New Club Member - Jim Foster Inducted July 25, 2012
Posted by Jared Jester
on Aug 6, 2012
Jim Foster is Director of School and Community Services for the Beaufort County School District. He moved to Bluffton last August from Columbia, where he was Director of Communications at the South Carolina Department of Education for 20 years. Prior to joining the Education Department, he was a newspaper editor for 14 years at The State in Columbia and at The Greenville News, and also an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of South Carolina. Jim is a graduate of Leadership South Carolina and will join the new class of Leadership Beaufort in August. He grew up in Spartanburg and graduated from Spartanburg High School before attending Wofford College for his undergraduate work and Columbia University for his graduate work. He is married and has four children, the youngest of whom is a rising senior at Bluffton High.