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 1994 / Served to 2009

Robert Ladd Eastaugh

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Robert Ladd Eastaugh was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1994. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1943 · age 83
Tenure: 1994–2009 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1994	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Yale University

Judicial Record

In our data, Eastaugh authored 379 published opinions for the court (1994–2009), plus 34 dissents and 14 concurrences. Most cited: Maisy W. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services (165 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. 427 of these were attributed to Eastaugh 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
2008	Maisy W. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	175 P.3d 1263	165
1999	State v. Coon†	974 P.2d 386	132
2002	E. A. v. State, Division of Family & Youth Services†	46 P.3d 986	121
2008	Doe v. State†	189 P.3d 999	114
2009	Jon S. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	212 P.3d 756	105
2000	D.M. v. State, Division of Family & Youth Services†	995 P.2d 205	105
1997	Borchgrevink v. Borchgrevink†	941 P.2d 132	97
1997	Smith v. State· Concurrence†	948 P.2d 473	96
1996	Muller v. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.†	923 P.2d 783	84
1996	French v. Jadon, Inc.†	911 P.2d 20	75
1996	Vachon v. Pugliese†	931 P.2d 371	74
2003	Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. v. DeShong· Dissent†	77 P.3d 1227	67
1996	Municipality of Anchorage v. Gentile†	922 P.2d 248	64
1999	State v. Alaska Civil Liberties Union†	978 P.2d 597	57
2003	Grimm v. Wagoner†	77 P.3d 423	56

Showing the 15 most-cited of 427 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 Ladd Eastaugh on?: Robert Ladd Eastaugh was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

Sources

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15 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).