Admitted
1981, South Dakota, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit and U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota; 1984, U.S. Supreme Court; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Law School
University of South Dakota, J.D., 1981
Law School Graduation Year
1981
College
University of South Dakota, B.S., 1977
Memberships
Pennington County, Second Circuit and American Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota (Bar Commissioner, 1993-1995 and 1996-1998); South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1991-1992, 1994); American Judicature Society.
Biographical
Omicron Delta Epsilon; Phi Alpha Delta. Recipient, Joseph Spencer Student Writer Award. Topics Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1980-1981. Author: Survey of Recent South Dakota Caselaw, 25 South Dakota Law Review 176, 1979; Comment, The Toxaphene Controversy: Aggressive Environmental Litigation Comes to South Dakota, 25 South Dakota Law Review 580, 1980; Comment, Sovereign Immunity and the South Dakota Plaintiff: A Practical Approach, 26 South Dakota Law Review 300, 1981. U.S. Magistrate Judge, part-time, 1996—. Law Clerk to Senior U.S. District Judge Fred J. Nichol, 1981-1983. Director, South Dakota Continuing Legal Education, Inc., 1993-1995 and 1996-1998.