South Carolina
The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina was one of the original 13 courts established by the Judiciary Act of 1789, 1 Stat. 73, on September 24, 1789. It was subdivided into the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina and the United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina Districts on February 21, 1823 by 3 Stat. 726. The Eastern District was headquartered at Florence, and the Western District was headquartered in Greenville. The division was solely for the purposes of holding court – a single judge presided over both districts, and the act authorized no additional court staff.
In 1898 the United States Supreme Court held in Barrett v. United States that South Carolina legally constituted a single judicial district. Congress made a more explicit effort to subdivide the District on March 3, 1911, by 36 Stat. 1087, 36 Stat. 1123. South Carolina was again Eastern and the Western Districts, with one judgeship authorized to serve both districts, effective January 1, 1912. Congress finally authorized an additional judgeship for the Western District, and assigned the sitting judge exclusively to the Eastern District, on March 3, 1915, by 38 Stat. 961. However, on October 7, 1965, by 79 Stat. 951, South Carolina was reorganized as a single judicial district with four judgeships authorized for the district court. It has since remained a single District.
Judges of both the Eastern and Western Districts of South Carolina:
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| John Lyles Glenn, Jr. | Herbert Hoover | 01929-04-29April 29, 1929 | 01938-05-02May 2, 1938 | - | death |
| Robert W. Hemphill | Lyndon B. Johnson | 01964-04-30April 30, 1964 | 01965-11-01November 1, 1965 | - | reassigned to District of South Carolina |
| Alva M. Lumpkin | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01939-07-19July 19, 1939 | 01941-07-22July 22, 1941 | - | resignation |
| James Robert Martin, Jr. | John F. Kennedy | 01961-09-18September 18, 1961 | 01965-11-01November 1, 1965 | - | reassigned to District of South Carolina |
| Henry Augustus Middleton Smith | William Howard Taft | 01912-01-01January 1, 1912 | 01923-11-23November 23, 1923 | 01924-11-23November 23, 1924 | death |
| George Bell Timmerman, Sr. | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01942-01-23January 23, 1942 | 01962-10-10October 10, 1962 | 01966-04-22April 22, 1966 | death |
Judges of only the Eastern District of South Carolina:
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Ernest Ford Cochran | Calvin Coolidge | 01923-11-22November 22, 1923 | 01934-03-04March 4, 1934 | - | death |
| Francis Kerschner Myers | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01934-06-14June 14, 1934 | 01940-08-02August 2, 1940 | - | death |
| Charles Earl Simons, Jr. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 01964-05-01May 1, 1964 | 01965-11-01November 1, 1965 | - | reassigned to District of South Carolina |
| Julius Waties Waring | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01942-01-23January 23, 1942 | 01952-02-15February 15, 1952 | 01968-01-11January 11, 1968 | death |
| Ashton Hilliard Williams | Harry S. Truman | 01952-07-03July 3, 1952 | 01962-02-25February 25, 1962 | - | death |
Judges of only the Western District of South Carolina:
| Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
| Joseph Travis Johnson | Woodrow Wilson | 01915-11-09November 9, 1915 | 01919-05-08May 8, 1919 | - | death |
| Henry Hitt Watkins | Woodrow Wilson | 01919-07-22July 22, 1919 | 01936-12-31December 31, 1936 | 01947-09-08September 8, 1947 | death |
| Charles Cecil Wyche | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 01937-01-30January 30, 1937 | 01965-11-01November 1, 1965 | - | reassigned to District of South Carolina |
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