Constructed from the original woodwork and marble from the former Richland County courthouse built in 1935—but with modern technology incorporated—it is a more intimate space designed to introduce law students to the physical atmosphere of law.
It was aptly named for one of the luminaries in South Carolina’s legal history, G. Ross Anderson Jr., a 1954 alumnus. Judge Anderson worked for U.S. Senator Olin D. Johnston while in college and then served in the S.C. House of Representatives from 1955 to 1956. He achieved prominence in the legal community, first, as a plaintiff’s attorney in Anderson County.
In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, where he presided over federal cases until his retirement in 2016.