Background

Although Kim was born in Greenville, SC, work took her family to North Carolina and she grew up in Belmont, NC. Ironically, later in life different roads took the entire family back to the Upstate of South Carolina. Kim has traveled overseas extensively and earned a B.A. in International Studies and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After college she stood at a career crossroads — and chose law school, graduating from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2006. After a stint as an associate attorney at a large South Carolina firm representing clients in federal, state, and local courts, she became assistant county attorney for Greenville County where she worked for more than fifteen years and forged a satisfying career in identifying potential problems and resolving them for a community’s benefit.

During her time at Greenville County she developed an exceptional reputation for providing tailored and practical advice to County officials on complex issues, as well as advising on day-to-day operations including negotiation of intergovernmental agreements; enforcement of building and regulatory codes, including floodplain management and stormwater regulations; property tax assessment, collection, and enforcement; delinquent tax collection and tax sales; and county road and bridge inventory management. At Pope Flynn she will focus on providing cities, towns, and counties comprehensive counsel on transactional, operational, administrative, regulatory, and policy matters.

Past engagements include leading negotiations and securing agreements on behalf of a South Carolina county with the South Carolina Transportation Infrastructure Bank, the South Carolina Department of Transportation, and the Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation Study (GPATS) for funding and construction of a $121 million bypass project; advising on consolidation of seven independent wastewater collection providers into a single unified system; and developing the first significant update in two decades to a stormwater utility operational agreement among NPDES co-permittees incorporating substantial program modernization.

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