baking Bonanza at the South Carolina State Fair. The Humanities Council S.C. named Senator Ernest F. Hollings, former governor and U.S. Senator, and Dr. Jeffrey R.Willis, upstate historian and professor at Converse College, as the recipients of this year's annual Governor's Awards in the Humanities.

Tudy Clark, recently retired Columbia Museum of Art studio coordinator was awarded the Art Educator of the Year Award by the South Carolina Art Education Association.

Harry W. Davis Jr., director of the Children's Law Center, has been elected chairman of the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ.) Davis also serves as the vice- chair of South Carolina Governor's Juvenile Justice Advisory Council.