How do judges of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is legislative election.

Court of Appeals of South Carolina / Joined 1989 / Active

James E. Lockemy

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

James E. Lockemy is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, serving since 1989. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1989 · 37 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1989	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Lockemy authored 198 published opinions for the court (2009–2019), plus 8 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Howard (35 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. 145 of these were attributed to Lockemy 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
2009	State v. Howard	682 S.E.2d 42	35
2009	Butler v. Butler	684 S.E.2d 191	33
2009	State v. Jackson	681 S.E.2d 17	30
2012	Smith v. Widener· Dissent†	724 S.E.2d 188	26
2011	Reiss v. Reiss	708 S.E.2d 799	25
2009	State v. Bryant	680 S.E.2d 11	24
2012	State v. Lee†	399 S.C. 521	23
2009	South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Janice C.	678 S.E.2d 463	23
2010	State v. Geer· Dissent†	705 S.E.2d 441	22
2011	Cody P. Ex Rel. Kelley v. Bank of America, N.A.	720 S.E.2d 473	20
2012	Holmes v. Holmes†	399 S.C. 499	18
2012	State v. Meggett†	398 S.C. 516	18
2009	Michael P. v. Greenville County Department of Social Services· Concurrence†	684 S.E.2d 211	18
2013	McNeil v. South Carolina Department of Corrections· Concurrence†	404 S.C. 186	17
2010	State v. Rios	696 S.E.2d 608	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 216 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 Court of Appeals of South Carolina reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is legislative election.
Which court is James E. Lockemy on?: James E. Lockemy is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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37 years on the Court of Appeals of South Carolina. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).