Garrison Hill | |
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| Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court | |
| Assumed office February 9, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Kaye Gorenflo Hearn |
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| Born | David Garrison Hill July 14,1964 Greenville,South Carolina,U.S. |
| Education | Wofford College (BA) University of South Carolina (JD) |
David Garrison Hill [1] [2] (born July 14,1964) is a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He previously served as a judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals from 2017 to 2023.
D. Garrison Hill was born on July 14,1964 [3] in Greenville,South Carolina [2] He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College in 1986 and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina Law School in 1989. [4]
After graduating law school,Hill served as a law clerk to Judge William Walter Wilkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1990 to 2000,he was a member of Hill,Wyatt &Bannister in Greenville. In 2000,he started Hill &Hill,LLC with his father. From 2004 to 2017,he served as a resident circuit judge for the Thirteenth Circuit. [2] In 2016,he was one of five candidates to fill a vacancy on the court of appeals. [5] On February 1,2017,he was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly in a 148–0 vote [6] to serve as a judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals,James E Lockemy. [3] [2]
On February 8,2023,he was elected by the General Assembly to serve as a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in a 140–0 vote. [7] He replaced retired Justice Kaye Gorenflo Hearn,making the South Carolina Supreme Court the only state supreme court in the country without a female justice [8] [9] until the election of Justice Letitia H. Verdin in June 2024. [10]
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