National Reptile and Amphibian Law Symposium panelist Glen (Jake) Jacobsen has been a prosecuting attorney in the State of Minnesota for 25 years. He is currently serving as an Assistant County Attorney in Renville County, but has also served in Mower County (Austin) and in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area.

Jacobsen is a trustee and legal advisor to the World Chelonian Trust, one of the web’s preeminent turtle and tortoise information and educational websites. The site is visited by people from around the world, and provides care and husbandry information in 11 languages. He is also the legal advisor and past president of the Minnesota Herpetological Society , and a partner of the Turtle Survival Alliance, where he serves on the animal placement committee.

As an assistant county attorney, Jacobsen is responsible for the prosecution of persons charged with violations of state statutes regarding the taking, collecting, housing, care, and treatment of all animals, including reptiles and amphibians. Jacobsen has assisted in drafting, revising, amending, and reviewing reptile and amphibian related state statutes and local ordinances in Minnesota and around the country. He currently keeps groups of ten different species of turtles and tortoises at his farm in rural Bird Island, MN.

Jacobsen will be a panelist at the free National Reptile and Amphibian Law Symposium in Washington D.C., November 8-10. For more information and to register to attend, please click here.