Kenneth E. Barker

Civil, Mediation
211 Zinnia Street, P.O. Box 100
Belle Fourche, South Dakota 577170100


Civil

Admitted

1985, South Dakota, Wyoming, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court

Law School

University of South Dakota, J.D., 1985

Law School Graduation Year

1985

College

South Dakota State University, B.S., 1982

Memberships

The State Bar of South Dakota (Member, Committees on: Lawyer Referral and Negligence and Tort Law; President, 1995); American Bar Association; South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. (Certified Trial Lawyer, 1996)

Biographical

Member, Mortar Board. Topics Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1984-1985; Member, Board of Directors, University of South Dakota Law School Foundation. Certified Trial Lawyer, 1996. Author: The New Federalism: Time for States to Pull the Plow in Soil Conservation, Vol. 30, No. 3, South Dakota Law Review. Lecturer: Rising Stars Seminar, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 1991; Western Trial Lawyers Seminar, Maui, Hawaii, May 1992; South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association 1994 Spring Seminar, Demonstrative Evidence-Storyboards and PET Scans; ATLA Jazz Fest Seminar, Spring, 1996; North Dakota Trial Lawyers Association, 2000 Seminar, Oct. 1999; America Trial Lawyers Association, 2000 Winter Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan. 2000. Student Regent, South Dakota Board of Regents, 1982-1985. President, Belle Fourche Chamber of Commerce, 1987-1988. President, Belle Fourche Area Community Center. South Dakota Buckaroos Board of Directors, 1994—. South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commissioner, 1997—. President, Butte County Bar, 1990.

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