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Marjorie Allard
2012 - Present
2033
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Marjorie Katharine Allard is a judge of the Alaska Court of Appeals. She assumed office on November 23, 2012. Her current term ends on January 31, 2033.
Allard ran for re-election for judge of the Alaska Court of Appeals. She won in the retention election on November 5, 2024.
Allard was appointed to the court on November 23, 2012, by Republican Governor Sean Parnell.[1][2] Allard became the chief judge of the court on January 1, 2019.[3]
Biography
Allard earned her B.A. from Yale University, graduating summa cum laude in 1993, and her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999. She also attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar from 1994 to 1995.[2][4]
Career
- 2012 - Present: Judge, Alaska Court of Appeals
- 2019 - Present: Chief judge
- 2006-2012: Alaska Public Defender Agency
- 2005-2006: Office of Public Advocacy
- 2004-2005: Civil litigator, Richmond & Quinn
- 2003-2004: Staff attorney, Santa Clara Law School
- 2002: Attorney, Rosen Bien & Galvin
- 2001-2002: Lecturer, Stanford Law School
- 2000-2001: Fellow, Yale Law School Liman Fellowship
- 1999-2001: Law clerk, Alaska Supreme Court[2][4]
Elections
2024
See also: Alaska intermediate appellate court elections, 2024
Alaska Court of Appeals
Marjorie Katharine Allard was retained to the Alaska Court of Appeals on November 5, 2024 with 61.2% of the vote.
Retention Vote |
% |
Votes |
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| ✔ | Yes |
61.2
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159,078 | ||
No |
38.8
|
100,662 | |||
Total Votes |
259,740 | ||||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Allard in this election.
2016
Judge Allard filed to stand for retention by voters in 2016.[5]
Election results
Marjorie Allard was retained in the Alaska Court of Appeals, Allard's seat election with 62.21% of the vote.
| Alaska Court of Appeals, Allard's seat, 2016 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | Yes votes | |
 Marjorie Allard | 62.21% | |
| Source: Alaska 2016 General Election, Official Results | ||
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign finance summary
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Noteworthy cases
Troopers investigation was too late at night (2015)
Acting on a tip, Alaska State Troopers Rob Langendorfer and Kyle Young drove up Margaret Kelley's driveway around midnight on June 30, 2009, to see if they could smell an odor emitted by marijuana plants as they grow. They also obtained Kelley's utility bills to determine how much power she was using, as increased consumption could point to marijuana growth lights, but those records did not show an increase. Using the anonymous tip and their own investigatory smell of Kelley's property, the two Troopers obtained a warrant to search Kelley's property. Inside her home, the Troopers found marijuana plants and arrested Kelley. She was charged with four counts of fourth-degree misconduct involving a controlled substance.[6]
Kelley's attorney filed a motion to suppress evidence obtained through the search, stating that the investigatory smell was an illegal search of Kelley's property. Superior Court Judge Gregory Heath ruled that the Troopers had the right to use public access ways to reach Kelley's property to investigate the tip they received. Heath wrote, "A way of ingress or egress does not cease to exist after a certain time of night." Heath conducted a bench trial and convicted Kelley.[7]
Kelley appealed her conviction to the Alaska Court of Appeals. Judge Marjorie Allard wrote the opinion for the court. Referencing a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court case, Allard said that there are "clear temporal limits on the implied license for public access to a private residence."[7] Further, she found that the state could offer no reason the troopers had conducted the investigation after midnight instead of during the day. Allard found that the troopers were not on Kelley's property legally and, as a result, Kelley's motion for suppression of evidence should have been granted. The court reversed Kelley's conviction by the Superior Court.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Alaska Judicial Council, "Current Judges", accessed August 25, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Alaska Business Monthly, "Governor Parnell Appoints Allard to Court of Appeals," November 26, 2012
- ↑ KTVA, "Judge Marjorie K. Allard to lead Alaska Court of Appeals," December 20, 2018
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Alaska Judicial Council, "Application for Judicial Appointment - Marjorie Katharine Allard," May 18, 2012
- ↑ State of Alaska Division of Elections, "November 8, 2016 General Election Candidate List," accessed August 5, 2016
- ↑ Courthouserecords.com, "Kelley v. State of Alaska," April 10, 2015
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Frontiersman, "Court tosses pot conviction," April 13, 2015
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| Former | Robert Coats • Joel Bolger • David Mannheimer • David Stewart • Douglas Kossler • | ||
Federal courts:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals • U.S. District Court: District of Alaska • U.S. Bankruptcy Court: District of Alaska
State courts:
Alaska Supreme Court • Alaska Court of Appeals • Alaska Superior Court • Alaska District Court
State resources:
Courts in Alaska • Alaska judicial elections • Judicial selection in Alaska
