South Carolina H 4173: Tom Hudson appreciation for SC SIC

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2025-2026 Bill 4173 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 06, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4173

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A house RESOLUTION

to express deepest appreciation to Tom F. Hudson, 
Executive Director of the South Carolina Education Association, for his 
exemplary service to the South Carolina School Improvement Council and to wish 
him continued success and happiness.

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives has learned that Tom F. Hudson provided 
outstanding service to the South Carolina School Improvement Council (SIC) for 
seventeen years, the last ten of which were as its highly regarded executive 
director; and

Whereas, in 1983, Mr. Hudson 
earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and religion from Maryville College 
in Maryville, Tennessee, and after serving in numerous journalistic capacities, 
including Hudson Communications, he served as the public information officer 
with the South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services 
from 1987 to 1995; and

Whereas, he served as an advertising 
account representative with BellSouth Corporation in Columbia from 1995 to 2003 
and then as the public information officer for the Beaufort County School 
District from 2003 to 2007; and

Whereas, from 2005 to 2007, Mr. 
Hudson served as a member of the South Carolina SIC Board of Trustees before he 
began his service with the South Carolina SIC in 2007, becoming the executive 
director in 2014. During those years, he served as the state coordinator of the 
South Carolina Education Policy Fellowship Program and as the co-director of 
the Carolina Family Engagement Center. In 2024, he became the executive 
director of the South Carolina Education Association; and 

Whereas, Mr. Hudson was honored 
to receive fellowships with the South Carolina Diversity Leaders Initiative in 
2010 at the Riley Institute at Furman University and in 2012 with the South 
Carolina Education Policy Fellowship Program, Institute for Educational 
Leadership; and

Whereas, he served his 
profession as a past president and as a member of the South Carolina Chapter of 
the National School Public Relations Association since 2004, a member of the 
University of South Carolina College of Education Organizational Review 
Committee from 2022 to 2024, and board president and vice president of the Social 
Emotional Learning Alliance of South Carolina from 2020 to 2024; and

Whereas, Mr. Hudson also served 
as a Teacher of the Year reviewer for several school districts from 2016 
through 2024, an award reviewer for the South Carolina Education Oversight 
Committee Data Trailblazer Awards in 2024, a member of the South Carolina State 
Board of Education Accreditation Task Force in 2017 and 2021, an advisory board 
member of the Southeast Comprehensive Center of the American Institutes for 
Research from 2017 to 2019, a member of the State Superintendent of Education's 
School Safety Task Force from 2015 to 2016, a member of the Communications 
Advisory Team's TransformSC initiative of South Carolina Council on 
Competitiveness from 2013 to 2015, a member of South Carolina Friends of 
Education from 2007 to 2014 and as its co-chair from 2010 to 2012, and as a member 
of the South Carolina Department of Education Leadership Team for Research 
Based School-Wide Practices in 2008; and

Whereas, in his busy schedule, 
Mr. Hudson has shown devotion to his community in a myriad of activities, 
including serving as a federal appointee on the United States Selective Service 
System Board for Richland County since 2015, a member and elder of New Kirk 
Presbyterian Church in Blythewood since 2008, a member and past master of the Dentsville 
Lodge #398 A.F.M. since 1994, and a member of the Blythewood High School 
Improvement Council from 2010 to 2012; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives values the excellent leadership contributions 
of Tom Hudson to education in the Palmetto State. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, express 
deepest appreciation to Tom F. Hudson for his exemplary service to the South 
Carolina School Improvement Council and wish him continued success and 
happiness.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to Tom F. Hudson.

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