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Prosecutor. Transportation commissioner. Attorney. State representative. Robby Robbins has spent nearly four decades in the service of Dorchester and Colleton counties — and he brings all of it to the seat.
Robby Robbins is from here. Reevesville, Walterboro, St. George — these are not campaign backdrops. They are the towns that raised him.
His parents, Doug and Nancy Robbins, taught him that you owe something to the place you live in. His grandfathers showed him what that looks like in practice: Billy Moorer spent years as a magistrate, and Jack Robbins served as St. George's police chief for decades. Robby grew up watching both of them answer the phone when a neighbor needed something.
He earned his political science degree from the University of South Carolina in 1984 and his law degree there in 1987. Plenty of classmates headed for firms in bigger cities. Robby came home and opened a practice in St. George with attorney Jim Bell, representing families and small businesses across the Lowcountry.
Then came the prosecutor's office, where he spent seven years trying cases — including capital cases — as Deputy Solicitor for Dorchester County and later for the entire First Judicial Circuit, managing the office's day-to-day operations. In 2004, Governor Mark Sanford appointed him First Circuit Solicitor.
The transportation work started almost by accident and turned into a decade and a half: first the Dorchester County Sales Tax Transportation Authority, overseeing the local projects voters had taxed themselves to build, then the South Carolina Department of Transportation Commission, where his colleagues elected him chairman. It is the reason he knows exactly how a road gets funded, designed, and finally built — and exactly why it sometimes takes too long.
He and his wife, Mary Bryce LaRoche Robbins of Johns Island, married in 1991 and raised two children, Bryce and Lena, both born in St. George. Robby practices law today as a partner at Thurmond, Kirchner & Timbes in Summerville.
Where Robby serves in Columbia, and what those assignments actually decide.
The committee that handles South Carolina's criminal code, courts, and constitutional questions. It is where the law Robby wrote on high-speed police pursuits began, and where a career prosecutor's judgment counts for something.
Enforces the conduct and disclosure rules that apply to every member of the House — the committee charged with holding legislators to the standards voters expect of them.
Robby joined his fellow delegation members in February 2026 in formally opposing a data center in the ACE Basin watershed, on the grounds that such development does not belong there.
Works with county officials and the other members representing Dorchester on local legislation, appointments, and the infrastructure priorities that cross district lines.
Four decades of appointments in law, transportation, and economic development.
Represented the First Congressional District on the commission that sets policy and priorities for the state's highway system, and was elected by his fellow commissioners to chair it.
Eleven years overseeing the county road program voters funded through the transportation sales tax — the projects that shaped how this county moves today.
Appointed by Governor Mark Sanford to lead the circuit's prosecution office, covering Dorchester, Orangeburg, and Calhoun counties.
Prosecuted violent crime and major drug cases, and managed the day-to-day operations of the solicitor's office.
The boards and organizations Robby has served on across the region.
Summerville Rotary Club
Dorchester Children's Center
South Carolina Jaycees
Conservation Voters of South Carolina
The experience is already there. The record is on the books. Help finish the job on November 3.