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 2012 / Former Justice

Peter J. Maassen

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Peter J. Maassen was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 2012. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 2012 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
2012	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Maassen authored 142 published opinions for the court (2012–2019), plus 7 dissents. Most cited: Limeres v. Limeres (85 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. 149 of these were attributed to Maassen 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	Limeres v. Limeres†	320 P.3d 291	85
2015	Sylvia v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	343 P.3d 425	69
2013	Sherman B. v. State, Dept. of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	310 P.3d 943	68
2016	State v. Fyfe†	370 P.3d 1092	51
2016	Young v. State†	374 P.3d 395	43
2017	Jude M. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	394 P.3d 543	39
2015	Engstrom v. Engstrom†	350 P.3d 766	34
2014	Humphrey v. Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, Inc.†	337 P.3d 1174	32
2018	Geldermann v. Geldermann†	428 P.3d 477	31
2015	Wells v. Barile†	358 P.3d 583	31
2013	Stanhope v. Stanhope†	306 P.3d 1282	31
2016	Denny M. v. State, Dept. of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	365 P.3d 345	29
2016	In Re the Necessity for the Hospitalization of Mark V.†	375 P.3d 51	27
2017	Burton v. Fountainhead Development, Inc.†	393 P.3d 387	26
2014	Kristina B. v. Edward B.†	329 P.3d 202	25

Showing the 15 most-cited of 149 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 Peter J. Maassen on?: Peter J. Maassen was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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14 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).