Original sentence: (born 1931, Smithfield, Virginia) was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court since the Reconstruction Era.Among Finney's other accomplishments are also a position on the National College of State Trial Judges, 1977; Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, The Citadel & Johnson C.Finney retired from the state Supreme Court in 2000 and was named interim president of South Carolina State University in 2002.Finney was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1972.His mother died when he was ten days old, so he was raised by his father, Dr.In 1960, he  moved to Sumter and began a full-time law practice.In May 1994, the state's general assembly elected Ernest Finney to the position of Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, effective December 1994, making him the first African-American Chief Justice of South Carolina since Reconstruction.In the beginning, he was unable to find work as a lawyer, so he followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a teacher
Edited sentence: , (born 1931, Smithfield, Virginia) was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice appointed to the South Carolina Supreme Court since the Reconstruction Era.Finney retired from the state Supreme Court in 2000 and was named interim president of S.Finney was elected to the South Carolina House of Representative in 1972.Finney's other many accomplishments include National College of State Trial Judges, 1977; Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, The Citadel & Johnson C.Finney's qualifications are impeccable.His mother died when he was ten days old so he was raised by his father, Dr.In 1960, he  moved to Sumter and began a full time law practice.In May 1994, the state's general assembly elected that same Ernest Finney to the position of Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court, effective December 1994, making him the first African-American Chief Justice of South Carolina since Reconstruction.In the beginning, he was unable to find work as a lawyer so he followed in his father's footsteps and worked as a teacher.State University in 2002