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 1997 / Served to 2008

David C. Stewart

Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska

David C. Stewart was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska, who joined the court in 1997. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1997–2008 · 11 yrs

Judicial service

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

Judicial Record

In our data, Stewart authored 149 published opinions for the court (1997–2008), plus 6 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Collins v. State (49 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. 156 of these were attributed to Stewart 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
1999	Collins v. State†	977 P.2d 741	49
1999	Patterson v. State†	985 P.2d 1007	37
2003	Dailey v. State†	65 P.3d 891	21
2001	John v. State†	35 P.3d 53	17
2000	Blank v. State†	3 P.3d 359	17
2006	Walsh v. State†	134 P.3d 366	16
2005	Moore v. State†	123 P.3d 1081	16
2002	Conrad v. State†	54 P.3d 313	16
2003	Noy v. State†	83 P.3d 538	15
2007	Eide v. State†	168 P.3d 499	14
2005	Vandergriff v. State†	125 P.3d 360	14
1999	State v. Otness†	986 P.2d 890	14
2001	McGill v. State†	18 P.3d 77	13
2008	Hinson v. State†	199 P.3d 1166	12
2000	Murray v. State†	12 P.3d 784	12

Showing the 15 most-cited of 156 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 was David C. Stewart on?: David C. Stewart was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska.

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11 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).