The Honorable Dana Fabe retired in June after serving two decades as Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1951, she grew up there and attended The Seven Hills School. Earning a BA from Cornell University and JD from Northeastern University, she began her career as an attorney in Alaska in 1974. From 1976 to 1988, she served as a clerk for the Alaska Supreme Court, an attorney in the Alaska Public Defender Agency and Chief Public Defender before her appointment as Superior Court Judge in Anchorage in 1988. She then served as Training Judge and Deputy Presiding Judge for the Third Judicial District from 1992 to 1995. In January 1996 Governor Tony Knowles appointed her to the Supreme Court, making her the first woman to serve there.