Dr. Lois G. Eargle is a representative of the people of Horry County, South Carolina, and has enjoyed that distinction for over five decades. A woman of firsts, she was the first woman (not to mention first non-lawyer and non-jurist) to be selected to the Board of the American Judicature Society. She was the first woman elected as Horry County Auditor as well. In between, she served four terms as the elected legislator to the South Carolina House of Representatives, was appointed to President Ronald Reagan's Mental Health Commission, held an appointment as South Carolina Highway Commissioner, and served as assistant to the Secretary of State of South Carolina.
On Dec. 9, 2006, Lois Eargle became Dr. M. Lois Eargle when Coastal Carolina University, an institution for which she had secured funding for dormitories and helped create a countywide transportation system for student accessibility during her time as a legislator, awarded her an honorary doctorate in Public Service. It took 55 years to get from being removed from school to hearing “Pomp and Circumstance,” but the lady had arrived – proving, the humble woman says, that God is faithful.
Married in 1952, she and her husband, Jack, live in Conway, where she continues to serve the public, takes care of her family, and works on all the various projects God has set for her to do. Double Standards is her first book, written with the hope that there will one day be only one standard – in the political arena and among us all.