Merrill Joins Community Foundation Board

Linda Dolny, Chair of the Greenwood County Community Foundation (GCCF) Board of Directors announced recently that Jane Merrill had been accepted as its newest member.

A Greenwood native and local attorney, Merrill is a Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude graduate of the University of South Carolina where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and a Juris Doctor. She clerked for the late Circuit Court Judge Wyatt T. Saunders, Jr., and has litigated cases in both civil and criminal courts.

Jane opened Hawthorne Merrill Law in 2013. She practices adoption and assisted reproductive technology law, criminal law, and represents Veterans before the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in Washington, D.C.

Jane actively participates in her church community at The Episcopal Church of the Resurrection. She enjoys playing mandolin and performing in community theater productions.

Jane is married to Albert Merrill and they have two bright and spirited daughters.

According to Dolny, Merrill represents a transition in the makeup of the Foundation’s Board. “Our current Board consists of individuals who were instrumental in getting GCCF up and running, and very successful, in a short period of time. These are true community leaders, people of vision who have made a tremendous impact. Jane is part of a new generation of Greenwood leaders who will step in as these current leaders begin to transition off of the Board.”