Bert Goolsby is a former Chief Deputy Attorney General of South Carolina and a former Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals. A native of Alabama, having been raised in Dothan, he and his wife the former Mary Ellen "Prue" Fraser of Walterboro, South Carolina, make their home in Columbia. He earned an undergraduate degree at The Citadel, a law degree at the University of South Carolina, and an advanced law degree at the University of Virginia.