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	Name:  Dana Dykhouse Position:  President City:  Sioux Falls Term End Date:  10/31/2026 Biography: Dana Dykhouse is the chief executive officer of First PREMIER Bank, a position he has held since 1995. He has served on many civic and community boards. He is the chair of the Build Dakota Scholarship board and is a past chair of the Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce and Forward Sioux Falls. He also serves on the South Dakota Science and Technology Authority, the South Dakota State University Foundation board, and the Sioux Falls Sports Authority.
	Name:  Doug Ekeren Position:  Member City:  Yankton Term End Date:  10/31/2025 Biography: Doug Ekeren is the regional president and CEO of Avera Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton. Ekeren has been with Sacred Heart since 1993. He serves on the board of directors of the Regional Technical Education Center (RTEC) in Yankton, and is a past president of the Yankton School Board and the Yankton Chamber of Commerce.
	Name:  Brad Greenway Position:  Member City:  Mitchell Term End Date:  10/31/2024 Biography: Greenway attended one year at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, MN before returning to Mitchell and graduating with an associate degree in Agriculture Management from Mitchell Technical Institute in 1984. Locally, Greenway serves on the township board, Davison County Fair Board, has been involved with the Davison County Pork Council for 30 years, and served on the SD Pork Producers Council from 2000 to 2015, including as president from 2005-2006. He served on the National Pork Board (Pork Checkoff) from 2009 to 2015. He most recently was a board member for U.S. Farmers & Ranchers in Action and served as chairman from 2016-2018.
	Name:  Dennis Law Position:  Member City:  Wall Term End Date:  10/30/2025 Biography: Law served as the general manager of Sioux Valley Telephone and Hills Telephone Company in 1997. He then became the eastern regional manager at Golden West. Starting in 2008, Law was the general manager and CEO of Golden West Telecommunications. Law and his wife, Bonnie, live in Wall, SD, and have two sons. Law graduated with his bachelor’s degree from South Dakota State University. He went on to earn his master’s degree from the University of South Dakota.
	Name:  Joy Nelson Position:  Member City:  Watertown Term End Date:  10/31/2024 Biography: Joy Nelson is a lifelong resident of South Dakota. She began her career at Farmers and Merchants Bank in Watertown in the real estate and student loan lending departments. She entered the real estate business in 1982 and is the broker-owner of Haugan Nelson Realty, Inc. in Watertown. She has been engaged in residential, commercial, and agricultural real estate for the last 38 years. Nelson is the founder and beneficiary of Joy Ranch outside of Watertown, a non-profit facility whose mission is to serve people with disabilities and medical issues, as well as veterans, through equine therapy. She was awarded the National ALDE Award in 2013 for philanthropy, the National Association of Realtors Good Neighbor Award in 2018, and is an inductee to the South Dakota Hall of Fame and the Watertown Hall of Fame.
	Name:  Terry Sabers Position:  Secretary City:  Mitchell Term End Date:  10/31/2026 Biography: Terry Sabers is the retired co-president of Muth Electric. He is a 1975 graduate of Mitchell Technical College, a current member of the Build Dakota Scholarship Board, and a former member of the MTC Foundation Board. Sabers served for eight years as a member of the South Dakota Board of Education Standards, which provided state oversight to the technical colleges prior to the passage of Senate Bill 65.
	Name:  Brian Sandvig Position:  Member City:  Milbank Term End Date:  10/31/2025 Biography: Brian Sandvig is the CFO at Valley Queen Cheese Factory, in Milbank, South Dakota. In addition to the South Dakota Board of Technical Education, Brian serves on the following community boards: South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, South Dakota State Historical Society, South Dakota Junior Achievement, Grant County Economic Development Corp., and The City of Milbank Parks and Recreation. He teaches Sunday School at Living Word Lutheran Church and is an Assistant Coach on the Milbank High School Football team.
	Name:  Kay Schallenkamp Position:  Member City:  Spearfish Term End Date:  10/31/2024 Biography: Dr. Kay Schallenkamp served 41 years in higher education prior to her retirement in 2014. She served as President of Black Hills State University (SD) from 2006-2014 and President of Emporia State University (KS) from 1997-2006. Prior to that, she served as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Provost at Chadron State College (NE). She started her higher education career at Northern State University (SD) as a faculty member of communication disorders and later served as department chair and dean.
	Name:  Diana VanderWoude Position:  Member City:  Sioux Falls Term End Date:  10/31/2026 Biography: Diana VanderWoude is the System Vice President, Learning & Development, for Sanford Health. Prior to joining Sanford Health, VanderWoude served for 11 years as the executive director of the South Dakota Board of Nursing. VanderWoude served as chair of the Southeast Technical College Foundation board and is a member of the Build Dakota Scholarship board.