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 1995 / Served to 2009

Kaye G. Hearn

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Kaye G. Hearn was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, who joined the court in 1995. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1995–2009 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1995	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Bethany Lutheran College

Judicial Record

In our data, Hearn authored 334 published opinions for the court (1995–2010), plus 16 dissents and 5 concurrences. Most cited: Doe v. Doe (120 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. 87 of these were attributed to Hearn 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
2006	Doe v. Doe	634 S.E.2d 51	120
1997	Hawkins v. Greenwood Development Corp.	493 S.E.2d 875	86
2006	Charleston County Department of Social Services v. Jackson	627 S.E.2d 765	78
1999	State v. Hamilton	511 S.E.2d 94	77
2005	Cowburn v. Leventis	619 S.E.2d 437	73
2001	Jenkins v. Jenkins	545 S.E.2d 531	73
2009	Spreeuw v. Barker	682 S.E.2d 843	62
1996	Kelley v. Kelley· Dissent†	477 S.E.2d 727	56
2008	South Carolina Department of Transportation v. M & T Enterprises of Mt. Pleasant, LLC.· Concurrence†	667 S.E.2d 7	55
1999	Towles v. United Healthcare Corp.	524 S.E.2d 839	55
2003	Doe v. Baby Boy Roe	578 S.E.2d 733	53
1995	Dumas v. InfoSafe Corp.	463 S.E.2d 641	50
2006	State v. Santiago	634 S.E.2d 23	49
2002	Greene v. Greene	569 S.E.2d 393	45
2003	State v. Tutton	580 S.E.2d 186	44

Showing the 15 most-cited of 355 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 Kaye G. Hearn on?: Kaye G. Hearn was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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14 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).