About Joel Bolger
Born 1955. Joel Bolger is an American lawyer, politician and judge.
Joel Harold Bolger (born February 16, 1955, in Carroll, Iowa) is an American lawyer and former jurist. He served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 2013 to 2021 and as chief justice from 2018 to 2021.
He was a judge of the Alaska Court of Appeals (the state's intermediate appellate court) from October 2008 until his appointment to the high court. Before being a judge, he worked as a lawyer throughout Alaska after arriving in the late 1970s. He also served as a state trial court judge in Kodiak and Valdez.
On November 30, 2020, Bolger announced that he would retire on June 30, 2021.
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Joel Bolger was born on 16 February 1955 in Carroll.
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