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 1954

Edward L. Fishburne

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Edward L. Fishburne was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1935. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1883 · age 143
Tenure: 1935–1954 · 19 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Fishburne authored 501 published opinions for the court (1935–1952), plus 12 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Clarke v. South Carolina Public Service Authority (76 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. 13 of these were attributed to Fishburne 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
1935	Clarke v. South Carolina Public Service Authority	181 S.E. 481	76
1949	Brown v. Brown	56 S.E.2d 330	65
1941	Lillie B. Thomas v. the Amer. Workmen	14 S.E.2d 886	61
1939	Rudd v. Fairforest Finishing Co.	200 S.E. 727	60
1946	State v. Epes	39 S.E.2d 769	53
1941	Cook v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.	13 S.E.2d 1	50
1936	Robison v. Atl. Coast Line R. Co.	184 S.E. 96	49
1950	State v. Steadman	59 S.E.2d 168	47
1942	Creech v. South Carolina Public Service Authority	20 S.E.2d 645	45
1940	Gasque v. Town of Conway	8 S.E.2d 871	45
1936	Funderburk v. Powell	187 S.E. 742	45
1937	Goethe v. New York Life Insurance	190 S.E. 451	43
1936	Shealy v. Fowler	188 S.E. 499	42
1952	Hicks v. McCANDLISH	70 S.E.2d 629	41
1944	Eargle v. South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.	32 S.E.2d 240	40

Showing the 15 most-cited of 515 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 Edward L. Fishburne on?: Edward L. Fishburne was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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19 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).