John Cannon Few

John Cannon Few (born April 9, 1963) is a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, elected on February 3, 2016, and sworn in on February 9, 2016, to fill the position vacated by Jean H. Toal who retired.

[1] Few is a graduate of Duke University, where he served as the athletic mascot, and 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.

[2] Few began his legal career as law clerk to The Honorable G. Ross Anderson, United States District Judge.

He then went on to private practice, which he left in 2000 to serve as a trial judge on the Circuit Court of South Carolina.