Garden & Gun features SC’s Darla Moore in latest issue

The latest issue of Garden & Gun magazine focuses on 10 “awe-inspiring, risk-taking, big-dreaming, barrier-breaking, soul-baring, freewheeling Southern women.”

One of those women is Lake City’s Darla Moore.

In the August/September issue, on newsstands July 17, Moore talks about her upbringing in Lake City, education at the University of South Carolina, career in banking and finance and her philanthropic drive.

Moore worked on Wall Street in the 1980s and gained a reputation for being direct. In 1997, Fortune magazine called her “The Toughest Babe in the Business” on their cover. In 2012, Moore and Condoleezza Rice were the first women admitted into the Augusta National Golf Club.

Since returning to South Carolina, Moore’s influence can be measured by her monetary donations to USC — the Darla Moore School of Business and the Ronald E. McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research — and Clemson and funding to create the annual ArtFields Art Festival in Lake City.

This story was originally published July 16, 2018 at 5:39 PM.