Former Sheriff, Retired Adjutant General to run for District 8 State House
With more than 40 years of service to the State of South Dakota, including serving as Miner County Sheriff, the head of the South Dakota National Guard, and as a member of the cabinet of three Governors, Tim Reisch of Howard, South Dakota is announcing that he is running for State Representative in the District 8 House race.
Reisch was elected Sheriff of Miner County at age 24 and was serving in his fifth 4-year term when he was tapped by then-Governor Bill Janklow to serve as Deputy Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Corrections. When Mike Rounds was elected Governor 2 ½ years later, he made Reisch his cabinet secretary. When Governor Dennis Daugaard took office in 2011, he initially reappointed Reisch to the Corrections post but in April of that year, Daugaard appointed him as the Adjutant General of the SD National Guard. Governor Kristi Noem reappointed him Adjutant General when she took office in 2019. Major General Reisch retired from the post later that year having served over 40 years in uniform.
“After agreeing to serve temporarily as interim Secretary of Corrections to help Governor Noem address some issues identified in the department last summer, my appetite for public service was reignited,” said Reisch. Proud of his small-town roots, Reisch believes he can offer a fresh perspective to the legislative process.
Reisch holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Upper Iowa University; a master’s degree in Administrative Studies from the University of South Dakota; and a master’s degree in strategic studies from the US Army War College. He currently serves part-time as the Miner County Veterans Service Officer, and operates Reisch Sales LLC, a used farm equipment business located in Howard. He also helps his son raise corn and soybeans on the family farm.
Reisch is married to the former Anne Roby of Carthage, SD. They are active members of St. Agatha Catholic Church in Howard and proud parents of five children and four grandchildren. Reisch is also an active member of Howard’s American Legion Post 145. “I very much look forward to meeting the citizens of the newly-drawn District 8 which includes all or portions of Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake and Miner Counties.”
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Tim Reisch running for the legislature is very welcome news.
I have known and worked with Sheriff and Department Secretary Tim Reisch since I was an Assistant A.G. more than 40 years ago. We knew in the early years that he was going to rise through the ranks. He proved us right.
He is honest, dedicated, TRUSTWORTHY.
We could not do better.
Mark Barnett
I think pretty highly of him too. Has he released his platform?
Great news for the state. We need people like General Reisch.
I guess this is what happens when you try to hold Noem accountable….
Rep Mills you are being targeted for elimination by the establishment
I think Mills is being held accountable for his voting against his new district and DSU.
Anon 2:33 – How is Tim Reisch running in District 8 targeting Rep. Mills from District 4?
Tim Reisch will bring leadership, integrity and common sense to Pierre when he is elected.
I take no part if Reisch or Mills are good or bad that is for the voters to decide if they get on the ballot.
Mills was moved into District 8 with redistricting. Marli Wiese stayed in 8 and Randy Gross was put in 25.
Mills is in 8 now
There might be a more high quality person in SD but I can’t think of one. Great news!
He might be a great guy but he is coming from a desert. He might be well-known in Miner County but the trouble with Miner County Republicans is they don’t show up. Only 642 of them voted in the 2020 primary. Compare that to 4176 in Lake County where Wiese lives or 7890 in Brookings County where Mills lives. Fewer than 1200 ballots total were cast in Miner County in the 2020 general election.
South Dakota ARNG members, their family and their friends all know him. Other state departments he has led know him. He isn’t some random guy from the block.
Miner County no longer has a Republican Party Central Committee listed. For a while there was a county party chairwoman, who was a resident of Arizona using a relative’s address, trying to keep it together, but it appears to have been disbanded for lack of interest. That might be a good place for him to start, herding enough cats in Miner County to put a central committee together.
I doubt the ARNG members who know him will be able to carry enough votes in the new district.