Creighton Robertson
The Right Reverend Creighton Leland Robertson (March 6, 1944 - October 24, 2014) was ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota from 1994 to 2009.
Early life and education
Robertson was born in Kansas City, Missouri and was a member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate. Then Robertson and his family moved to the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation and eventually to Wahpeton, North Dakota where Robertson graduated from hish school. He graduated from the North Dakota State College of Science with an associate degree in printing in 1964, followed by a bachelor's degree in history from Black Hills State University in 1971. He went to the University of South Dakota School of Law and graduated in 1976.
Career
Robertson practiced law in Webster, South Dakota. He was the attorney for the Sisseton Wapheton Oyate and a tribal judge. He worked for the South Dakota Department of Labor and served on the South Dakota Human Rights Commission. In 1986, Robertson studied for the Episcopalian ministry at the University of the South and graduated with an M.Div. in 1989.[1]
He was ordained to the diaconate on June 22, 1989, and to the priesthood on May 6, 1990. Bishop Robertson was consecrated on June 19, 1994 by Edmond L. Browning, Harold S. Jones, and Craig B. Anderson.[2]
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- Black Hills State University alumni
- Sewanee: The University of the South alumni
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