not receive its own chambers until the autumn of 1905. Modern day court In 2002, Judith Meierhenry was appointed by Governor William Janklow as the first female Supreme Court Justice. She served until her retirement in 2011. In 2014, Janine Kern was appointed by Governor Dennis Daugaard. At the time of her appointment she was the only Justice on the South Dakota Supreme Court to not receive admission via diploma privilege. In 2017, she was joined by Steven R. Jensen who sat for the bar exam in 1988. Districts Candidates for selection as Justices for the South Dakota Supreme Court come from one of five Appointment Districts. These districts follow county lines as follows: District 1 Custer Lawrence Meade Pennington District 2 Minnehaha District 3 Bennett Brookings Brule Buffalo Fall River Haakon Hand Hughes Hyde Jackson Jerauld Jones Kingsbury Lake Lyman Mellette Miner Moody Oglala Lakota Sanborn Stanley Sully Todd Tripp District 4 Aurora Bon Homme Charles Mix Clay Davison Douglas Gregory Hanson Hutchinson Lincoln McCook Turner Union Yankton District 5 Brown Butte Campbell Clark Codington Corson Day Deuel Dewey Edmunds Faulk Grant Hamlin Harding Marshall McPherson Perkins Potter Roberts Spink Walworth Ziebach Justices Supreme Court justices The current justices of the South Dakota Supreme Court. References External links South Dakota Judicial System Online Government of South Dakota South Dakota state courts South Dakota 1889 establishments in Dakota Territory University of South Dakota School of Law alumni Courts and tribunals established in 1889