Thomas E. (Tom) Simmons is a tenured professor at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law, where he holds the McDowell, King, & South Dakota Trust Company Chair in Trust and Estate Law. His teaching and scholarship concentrate on trusts, estates, probate, attorney ethics, fiduciaries, and the estate tax, and his courses include Trusts & Wills, Estate Planning, Professional Responsibility, Remedies, a pair of Tribal Wills Clinic practicum courses, and occasionally a seminar titled Holocaust Law. He serves as a Commissioner of the Uniform Law Commission and an Associate Justice on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Supreme Court. He is also the author of three collections of poetry: Tod Browning Looseleaf Encyclopedia, S is for Sentence, and Soviets on Venus.