John Cannon Few
John Cannon Few (born April 9, 1963) is a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, elected on February 3, 2016, and sworn in on February 9, 2016, to fill the position vacated by Jean H. Toal who retired. Few is a graduate of Duke University, where he served as the Mascot, athletic mascot, and the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he was a member of The Order of Wig and Robe and The Order of the Coif. He also served as Student Works Editor of the South Carolina Law Review. Few began his legal career as law clerk to The Honorable G. Ross Anderson, United States District Judge. He then went on to private practice, which he left in 2000 to serve as a trial judge on the Circuit Court of South Carolina. Few became Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals in 2010, departing that position to join the South Carolina Supreme Court in 2016. References Sources Justice John C. Few - South Carolina SUPREME COURT
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South Carolina Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of South Carolina is the highest court in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The court is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices.S.C. Const. art. V, § 2

Judicial selection

South Carolina is one of two states where the state legislature elects state court judges, including the justices on the state supreme court. A ten-person committee (composed mostly of state legislators) called the Judicial Merit Selection Commission (JMSC) winnows down the number of candidates to fill a judicial vacancy to three based on candidate qualifications. The General Assembly must then choose from one of these three candidates to fi ...
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