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 2008 / Active

John D. Geathers

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

John D. Geathers is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, serving since 2008. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2008 · 18 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2008	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Geathers authored 112 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 5 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Pee Dee Stores, Inc. v. Doyle (51 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. 74 of these were attributed to Geathers 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	Pee Dee Stores, Inc. v. Doyle	672 S.E.2d 799	51
2009	State v. Simmons	682 S.E.2d 19	49
2014	State v. Douglas†	411 S.C. 307	38
2009	Fesmire v. Digh	683 S.E.2d 803	27
2012	Magnolia North Property Owners' Ass'n v. Heritage Communities, Inc.	725 S.E.2d 112	26
2011	State v. Spears	713 S.E.2d 324	26
2009	Harbit v. City of Charleston	675 S.E.2d 776	25
2009	Laser Supply and Services, Inc. v. Orchard Park Associates	676 S.E.2d 139	25
2010	McBride v. SCHOOL DIST. OF GREENVILLE	698 S.E.2d 845	24
2010	State v. Geer	705 S.E.2d 441	22
2009	State v. Halcomb	676 S.E.2d 149	22
2017	Ashburn v. Apr. Rogers & S.C. Dep't of Soc. Servs. Child Support Div.†	803 S.E.2d 469	20
2016	Thompson v. Pruitt Corp.†	416 S.C. 43	19
2012	Proctor v. Steedley†	398 S.C. 561	19
2010	Cricket Cove Ventures, LLC v. Gilland	701 S.E.2d 39	19

Showing the 15 most-cited of 124 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 John D. Geathers on?: John D. Geathers is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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18 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).