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Bill 4002

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      4002
Type of Legislation:              Concurrent Resolution CR
Introducing Body:                 House
Introduced Date:                  19990427
Primary Sponsor:                  J. Brown
All Sponsors:                     J. Brown
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\ggs\22317cm99.doc
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:     19990428
Subject:                          Dr. Andrew J. Chishom, Resolutions


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
House   19990428  Received from Senate
Senate  19990428  Introduced, adopted, returned
                  with concurrence
House   19990427  Introduced, adopted, sent to Senate


                             Versions of This Bill

TO COMMEND DR. ANDREW J. CHISHOM OF RICHLAND COUNTY FOR HIS MANY YEARS OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE IN THE FIELD OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

Whereas, Dr. Andrew J. Chishom of Richland County received his undergraduate degree in criminology from the University of Maryland, and both his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Georgia; and

Whereas, he served his nation with distinction from 1963 to 1966 as a member of the United States Air Force, and since 1979 has been a member of the United States Navy's Ready Reserves; and

Whereas, Dr. Chishom was appointed as the first African-American Juvenile Parole Officer in South Carolina in 1969, and has served as Chairman of the Greenville, South Carolina, Drug Abuse Council; and

Whereas, in 1971, former Governor Jimmy Carter appointed Dr. Chishom as the first African-American Probation Supervisor in the State of Georgia; and

Whereas, in 1974, he was employed as the first African-American Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina; and

Whereas, in 1976, President Jimmy Carter appointed Dr. Chishom as the first African-American United States Marshal in the South since Reconstruction; and

Whereas, today, Dr. Chishom serves as a full-tenured Professor in the College of Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina, and in 1990 was recognized by the University's Mortar Board as an "Outstanding Professor"; and

Whereas, he also serves as director of the nationally recognized Southern Region Violence and Substance Abuse Prevention Center whose mission is to assist school-based sites in ten Southern cities to address crime, violence, and substance abuse prevention among students; and

Whereas, Dr. Chishom's many accomplishments include: Co-Founder, first National Chairman and Chairman Emeritus of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ), Founder and President of the National Institute for the Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse, Founder and Chairman of the Five-Point Youth Violence Prevention Program, and Founder of the Columbia Midnight Basketball Program; and

Whereas, the members of the General Assembly would like to take this opportunity to commend Dr. Andrew J. Chishom for his many years of outstanding service in the field of criminal justice. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, recognizes and commends Dr. Andrew J. Chishom for his many years of outstanding service in the field of criminal justice.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be presented to Dr. Andrew J. Chishom.

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