Wofford College is a private liberal arts college in Spartanburg,South Carolina. It was founded in 1854. The 175-acre (71 ha) campus is a national arboretum and one of the few four-year institutions in the southeastern United States founded before the American Civil War that still operates on its original campus.
Jean Hoefer Toal is a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina. She was the first woman and the first Roman Catholic to serve as chief justice. In 2013,she became the first chief justice on the Supreme Court of South Carolina since the 1800s to run opposed in their reelection. Toal has continued to serve in the judiciary as a senior judge since her retirement from the Supreme Court.
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.
The Supreme Court of South Carolina is the highest court in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The court is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices.
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.
Edward Ladson Fishburne was a South Carolina state supreme court justice and grandson of Lieutenant Governor Merrick E. Carn. He graduated from The Citadel in 1904 and taught school for two years afterwards. He later entered the legal profession of his father,William Josiah Fishburne,a distinguished South Carolina lawyer. After his father's death,he took a partner named Major Madison P. Howell,a longtime friend. He also served as Walterboro mayor,like his grandfather,and as a state militia officer. He was appointed to the office of associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court on April 17,1935,which he held for some 19 years until 1954.
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.
Julianna Michelle Childs is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina from 2010 to 2022 and a judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court from 2006 to 2010.
Julius Ness was the Resident Circuit Judge for the Second Judicial Circuit of South Carolina. He was born in Manning,South Carolina,the eldest of five children of Morris and Rae Levy Ness,on February 27,1916. His family moved to Denmark,South Carolina,when he was a young boy,and his mother and father lived there until their deaths. He had two brothers,Harold and Arthur,and two sisters,Sylvia and Rita. His friends and family knew him as "Bubba",a name given him by one of his younger sisters because she could not pronounce Julius.
Cameron Bruce Littlejohn was a chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He served as an associate justice on the same court from 1967 to 1984.
John G. Stabler (1871-1940) was an associate justice and later chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He graduated from Wofford in 1905 and then taught Latin in Bamberg County,South Carolina. He graduated in 1908 from the law school at the University of South Carolina and practiced law in St. Matthews,South Carolina. From 1920 to 1926,he served in the South Carolina Senate until being elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1926,taking his position in January 1926. On March 15,1935,he was elevated to chief justice and served until his death in 1940.
E. C. Burnett III is a former associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected on March 21,1995,to fill the unexpired nine years of Judge Randall Bell's term;Judge Bell had died before being sworn into his seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. Burnett defeated Judge Costa Pleicones by a vote of 102–58.
John Belton O'Neall (1793–1863) was an American judge who served on the precursor to the South Carolina Supreme Court. He is remembered for writing the digest The Negro Law of South Carolina.
John Cannon Few is a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,elected on February 3,2016,and sworn in on February 9,2016,to fill the position vacated by Costa M. Pleicones on his ascension to Chief Justice. Few is a graduate of Duke University,where he served as the athletic mascot,and the University of South Carolina School of Law,where he was a member of The Order of Wig and Robe and The Order of the Coif. He also served as Student Works Editor of the South Carolina Law Review.
George C. James,Jr is an American lawyer and judge,who serves as a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
George Richard Bevan is an American attorney and jurist who currently is the chief justice of Idaho. He previously served as an Idaho district court judge from 2003 until 2017,when he was appointed to the supreme court.
Umar Ata Bandial is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 28th Chief Justice of Pakistan from February 2022 to September 2023. He was appointed as the Chief Justice after the approval by President Arif Alvi on 13 January 2022,after which he assumed his office on 2 February 2022 and retired on 16 September 2023.
Tanya Amber Gee was a judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court.
David Garrison Hill 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.
