Bert Goolsby, who grew up in Dothan, Alabama, is a former Chief Deputy Attorney General of South Carolina and a retired Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals. He attended the University of Alabama but later transferred to The Citadel where he earned his undergraduate degree. He holds a law degree from the University of South Carolina and an advanced law degree from the University of Virginia. He is an Army veteran, having fought communism as a non-combat percussionist with the 101st Airborne Division Band, the 98th Army Band, the Third Army Band, and the Third Army Special Services package show "Holiday." When serving with the Third Army Band, he was an emcee for the concert band on a number of occasions and once appeared as a stand-up comedian at an Atlanta-area nightclub (note: only once). He also auditioned for Ed Sullivan's All-Army show, but lost out to better competition. Writing primarily under the name "Bert Goolsby," he has authored, among other things, a devotional entitled 90 Daily Devotions for Lawyers & Judges and Those They Serve, a law book, four novels, his two most recent being The Locusts of Padgett County (Alondra Press 2012) and The Trials of Lawyer Pratt (Publishing by Rebecca J. Vickery 2011). South Carolina Lawyers Weekly, a newspaper directed to the bench and bar of South Carolina, serialized his novel Harpers' Joy (Grace Abraham 2005) in 2008. Marlo Thomas included his piece entitled "Truck No. Fifteen" in her work The Right Words at the Right Time (Simon & Schuster 2006). Smaller pieces have appeared in national and local magazines, including "The Box with the Green Bow and Ribbon," a short story first published by Saint Anthony Messenger (December 1996) and twice adapted into a play.He lives in Columbia, South Carolina, with his wife, the former Prue Fraser of Walterboro, South Carolina. They have a son, Philip Lane Goolsby, M.D., a family practitioner, who makes his home in Green Bay, Wisconsin.