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 1975 / Served to 1991

George Tillman Gregory Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

George Tillman Gregory Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1975. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1921–2003
Tenure: 1975–1991 · 16 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1975	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Gregory authored 524 published opinions for the court (1967–1994), plus 46 dissents and 28 concurrences. Most cited: Glasscock v. Glasscock (284 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. 195 of these were attributed to Gregory 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
1991	Glasscock v. Glasscock	403 S.E.2d 313	284
1987	Small v. Springs Industries, Inc.· Dissent†	357 S.E.2d 452	134
1982	State v. Copeland	300 S.E.2d 63	134
1986	Talley v. South Carolina Higher Education Tuition Grants Committee	347 S.E.2d 99	97
1991	Nelson v. Concrete Supply Company	399 S.E.2d 783	96
1979	State v. Shaw	255 S.E.2d 799	91
1979	State v. Jones	259 S.E.2d 120	85
1990	Bramlette Ex Rel. Estate of Bramlette v. Charter-Medical-Columbia	393 S.E.2d 914	79
1990	State v. Reeves· Dissent†	391 S.E.2d 241	75
1991	State v. Williams	401 S.E.2d 168	70
1982	Fernander v. Thigpen· Dissent†	293 S.E.2d 424	66
1987	Dunton v. South Carolina Board of Examiners	353 S.E.2d 132	65
1977	Shipes v. Piggly Wiggly St. Andrews, Inc.	238 S.E.2d 167	65
1986	State v. Middleton	339 S.E.2d 692	63
1985	Duke Power Co. v. South Carolina Public Service Commission· Dissent†	326 S.E.2d 395	63

Showing the 15 most-cited of 598 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 George Tillman Gregory Jr. on?: George Tillman Gregory Jr. was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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16 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).