Ammiel J. Willard (June 21, 1822 – May 5, 1900) was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
[3] Willard came to South Carolina during the Civil War as a lieutenant colonel for black troops in the Union army.
Because Chief Justice Moses suffered poor health, much of the operation of the court fell on Willard.
[5] In an early opinion of tremendous political consequence, after the election of 1876, Willard cast the deciding vote in favor of Wade Hampton III as South Carolina's first governor after Reconstruction.
His opposition, however, argued that he had been elected to fill only the unexpired portion of Chief Justice Moses's own six-year term.