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The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Alaska Supreme Court / Joined 1998 / Served to 2013

Walter L. Carpeneti

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Walter L. Carpeneti was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1998. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Born: 1945 · age 81
Tenure: 1998–2013 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1998	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Education

Cornell University

Judicial Record

In our data, Carpeneti authored 332 published opinions for the court (1991–2013), plus 29 dissents and 10 concurrences. Most cited: Pravat P. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services (130 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. 370 of these were attributed to Carpeneti 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
2011	Pravat P. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	249 P.3d 264	130
2012	Sherman B. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services†	290 P.3d 421	107
2004	Brynna B. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services†	88 P.3d 527	107
2005	Rockstad v. Erikson†	113 P.3d 1215	90
2004	Peterson v. Ek†	93 P.3d 458	89
2003	Martin N. v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Division of Family & Youth Services†	79 P.3d 50	89
2002	John's Heating Service v. Lamb†	46 P.3d 1024	87
2001	Brandon v. Corrections Corp. of America†	28 P.3d 269	81
2008	Audrey H. v. State, Office of Children's Services†	188 P.3d 668	77
2009	Marcia v. v. State†	201 P.3d 496	76
2005	Marron v. Stromstad†	123 P.3d 992	76
2000	Jenkins v. Handel†	10 P.3d 586	75
2001	N.A. v. State†	19 P.3d 597	74
2009	Bigley v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute†	208 P.3d 168	73
2009	Dashiell v. State, Department of Health & Social Services, Office of Children's Services†	222 P.3d 841	72

Showing the 15 most-cited of 371 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 Walter L. Carpeneti on?: Walter L. Carpeneti 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).