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 1968 / Served to 1983

Roger George Connor

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Roger George Connor was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1968. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1926–1999
Tenure: 1968–1983 · 14 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1968	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Connor authored 367 published opinions for the court (1969–1983), plus 54 dissents and 21 concurrences. Most cited: Love v. State (340 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. 441 of these were attributed to Connor 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
1969	Love v. State†	457 P.2d 622	340
1971	Kelly v. Zamarello†	486 P.2d 906	211
1970	Baker v. City of Fairbanks†	471 P.2d 386	211
1975	Ravin v. State· Concurrence†	537 P.2d 494	199
1976	Adams v. State· Dissent†	555 P.2d 235	192
1980	State v. O'Neill Investigations, Inc.†	609 P.2d 520	180
1976	Moore v. State†	553 P.2d 8	175
1978	Oveson v. Municipality of Anchorage†	574 P.2d 801	154
1975	Kaatz v. State†	540 P.2d 1037	131
1976	Isakson v. Rickey· Dissent†	550 P.2d 359	128
1975	State v. Wortham· Dissent†	537 P.2d 1117	128
1971	Doe v. State†	487 P.2d 47	119
1979	Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. v. Day†	594 P.2d 38	118
1970	Lewis v. State†	469 P.2d 689	113
1971	Ferrell v. Baxter†	484 P.2d 250	109

Showing the 15 most-cited of 442 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 Roger George Connor on?: Roger George Connor 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).