Hall Of Fame

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (AP) _ The state’s first black Supreme Court justice since Reconstruction is the newest member of the South Carolina Hall of Fame. Eighty-year-old Ernest Finney was inducted during a ceremony Monday at the hall in Myrtle Beach. Finney worked as a civil rights attorney, served in the South Carolina House and later was a circuit judge. He served on the high court for 15 years, six of them as chief justice, before retiring in 2000. Also inducted during the ceremonies was Thomas Lynch Sr., a Revolutionary War leader from South Carolina who nominated George Washington as commander in chief. Each year the hall inducts one living and one deceased South Carolinian.