Clerk Picture

John and I went to a potluck last night for all of the Alaska Court of Appeals clerks and the Supreme Court clerks. It was fun to put names to faces and meet John's Justice.

From the potluck standpoint, we were both amused by the abundance of grain salads-- bulgar wheat and basil, cucumber and couscous, etc. The dessert selection was awesome though. We brought my family's party potatoes (someone suggested we add confetti to make them more partyish), which is: 8 - 12 potatoes, cut up and boil til soft; an 8oz pkg cream cheese; 1 c sour cream; 1 cube butter whipped together with salt/pepper/garlic powder and put in 9 x 13 baking dish, then cooked until warm and a bit crispy on the edges... DELICIOUS!! Plus, amazingly, the potatoes were more popular than the grain salads ;)

For this occasion (and the orientation earlier in the day), they had brought Alaska's only living state Constitutional Delegate. Justice Fabe said that would be like the US Supreme Court getting to meet Thomas Jefferson... someone else asked why you'd need to meet Jefferson when Scalia knows what Jefferson was thinking-- he he-- AH, lawyer jokes.

Here are some pictures of all the clerks and the justices. It's a picture of a picture, so not great. The one at the top is the full group. The partial is just a zoomed in version. The one with the arrows are Justice Christen (who John works for) and her clerks-- YELLOW-Justice Christen, BLUE-John, ORANGE-Steve, PINK-Rebecca.