Janki V. Sharma

Professional career

• She has been serving at the Pennington County Public Defender’s Office since 2017 and previously served as a term law clerk for Magistrate Judge Thomas D. Thalken at the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska in Omaha
• Magistrate Judge, Seventh Judicial Circuit Pennington Rapid City - appointed May 19 2022 by Supreme Court Presiding Pfeifle
• Selected as a full-time magistrate judge for the Seventh Judicial Circuit in South Dakota, with the appointment approved by the South Dakota Supreme Court in May 2022
• Appointed a full-time magistrate judge for South Dakota’s Seventh Judicial Circuit in 2022, with announcement in May
• Pennington County Public Defender Rapid City 2017-2022
• She clerked for federal Magistrate Judge Thomas Thalken in Nebraska and worked in the Pennington County Public Defender’s Office from 2017 before her appointment.
• Term law clerk Hon Thomas Thalken US District Nebraska Omaha

Education

Additional information

• As a magistrate judge, Sharma conducts preliminary hearings for criminal prosecutions, presides over trials for criminal misdemeanors, and handles small claims proceedings and civil debt actions.
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• Born and raised in India, she moved to the United States for higher education.
• Her magistrate work includes preliminary criminal hearings, misdemeanor trials, small claims and civil debt actions.
• News coverage records her taking the judicial oath on the Ramayana.