Sara is the attorney who has most recently joined KSB. She is licensed in both Nebraska and South Dakota.
A native of West Point, Nebraska, Sara attended West Point Central Catholic, the second best school in town (go WPPS Cadets!). Sara was active in high school, especially as “a speech kid” and remains involved in the speech (oral interp for you SD-ers) world as a judge and coach. #nerdalert
After high school, Sara attended the University of South Dakota, where she majored in accounting. But something didn’t add up. (get it???) Despite her obvious intellectual chops and ability to think with her right brain, she decided to go to law school. Being a glutton for punishment, she decided to pursue her master’s in accounting at the same time. She graduated in 2015 with a joint degree in law and professional accountancy. We sure are glad she did, because her 2 worlds were about to line up and eventually lead her to KSB.
After doing a few clerkships during law school and working for a short time at another law firm in Yankton, SD, Sara took a position at Avon School District as the business manager. For 5 years, prior to joining KSB in January 2022, Sara was the business manager, oral interp coach, and performed many “other duties as assigned.” The school administrators and community members in Avon were effusive in their praise for Sara, so obviously the bribes worked. We were almost sorry to steal her away. Almost.
Her experiences and knowledge from serving as an administrator/business official are invaluable (even to someone who can do math) at KSB. Sara has extensive first hand experience in many school law areas, but especially in HR and employment issues, employee benefits, school finance, federal programs management, and a lot of the other stuff related to money the rest of us try to avoid like the plague.
Sara is a thoughtful leader and passionate about community service, because she’s a better person than the rest of us. (Wait, who let Sara write this part?) She still judges speech, volunteers in countless ways, and even started Avon’s backpack program. We are thrilled to have Sara at KSB representing schools in Nebraska and South Dakota.
(And yes, luckily (unluckily? Imagine the stories she could tell…) she avoided any overlap with the time KSB’s own Jordan Johnson was a student at Avon. However, her intel on Mr. Johnson remains incredibly valuable--without it, we’d never know there’s still a picture of Jordan hanging in the local grocery store (probably a mug shot)).