Miriam Nunn

A South Carolina native, Miriam Nunn was committed to following in the professional footsteps of her grandfather, a physician who established a hospital in the rural northern region of the state. Miriam Nunn attended high school at the coed college prep academy Heathwood Hall in Columbia and earned her undergraduate degree from Furman University in Greenville.

While at Furman, she secured an “Outstanding Senior” nomination and served as an executive board member of both the Student Alumni Council and the Student Activities Board. Miriam Nunn went on to obtain her master of healthcare administration from the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and her electrophysiology degree from the Arrhythmia Technologies Institute in Greenville.

Ms. Nunn ultimately settled in Atlanta, Georgia, where she has served as an arrhythmia device engineer with Grady Memorial Hospital for the past two years. As part of her general oversight of all Grady Memorial inpatient cardiac devices, she reprograms appropriate devices to perform specific functions for specific surgical procedures.

Miriam currently resides in Buckhead with her family. Her two year old son and five year old daughter attend Peachtree Road United Methodist Church Preschool and Miriam spends most of her free time driving her kids to and from ballet, soccer and gymnastics.

Actively involved in a number of charitable organizations, Ms. Nunn serves as a trustee and board member for the Kingsley Family Charitable Remainder Trust, which funds several scholarships at Clemson University. Miriam also serves as a trustee and board member for the Miriam W. Nunn and John Waddell Unitrust, Land and Investments Incorporated and The Kingsley DuBose and Sam Nunn Trust.

Miriam’s greatest passion is continuing the legacy left by her grandfather Dr. Dwight H. Smith. He was a medical doctor by training, but started his first rural hospital in the Upstate of South Carolina when there was an underserved area. Miriam can remember walking through the halls of her grandfather’s first hospital and was forever changed by the expression on the patient’s faces. This has always motivated Miriam to do more and share her blessings with others. Miriam’s grandfather not only changed lives as a physician, but he was one of the largest landowners in the state of South Carolina when he passed and had created a family corporation, where Miriam served on the Board of Directors since 1990.