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 2004 / Active

Paul E. Short Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Paul E. Short Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, serving since 2004. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2004 · 22 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2004	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Education

Citadel Military College of South Carolina

Judicial Record

In our data, Short authored 129 published opinions for the court (2004–2019), plus 10 dissents and 7 concurrences. Most cited: Beaufort County School District v. United National Insurance (42 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. 78 of these were attributed to Short 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
2011	Beaufort County School District v. United National Insurance	709 S.E.2d 85	42
2009	State v. Goodwin	683 S.E.2d 500	37
2007	Parrish v. Allison· Concurrence†	656 S.E.2d 382	34
2011	Pope v. Heritage Communities, Inc.	717 S.E.2d 765	30
2009	Fishburne v. ATI Systems International	681 S.E.2d 595	30
2009	Guinan v. Tenet Healthsystems of Hilton Head, Inc.	677 S.E.2d 32	30
2008	Vortex Sports & Entertainment, Inc. v. Ware	662 S.E.2d 444	27
2010	Burnett v. FAMILY KINGDOM, INC.	691 S.E.2d 170	24
2011	Murphy v. Owens Corning	710 S.E.2d 454	20
2010	In Re the Care & Treatment of Manigo	697 S.E.2d 629	19
2011	State v. Garris	714 S.E.2d 888	18
2005	Blackmon Ex Rel. Will & Estate of Blackmon v. Weaver· Dissent†	621 S.E.2d 42	18
2013	McNeil v. South Carolina Department of Corrections†	404 S.C. 186	17
2012	Byrd v. Livingston†	398 S.C. 237	17
2007	State v. Kinard	646 S.E.2d 168	17

Showing the 15 most-cited of 146 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 Paul E. Short Jr. on?: Paul E. Short Jr. is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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22 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).