Rob and Lisa Wilcox Law Scholarship

This past fall, members of the law class of 1989 established the Rob and Lisa Wilcox Endowed Law Scholarship to honor their legacy at the School of Law.  With the opening of the new law school building in the fall of 2017, Dean Wilcox has tirelessly worked to reduce tuition costs for the next generation of lawyers. To honor their legacy, the call is for alumni and friends of the School of Law to build a competitive scholarship program by giving to the Wilcox Law Scholarship.

Dean Wilcox, Law Class of 1981, has served the School of Law since 1986 as a professor, academic dean and for the last nine years, as Dean.

During his career at the School of Law, he served as Editor of the national ABA Real Property Probate and Trust Journal and as a member on the ABA Task Force on Financing Legal Education, and worked with South Carolina Supreme Court to establish JOE (Judicial Observation Experience) Program and Lawyer Mentoring Program. He gained a national reputation as an ethics scholar and co-authored the leading SC Ethics Treatise on legal ethics.  He served on the Ethics Advisory Committee for many years, several as chair, and also served the S.C. Commission on Judicial Conduct and the S.C. Judicial Merit Selection Committee.

Outside of law, Rob has a love of baseball and served as coach and commissioner of a local baseball league for many years.

His wife Lisa, also an attorney, has been an essential part of the law school community. Though she did not graduate from this law school, the law students are her second family. Mrs. Wilcox is a fixture at alumni and law school events including the annual service day projects with students and has hosted law students at her home for dinners and receptions.

As the 2020 South Carolina Bar Foundation DuRant Public Service Award recipient, Dean Wilcox shared the following remarks,

“You have joined me in a labor of love to elevate the University of South Carolina School of Law; and, by your doing so, you have made me a better law school dean; but, most of all, I am here today because of the willingness of my wife Lisa to work beside me at times -- to lead me at others – and most often, to share me – with you and with my students –on so many days when we might otherwise have been together.”

Please make checks payable to: USC Foundations, include Wilcox scholarship in the memo line and mail to: 

University of South Carolina School of Law

1525 Senate Street, Suite 253

Columbia, SC 29208

Questions? Contact Kaydee Arthur, Assistant Director or Development at arthurkl@law.sc.edu or Travis Tester, Interim Senior Director of Development at 317-408-1032 or ttester@law.sc.edu.