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 1965 / Served to 1997

Jay Andrew Rabinowitz

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Jay Andrew Rabinowitz was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1965. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1927–2001
Tenure: 1965–1997 · 31 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1965	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Syracuse University
Harvard University

Judicial Record

In our data, Rabinowitz authored 736 published opinions for the court (1965–1997), plus 143 dissents and 112 concurrences. Most cited: State v. Chaney (600 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. 985 of these were attributed to Rabinowitz 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	State v. Chaney†	477 P.2d 441	600
1974	Cooksey v. State†	524 P.2d 1251	323
1975	Ravin v. State†	537 P.2d 494	199
1991	Adamson v. University of Alaska†	819 P.2d 886	178
1971	RLR v. State†	487 P.2d 27	178
1976	Moore v. State· Concurrence†	553 P.2d 8	175
1971	Waters v. State†	483 P.2d 199	161
1974	Risher v. State· Dissent†	523 P.2d 421	148
1967	Hebel v. Hebel Ex Rel. Hebel†	435 P.2d 8	141
1987	Breck v. Ulmer†	745 P.2d 66	139
1983	Wanberg v. Wanberg†	664 P.2d 568	139
1981	Dorman v. State†	622 P.2d 448	135
1976	Morrow v. New Moon Homes, Inc.†	548 P.2d 279	134
1975	State v. Wortham†	537 P.2d 1117	128
1970	State v. Phillips†	470 P.2d 266	119

Showing the 15 most-cited of 992 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 Jay Andrew Rabinowitz on?: Jay Andrew Rabinowitz was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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31 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).