Mindy R. Werder

Mindy R. Werder is a shareholder at Lynn Jackson and practices family law in South Dakota. Her work includes divorce, spousal support, child custody, child support, adoption, and related domestic relations matters. Werder has served clients through the firm’s Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Belle Fourche offices. She works as a Parenting Coordinator in several judicial circuits, helping families address difficult parenting issues within structured legal processes.

Werder graduated with honors from the University of Sioux Falls in 2007 with a degree in Criminal Justice. She received her law degree from the University of South Dakota School of Law in 2011. After law school, she served for one year as a clerk in South Dakota’s Third Judicial Circuit. Her education and clerkship provided experience with legal analysis, court procedure, and the judicial process that supports her family law practice.

Werder practiced in Watertown before joining Lynn Jackson. Her work now includes divorce, custody, support, adoption, and parenting coordination, along with selected matters involving clemency, pardons, and expungements. Family cases can require analysis of finances, parenting schedules, evidence, and long-term obligations. She guides clients through negotiation and court proceedings while addressing procedural requirements and the practical effects of proposed agreements or judicial decisions.

Mindy R. Werder has received professional recognition that includes selection as a Great Plains Rising Star. Her practice combines courtroom experience with problem solving for families facing significant legal change. She helps clients understand rights and responsibilities, organize information, evaluate settlement positions, and prepare for hearings when agreement is not possible. Her work in parenting coordination adds experience with recurring family conflict and implementation of parenting arrangements after court orders are entered.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, P.C.
• Member, State Bar of South Dakota
• Member, Second Circuit Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• South Dakota

Education

• University of Sioux Falls
  Criminal Justice

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