Mark A. Nelson was born in 1957 and is a native of St. James, Minnesota, US. Col. Mark A. Nelson was the superintendent of the

North Dakota Highway Patrol The North Dakota Highway Patrol is the highway patrol agency for North Dakota and has jurisdiction anywhere within the state. It is a division of the North Dakota State Cabinet. Colonel Brandon Solberg has been serving as the 17th superintendent s ...

. He became a member of the highway patrol in 1981 in Rolla, ND and Devils Lake, ND. In 1988, he became a patrol officer in Grand Forks and was promoted to

sergeant Sergeant (abbreviated to Sgt. and capitalized when used as a named person's title) is a rank in many uniformed organizations, principally military and policing forces. The alternative spelling, ''serjeant'', is used in The Rifles and other uni ...

in 1989. He was then a graduate of the Northwestern University Traffic Institute's School of Police Staff and Command (1991). He was promoted to captain in 1996 as a district commander, and as superintendent in 2007, with a promotion to colonel. He graduated from Park University in Parkville, Missouri in 2002.

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Living people State cabinet secretaries of North Dakota Park University alumni People from St. James, Minnesota Year of birth missing (living people) American state police officers American police chiefs {{NorthDakota-stub