James Woodrow Lewis (1912–1999) was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Lewis was born in the Swift Creek area of Darlington County, South Carolina on March 8, 1912.
Although he began law school in 1931, economic conditions during the Depression forced him to return home to Swift Creek to run a country store owned by his father.
Legislators were exempt from the draft during World War II, but he resigned in midterm to enter the military.
He was elected chief justice on January 21, 1975, to fill the unexpired term of Joseph Rodney Moss; was sworn in on August 14, 1975;[1] and served until his retirement in 1984.