+ The Honoroable William S. Brown

William S. Brown is a United States Magistrate Judge for the District of South Carolina. He was sworn in and took office on September 17, 2024. His chambers are in the Carroll Campbell Courthouse in Greenville, South Carolina.

Judge Brown was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Wofford College in 1988 and received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1991.

Upon graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Henry M. Herlong, Jr, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina from August 1991 to August 1993. Prior to his appointment to the bench, he was a partner at the law firm of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP in the firm’s Greenville, SC office. His practice areas included general civil litigation, business litigation, insurance litigation, and ERISA.

He is licensed to practice in South Carolina (1991), in the Supreme Court of the United States of America, in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits, and in the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.

While in private practice, Judge Brown served as the Chair of the South Carolina Bar's Practice and Procedure Committee (2006–2008) and is a Past President of the South Carolina Defense Trial Attorneys Association.

He is a member of the Greenville County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, and the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Judge Brown and his wife Lauren have four children. They are members of First Presbyterian Church in Greenville.

+ The Honoroable Timothy M. Cain

Judge Timothy M. Cain grew up in the rural Oakway Community in Oconee County,South Carolina. He attended Oakway public high school. Judge Cain’s parents, as well as his teachers and coaches in Oakway, taught him to value faith, family, integrity and, in particular, hard work. Opportunities to embrace the value of work were visited upon Judge Cain with frequency during his formative years. He served, by turns, as a cotton mill worker, farm hand, retail salesclerk, “sand blasting” operator, custodian, school bus driver, grounds crew member for the Clemson campus, college mathematics tutor and university residence hall director.

Ultimately, Judge Cain matriculated at the University of South Carolina, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1983 and a Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1986. During this time, Judge Cain married his high school sweetheart Renee Patterson—who happened to be the Valedictorian of his high school class. Their son, Martin Cain, likewise earned both undergraduate and law degrees from the University of South Carolina, and is now a practicing attorney in Greenville, South Carolina.

In 1986, Judge Cain entered private practice in Walhalla, South Carolina, and then served as an Assistant Public Defender. In 1988 he became a state prosecutor, serving as Assistant Solicitor for the Tenth Judicial Circuit. He thereafter returned to private practice in Seneca, where he represented plaintiffs, defendants, individuals, corporations, and government entities, in a variety of civil and criminal matters over a ten-year period. During this time, Judge Cain also served as County Attorney for Oconee County and counsel to several municipalities and utility service providers.

In April 2000, Judge Cain began his service on the bench when the S. C. General Assembly elected him to serve as Family Court Judge for the Tenth Judicial Circuit. During his tenure in this position, Judge Cain served as Administrative Judge and conducted trials in 17 counties throughout the state. He also served, by designation of the Chief Justice, as an Acting Associate Justice of the S. C. Supreme Court on several occasions.

On February 16, 2011, upon recommendation of U.S. Senator Lindsey O. Graham, Judge Cain was nominated by President Barack Obama to be a United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina. He was confirmed by the Senate on September 20, 2011, by a vote of 99-0 and commissioned on September 26, 2011.

Judge Cain became Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina on June 4, 2024.

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