Crum, Adam

Announced that federal regulators had restored the Alaska Psychiatric Institute's certification after the facility corrected more than 80 deficiencies and increased its patient census from 25 to 42.

August 5, 2019Supports Healthcare Affordability

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed an addendum allowing Alaska hospitals to adopt crisis standards of care as the state brought in hundreds of health workers during a severe COVID-19 hospital surge.

September 22, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Recommended ending Alaska's COVID-19 disaster declaration and signed a continuing public-health order to preserve vaccination, testing, and public-health coordination.

April 30, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Supported opening COVID-19 vaccination to every Alaskan age 16 or older, making Alaska the first state to remove statewide eligibility categories.

March 9, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Implemented a new series of statewide COVID-19 outbreak health orders covering health guidance, testing and quarantine, and travel to communities off the road and marine-highway systems.

November 15, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Revised Alaska's interstate-travel rules to let arriving travelers avoid or shorten quarantine through approved COVID-19 testing options.

June 3, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: content.govdelivery.com · researched July 18, 2026

Signed a COVID-19 mandate authorizing non-congregate shelter for first responders, health workers, homeless people, and others needing quarantine or isolation.

April 13, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed a COVID-19 mandate keeping Alaska schools closed to students through the end of the 2019-20 school year.

April 9, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed statewide COVID-19 mandates directing residents to remain at home except for essential activity and restricting intrastate travel between communities.

March 27, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed COVID-19 mandates closing personal-care businesses, limiting gatherings to ten people, and requiring a 14-day quarantine for most people arriving from outside Alaska, enforceable by criminal penalties.

March 23, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed COVID-19 mandates postponing non-urgent elective medical and dental procedures and closing public and private schools through May 1.

March 20, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed COVID-19 mandates closing state libraries, archives, and museums, returning residential-school students home, and closing dine-in service at restaurants and bars.

March 17, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

As health commissioner, signed Alaska's first COVID-19 health mandate, suspending public visitation at state institutions and directing non-contact school days for most public schools.

March 13, 2020Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

The legislative auditor told lawmakers that the revenue department had refused to provide tax-assessment information needed for an oil-and-gas tax-credit audit authorized in 2020, leaving the audit incomplete while Crum led the department.

April 30, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: akleg.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Oversaw a procurement that named Saige Consulting the highest-scoring bidder for revenue-department investment consulting after the vendor sponsored a national treasurers' event he attended during the proposal-evaluation period; later reporting raised conflict concerns, while the procurement notice documented four scored bidders.

October 15, 2024Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: thealaskacurrent.com · researched July 18, 2026

Ended the planned five-year phase of Wellpath's Alaska Psychiatric Institute contract, leaving the company in place only through December while the state considered a competitively bid long-term operator.

April 23, 2019Supports Anti-Corruption

Source: alaskapublic.org · researched July 18, 2026

As Alaska health commissioner, invoked emergency authority over the Alaska Psychiatric Institute and selected Wellpath Recovery Solutions under a no-bid management contract amid severe staffing, safety, and federal-certification problems.

February 8, 2019Opposes Anti-Corruption

Source: alaskapublic.org · researched July 18, 2026

Laid out how he planned to use a governor's powers in an Alaska Watchman questionnaire published April 20, 2026. He named appointing only officials committed to originalism, fiscal restraint, parental rights and resource development; using budget and line-item vetoes on programs he called ineffective; and issuing executive orders to cut regulations and protect school choice.

April 20, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

Source: alaskawatchman.com · researched July 18, 2026

An outside review ordered by Governor Mike Dunleavy found that former Revenue Commissioner Adam Crum deviated from state policy and failed to perform required due diligence before committing $50 million from Alaska savings to the DigitalBridge private-equity fund.

January 26, 2026Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: apnews.com · researched July 2, 2026

The legislative auditor told lawmakers that the revenue department had refused to provide tax-assessment information needed for an oil-and-gas tax-credit audit authorized in 2020, leaving the audit incomplete while Crum led the department.

