Dana Fabe
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Dana Fabe (b.1951) is an associate justice of the five member Alaska Supreme Court, a position to which she was appointed in 1996 by Alaska's then-governor Tony Knowles, a Democrat. She replaced Justice Daniel Moore on the Supreme Court. Fabe was first appointed as a judge in 1988, by Governor Steve Cowper, a Democrat, to a seat on the Anchorage Superior Court, Third Judicial District.
Fabe first served as Chief Justice from 2000 to 2003. She began her second term as Chief Justice in July 2006 and served in that role until July of 2009. She was both the first woman to be appointed to Alaska's highest court, and the court's first female Chief Justice.
Justice Fabe will next stand for retention in 2010.
Legal background
Fabe attended Cornell University, receiving her BA 1973 and Northeastern Law School where she received her JD in 1976.
She clerked for Justice Edmond W. Burke of Alaska Supreme Court in 1976-77. She served as a staff attorney for the Alaska Public Defender Agency from 1977-81, and in 1981 she was appointed by the governor to be Chief Public Defender for Alaska. She was a member of the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association in 1987-88. Fabe was appointed to the superior court bench in Anchorage in 1988. She was Deputy Presiding Judge of the Third Judicial District from 1992-95, as well as a Training Judge for the Third Judicial District.[1]
Associations
Fabe is a member of the National Advisory Council of the American Judicature Society. [2]
She has chaired the Alaska Supreme Court's Civil Rules Committee, the Alaska Supreme Court's Judicial Outreach Commission, the Alaska Court System's Law Day Steering Committee, and the Alaska Teaching Justice Network. She also serves as co-chair of the Alaska Bar Association's Gender Equality Section.
External links
- Dana Fabe info at Alaska Judicial Council
- Alaska Court System
- Fabe's responses to a 1999 judicial retention election survey
- Fabe's 2008 State of the Judiciary remarks
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