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 1996 / Former Justice

Dana Anderson Fabe

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Dana Anderson Fabe was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1996. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1951 · age 75
Tenure: 1996 · 30 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1996	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Fabe authored 464 published opinions for the court (1996–2018), plus 47 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Barbara P. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services (167 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. 531 of these were attributed to Fabe 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
2010	Barbara P. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services†	234 P.3d 1245	167
1999	A.A. v. State, Department of Family & Youth Services†	982 P.2d 256	160
1999	State v. Coon· Concurrence†	974 P.2d 386	132
2010	Lucy J. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	244 P.3d 1099	115
2008	Doe v. State· Dissent†	189 P.3d 999	114
2005	Cikan v. ARCO Alaska, Inc.· Dissent†	125 P.3d 335	96
2007	Wetherhorn v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute†	156 P.3d 371	94
2012	David S. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services†	270 P.3d 767	83
2013	Beals v. Beals†	303 P.3d 453	81
2011	Adams v. State†	261 P.3d 758	79
2003	State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission v. Carlson†	65 P.3d 851	77
2013	Philip J. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	314 P.3d 518	73
2014	Chloe v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	336 P.3d 1258	72
1999	Smithart v. State†	988 P.2d 583	71
2013	Thea G. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	291 P.3d 957	67

Showing the 15 most-cited of 532 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 Dana Anderson Fabe on?: Dana Anderson Fabe was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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30 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).