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Arthur Rusch

R

South Dakota State Senate, District 17 (2015 - Present)

Quick Facts
  • Full Name:
    Arthur 'Art' L. Rusch
  • Gender:
    Male
  • Birth Date:
    03/16/1946
  • Birth Place:
    Yankton, SD
  • Home City:
    Vermillion, SD
  • Family:
    Wife: Lana; 4 Children; 4 Grandchildren Grandchildren
Personal Details

Arthur L. Rusch is a Republican member of the South Dakota State Senate, representing District 17. He was first elected to the chamber in 2014.

Rusch's professional experience includes practicing law at Bogue, Weeks & Rusch. He was appointed as a circuit judge for the First Judicial Circuit of South Dakota in 1994.

Education

  • Attended, Finance Officers Basic Course, Fort Benjamin Harrison
  • JD, Law, School of Law, University of South Dakota, 1968-1971
  • BA, Business Administration/Accounting, University of South Dakota, 1964-1968

Professional Experience

  • Attended, Finance Officers Basic Course, Fort Benjamin Harrison
  • JD, Law, School of Law, University of South Dakota, 1968-1971
  • BA, Business Administration/Accounting, University of South Dakota, 1964-1968
  • Assistant City Attorney, City of Elk Point
  • Presenter, Herbert Schell Lecture, History Department, University of South Dakota
  • Former Director/Secretary/Treasurer/President, South Dakota State's Attorneys Association
  • Former Substitute Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court
  • Adjunct Professor, University of South Dakota Business School, School of Law
  • Appointed by Governor Walter Dale Miller, Judge/Presiding Judge of the First Circuit, South Dakota Supreme Court, First Judicial Circuit, 1994-2011
  • Partner, Bogue, Weeks & Rusch Law Firm, 1972-1994
  • City Attorney, North Sioux City, 1989-1990
  • Former Instructor, South Dakota Law Enforcement Academy, 1989-1990
  • Special Assistant Attorney General, State of South Dakota, 1989-1990
  • State's Attorney, Clay County, 1973-1984
  • Captain, United State Army, 1968-1976

Political Experience

  • Attended, Finance Officers Basic Course, Fort Benjamin Harrison
  • JD, Law, School of Law, University of South Dakota, 1968-1971
  • BA, Business Administration/Accounting, University of South Dakota, 1964-1968
  • Assistant City Attorney, City of Elk Point
  • Presenter, Herbert Schell Lecture, History Department, University of South Dakota
  • Former Director/Secretary/Treasurer/President, South Dakota State's Attorneys Association
  • Former Substitute Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court
  • Adjunct Professor, University of South Dakota Business School, School of Law
  • Appointed by Governor Walter Dale Miller, Judge/Presiding Judge of the First Circuit, South Dakota Supreme Court, First Judicial Circuit, 1994-2011
  • Partner, Bogue, Weeks & Rusch Law Firm, 1972-1994
  • City Attorney, North Sioux City, 1989-1990
  • Former Instructor, South Dakota Law Enforcement Academy, 1989-1990
  • Special Assistant Attorney General, State of South Dakota, 1989-1990
  • State's Attorney, Clay County, 1973-1984
  • Captain, United State Army, 1968-1976
  • Senator, South Dakota State Senate, District 17, 2015-present
  • Candidate, South Dakota State Senate, District 17, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020

Former Committees/Caucuses

Former Member, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, South Dakota State Senate

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Code Commission

Member, Government Operations and Audit Committee

Member, Health and Human Services Committee

Member, Joint Committee on Government Operations and Audit

Vice Chair, Judiciary Committee

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

  • Attended, Finance Officers Basic Course, Fort Benjamin Harrison
  • JD, Law, School of Law, University of South Dakota, 1968-1971
  • BA, Business Administration/Accounting, University of South Dakota, 1964-1968
  • Assistant City Attorney, City of Elk Point
  • Presenter, Herbert Schell Lecture, History Department, University of South Dakota
  • Former Director/Secretary/Treasurer/President, South Dakota State's Attorneys Association
  • Former Substitute Justice, South Dakota Supreme Court
  • Adjunct Professor, University of South Dakota Business School, School of Law
  • Appointed by Governor Walter Dale Miller, Judge/Presiding Judge of the First Circuit, South Dakota Supreme Court, First Judicial Circuit, 1994-2011
  • Partner, Bogue, Weeks & Rusch Law Firm, 1972-1994
  • City Attorney, North Sioux City, 1989-1990
  • Former Instructor, South Dakota Law Enforcement Academy, 1989-1990
  • Special Assistant Attorney General, State of South Dakota, 1989-1990
  • State's Attorney, Clay County, 1973-1984
  • Captain, United State Army, 1968-1976
  • Senator, South Dakota State Senate, District 17, 2015-present
  • Candidate, South Dakota State Senate, District 17, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020
  • Director, Clay County Historical Society, present
  • Former Member, Board of Directors, Sioux Council
  • Former Assistant Scoutmaster/Den Leader, Boy Scouts of America
  • Chair, Lewis & Clark Trails, Southern District
  • Former Chair, Presiding Judges
  • Former Member, Saint Agnes Council Knights of Columbus
  • Former Cemetery Board Member/Council Member/School Board Member/Steering Committee Member, Saint Agnes Parish
  • Former President, Sioux Council
  • Former President, South Dakota Judge’s Association
  • Member, South Dakota Law Enforcement Officers Training and Standards Commission
  • Former Director, Southeast South Dakota Activity Center
  • Honorary Trustee, University of South Dakota Foundation
  • Former Member, Vermillion Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Former Director, Vermillion Development Corporation
  • Former Director/President, Vermillion Lions Club
  • Former Member, Vermillion United Way Committee

Other Info

— Awards:

  • Judge of the Year, University of South Dakota Law School Client Counseling and Negotiation Board
  • Volunteer Service Award, University of South Dakota Law School
  • Judge of the Year, South Dakota Law School Alternative Dispute Resolution Board
  • Silver Beaver Award Recipient
  • Richard Cropp Award, Outstanding Paper Presented by an Amateur Historian

Favorite Musician:

SDPB Music

Favorite Sport:

Vermillion Legion Post 1 Baseball

  • 4 Grandchildren

— Publications:

  • South Dakota's Artesian Pressure-Should it be a Protected Means of Diversion, 16 South Dakota Law Review 481, 1971
  • Civil Process Manual, Published by the South Dakota Law Enforcement Officers Training and Standards Commission
  • Douville v. Christensen: An Answer to the Issue of Township Responsibility for the Improvement of Section Line Rights of Way, 48 South Dakota Law Review 247, 2003
  • Vermillion--Before the Flood, Papers of the Fortieth Annual Dakota Conference, 2008, Center for Western Studies, Augustana College
  • The Kidder Family of Vermillion: An American Tragedy, Papers of the Forty-first Annual Dakota Conference, 2009, at the Center for Western Studies
  • Portrait of a River Town, Vermillion Before the Flood of 1881, South Dakota History, Vol. 45, No. 4, 2010
  • The History of the Clay County Courthouse, Publication of the Clay County Historic Preservation Commission, 2012
  • County Capitols; the Courthouses of South Dakota ,published by the South Dakota Historical Society Press in 2014.

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