About Alexandria Broughton
Alexandria Broughton Skinner earned her law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1980. She began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Randall T. Bell at the South Carolina Court of Appeals in 1984. That early exposure to appellate work framed a steady progression through state legal institutions.
After her clerkship, Skinner stayed at the Court of Appeals as a staff lawyer in 1985. A year later she moved to the S.C. Attorney General's Office, where she continued as a staff lawyer. Her time there expanded her litigation and advisory experience and led to a promotion to Assistant Attorney General in 1991. Those roles placed her inside the machinery of state legal practice at a formative point in her career.
In 1995 Skinner became Associate General Counsel for the South Carolina State Budget and Control Board. She handled legal matters for a state agency charged with financial oversight. That position bridged litigation, regulatory work, and the practical demands of government lawyering. In 2003 she served as a hearing advisor for the S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, a role that added administrative hearing experience to her portfolio.
By 2009 Skinner launched a solo practice and began working as a mediator. She holds certification from the South Carolina Board of Arbitrator and Mediator Certification as both a Circuit Court Mediator and a Family Court Mediator. Those credentials reflect years of courtroom and administrative experience applied to dispute resolution outside the adversarial trial setting.
Skinner’s professional interests extend into organized efforts on elder law and conflict resolution. She has volunteered on the S.C. Bar Elder Law Committee since 2016 and has been a member of the Association for Conflict Resolution since 2009. For nearly two decades she has also served in a volunteer role as moderator of the Peacemaking Committee for Trinity Presbytery, a position that ties community mediation work to faith-based peacemaking initiatives.
Admitted to practice in South Carolina and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, Skinner has moved between government service, administrative advising, and private mediation practice over a multi-decade career. She now operates a solo practice and works as a mediator, handling circuit and family court mediations and related dispute resolution matters.
