Alaska’s Supreme Court justices have voted unanimously to select Justice Dana Fabe to serve as Chief Justice, starting July 1.
Fabe will follow current Chief Justice Walter Carpeneti, whose three year term expires on June 30. Fabe has served as Chief Justice twice before. She is the first woman to have been named to the state Supreme Court. Her duties include serving as administrative head of the state Supreme Court and providing policy direction for all courts statewide.
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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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