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 1959 / Served to 1971

John Henry Dimond

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

John Henry Dimond was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1918–1985
Tenure: 1959–1971 · 12 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Dimond authored 225 published opinions for the court (1959–1971), plus 4 dissents and 3 concurrences. Most cited: Whitton v. State (222 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. 229 of these were attributed to Dimond 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	Whitton v. State†	479 P.2d 302	222
1967	Beaulieu v. Elliott†	434 P.2d 665	149
1963	Keiner v. City of Anchorage†	378 P.2d 406	109
1962	City of Fairbanks v. Schaible†	375 P.2d 201	105
1970	Palfy v. Rice†	473 P.2d 606	95
1971	Alaska Foods, Inc. v. American Manufacturer's Mutual Insurance Co.†	482 P.2d 842	92
1969	Roberts v. State· Dissent†	458 P.2d 340	82
1970	DeSacia v. State· Dissent†	469 P.2d 369	81
1969	Speidel v. State†	460 P.2d 77	81
1964	Mitchell Ex Rel. Mitchell v. Knight†	394 P.2d 892	76
1968	Austin v. Fulton Insurance Company†	444 P.2d 536	75
1971	Johansen v. State†	491 P.2d 759	72
1968	Leavitt v. Gillaspie†	443 P.2d 61	70
1963	Watson v. State†	387 P.2d 289	66
1964	Ahlstrom v. Cummings†	388 P.2d 261	65

Showing the 15 most-cited of 232 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 John Henry Dimond on?: John Henry Dimond was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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12 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).