{"data":{"id":"us-sd/sdcl-16-1-1","jurisdiction":"us-sd","citation":"SDCL § 16-1-1","heading":"Supreme Court districts.","body":"The state is divided into five Supreme Court districts from each of which a justice shall be selected as follows:\nFirst District. The counties of Custer, Pennington, Lawrence, and Meade constitute the first Supreme Court district.\nSecond District. The county of Minnehaha constitutes the second Supreme Court district.\nThird District. The counties of Brookings, Kingsbury, Moody, Miner, Sanborn, Beadle, Jerauld, Hand, Hyde, Hughes, Sully, Stanley, Brule, Buffalo, Jones, Jackson, Lyman, Mellette, Todd, Tripp, Bennett, Oglala Lakota, Fall River, Lake, and Haakon constitute the third Supreme Court district.\nFourth District. The counties of Union, Clay, Yankton, Hutchinson, Hanson, Davison, Bon Homme, Douglas, Aurora, Charles Mix, Gregory, McCook, Turner and Lincoln constitute the fourth Supreme Court district.\nFifth District. The counties of Grant, Roberts, Day, Marshall, Clark, Brown, McPherson, Edmunds, Faulk, Potter, Walworth, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Ziebach, Perkins, Butte, Codington, Spink, Deuel, Hamlin, and Harding constitute the fifth Supreme Court district.","path":["TITLE 16. COURTS AND JUDICIARY","CHAPTER 16-1. THE SUPREME COURT"],"source_url":"https://sdlegislature.gov/Statutes/16-1-1","current_through":"2026-08-31","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T15:18:56Z","sha256":"97118fd4fb68526fe2566fb5e368f280c645a6cc5d3242c7ad1362b7afeed3d0","source_id":"us-sd","stale":true,"prev":"us-sd/sdcl-15-40-13","next":"us-sd/sdcl-16-1-2"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}