Tom Tisdale Elected to Southern Education Foundation Board

Thomas S. Tisdale, a Partner in Nexsen Pruet’s Charleston office, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of the Southern Education Foundation, an organization focusing on fairness and excellence in education in the South.

Tisdale is an experienced attorney who practices in the litigation and appellate groups at Nexsen Pruet. He has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers in litigation and in Best Lawyers in America for business litigation and First Amendment law.

Tisdale is a former president of the South Carolina Bar and has also served as the organization’s secretary, treasurer, and circuit vice president. He was also a member of the Bar’s Board of Governors as well, and has served on the boards of many civic organizations.

He has served as president of the Charleston Lawyers Club, and has been a member of the Supreme Court Commission on Grievances and Discipline, the Supreme Court Commission on Continuing Lawyer Competency, the South Carolina Law Institute, the University of the South Board of Regents, and the Voorhees College Board of Trustees.

Based in Atlanta, the Southern Education Foundation works to assure fairness and excellence in education. Its focus includes improving education policy and practice; strengthening parent, school, and private sector efforts to better meet the needs of underachieving students and prepare America’s future workforce; and promoting a high quality of universal education.