Char Fitzwater
SC
Professor emerita and former business department chair at Immaculata University, and a former insurance company chief financial officer. Priorities include shared governance, transparency and fiscal oversight.
Where Char Fitzwater stands, based on their records
Supports
Public Education Quality (1 record), Civil Rights (1 record)
Track record
Track record — Public Education Quality
Public Education Quality · 1 support
Spoke at a public town hall that Rep. Nancy Mace declined to attend. She urged keeping U.S. Department of Education programs that protect students' civil rights and help students with disabilities and low-income students.
March 28, 2025Supports Public Education Quality
Source: counton2.com
Track record — Civil Rights
Civil Rights · 1 support
Spoke at a public town hall that Rep. Nancy Mace declined to attend. She urged keeping U.S. Department of Education programs that protect students' civil rights and help students with disabilities and low-income students.
March 28, 2025Supports Civil Rights
Source: counton2.com
Track record — General
General · 3 records
Spoke at a Charleston County school board budget meeting. She warned that nearly $85 million in federal funds was at risk and asked if the district's savings could absorb a cut.
May 16, 2025
Source: abcnews4.com
Publicly opposed a proposed Charleston County School District policy to name new schools only after places, not people. She backed naming the new Johns Island Elementary after civil rights activist Esau Jenkins and his wife.
May 2, 2025
Source: live5news.com
Published a letter in The Post and Courier criticizing how the Charleston County school board chairman handled two points of order. She wrote that input from elected board members was being shut down.
August 16, 2024
Source: postandcourier.com
Past race Char Fitzwater ran in:
- Charleston County School Board of Trustees District 1 · November 3, 2026 · Charleston County School Board District 1