List of first minority male lawyers and judges in South Dakota
This is a list of the first minority male lawyer(s) and judge(s) in South Dakota. It includes the year in which the men were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are those who achieved other distinctions, such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
Firsts in South Dakota's history[edit]
Lawyers[edit]
- First African American male: Will F. Reden (1908)[1][2][3]
- First African American male (admitted to State Bar of South Dakota): Madison Jackson[4][5]
- First American Indian (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) male: Ramon Roubideaux (1950)[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]
- A Sioux Indian male lawyer who is among the "First Thirteen" Native American lawyers to have argued federal Indian law cases before the U.S. Supreme Court: Terry L. Pechota (1972)[14][15][16]
United States Attorney[edit]
- First Native American males:Terry L. Pechota (1972) and Philip N. Hogen from 1979-1981 and 1981-1991 respectively[14][15][16][17][18]
Political Office[edit]
- First Lebanese American and Arab American male (senator): James Abourezk (c. 1966) in 1973[19][20]
Firsts in local history[edit]
- Franklin Ducheneaux:[21] First Native American male graduate of the University of South Dakota School of Law (1965) [Clay County, South Dakota]
See also[edit]
Other topics of interest[edit]
- List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
- List of first women lawyers and judges in South Dakota
References[edit]
- ^ Smith, J. Clay Jr. (1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812216857.
- ^ South Dakota History. South Dakota State Historical Society. 1976.
- ^ Bernson, Sara L.; Eggers, Robert J. (1977). "Black People in South Dakota History" (PDF). South Dakota State Historical Society.
- ^ Streitmatter, Rodger (2015-01-13). Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813149059.
- ^ Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (2009). Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195387957.
- ^ "1st Native American Lawyer in SD Dies". ABA Journal. Martha Neil. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "Groundbreaking American Indian lawyer dies". Rapid City Journal. Retrieved 2018-01-28.
- ^ Lazarus, Edward (1999). Black Hills White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0803279876.
- ^ Bordewich, Fergus M. (1997). Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385420365.
- ^ Rights, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional (1962). Constitutional Rights of the American Indian: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 53. U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ The Amerindian. M. E. Gridley. 1971.
- ^ Banks, Dennis (2011-11-28). Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806183312.
- ^ "Affirmative Action: An opportunity to escape wage slavery". Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. 2003-11-15. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ a b "Pechota Law Office". pechotalawrc.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ^ a b "Slush fund defendants claim sovereign immunity". navajotimes.com. Retrieved 2018-11-14.
- ^ a b Doll, Don (1994-10-25). Vision quest: men, women, and sacred sites of the Sioux Nation. Crown Publishers. ISBN 9780517599044.
- ^ "Federal Judge Says His Successor Should Know Lakota Culture". U.S. News & World Report. March 20, 2021.
- ^ Pechota is from the Sioux tribe and Hogen the Oglala tribe. Hogen is known as the longest serving U.S. Attorney in South Dakota's history.
- ^ "James Abourezk | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ "Personality: James Abourezk – 1982 September 6 - WRMEA". www.wrmea.org. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
- ^ "11th Annual Native Alumni Dinner Scheduled for April 14". www.usd.edu. Retrieved 2023-04-19.