Mr. Parsons is currently a partner at the law firm of Johnson Janklow Abdallah Reiter & Parsons LLP, where he focuses on complex litigation, appellate law, and constitutional law. He also serves, by appointment, as a Limited Deputy State’s Attorney for Minnehaha County and as South Dakota’s representative on the Eighth Circuit Federal Advisory Committee. Mr. Parsons clerked for the Honorable Roger L. Wollman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota, and his J.D. from the University of South Dakota School of Law.