Nancy Turbak Berry

Nancy J. Turbak Berry (born September 17, 1956) is a former Democratic member of the South Dakota Senate, representing the 5th district from 2006 to 2010.

Early life and education Nancy Turbak was born in Watertown, South Dakota. She started school in a one-room schoolhouse in Kranzburg, South Dakota. She attended Harvard University where she graduated cum laude with a B.A. in government. She then went on to obtain her J.D. at the Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley.

Career Turbak practiced in a Minneapolis law firm for a number of years before returning to her hometown of Watertown, South Dakota, in 1982. She started the Turbak Law Office in Watertown and was a sole practitioner until her son, Seamus Culhane, a USD Law graduate, joined her practice in 2011.