List of University of South Dakota School of Law people
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This is a list of prominent alumni and faculty of the University of South Dakota School of Law.
| James W. Abbott | J.D. 1974 | president of the University of South Dakota 1997–present |
| Harvey Jewett | J.D. 1973 | president of South Dakota Board of Regents |
Attorneys general
| Sigurd Anderson | L.L.B. 1937 | 17th attorney general of South Dakota |
| Clarence C. Caldwell | L.L.B. 1906 | 9th attorney general of South Dakota |
| Frank Farrar | L.L.B. 1953 | 22nd attorney general of South Dakota |
| Marty Jackley | J.D. 1995 | current 30th attorney general of South Dakota; petitioner in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. |
| William Janklow | J.D. 1966 | 25th attorney general of South Dakota; petitioner in South Dakota v. Opperman and Reeves, Inc. v. Stake |
| Royal Johnson | L.L.B. 1906 | 8th attorney general of South Dakota |
| Larry Long | J.D. 1972 | 29th attorney general of South Dakota, judge of 2nd Circuit Court of South Dakota |
| George Mickelson | L.L.B. 1927 | 16th attorney general of South Dakota |
| Albert C. Miller | L.L.B. | 21st attorney general of South Dakota |
| Gordon Mydland | L.L.B. 1948 | 23rd attorney general of South Dakota |
| Kermit Sande | J.D. 1968 | 24th attorney general of South Dakota |
| Merrel Sharpe | L.L.B. 1914 | 12th attorney general of South Dakota |
Business
| Roswell Bottum | L.L.B. 1924 | chief counsel for Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| Frank Farrar | L.L.B. 1953 | founder, owner, and chairman of First Savings Bank |
| Harvey C. Jewett IV | J.D. 1973 | CEO of Super 8 Motels and heir to Jewett fortune |
| Steve T. Kirby | J.D. 1975 | co-founder of Bluestem Capital |
| Joe Robbie | L.L.B. 1946 | founder-owner of the Miami Dolphins, 1966–1990 |
Governors and lieutenant governors
| Sigurd Anderson | L.L.B. 1937 | 19th governor of South Dakota |
| Joseph H. Bottum | L.L.B. 1927 | 27th lieutenant governor of South Dakota, and presiding judge of the Fifth Circuit Court of South Dakota |
| Frank L. Farrar | L.L.B. 1953 | 24th governor of South Dakota |
| John T. Grigsby | L.L.B. 1903 | lieutenant governor of South Dakota and member of the prominent Kingsbury family |
| William J. Janklow | J.D. 1966 | 27th and 30th governor of South Dakota |
| Leslie Jensen | L.L.B. 1921 | 15th governor of South Dakota |
| Steve Kirby | J.D. 1975 | lieutenant governor of South Dakota |
| Matt Michels | J.D. 1985 | current lieutenant governor of South Dakota, 2011–present |
| George S. Mickelson | J.D. 1965 | 28th governor of South Dakota |
| George T. Mickelson | L.L.B. 1927 | 18th governor of South Dakota and 1952 U.S. presidential candidate |
| Lem Overpeck | L.L.B. 1936 | lieutenant governor of South Dakota |
| Merrell Q. Sharpe | L.L.B. 1914 | 17th governor of South Dakota |
State supreme court justices
| Francis G. Dunn | L.L.B. 1937 | chief justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| David Gilbertson | J.D. 1975 | current chief justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Daryl Hecht | J.D. 1977 | current justice, Iowa Supreme Court |
| Frank Henderson | L.L.B. 1952 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Steven R. Jensen | J.D. 1988 | current justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| John K. Konenkamp | J.D. 1974 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Boyd Leedom | L.L.B. 1955 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Judith Meierhenry | J.D. 1977 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Robert A. Miller | J.D. 1963 | chief justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Donald J. Porter | L.L.B. 1943 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Richard W. Sabers | J.D. 1963 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Mark Salter | J.D. 1993 | current 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 |
| Roger L. Wollman | J.D. 1962 | justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
| Steven L. Zinter | J.D. 1975 | current justice, South Dakota Supreme Court |
United States district attorneys
| William F. Clayton | L.L.B. 1951 | 30th 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 |
| Marty Jackley | J.D. 1995 | 39th U.S. attorney, District of South Dakota |
| 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 |
| Ron A. Parsons Jr. | J.D. 1997 | current 42nd U.S. attorney, District of South Dakota 2018–present |
| Randy Seiler | J.D. 1980 | 41st U.S. attorney, District of South Dakota |
