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 1967 / Served to 1985

C. Bruce Littlejohn

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

C. Bruce Littlejohn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1967. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1913–2007
Tenure: 1967–1985 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1967	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Wofford College

Judicial Record

In our data, Littlejohn authored 588 published opinions for the court (1954–1994), plus 71 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville (749 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. 244 of these were attributed to Littlejohn 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
1976	Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville	221 S.E.2d 773	749
1981	Ford v. Hutson	276 S.E.2d 776	128
1984	Palmetto Alliance, Inc. v. South Carolina Public Service Commission· Dissent†	319 S.E.2d 695	104
1981	State v. Sullivan· Dissent†	282 S.E.2d 838	101
1980	Elam v. Elam· Concurrence†	268 S.E.2d 109	100
1985	Todd v. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance· Dissent†	336 S.E.2d 472	86
1978	Cook v. Cobb	245 S.E.2d 612	72
1970	Timmons v. South Carolina Tricentennial Commission	175 S.E.2d 805	72
1985	Duke Power Co. v. South Carolina Public Service Commission· Dissent†	326 S.E.2d 395	63
1975	Torrington Co. v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.	216 S.E.2d 547	62
1991	State v. Sherard	399 S.E.2d 595	61
1987	State v. Drayton	361 S.E.2d 329	61
1978	Broome v. Truluck· Dissent†	241 S.E.2d 739	58
1975	State v. Durden	212 S.E.2d 587	56
1971	State v. Key	180 S.E.2d 888	53

Showing the 15 most-cited of 682 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 C. Bruce Littlejohn on?: C. Bruce Littlejohn was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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18 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).