• About retention
• List of current judges
• List of former judges
• Judges standing for retention by year
• Performance evaluation procedures
• Performance evaluations 1996-2010
• Retention vote history 1976-2008
• Alaska judicial retention law
• Evaluations of pro tem judges
• Evaluations of masters and magistrates
• Comment about judges

Judicial Evaluation Materials for Judges Standing for Retention in 2008

 

• Press release - Council's vote - Retention 2008

 

Information on all 2008 Judges

• Attorney, Peace Officer, Social Workers, Guardians ad Litem and CASA Volunteers Survey
• Juror Survey
• Court Employee Survey
• Alaska Judicial Observers Report
• Peremptory Challenge Memo
• Recusal Memo
• Appellate Affirmance Rates

 

Click on the links below to see the summary of the Council's evaluation of the judge included in the voter pamphlet, the judge's response to a Council questionnaire, and the judge's survey ratings in current and past years.

 

Appellate Justices/Judges

• Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Eastaugh
• Court of Appeals Judge Robert G. Coats

 

First Judicial District Judges

• Superior Court Judge Patricia A. Collins - Juneau
• District Court Judge Keith B. Levy - Juneau

 

Second Judicial District Judges

• No Judges in the second judicial district standing for retention in 2008

 

Third Judicial District Judges

• Superior Court Judge Craig F. Stowers - Anchorage
• District Court Judge Pat Hanley - Anchorage
• District Court Judge Margaret L. Murphy - Homer
• District Court Judge Daniel Schally - Valdez
• District Court Judge Alex M. Swiderski - Anchorage

 

Fourth Judicial District Judges

• Superior Court Judge Robert B. Downes - Fairbanks
• District Court Judge Dennis P. Cummings - Bethel
• District Court Judge Raymond Funk - Fairbanks