Jon Fosheim

Jon Fosheim (January 25, 1923 – October 12, 2004) was a justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court from 1978 to December 12, 1986, serving as chief justice for the final three years of his tenure. and served in the United States Army during World War II, from 1942 to 1943. He received his law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 1946. Fosheim was "re-elected to that office four consecutive times", becoming presiding judge of the 3rd Judicial Circuit of South Dakota. In the early 1970s, he served on the state's Constitutional Revision Commission, "which recommended extensive changes to the executive and judicial articles of the South Dakota Constitution that were adopted by voters in 1972". Fosheim became chief justice in 1983,

Personal life and death On December 28, 1948, Fosheim married Mary Lou Olson of Huron, with whom he had three sons and two daughters. Mary Lou died in 1994. Fosheim died ten years later, in a hospital in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at the age of 81.