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 1783 / Served to 1819

John Faucheraud Grimke

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

John Faucheraud Grimke was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1783. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1752–1819
Tenure: 1783–1819 · 36 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1783	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Grimke authored 31 published opinions for the court (1802–1818), plus 1 concurrence.

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 32 of these were attributed to Grimke 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
1818	Lott v. Sandifer†	9 S.C.L. 167
1818	Watson v. Picket†	9 S.C.L. 222
1818	M'Daniel v. Nicholson†	9 S.C.L. 344
1818	Collin v. Green†	9 S.C.L. 346
1818	Caldwell v. Eneas†	9 S.C.L. 348
1818	Madden v. Madden†	9 S.C.L. 350
1818	Thompson v. Hauser†	9 S.C.L. 356
1818	Ayer v. Hay†	9 S.C.L. 365
1818	Taylor v. Sturgingger†	9 S.C.L. 367
1818	Addison v. White†	9 S.C.L. 369
1818	Hobson v. Humphries†	9 S.C.L. 371
1818	Scott v. Baldwicke†	9 S.C.L. 410
1818	Brown v. Frazier†	9 S.C.L. 413
1818	Miller v. Simpson†	9 S.C.L. 431
1818	Creach v. Delane†	10 S.C.L. 189

Showing the 15 most-cited of 32 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 John Faucheraud Grimke on?: John Faucheraud Grimke was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

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36 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).