Carlyle Richards: Carlyle was born in Deadwood, South Dakota and graduated from Deadwood High School, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) and the University of South Dakota Law School where he authored the handbook "Installment Contracts for the Purchase of Land in South Dakota" (1959). Carlyle served as law clerk for U.S. District Judge Axel J. Beck in 1960-1961 and has practiced law in Aberdeen at all times since. From 1971 to 2000, and then temporarily in 2008-2009, he served as part time U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern Division of the District of South Dakota. Carlyle specializes in agricultural cooperative law. He is admitted to practice in South Dakota before the United States District Court in South Dakota and the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
