Alex Sanders, a former chief judge of the SC Court of Appeals and ex-president of the College of Charleston nationally known for his wit, wisdom and story-telling ability, has died in Columbia. He was 88.
Sanders passed away peacefully in his sleep Tuesday at the Still Hopes Retirement Community in West Columbia where he lived, said his daughter, Zoe Caroline Sanders, a Columbia attorney. Funeral services will be announced at a later date.
Dubbed once by The Charlotte Observer as South Carolina’s “Mark Twain in Robes,” Sanders for years was a sought after speaker nationwide and taught at Harvard and the University of South Carolina. He was also a humanitarian who visited prisons and worked for civil rights and an environmentalist who helped save the Congaree National Park from developers…