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 1994 / Served to 2009

John H. Waller

Justice, Supreme Court of South Carolina

John H. Waller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1937 · age 89
Tenure: 1994–2009 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Supreme Court of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Waller authored 366 published opinions for the court (1994–2010), plus 14 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Futch v. McAllister Towing of Georgetown, Inc. (1,327 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. 178 of these were attributed to Waller 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
1999	Futch v. McAllister Towing of Georgetown, Inc.	518 S.E.2d 591	1,327
2000	I'On, L.L.C. v. Town of Mt. Pleasant	526 S.E.2d 716	485
2004	Elam v. South Carolina Department of Transportation· Dissent†	602 S.E.2d 772	287
2000	Clark v. Cantrell	529 S.E.2d 528	273
2006	State v. Weston†	625 S.E.2d 641	263
1997	Tupper v. Dorchester County	487 S.E.2d 187	175
2000	Staubes v. City of Folly Beach	529 S.E.2d 543	172
2000	Al-Shabazz v. State	527 S.E.2d 742	168
2004	State v. Cherry†	606 S.E.2d 475	144
1999	Steinke v. South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing & Regulation†	336 S.C. 373	142
1998	TNS Mills, Inc. v. South Carolina Department of Revenue	503 S.E.2d 471	137
2001	George v. Fabri	548 S.E.2d 868	136
2003	Dawkins v. Fields	580 S.E.2d 433	130
1996	State v. Tucker	478 S.E.2d 260	105
1995	Paschal v. State Election Commission	454 S.E.2d 890	102

Showing the 15 most-cited of 385 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 H. Waller on?: John H. Waller was a Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

15 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).