April 30, 2025Opposes Government Efficiency

Source: akleg.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Announced that Kroll had raised Alaska's general-obligation bond rating to AA+, the state's highest since 2016, after seven rating improvements and four refinancings that produced about $30 million in net-present-value savings over two years.

March 3, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

Source: dor.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

As chair of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation audit committee, led review of the corporation's risk assessment and internal-audit plan.

June 7, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

Source: apfc.org · researched July 18, 2026

Saw the executive order dividing Alaska's health and social-services department become law, completing a reorganization he designed and advocated for implementation on July 1.

March 21, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Reported to legislators that the Division of Public Assistance had eliminated an inherited application backlog of more than 15,000 cases, saved about $9 million, and reduced 121 positions through electronic document management and other changes.

February 10, 2022Supports Government Efficiency

Source: akleg.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Helped design and publicly advance a reorganization dividing Alaska's health and social-services department into a health department focused on payments and programs and a family-and-community-services department focused on direct care.

December 22, 2020Supports Government Efficiency

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Laid out how he planned to use a governor's powers in an Alaska Watchman questionnaire published April 20, 2026. He named appointing only officials committed to originalism, fiscal restraint, parental rights and resource development; using budget and line-item vetoes on programs he called ineffective; and issuing executive orders to cut regulations and protect school choice.

April 20, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: alaskawatchman.com · researched July 18, 2026

Supported a limited, milestone-based state role in the Alaska LNG project, including modest funding for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation only while private capital and defined off-ramps remained in place.

January 28, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: northernjournal.com · researched July 18, 2026

Announced that Kroll had raised Alaska's general-obligation bond rating to AA+, the state's highest since 2016, after seven rating improvements and four refinancings that produced about $30 million in net-present-value savings over two years.

March 3, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: dor.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Reported to legislators that the Division of Public Assistance had eliminated an inherited application backlog of more than 15,000 cases, saved about $9 million, and reduced 121 positions through electronic document management and other changes.

February 10, 2022Supports Government Spending Reduction

Source: akleg.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Directed health-department measures responding to fentanyl deaths, including distribution of thousands of naloxone kits, an updated opioid action plan, and public alerts to schools and parents.

May 3, 2022Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Signed a COVID-19 mandate authorizing non-congregate shelter for first responders, health workers, homeless people, and others needing quarantine or isolation.

April 13, 2020Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026

Laid out how he planned to use a governor's powers in an Alaska Watchman questionnaire published April 20, 2026. He named appointing only officials committed to originalism, fiscal restraint, parental rights and resource development; using budget and line-item vetoes on programs he called ineffective; and issuing executive orders to cut regulations and protect school choice.

April 20, 2026Supports Public Education Quality

Source: alaskawatchman.com · researched July 18, 2026

Oversaw a procurement that named Saige Consulting the highest-scoring bidder for revenue-department investment consulting after the vendor sponsored a national treasurers' event he attended during the proposal-evaluation period; later reporting raised conflict concerns, while the procurement notice documented four scored bidders.

October 15, 2024Opposes Corporate Accountability

Source: thealaskacurrent.com · researched July 18, 2026

Supported a limited, milestone-based state role in the Alaska LNG project, including modest funding for the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation only while private capital and defined off-ramps remained in place.

January 28, 2026Supports Public Infrastructure

Source: northernjournal.com · researched July 18, 2026

Received the Alaska Outdoor Council board's formal endorsement for governor, although a February membership preference poll had placed him fourth.

June 25, 2026

Source: alaskawatchman.com · researched July 18, 2026

Selected former health-care executive Robert Craig as his running mate in the 2026 governor's race.

May 28, 2026

Source: alaskasnewssource.com · researched July 18, 2026

As revenue commissioner, joined a private asset manager in announcing the Frontier Economic Fund, an exchange-traded fund marketed around investment in Alaska-linked companies.

June 25, 2025

Source: markets.financialcontent.com · researched July 18, 2026

Became Alaska commissioner of revenue after the governor selected him to lead the department, effective November 16.

November 16, 2022

Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 18, 2026