
Career Highlights: Law clerk, Alaska Superior Court, 1986-7; private practice, Anchorage, AK, 1987-2002, Alaska Superior Court Judge, 2002-5; Alaska Superior Court Presiding Judge, 2005-9; Alaska Supreme Court, 2009-11; nominated to 9th US Circuit, May 2011, confirmed December 2011.
Law School: Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D., 1986
Daily Journal Staff Writer
President Barack Obama and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin agree on one thing, at least: each has handed a black robe to Morgan B. Christen of Anchorage.
Palin, a Republican, put Christen on the Alaska Supreme Court in 2009. Obama, a Democrat, placed her on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2012.
Christen, 51, was a superior court judge in Anchorage and a former Planned Parenthood board me... (continued)