In Re Yanni

GILBERTSON, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1.] Amy Yanni is an attorney licensed to practice law in both Minnesota and Massachusetts. Yanni applied for admission to the South Dakota Bar without examination under SDCL 16-16-12.1, using her Massachusetts bar membership and almost twenty years of practice to fulfill the requirements. The South Dakota Board of Bar Examiners denied her request. Yanni challenged the denial, and attempted to use her Minnesota bar membership and experience to meet the required showing. The Board of Bar Examiners again denied her application. The denials stated that the Minnesota…