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 1991 / Served to 2008

James E. Moore

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

James E. Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1991. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1936 · age 90
Tenure: 1991–2008 · 17 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1991	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Duke University
Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 459 published opinions for the court (1908–2011), plus 29 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Wilson (334 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. 239 of these were attributed to Moore 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
2001	State v. Wilson	545 S.E.2d 827	334
2006	State v. Pagan· Dissent†	631 S.E.2d 262	319
1992	E.D.M. v. T.A.M.†	307 S.C. 471	274
2005	State v. Gentry†	610 S.E.2d 494	229
2002	State v. Gaster†	564 S.E.2d 87	178
1999	Steinke v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation· Dissent†	336 S.C. 373	142
1993	State v. Schumpert	435 S.E.2d 859	136
2002	Sabb v. South Carolina State University	567 S.E.2d 231	135
2001	State v. Cheeseboro	552 S.E.2d 300	115
1983	Nichols v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance	306 S.E.2d 616	112
1997	Whitner v. State· Concurrence†	492 S.E.2d 777	99
1997	State v. Patterson	482 S.E.2d 760	98
1997	ML-Lee Acquisition Fund, L.P. v. Deloitte	489 S.E.2d 470	96
1993	Blumberg v. Nealco, Inc.	427 S.E.2d 659	91
2005	State v. Johnson	609 S.E.2d 520	88

Showing the 15 most-cited of 495 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 James E. Moore on?: James E. Moore was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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17 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).