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 2013 / Active

Douglas H. Kossler

Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska

Douglas H. Kossler is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska, serving since 2013. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2013 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2013	Court of Appeals of Alaska	–	–

Education

College of William and Mary

Judicial Record

In our data, Kossler authored 5 published opinions for the court (2015). Most cited: Glasgow v. State (5 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. 5 of these were attributed to Kossler 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
2015	Glasgow v. State†	355 P.3d 597	5
2015	Alexiadis v. State†	355 P.3d 570	4
2015	Velarde v. State†	353 P.3d 355	1
2015	Mantor v. State†	359 P.3d 985	0
2015	Downs v. State†	349 P.3d 189	0

Showing the 5 most-cited of 5 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 Douglas H. Kossler on?: Douglas H. Kossler is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska.

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13 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).