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The Alaska Court System is the unified, centrally administered, and totally state-funded judicial system for the state of Alaska.The Alaska District Courts are the primary misdemeanor trial courts, the Alaska Superior Courts are the primary felony trial courts, and the Alaska Supreme Court and the Alaska Court of Appeals are the primary appellate courts.
Courts of Alaska include: State courts of Alaska. Alaska Supreme Court [1] Alaska Court of Appeals [1] Alaska Superior Court (4 districts containing 40 judgeships) [2] Alaska District Court (21 judgeships) [2] Federal courts located in Alaska. United States District Court for the District of Alaska [3]
The governor of Alaska appoints a court of appeals judge from a list of qualified candidates submitted by the Alaska Judicial Council. To be eligible for appointment, a person must be a citizen of the United States and a resident of Alaska for five years prior to appointment. A court of appeals judge must be licensed to practice law in Alaska ...
The District was established on July 7, 1958, pending Alaska statehood on January 3, 1959. [1] The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Alaska represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. As of April 25, 2022 the United States attorney is S. Lane Tucker. [2]
The Supreme Court had only one chief justice, Buell Nesbett, during its first decade of existence. Alaska voters approved a constitutional amendment in 1970, months after Nesbett's retirement, which set the current limits for chief justices, namely that they are allowed to serve three-year non-consecutive terms.
The Alaska Supreme Court is the state supreme court for the U.S. state of Alaska. Its decisions are binding on all other Alaska state courts, and the only court its decisions may be appealed to is the Supreme Court of the United States. The Alaska Supreme Court hears appeals from lower state courts and also administers the state's judicial system.
The U.S. state of Alaska is divided into 19 organized boroughs and 11 census areas in the unorganized borough.Alaska, and the states of Connecticut and Louisiana are the only states that do not call their first-order administrative subdivisions counties (Connecticut uses councils of government and Louisiana uses parishes instead). [1]
Rabinowitz Courthouse is an Alaska Court of Appeals state courthouse in Fairbanks, Alaska named after former Chief Justice Jay Rabinowitz, situated at 101 Lacey Street, adjacent to the Chena River. The 2001 building was designed by the firm, Charles Bettisworth & Company in collaboration with McCool Green Architects .