Charles Albert Woods

Charles Albert Woods (July 31, 1852 – June 21, 1925) was an Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and then a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Education and career Born in the neighborhood of Springfield in Darlington, South Carolina, to Samuel Alexander Woods and Martha Jane DuBose Woods on July 31, 1852, Woods received an Artium Baccalaureus degree from Wofford College in 1872 and read law at the firm of Warley & Dargan to enter the bar in September 1873. He was in private practice from 1873 to 1903. On January 28, 1903, while serving as the President of the South Carolina Bar Association, he was elected a justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court by the South Carolina General Assembly by a vote of 87-67, defeating Robert Aldrich, starting a term that would last from 1903 to 1913. Federal judicial service