Gretchen Guess (born September 5, 1969) is an American businesswoman and politician.
Born in Anchorage, Alaska, Guess received her bachelor's degree in economics from Carleton College and her master's degree in public policy analysis from University of Rochester. Guess was a consultant and business analyst. From 2001 to 2003, Guess served in the Alaska House of Representatives and was a Democrat. She then served in the Alaska State Senate from 2003 to 2007. From 2011 to 2013, Guess served on the Anchorage School Board and was president of the school board. In 2013, Guess resigned from the school to take a job at St. Vincent's HealthCare in Jacksonville, Florida. Her father Gene Guess also served in the Alaska Legislature. [1] [2] [3]
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Frances Ann "Fran" Ulmer is an American administrator and Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. She served as the seventh lieutenant governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002 under Governor Tony Knowles, becoming the first woman elected to statewide office in Alaska, and lost the 2002 gubernatorial election against Republican Frank Murkowski. In 2007 she became the Chancellor of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), before serving as Chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission between 2011 and 2020, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Steller Secondary School is an alternative school located in Anchorage, Alaska. The Anchorage School District established the school in 1974 as a response to a proposal by the Committee of Alternative Secondary Education. Steller was named after Georg Wilhelm Steller, a naturalist from Germany who traveled with Vitus Bering on an exploratory voyage to Alaska.
Dana Anderson Fabe is an American lawyer, retired judge, and mediator. She served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 1996 to 2016, including three terms as the court's chief justice. She previously served as an Alaska trial court judge for nearly eight years, from 1988 to 1996. Fabe was the first woman appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court, as well as its first female chief justice.
Eric Chancy Croft is an American attorney and politician who represented Anchorage's West district on the Anchorage Assembly from 2016 to 2019. From 1997 to 2006, Croft served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives for District 15, representing Spenard, Anchorage. He was also a candidate in the 2006 Alaska gubernatorial election. He received 23.1% of the vote, losing to 68.6% achieved by former governor Tony Knowles. Croft served as Anchorage's school board president from 2013 to 2016. In April 2016, he was elected to the Anchorage Assembly, replacing Ernie Hall, who decided not to run for reelection.
Leland Chancy Croft was a workers' compensation attorney and Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Alaska. Elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 1968, he served a single term from 1969 to 1971. He was then elected to the Alaska Senate, serving in that body from 1971 to 1979, including serving as the president of the Senate from 1975 to 1977 during the 9th Alaska State Legislature.
Hollis S. French II is an American attorney, businessman and politician. He served in the Alaska Senate from 2003 to 2015. He was minority leader from January 2014 until he left office. During this time, French authored an unsuccessful bill to strike down the state's same-sex marriage ban. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Bill P. Wielechowski is an American lawyer serving as a Democratic member of the Alaska Senate representing District K. District K is located in Northeast Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to the 2022 redistricting process, he represented District H from 2013 to 2023. Wielechowski also previously represented District J from 2007 to 2013.
Bettye Jean Davis was an American social worker and politician. She was the first African-American to be elected as an Alaska State Senator in 2000.
Catherine Andrea Giessel is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Alaska, who has served as a member of the Alaska Senate since 2023 and from 2011 to 2021. From 2013 to 2021, Giessel represented District N in the Alaska Senate, including Northeast Anchorage, Anchorage Hillside and the Turnagain Arm communities of Bird, Girdwood, Indian, and Anchorage, all within the Municipality of Anchorage. First elected in 2010 while identifying with Tea Party values, she has also served as the vice-chair of the state Republican Party and had a career in nursing. Following redistricting, she was elected to a different senate seat in 2012. Giessel serves as chair of the Resources Committee and is a member of the Senate Majority Caucus. After Senate President Pete Kelly was unseated in 2018, Giessel was elected president of the Alaska Senate, a post she held until 2021. Giessel returned to the Alaska Senate in 2023, representing the newly configured District E after defeating incumbent Republican Roger Holland. She will serve as Senate majority leader in the 33rd Legislature, overseeing a coalition caucus of eight Republicans and nine Democrats.
Theresa Nangle Obermeyer, is an American educator who is a former Anchorage, Alaska school board member, having served 2 two-year terms from 1990 to 1994. Obermeyer made an unsuccessful run against Republican Ted Stevens for the United States Senate in 1996.
Lucy Frey (Lucille Pauline Frey) (born August 1, 1932) was an American feminist and gay rights activist and educator. She has been called "a founder of Alaska's lesbian community." On March 6, 2009, she was inaugurated into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame for her work as a feminist and an educator. Frey was also a businesswoman and a social studies teacher at Clark Junior High School, where she also developed the curriculum for the students.
Daphne Elizabeth Brown (1948–2011) was an American architect who was posthumously inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame and awarded the Kumin Award from the American Institute of Architects, the highest recognition for architectural achievement in Alaska.
Walter Eugene Guess was an American lawyer and politician.
Drue Pearce is an American businesswoman and politician. She is currently Director, Government Affairs at Holland & Hart, LLP.
Arne Beltz was an American nurse best known for her work in public health. The Arne Beltz Building, which houses the Anchorage, Alaska Department of Health and Human Services, was named in her honor in 1990. In 2013, Beltz was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.
Dave Donley is an American politician and attorney who was born in Anchorage, Alaska and served in the Alaska House of Representatives from District 11A from 1987 to 1993 and in the Alaska Senate from District J from 1993 to 2003. He was elected to the Anchorage School Board in 2017 and re-elected in 2020 and 2023. In the 2020 and 2023 Anchorage Municipal Elections he received more votes than any other municipal candidate. He graduated from Dimond High School in Anchorage in 1972, University of Oregon with a BS in political science in 1976, and University of Washington Law School with a Juris Doctor Degree in 1979. He was admitted to the Alaska Bar Association in 1979. He qualified for membership in Mensa and was admitted June, 1986. He was Certified as an Arbitrator for Better Business Bureau in 2006.
Cathy Sandeen is an American academic administrator who began her appointment as University President at California State University, East Bay in January, 2021.
Blanche Louise Preston McSmith was an African-American civil rights activist, businesswoman and politician.
Jane Ruth Angvik is a politician and community organizer in Alaska. She served on the Anchorage Charter Commission and the Anchorage Assembly. Angvik was the Director of Lands in the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development. She is a member of the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame.
John Eric Havelock was the Attorney General of Alaska from 1971 to 1973, a champion of individual privacy and Native American resource and subsistence rights. Born in Toronto, Canada, Havelock moved to the United States and attended first boarding school, then Harvard University for an undergraduate degree and a Juris Doctor degree before moving to Alaska. After working for the Alaska Department of Law, Havelock worked as staff at the White House before his appointment as Attorney General of Alaska in 1970.