About Nicole Wise

'It Never Got Old'

During his interview for a clerkship with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the fall of 2018, Christopher Mills bonded with the Savannah-raised justice about his beloved hometown of Charleston. “He wanted to know about my family and growing up in the Lowcountry,” Mills recalls. “We talked about how his family would come to the beaches outside Hilton Head on vacation when he was growing up. We talked about the Gullah traditions along the coast running all the way through …