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 1972 / Served to 1980

Robert Boochever

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Robert Boochever was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1972. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1917–2011
Tenure: 1972–1980 · 8 yrs
Education: Cornell 1939

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1972	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University

B.A.

1939

Judicial Record

In our data, Boochever authored 250 published opinions for the court (1972–1980), plus 55 dissents and 38 concurrences. Most cited: Guin v. Ha (688 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. 343 of these were attributed to Boochever 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
1979	Guin v. Ha†	591 P.2d 1281	688
1978	State v. Glass†	583 P.2d 872	208
1975	Ravin v. State· Concurrence†	537 P.2d 494	199
1976	Coleman v. State· Concurrence†	553 P.2d 40	170
1978	State v. Erickson†	574 P.2d 1	169
1973	Malvo Ex Rel. Malvo v. J. C. Penney Co.†	512 P.2d 575	158
1974	Risher v. State†	523 P.2d 421	148
1979	Frink v. State†	597 P.2d 154	121
1974	Concerned Citizens of South Kenai Peninsula v. Kenai Peninsula Borough· Concurrence†	527 P.2d 447	118
1980	Adkins v. Nabors Alaska Drilling, Inc.†	609 P.2d 15	115
1974	Holiday Inns of America, Inc. v. Peck†	520 P.2d 87	115
1979	Hunter v. State†	590 P.2d 888	112
1977	Stordahl v. Government Employees Insurance Co.†	564 P.2d 63	110
1979	City & Borough of Juneau v. Thibodeau· Dissent†	595 P.2d 626	106
1974	Aguchak v. Montgomery Ward Co., Inc.†	520 P.2d 1352	99

Showing the 15 most-cited of 343 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 Robert Boochever on?: Robert Boochever was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

Each fact on this page traces to a primary public record.

How we source & reconcile data → Data & Sources

See something wrong? Report an error. Fixes are logged in the corrections log.

8 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).