Hon. Patrick S. Hammers

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<div class="infobox person"><div class="widget-row value-only ">Patrick Hammers</div>
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<p> William Mitchell College of Law, 1979
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Education"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Education</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Career"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Career</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#2016"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">2016</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#2012"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">2012</span></a></li>
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<b>Patrick S. Hammers</b> is a <a href="/Alaska_District_Court" title="Alaska District Court">district court</a> judge for the <a href="/Alaska_Fourth_District" title="Alaska Fourth District">Fourth Judicial District</a> in Fairbanks, <a href="/Alaska" title="Alaska">Alaska</a>. He was appointed on <a href="/C2009#July" class="mw-redirect" title="C2009">July 9, 2009</a>, by Gov. <a href="/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin">Sarah Palin</a> (R). He was retained for a partial term in 2012. He won a full six-year term in the retention election on <a href="/Alaska_local_trial_court_judicial_elections,_2016" title="Alaska local trial court judicial elections, 2016">November 8, 2016</a>.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Education">Education</span></h2>
<p>Judge Hammers graduated from the College of St. Thomas in 1973 and in 1979 he graduated from William Mitchell College of Law with a <a href="/J.D." class="mw-redirect" title="J.D.">J.D.</a><sup id="cite_ref-BIO_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BIO-1">[1]</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span></h2>
<ul><li><b>2009-2016:</b> Judge, <a href="/Alaska_Fourth_District" title="Alaska Fourth District">Alaska Fourth District</a></li>
<li><b>1999-2009:</b> He worked as a magistrate for the Alaska Court System in Fairbanks</li>
<li><b>1994-1999:</b> He worked as a criminal prosecutor for the Municipality of Anchorage</li>
<li><b>1990-1993:</b> He practiced in <a href="/Minnesota" title="Minnesota">Minnesota</a> with Steven Peloquin</li>
<li><b>1982-1990:</b> He was in private practice at <i>Hammers Law Office</i></li>
<li><b>1981-1982:</b> He worked in general, civil and criminal practice for <i>Dessert and Smith P.A.</i></li>
<li><b>1979-1981:</b> He worked in general, civil and criminal practice for <i>Dosland, Dosland &amp; Nordhougen</i><sup id="cite_ref-BIO_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BIO-1">[1]</a></sup></li></ul>
<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Elections">Elections</span></h2>
<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2016">2016</span></h3>
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<td width="75px" style="color:white;background-color:grey;text-align:center">Yes votes</td></tr><tr><td width="275px" style="text-align:center"><a href="/Won" title="Won"><img alt="Green check mark transparent.png" src="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/14px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png" width="14" height="14" srcset="https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/21px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 1.5x, https://cdn.ballotpedia.org/images/thumb/0/0a/Green_check_mark_transparent.png/28px-Green_check_mark_transparent.png 2x" data-file-width="100" data-file-height="100"></a><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Patrick Hammers</a></td><td width="75" style="text-align:center">65.79%</td></tr><tr>
<td style="text-align:left" colspan="3"><i>Source:</i> <a target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.elections.alaska.gov/results/16GENR/data/results.pdf"><i>Alaska Department of Elections</i>, "Unofficial election results," accessed November 9, 2016</a></td>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="2012">2012</span></h3>
<p>Hammers was <a href="/Retention_election" title="Retention election">retained</a> on November 6th.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> He received 68.79% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup>
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