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A. Marvin Quattlebaum, Jr. is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

He was nominated by President Donald Trump on May 7, 2018, and confirmed by the Senate on August 16, 2018.

Breon C.M. Walker earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a double major in marketing and management from the University of South Carolina Honors College in 2000. She earned her Juris Doctor from Emory University School of Law in 2003, where she was the recipient of the Custer Tuggle Award for Excellence in Family Law.

Following her graduation from Emory, Breon clerked for Circuit Court Judge Reginald I. Lloyd in Columbia, S.C. She then practiced in both the civil and criminal divisions of the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General. Prior to joining The Stanley Law Group, Breon practiced with a large firm defending insurance carriers and their insureds in personal injury cases.

An experienced speaker, Breon has prepared and presented seminars to clients and colleagues on statutory compliance, case law developments and effective witness preparation.

Breon has been recognized by several organizations for her legal acumen including being recognized as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star” from 2012-2019 and a Super Lawyer from 2020-present.  In 2013, Breon was selected by the National Bar Association as one of the “Nation’s Best Advocates: 40 Lawyers Under 40.”  Breon was also selected to the “Under 40 Hotlist” by Benchmark Litigation in 2016.  In 2020, Breon was named an Honoree of the South Carolina Leadership in Law Award by South Carolina Lawyers Weekly. 

Breon is an accomplished courtroom advocate with 15 years of experience as a trial lawyer.

Her areas of practice include:

Professional Memberships

• The South Carolina Bar
• President of the South Carolina Black Lawyers’ Association
• Richland County Bar Association (Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers’ Division from 2009-2014)
• South Carolina Association of Justice
• American Association for Justice
• Columbia (SC) Chapter of The Links, Inc
• Board of Directors of the 701 Center for Contemporary Art – Secretary
• Richland-Lexington Airport Commission
• Leadership Columbia (Class of 2011)

John Cannon Few was born in Anderson, South Carolina. He grew up in Greenwood, and graduated from Greenwood High School in 1981. He attended college at Duke University, where he served as Duke's athletic mascot - the Blue Devil - during his junior year. John graduated from Duke in 1985 with an A.B. in English and Economics.

John went on to attend 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. He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1988.

John began his legal career as law clerk to the late Honorable G. Ross Anderson Jr., United States District Judge. He practiced law in Greenville from 1989 until 2000, and is admitted to practice in South Carolina, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. John served as a trial judge on the Circuit Court of South Carolina from July 2000 until February 2010. He then became the Chief Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, a position he held until February 2016. John was sworn in as a Justice on the Supreme Court of South Carolina on February 9, 2016.

John is a frequent public speaker. In 1996, he gave a speech entitled "Citizen Participation in the Legal System," for which he was awarded first place in the American Bar Association's nationwide Edward R. Finch Law Day speech contest. Since then he has given numerous speeches to bar associations and civic groups throughout the country. In December 2012, he delivered the commencement speech, entitled "What it Means to be a Lawyer," to the graduates of the Charleston School of Law. In April 2016, he delivered the commencement speech to Lander University. He has given a speech entitled "The Courage of a Lawyer" to lawyers' groups in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arizona, and California. John wrote an article based on the speech that appeared under the same name in the Winter 2013 edition of the ABA's "Litigation" journal.

John has also been active in teaching law. He served on the faculty at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, from 2005 to 2009. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law and later a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Charleston School of Law from 2008 to 2012. John is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law. He has also given or moderated hundreds of continuing legal education seminars in South Carolina and numerous other states.

John is a Fellow in Liberty Fellowship, and as a part of Liberty Fellowship is a member of the moderator corps at The Aspen Institute. John completed the Diversity Leaders Initiative through The Riley Institute at Furman University in 2010. In December 2012, the Charleston School of Law awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

John has always been active in community service, even outside of his primary employment in public service. Before becoming a judge, for example, he read to pre-school children on a weekly basis for years in the Greenville Head Start program, tutored middle-school children through Save our Sons, taught middle and high school classes as part of the Junior Achievement program, and served on the board of Friends of the Reedy River. While he was a circuit judge, John served on the 2003-04 Governor's Water Law Review Committee. John now chairs the South Carolina Access to Justice Commission.

John has three children. His daughter Reed is a 2012 graduate of Duke University with a B.S. in Economics. Reed works for ConcertAI, a platform technology company focused on applications of artificial intelligence to oncology. She is married to Eric Pangraze, and they live in Durham with John's grandson Milo Riser Pangraze. John's daughter Anna is a 2016 graduate of Clemson University Honors College with a B.S. in Nursing. Anna lives in Flagstaff where she works as a registered nurse. His son Cannon is a 2020 graduate of Boston College with an A.B. in English. Cannon is a recording artist performing under the name "Cannon." He lives in Brooklyn, New York. John is the son of retired trial lawyer J. Kendall Few, formerly of Greenville now of Indianland, and retired real estate agent Belva Beasley Few of Greenwood.

Judge Julius "Jay" Richardson serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.  Jay grew up in Barnwell, South Carolina before attending Vanderbilt University.  After graduating in 1999 with a Biology degree, Jay moved to Hawaii and worked at a pool-side bar-and-grill.  Jay then earned his juris doctorate from University of Chicago Law School, where he served as Articles Editor for the University of Chicago Law Review and right fielder for the law school's championship softball team.  Following law school, he served as law clerk for Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard A. Posner and US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. He then practiced with Kellogg Hansen in Washington, DC, representing a variety of companies in contract, fraud, intellectual property, and antitrust disputes. Jay returned to South Carolina in 2009 as an Assistant United States Attorney focusing on prosecuting violent crime, gangs, terrorism, public corruption, civil rights, and narcotics trafficking. He led the prosecution of Dylann Storm Roof, where the jury convicted and sentenced Roof to death for his racist massacre of nine African-American worshippers during a Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston.
He and his wife Macon are blessed with four girls, Perry (12), Tayloe (10), Landry (8), and Dabney (3). 
 

At the conclusion of her clerkship, Ms. Walker accepted a job with the South Carolina Attorney General's office where she has previously worked as a law clerk. During her tenure at the Attorney General's Office, as both a prosecutor and law clerk, Ms. Walker worked on cases involving corrupt law enforcement officers, multi-county drug rings, and criminal street gangs. While prosecuting gang cases in Richland County, Meghan accepted a position as an Assistant Solicitor with the Fifth Judicial Circuit (Richland and Kershaw Counties). As an Assistant Solicitor, Meghan worked primarily in the Columbia, SC office. In her six years with the office, Ms. Walker tried twenty-five cases to jury verdict with her primary focus being on violent crime. 

In February of 2018, Ms. Walker was named Executive Director of the South Carolina State Ethics Commission. As Executive Director, Ms. Walker hopes to aid all South Carolinians in understanding the Ethics Act while fairly enforcing the Act.

Ms. Walker is a member of the South Carolina Bar and the Columbia Chapter of The Links, Inc.