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 1996 / Active

Paula H. Thomas

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Paula H. Thomas is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, serving since 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 1996 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Thomas authored 101 published opinions for the court (2008–2019), plus 7 dissents and 8 concurrences. Most cited: New Hope Missionary Baptist Church v. Paragon Builders (49 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. 59 of these were attributed to Thomas 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
2008	New Hope Missionary Baptist Church v. Paragon Builders	667 S.E.2d 1	49
2010	State v. Gibson	701 S.E.2d 766	32
2010	State v. Wilson	698 S.E.2d 862	30
2011	Kase v. Ebert	707 S.E.2d 456	22
2010	State v. Garner	697 S.E.2d 615	22
2008	M & M GROUP, INC. v. Holmes	666 S.E.2d 262	22
2010	State v. Carmack	694 S.E.2d 224	16
2012	Campbell v. Robinson†	398 S.C. 12	15
2009	Pringle v. SLR, INC. OF SUMMERTON	675 S.E.2d 783	15
2008	Snavely v. AMISUB of South Carolina, Inc.	665 S.E.2d 222	15
2018	Concord & Cumberland Horizontal Prop. Regime v. Concord & Cumberland, LLC†	819 S.E.2d 166	14
2013	State v. Lemire†	406 S.C. 558	14
2013	Lincoln General Insurance v. Progressive Northern Insurance†	406 S.C. 534	14
2010	Sherlock Holmes Pub, Inc. v. City of Columbia	697 S.E.2d 619	14
2013	Microclean Technology, Inc. v. Envirofix, Inc.†	404 S.C. 207	13

Showing the 15 most-cited of 116 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 Paula H. Thomas on?: Paula H. Thomas is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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30 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).