William Johnson Jr. was an American attorney,state legislator,and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1804 until his death in 1834. When he was 32 years old,Johnson was appointed to the Supreme Court by President Thomas Jefferson. He was the first Jeffersonian Republican member of the Court as well as the second Justice from the state of South Carolina. During his tenure,Johnson restored the act of delivering seriatim opinions. He wrote about half of the dissents during the Marshall Court,leading historians to nickname him the "first dissenter".
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1972 to 1987.
Isaac Beverly Lake Jr. was an American jurist and politician,who served as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Sarah Elizabeth Parker is an American judge who served as the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from February 2006 until August 2014.
Robert Holt Edmunds Jr. is an American lawyer,formerly an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
John Johnston Parker was an American politician and United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was an unsuccessful nominee for associate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1930. He was also the United States alternate judge at the Nuremberg trials of accused Nazi war criminals and later served on the United Nations' International Law Commission.
Harlan Fiske Stone was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1925 to 1941 and then as the 12th chief justice of the United States from 1941 until his death in 1946. He also served as the U.S. Attorney General from 1924 to 1925 under President Calvin Coolidge,with whom he had attended Amherst College as a young man. His most famous dictum was that "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."
Henry E. Frye is an American judge and politician who served as the first African-American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Stephen Gillers is a professor at the New York University School of Law. He is often cited as an expert in legal ethics.
The University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law,also known as South Carolina Law School,is a professional school within the University of South Carolina. Founded in 1867,it is the only public and non-profit law school in South Carolina. It has been accredited by the American Bar Association since 1925 and a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1924.
James Gooden Exum Jr. also known as Jim Exum is an American jurist who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1975 to 1994,and as chief justice from 1986 to 1994.
Ernest Adolphus Finney Jr. was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court since the Reconstruction Era. He spent the last years of his life in Sumter,South Carolina. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
John Rutledge Jr. was an American Founding Father,politician,and jurist who served as one of the original associate justices of the Supreme Court and the second chief justice of the United States. Additionally,he served as the first president of South Carolina and later as its first governor after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Charles Albert Woods was an Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and then a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Donald Wayne Beatty is a former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and a former South Carolina state court judge and state representative.
Philip Berger Jr. is an American lawyer who has served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court since 2021.
One justice of the seven-member North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the 15-member North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 8,2016,concurrently with other state elections. Terms for seats on each court are eight years.
George C. James,Jr is an American lawyer and judge,who serves as a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
John Rutledge was twice nominated by President George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States,being nominated and confirmed in 1789 as an associate justice,and being unsuccessfully nominated in 1795 to serve as chief justice.
