The state agency responsible for monitoring school reform has three new members.

Gov. Mark Sanford recently named two people to the Education Oversight Committee: the Rev. Judy H. Williams of West Columbia and Dennis Drew of the Isle of Palms, owner of a regional day-care business based in Greenwood.

George Martin of Pickens, an assistant principal in Anderson 2, also agreed to serve on the panel as a substitute for a member called to active military duty.

Williams, the mother of three sons, is senior pastor of Hope InChrist Church of the Nazarene. She replaces state Sen. John Matthews, D-Orangeburg, as the governor's representative to the Education Oversight Committee.

Drew is co-founder of The Sunshine House, a regional business that provides early-childhood care and education programs in South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. He is Sanford's appointee representing educators.

Drew replaces William Gummerson, the new superintendent of the Lexington 3 school system in Batesburg-Leesville, who resigned from the committee last month. Gummerson, an inaugural member of the EOC when it was formed in 1998, was reappointed in May 2002 by former Gov. Jim Hodges to serve a second four-year term.

Martin is serving on an interim basis for Wally Hall of Abbeville, who is on active duty with the South Carolina Army National Guard in Iraq. Hall also represents educators and was appointed a year ago by House Education Committee chairman Ronny Townsend, R-Anderson, to serve a four-year term.

Martin, the father of two children, has been an educator for 21 years, the last five working in administration at Belton-Honea Path High School in Anderson 2.

The Education Oversight Committee is composed of 18 members drawn from the fields of education, business and politics, appointed by the Legislature and governor "to monitor and review the implementation of the 1998 Education Accountability Act, the Education Improvement Act, and the (public school) system."