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 1960 / Served to 1965

Harry Oscar Arend

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Harry Oscar Arend was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1960. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1903–1966
Tenure: 1960–1965 · 4 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1960	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Arend authored 94 published opinions for the court (1960–1965), plus 10 dissents and 2 concurrences. Most cited: Merrill v. Merrill (197 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. 106 of these were attributed to Arend 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
1962	Merrill v. Merrill†	368 P.2d 546	197
1961	Ransom v. Haner†	362 P.2d 282	121
1964	Buza v. Columbia Lumber Company†	395 P.2d 511	72
1962	Rogge v. Weaver· Dissent†	368 P.2d 810	63
1962	Chase v. State· Dissent†	369 P.2d 997	49
1963	Cramer v. Cramer†	379 P.2d 95	48
1962	Salinas v. State†	373 P.2d 512	45
1962	Rhodes v. Rhodes†	370 P.2d 902	45
1964	Thomas v. State†	391 P.2d 18	44
1963	Ellison v. State†	383 P.2d 716	44
1961	Matthews v. Quinton Ex Rel. Quinton†	362 P.2d 932	43
1964	Zerbinos v. Lewis†	394 P.2d 886	42
1961	Marrone v. State†	359 P.2d 969	42
1964	Patrick v. Sedwick†	391 P.2d 453	40
1963	Scheele v. City of Anchorage†	385 P.2d 582	37

Showing the 15 most-cited of 106 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 Harry Oscar Arend on?: Harry Oscar Arend was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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4 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).