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

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

Court of Appeals of Alaska / Joined 1990 / Active

David Mannheimer

Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska

David Mannheimer is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska, serving since 1990. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1949 · age 77
Tenure: Since 1990 · 35 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1990	Court of Appeals of Alaska	–	–

Education

Stanford University

Judicial Record

In our data, Mannheimer authored 707 published opinions for the court (1991–2019), plus 18 dissents and 90 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Zerkel (60 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. 815 of these were attributed to Mannheimer 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
1995	State v. Zerkel†	900 P.2d 744	60
1992	Millman v. State†	841 P.2d 190	59
1997	Erickson v. State†	950 P.2d 580	51
1999	Collins v. State· Concurrence†	977 P.2d 741	49
2000	Grinols v. State†	10 P.3d 600	46
1991	Lepley v. State†	807 P.2d 1095	43
1998	Ballard v. State†	955 P.2d 931	38
2002	Riley v. State†	60 P.3d 204	36
1991	De Nardo v. State†	819 P.2d 903	34
2003	Bingaman v. State†	76 P.3d 398	32
2014	Morris v. State· Concurrence†	334 P.3d 1244	31
1997	Allen v. State†	945 P.2d 1233	31
1996	Petersen v. State†	930 P.2d 414	31
1999	Vigue v. State†	987 P.2d 204	30
2012	Iyapana v. State· Concurrence†	284 P.3d 841	28

Showing the 15 most-cited of 816 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 Court of Appeals of Alaska reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court is David Mannheimer on?: David Mannheimer is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska.

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