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Tudor Retires as South Carolina State Director, Camp Named Successor
Donald Tudor closed the book on a 20-year career at the South
Carolina Department this fall but announced that he will remain aligned with the industry as a consultant, a role that introduced him to school busing to begin with. Tudor resigned Sept. 30 and was replaced by Tim Camp, a sev-
en-year veteran of the state office on Oct. 3. Tudor hired Camp from the private sector to run one of two state school bus main- tenance shops in Spartanburg, a position he filled for a couple of years before becoming an area supervisor. “He’s got a lot of experience in our system and how it works,”
Tudor said. Tudor logged a total of 35 years in state government, includ-
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ing eight years as the transportation policy advisor to Gov. Richard Riley from 1978 through 1986. Riley went on to serve as the Secre- tary of Education for President Bill Clinton. Following graduation from East Carolina University with a degree in urban planning, Tudor moved to South Carolina to coordinate community trans- portation services from the state planning office. He then became planning director for a regional council, during which time he formed a new transit authority. Following his stint in Gov. Riley’s office, Tudor was a public transit director at a consulting firm for four years before forming Donald Tudor and Associates, which also provided public transportation consulting. In 1991, Tudor
joined new state superintendent Barbara
Nielsen’s transition team to work on innovative ideas for student transportation. South Carolina is the only state in the nation to manage and maintain the entire fleet of school buses, in essence serving as a school district. Nielsen later offered Tudor a full-time
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position running the Office of School Transportation, which last year operated and maintained 5,657 buses that transported 655,000 students each day. Tudor began the transition back to consulting services over the
summer as he worked alongside the Pupil Transportation Safety Institute on projects. His new company is called Donald Tudor
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