Larry Long

Larry Long, 2005

Larry Long (born September 30, 1947 in Brookings , South Dakota ) is an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ).

Career

Larry Long graduated from Bennett County High School in Martin . In 1969, he earned a bachelor at the South Dakota State University in Brookings and 1972, a Juris Doctor at the University of South Dakota Law School in Vermillion ( Clay County ). He then opened his own law firm in Martin (Bennett Conty) in December 1972, which he ran until December 1990. During that time he served as Bennett County State's Attorney from March 1973 to December 1990 and as Juvenile Court Prosecutor on the Rosebud Indian Reservation from 1978 to 1980 . Long served as General Counsel on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Election Board from 1977 to 1981 and as Counsel on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Credit Committee from 1985 to 1990 . In 1986 he co-wrote several legal claims ( titles ) in the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Code with Dallas Brost . He was also a member of the South Dakota State's Attorneys Association from 1973 to 1990 , where he was president from 1983 to 1984. From 1974 to 1990 he was a director of the Dakota Plains Legal Services Board and from 1980 to 1990 board chairman. Long served on the National District Attorneys Association Board of Directors from 1988 to 1990 . In 1990 he became a member of the South Dakota Trial Lawyers Association. From January 1991 to 2002 he was Chief Deputy Attorney General of South Dakota in Pierre ( Hughes County ) and 1993-1996 bar Commissioner of the State Bar of South Dakota. Since 1996 he has served on the Ethics Committee of the State Bar of South Dakota. Long was the 1999 Region II Trial Lawyer of the Year from the National Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation.

In the 2002 election, he was elected Attorney General of South Dakota. Long held the post from 2003 until his resignation in 2009, following an appointment by South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds as a judge in the Second Judicial District of South Dakota.

He and his wife Jan, née Anderson, have two children named Claire and Craig.

literature

• Chapter 4 - 2007 South Dakota Legislative Manual Executive Branch , p. 85 (PDF document)