Position: Associate
Address:
206 West 14th Street
PO Box 1030
Sioux Falls, SD 57101-1030
Email: kford@dehs.com
Direct: 605-357-1246
Kathryn E. Ford
Kathy practices in the areas of commercial litigation, public utilities law, and health care law. Kathy came to the firm after working as the Director of Legal Affairs for Knology, Inc., a regional broadband service provider located in the southeast and upper mid-west. Prior to that Kathy was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of South Dakota, where she prosecuted criminal health care fraud and other white collar offenses. Kathy also spent several years as an Associate General Counsel at QWEST Communications, practicing in the area of regulatory litigation before numerous state public utility commissions and the FCC. Kathy began her career after law school as a federal law clerk for the Honorable Donald E. O’Brien, United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa in Sioux City.
Kathy is a 1992 graduate of the University of South Dakota, School of Law and was president of the Moot Court Board. Kathy also holds an MBA, with an emphasis in healthcare management, from Auburn University.
Professional Experience
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Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP
Associate: 2009 – present - Director of Legal Affairs, Knology, Inc., 2006-2009
- Assistant United States Attorney - District of South Dakota, 2002-2006
- Associate General Counsel, QWEST Communications, 1994-2002
- Federal Law Clerk, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa, 1992-1994
Admitted to Practice (State):
- Iowa, 1992
- South Dakota, 1993
- Colorado, 1995
Admitted to Practice (Federal):
- United States District Court, District of Colorado, 1997
- United States District Court, District of South Dakota, 2002
- United States District Court, Northern District of Iowa, 2011
- United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 2003
Professional Memberships
- American Health Lawyers Association
- State Bar of South Dakota
- State of Iowa Bar Association
- Colorado Bar Association
Education
- University of South Dakota (B.S., Criminal Justice, 1989)
- University of South Dakota School of Law (J.D., Sterling Honors Graduate, 1992)
- Auburn University (MBA, 2010)
Other
- Co-Author: Adding Constitutional Depravation to Untimely Death: South Dakota’s Living Will Pregnancy Provisions, 37 South Dakota Law Review 388 (1992).