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

Thomas E. Huff

Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Thomas E. Huff 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	–	–

Education

Augusta State University

Judicial Record

In our data, Huff authored 177 published opinions for the court (1996–2018), plus 10 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Allen v. Allen (90 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. 64 of these were attributed to Huff 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
2001	Allen v. Allen	554 S.E.2d 421	90
1998	First Union Nat. Bank of SC v. Soden	511 S.E.2d 372	83
2001	Widman v. Widman	557 S.E.2d 693	74
1998	State v. Kerr	498 S.E.2d 212	58
1998	Hawkins v. Pathology Associates	498 S.E.2d 395	42
2012	Lewis v. Lewis†	400 S.C. 354	41
2000	Barnacle Broadcasting, Inc. v. Baker Broadcasting, Inc.	538 S.E.2d 672	35
2008	McCall v. IKON	670 S.E.2d 695	33
2009	State v. Vick	682 S.E.2d 275	30
2008	McClurg v. Deaton	671 S.E.2d 87	28
1999	State v. Beam	518 S.E.2d 297	28
1996	Moore v. Simpson	473 S.E.2d 64	28
2012	State v. McEachern†	399 S.C. 125	26
2003	Eaddy v. Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.	584 S.E.2d 390	26
2000	State v. Varvil	526 S.E.2d 248	24

Showing the 15 most-cited of 188 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 Thomas E. Huff on?: Thomas E. Huff 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).