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List of University of South Dakota School of Law people

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List of prominent alumni and faculty of the University of South Dakota School of Law.

Academia

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James W. Abbott J.D. 1974 President of the University of South Dakota 1997–present.
Harvey Jewett J.D. 1973 President of South Dakota Board of Regents

Attorneys General

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Royal Johnson L.L.B. 1906 8th Attorney General of South Dakota
Clarence C. Caldwell L.L.B. 1906 9th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Buell F. Jones L.L.B. 11th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Merrel Sharpe L.L.B. 1914 12th Attorney General of South Dakota.
D. Walter Conway L.L.B. 13th Attorney General of South Dakota.
George Mickelson L.L.B. 1927 16th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Sigurd Anderson L.L.B. 1937 17th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Parnell J. Donahue L.L.B. 20th Attorney General of South Dakota.
Albert C. Miller L.L.B. 21st Attorney General of South Dakota.
Frank Farrar L.L.B. 1953 22nd Attorney General of South Dakota.
Gordon Mydland L.L.B. 1948 23rd Attorney General of South Dakota.
Kermit Sande J.D. 1968 24th Attorney General of South Dakota.
William Janklow J.D. 1966 25th Attorney General of South Dakota and petitioner in South Dakota v. Opperman and Reeves, Inc. v. Stake.
Mark V. Meierhenry J.D. 1970 26th Attorney General of South Dakota and petitioner in Solem v. Helm and Solem v. Bartlett.
Roger Tellinghuisen J.D. 1978 27th Attorney General of South Dakota and petitioner in South Dakota v. Dole.
Mark Barnett J.D. 1978 28th Attorney General of South Dakota and petitioner in South Dakota v. Bourland.
Larry Long J.D. 1972 29th Attorney General of South Dakota, Judge of 2nd Circuit Court of South Dakota.
Marty Jackley J.D. 1995 current 30th Attorney General of South Dakota and petitioner in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.

Business

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Roswell Bottum L.L.B. 1924 chief counsel to Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Joe Robbie L.L.B. 1946 founder-owner of the Miami Dolphins, 1966-1990.
Frank Farrar L.L.B. 1953 founder, owner, and chairman of First Savings Bank.
Mike Myers J.D. 1967 CEO of Mayo Clinic and board director of Minnesota Blue Cross Blue Shield
Harvey C. Jewett IV J.D. 1973 CEO of Super 8 Motels and heir Jewett fortune.
John Porter J.D. 1974 CEO of Avera Health.
Steve T. Kirby J.D. 1975 co-founder of Bluestem Capital.
Ross Dupper J.D. 1982 President & CEO of Porsche North America, Inc.

Governors and Lieutenant Governors

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John T. Grigsby L.L.B 1903 Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota and member of the prominent Kingsbury family.
Leslie Jensen L.L.B. 1921 15th Governor of South Dakota
Merrell Q. Sharpe L.L.B. 1914 17th Governor of South Dakota.
George T. Mickelson L.L.B. 1927 18th Governor of South Dakota and 1952 U.S. Presidential Candidate
Joseph H. Bottum L.L.B. 1927 27th Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota, and presiding Judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of South Dakota.
Lem Overpeck L.L.B. 1936 Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota.
Sigurd Anderson L.L.B. 1937 19th Governor of South Dakota.
Frank L. Farrar L.L.B. 1953 24th Governor of South Dakota.
George S. Mickelson J.D. 1965 28th Governor of South Dakota.
William J. Janklow J.D. 1966 27th and 30th Governor of South Dakota.
Steve Kirby J.D. 1975 Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota.
Matt Michels J.D. 1985 current Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota, 2011–present.

State Supreme Court Justices

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Charles R. Hayes L.L.B. Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Charles R. Hanson L.L.B. Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
James M. Doyle L.L.B. Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Fred R. Winans L.L.B. Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Jon Fosheim L.L.B. 1943 Chief Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Frank Biegelmeier L.L.B. 1927 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Alex Rentto L.L.B. 1933 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Francis G. Dunn L.L.B. 1937 Chief Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Fred J. Homeyer L.L.B. 1942 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Donald J. Porter L.L.B. 1943 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
George W. Wuest L.L.B. 1949 Chief Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Robert E. Morgan L.L.B. 1950 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Oren P. Coler L.L.B. 1952 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Frank Henderson L.L.B. 1952 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Boyd Leedom L.L.B. 1955 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Roger L. Wollman J.D. 1962 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Richard W. Sabers J.D. 1963 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Robert A. Miller J.D. 1963 Chief Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Laurence J. Zastrow J.D. 1970 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
John K. Konenkamp J.D. 1974 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Steven L. Zinter J.D. 1975 current Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
David Gilbertson J.D. 1975 current Chief Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Glen A. Severson J.D. 1975 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Lori S. Wilbur J.D. 1977 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Judith Meierhenry J.D. 1977 Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Daryl Hecht J.D. 1977 current Justice, Iowa Supreme Court.
Steven R. Jensen J.D. 1988 current Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.
Mark Salter J.D. 1993 current Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court.

