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.

State Legislature

 * 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

 * Creighton Leland Robertson (1976), Chief Judge of the Sisseton Wapheton Oyate Reservation Tribal Court
 * Charles Abourezk (1992), current Chief Justice of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Supreme Court, 2014–present.

Current

 * Frank Pommersheim, American Indian Law Professor, Camden 28 member, Chief Judge for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Court of Appeals and the Chief Justice of the Rosebud Sioux Supreme Court
 * Patrick Garry, Constitutional Law Professor
 * Brendan Johnson, adjunct Law Professor and former U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota.

Former

 * 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.