Mike Ellis
For Coroner
A lifelong community leader.I started my career with the Greenville County Coroner’s Office in 1991 as a Volunteer Deputy Coroner. I worked approx. 3 years as a volunteer and was paid ONE dollar per year. The Coroner’s Office was so short staffed at that time; I would sometimes work as many cases as the full time personnel per year. In 1996 I was hired on as a full time Deputy Coroner. I was promoted to Chief Deputy Coroner in 1999 and have remained in that position. I supervise 18 employees at the coroner’s office and have worked or overseen 1000s of medical legal death investigations. I oversee all of the day by day responsibilities of the coroner’s office to the coroner’s office two-year budget. I have assumed all the duties and responsibilities of the Coroner many times throughout my career as Deputy Coroner and Chief Deputy Coroner. I served 4 years as Training Director of the SC Coroners Association designing and providing the mandatory 16 hours yearly training to all SC Coroners and Deputy Coroners. I also sit on the committee of (CTAC) The SC Coroners Training Council who approves all Coroners and
Deputy Coroners training and also the requirement to hold the position of Coroner and or Deputy Coroner.
I am a lifelong resident of Greenville SC. I have been married 46 years, have two adult children and two grandchildren. As you can see below I was the 257 th to pass the ABMDI certification in Medico/Legal Death Investigation. I am approved and have taught multiple death investigations courses throughout the State of SC including at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy and the Firefighters Association. He has managed and answered calls for multiple Coroner’s Offices throughout the state with the mutual aid agreement when ask by the sitting Coroner in other jurisdictions. (Spartanburg, Richland, Anderson, Laurens, Pickens and Charleston County) June 2007 I responded to Charleston County and assisted Coroner Rae Wooten with the death investigation of the 9 Charleston Firefighter’s killed in the Sofa Super Store Fire.
Where experience, meets medical, meets legal
Being the county coroner is complex. The job requires a mixture of legal and medical expertise.
Mike has 28 years of extensive experience in all aspects of medico/legal death investigation:
Determining cause and manner of death to educating others in the field of medico/legal death investigation.
Forensic Photography
Interview and interrogation
Evidence Collection and processing
Crime lab procedures
Homicide
Suicide
Traffic Fatalities
Work related incidents
Medical related death
Public Speaking
Medio/legal Death investigation
Media Interaction
Court Room Testimony
Arson
Child Fatalities/Abuse of the Elderly
Mass Fatality Investigations
Death involving law Enforcement
Family assistance center
Changes Ahead
- Moving schedule to shift work. This will allow better access for the public and a improved quality of life for officers.
- Create and maintain a website managed by the coroners office. This will allow for information and/or statistics to be disseminated sooner.