Lifetime Achievement Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award is considered the highest honor the South Carolina City and County Management Association can convey.  The award is to recognize an individual who has devoted all or a significant portion of a professional career to local management for cities and/or counties.  In doing so the individual shall have upheld the highest standards of the profession as guided by the ICMA Code of Ethics.  The individual is recognized by peers as one to be emulated in their careers.  The recipient shall have served the South Carolina City and County Management Association with distinction.  Although the recipient should not be required to have served their entire career in the state of South Carolina, a significant portion, minimum of ten years, should have been within the state.  Eligible recipients shall be Life members or deceased with membership in the Association at the time of death.  Eligible candidates shall have been retired or deceased for a minimum of nine (9) months prior to the proposed date of award.

Selection Process - A proposed recipient shall be nominated by a minimum of five active Full or current Life members in good standing with the Association.  Nominations shall be made to the Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors shall by a positive majority vote make the final determination.  

If you would like to nominate someone for the SCCCMA Lifetime Achievement Award, please use this form and email it to Ali Moriarty at abtitus@cofc.edu.   

Past Recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award:

Ed Driggers

Steve Brown 

Mac Burdette

Rick Cotton

Gregory Dietterick

Bill Graham

Dennis Harmon

Tom Leath

Linda McConnell

John Moore

Gerry Schapiro

Carey F. Smith

Jack Wilbanks

Roland Windham, Jr.