Governor James H. Hodges is President and Chief Executive Officer of McGuireWoods Consulting LLC and a partner with McGuireWoods LLP. He advises clients on energy, healthcare, education, economic development, and other issues, dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C.
Governor Hodges provides strategic and policy advice to a wide range of clients dealing with issues with the nation’s governors and state level Cabinet agencies. He has assisted clients on matters in all fifty states, and regularly works with clients having matters at the National Governor’s Association, Democratic Governors Association, Democratic Attorneys General Association, and National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
Governor Hodges served as a national co-chair of the Obama for President Campaign in 2008, and regularly advises political and business leaders on a wide range of state, regional and national policy issues.
As governor of South Carolina, he led efforts to improve the state’s education system, including establishing the education lottery that is credited with providing more than 100,000 scholarships.
He is also responsible for funding “First Steps,” a public-private preschool readiness program. Under his leadership, the South Carolina Department of Commerce achieved record breaking economic development results. Since 2003, he has been the CEO of Hodges Consulting, a business, government relations, and economic development consulting firm.
Jim received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of South Carolina, South Carolina State University, The Citadel, Winthrop University and Francis Marion University. While earning his law degree at the University of South Carolina, he was a member of the mock trial team and received the Compleat Lawyer Silver Medallion. As an undergraduate, he was named Outstanding Senior in Economics.
Education :
University of South Carolina School of Law, JD, 1982
University of South Carolina, BS, Business Administration, Phi Beta Kappa, 1979
Admissions : South Carolina
Affiliations :
Member, Board of Directors, Strategic Partnerships, LLC
Vice-chair, Board of Advisors, Public Insight, LLC
Member, Board of Trustees, Business Partnership Foundation, University of South Carolina Moore School of Business
Member, Board of Directors, CoastalSouth Bancshares, Inc.
Member, Board of Directors, Titan Insurance Company
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