Kari McCrea

Judge Kari L. McCrea was appointed to the Anchorage District Court in 2017. She is a graduate of Mitchell Hamline School of Law and clerked for the US District Court- District of Minnesota, before starting a legal career in public defense. Judge McCrea worked as an assistant public defender and supervising attorney with the Alaska Public Defender Agency in Bethel for approximately 10 years before joining the Alaska Court System as a Magistrate Judge in 2015. She is a co-chair of the Alaska Supreme Court’s Fairness and Access Commission and a member of the Code of Judicial Conduct Rule Committee. In addition to her current duties, Judge McCrea sits pro tem on the Court of Appeals and Bethel Superior Court.