Dorothy Awes Haaland

Dorothy Awes Haaland (October 3, 1918 ) was an American lawyer and politician. She served in the final Alaska Territorial Legislature when Alaska was still the Territory of Alaska. In 2009, she was added to the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. She was one of the first woman to be admitted to the Alaska Bar Association.

In 1956, she married Ragnar Haaland. In 1957 she served one term in, and the final year of, the Alaska Territorial Legislature. She became assistant Alaska Attorney General in 1960. She retired in 1976. Haaland co-founded the National Organization for Women chapter in Anchorage. She served on the board of the Women's Resource Center and was president of St. Joan's International Alliance. In 1984, she was honored alongside Alaska statehood founders, including Robert Atwood, and fellow delegates at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Around 1994, she suffered a stroke and moved to Bothell, Washington, to live with her son. She died at a hospital in Kirkland, Washington, on March 1, 1996.

In 2009, Haaland was placed in the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.