Daniel Winfree
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Daniel E. Winfree is an associate justice of the five member Alaska Supreme Court. He joined the court in January of 2008 after appointment by Governor Sarah Palin, a Republican. His current term expires in 2012 at which time he is subject to a retention election for a ten-year term on the court.
Winfree was the first new justice added to the Alaska Supreme Court in almost ten years. He replaced Alex Bryner. His appointment represents the third time a justice has been appointed from Fairbanks since Alaska's statehood, and the first time a Fairbanks appointment to the court has gone to a native Fairbanksan.
Winfree will maintain his chambers in Fairbanks. He will be the first justice on the court to maintain chambers in Fairbanks since Jay Rabinowitz did so in the early 1990s.[1]
Professional background
Winfree was born in what then was the Territory of Alaska, and is a third-generation Fairbanksan. Between 1975 and 1978, he was a truck driver and warehouseman in pipeline camps and Prudhoe Bay working on the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and related projects on the North Slope.
Justice Winfree earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Oregon in 1977 and then earned M.B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1981.
Winfree was admitted to the Alaska Bar in 1982 and spent 25 years in private practice in Anchorage, Valdez, and Fairbanks before joining the court, working with large and small firms and as a sole practitioner. Justice Winfree served on the Alaska Bar Association Board of Governors for nine years, including service as President in 1994-95 and related service as President of the Western States Bar Conference in 1997-98, and also served a term on the Ethics Committee and several terms on the Fee Arbitration Committee. The Alaska Bar Association presented him with its Distinguished Service Award in 2007. After his final term on the Board of Governors, he joined the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Bar Foundation and currently serves as its President.
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