For Immediate Release
-Pierre
The Chief Justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court will deliver his annual State of the Judiciary Message to a joint session of the Legislature on January 9, 2019, beginning at 1:30 p.m. Chief Justice David Gilbertson was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1995 and has served as Chief Justice since 2001. He has been elected to that position for five terms by the members of the Supreme Court. This will be Chief Justice Gilbertson’s seventeenth State of the Judiciary Message. The Chief Justice’s message will focus on those issues that have impacted the judiciary during the last year and the goals of the Unified Judicial System in the coming year.
For those unable to travel to Pierre the State of the Judiciary Message will be live-streamed over the internet and can be accessed through the South Dakota Unified Judicial System’s webpage at http://ujs.sd.gov.
The printed message can also be found at the following link: http://ujs.sd.gov/uploads/annual/fy2018/2019StateOfTheJudiciaryMessage.pdf.
For further information please contact Greg Sattizahn at (605) 773-3474.