Initial Report and Recommendations - Alaska Department of Law

His wide range of experience includes:• Eight years as Magistrate for Kotzebue and six months as a DistrictCourt Judge• Lifelong trapper, subsistence hunter, and fisherman• Director of the Kotzebue Senior Citizens Cultural Center• Student Advisor for the Northwest Arctic Borough School District• President and CEO for NANA Regional Corporation• Instructor for the Chukchi Campus• Administrator/Recruiter for the Alaska Technical Center• Public Assistance administrator and workforce developmentspecialist• Mayor of the Northwest Arctic BoroughRoss also served as chairman of the Kotzebue Advisory Fish and Gamecommittee for many years, member and past chairman of KIC villagecorporation, and past chairman of the Alaska Beluga Whale Committee forten years. Ross will conclude his second and final three year term asBorough mayor in October 2006. He plans on retiring from the State andfocusing his attention on his Native art.Gregg D. Renkes served as Alaska’s fifteenth Attorney General and in thatposition also served as co-chair of the Alaska Rural Justice LawEnforcement Commission. During his tenure as Attorney General, Renkesmade protecting Alaska’s children, communities, consumers, naturalresources, financial assets, and sovereignty his top priorities. GeneralRenkes was a voice for increasing local control over basic public safetyissues in village Alaska and advocated the holding of important trials, evenat greater expense, in small communities to reinforce communityinvolvement in safety and justice. General Renkes focused on theproblems of child abuse and the related problems of substance abuse, andhelped initiate a statewide criminal task force to interdict drugs and stopbootlegging of alcohol to dry villages. Prior to taking office as AlaskaAttorney General, General Renkes worked on energy, natural resource, andAmerican Indian law and policy in both the public and private sectors. Hefrequently spoke on these topics and at one time regularly contributedarticles to the Tundra Times concerning legal issues that affect AlaskaNative people. General Renkes also served as the Majority Staff Directorof the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources andworked as Chief of Staff and Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator FrankMurkowski. General Renkes worked in Anchorage during law school andmoved to Palmer to work for the Alaska Court System after graduation.General Renkes holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University ofColorado, School of Law, a Masters of Science degree from YaleUniversity, and a Bachelors of Arts degree from Vassar College.Photo PendingEdgar BlatchfordAlaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission - Page 71