Senator, South Dakota State Senate, District 17, 2015-2023

Candidate, South Dakota State Senate, District 17, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020

Former Member, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, South Dakota State Senate

Former Member, Government Operations and Audit Committee, South Dakota State Senate

Assistant City Attorney, City of Elk Point

Presenter, Herbert Schell Lecture, History Department, University of South Dakota

Former Director/Secretary/Treasurer/President, South Dakota State's Attorneys Association

Former Substitute Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court

Adjunct Professor, University of South Dakota Business School, School of Law

Appointed by Governor Walter Dale Miller, Judge/Presiding Judge of the First Circuit, South Dakota Supreme Court, First Judicial Circuit, 1994-2011

Partner, Bogue, Weeks & Rusch Law Firm, 1972-1994

City Attorney, North Sioux City, 1989-1990

Former Instructor, South Dakota Law Enforcement Academy, 1989-1990

Special Assistant Attorney General, State of South Dakota, 1989-1990

State's Attorney, Clay County, 1973-1984

Captain, United State Army, 1968-1976

Director, Clay County Historical Society, present

Former Member, Board of Directors, Sioux Council

Former Assistant Scoutmaster/Den Leader, Boy Scouts of America

Chair, Lewis & Clark Trails, Southern District

Former Chair, Presiding Judges

Former Member, Saint Agnes Council Knights of Columbus

Former Cemetery Board Member/Council Member/School Board Member/Steering Committee Member, Saint Agnes Parish

Former President, Sioux Council

Former President, South Dakota Judge’s Association

Member, South Dakota Law Enforcement Officers Training and Standards Commission

Former Director, Southeast South Dakota Activity Center

Honorary Trustee, University of South Dakota Foundation

Former Member, Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce

Former Director, Vermillion Development Corporation

Former Director/President, Vermillion Lions Club

Former Member, Vermillion United Way Committee

Awards:

Judge of the Year, University of South Dakota Law School Client Counseling and Negotiation Board
Volunteer Service Award, University of South Dakota Law School
Judge of the Year, South Dakota Law School Alternative Dispute Resolution Board
Silver Beaver Award Recipient
Richard Cropp Award, Outstanding Paper Presented by an Amateur Historian

Favorite Musician:

SDPB Music

Favorite Sport:

Vermillion Legion Post 1 Baseball

Number of Grandchildren:

4 Grandchildren

Publications:

South Dakota's Artesian Pressure-Should it be a Protected Means of Diversion, 16 South Dakota Law Review 481, 1971
Civil Process Manual, Published by the South Dakota Law Enforcement Officers Training and Standards Commission
Douville v. Christensen: An Answer to the Issue of Township Responsibility for the Improvement of Section Line Rights of Way, 48 South Dakota Law Review 247, 2003
Vermillion--Before the Flood, Papers of the Fortieth Annual Dakota Conference, 2008, Center for Western Studies, Augustana College
The Kidder Family of Vermillion: An American Tragedy, Papers of the Forty-first Annual Dakota Conference, 2009, at the Center for Western Studies
Portrait of a River Town, Vermillion Before the Flood of 1881, South Dakota History, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2010
The History of the Clay County Courthouse, Publication of the Clay County Historic Preservation Commission, 2012
County Capitols; the Courthouses of South Dakota ,published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press in 2014.