| Admission Details | 1987, South Dakota, South Dakota Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, District of South Dakota, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court |
| Education | South Dakota State University, B.A.; University of South Dakota, J.D. |
| Additional Bio Details | 2006 South Dakota Trial Lawyer of the Year. Staff Writer, 1985-1986 and Editor-in-Chief, 1986-1987, South Dakota Law Review. Author: Casenote, "Dean v. South Dakota Department of Labor: Off-Duty Employee Misconduct and the Denial of Unemployment Benefits," 31 South Dakota Law Review 180, 1985. Co-Author: Comment, "The Congressional Response to a Crisis in Agricultural Credit: The 1985 Farm Credit Amendments," 31 South Dakota Law Review 471, 1986. "Jurassic Farce: A Critical Analysis of the Government's Seizure of 'Sue', a Sixty-five-Million-Year-Old Tyrannosaurus Rex Fossil," 39 South Dakota Law Review 478, 1994. |