Upon graduating from the University of South Carolina in 2007, Boyd Brown was subsequently elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, becoming America's youngest state lawmaker at the age of 22.

 

Mr. Brown served two terms in the General Assembly and sat on the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Committee for his first term. During his second term, Mr. Brown served as a member of the House Judiciary Committee.

 

During his time in the Legislature, Mr. Brown was described as a "substantive policy voice," an "ethics reform champion" and The Washington Post labeled him a "Voice of a Generation" after he delivered a case on behalf of his contemporaries. He was viewed as a bipartisan and pragmatic voice in the House and was appointed to multiple conference committees by the Speaker to help negotiate deadlocked legislation.

 

After leaving elected office, Mr. Brown helped grow multiple construction companies in the Midlands of South Carolina and brokered commercial real estate and acreage. He was asked to serve on the troubled Fairfield Memorial Hospital (now MUSC) board of trustees, where he was instrumental in keeping access to health care in a rural community. He was also appointed to the South Carolina Conservation Bank board of directors by Senate Finance Chairman Hugh Leatherman, where he helped direct the preservation of hundreds of thousands of acres of land in the Palmetto State, equaling hundreds of millions of dollars in conservation easements.

 

Mr. Brown is a native of Fairfield County, a former member of the Democratic National Committee and an active member of Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Columbia. He currently serves on the City of Columbia’s Parks and Recreation Foundation board of directors and the Montreat Development Foundation board of directors. When not in the office or rooting on the Gamecocks, Mr. Brown can be found spending time with his wife, Lee Ferrell Brown, DMD, their two boys and their two dogs at home in Columbia or on the Carolina coast.