Textiles, Alice Manufacturing Company

Residing in Pickens

Graduate of Pickens High School

Attended Tri-County Technical College

Married to Susan Lynn Evatt, 3 children

Pickens First Baptist Church

Moderator and Sunday School Teacher

Past Chairman of Board, South Carolina 4-H Foundation

President, Pickens County United Way, 1983

Advisory Board, Pickens First National Bank, 1987-90

Economic Development Commission, Southern Legislative Conference

Advisory Board, Rocky Bottom Camp of the Blind

Board for Partnership & Career Education

Chairman, Governor's School-to-Work Council, 1997-99

Tax Study Commission, 1998

Listed in Outstanding Young Men of America, 1979

Who's Who in American Politics, 1981-82, 1983-84

Personalities of the South, 1982-83

National Federation of Independent Businesses "Guardian of Small Business" Award, 1999

South Carolina Chamber of Commerce Public Servant of the Year, 2002

South Carolina Associaiton of Counties "Guardian of Home Rule" Award, 2003

Anderson-Oconee-Pickens Area Mental Health "Patrick B. Harris Humanitarian Award for Public Service," 2003

Honorary member, Pickens Rotary Club

2004 Legislator of the Year Award by the National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina

Legislator of the Year for the Senate by the South Carolina Human Services Providers Association, 2005

National Alliance on Mental Illness "Mental Illness Champion 2006"

Greenville Hospital System Children's Hospital Development Council "Legislative Advocacy Award for 2006"

South Carolina Commission for the Blind Legislator of the Year, 2006

Conservation Voters of South Carolina, 2006 "Conservation Champion"

South Carolina Manufacturers Alliance "Defender of Manufacturing 2007" Award

Fraternal Order of Police, "2007 Senator of the Year"

South Carolina Apartment Association, "2007 Legislator of the Year"

Chairman, Joint Study Committee on Criminal Domestic Violence

Home Builders Association of South Carolina, "2008 Hammer & Trowel Award"

Palmetto Family Council, "2008 Legislator of the Year"

Special recognition of service by South Carolina Baptist Convention, November 2008

South Carolina REALTORS, "2009 Legislator of the Year"

South Carolina Education Association Friend of Education, 2011