Means To Become Third Circuit Magistrate Judge

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has appointed a Huron lawyer to be a new magistrate judge in a judicial circuit that covers 14 counties in the eastern part of the state.  Carmen Means will be sworn in on Friday.  Means graduated from Madison High School in 1985, received an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University, and then obtained a law degree from Creighton University in 1993. She worked as a public defender and recently was in private practice in Huron.  The 3rd Judicial Circuit includes Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner, Moody and Sanborn counties.  Means has defended among others, Melissa Kruger on terroristic threat charges, Christopher Aguayo on manslaughter and Werner Fajardo in a rape trial.