Chisa Johnson Putman nominated for York County Magistrate Judge
York County’s state senators Wes Climer of Rock Hill, Greg Gregory of Lancaster, Harvey Peeler of Gaffney and former Senators Wes Hayes and Creighton Coleman have nominated Chisa Johnson Putman, a Rock Hill lawyer, city prosecutor and president of the York County Bar Association, to be a York County magistrate judge. It is believed that Putman, if approved by the governor, would be the just the second black female York County magistrate. Putman, 35, is a Winthrop University graduate who later graduated from the Charleston School of Law. Magistrates in South Carolina are selected by the senators in home counties who then get the consent of the full Senate before gubernatorial appointment.