South Carolina H 5519: Jeannie Rose Potter Highway

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2025-2026 Bill 5519 Text of Previous Version (Apr. 28, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5519

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Recalled

April 28, 2026

H. 5519

Introduced 
by Reps. C. Mitchell, G. M. Smith and Yow 

S. Printed 4/28/26--S.

Read the first time April 21, 2026

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

To request the Department of Transportation 
name the portion of Highway Church Road between Stephen Campbell Road and Larry 
Jeffers Road in the Town of Elgin in Kershaw County "Jeannie Rose Potter Road" 
and erect appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words. 

Whereas, a 
faithful government servant, Jeannie Rose Potter dedicated thirty-five years of 
her working career to the State of South Carolina demonstrating compassion in 
diligent service to so many elected officials, organizations, and communities; 
and

Whereas, Mrs. 
Potter served fourteen years in the Kershaw County Sheriff's Department as 
secretary to then Sheriff Hector DeBruhl; and

Whereas, she 
began her thirty-five year career with the State as executive secretary in the 
South Carolina House Ways and Means Committee, serving under three successive 
committee chairmen - William Boan, Henry Brown, and Robert Harrell Jr.; and

Whereas, in 
2005, she became the executive assistant to Speaker of the House of 
Representatives Robert Harrell Jr. and served continuously in that position for 
House Speakers Jay Lucas and G. Murrell Smith, until she retired in 2024; and

Whereas, most 
importantly, she was the loving and devoted wife to Kershaw County Deputy 
Sheriff Ernest Christian Potter III, who was tragically killed in the line of 
duty in 1974. High school sweethearts, the couple was married in July 1972. 
Their only child, Ernest Christian "Little Chris" Potter IV was born six months 
after his father was killed. Jeannie raised "Little Chris" as a single mother, 
receiving support from family, friends, and the law enforcement community while 
maintaining a life of service; and

Whereas, her 
community involvement knew no boundaries. Mrs. Potter served twenty years as a 
volunteer girls basketball coach for the Kershaw County Recreation Department. 
She also was a faithful volunteer for the Elgin Catfish Stomp parade for many 
years led by then Elgin Mayor Don Watson Jr.; and

Whereas, grateful 
for her accomplishments and many years of service to the State of South 
Carolina, it is only fitting and proper that Jeannie Rose Potter is remembered 
with a portion of road in her beloved Town of Elgin named in her honor. Now, therefore,

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

That the members 
of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, request the 
Department of Transportation name the portion of Highway Church Road between 
Stephen Campbell Road and Larry Jeffers Road in the Town of Elgin in Kershaw 
County "Jeannie Rose Potter Road" and erect appropriate signs or markers at 
this location containing these words.

Be it further 
resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Department of 
Transportation.

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