Admitted
1974, South Dakota and U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota; 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Supreme Court; 1995, U.S. District Court, District of Nebraska
Law School
University of South Dakota, J.D., 1974
Law School Graduation Year
1974
College
University of the South, B.A., 1970
Memberships
Second Judicial Circuit (President, 1988-1989) and American (Member, Uniform Commercial Code and Commercial Finance Committees, 1981—; Vice Chair, UCC Litigation Subcommittee, 1999—, Corporation, Banking and Business Section; Chair, UCC Litigation Subcommittee, 1990—, Litigation Section) Bar Associations; The State Bar of South Dakota (Chairman, Uniform Commercial Code Committee, 1986-1990); American Inns of Court (Chair, Roy F. Burns Inn, 1996-1997); American Board of Trial Advocates (South Dakota Chapter; President, 1998-1999).
Biographical
Member, Board of Editors, South Dakota Law Review, 1973-1974. Author: Constitutionality of the Tax Exempt Status of Municipal Bonds, South Dakota Law Review, Winter 1973; Involuntary Civil Commitment in South Dakota: A Step Closer to Constitutional Legitimacy, South Dakota Law Review, Spring 1974; Debtor's Rights in Collateral as a Requirement of Attachment of a Security Interest under the Uniform Commercial Code, South Dakota Law Review, Spring, 1981, reprinted as Chapter 4B, Coogan, et al, Secured Transactions under The Uniform Commercial Code (Matthew Bender, 1982); The Reborn Farm Products Exception Under the Food Security Act of 1985, 20 Uniform Commercial Code Law Journal 3, Summer, 1987; Survey, Uniform Commercial Code (Litigation), 54 Bus. Law. 1985, August 1999. Adjunct Professor of Law, University of South Dakota School of Law, 1983. Chancellor, Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota, 2002—.