D. Garrison Hill

David Garrison Hill in Greenville, South Carolina He received a Bachelor of Arts from Wofford College in 1986 and a Juris Doctor from the University of South Carolina Law School in 1989.

Career

After graduating law school, Hill served as a law clerk to Judge William Walter Wilkins of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1990 to 2000, he was a member of Hill, Wyatt & Bannister in Greenville. In 2000, he started Hill & Hill, LLC with his father. From 2004 to 2017, he served as a resident circuit judge for the Thirteenth Circuit. On February 1, 2017, he was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly in a 148–0 vote to serve as a judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, James E Lockemy. He replaced retired Justice Kaye Gorenflo Hearn, making the South Carolina Supreme Court the only state supreme court in the country without a female justice until the election of Justice Letitia H. Verdin in June 2024.