Alaska lawyer blends life and law as a tribal court judge and an Orthodox Jew Monday, February 3, 2020

ABA Journal

How does a Jewish kid from Philly become a tribal court judge in Alaska? Just ask Judge David Avraham Voluck. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Voluck has been practicing federal Indian and tribal law from his home base in Sitka, Alaska, since 1996, save for a two-year sabbatical he took to attend the Rabbinical College of America.

He presides in the Sitka Tribal Court (primarily Tlingit and Haida Indians) and the St. Paul Island Tribal Court (primarily Unangan Aleuts), and is organizing an intertribal court for the Kodiak archipelago villages. He co-authored two editions of Alaska Natives and American Laws and is faculty for the National Judicial College’s National Tribal Judicial Center and the National Tribal Trial College housed at the University of Wisconsin Law School.

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