Midlands people and achievements: Shaundra Scott

Shaundra Young Scott has been named the new executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina. Scott is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and the John Marshall Law School in Atlanta. She is a member of the bar in the Federal District Court of South Carolina. She previously was supervising attorney of the migrant division of South Carolina Legal Services. In that capacity, she represented migrant and seasonal farm workers in state and federal court. Scott studied Spanish at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazon in Puerto Rico and at the Fenix Language Institute in Mexico. She is a South Carolina native who lives in Hanahan with her husband and son. She succeeds Victoria Middleton, who is retiring after seven years.