Donald Edward DeGrood (born February 14, 1965) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop of the Diocese of Sioux Falls in South Dakota since 2019.
[1] For the next six years, DeGrood worked first as a shoe salesman and manager, then as a feed specialist for the Land O’ Lakes Agricultural Cooperative in Minneapolis.
From July 2017 until he was appointed as bishop, DeGrood served as pastor of Saint John the Baptist Parish in Savage, Minnesota.
In July 2022, DeGrood issued a new policy for the treatment of non-binary and transgender students at the diocesan Catholic schools.
The policy restricted them to bathrooms corresponding to their birth gender and prohibited staff and other students from addressing them with their preferred pronouns.