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South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who comprise a large portion of the population and historically dominated the territory. South Dakota is the seventeenth largest by area, but the fifth smallest by population and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. As the southern part of the former Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. It is either the 39th or 40th state admitted to the union. President Benjamin Harrison shuffled the statehood papers before signing them so that no one could tell which became a state first. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 187,200, is South Dakota's largest city.
William John Janklow was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who holds the record for the longest tenure as Governor of South Dakota: sixteen years in office. Janklow had the third-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,851 days.
The United States District Court for the District of South Dakota is the United States District Court or the Federal district court, whose jurisdiction for issues pertaining to federal law or diversity for the state of South Dakota. The court is based in Sioux Falls with other courthouses in Rapid City, Pierre, and Aberdeen. The district was created in 1889, when the Dakota Territory was divided into North and South Dakota.
David Gilbertson is chief justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Robert Arthur Miller is a former chief justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Judith Meierhenry is a former Associate Justice and the first woman to serve on the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Steven Lee Zinter was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Richard W. Sabers was an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court. He was forced to retire in 2008 because of a state law that requires Supreme Court justices to retire at age 70, although no replacement was named until he was 71. He has said that the mandatory retirement age should be raised to 75.
The University of South Dakota School of Law also known as University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law or USD Law in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States, is a professional school of the University of South Dakota and the only law school in the state of South Dakota. Established in 1901, by U.S. Ambassador Bartlett Tripp and U.S. Senator Thomas Sterling. The law school is home to approximately 168 students and has more than 3,000 alumni. With 168 J.D. candidates, it is currently the second-smallest law school and smallest public law school student population among the American Bar Association accredited law schools.
Roger Leland Wollman is a Senior United States Circuit Judge and former Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He is the older brother of Harvey L. Wollman, former Governor of South Dakota.
Karen Elizabeth Schreier is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota and was the 36th United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota.
United States v. Lara, 541 U.S. 193 (2004), was a United States Supreme Court landmark case which held that both the United States and a Native American (Indian) tribe could prosecute an Indian for the same acts that constituted crimes in both jurisdictions. The Court held that the United States and the tribe were separate sovereigns; therefore, separate tribal and federal prosecutions did not violate the Double Jeopardy Clause.
Jane Louise Kelly is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Marty J. Jackley is an American attorney who was the 30th Attorney General of South Dakota from 2009 to 2019. He previously served as the 39th United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota.
Gordon J. Mydland is a combat veteran, a former State Senator, former states attorney, former Attorney General, former South Dakota state Circuit Court Judge.
Steven R. Jensen is an Associate Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Dennis Daugaard in 2017. He became the 50th member of the court, succeeding Justice Lori S. Wilbur.
Mark E. Salter is an American attorney, veteran, and current Associate Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Dennis Daugaard in 2018. He became the 51st member of the court.
Clarence C. Caldwell was an American attorney and the 9th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Crystal Johnson is an attorney from South Dakota serving as State's Attorney for Minnehaha County, the state's most populous county, of which the county seat is Sioux Falls.
References
- ↑ "South Dakota Legislative Manual" (PDF). South Dakota Secretary of State . 2007. p. 116.
- ↑ Srstka, Jr., W. J. (2016). "Judge History: History of the Judges of the Second Circuit after Admission of South Dakota to the Federal Union".
- ↑ "A Photographic History of the South Dakota Supreme Court" (PDF). p. 13.
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