Podcast: John Henderson (Part 1)

Charleston School of Law hosted its first podcast of the 2025-26 academic year this week with special guest, John Henderson (’10), a managing partner at Henderson & Henderson, LLC Attorneys at Law.

Henderson is a Wofford College graduate and 2010 graduate of Charleston Law. After graduating from Wofford with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Henderson took a sharp left turn and spent two years teaching in a remote village in Kenya before attending law school.

“I thought if I’m ever gonna do anything altruistic, it needs to be now,” he said. “You’re on the front end of adulthood, and you have the time to be able to devote to these things. I wanted to do something just a little bit outside of the box.”

The remote community, eight hours from Nairobi, Kenya, was a cultural wakeup call. Henderson quickly learned that, unlike in the U.S., it was possible to survive without access to clean running water or electricity.

“You throw away your watch,” he said. “You eat what the locals eat. I remember waiting for a bus with no AC, and beside me was a woman nursing a child while holding a chicken. I’m like, this is wild.”

Henderson was given a reality check on his two-year trek to another country. He returned to the States with a deeper sense of appreciation and gratitude. “We saw mob violence and people killing villagers … it was super bizarre.”

Henderson talks more about his experience as a missionary, best practices for law students, and the future of technology and its impact on his firm’s culture on the Charleston Law podcast.