Virginia L. Crocker named judicial director

 
Former workers’ compensation commissioner Virginia L. Crocker has been named judicial director at the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission.  She assumes her new duties April 9.

“One of the challenges before us is how to make the judicial department more effective and efficient.  I think there is a need to take a fresh approach to our docketing system,” she says.

Until recently Ms. Crocker had been serving as deputy commissioner at the Commission, in which role she was helping with the caseload as a mediator and by taking testimony as assigned by the jurisdictional commissioner.  She served on the Commission from 1984-1992.

Ms. Crocker served in the SC House of Representatives from 1978-1984 and subsequently was Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for Gov. Jim Hodges.  She has served as director of special projects at Presbyterian College, and on the boards of Richland Memorial Hospital, Midlands Community Mediation Center, and Central Midlands Habitat for Humanity.

“ I am looking forward to my new duties, and would be very interested in receiving new ideas and suggestions on how we can improve our service.  Our new computer system will help us in establishing benchmarks. Our goal would be to keep improving our performance,” she says.