+ Barbara Seymour

Barbara M. Seymour practices in the area of Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics at Clawson & Staubes, LLC, in Columbia, SC. She assists lawyers and law firms in ensuring ethical compliance, including conflicts analysis; advertising review; risk management assessment; trust account management training; and, departure and dissolution guidance. Barbara also defends lawyers and judges in disciplinary enforcement matters. She represents Bar applicants before the Committee on Character and Fitness and the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Barbara provides consulting and opinions in legal malpractice matters. She represents lawyers and law firms in litigation matters related to disqualification, fee petitions, unauthorized practice of law, and sanctions.

Barbara earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Management and Marketing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1990. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1993. She began her legal career as a trial lawyer in Greenville, SC. She then worked as a prosecutor for the Office of Disciplinary Counsel to the Supreme Court of South Carolina for seventeen years, serving as the Deputy Disciplinary Counsel from 2007 to 2017. She was an adjunct professor in the Paralegal Degree Program at Midlands Technical College and an instructor in the Paralegal Certificate Program at Converse College. Her courses included Civil Litigation, Legal Research and Writing, Business Law, Torts, Introduction to Law and Ethics, and Law Office Management.

Barbara is a member of the South Carolina Bar, the State Bar of Georgia, the South Carolina Women Lawyers Association, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, the SC Board of Paralegal Certification, and the Richland County Bar. Barbara was a Fellow of the National Institute for the Teaching of Ethics and Professionalism in 2006 and 2011. She frequently presents continuing legal education programs to local, state, and national audiences on a variety of topics related to professional ethics and lawyer wellness. She is the creator of the SC Bar’s three-part online CLE series Trust Account Academy and the author of Trust Accounting for South Carolina Lawyers: An Annotated Practice Manual. In addition to presenting seminars for MCLE credit, Barbara’s service to the South Carolina Bar includes volunteering for the Law-Related Education, Professional Responsibility, Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Diversity Committees.

+ zac Mueller

Zachary H. Mueller is the managing member with the Forensic and Valuation practice of Mueller Forensic Accounting LLC. He has a specialized focus in the areas of domestic/divorce litigation, fraud, corporate investigations, commercial damages calculations, litigation support, and forensic accounting services.

He has been qualified as an expert in South Carolina family court and has provided testimony in depositions.

Zachary is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (SCACPA), National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).

He holds the following licenses and certifications:

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed in South Carolina and Florida
• Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV), AICPA
• Certified in Financial Forensic (CFF), AICPA
• Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), NACVA
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), ACFE He is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University with a Bachelor of Administration in Accounting and Management.
  
  

+ Catherine Stoddard

Catherine Stoddard is principal and founder of Stoddard Consulting, PA, a CPA firm, specializing in litigation support, forensic accounting, and business valuations.

Catherine has over 30 years of experience as a CPA, including a big four accounting firm, a top 10 accounting firm, a sole practitioner, and several years in industry.

Catherine’s practice focuses on litigation consulting work providing services for the financial and valuation aspects of complex commercial litigation, damages, and domestic litigation. These matters may include business interruption, lost profits/loss of use, breach of contract, divorce, fraud, employment, damages, and business disputes. She also does business valuations for litigation, mergers and acquisitions, transition planning, and gift or estate tax.

She has been qualified as an expert in South Carolina and North Carolina family court, state courts, and superior court. She has also been appointed a joint expert and has testified in depositions and arbitrations. However, most of her cases settle before trial.

Catherine is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), South Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (SCACPA), National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). She is also a member of the Forensic and Business Valuation Division of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Foundation (AAML).

She is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed in North Carolina and South Carolina. She holds the Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) certification from the AICPA. She holds the Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and Master Analyst in Financial Forensics (MAFF) designation from NACVA. She holds the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) certification from the ACFE.

She is a Cum Laude graduate of Furman University with a BA in Accounting.

