Janine M. Kern (born February 14, 1961)
is an American attorney and jurist serving as an associate justice of the
South Dakota Supreme Court.
Education
She graduated from
Arizona State University
Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the ...
with a
Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
in 1982, and graduated from the
University of Minnesota Law School in 1985.
Career
She served in the
Attorney General of South Dakota's office from 1985 to 1996, and became a circuit court judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit in 1996. She was appointed to the Supreme Court on November 25, 2014, by Governor
Dennis Daugaard
Dennis Martin Daugaard (born June 11, 1953) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 32nd governor of South Dakota from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was the first chief executive of a U.S. state to be the c ...
, and took office on January 5, 2015. She was sworn in by her father, retired South Dakota circuit court judge Paul James Kern.
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References
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1961 births
Living people
Arizona State University alumni
Justices of the South Dakota Supreme Court
University of Minnesota Law School alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American judges
21st-century American women judges
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