Mary W. Blanding
Clerk to Council |
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Lorraine Dennis
Assistant County Administrator
Human Resource Director |
Clerk to County Council
Mary W. Blanding |
Mary Witherspoon Blanding, Clerk to Sumter County Council, is a native of Sumter, South Carolina. She was selected by County Council as the Council's second Clerk to Council in April of 1990. She is the daughter of Deacon John Ivory and Mrs. Dorothy Mae Smith Witherspoon. Mary attended school in Sumter School District #17 and graduated from Sumter High School (formerly Lincoln High School), Palmer Junior College, and Morris College (Honor Graduate) with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Management. Mary is married to Mr. Kenneth Orlando Blanding from Manning, SC. Mary currently serves and has served her home community of Sumter County in the following capacities:
- Member, Santee Wateree Regional Transportation Authority Board of Directors
- Member, League of Women Voters
- Member, Sumter Chamber of Commerce
- Community Relations Committee and Former Member of the Membership Committee
- Member, YWCA
- Member, Office Systems Technology Advisory Committee at Central Carolina Technology College
- Former Member, Lawrence Detherick Foundation Board
- Former Secretary/Member, Sumter High School Band Booster Club
- Former Member, President, Vice President, and Secretary of Wilder Elementary School PTA
- Former Member, Bates Middle School Improvement Council
- Former Member, Habitat for Humanity Board
- Mrs. Blanding has her Certification as Clerk to County Council which was awarded by the State of South Carolina's Association of Counties and the Institute of Public Officials, Division of the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.
- She has also received honors and awards such as: J. T. McCain Public Service Award from the Martin Luther King Committee; American Association of Women in Community and Junior Colleges Award; TWIN Honoree (Tribute to Women in Business and Industry); Government Honoree for Mt. Zion Baptist Church Black History Month; American Association of Women in Community and Junior Colleges Award
- Mrs. Blanding was nominated in 2009 as a Woman of Excellence by the Social Justice Consortium.
- She is an active member of St. John Baptist Church, Silver, South Carolina where she is involved in several ministries.
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