Beaufort County is proud to announce that Judge Heather Galvin has been selected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF). Membership is strictly limited to one percent of lawyers admitted in the US and its territories, and the nomination process is highly selective. The ABF is the world’s leading research institute for the interdisciplinary empirical study of law. For more than seventy years, the ABF has served the legal profession, the academy, and the public through cutting-edge research, publications, and programs that advance justice and the understanding of law and legal processes

According to the American Bar Foundation, ABF Fellows are a global honorary society of attorneys, judges, law faculty, and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession. More information can be found at https://www.americanbarfoundation.org/abf-fellows/. 

“It is my honor and pleasure to serve the citizens of Beaufort County as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation," stated Judge Galvin. "Fellows are at the forefront of policy and legislative research on the national and international levels.”

Judge Galvin currently serves as President of the South Carolina Association of Probate Judges, is a member of the Executive Committee of the National College of Probate Judges, liaison for the National College of Probate Judges to the American Bar Association and ACTEC (the American College of Estate and Trust Counsel), and board member for South Carolina NAMI and Lowcountry NAMI.