Courts & rulings
Alaska · highest court
Alaska Supreme Court
Merit + retention
Chief: Chief justice is selected by majority vote of the five justices and serves a single three-year term (peer vote, non-consecutive)..
Justices
All judges & justices →- Susan M. Carney
- Dario Borghesan
- Jennifer S. Henderson
- Jude Pate
- Aimee A. Oravec
Roster as of 2026-06-13.
Constitution of Alaska
Adopted 1956. Its declaration of rights sits in Article I (Declaration of Rights). This court has the final word on what the Alaska constitution means.
Primacy, interprets its own constitution first
How a state reads its own rights provisions relative to the federal floor, lockstep vs departure.
State-court structure and selection methods are from official and reference sources; the justice roster is point-in-time. Civibrief carries each state's highest court (lower state courts are out of scope for now).