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 2003 / Served to 2008

John W. Kittredge

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

John W. Kittredge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, who joined the court in 2003. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2003–2008 · 5 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2003	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Kittredge authored 69 published opinions for the court (2001–2008), plus 5 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Hargrove v. Titan Textile Co. (85 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. 14 of these were attributed to Kittredge 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
2004	Hargrove v. Titan Textile Co.· Dissent†	599 S.E.2d 604	85
2006	Queen's Grant II Horizontal Property Regime v. Greenwood Development Corp.	628 S.E.2d 902	71
2005	Doe v. ATC, INC.	624 S.E.2d 447	37
2004	Bowman v. Bowman	591 S.E.2d 654	35
2004	State v. Abdullah	592 S.E.2d 344	33
2007	Altman v. Griffith	642 S.E.2d 619	26
2006	State v. Cochran	631 S.E.2d 294	25
2006	Thompson v. South Carolina Steel Erectors	632 S.E.2d 874	23
2006	Cedar Cove Homeowners Ass'n v. DiPietro	628 S.E.2d 284	23
2008	Powell Ex Rel. Kelley v. Bank of Am.	665 S.E.2d 237	21
2005	Shuler v. Gregory Electric· Dissent†	622 S.E.2d 569	21
2004	Austin v. Board of Zoning Appeals	606 S.E.2d 209	21
2007	Rhodes v. Benson Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc.	647 S.E.2d 249	20
2007	Stearns Bank National Ass'n v. Glenwood Falls, LP	644 S.E.2d 793	20
2006	Query v. Burgess	639 S.E.2d 455	20

Showing the 15 most-cited of 77 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 was John W. Kittredge on?: John W. Kittredge was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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5 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).