Aphrodite K. Konduros

Professional career

• Judge Aphrodite K. Konduros is an elected judge on the South Carolina Court of Appeals, serving since February 6, 2008, and re‐elected in 2015 and 2021, with her term ending in 2027
• Judge, Court of Appeals of South Carolina, 2008-present
• South Carolina Court of Appeals – Elected February 6, 2008, to complete Chief Justice Donald W. Beatty’s term; re‐elected in 2015 and 2021
• Family Court Judge – Elected February 2002 to fill the unexpired term of Hon.
• Currently the chair of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Profession and serves on the South Carolina Senate Judiciary Sentencing Reform Commission
• David F. McInnis, retired, Circuit Judge for the Third Judicial Circuit
• She also held the role of County Director for Greenville County Department of Social Services
• She later worked in private practice, as deputy general counsel for the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, as a county Department of Social Services attorney, and as assistant general counsel for the state’s Department of Social Services
• After law school, Judge Konduros held the role of law clerk to Hon.

Education

Additional information

• Judge Konduros received the American Board of Trial Advocates Jurist of the Year Award in 2013.
• Born January 30, 1959 in Sumter, South Carolina, Judge Konduros graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a B.A. in English, earning the Outstanding Junior award and a Canterbury Scholarship to study in Canterbury, Kent, England.
• She also held the role of vice president of the Columbia Young Lawyers and is a member of the South Carolina Bar, Greenville County Bar, and South Carolina Women Lawyers Association
• She then attended the University of South Carolina School of Law, where she was the first female Student Bar President and co‐recipient of the Claude Sapp Award for Outstanding Graduate.