About Alexandria Broughton
Alexandria Broughton Skinner earned her Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina in 1980. She started her legal career as a regulation clerk to the Honorable Randall T. Bell on the South Carolina Court of Appeals in 1984. That early exposure to appellate work framed a continuous progression through state legal institutions.
After her clerkship, Skinner stayed at the Court of Appeals as a staff lawyer in 1985. A year later she moved to the S.C. Attorney General's Office, the place she continued as a staff lawyer. Her time there expanded her litigation and advisory knowledge and ended in a promotion to Assistant Attorney General in 1991. Those roles placed her within the machinery of state legal practice at a formative point in her profession.
In 1995 Skinner became Associate General Counsel for the South Carolina State Budget and Control Board. She handled legal issues for a state agency charged with monetary oversight. That role bridged legal proceedings, regulatory work, and the realistic demands of government lawyering. In 2003 she served as a listening to consultant for the S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, a position that added administrative listening to experience to her portfolio.
By 2009 Skinner launched a solo practice and started working as a mediator. She holds certification from the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification as each a Circuit Court Mediator and a Family Court Mediator. Those credentials reflect years of court and administrative knowledge utilized to dispute resolution outdoor the adversarial trial placing.
Skinner’s expert pursuits extend into organized efforts on elder law and conflict resolution. She has volunteered at the S.C. Bar Elder Law Committee since 2016 and has been a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution since 2009. For almost two decades she has also served in a volunteer position as moderator of the Peacemaking Committee for Trinity Presbytery, a role that ties community mediation work to faith-based peacemaking initiatives.
Admitted to practice in South Carolina and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Skinner has moved between authorities service, administrative advising, and private facilitated negotiation practice over a multi-decade career. She now operates a solo practice and works as a mediator, handling circuit and family court mediations and associated dispute decision matters.
