United States District Court for the District of South Dakota

United States District Court for the District of South Dakota

The United States District Court for the District of South Dakota is the United States District Court or the Federal district court, whose jurisdiction for issues pertaining to federal law or diversity for the state of South Dakota. The court is based in Sioux Falls with other courthouses in Rapid City, Pierra, and Aberdeen. The district was created in 1889, when the Dakota Territory was divided into North and South Dakota.

The United States Attorney's Office for the District of South Dakota, represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The current United States Attorney is Marty J. Jackley.

Judges (Present and Former)

*Alonzo J. Edgerton (1889 – 1896)
*John Emmett Carland (1896 – 1911)
*James Douglas Elliott (1911 – 1933)
*Alfred Lee Wyman (1929 – 1953)
*George Theodore Mickelson (1953 – 1965)
*Axel John Beck (1958 – 1981)
*Fred Joseph Nichol (1965 – 1996)
*Andrew Wendell Bogue (1970 – present)
*Donald James Porter (1979 – 2003)
*John Bailey Jones (1981 – present)
*Richard Howard Battey (1985 – present)
*Lawrence L. Piersol (1993 – present)
*Charles B. Kornmann (1995 – present)
*Karen E. Schreier (1999 – present)

External links

* [http://www.sdd.uscourts.gov United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Official Website]
* [http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/sd/ United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota Official Website]


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