In September, the Charleston Metro Chamber celebrated the graduation of the Leadership Charleston Class of 2020. For more than 45 years, Leadership Charleston has been identifying and developing leaders in the community, producing over 2000 graduates that have become leaders in local, regional and global industries, legislative appointments and civic stewardship.
The mission of Leadership Charleston is to identify and motivate emerging leaders and to develop their leadership potential by introducing them to the realities, opportunities and challenges of the region’s civic and business communities. Graduates experience the power of working with other community leaders and organizations for positive growth and advancement of the region.
“The Class of 2020 had an experience like no other – they started the program last year in the midst of a hurricane and graduated during a global pandemic,” said Adrian Cain, Senior Vice President of Leadership and Chamber Programs for the Charleston Metro Chamber. “It may not have been the exact program that we planned, but even the obstacles that participants experienced gave them the firsthand experience of the challenges faced by our region’s civic and business community.”
This year’s graduates visited the State House, boarded a C-17 Static at Joint Base Charleston, rode CARTA to experience public transportation availability and services and much more. These experiential activities aided participants’ vision of their community from different viewpoints, allowing them to focus on where they can make a positive difference using their unique perspective.
The Leadership Charleston Class of 2020 was sponsored by Dixon Hughes Goodman, Pinnacle Financial Partners, Positively People, Roper St. Francis Healthcare and Singular Private Wealth.
Name | Company |
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Kathryn B. Albertson | Grayson Law Firm, LLC |
Madison Altman | South State Bank |
Peter Barton | Elliott Davis |
Joshua Bates | Choate Construction |
Claire Bowman | McMillan Pazdan Smith Architecture |
Matt Brady | City of Goose Creek SC |
Kevin A. Braun | First Citizens Bank |
Kelsi Brewer | South Carolina Ports Authority |
Jennifer Brown | Charleston County Economic Development |
Caroline Burgreen | Allied Reliability |
Karen Burney-Green | Charleston County Government |
Johanna Cooper | Berkeley Electric Cooperative |
Matthew Desmond | Roper Saint Francis Healthcare |
Sydney Evans | Banks Construction Company |
Christi Fabie | Carolina One Real Estate |
Lesley Anne Firestone | Moore & Van Allen PLLC |
Kristen Gandy | Trident United Way |
Caroline Gilbert | Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic |
Kayla Halchak | Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum |
Stuart Hall | Highland Resources |
Chrissie Hamilton | Knowledge Capital Group |
Claire Hayden | Charleston Trident Association of Realtors® |
Taylor Jordan | Miller-Valentine Group |
Daniel Klingshirn | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
Philip Westbury Mauney | Reveer Group |
Jaymes McCloud | JHW Enterprises, LLC. |
Tucker Morris | Morris Financial Concepts, Inc |
Michael Mullen | Worldwide Express |
Brooke Nemecek | Bone Dry Roofing Company |
Jay Norman | The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company |
Jonathan Oakman | Landmark Enterprises |
William Prevost | Tideline CPA Group, LLC |
Floyd Johnson Putney | Mungo Homes |
Michael Reidenbach | Charleston County School District |
Robert Riggle | The Citadel |
Matt Robbins | Trident Construction, LLC |
Justin Robinette | Hussey Gay Bell |
Thetyka Robinson | Tri-County Cradle to Career |
Elizabeth Russell | JP Morgan Chase |
William Salters | Terracon Consultants, Inc. |
Kayley Seawright | The Boeing Company |
Katie Simmons | Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP |
LoElla Smalls | Charleston County Government |
Rebecca Smith | LS3P Associates |
Emily Sotherlund | Stantec |
Dan Spoelma | Pinnacle Financial Partners |
David Stasiukaitis | Low Country Case & Millwork |
Sarah Stephenson | Ingevity |
Tara Sullivan | K&L Gates LLP |
Ted Sullivan | South Atlantic Bank |
Samuel Swanson | Joint Base Charleston |
Lucy Terza | South Carolina Ports Authority |
James Thomas | Thomas & Hutton |
Jonathan Tuggle | Wells Fargo Private Bank |
Andrew Turner | JLL |
Paula Walmet | Ingevity |
Casey Warfield | Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. |
Tina Wirth | Charleston Metro Chamber |
Wes Webb | SunTrust and BB&T Now Truist |
Andy Wong | Seamon Whiteside |
James Yonce | South Carolina Federal Credit Union |