Lee Gordon Brockington, researcher and writer, is a senior interpreter for the Belle W. Baruch Foundation at Hobcaw Barony in Georgetown County. She is a graduate of Columbia College and a participant in the Seminar for Historical Administration at Colonial Williamsburg. She is a former curator of education for the Historic Columbia Foundation and an instructor of history at Coastal Carolina University. Her research appears regularly in newspapers and magazines and on educational television.

A former member of the Pawleys Island Planning and Zoning Commission, Brockington was elected to the Pawleys Island Town Council and served before and after Hurricane Hugo. She is editor of Pawleys Island, Stories from the Porch, a collection of oral-history interviews published in 2003, and author of Plantation Between the Waters, a Brief History of Hobcaw Barony, published in 2006. She also wrote the Pawleys Island entry for Walter Edgar’s The South Carolina Encyclopedia.