Susan M. Carney (born 1961) is an American attorney and jurist. She has served as the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska since 2025, while concurrently serving as an associate justice of the court. She was appointed on May 12, 2016, she was sworn in on August 26, 2016. In November 2024, she was named chief justice after the mandatory retirement of then-Chief Justice Peter J. Maassen.

Biography

Carney was born in

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. She earned a bachelor's degree in history and literature at

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and graduated ''cum laude'' from

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. After law school, she clerked for Justice Jay Rabinowitz. Carney later worked as a defense attorney in the Office of Public Advocacy and with the Alaska Public Defender Agency.

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