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USC-Business Partnership Foundation Elects New Members
Two bankers and a financial services company executive are the newest members of the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina-Business Partnership Foundation, the Moore School’s liaison with the business community.
The new trustees, elected in April 2005, are Charles W. “Chuck” Garnett, Robert R. Hill, Jr., and Mary M. Kennemur. In April 2004, four business executives and an attorney were added to the board. They are Kendall Alley, Peter M. Bristow, David E. Dukes, Harry M. Lightsey III, and Jodie W. McLean.
Chuck Garnett is president and CEO of The National Bank of South Carolina. He attended the
University of South Carolina, and earned a bachelor’s and an MBA at the University of Puget Sound.
Garnett joined NBSC in 1993, and previously held several management positions with The C&S
National Bank of South Carolina.
Hill is president and CEO of South
Carolina Bank and Trust. He was also the founding president and CEO of the National Bank of York
County (in 1995). Hill is a graduate of The Citadel. He earned his MBA from the Moore
School in 1995, and received the college’s Distinguished Young Alumnus Award in 2004. Other honors
include being named Outstanding Young Banker by the S.C. Bankers Association in 2000, and being
selected among the top 20 business leaders in South Carolina in 2004 by The State newspaper in
Columbia.
Mary M. Kennemur is first vice
president and regional managing director, Southeast Region, of Merrill Lynch. A Presidential Honors
Graduate of the Moore School (1975), she received Moore’s Distinguished Alumna Award in 2001.
Kennemur is the first woman to be named to the Investment Panel for the South Carolina Retirement
System. In 1998, she established the Mary M. Kennemur Scholarship at the Moore School of Business
for female students who require financial assistance.
Kendall Alley is president of South
Carolina Banking Operations for Wachovia. Previously, he was president of the Upstate Area for the
bank. A graduate of Clemson University with an MBA from the same school, Alley is also a
graduate of the Banking School of the South at Louisiana State University. He completed the
Wachovia Executive Leadership Program at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 2002.
Peter M. Bristow is president and
chief operating officer of First Citizens Bank and Trust Company of South Carolina and executive
vice president and director of First Citizens Bancorporation of South Carolina. He is one of the
banking industry’s youngest presidents and was named Outstanding Young Banker in 2002 by the South
Carolina Bankers Association. He is a graduate of Woodberry Forest School and the University of
Virginia.
David E. Dukes is the firm managing partner of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, practicing in the areas of pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, business litigation, technology law and litigation, and coordination of national litigation. Under Dukes’ leadership, the South Carolina Bar named Nelson Mullins the 2001 South Carolina Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year. Listed in the Best Lawyers in America, 2003-04, Dukes is a graduate of Clemson University. He earned his law degree at the University of South Carolina.
Harry M. Lightsey III is
president of BellSouth in South Carolina. His career at BellSouth began in 1986 after four years
with Southwestern Bell’s legal department. A member of the state’s Education Oversight Committee
that oversees funding and assessment of the state’s accountability in education efforts, he is
involved in numerous other community and civic organizations. Lightsey is a graduate of Princeton
University and the University of South Carolina School of Law.
Jodie W. McLean is president and chief
investment officer for Edens & Avant, one of the country’s largest owners and developers of
shopping centers. McLean, who is responsible for expanding the company’s retail assets in the
Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Southeast regions, has been with Edens & Avant for more than 13
years. A native of Chicago, she is a graduate of the Honors College of the University of South
Carolina.
April 2005