Joel Bolger

Joel Harold Bolger (born February 16, 1955 in Carroll, Iowa) is an American lawyer and jurist. He has served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court since his appointment in 2013, succeeding Walter L. Carpeneti. He was elevated to chief justice in 2018. He was a judge of the Alaska Court of Appeals (Alaska's intermediate appellate court) from October 2008 until his appointment to the high court. Prior to that, he worked as a lawyer throughout Alaska since arriving there in the late 1970s. He also served as a state trial court judge in Kodiak and Valdez.