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 1968 / Served to 1972

George Frank Boney

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

George Frank Boney was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1930–1972
Tenure: 1968–1972 · 3 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Boney authored 50 published opinions for the court (1969–1972), plus 4 dissents and 1 concurrence. Most cited: Gray v. State (134 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. 52 of these were attributed to Boney 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
1970	Gray v. State†	463 P.2d 897	134
1970	Bachner v. Pearson†	479 P.2d 319	94
1971	State v. Browder· Concurrence†	486 P.2d 925	93
1969	Roberts v. State†	458 P.2d 340	82
1970	DeSacia v. State†	469 P.2d 369	81
1971	Alvarado v. State†	486 P.2d 891	79
1971	Fields v. State†	487 P.2d 831	72
1971	Galaktionoff v. State†	486 P.2d 919	71
1972	Davis v. State†	499 P.2d 1025	70
1972	Tafoya v. State†	500 P.2d 247	64
1971	Freeman v. State†	486 P.2d 967	64
1971	Alex v. State†	484 P.2d 677	62
1972	Wright v. State†	501 P.2d 1360	53
1971	Tarnef v. State†	492 P.2d 109	45
1971	Byrne v. Ogle†	488 P.2d 716	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 55 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 George Frank Boney on?: George Frank Boney was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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3 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).