(a) Except as hereinafter provided, each district court of the state shall have the number of district judges set out below opposite the name of the judicial district over which the court has jurisdiction:

First Judicial 3

District

Second Judicial 1

District

Third Judicial 12

District

Fourth Judicial 3

District

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Terms Used In Alaska Statutes 22.15.020

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • state: means the State of Alaska unless applied to the different parts of the United States and in the latter case it includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Alaska Statutes 01.10.060
(b) Except as hereinafter provided, each district court of the State of Alaska shall have the number of magistrates set out below opposite the name of the judicial district over which the court has jurisdiction:

First Judicial 10

District

Second Judicial 7

District

Third Judicial 19

District

Fourth Judicial 17.

District

(c) The number of district judges or magistrates within each judicial district may be increased or decreased by rule of the supreme court.
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