John Konenkamp

John Konenkamp

Nonpartisan

Prior offices

South Dakota Supreme Court District 1

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Education

Law

South Dakota School of Law, 1974

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John K. Konenkamp was an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court. He represents the First Supreme Court District. He was appointed by Republican Governor Walter Dale Miller in 1994. He retired at the end of his term on December 31, 2014.

Education

Konenkamp received his undergraduate degree, then served in the United States Navy. After his military service, he received his J.D. from South Dakota School of Law in 1974.

Career

Konenkamp served as deputy state's attorney for Rapid City, South Dakota, until 1977. He then switched to work in private practice. In 1984 he was appointed to the South Dakota Seventh Judicial Circuit, and four years later he became presiding judge. Konenkamp was appointed to the South Dakota Supreme Court in 1994.

Awards and associations

• Member, National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society
• Co-Chair, South Dakota Equal Justice Commission

Elections

Konenkamp was retained to the supreme court by voters in 1998 and 2006.

Political ideology

See also: Political ideology of State Supreme Court Justices

In October 2012, political science professors Adam Bonica and Michael Woodruff of Stanford University attempted to determine the partisan ideology of state supreme court justices. They created a scoring system in which a score above 0 indicated a more conservative-leaning ideology, while scores below 0 were more liberal.

Konenkamp received a campaign finance score of 1.3, indicating a conservative ideological leaning. This was more conservative than the average score of 1.05 that justices received in South Dakota.

The study was based on data from campaign contributions by the judges themselves, the partisan leaning of those who contributed to the judges' campaigns, or, in the absence of elections, the ideology of the appointing body (governor or legislature). This study was not a definitive label of a justice, but an academic summary of various relevant factors.

See also

• Judicial selection in South Dakota
• South Dakota Supreme Court

External links

• Member biographies of the South Dakota Supreme Court
• Project Vote Smart, "Biography, Justice John K. Konenkamp"

Footnotes

South Dakota courts

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Federal courts:

Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of South Dakota • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of South Dakota

State courts:

South Dakota Supreme Court • South Dakota Circuit Courts • South Dakota Magistrate Courts

State resources:

Courts in South Dakota • South Dakota judicial elections • Judicial selection in South Dakota