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 1959 / Served to 1960

Walter Hartman Hodge

Justice, Alaska Supreme Court

Walter Hartman Hodge was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who joined the court in 1959. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Lived: 1896–1975
Tenure: 1959–1960

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1959	Alaska Supreme Court	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Hodge authored 0 published opinions for the court (1960), plus 1 dissent. Most cited: Boehl v. Sabre Jet Room, Inc. (20 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. 1 of these was attributed to Hodge 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
1960	Boehl v. Sabre Jet Room, Inc.· Dissent†	349 P.2d 585	20

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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 Hartman Hodge on?: Walter Hartman Hodge was a Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court.

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Joined the court in 1959. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).