Wild, Thomas P.

After graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1987, Mrs. Lydon began her legal career with Nexsen Pruet Jacobs and Pollard. Three years later she became an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina. As a federal prosecutor, she prosecuted, among other cases, drug cases, bank fraud, RICO, mail and wire fraud, tax cases, insurance fraud and public corruption. She was one of the lead prosecutors in Operation Lost Trust, an FBI investigation which drew national attention and which resulted in numerous convictions of lawmakers and lobbyists for public corruption.

In 2003, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster asked Mrs. Lydon to be the Chief of the State Grand Jury. In that position, she led the successful prosecution of South Carolina’s largest securities fraud case involving Carolina Investors and Homegold.