[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Page 7750]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 JEAN HOEFER TOAL SALUTED FOR BRINGING INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY TO SOUTH 
                            CAROLINA COURTS

 Mr. HOLLINGS. Mr. President, Jean Hoefer Toal, Chief Justice 
of the South Carolina Supreme Court, has just been recognized by 
Government Technology Magazine as one of the top 25 leaders from across 
the Nation who has done the most to bring technology to the public 
sector. I rise today to congratulate her.
  We are a small State, much of it rural, and she has been the guiding 
force for linking the judicial courts in all 46 counties. She is making 
the county courts, all with their own cases and business, into a truly 
unified court system so that cases can be managed all across the 
jurisdictions. After September 11, the Nation saw the importance of a 
well-connected criminal justice system, and I am proud that my State is 
leading the way with automation. I know everyone in this body joins me 
in thanking Chief Justice Toal for bringing this about.

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