The Hon. Diane Schafer Goodstein is a judge for the 1st Judicial Circuit Court of South Carolina. She was elected to the bench by the South Carolina General Assembly in May 1998.
The 1st Judicial Circuit includes Calhoun, Orangeburg, and Dorchester Counties. Goodstein was appointed to the Circuit Court Judges Advisory Committee and the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Prior to her election, she was in private practice alongside her husband, Arnold S. Goodstein, at Goodstein & Goodstein, P.A. in Summerville since 1983. While at the firm, Goodstein also served as the County Attorney for Dorchester County (1986 to 1988). She first entered private practice as an associate at Goodstein, Bowling, Douglas & Phillips in 1981.
Goodstein received a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1978. She then completed a J.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1981.
Her memberships include the South Carolina Bar, the Dorchester County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.
Goodstein was born in Dillon, South Carolina. She and her husband have two children. The family attends Charleston Temple Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim.