Toya Hampton-Green, the downtown representative on the Charleston County School Board, has resigned from her position to accept a lawyer's job in Columbia, according to news reports.
“It has been a true privilege to serve the citizens of Charleston County on the school board and I look forward to continuing to assist in a different capacity through my work at the (South Carolina School Boards Association),” Hampton-Green wrote in her resignation letter. Read more on PostandCourier.com.
No candidate has qualified to be listed on the (November) ballot, but industrial real estate broker Todd Garrett, 36, and self-employed painter Tony Lewis, 50, both plan to run as write-in candidates.
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Hampton Green was an attorney at McNair Law Firm, P.A. in downtown Charleston where she practices in areas of real estate transactions and local government law, according to her school system bio. She was first elected to the board in 2006.
School board members represent specific geographic districts, but voters from throughout the county are able to vote in all districts.
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