Jonathan A Kobes

Jonathan Kobes has served in all three branches of the Federal Government, and currently serves as General Counsel to U.S. Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota. Before joining the Senator’s staff in 2014, Mr. Kobes served as Director of Corporate Compliance at Raven Industries, Inc., as Senior Regulatory Counsel for DuPont Pioneer, and as Senior Counsel to POET, LLC. In these capacities, he managed a range of litigation, regulatory, and administrative law matters. Prior to going in-house, Mr. Kobes was a litigation associate in the Sioux Falls office of Murphy, Goldammer & Prendergast, LLP, and served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Dakota, where he prosecuted narcotics offenses and violent crime on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He also served as an Honors Attorney in the Litigation Division of the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Kobes served as a law clerk to Judge Roger L. Wollman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Mr. Kobes earned his B.A. from Dordt College and his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor and as the business manager of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.