HONORING DR. DANIEL DREISBACH ON HIS DECADES OF SCHOLARLY WORK THAT WERE FOUNDED UPON THE EDUCATION HE EARNED IN SOUTH CAROLINA'S TECHNICAL SCHOOL PROGRAM.

Whereas, Daniel Dreisbach was born in Nigeria in 1959 to John and Debbie Dreisbach who were medical missionaries. He graduated high school from Bob Jones Academy and then spent a year building a clinic in Africa with his family. He then enrolled in Greenville Technical College and graduated in 1980. With the encouragement of one of his favorite professors, Dr. Keller Freeman, he applied for a Rhodes Scholarship; and

Whereas, he was selected as part of the Rhodes Class of 1981 and remains the only graduate of the South Carolina Technical School System to receive this high honor; and

Whereas, he graduated from the University of South Carolina system in 1981, graduated next from Oxford, and then earned his law degree from the Virginia School of Law in 1988. He later clerked for U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert F. Chapman and spent two years practicing public interest law; and

Whereas, he has served on the faculty of American University since 1991 and has been repeatedly honored as one of the leading minds on church and state law in the nation; and

Whereas, he is the author of Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State and Real Threat and Mere Shadow: Religious Liberty and the First Amendment. He was recently a consultant of the PBS series, God in America; and

Whereas, it is fitting and proper for the members of the Senate to pause in their deliberations to honor the achievements and contributions of this great American. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate:

That the members of the South Carolina Senate, by this resolution, honor Dr. Daniel Dreisbach for his scholarly work, his teaching, and his being a shining example of what students can achieve from a South Carolina Technical School education.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Dr. Daniel Dreisbach.