William John Janklow was an American lawyer and 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 South Dakota Supreme Court is the highest court in the state of South Dakota. It is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices appointed by the governor. One justice is selected from each of five geographic appointment districts. Justices face a nonpolitical retention election three years after appointment and every eight years after that. The justices also select their own chief justice.
Judith Knittel 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.
Dennis Martin Daugaard is an American attorney and politician who served as the 32nd governor of South Dakota from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was the first chief executive of a U.S. state to be the child of deaf parents. Before being elected governor,he was a lawyer,banker,development director for a nonprofit organization;he also served as a state senator from 1997 to 2003 and the 37th lieutenant governor of South Dakota from 2003 to 2011.
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 Wollman,former Governor of South Dakota.
David Lee Lillehaug is a former associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He served as the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota from 1994 to 1998.
Lori S. Wilbur is a former Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in South Dakota since June 26,2015 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges that the U.S. Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. Attorney General Marty Jackley issued a statement critical of the ruling but said South Dakota is obligated to comply and the state would recognize same-sex marriages.
Janine M. Kern is an American attorney and jurist serving as an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Herbert Blaine Rudolph was an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1931 until his death on September 2,1957.
Gregory J. Stoltenburg is an American lawyer,veteran,and current presiding judge of the Third Judicial Circuit in South Dakota.
Ronald A. Parsons Jr. is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota from 2018 to 2021.
Steven R. Jensen is the chief justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court since 2021. He was appointed as an associate justice by Governor Dennis Daugaard in 2017. He became the 50th member of the court,succeeding Justice Lori S. Wilbur.
Patricia J. DeVaney is an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court,appointed by Governor Kristi Noem in 2019. She became the 52nd member of the court,succeeding the seat vacated by the death of Justice Steven L. Zinter.
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.
Gordon L. Moore III is an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. He was a judge of the Minnesota Fifth District Court in Nobles County from 2012 to 2020.
Scott Palmer Myren is an Associate Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
Camela Catherine Theeler is an American lawyer who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota since 2024. She previously served as a judge of the Second Judicial Circuit Court of the South Dakota from 2018 to 2024.
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