Term: 2002-2017

Mary K. Hughes of Anchorage, was appointed by Governor Knowles in July 2002 and re-appointed by Governor Palin in January 2009. She graduated from the University of Alaska with a BBA in Management in 1971 and earned her juris doctorate from Willamette University College of Law in 1974. A partner in the law firm of Hughes, Thorsness, Gantz, Powell & Brundin until 1994, she served as the Anchorage Municipal Attorney from 1995-2000 and Of Counsel with the firm until May 2005 when she became Alaska State Director for the Office of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, a position she held until January 2008. She hosts a weekly radio show, Profile Alaska, on AM 700 KBYR. She is a past president of the Alaska Bar Association Board of Governors and the Alaska Bar Foundation Board of Trustees. She is presently a trustee of the University of Alaska Foundation and Willamette University, on which she chairs the College of Law Committee. Additionally, she is chair of the Alaska Humanities Forum and a past chair and ex-officio director of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation.

1592 Coffey Lane
Anchorage, AK 99501
(907) 274-6290 (voice and fax)
mkhughes@acsalaska.net