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Ronald C. Scott

Born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1948, he is the son of the late Honorable Robert C. Scott, Jr. and Dr. Louise Tinsley Scott.

Mr. Scott is a graduate of Laurens High School, where he was a Team Co-Captain and a Pre-Season All-State Honorable Mention, and All-American Honorable Mention, as well as a consistent All-Conference selection in football and a multiple All-Conference/All-Tournament selection in basketball and tennis.  He was also the recipient of one of the school’s top student-athlete awards for his excellence in academics and athletics. Mr. Scott was selected for several leadership positions in the Key Club, Lettermen’s Club and the Beta Club as well as having leading roles in the school plays and as a sections editor of the school newspaper. Upon his high school graduation, Mr. Scott received scholarship offers from several colleges and professional organizations for his superior athletic, academic, and leadership accomplishments. 

Mr. Scott next graduated from The Citadel with general and departmental honors.  He was selected as a national Distinguished Military Student by the Department of Army and as the Most Outstanding Athletic Sergeant in the Corps of Cadets.  Mr. Scott served as Acting President and Vice-President of the Economic Honor Society (college’s business academic honor society) and as Co-Business and Advertising Manager of The Sphinx, the school yearbook, as well as Athletic Editor of The Guidon, the school handbook.  A consistent Dean’s List and Gold Star Student (college’s highest academic award), Mr. Scott was inducted into The Citadel Honorary Society upon graduation and was the recipient of the President’s Special Recognition Award as well as being a nominee for Who’s Who among Students in American Colleges and Universities.

Mr. Scott then matriculated to the University of South Carolina on a Graduate Fellowship working in the Office of the President and the Director of Admissions.  Mr. Scott graduated in 1972 with the Masters of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Moore Graduate School of Business at USC where he also served as the Student Government Chair and Representative of the Business Graduate Students Association.

Mr. Scott followed the tradition of the Scott and Tinsley families by accepting a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Adjutant General Corps of the United States Army. Due to an athletic back injury, Mr. Scott had to seek a United States Congressional exemption to serve as an active duty Army officer.  Mr. Scott then completed limited tours of Active Duty at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Mr. Scott was honorably discharged as an officer at the end of the Vietnam War.

Mr. Scott returned to Columbia wherein he enrolled in a joint JD-M. Acct. graduate program with the Law School and Graduate Business School at USC.  Mr. Scott held several leadership positions before graduating with the Juris Doctor (JD) and Masters of Accounting (M. Acct.) degrees.  Following graduation, Mr. Scott completed a post-graduate program of instruction for lawyers at Harvard Law School. Mr. Scott has likewise served as an evening Adjunct Faculty member with the USC Business School.

Active in numerous civic and charitable organizations, Mr. Scott served as State President of the National Society to Prevent Blindness, the State Fundraising Chair of the Arthritis Foundation, Chamber of Commerce’s Committee of 100 and as Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the United Way. In 1984-1985, then MUSC President and former Governor Jim Edwards recognized Mr. Scott with an Award of Distinguished Service as a legislative appointee to the Board of Visitors of the Medical University of South Carolina.  He has served on the President’s Advisory Council at MUSC and he was and is invited as a distinguished guest lecturer at the Storm Eye Institute at MUSC.  Mr. Scott has also served on the Hammond School Skyhawk Board of Directors and as Chairman of the Membership Committee. Mr. Scott has likewise served as Co-chair of the USC Law School Class of 1976 Gift and Reunion Committee. Mr. Scott also served a term as a Section Delegate with the South Carolina Bar Association.

The United States and Columbia Jaycees selected Mr. Scott as the Most Outstanding Young Man of Columbia in 1982 and as the recipient of the State Distinguished Award.  Mr. Scott was also a graduate of the Leadership Columbia and Leadership South Carolina programs and served on their advisory nomination councils.  He was further selected on three (3) separate occasions as one of the Most Outstanding Men of America and was featured in several news articles regarding his civic and charitable endeavors. In 1984 Mr. Scott was selected as one of forty (40) finalists from a pool of over 3,000 of the top young business, civic, and professional leaders in the nation for the highly prestigious White House Fellowship Program. He withdrew from final consideration due to family and personal obligations.

