Ralph R. Beistline

Ralph R. Beistline

Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
Incumbent
Assumed office December 31, 2015
Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
In office 2009 – December 31, 2015
Preceded by	John W. Sedwick
Succeeded by	Timothy Mark Burgess
Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
In office March 19, 2002 – December 31, 2015
Appointed by	George W. Bush
Preceded by	H. Russel Holland

Personal details
Born	Ralph R. Beistline 1948 (age 68–69) Fairbanks, Alaska
Education	University of Alaska (B.A.) University of Puget Sound School of Law (J.D.)

Ralph R. Beistline (born 1948) is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska.

Education and career

Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, Beistline received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alaska in 1972 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now known as the Seattle University School of Law) in 1974. He was a law clerk to three judges on the Superior Court in Fairbanks from 1974 to 1975, and was thereafter in private practice in Alaska from 1975 to 1992. He was a judge on the Superior Court, Fairbanks, Alaska, from 1992 to 2002.

District court service

Beistline was nominated by President George W. Bush on November 8, 2001, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Alaska vacated by H. Russel Holland. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on March 12, 2002, and received his commission on March 19, 2002. He assumed senior status on December 31, 2015.

Sources

FJC Bio

Legal offices
Preceded by H. Russel Holland	Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2002–2015	Vacant
Preceded by John W. Sedwick	Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska 2009–2015	Succeeded by Timothy Mark Burgess

Current senior district judges of the Ninth Circuit
Alaska	Holland Singleton Sedwick Beistline
Arizona	Rosenblatt Strand McNamee Silver Zapata Bolton Teilborg Martone Bury Wake
C. California	Hatter Marshall Keller Lew Pregerson Fairbank Snyder
E. California	Shubb Burrell Ishii
N. California	Henderson Armstrong Whyte Wilken Chesney Illston Breyer Fogel
S. California	Enright Miller Whelan Lorenz Huff
Hawaii	Kay Ezra Gillmor Mollway
Idaho	Lodge
Montana	Lovell Molloy Haddon
Nevada	George McKibben Hunt Dawson Hicks Jones
Oregon	Panner Redden Marsh Jones Haggerty King Brown
E. Washington	Quackenbush Nielsen Van Sickle Whaley Shea Suko
W. Washington	McGovern Rothstein Coughenour Dimmick Bryan Zilly Lasnik Pechman Robart
Guam	Unpingco
N. Mariana Islands	Munson

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