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

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina / Joined 2007 / Served to 2014

Daniel F. Pieper

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Daniel F. Pieper was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, who joined the court in 2007. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2007–2014 · 7 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2007	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Pieper authored 40 published opinions for the court (2008–2014), plus 9 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Sloan v. Greenville County (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. 37 of these were attributed to Pieper 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
2009	Sloan v. Greenville County	670 S.E.2d 663	59
2008	Sanders v. S.C. Department of Corrections	665 S.E.2d 231	57
2008	South Carolina Department of Transportation v. M & T Enterprises of Mt. Pleasant, LLC.	667 S.E.2d 7	55
2008	New Hope Missionary Baptist Church v. Paragon Builders· Dissent†	667 S.E.2d 1	49
2010	State v. Moses	702 S.E.2d 395	43
2011	Regions Bank v. Wingard Properties, Inc.	715 S.E.2d 348	35
2009	Capital City Insurance v. BP Staff, Inc.	674 S.E.2d 524	32
2011	State v. Johnson	720 S.E.2d 516	22
2013	Inglese v. Beal· Concurrence†	403 S.C. 290	21
2010	Rouvet v. Rouvet	696 S.E.2d 204	19
2013	State v. Spears†	403 S.C. 247	18
2009	Browder v. Browder	675 S.E.2d 820	18
2011	State v. Warren	708 S.E.2d 234	17
2012	Rhett v. Gray· Concurrence†	401 S.C. 478	15
2010	Sanderson v. Sanderson· Concurrence†	705 S.E.2d 65	15

Showing the 15 most-cited of 67 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 Court of Appeals of South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court was Daniel F. Pieper on?: Daniel F. Pieper was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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