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South Carolina Court Official Joins Board of National Court Organization

Williamsburg, VA (Aug. 11, 2009) – Rosalyn W. Frierson, director of South Carolina Court Administration, has joined the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC), a nonprofit that aims to improve the administration of justice through leadership and service to the nation’s state courts. She will serve a three-year term.

“For nearly two decades, Rosalyn Frierson has served the South Carolina legal community through both her work with the state’s supreme court and the countless hours she has volunteered to boards, associations, and commissions,” said Mary C. McQueen, NCSC president. “Her energy, experience, and dedication to the justice system will be welcome additions to our board.”

Frierson was appointed director of South Carolina Court Administration by the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1998. For the five years preceding her appointment, she was a law clerk to former South Carolina Chief Justice Ernest A. Finney Jr.

From 1992-93, Frierson served the South Carolina Supreme Court as a staff attorney, and was a research and budget analyst for the state’s House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee from 1984-89. In the late ‘90s, she also taught legal writing at the University of South Carolina Law School.

Frierson is vice president of the Board of Directors for the Conference of State Court Administrators and co-chair of that organization’s Courts, Children, and Families Committee, which is a joint project with the Conference of Chief Justices. She also serves as articles editor for South Carolina Lawyer magazine, and is a member of the South Carolina Access to Justice Commission, the South Carolina Legal Services Board, South Carolina Bar House of Delegates, and the Commission on Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Frierson is secretary of the Palmetto Health Richland Hospital Board of Trustees and president of the Columbia, S.C., Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She received a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of South Carolina and her juris doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law. She currently is a participant in the Executive Session for State Court Leaders in the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School.

The National Center for State Courts, headquartered in Williamsburg, Va., is a nonprofit court reform organization dedicated to improving the administration of justice by providing leadership and service to the state courts. The National Center, founded in 1971 by the Conference of Chief Justices and Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger, provides education, training, and technology, management, and research services to the nation's state courts.  

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