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 1935 / Served to 1956

David Gordon Baker

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

David Gordon Baker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1884 · age 142
Tenure: 1935–1956 · 21 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1935	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Baker authored 496 published opinions for the court (1935–1967), plus 63 dissents and 24 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Epes (53 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. 60 of these were attributed to Baker 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
1946	State v. Epes· Dissent	39 S.E.2d 769	53
1939	State v. Gregory	4 S.E.2d 1	49
1950	State v. Steadman· Dissent†	59 S.E.2d 168	47
1947	McDowell v. Stilley Plywood Co.	41 S.E.2d 872	47
1936	Funderburk v. Powell· Concurrence	187 S.E. 742	45
1935	Alderman v. Alderman	181 S.E. 897	43
1947	Bowers v. Charleston & W. C. Ry. Co.	42 S.E.2d 705	42
1955	Mock Ex Rel. Estate of Mock v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad	87 S.E.2d 830	41
1945	McPherson v. J. E. Sirrine & Co.	33 S.E.2d 501	40
1942	Gallman v. Springs Mills	22 S.E.2d 715	40
1936	Salley v. McCoy	189 S.E. 196	38
1940	State v. Edwards· Dissent	10 S.E.2d 587	37
1952	Nolan v. Daley	73 S.E.2d 449	35
1939	State v. Kimbrell	4 S.E.2d 121	35
1938	Worrell v. South Carolina Power Co.	195 S.E. 638	33

Showing the 15 most-cited of 583 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 David Gordon Baker on?: David Gordon Baker was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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21 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).