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 2017 / Active

George C. James Jr.

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

George C. James Jr. is a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, serving since 2017. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2017 · 9 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2017	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, James authored 18 published opinions for the court (2017–2019). Most cited: Wright v. PRG Real Estate Mgmt., Inc. (45 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. 18 of these were attributed to James 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
2019	Wright v. PRG Real Estate Mgmt., Inc.†	826 S.E.2d 285	45
2018	Repko v. Cnty. of Georgetown†	818 S.E.2d 743	35
2018	Thompson v. State†	814 S.E.2d 487	22
2018	S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Smith†	814 S.E.2d 148	20
2019	State v. Robinson†	828 S.E.2d 203	16
2018	State v. King†	818 S.E.2d 204	16
2017	Jacquelin S. Bennett v. T. Heyward Carter, Jr.†	421 S.C. 374	16
2018	S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. v. Boulware†	809 S.E.2d 223	15
2018	State v. Beaty†	813 S.E.2d 502	13
2018	Gantt v. Selph†	814 S.E.2d 523	11
2018	Palmetto Mortuary Transp., Inc. v. Knight Sys., Inc.†	818 S.E.2d 724	9
2019	Odom v. Town of McBee Election Comm'n†	831 S.E.2d 429	6
2018	State v. Dill†	816 S.E.2d 557	6
2019	Sierra Club v. S.C. Dep't of Health & Envtl. Control & Chem-Nuclear Sys., LLC†	826 S.E.2d 595	3
2018	Goss v. State†	820 S.E.2d 373	2

Showing the 15 most-cited of 18 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 is George C. James Jr. on?: George C. James Jr. is a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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9 years on the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Data as of 2026-07-02. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).