Donald Wayne Beatty (born April 29, 1952) is a former chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and a former South Carolina state court judge and state representative.

[2] Beatty was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court on May 23, 2007, to replace Justice E. C. Burnett, III.

On February 25, 2016, President Barack Obama nominated Beatty to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina, to the seat vacated by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who assumed senior status on October 3, 2013.

In 2024, Beatty turned 72 years old, which is the mandatory retirement age for judges in South Carolina.

As a result, he retired on July 31, 2024, and was replaced as Chief Justice by Judge John W. Kittredge.