Meet Our Graduates: Lance Russell, LLM class of 2009

The latest in our "Meet Our Graduates" video series has been posted. South Dakota State Representative Lance Russell explains why he came to the University of Denver Sturm College of Law to study for an LLM in the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Graduate Program, and how he thinks it will help him in the years ahead.

Lance Russell, LLM Graduate 2009, Resumes Work as a Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives

Lance Russell (LLM graduate 2009) has returned to his position as a State Representative in the South Dakota House of Representatives, which resumed worked Jan. 12, 2010.

Mr. Russell, a Republican who lives in Hot Springs, represents South Dakota's 30th district, that includes the southwestern counties of Custer, Fall River, and Pennington. He is an attorney and was formerly a state's attorney for South Dakota. In the 1990s, he was executive director of the South Dakota Republican Party.

He is a member of the Taxation and Transportation Committees. Custer State Park is in Rep. Russell's district as is Badlands National Park, Mt. Rushmore National Monument, and Wind Cave National Park.

Rep. Russell and his wife, Starla, have two boys and two girls between the ages of 5 and 13.

In his law practice, Rep. Russell represents natural resource users on the Buffalo Gap National Gasslands.