Submissions for the 2024 DuRant Award are now closed.
DuRant Award
Award Overview
In 1980, the Foundation established the DuRant Distinguished Public Service Award in memory of Charlton DuRant, a well-known Manning attorney who served as state senator and special associate justice of the SC Supreme Court.
Today, this award is one of the most prestigious statewide honors that members of the Bar can bestow on a fellow attorney. Annually, recipients are nominated and selected by their professional peers. Selection criteria include meritorious service to the law and the community. Eligibility is limited to living members of the South Carolina Bar. Sitting judges and current public office holders are not eligible, however, past service in such positions will be considered. Traditionally, the award recipient is honored at the Bar Convention’s plenary luncheon each January.
The DuRant Legacy
Walton J. McLeod, III, 2024
Susan K. Dunn, 2023
Hon. Jasper M. Cureton, 2022
James C. Parham, Jr., 2021
David M. Beasley, 2020
Robert M. Wilcox, 2019
Sue Berkowitz, 2018
Elizabeth Van Doren Gray, 2017
George Cauthen, 2016
Ernest F. “Fritz” Hollings, 2015
William R. Byars Jr., 2014
Mark W. Buyck Jr., 2013
Harold W. Jacobs, 2012
David A. Merline, 2011
Richard W. Riley, 2010
G. Dewey Oxner Jr., 2009
David L. Freeman, 2008
B. Henderson Johnson Jr., 2007
Julian J. Nexsen, 2006
Leo H. Hill, 2005
Ernest A. Finney Jr., 2005
Eugene N. “Nick” Zeigler Jr., 2004
Alex M. Sanders Jr., 2003
Joseph H. McGee, 2002
H. Simmons Tate Jr., 2001
William L. Pope, 2000
I.S. Leevy Johnson, 1999
A. Lee Chandler, 1998
Julius W. McKay, 1997
Claude M. Scarborough Jr., 1996
Ellen Hines Smith, 1995
Morris D. Rosen, 1994
A. Frank Lever, 1993
Terrell L. Glenn, 1992
Harry M. Lightsey, 1991
Augustine T. Smythe, 1990
E.P. “Ted” Riley, 1989
Charles W. Knowlton, 1988
Heyward E. McDonald, 1987
C. Bruce Littlejohn, 1986
Hugh L. Willcox, 1985
J.D. Todd Jr., 1984
Thomas H. Pope, 1983
Robert M. Figg Jr., 1982
Walton J. McLeod Jr., 1981
David W. Robinson, 1980