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 1944 / Served to 1966

Claude A. Taylor

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Claude A. Taylor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1944. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1902 · age 124
Tenure: 1944–1966 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1944	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Taylor authored 484 published opinions for the court (1944–1965), plus 23 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Carroway v. Johnson (59 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. 113 of these were attributed to Taylor 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
1965	Carroway v. Johnson†	139 S.E.2d 908	59
1962	Bruce v. Blalock· Concurrence†	127 S.E.2d 439	56
1965	Parrott v. Plowden Motor Co.	143 S.E.2d 607	46
1946	Radcliffe v. Southern Aviation School	40 S.E.2d 626	37
1958	West v. McCoy	105 S.E.2d 88	34
1964	McLaughlin v. McLaughlin	136 S.E.2d 537	33
1952	Hiers v. BRUNSON CONST. CO.	70 S.E.2d 211	33
1949	Haselden v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.	53 S.E.2d 60	32
1951	Orsini v. Trojan Steel Corp.	64 S.E.2d 878	31
1949	Jennings v. McCowan	55 S.E.2d 522	29
1945	Parrott v. Barfield Used Parts	34 S.E.2d 802	28
1964	Hatchett v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance	137 S.E.2d 608	27
1963	State v. Moorer	129 S.E.2d 330	27
1956	State v. Fuller	93 S.E.2d 463	26
1949	Griggs v. Griggs	51 S.E.2d 622	26

Showing the 15 most-cited of 510 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 Claude A. Taylor on?: Claude A. Taylor was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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22 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).