FAMILY:
Jeff and his wife, Tammy, have three amazing children. Jeff is a business owner and a life-long native of Conway, SC.

EDUCATION:

• Conway High School in 1989

• Coastal Carolina University, Bachelor's Degree 1994

• South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy. He became a Probation and Parole Agent with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services.

• Mississippi College of Law, Law Degree 1999

MILITARY SERVICE:
Jeff served in the South Carolina Army National Guard for 13 years from 1989 until 2002.

WORK LIFE:

For over 20 years, Jeff has owned and operated his own law firm as a personal injury lawyer in Conway, SC. He has handled complex personal injury and insurance fraud cases and tried many jury trials and successfully settled million dollar claims for his clients throughout South Carolina. In 1995 he worked on the SC Governor’s RAID Team.

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Motivated by a desire to help others, Jeff moved to Jackson, Mississippi to attend Mississippi College School of Law. He received a law degree in 1999 and returned to Conway to serve as law clerk to the Honorable Sidney T. Floyd, Circuit Court Judge for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. In 2000 Jeff began practicing law with a focus on personal injury, workers’ compensation, social security disability and wrongful death cases. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals, US District Court, South Carolina Supreme Court, and all other courts of the state. Jeff is a member of the South Carolina Bar Association, Injured Workers’ Advocates of South Carolina, South Carolina Association for Justice, and the Horry County Bar Association. Jeff received the 2016 Martindale-Hubble Client Distinction Award and the 2020 Martindale-Hubble Client Champion Award.
 

SERVICE IN THE SC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

In 2014 Jeff was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. He has a deep-rooted connection to the Aynor and Conway areas and continues to serve District 58. He has previously served on the Education and Public Works Committees. Jeff currently serves on the Legislative Oversight and Judiciary Committees. He was the 2016 recipient of the Boy Scouts’ Citizen of the Year, 2016 SC Soil and Water Legislator of the Year, 2019 recipient of the Palmetto Pride and SC Litter Control Association Senator David Thomas Award, and 2019 recipient of the SC Farm Bureau Federation Legislator of the Year. Jeff is Chairman of Oversite Comitee and Chairman of Criminal Laws Comittee.

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