George Theodore Mickelson (July 23, 1903 – February 28, 1965) was an American lawyer, 16th Attorney General of South Dakota and 18th Governor of South Dakota, and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota. He is the patriarch of the prominent Mickelson family of South Dakota.
George Theodore Mickelson
Chief Judge — U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
Born 1903 in Selby, SD
Died 1965
FJC ID: 1635
Career output and lasting influence
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 10/year
South Dakota District Court · 1954–1965South Dakota District Court · 1954–1965
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- Private practice, South Dakota1927–present
- South DakotaGovernor · 1947–1951
- State of South DakotaAttorney general · 1943–1947
- South DakotaState representative · 1937–1941
- ↳speaker · 1941
- South DakotaState's attorney · 1933–1936
Appointments
1954–1965 · Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican)Term ended: Death