+ The Honorable Rochelle Y. Conits

Judge Conits is a native of Lexington County, South Carolina, where she graduated from the Lexington County public schools. She attended Lander University in Greenwood and was a member of the Lander College Women’s Basketball team. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of South Carolina in 1987. After college, she worked for two years as a legal assistant in Columbia. In 1992 Judge Conits graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law.

After law school, Judge Conits worked as an associate attorney for King & Vernon, P.A., Columbia, South Carolina, where she practiced until December 1996. Her family relocated to Greenville, South Carolina in January 1997, and she joined Wilkins & Madden, P.A. as an associate attorney, becoming partner in that firm in March 2000. In February 2006, Judge Conits was elected to the South Carolina Family Court bench and sits in Greenville County.

As a practicing attorney, Judge Conits was rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell. She was admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts in South Carolina and before the United States Supreme Court. She is an active member of the South Carolina Bar, where she served on the Family Court Task Force and the Family Law Council. She served on the Editorial Board of Marital Litigation in South Carolina Third Edition. Judge Conits has served as a speaker and instructor for continuing legal education seminars for both the South Carolina Bar and the South Carolina Trial Lawyers. She has served as a judge for the South Atlantic Mock Trial Tournament and the South Carolina Bar Mock Trial Competition.

Judge Conits is married to Spero John Conits of Greenville, South Carolina. She has two children, a son, Capers Brooks Williamson, and a daughter, Heather Elizabeth Conits.

+ The Honorable Thomas T. Hodges

Thomas Tredway Hodges was born in Conway, South Carolina in 1959 to Dr. Rupert E. Hodges and Eunice Purnell Hodges.

Tommy grew up in Spartanburg, South Carolina and graduated from Spartanburg High School in 1978. He attended Georgia Tech before graduating from USCS with a degree in Business Administration. He graduated from USC School of Law in 1987. He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar on November 23, 1987.

After graduation from law school Judge Hodges worked as an associate with Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson and Greaves, a nationally renowned labor and employment law firm. He became a partner in that firm in 1994. In 2003 he and Marsh Robertson formed what would later become Robertson & Hodges, LLC where he practiced family law exclusively. After Marsh Robertson was elected to the Family Court bench in 2010, Judge Hodges formed Thomas T. Hodges, P.A. where he continued his exclusive Family Court practice until his election on February 1, 2017.

Judge Hodges is a member of the Greenville County Bar, the South Carolina Bar, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. While in private practice he was recognized as a “Super Lawyer” in the area of family law and held an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

In his spare time, he enjoys golf, hunting and traveling with his family.

+ The Honorable Tarita A. Dunbar

Judge Tarita A. (Ridgill) Dunbar was born in Manning, South Carolina and raised in Summerton, South Carolina.  She is the daughter of Roland Hayes and Clotel Ragin Richburg and the late William Nelson Ridgill.   She is a graduate of Manning High School, Georgetown University and the University Of South Carolina School Of Law.

After law school, Tarita started her legal career in private practice in Columbia, South Carolina practicing in the area of domestic relations.    Shortly thereafter, Tarita served as the Director of Research and Legal Counsel for the South Carolina Senate Committee on Corrections and Penology. Her legal career also includes serving as an Attorney for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation; Attorney for Spartanburg and Cherokee County Department of Social Services; and Attorney for South Carolina Department of Social Services Child Support Division.

Tarita was appointed to serve as a Commissioner to the South Carolina Human Affairs Board of Commissioner.  She also served on the Board of Eau Claire Cooperative Health Centers, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina.

Tarita is a member of Augusta Road Church of Christ, Greenville, South Carolina, where she has served as Sunday School Teacher.

  She enjoys exercising at the Caine Halter YMCA, reading, and hiking.  Tarita is passionate about other’s health in terms of eating properly and using nature’s remedies for healing.

+ The Honorable Marsh Robertson

Judge William Marsh Robertson was born in 1963 in Greer, South Carolina and grew up in Greenville. After graduating from Greenville High School in 1981, Robertson attended Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, where in 1985 he graduated cum laude. He earned his juris doctorate degree from the University of the South Carolina School of Law in the spring of 1988.

