Fifth Circuit Judge Scott Myren will become the South Dakota Supreme Court’s 53rd justice when he joins the state’s highest court in January.
Myren will succeed Chief Justice David Gilbertson when he retires in early January (2021). Gilbertson announced earlier this year Justice Steven Jensen will succeed him as chief justice.
Myren, who has been a 5th Circuit judge since 2004 and the circuit’s presiding judge since 2013, will represent the Third Supreme Court District. The District includes Brown, Butte, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day, Deuel, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Harding, Marshall, McPherson, Perkins, Potter, Roberts, Spink, Walworth and Ziebach counties.
Governor Kristi Noem announced her selection today (Oct. 28, 2020).
Myren is a native of Mound City. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of South Dakota in 1985 and graduated from Rutgers University School of Law in Camden, New Jersey in 1988. Following law school, Myren entered the private practice of law in Denver, Colorado. Myren returned to South Dakota to serve as the South Dakota Supreme Court’s permanent staff attorney in 1990.
In 1994, Myren was appointed by Governor Walter Dale Miller as an administrative law judge, then served as a Fifth Circuit Magistrate Judge from 1999-2003. Governor Mike Rounds appointed Myren as a circuit judge in 2004, and he was reelected without opposition in 2006 and 2014. Myren served in 2011 as president of the South Dakota Judges Association.
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