USD alum nominated for judgeship by President Obama
VERMILLION, S.D. -- Roberto Lange, a 1985 graduate of The University of South Dakota, has been nominated to serve as a judge to the United States District Court of South Dakota.
In a released statement from The White House, President Barack Obama
praised Lange for his “talent, expertise, and fair-mindedness” that
Americans expect and deserve from their judges. Lange was nominated for
the judgeship on Wednesday.
Lange, a partner in the Sioux Falls, S.D., firm Davenport, Evans,
Hurwitz & Smith, LLP, received a unanimous well-qualified rating
from the American Bar Association. Following his graduation from the
Northwestern University School of Law in 1988, Lange served as law clerk
to U.S. District Judge Donald J. Porter in Pierre, S.D. He has worked
at Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP, since 1989.