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

Alaska Supreme Court / Joined 1983 / Served to 1995

Daniel Alton Moore Jr.

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Daniel Alton Moore Jr. was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1983. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1934 · age 92
Tenure: 1983–1995 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1983	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

University of Notre Dame
University of Denver
University of Notre Dame
University of Denver

Judicial Record

In our data, Moore authored 268 published opinions for the court (1984–1995), plus 26 dissents and 9 concurrences. Most cited: Cox v. Cox (105 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. 302 of these were attributed to Moore 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
1994	Cox v. Cox†	882 P.2d 909	105
1985	Dura Corp. v. Harned†	703 P.2d 396	99
1995	Chizmar v. MacKie†	896 P.2d 196	96
1989	Thorne v. Department of Public Safety†	774 P.2d 1326	90
1988	Moffitt v. Moffitt†	749 P.2d 343	86
1991	Kowalski v. Kowalski†	806 P.2d 1368	85
1985	State v. Jones†	706 P.2d 317	81
1992	Beck v. State, Department of Transportation & Public Facilities†	837 P.2d 105	75
1989	Hartland v. Hartland†	777 P.2d 636	73
1989	State Ex Rel. Departments of Transportation & Labor v. Enserch Alaska Construction, Inc.†	787 P.2d 624	70
1989	Oaksmith v. Brusich†	774 P.2d 191	69
1985	State v. James†	698 P.2d 1161	69
1985	Richardson v. Fairbanks North Star Borough†	705 P.2d 454	67
1995	Bauman v. Day· Dissent†	892 P.2d 817	66
1989	McDowell v. State· Concurrence†	785 P.2d 1	66

Showing the 15 most-cited of 303 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 Daniel Alton Moore Jr. on?: Daniel Alton Moore Jr. was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).