Jim Duncan (born May 4, 1942 in Muscatine, Iowa) is an Alaskan state and local officeholder, educator and government and union executive.
Duncan was born to Paul and Hazel Duncan in Muscatine, Iowa on the Mississippi River. [1] [2]
Duncan graduated from Rockridge High School in Taylor Ridge, Illinois in 1960, and received an A.A. from Sheldon Jackson College, in Sitka, Alaska in 1962; attended Seattle University and got a B.A. degree from Illinois State University in 1965, and a master's degree in Business Administration from Oregon State University, in 1970. [3] [1]
Duncan was an accountant and taught at Sheldon Jackson, Sitka (Islands) Community College, and the Juneau-Douglas Community College.
He was the controller for the tribal Tlingit-Haida Regional Housing Authority. [3] He was a supervisor in Alaska's Department of Revenue, the Commissioner of Administration during the Tony Knowles governorship, and was the Business Manager of the Alaska State Employees Association, an AFSCME affiliate, the state's largest union. [4] [3]
From 1972 to 1974, Duncan was appointed and elected as a member of the City and Borough Assembly Juneau in Alaska. [1] He was a Democratic party candidate for Alaska U.S. Representative in the general election of 1998, running against incumbent Representative Don Young, who was then in his 13th term. [2]
Duncan was the Executive Director of the Alaska State Employees Association, an AFSCME affiliate, the state's largest union, [5] from February 2003 through December 2017. [1] [2]
Duncan served on the Juneau-Douglas Borough Assembly, in the Alaska House of Representatives 1975-1986 (Speaker, 1981–1982), [6] and Alaska Senate 1987–1998, including a term as Minority Leader. He was Alaska's 1998 Democratic congressional candidate, running against incumbent Representative Don Young, who was then in his 13th term. [4]
Jim and his wife Carol Jean Acevada, who was a Tlingit tribal member, business owner and educator from Kake, Alaska had seven children: Jim Jr., Desiree, Michelle, Derek, Jon, Marc, Caron, and, by his second wife Charlotte, stepdaughter Kathy. [7]
Southeast Alaska, often abbreviated to southeast or southeastern, and sometimes called the Alaska(n) panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Alaska, bordered to the east and north by the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The majority of southeast Alaska is situated in Tlingit Aaní, much of which is part of the Tongass National Forest, the United States' largest national forest. In many places, the international border runs along the crest of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. The region is noted for its scenery and mild, rainy climate.
Juneau, officially the City and Borough of Juneau, is the capital of the U.S. state of Alaska, located along the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. On July 1, 1970, the City of Juneau merged with the City of Douglas and the surrounding Greater Juneau Borough to form the current consolidated city-borough, which ranks as the second-largest municipality in the United States by area and is larger than either Rhode Island or Delaware.
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