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 1980 / Served to 1990

James Keith Singleton Jr.

Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska

James Keith Singleton Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska, who joined the court in 1980. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1939 · age 87
Tenure: 1980–1990 · 10 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1980	Court of Appeals of Alaska	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Singleton authored 349 published opinions for the court (1981–1990), plus 19 dissents and 47 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Andrews (142 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. 415 of these were attributed to Singleton 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
1985	State v. Andrews†	707 P.2d 900	142
1985	Covington v. State†	703 P.2d 436	96
1982	Neitzel v. State†	655 P.2d 325	87
1983	Page v. State†	657 P.2d 850	83
1982	Tookak v. State†	648 P.2d 1018	61
1986	Potts v. State†	712 P.2d 385	60
1984	Barry v. State†	675 P.2d 1292	60
1985	State v. Covington†	711 P.2d 1183	58
1990	Wylie v. State†	797 P.2d 651	52
1983	Reynolds v. State†	664 P.2d 621	49
1983	Brezenoff v. State†	658 P.2d 1359	49
1987	Pruett v. State†	742 P.2d 257	47
1984	Larson v. State†	688 P.2d 592	44
1982	Hartley v. State†	653 P.2d 1052	43
1983	Carman v. State†	658 P.2d 131	42

Showing the 15 most-cited of 415 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 James Keith Singleton Jr. on?: James Keith Singleton Jr. was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska.

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10 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).