Daneta L. Wollmann

Professional career

• U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, serving from 2015 until her retirement on March 31, 2026
• Full-time role: Designated in April 2018 as the first full-time magistrate judge in the Western Division of the district, due to the region’s heavy criminal caseload
• Daneta L. Wollmann became a part-time federal magistrate judge in the District of South Dakota on March 6, 2015, and a full-time magistrate judge on April 1, 2018
• Her appointment as full-time magistrate judge in Rapid City was the first of its kind in the district’s Western Division
• Her prior work included Banks, Johnson, Kappelman & Becker in Rapid City, civil work as an assistant United States attorney, and service as a Beadle County deputy state’s attorney

Education

Additional information

• The appointment made her the Western Division’s first full-time magistrate judge
• She handled both civil and criminal matters, including motions in suppression, dismissal, and pretrial release, with a record showing consistent application of the good-faith exception in suppression cases