Candy M. Kern-Fuller

Born in the middle of the 1968 riots in Trenton, New Jersey,you could say that Candy Kern-Fuller was destined to be a civil rightsactivist.  In 1991, Candy became theyoungest state president in the nation of the National Organization for Women(NOW).  She has served in a variety ofleadership capacities as a State Board member of the American Civil LibertiesUnion (ACLU) and a former national board member of NOW.  She is a past-presidentof the Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and previously served twoterms as its Social Responsibility chair.

Through her involvement with NOW, Candy became a vocal andstrong advocate of equality for all.  In 1996, she was the grand marshal of theSouth Carolina Pride Parade in Greenville, South Carolina following herco-founding of ProJustice Carolina. 

In 1999, she left hercareer as a litigation paralegal to attend law school.  In 2002, Candy graduated cum laude from the USC School of Law where she was a member of the Order of the Coif, Order of the Wig and Robe, Order of the Barristers, the South Carolina Law Review, and the Moot Court Bar.  In 2001, she competed in the USC Moot CourtBar’s Final Four before the SouthCarolina Court of Appeals, she captained of one of USC’s two ABA Moot Courtnational competition teams, and won the 2002 J. Woodrow Lewis competition being judged by the South Carolina Supreme Court.  Immediately after law school, she clerkedfor the Honorable G. Ross Anderson, Jr., United States District Court Judge, inAnderson, South Carolina. 

She practiced exclusivelyin the employment discrimination and wrongful discharge arena for her firstyear and half of private practice.  In2004, she filed the first charge of discrimination in the nation that allegedsex discrimination by an intersex individual as sex discrimination under TitleVII.

In 2005 she opened herown small, hometown general law practice.  She now manages the Easley, South Carolina practice and still practices employment litigation in additionto family law and other areas of general litigation.  Her partner, Howard E. Sutter, III runs the transactional sideof their practice.  

In 2008, she receivedher first published federal appellate opinion for the case of Wilson v.Phoenix Specialty, 2008 U.S. 1261 (4th Cir. 1/23/2008), affirming the Americans with Disabilities Act verdictshe and her co-counsel Vickie Eslinger won totaling $177,783in back pay; $10,000 in compensatory damages, and $10,000 in punitive damagesfor a Bamberg, South Carolina man with Parkinson’s Disease.