The Appellate Rules Committee has updated its style–the Appellate Style Manual that is. The Style Manual provides practical examples and tips for those practicing in North Carolina’s.
Alaska Supreme Court Justice Daniel E. Winfree of Fairbanks has been selected as the next chief justice of the stateâs highest court, a position he will assume on July 1, the Alaska Court System announced.
Winfree, 68, will be the first Alaskan-born chief justice and the second chief justice from Fairbanks. He will replace Chief Justice Joel H. Bolger, whose term ends June 30.
Winfree has served on the Alaska Supreme Court since 2008. As chief justice, he will preside over arguments and conferences of the Alaska Supreme Court, appoint presiding judges for all judicial districts and chair the Alaska Judicial Council.
The grandson of Yukon and Alaska gold rushers, Winfree was born in Fairbanks in 1953, when Alaska was a territory.
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Sad news for North Carolina appellate aficionados. Dan Horne, the Clerk of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, is retiring as of June 30, 2021.
As he rides into the sunset, Dan takes with him an impressive amount of experience working in that Court. He began his tenure in 1990 as a law clerk for Judge (later Chief Judge) Gerald Arnold. Two years later, Dan joined the Court of Appeals Office of Staff Counsel as a staff attorney. From 1999 to 2008, he was Assistant Director of Staff Counsel, then in 2008 began service as Administrative Counsel to the Court of Appeals. In November of 2015, he reached the pinnacle when he was appointed Clerk of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.