List of University of South Dakota School of Law people

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

Academia[edit]

Attorneys General[edit]

Business[edit]

Governors and Lieutenant Governors[edit]

State Supreme Court Justices[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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 James 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[edit]

United States House of Representatives[edit]

United States Tax Court[edit]

United States Senate[edit]

United States Military[edit]

State Legislature[edit]

• William Garner Waddel (1904), Member of South Dakota Senate
• Roswell Bottum (1924), Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Donald A. Haggar, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Scott Heidepriem (1980), Minority Leader of South Dakota Senate.
• Anne Hajek, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Marc Feinstein (1995), Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Lance Russell (2000), Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Craig Kennedy, Member of South Dakota Senate
• Joni Cutler, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Ervin E. Dupper, Member of South Dakota Senate
• Ron J. Volesky, Member of South Dakota Senate
• Timothy Johns, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Roger W. Hunt, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Margaret V. Gillespie, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Mike Stevens, Member of South Dakota House of Representatives
• Brian Gosch (1996), current Majority Leader and former Speaker of the House of South Dakota House of Representatives.
• David Lust (1997), Majority Leader of South Dakota House of Representatives.

Tribal, Sovereign, Foreign Courts[edit]

Noted Faculty[edit]

Current[edit]

Former[edit]

• Thomas Sterling, 1st Dean of the College of Law and U.S. Senator from South Dakota. Namesake of Sterling Honors.
• Bartlett Tripp, 1st Professor of Law, 25th U.S. Ambassador to Austria, last Chief Justice of Dakota Territory Supreme Court, and first president of the South Dakota Bar Association.
• Ralph E. Erickson, 5th Dean of the College of Law and 11th Deputy Attorney General of the United States during the Nixon Administration.
• Charles Hall Dillon, Professor of Law, U.S. Representative from South Dakota and Associate Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court. Namesake of the Dillon Lecture Series.
• Roger Baron, Professor of Law, ERISA scholar, and counsel in Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc.
• Mike Myers, Professor of Law, CEO of Mayo Clinic, and candidate for Governor of South Dakota.

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