List of first minority male lawyers and judges in South Dakota explained

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

Lawyers

• 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

• First Native American males:Terry L. Pechota (1972) and Philip N. Hogen from 1979 to 1981 and 1981-1991 respectively^{[17] [18]}

Political Office

• First Lebanese American and Arab American male (senator): James Abourezk (c. 1966) in 1973^{[19] [20]}

Firsts in local history

• Franklin Ducheneaux:^[21] First Native American male graduate of the University of South Dakota School of Law (1965) [<nowiki/>[[Clay County, South Dakota]]]

See also

• List of first minority male lawyers and judges in the United States

Other topics of interest

• List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States
• List of first women lawyers and judges in South Dakota

Notes and References

1. Book: Smith, J. Clay Jr.. Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. 1999. University of Pennsylvania Press. 0812216857. en.
2. Book: South Dakota History. 1976. South Dakota State Historical Society. en.
3. Web site: Black People in South Dakota History. Bernson. Sara L.. Eggers. Robert J.. 1977. South Dakota State Historical Society.
4. Book: Streitmatter, Rodger. Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists Who Changed History. 2015-01-13. University Press of Kentucky. 9780813149059. en.
5. Book: Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography. Gates. Henry Louis. Higginbotham. Evelyn Brooks. 2009. Oxford University Press. 9780195387957. en.
6. News: 1st Native American Lawyer in SD Dies. ABA Journal. 2018-01-28. Martha Neil.
7. News: Groundbreaking American Indian lawyer dies. Rapid City Journal. 2018-01-28.
8. Book: Lazarus, Edward. Black Hills White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States, 1775 to the Present. 1999. U of Nebraska Press. 0803279876. en.
9. Book: Bordewich, Fergus M.. Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. 1997. Doubleday. 9780385420365. en.
10. Book: Rights, United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitutional. 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. 1962. U.S. Government Printing Office. en.
11. Book: The Amerindian. 1971. M. E. Gridley.. en.
12. Book: Banks, Dennis. Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. 2011-11-28. University of Oklahoma Press. 9780806183312. en.
13. News: Affirmative Action: An opportunity to escape wage slavery. 2003-11-15. Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education. 2018-11-09. en-US.
14. Web site: Pechota Law Office. pechotalawrc.com. en-US. 2018-11-14.
15. Web site: Slush fund defendants claim sovereign immunity. navajotimes.com. en. 2018-11-14.
16. Book: Doll, Don. Vision quest: men, women, and sacred sites of the Sioux Nation. 1994-10-25. Crown Publishers. 9780517599044. en.
17. Web site: March 20, 2021 . Federal Judge Says His Successor Should Know Lakota Culture . U.S. News & World Report.
18. 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.
19. Web site: James Abourezk C-SPAN.org. www.c-span.org. en-us. 2018-11-11.
20. Web site: Personality: James Abourezk – 1982 September 6 - WRMEA. www.wrmea.org. en-gb. 2018-11-11.
21. Web site: 11th Annual Native Alumni Dinner Scheduled for April 14 . 2023-04-19 . www.usd.edu . en.