Wesley Stoddard

I have been in private practice since 1975, immediately after law school joining my father's law firm which was established in 1947 by Charles C. Moore and Robert L. Stoddard. The law firm has been operating as Moore Stoddard Stoddard & Wood at 207 Magnolia Street since 1960, directly across from the Spartanburg County Courthouse. I currently have a solo practice handling personal injury claims, divorces and family law, including name changes, real estate closings, Probate matters, Wills, Power of Attorneys, and drafting deeds. I served as the City Prosecutor for the City of Spartanburg for 11 years. I am a past President of the Spartanburg County Bar Association. I am serving as an Elder at First Presbyterian Church, where I have served as Clerk of the Session and Chairman of the Board of Deacons. I am a past President and past Lt. Governor of the Kiwanis Club of Spartanburg, and have served on the Boards of Mountainview Nursing Home, Greater Spartanburg Ministries, Junior Achievement, Project EAT, Spartanburg Touchdown Club, the Converse Heights Neighborhood Association and the Dutchman Prison Chapel Committee. I have served on the South Carolina Bar Board of Governors , the SC Supreme Court Commission on Lawyer Competence, the Bar's Nomination Committee, the Judicial Review Commission and its House of Delegates for 25 years; as well as the President of the SC Bar Young Lawyers Division, which represented all lawyers in the state under 35 years of age. I have served as National Co-chairman of ABA Community Law Week. While attending USC Law School I served as President of the Student Bar Association. I have been active in support of my alma mater, Clemson University, as the IPTAY Chairman for Spartanburg County, an IPTAY Representative since 1978, a past member of the National Alumni Council and as a member of the Board of the Spartanburg County Clemson Club since 1976 where I serve as the Chairman of the annual scholarship committee.