Mary Geiger Lewis
Judge of the US District Court for the District of South Carolina.
Judge Mary Geiger Lewis dismissed a challenge to South Carolina's voter-assistance limits on 30 September 2026, finding the state NAACP and three disabled voters lacked standing, so the CAP of five voters per helper applies on 3 November.
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Dismissed the challenge on standing
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Mary Geiger Lewis sits on the US District Court for the District of South Carolina. On 30 September 2026 she dismissed, without prejudice, a challenge brought by the state's NAACP conference, joined by three disabled voters, against state limits on who may help voters cast ballots. The decision turned on standing rather than the merits, so the plaintiffs may sue again.
President Barack Obama nominated her in March 2011, and the Senate confirmed her on 18 June 2012. Born in 1958 in Columbia, South Carolina, she studied at Clemson University and the University of South Carolina School of Law. She clerked for Circuit Court judge Owens Taylor Cobb Jr and practised law in Columbia from 1985 until she joined the bench in 2012.
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