Deputy Director, Department of Labor and Regulation

Mike was raised on a farm near Lesterville, SD and graduated from Scotland (SD) high school. He attended college at South Dakota State University, graduating in 2003 with a BS in Mass Communications. After working for a large national bank, he started as an Examiner with the Division of Banking in 2006. He served as Training Director from 2010 until September 2018 when he was named Deputy Director – Banking. He is a 2015 graduate from the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado and completed the Governor’s Leadership Development Program in 2019. Mike resides in Lennox, SD with his wife Lindsay and three children.