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.