Jude Pate
37:40 - 38:14
"We don't hear your voice speaking on the bench in District Superior Court. We don't hear your voice speaking on the Supreme Court. What am I saying? I'm saying that since Roy Madsen was a Superior Court judge from Kodiak some 50 years ago, and Nora Gwynn before him as a district court judge, there hasn't been, that I'm aware of, an Alaska Native judge."
“We don't hear your voice speaking on the bench in District Superior Court. We don't hear your voice speaking on the Supreme Court. What am I saying? I'm saying that since Roy Madsen was a Superior Court judge from Kodiak some 50 years ago, and Nora Gwynn before him as a district court judge, there hasn't been, that I'm aware of, an Alaska Native judge.”
- Speaker
- Jude Pate
- Timestamp
- 37:40 – 38:14
- Transcript
- Native Federation Video 2526606721442955
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
We don't hear your voice speaking on the bench in District Superior Court. We don't hear your voice speaking on the Supreme Court. What am I saying? I'm saying that since Roy Madsen was a Superior Court judge from Kodiak some 50 years ago, and Nora Gwynn before him as a district court judge, there hasn't been, that I'm aware of, an Alaska Native judge. So what do we— we can't have that, can we?
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