South Carolina Masters-in-Equity

The Masters-in-Equity is a court in South Carolina that hears cases referred to them by the South Carolina Circuit Courts and have basically the same power and authority as the circuit courts without the jury.

Judges by county

Abbeville County

• Curtis G. Clark

Aiken County

• M. Anderson Griffith

Allendale County

• Walter H. Sanders, Jr.

Anderson County

• Ellis B. Drew, Jr.

Beaufort County

• Marvin H. Dukes, III

Berkeley County

• Dale Edward Van Slambrook

Calhoun County

• Martin R. Banks

Charleston County

• Mikell R. Scarborough

Clarendon County

• William C. Coffey, Jr.

Dorchester County

• James E. Chellis

Georgetown County

• Joe M. Crosby

Greenville County

• Charles B. Simmons, Jr.

Horry County

• Cynthia Graham Howe

Kershaw County

• Jeffrey Marc Tzerman

Lee County

• Stephen Bryan Doby

Lexington County

• James O. Spence

Orangeburg County

• James B. Jackson, Jr.

Richland County

• Joseph M. Strickland

Spartanburg County

• Shannon Phillips

Sumter County

• Richard L. Booth

York County

Vacant

Former judges

• Olin Davie Burgdorf
• Gordon G. Cooper

• S. Jackson Kimball, III
• Robert A. Smoak, Jr.
• Robert E. Watson
• Patrick R. Watts

See also

• Courts in South Carolina
• South Carolina counties
• Judicial selection in South Carolina

External links

• South Carolina Judicial Department, "Masters-In-Equity Judge Roster"
• South Carolina Judicial Department, "Court Overview"