Carl G. Sherwood

Carl G. Sherwood (January 18, 1855 – August 18, 1938) was a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1922 to 1931.

Born in Whitney Point, New York, to George Sherwood, a farmer, and Mary Ann Jeffords, Sherwood attended high school in Binghamton, New York. He did not attend a college, but read law, first with E. K Clark in Binghamton, and then with A. R. McCoy in Clinton, Iowa, to gain admission to the bar in the Dakota Territory, in 1881. Sherwood was elected to the seat in 1924, and served as presiding judge of the court in 1924 and 1929.