Rhonda R. Ehlis

Judge Ehlis was appointed as District Court Judge by Governor Jack Dalrymple in 2015 for the Southwest Judicial District judgeship #4 located in Dickinson, ND.  She was then elected in 2018.

Born in 1968; Judge Ehlis is a native of Bowman, ND.  She graduated from Scranton High School in 1986, and received her B.S. in Political Science from the University of North Dakota in 1990. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of North Dakota School of Law in 1993; and was admitted to the N.D. Bar on April 27, 1994.  Judge Ehlis was an outreach attorney for Legal Assistance of North Dakota located in Devils Lake, from1993-1995. She then moved on to work as a Staff attorney with the Regional Child Support Enforcement Unit in Bismarck from 1995-2001. She was in private legal practice in Dickinson from 2001-2006; and became the Stark County Assistant State's Attorney from 2006 to 2015.