Alaska Attorney General

The Alaska Attorney General is the chief legal advisor to the government of the State of Alaska and to its governor. The Attorney General is appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Alaska Legislature. The position has existed since the early days of the Territory of Alaska, though it was an elected rather than an appointed position prior to statehood. The Attorney General also serves as the Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Law, and is the only commissioner of a principal department of Alaska state government not referred to as "Commissioner" in normal usage. The current Attorney General is Michael C. Geraghty.

List of Attorneys General

In the earliest days of the Alaska Territory, the Territorial Counsel served as the de facto attorney general. Only one person, John H. Cobb, served in this position. The 2nd Alaska Territorial Legislature in 1915 created the Office of the Attorney General, to become effective after the 1916 general election. The attorney general's position was an elected position during the entirety of territorial days, as opposed to under statehood, in which it has been a position appointed by the governor. The following is a list of attorneys general in Alaska.

Name	Began service	Ended service	Governor
George B. Grigsby	1916	1919	Strong, Riggs
Jeremiah C. Murphy	1919	1920	Riggs
John Rustgard	1920	1933	Riggs, Bone, Parks
James S. Truitt	1933	1941	Troy, Gruening
Henry Roden	1941	1945	Gruening
Ralph J. Rivers	1945	1949	Gruening
J. Gerald Williams	1949	1959	Gruening, Heintzleman, Stepovich
John L. Rader	1959	1960	Egan
Ralph E. Moody	1960	1962	Egan
George N. Hayes	1962	1964	Egan
Warren C. Colver	1964	1966	Egan
Donald A. Burr	1966	1967	Hickel
Edgar Paul Boyko	1967	1968	Hickel
G. Kent Edwards	1968	1970	Hickel, Miller
John E. Havelock	1970	1973	Egan
Norman C. Gorsuch	1973	1974	Egan
Avrum M. Gross	1974	1980	Hammond
Wilson L. Condon	1980	1982	Hammond
Norman C. Gorsuch	1982	1985	Sheffield
Harold M. Brown	1985	1986	Sheffield
Grace Berg Schaible	1987	1989	Cowper
Douglas B. Baily	1989	1990	Cowper
Charles E. Cole	1991	1994	Hickel
Bruce M. Botelho	1994	2002	Hickel, Knowles
Gregg D. Renkes	2002	2005	Murkowski
David W. Márquez	2005	2006	Murkowski
Talis J. Colberg	2006	2009	Palin
Daniel S. Sullivan	2009	2010	Palin, Parnell
John J. Burns	2010	2012	Parnell
Michael C. Geraghty	2012	Incumbent	Parnell

External links

• Alaska Department of Law official page