The Citadel Military College of South Carolina is a public senior military college in Charleston,South Carolina,United States. Established in 1842,it is the third oldest of the six senior military colleges in the United States. The Citadel was initially established as two schools to educate young men from around the state,while simultaneously protecting the South Carolina State Arsenals in both Columbia and Charleston.
Henry Dargan McMaster is an American politician and attorney serving as the 117th governor of South Carolina since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,he was the 50th attorney general of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011 and the 91st lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 2015 to 2017 under Governor Nikki Haley.
Darla Dee Moore is an American investor and philanthropist. She is the former president and a partner of the private investment firm Rainwater Inc. and was married to Richard Rainwater,who founded the firm.
The South Carolina superintendent of education is the executive of the South Carolina Department of Education. The superintendent is responsible for overseeing the 1.5 billion dollar budget of the department and ensuring that schools and schools districts are abiding by federal and state laws as well as the requirements established by the department. The superintendent is elected at-large and serves a term of four years. The position has no term limits. The current superintendent of education is Ellen Weaver,a Republican,who was elected in 2022 upon the retirement of Molly Spearman.
Andy Patrick is an American politician from the state of South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party,Patrick was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives,representing the 123rd district.
Mitchell McGeever "Mick" Zais is an American education official and former general who served as the acting United States secretary of education. He previously served as the 17th South Carolina Superintendent of Education from 2011 to 2015. Before winning the election as superintendent,he served as President of Newberry College for ten years. Prior to that he reached the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Army.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 4,2014. All of South Carolina's executive officers were up for election as well as both United States Senate seats,and all of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives.
Ruth Burnett Love,also known as Ruth B. Love-Holloway was an American educator,education administrator,author and former schools superintendent. Love was formerly a professor of education at her college alma mater San Francisco State University. Love served as superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District from November 1975 until February 1981 and the Chicago Public Schools from March 1981 until March 1985. Love was the first African-American to serve as superintendent for the Chicago Public Schools district. In 1983,Love received the Horatio Alger Award and a Candace Award for Education from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women. Love was named as one among 100 of the best school managers in North America by Educator Magazine in 1984.
Rudolph Mitchell was an American politician in the state of South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party from 1963 to 1973,representing Saluda County,South Carolina. He was also a dairy farmer and with his brother Frank,established Rudanks Farms –a prize-winning Guernsey Dairy herd. He also served on the South Carolina Public Service Commission from 1973 to 1998. He received the “Order of the Palmetto”from Governor David Beasley,was named Saluda County Citizen of the Year,and was inducted into the SC Dairy Hall of Fame at Clemson University. He is the father of current South Carolina Superintendent of Education Molly Mitchell Spearman.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 6,2018. All of South Carolina's executive officers were up for election as well as all of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives.
Alice Buck Norwood Spearman Wright was an American liberal feminist advocating for human relations. From 1954 to 1967,she served as the executive director of the South Carolina Council on Human Relations,which was an affiliate of the South Carolina Division of the Southern Regional Council (SRC). She directed the council to participate in the Voter Education Project,which helped to promote compliance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of South Carolina in March 2020. On April 2,2020,DHEC announced that the virus had spread to all 46 counties in the state. During the month of June the seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases in South Carolina increased nearly five-fold,from 293 on June 1 to 1,398 on June 30,and continued to increase during July and into August. As of August 2022 the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has confirmed 1,605,165 cases in the state and 18,192 deaths.
Stewart Olin Jones is an American politician. He is a former member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 14th District,serving from 2019 to 2024. He is a member of the Republican party.
Richard A. Eckstrom is an American politician from the state of South Carolina. A Republican,he served as the comptroller general of South Carolina from 2003 until his resignation in 2023. From 1995 to 1999,he served one term as the South Carolina Treasurer. When elected as Comptroller General,he was the first Republican to serve in the post since 1876.
Ruth Dial Woods was an American educator and activist. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina,she was the first woman to serve as the associate superintendent of the Robeson County Public Schools and to receive an at-large appointment to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors. After teaching in the public school system of Robeson County for 27 years,she joined the faculty at Fayetteville State University. In addition to her work as an educator,Woods was involved in the Civil Rights Movement,the Women's liberation movement,and the American Indian Movement. She has served as a community development consultant for the United States Department of Labor and as a consultant for the Lumbee Tribal Council for administration of tribal programs. The recipient of numerous awards and honors for her work in human rights and education,in 2011,she was inducted into the North Carolina Women's Hall of Fame.
Catherine Truitt is an American educator and politician who has served as the 21st North Carolina superintendent of public instruction since January 2,2021. A member of the Republican Party,Truitt previously served as senior advisor on education to North Carolina governor Pat McCrory from 2015 to 2017. She has been the chancellor of the online Western Governors University North Carolina since its establishment in 2017. Truitt ran for reelection in 2024,but was defeated in the Republican primary by Michele Morrow.
SC for Ed,founded in 2018 by Lisa Ellis,is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit political advocacy group in South Carolina.
Ellen Weaver is a Republican politician and former conservative think-tank leader who has served as South Carolina Superintendent of Education since January 11,2023. She defeated Democratic candidate and current school activities director Lisa Ellis in the general election in November 2022. She is the former president and CEO of the Palmetto Promise Institute,a conservative think tank in South Carolina which supports public funding of private schools. Weaver has focused her tenure as Superintendent on literacy,education freedom,and parental empowerment.
Kathy Maness is an American educator and politician. Maness serves as a member of the town council from Lexington,South Carolina,and has been the executive director of the Palmetto State Teachers Association since February 16,2005.
Lisa Ellis is an American educator who was the 2022 fusion candidate,Democratic,and Alliance Party nominee for South Carolina's superintendent of education and is the founder of the education advocacy group SC for Ed. She was defeated by Republican Ellen Weaver in the November 2022 general election.
