Shall Christina Rankin be retained as judge of the superior court for six years?
What does this office do?
- Deciding trials in the county
- Ruling on evidence and setting sentences in criminal cases
- Deciding family, probate, and civil disputes
Affects: Public Safety and Crime Control, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties, Housing Affordability,
Christina Rankin
Nonpartisan · Incumbent
Christina Rankin has been an Anchorage Superior Court judge since 2023. Before that she spent 20 years as a lawyer at the Anchorage law firm Guess & Rudd and was a law clerk for the superior court in Bethel.
Track record
Track record — General
General · 3 records
Refused to halt the state's bear-killing program in Southwest Alaska, while faulting the Department of Fish and Game for working around an earlier ruling that found the program unlawful.
May 7, 2025
Source: adn.com
Threw out 27 signature booklets, nearly 3,000 signatures, from the petition to repeal ranked-choice voting and ordered the state to recount. She found no planned wrongdoing that would sink the whole petition.
July 19, 2024
Source: adn.com
Was appointed to the Anchorage Superior Court by Governor Mike Dunleavy.
January 6, 2023
Source: ajc.state.ak.us
Track record — Impartiality
Impartiality · 1 favorable
Was rated by the Alaska Judicial Council as meeting or beating its standards for legal skill, fairness, temperament and hard work. The council voted 5-0, with one member not voting, to recommend a yes vote to keep her.
September 3, 2026Favorable on Impartiality
Source: ajc.state.ak.us
Track record — Legal Competence
Legal Competence · 1 favorable
Was rated by the Alaska Judicial Council as meeting or beating its standards for legal skill, fairness, temperament and hard work. The council voted 5-0, with one member not voting, to recommend a yes vote to keep her.
September 3, 2026Favorable on Legal Competence
Source: ajc.state.ak.us
Sources: elections.alaska.gov2