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 2012 / Active

Marjorie K. Allard

Judge, Court of Appeals of Alaska

Marjorie K. Allard is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska, serving since 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: Since 2012 · 13 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Court of Appeals of Alaska	–	–

Education

Yale University
Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Allard authored 81 published opinions for the court (2013–2019), plus 6 concurrences. Most cited: Morris v. State (31 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. 87 of these were attributed to Allard 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
2014	Morris v. State†	334 P.3d 1244	31
2014	Simants v. State†	329 P.3d 1033	11
2015	Wright v. State†	347 P.3d 1000	9
2014	Jackson v. State†	342 P.3d 1254	9
2018	Thomas v. State†	413 P.3d 1207	7
2016	Palmer v. State†	379 P.3d 981	7
2019	Inga v. State†	440 P.3d 345	6
2019	Brian Hall v. State of Alaska†	446 P.3d 373	5
2017	Nicklie v. State†	402 P.3d 424	5
2016	Hillman v. State†	382 P.3d 1198	5
2016	State v. Evans†	378 P.3d 413	5
2015	Kelley v. State†	347 P.3d 1012	5
2014	Anthony v. State†	329 P.3d 1027	5
2018	Coffin v. State†	425 P.3d 172	4
2018	State v. Bell†	421 P.3d 128	4

Showing the 15 most-cited of 87 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 is Marjorie K. Allard on?: Marjorie K. Allard is a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Alaska.

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13 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).