In 1982, Mr. Scott was the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination to the United States Congress for the Second District of South Carolina.  Mr. Scott voluntarily withdrew upon learning of the pending birth of his first child.  Mr. Scott served in numerous leadership and advisory positions with both Democratic and Republican governors of South Carolina.  He served with distinction with the Committee of 100 and Educational Improvement Act (EIA) Advisory Committee under Governor Richard Riley and was publicly recognized by Governor Carroll Campbell for his service to his fellow South Carolinians during the Hurricane Hugo disaster.  As the Assistant Clerk and Senior Research Assistant of the State Senate of South Carolina while at the USC Law School in the mid to late seventies, Mr. Scott was recognized as one of the youngest key legislative aides in the nation as to state government matters involving medical affairs and mortgage banking. 

Mr. Scott’s late sister, Dr. Susan Scott Lynch, was the first female page in the history of South Carolina and his great grandfather, Charles Smith for whom he is named, served with distinction as a member of the House of Representatives for Greenville County in the early 1900’s.  Mr. Scott also served as non-compensated Special Counsel to the Chairman of the Republican National Committee and Executive Assistant to the President of the United States. The immediate family of Mr. Scott is the only family known in South Carolina to have had three (3) separate immediate family members receive the Order of the Palmetto, the state’s highest award and the Palmetto Patriot's Award, from three (3) different Governors of the state and the State Adjutant General.

A well-known Columbia attorney from 1976 forward, Mr. Scott served as Chairman of the Board of the Scott Law Firm, P.A. and the Scott, Mathews and Williams Law Firm, P.A.  Mr. Scott is a Fellow of the S.C. Bar Foundation and also served as a Section Delegate to the Small Firm Section of the S.C. Bar.  As a highly regarded mortgage banking and healthcare attorney, Mr. Scott was and is a frequent lecturer on professional and continuing education topics before such diverse groups as the Mortgage Bankers Association of the Carolinas, Chase Manhattan Mortgage Corporation, CLE Programs for members of the SC Bar and the South Carolina/North Carolina Societies of Ophthalmology.  Mr. Scott was and is likewise a repeated annual selection for Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America, and Who’s Who in Finance and Industry. He has been recognized by numerous groups and organizations including but not limited to the Office of the President of the United States, Office of the Governor, the Medical University of South Carolina, the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, the United States and Columbia Jaycees, the National Society to Prevent Blindness, the American Arthritis Foundation, the American Academy and the South Society of Ophthalmology, the South Carolina Funeral Directors Association, and Habitat for Humanity.

As a one of the most visible legislative and administrative law attorneys in the state, Mr. Scott is the only attorney from the Southeast ever selected as the Most Outstanding Legislative Counsel in the Nation (2001) in the history of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.  The South Carolina Funeral Directors Association likewise recognized Mr. Scott in 2002 as the nation’s premier Legislative Counsel.  Mr. Scott also serves as Principal of Heritage Healthcare Consultants, LLC, one of the Southeast’s leading administrators of managed care benefits for eye and vision care.

 Mr. Scott is a current or former member/board representative of The South Carolina Debutante Ball, The Palmetto Club, The Summit Club, The Debordieu Club, The Cassina Point Plantation Club, The Mt. Vintage Plantation and Golf Club, Wildwood Country Club, and Woodcreek Farms County Club.  He is also a senior member of The Capital Hunt Club and The Hill Top Hunt Club and was a former member of The Indigo Club. Mr. Scott is likewise the chief benefactor of the following Scott Family Endowment Funds: Robert C. Scott Distinguished Educator Endowment; Dr. Louise T. Scott Distinguished Educator Award; Dr. Susan Scott Lynch Endowment; and the Robert C. and Louise T. Scott Endowment. His beloved Father, The Honorable Robert C. Scott, Jr., and his extraordinary Sister, Dr. Susan Scott Lynch,  both passed away the end of 1998.

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