United States District Attorneys

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Leo P. Flynn L.L.B. 1934 27th U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota.
Clinton G. Richards L.L.B. 1928 28th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
Harold C. Doyle L.L.B. 1951 29th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
William F. Clayton L.L.B. 1951 30th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
David V. Vrooman L.L.B. 1956 31st U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
Robert D. Hiaring J.D. 1968 32nd U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
Jeff Viken J.D. 1977 33rd U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
Philip N. Hogen J.D. 1970 34th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota, Commissioner of National Indian Gaming Commission.
Ted McBride J.D. 1978 37th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
James E. McMahon J.D. 1977 38th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
Marty Jackley J.D. 1995 39th U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
Randy Seiler J.D. 1980 41st U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota.
Ron A. Parsons Jr. J.D. 1997 current 42nd U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota 2018–present.

United States District Court

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George Theodore Mickelson L.L.B. 1927 Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Fred Joseph Nichol L.L.B. 1936 Chief Judge, U.S. District Court of for the District of South Dakota
Donald J. Porter L.L.B. 1943 Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Andrew Wendell Bogue L.L.B. 1947 Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
John Bailey Jones L.L.B. 1953 Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Richard Battey L.L.B. 1953 Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, presiding judge of 'Sue' Dinosaur Case.
Lawrence Leroy Piersol J.D. 1965 Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota.
Jeffrey Lynn Viken J.D. 1977 current Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. 2013–present.
Daneta Wollmann J.D. 2003 current Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota. 2018–present.

United States Court of Appeals

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Roger Leland Wollman J.D. 1962 Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

United States House of Representatives

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U.S. congressional delegation from South Dakota for the 87th United States Congress contained three alumni from the class of 1927: E.Y. Berry, Joseph H. Bottum, and Harold Lovre.
William Williamson L.L.B. 1905 22nd U.S. Representative from South Dakota.
Royal Cleaves Johnson L.L.B. 1906 19th U.S. Representative from South Dakota, and highly decorated WWI veteran while he was a member of Congress.
Ellis Yarnal Berry L.L.B. 1927 28th U.S. Representative from South Dakota.
Harold Lovre L.L.B. 1927 27th U.S. Representative from South Dakota.
Frank E. Denholm L.L.B. 1959 31st U.S. Representative from South Dakota.
Bill Janklow J.D. 1966 39th U.S. Representative from South Dakota.
James Abourezk J.D. 1966 32nd U.S. Representative, author of the Indian Child Welfare Act, and first Lebanese-American member of Congress.
Tim Johnson J.D. 1975 U.S. Representative from South Dakota.

United States Tax Court

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Diane Kroupa J.D. 1981 Judge, United States Tax Court and Chief Judge, Minnesota Tax Court

United States Senate

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Joseph H. Bottum L.L.B. 1927 19th U.S. Senator from South Dakota
James Abourezk J.D. 1966 21st U.S. Senator from South Dakota and first Arab-American member of Congress.
Tim Johnson J.D. 1975 25th U.S. Senator from South Dakota.

United States Military

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Royal C. Johnson L.L.B. 1906 U.S. Lieutenant, Distinguished Service Cross recipient and Croix de Guerre with gold star from the Republic of France.
Leslie Jensen L.L.B. 1921 U.S. Colonel in Pacific Theater of WWII
George E. "Bud" Day L.L.B. 1949 U.S. Colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, most highly decorated military officer since Douglas MacArthur, and POW cell-mate with John McCain
Gregory J. Stoltenburg J.D. 1995 U.S. Lt. Colonel and current Presiding Judge of the Third Circuit Court of South Dakota, 2015–present.

State Legislature

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Tribal, Sovereign, Foreign Courts

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Noted Faculty

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Bartlett Tripp
Thomas Sterling

Current

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Former

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See also

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References

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