Dana Anderson Fabe was an associate justice of the five-member Alaska Supreme Court. She was appointed to the court in 1996 by Governor Tony Knowles. Fabe is both the first woman to be appointed to Alaska's highest court and the court's first female chief justice. Fabe has served three terms as chief justice. She first served from 2000 to 2003. She began her second term as chief justice in July 2006 and served in that role until July of 2009. She became the chief justice again in July 2012 when Justice Walter Carpeneti stepped down from the position, and her term ended in July 2015. Fabe was retained for a second 10-year term as a Supreme Court justice in 2010. In October 2015, Fabe announced that she would retire. Her retirement was effective June 1, 2016.
