About Our Lawyers

Position: Partner

Address:
206 West 14th Street
PO Box 1030
Sioux Falls, SD 57101-1030

Email: ctanck@dehs.com

Direct: 605-357-1223

Banking and Financial Services Law

Corporation and Business

Estate Planning and Probate and Trust Administration

Real Estate

Taxation

Catherine A. Tanck

Professional Experience

  • Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP
    Partner: 1992 – present
    Associate: 1988 – 1991
  • Law Clerk to Honorable Roger L. Wollman, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
  • McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
  • Certified Public Accountant, South Dakota

Admitted to Practice (State):

  • South Dakota, 1987

Admitted to Practice (Federal):

  • United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit, 1988
  • United States Tax Court, 1989

Professional Memberships

  • State Bar of South Dakota
  • Minnehaha County and American Bar Associations
  • American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  • South Dakota CPA Society
  • Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants

Education

  • Augustana College (B.A., Accounting and Economics, summa cum laude, 1979)
  • University of South Dakota (J.D., Sterling Honor Graduate, 1987)
  • Order of Barristers - Moot Court Board

Other

  • Joseph N. Spencer III Award - Best Contribution to South Dakota Law Review, Volume 31
  • Topics Editor, South Dakota Law Review, 1986-1987
  • Author: Depreciation of the Core Deposit Intangible: A Tax Incentive to Acquire a Failed Bank, 32 South Dakota Law Review 80 (1987)
  • Author: Investment Tax Credit: A New Test for "Inherently Permanent, 31 South Dakota Law Review 800 (1986)
  • Co-Author: Impact of Reagan’s Tax Proposal on Agriculture, 31 South Dakota Law Review 309 (1986)