Managing Shareholder Tom Pope graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He served as Officer in Charge of a Swift Boat in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam in 1969-70. He served as a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1984-1992. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and past President of the South Carolina Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. In addition to serving on the Board of the Newberry Opera House, Pope was also Chairman of the Newberry County Family YMCA Capital Campaign, which tripled the square-footage of the facility at the YMCA in 2008. Pope is the managing shareholder of Pope & Hudgens and is currently a member of the Board of Law Examiners of the South Carolina Supreme Court. His recent cases include serious personal injury, products liability, consumer class action, legal malpractice (plaintiff), will contests, minority shareholder oppression, condemnation, defamation, and representation of attorneys in disciplinary matters. He has been listed in South Carolina Super Lawyers since its inception.
