How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Supreme Court of South Carolina / Joined 1984 / Served to 1994

Archie Lee Chandler

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Archie Lee Chandler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1984. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1922 · age 104
Tenure: 1984–1994 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1984	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Chandler authored 290 published opinions for the court (1984–1996), plus 5 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Torrence (352 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 82 of these were attributed to Chandler by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1991	State v. Torrence· Concurrence†	406 S.E.2d 315	352
1991	Baughman v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.	410 S.E.2d 537	261
1991	Gamble v. Stevenson	406 S.E.2d 350	142
1985	Ludwick v. This Minute of Carolina, Inc.	337 S.E.2d 213	123
1991	Felts v. Richland County	400 S.E.2d 781	108
1985	Butler v. State	334 S.E.2d 813	103
1995	Charleston County Parks & Recreation Commission v. Somers	459 S.E.2d 841	78
1993	State v. Gunn	437 S.E.2d 75	77
1994	Koester v. Carolina Rental Center, Inc.	443 S.E.2d 392	75
1994	Epperly v. Epperly	440 S.E.2d 884	65
1993	State v. Hill· Dissent†	433 S.E.2d 848	60
1988	Stevenson v. Stevenson	368 S.E.2d 901	59
1984	State v. McClellan	323 S.E.2d 772	54
1984	Mitchell v. Mitchell	320 S.E.2d 706	54
1994	Wiggins v. Edwards	442 S.E.2d 169	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 303 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Supreme Court of South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Archie Lee Chandler on?: Archie Lee Chandler was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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10 years on the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).