Returning to San Francisco in 1972 after being a clerk,Carpeneti initially entered private practice with Melvin Belli before joining in private practice with his father,retired Judge Walter I. Carpeneti,and his brother,Richard Carpeneti.[3][4]
Leaving the family law practice,Walter L. Carpeneti returned to Alaska in 1974 to join the Alaska Public Defender Agency as supervising attorney of its Juneau office. He left the Public Defender Agency in 1978 to enter private practice with William T. Council. During that time,he was a member of the Alaska Judicial Council and of the committee which drafted the Alaska rules of evidence. He was the reporter to the Supreme Court's Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Committee.[3][4]
Judge
On October 15,1981,Governor Jay Hammond appointed Carpeneti to the Alaska Superior Court. While on the court,he was a member of the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct and of the Three-Judge Sentencing Panel. Additionally,he was chair of the Supreme Court's Criminal Sentencing Practices and Procedures Committee.
In 1998,Governor Tony Knowles,a Democrat,appointed Carpeneti to the Alaska Supreme Court. Carpeneti chaired the Supreme Court's Judicial Education Committee.[3] He served as the 16th chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 2009 to 2012.[3][5] While chief justice,he served as second vice president on the board of directors of the national Conference of Chief Justices.[6]
Family life
In 1969,Carpeneti and Anne Dose married. They have four children:Chris,Marianna,Lia,and Bianca.[3] Marianna Carpeneti was an attorney in Homer,Alaska before being appointed an Alaska Superior Court judge.[7]
References
↑ The Stanford Alumni Directory. Stanford Alumni Association. 2000. p.1772.
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