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HON. CARL J.D. BAUMAN is a Superior Court Judge for the State of Alaska at Kenai. Judge Bauman was appointed by Governor Sarah Palin in 2007. Prior to taking the bench he was the managing partner at Hughes Bauman Pfiffner Gorski & Seeddorf, LLC in Anchorage, a firm he was with for more than 33 years. Judge Bauman has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Alaska Bar Association's Family Law Section. He earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Oregon. HON. JONATHON H. LACK is a Superior Court Master with the Alaska Court System in Anchorage. Judge Lack earned his B.A. degree from The George Washington University, and his J.D. degree from the University of Richmond School of Law. Prior to his appointment to the bench in 2007, he was an attorney in private practice, worked for the Alaska State Legislature, and served as counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. HON. MARK RINDNER has been a Superior Court Judge for the State of Alaska at Anchorage since January, 2001. Prior to that Judge Rindner was the partner-in-charge of the Anchorage office of Lane Powell Spears Lubersky LLP. He also was an associate for Munger, Tolles & Olson, an Assistant United States Attorney and a law clerk to the Honorable James M. Fitzgerald. Judge Rindner earned his J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a member of the Alaska Bar since 1980 and received the Alaska Bar Association's Distinguished Service Award in 2000 and the Pro Bono Service Award in 1997. HON. ERIC SMITH has been a Superior Court Judge for the State of Alaska at Palmer since 1996. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Smith was Executive Director of Trustees for Alaska and had practiced as a sole practitioner with a focus on environmental and native issues. He is a member of the Khabarovsk-Alaska Rule of Law Steering Committee providing technical assistance to Russian judges and attorneys in the Khabarovsk region. He also is a member of the Alaska Supreme Court Fairness and Access Implementation Committee and chairs its Alternative Dispute Resolution Task Force. Judge Smith earned his B.A. degree from Swarthmore College and his J.D. degree from Yale Law School. HON. SEN K. TAN has been a Superior Court Judge for the State of Alaska's Third Judicial District since 1996. Judge Tan manages a civil caseload involving the entire spectrum of civil litigation conducting both jury and non-jury trials. Prior to taking the bench he was with the Alaska Department of Law's Oil, Gas and Mining Section, where he served as Assistant Attorney General and later Supervising Assistant Attorney General. Judge Tan earned his B.A. degree from The University of Kent at Canterbury and his J.D. degree from Northeastern University School of Law. MODERATOR - MARYANN E. FOLEY is a sole practitioner in Anchorage. Ms. Foley has been an attorney for more than 30 years and practices exclusively in the area of family law. She is a member of the Anchorage, Alaska (past chair, Family Law Section) and American (vice-chair, Family Law Section) bar associations. Ms. Foley earned her B.A. degree from the State University of New York at Oneonta and her J.D. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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