Adair Boroughs
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Adair Ford Boroughs is an American attorney who is the Democratic nominee running in the 2020 election for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Adair Boroughs was born in Williston, South Carolina, the daughter of a cabinet maker and a public school teacher. She attended Furman University where she was named a Truman Scholar in 2001 and graduated summa cum laude in 2002. After graduating, she taught math at Mauldin High School in Greenville County. Inspired by her teaching experience, which gave her the desire to effect change for South Carolina’s children at a policy level, she attended Stanford Law School. There she was President of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation and Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.
Law career[edit]
Adair began her legal career at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC. While there, she received multiple awards for her work and successfully led the efforts of the Assistant Attorney General’s Diversity Committee to reform hiring practices.
In 2013, Adair moved back to South Carolina and clerked for United States District Judge Richard Gergel in Charleston, working on a number of cases including United States v. Dylann Roof, where the defendant was convicted of killing nine African-Americans during a prayer meeting at the historic Charleston Emanuel AME church.
Then, Adair helped launch Charleston Legal Access, a nonprofit law firm that provides affordable legal services to those in the middle—those who don’t qualify for free legal services but cannot afford the high cost of private attorneys. Since its founding in 2016, CLA has put over $1.5 million back in the pockets of working-class families through its representation.
Adair has been a community leader since her Furman days when she taught English as a Second Language with the Greenville Literacy Association and led diversity and inclusion workshops in the local community. She is an alumna of the Riley Institute’s Diversity Leaders Initiative, former chair of the South Carolina Bar’s Diversity Committee, former President of the Truman Scholars Association, and an alumna of the Young Leaders Program of the Council for the United States and Italy.
2020 election[edit]
Boroughs announced her intent to run for Joe Wilson's seat in April of 2019. She has outraised him.[2]
Personal Life[edit]
Adair's husband is Bryan Boroughs, a policy attorney who has worked for the U.S. Senate on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee as well as numerous government and nonprofit organizations. The Boroughs live in Columbia with their daughters Annalia and Rory Paige.
References[edit]
- ↑ Trainor, Chris (2019-11-08). "Attorney Adair Boroughs to Challenge for Joe Wilson's House Seat". The Post and Courier. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ↑ Mintzer, Adam (2020-08-26). "Incumbent Rep. Wilson 'taking nothing for granted' as opponent outraises him". WIS News. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
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