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 1890 / Served to 1924

Eugene Blackburn Gary

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Eugene Blackburn Gary was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1890. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1854 · age 172
Tenure: 1890–1924 · 34 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1890	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gary authored 1,736 published opinions for the court (1815–1934), plus 130 dissents and 48 concurrences. Most cited: Lillard v. Melton (87 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. 350 of these were attributed to Gary 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
1915	Lillard v. Melton· Dissent	87 S.E. 421	87
1904	Welborn v. Dixon	49 S.E. 232	61
1904	State v. Adams· Dissent	47 S.E. 676	50
1911	Huestess v. South Atlantic Life Ins.	70 S.E. 403	49
1914	Lindler v. Columbia Hospital	81 S.E. 512	44
1912	Horsford v. Carolina Glass Co.	75 S.E. 533	43
1899	Pickens v. South Carolina & Georgia R. R.†	54 S.C. 498	43
1894	State ex rel. George v. Aiken†	42 S.C. 222	41
1912	McCown v. Muldrow	74 S.E. 386	38
1899	Williamson v. Eastern B. & L. Ass'n†	54 S.C. 582	36
1923	Carroll v. Cash Mills· Dissent	118 S.E. 290	35
1921	Faust v. Richland County	109 S.E. 151	33
1916	Steele v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R.· Dissent	87 S.E. 639	32
1902	Hicks v. Southern Ry.	41 S.E. 753	32
1925	Citizens' Bank v. Heyward	133 S.E. 709	31

Showing the 15 most-cited of 1,920 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 Eugene Blackburn Gary on?: Eugene Blackburn Gary was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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34 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).