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 1896 / Served to 1912

Ira Boyd Jones

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

Ira Boyd Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1896. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1851–1927
Tenure: 1896–1912 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1896	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Jones authored 856 published opinions for the court (1896–1912), plus 38 dissents and 35 concurrences. Most cited: State v. McDaniel (69 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. 212 of these were attributed to Jones 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
1904	State v. McDaniel	47 S.E. 384	69
1901	Bodie v. Charleston & Western Carolina Ry. Co.	39 S.E. 715	52
1901	In Re Estate of Mayo	38 S.E. 634	48
1898	Gandy v. Orient Insurance†	52 S.C. 224	44
1899	Pickens v. South Carolina & Georgia R. R.· Concurrence†	54 S.C. 498	43
1905	Riley v. Charleston Union Station Co.	51 S.E. 485	38
1907	Taylor v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad	59 S.E. 641	37
1907	Tucker v. Buffalo Cotton Mills	57 S.E. 626	37
1906	Fludd v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States	55 S.E. 762	37
1899	Finley v. Cartwright†	55 S.C. 198	37
1903	Schumpert v. Southern Ry.	43 S.E. 813	34
1897	State v. Nathans†	49 S.C. 199	34
1903	State v. Williamson	43 S.E. 671	33
1908	Ex Parte Hollman· Dissent	60 S.E. 19	32
1906	Barfield v. Coker & Co.	53 S.E. 170	32

Showing the 15 most-cited of 931 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 Ira Boyd Jones on?: Ira Boyd Jones was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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15 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).