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Melvin Wedmore Receives Recognition for Fifty Years of Practice
June 20, 2006
On Friday, June 23, 2006, Melvin Wedmore will receive recognition from the State Bar Association for fifty years of practice in South Dakota, where he was born and raised. Mel obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion in 1952. Upon graduation, he received a fellowship to Syracruse University in Syracruse, New York, where he received an MPA in 1953. Mel returned to the University of South Dakota, where he received his law degree in 1956.
After practicing for a short period of time, he went on active duty with the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps in the Fall of 1956 and was stationed with the Tort Section of the Litigation Division of the Army JAG in the Pentagon until mid-1959. While stationed in the Pentagon, Mel pursued a Masters Degree at Georgetown University and received his Masters Degree in Law with emphasis on tax and estate planning in 1959. He was then appointed Assistant United District Attorney for the District of South Dakota where he served until he returned to private practice in Rapid City, South Dakota, in 1961. Mel has been full time in the private practice of law in Rapid City, South Dakota, since that time having practiced part of the time in the Costello Porter Law Firm and part of the time as an individual practitioner.
Mel is an asset to both Costello Porter and to the community. We are greatful for his daily guidance, his abundant wisdom, and his incredible patience.
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