Charles Cecil Wyche (July 7, 1885 – September 17, 1966) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of South Carolina and the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Charles Cecil Wyche
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the Western District of South Carolina
Born 1885 in Prosperity, SC
Died 1966
FJC ID: 2666
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 2/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 7/year
U.S. District Court for the Western District of South Carolina · 1937–1965South Carolina District Court · 1937–1965South Carolina District Court · 1965–1966
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, Spartanburg, South Carolina1909–1937
U.S. attorney for the Western District of South Carolina1933–1937- Spartanburg County, South CarolinaCounty attorney · 1919–1933
- Supreme Court of South CarolinaSpecial associate justice · 1929
Special judge · 1924- Spartanburg, South CarolinaCity attorney · 1919–1922
U.S. Army major1917–1919- South CarolinaState representative · 1913–1914
Appointments
- 1965–1966 (None (reassignment))Term ended: Death
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of South CarolinaChief Judge1937–1965 · Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)Term ended: Reassignment
Education
- Georgetown College Law School (now Georgetown University Law Center)
- Read law1909
- The CitadelB.S. · 1906