How do judges of the Alaska Supreme Court reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Alaska Supreme Court / Joined 1997 / Served to 2007

Alexander Ostroumov Bryner

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Alexander Ostroumov Bryner was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court (5 judges, selected by merit selection with retention), who joined the court in 1997. He previously served on the Court of Appeals of Alaska. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1997–2007 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Court of Appeals of Alaska	–	–
1997	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University
Stanford University
Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Bryner authored 739 published opinions for the court (1981–2007), plus 58 dissents and 55 concurrences. Most cited: Juneby v. State (147 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 845 of these were attributed to Bryner by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1982	Juneby v. State†	641 P.2d 823	147
1983	Juneby v. State†	665 P.2d 30	116
2000	D.M. v. State, Division of Family & Youth Services· Dissent†	995 P.2d 205	105
2005	Ebertz v. Ebertz†	113 P.3d 643	98
2005	Cikan v. ARCO Alaska, Inc.†	125 P.3d 335	96
1999	Native Village of Elim v. State†	990 P.2d 1	86
1988	State v. Jones†	759 P.2d 558	85
1997	A.M. v. State†	945 P.2d 296	82
2005	Marron v. Stromstad· Concurrence†	123 P.3d 992	76
1985	Pooley v. State†	705 P.2d 1293	76
1998	Power Constructors, Inc. v. Taylor & Hintze†	960 P.2d 20	74
2000	Guerrero Ex Rel. Guerrero v. Alaska Housing Finance Corp.†	6 P.3d 250	62
2005	Jeff AC, Jr. v. State· Concurrence†	117 P.3d 697	61
1982	Lacquement v. State†	644 P.2d 856	61
1995	State v. Zerkel· Concurrence†	900 P.2d 744	60

Showing the 15 most-cited of 852 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Alaska Supreme Court reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Alexander Ostroumov Bryner on?: Alexander Ostroumov Bryner was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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10 years on the Alaska Supreme Court. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).