Attorney General Taylor Appoints Alloway as Solicitor General for Civil Appeals

Attorney General Treg Taylor appointed Jessie Alloway to the position of Solicitor General for Civil Appeals. In this role, Alloway serves as the state’s chief appellate lawyer for civil appeals and supervises the Opinions, Appeals, and Ethics Section of the Alaska Department of Law. 

Alloway joined the Alaska Department of Law in 2011 as a member of the Natural Resources section, where she represented the Alaska Departments of Natural Resources and Fish and Game in state and federal trial court on a range of issues, including the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, the Submerged Lands Act of 1953, and other critical federal and state constitutional issues. Jessie also worked in the Special Litigation section of the Department of Law, defending the Department of Administration in cases regarding the Alaska Constitution’s diminishment clause, and worked closely with other colleagues on a wide range of litigation. Since January 2020, she has served as a senior assistant attorney general handling an array of civil appeals.

Before joining the Department of Law, Alloway served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice where she worked for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division, investigating, and prosecuting criminal cases throughout the country.

Alloway began her legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard C. Tallman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She received her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law and is a graduate of the University of Montana School of Forestry.