Joel Harold Bolger (born February 16, 1955, in Carroll, Iowa) is an American lawyer and jurist. He served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 2013 to 2021. He served as chief justice from 2018 to 2021. He was a judge of the Alaska Court of Appeals (Alaska's intermediate appellate court) from October 2008 until his appointment to the high court. Prior to that, he worked as a lawyer throughout Alaska since arriving there in the late 1970s. He also served as a state trial court judge in Kodiak and Valdez. On November 30, 2020, Bolger announced his plans to retire effective June 30, 2021.

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20th-century American lawyers

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People from Kodiak, Alaska

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University of Iowa College of Law alumni

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