Walter Carpeneti
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Walter L. Carpeneti is an associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. He was appointed to the court in 1998 by then-governor Tony Knowles, a Democrat. Carpeneti's current ten-year term expires in 2012.
Background
Carpentei graduated with an A.B. degree (with distinction) in History from Stanford University in 1967, and received a J.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970, where he was managing editor of the law review.
Carpeneti was a law clerk for Justice John H. Dimond of the Alaska Supreme Court in 1970-71. From 1972 to 1974 he was in private practice in San Francisco, first with Melvin Belli and then in an office with his father, retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge Walter I. Carpeneti, and his brother, Richard Carpeneti. He returned to Alaska in 1974 as the Public Defender in Juneau. He left that office in 1978 to go into practice with William T. Council, where he stayed until appointed to the Superior Court by Governor Jay Hammond in 1981. He was a judge of that court in Juneau until 1998, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Tony Knowles.[1]
