Marty J. Jackley
United States Attorney

On July 21, 2006, Marty J. Jackley was confirmed by the Senate as United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota. He serves as South Dakota’s chief federal criminal prosecutor and legal counsel for the United States in civil cases where the government is a party to the lawsuit.

Marty is a native of Sturgis, South Dakota, and currently resides in Sioux Falls with his wife, Angela, and their son and daughter. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1992. He received his law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1995.

From 1995-97, Marty served as a law clerk for then-Chief Judge Richard H. Battey in federal district court in Rapid City. Before taking office as US Attorney, Marty was a partner in the Rapid City law firm of Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson, and Ashmore LLP. His practice areas focused primarily on criminal law, construction/engineering law, Indian law, water law, and business litigation. Marty has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for South Dakota in Butte, Custer, Fall River, and Meade counties prosecuting primarily controlled substance felonies.

Marty serves on both the US Attorney General's Advisory Counsel for Controlled Substance Subcommittee and Native American Subcommittee, and the Midwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Executive Board. He and the SD Attorney General co-chair the SD Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee. Marty has chaired the SD State Bar Association Indian Law Committee, and also the Criminal Jury Pattern Instruction Committee. He is licensed to practice law in the United States Supreme Court, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal District Court in South Dakota, Minnesota and South Dakota State Courts, and Oglala Sioux Tribal Court.