| Jeff Viken | J.D. 1977 | 33rd U.S. attorney, District of South Dakota |
United States District Court
| Richard Battey | L.L.B. 1953 | chief judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, presiding judge of "Sue" dinosaur case |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Lawrence Leroy Piersol | J.D. 1965 | chief judge, U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota |
| Donald J. Porter | L.L.B. 1943 | 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 |
United States Court of Appeals
| Roger Leland Wollman | J.D. 1962 | chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit |
United States House of Representatives
| James Abourezk | J.D. 1966 | 32nd U.S. representative, author of the Indian Child Welfare Act, and first Lebanese-American member of Congress |
| Ellis Yarnal Berry | L.L.B. 1927 | 28th U.S. representative from South Dakota |
| Frank E. Denholm | L.L.B. 1959 | 31st U.S. representative from South Dakota |
| Bill Janklow | J.D. 1966 | 39th U.S. representative from South Dakota |
| Royal Cleaves Johnson | L.L.B. 1906 | 19th U.S. representative from South Dakota, and highly decorated WWI veteran while he was a member of Congress |
| Tim Johnson | J.D. 1975 | U.S. representative from South Dakota |
| Harold Lovre | L.L.B. 1927 | 27th U.S. representative from South Dakota |
| William Williamson | L.L.B. 1905 | 22nd U.S. representative from South Dakota |
United States Tax Court
| Diane Kroupa | J.D. 1981 | judge, United States Tax Court and chief judge, Minnesota Tax Court |
United States Senate
| James Abourezk | J.D. 1966 | 21st U.S. senator from South Dakota; first Arab-American member of Congress |
| Joseph H. Bottum | L.L.B. 1927 | 19th U.S. senator from South Dakota |
| Tim Johnson | J.D. 1975 | 25th U.S. senator from South Dakota |
United States military
| George E. "Bud" Day | L.L.B. 1949 | U.S. colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, most highly decorated military officer since Douglas MacArthur, and POW cell-mate with John McCain |
| Leslie Jensen | L.L.B. 1921 | U.S. colonel in Pacific Theater of WWII |
| Royal C. Johnson | L.L.B. 1906 | U.S. lieutenant, Distinguished Service Cross recipient and Croix de Guerre with gold star from the Republic of France |
| Gregory J. Stoltenburg | J.D. 1995 | U.S. lt. colonel and current presiding judge of the Third Circuit Court of South Dakota, 2015–present |
State legislature
- Roswell Bottum (1924), member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Joni Cutler, member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Ervin E. Dupper, member of South Dakota Senate
- Marc Feinstein (1995), member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Margaret V. Gillespie, 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
- Donald A. Haggar, member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Anne Hajek, member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Scott Heidepriem (1980), minority leader of South Dakota Senate
- Roger W. Hunt, member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Timothy Johns, member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Craig Kennedy, member of South Dakota Senate
- David Lust (1997), majority leader of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Lance Russell (2000), member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Mike Stevens, member of South Dakota House of Representatives
- Ron J. Volesky, member of South Dakota Senate
- William Garner Waddel (1904), member of South Dakota Senate
Tribal, sovereign, foreign courts
- Creighton Leland Robertson (1976), chief judge of the Sisseton Wapheton Oyate Reservation Tribal Court
Noted faculty
Current
- Patrick Garry, constitutional law professor
- Brendan Johnson, adjunct law professor and former U.S. attorney for the District of South Dakota
- Frank Pommersheim, American Indian Law professor, Camden 28 member, chief judge for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals, and chief justice of the Rosebud Sioux Supreme Court
Former
- Roger Baron, professor of Law, ERISA scholar, and counsel in Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc
- Charles Hall Dillon, professor of Law, U.S. representative from South Dakota and associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court; namesake of Dillon Lecture Series
- Ralph E. Erickson, 5th dean of the College of Law and 11th deputy attorney general of the United States during the Nixon Administration
- 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
