Before her retirement in 2018, Lee Coggiola was Disciplinary Counsel for the South Carolina Supreme Court, and before that Chief Staff Attorney for the South Carolina Court of Appeals and the Chief Public Defender of Richland County.  Prior to attending law school she spent eleven years with IBM in systems and marketing   She is currently an adjunct instructor at USC School of Law.  Originally from Massachusetts and New York, she has made South Carolina home for 45 years.