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 2014 / Active

Stephanie Pendarvis McDonald

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Stephanie Pendarvis McDonald is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina, serving since 2014. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2014 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2014	Court of Appeals of South Carolina	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, McDonald authored 52 published opinions for the court (2015–2019), plus 1 concurrence. Most cited: Klein v. Barrett (41 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. 53 of these were attributed to McDonald 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
2019	Klein v. Barrett†	828 S.E.2d 773	41
2015	Hotel & Motel Holdings, LLC v. BJC Enterprises, LLC†	414 S.C. 635	36
2018	State v. Hawes†	813 S.E.2d 513	14
2018	Stoney v. Stoney†	819 S.E.2d 201	12
2015	Spur at Williams Brice Owners Ass'n v. Lalla†	415 S.C. 72	11
2016	Hidria, USA, Inc. v. Delo†	415 S.C. 533	9
2015	State v. Cardwell†	414 S.C. 416	9
2017	State v. Pradubsri†	803 S.E.2d 724	8
2018	Gecy v. S.C. Bank & Trust†	812 S.E.2d 750	7
2017	South Carolina Community Bank v. Salon Proz, LLC†	420 S.C. 89	7
2018	State v. Otts†	817 S.E.2d 540	6
2017	State v. Wrapp†	421 S.C. 531	6
2017	State v. Hughes†	419 S.C. 149	6
2016	Miller Construction Co. v. PC Construction of Greenwood, Inc.†	418 S.C. 186	6
2016	Graham v. Town of Latta†	417 S.C. 164	6

Showing the 15 most-cited of 53 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 Stephanie Pendarvis McDonald on?: Stephanie Pendarvis McDonald is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina.

Sources

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12 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).