Following law school, Robertson worked for two years as an associate with the Columbia, South Carolina law firm of Lewis, Lide, Bruce and Potts, PA. In 1990, he relocated to Greenville, where he joined his father in forming Robertson & Robertson, PA, a law firm dedicated to the practice of matrimonial and family law. For the next 20 years, Robertson practiced exclusively in the area of family law, most recently with Robertson & Hodges, LLC. On February 3, 2010, he was elected by the South Carolina Legislature to Seat 2, Family Court, 13th Judicial Circuit.

Robertson has been a member of the South Carolina Bar since 1988. He served on the Family Law Council from 1998 to 2001, and was a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers from 1999 to 2010. Robertson also served as an editorial board member for Stuckey, Marital Litigation in South Carolina: Substantive Law, 3rd Edition, 2000, and Stuckey, Marriage and Divorce in South Carolina: A Layperson’s Guide, 2001.

In private practice, Robertson was rated “AV” by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and was selected for inclusion in the 2008, 2009, and 2010 editions of South Carolina Super Lawyers. Robertson has presented at multiple Continuing Legal Education seminars, both as a lawyer and as a judge.  He has served as an officer of the South Carolina Conference of Family Court Judges, a member of the Family Court Judge’s Advisory Committee, and an instructor at Orientation School for Newly Elected Family Court Judges.

Robertson is married and has three adult children and two adult stepchildren.  He is an enthusiast of music and sports, and enjoys playing golf and spending time with family.

+ The Honorable Katherine H. Tiffany

Judge Tiffany was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina and was raised in Gaffney, South Carolina.  After graduating from Spartanburg Day School, Judge Tiffany attended the University of South Carolina Honors College, where she was a member of Alpha Delta Pi Sorority and Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.  She graduated in 1992 Magna Cum Laude with a Major in English and a minor in South Carolina Studies, and then attended the University of South Carolina School of Law, graduating in 1995 and becoming the fourth generation in her family to enter the practice of law.

From 1995 to 1996, she clerked for the Honorable Henry Floyd, then Circuit Judge for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.  In 1996 she joined Carter, Smith, Merriam, Rogers & Traxler, P.A. as an Associate, and then became partner in 2006.  During her twenty years of private practice, she focused almost exclusively on family court with an emphasis on custody, support and complex issues both in her practice and as presenter at numerous continuing legal education seminars.  From 2009 to 2016 she served as a member of the South Carolina Bar Family Law Council, serving as Co Course Planner for the Family Law Intensive CLE in 2011 and 2013, and as Secretary, Vice Chair and Chair Elect. Judge Tiffany is married Peter Clifford Tiffany, a native of Aiken, South Carolina.

On May 25, 2016 Judge Tiffany was elected to succeed the late Honorable Harry L. Phillips as Judge of the Family Court, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.

+ The Honorable Marcelo Torricos, III

Judge Torricos grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and later moved to the Upstate of South Carolina during high school. He graduated from Mauldin High School in 2006 before attending Clemson University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in 2009. He went on to pursue his legal education at John Marshall Law School, graduating in 2013.

Following law school, Judge Torricos began his legal career as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Robin B. Stilwell of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. His clerkship provided invaluable experience and strengthened his commitment to the fair and effective administration of justice. After completing his clerkship, he joined Bannister, Wyatt & Stalvey, LLC, where he spent the remainder of his legal career in private practice. His work at the firm centered on domestic litigation and criminal defense, enabling him to develop a broad and balanced understanding of the legal system and the people it serves. He was elevated to partner in 2023. In February 2025, Judge Torricos was elected to the South Carolina Family Court bench by the South Carolina General Assembly, marking a significant milestone in his career and reaffirming his dedication to public service and the law.

Outside of his judicial duties, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, and cheering on his beloved Clemson Tigers.