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Almand James Barron received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of South Carolina and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1998. Ms. Barron is also a member of the Richland County Bar Association, Lexington County Bar Association and the South Carolina Women's Law Association. She is a Fellow in the South Carolina Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and is Board Certified in Family Law by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She has served on the Children's Committee, Professional Responsibility, Ethics Advisory, Judicial Qualifications and the Conventions Committee for the South Carolina Bar.

Brooke Chapman Evans graduated in 2000 from the College of Charleston with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science, with a minor in Philosophy. She then obtained her JD from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2003. Brooke is a founding member of Evans & Turnblad, LLC in Florence, where she focuses primarily on domestic litigation and serves as a Guardian ad Litem.

After law school, Brooke served as Circuit Court law clerk to the Honorable John C. Few, now Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. Upon completing her clerkship, Brooke entered private practice in Greenville and remained there until returning home to Florence in 2011. Brooke serves on the Executive Committee of the Florence County Bar Association, is a member of the South Carolina Association of Justice, and is a Barrister in the Pee Dee Inn of Court Chapter of the American Inns of Court. Additionally, Brooke serves on the Board of Directors for The School Foundation.

C. Vance Stricklin, Jr., was elected to fill the unexpired term of the Honorable Dorothy Mobley Jones in February 2020 and sworn in on March 24, 2020. He is a former partner in the Moore Taylor Law Firm, P.A. and served two years as the managing partner. His practice focused primarily on family law, including domestic litigation. Prior to private practice, he was an Assistant Public Defender, primarily representing juveniles in Family Court. He has been practicing in the Family Courts for over 25 years.

Megan was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, and 2025. After growing up in Berkeley County, Megan graduated from the College of Charleston and the Charleston School of Law. Megan has spent her entire career focused on Family Court cases, and she has maintained a blog about South Carolina Family Court, which can be accessed here.

While pursuing her education, Megan completed courses in public relations, marketing, family and relationship communications and functioning, social systems, cultural norms, history and development of child welfare policy, and child development and education. Megan’s education is the foundation for how she develops strategies in complex divorce cases and child custody disputes.

Between 2012 and 2016, Megan served on the Charleston School of Law Alumni Association’s Board of Directors.  For the South Carolina Bar Association, Megan has served in the House of Delegates, as well as on the Publications Committee, Resolution of Fee Disputes Board, and the Family Law Section.

Since 2013, Megan has regularly presented seminars for the South Carolina Bar Association and the Charleston County Bar Association.

In addition to trial-level experience, Megan has handled numerous appeals before the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the South Carolina Supreme Court, including petitions for rehearing and petitions for certiorari, as well as seeking awards of costs upon receipt of successful results. For those appeals, Megan has briefed complex legal issues including civil procedure, admission of evidence, custody of children, and equitable division of property.

When Megan is not practicing law, she is spending time with her family, listening to podcasts and audiobooks, and singing loudly and off-key.

Mindy W. Zimmerman graduated from Chesnee High School in 1998 and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree, with a major in English, from Wofford College in 2001.  While at Wofford, she was a member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society and the Pre-Law Fraternity.  She received, in 2005, her Master of Business Administration from Gardner-Webb University and in 2006, her Juris Doctor from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, located at Campbell University.     

Judge Zimmerman began her legal career with the Eighth Judicial Circuit Solicitor's Office, where she handled a wide array of criminal prosecution in both General Sessions and Family Court.  In 2009, she opened the Law Firm of Zimmerman and Shealy, LLC, in the office previously occupied by The Honorable Eugene C. Griffith, prior to his election to the Circuit Bench.  During her time in private practice, she focused on Family Court.  At various points in her career, Judge Zimmerman represented the Department of Social Services, the Guardian ad Litem Program and defendants in DSS actions.  She represented parties to private litigation and juveniles charged with criminal offenses.  She was a certified Guardian ad Litem and a certified Family Court Mediator.     

While in Spartanburg, Judge Zimmerman served as a Board Member for the Spartanburg Downtown Association, from which she received the Jill Plemmons Downtown Pride Award.  After moving to Newberry, South Carolina, Judge Zimmerman joined the Newberry Jaycees, and was recognized by receipt of the Outstanding First Timer Award and Outstanding Young Business Leader Award.  She served as a member of the Board of the Newberry Business Alliance and as the Fund Raising Coordinator for the Newberry County 100th Anniversary Girl Scout Celebration Committee.  She has also been a member of the Chambers of Commerce in both Spartanburg and Newberry Counties.