Retired Alaska Superior Court Judge Elaine Andrews moved to Alaska in 1976 immediately upon graduating from law school. Her first job as a lawyer was
Read MoreMichael Wolverton did not come from a family of attorneys or judges; his parents were educators and that was what he planned to do. However,
Read MoreRetired Superior Court Judge Victor Carlson was born in 1935 and raised on a farm in rural Michigan. He realized at an early age three
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There’s not much that’s pretty about national politics these days, but even among a sea of partisan ugliness, the process of selecting judges for the
Read MoreDear Legislator: We, former non-attorney members of the Alaska Judicial Council, strongly oppose SJR 3, a proposed constitutional amendment that would introduce politics in to
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While social conservatives have campaigned against retaining state judges in recent elections, this year they are focused on a constitutional convention as a way to
Read MoreWhen the framers of Alaska’s constitution were debating how the state should pick its judges, the goal was to remove politics from the process as
Read MoreTo the editor: The other day I had the opportunity to learn how judges are evaluated for retention. I knew the Alaska Constitution required a
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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy today asked the Alaska Judicial Council to reconsider their nominations to the Alaska Supreme Court. He said the choices given to
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The right-wing men of the cloth attacking the independent judiciary in Alaska claim their campaign against Supreme Court Justice Sue Carney has nothing to do with her
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We are former Attorneys General of the State of Alaska. We served Republican, Democratic, and Alaska Independence party governors. We were appointed by Governors Egan,
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We shouldn’t be surprised that, in an era where nearly everything has become politicized, the retention of Alaska’s judges has too. As a branch of
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