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 2016 / Active

John C. Few

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

John C. Few is a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, serving since 2016. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of South Carolina. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2016 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2010	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–
2016	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Duke University

Judicial Record

In our data, Few authored 139 published opinions for the court (2010–2019), plus 13 dissents and 23 concurrences. Most cited: Smalls v. State (93 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. 144 of these were attributed to Few 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
2018	Smalls v. State†	810 S.E.2d 836	93
2014	State v. Gray†	408 S.C. 601	50
2019	Skydive Myrtle Beach, Inc. v. Horry Cnty.†	826 S.E.2d 585	43
2012	State v. McKERLEY	725 S.E.2d 139	36
2012	Solley v. NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, INC.· Concurrence†	723 S.E.2d 597	30
2011	Burke v. AnMed Health	710 S.E.2d 84	30
2014	Watson v. Underwood· Concurrence†	407 S.C. 443	26
2012	Smith v. Widener	724 S.E.2d 188	26
2015	Deep Keel, LLC v. Atlantic Private Equity Group, LLC†	413 S.C. 58	25
2014	McMaster v. Dewitt†	411 S.C. 138	25
2013	Froneberger v. Smith· Dissent†	406 S.C. 37	25
2017	Mangal v. State†	421 S.C. 85	24
2013	State v. Rogers†	405 S.C. 554	21
2013	Inglese v. Beal†	403 S.C. 290	21
2011	State v. Gilmore	719 S.E.2d 688	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 175 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 John C. Few on?: John C. Few is a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

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10 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).