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James Barnhill

James Barnhill
James Barnhill

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James Barnhill

Full Charge Bookkeeper & Accounting Manager

James Barnhill is the Full-Charge Bookkeeper and Accounting Manager for Alaska Business Publishing with eight years of bookkeeping experience. James graduated from Galena City High School in the Yukon River village before attending UAA for two years and is also an eleven-year veteran of the US Marine Corps where he served as an aircrewman and drill instructor. His experience with military training was handy in his previous position just outside of Camp Pendleton: for four years, he was principal of West Coast Baptist School, a private K-12 school with thirty students in Oceanside, California. James earned his bachelor of science degree in accounting from National University of La Jolla, California. In his spare time James enjoys his family, reading, and the outdoors.

Alaska Business Magazine August 2026 cover
In This Issue
New Oil on the North Slope
August 2026
In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.