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Vic Fischer was one of the delegates to the Alaska Constitutional Convention in the winter of 1955-1956, and he was strongly involved in planning for the 2009 celebration of 50 years of Alaska statehood. Fischer was the first director of the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research, and he has studied and taken part in Alaska government and politics for over 50 years. He was a territorial legislator, a delegate to Alaska’s constitutional convention, and later a state senator. In 1974, he authored “Alaska's Constitutional Convention” (University of Alaska Press), which was number nine of the National Municipal League's series State Constitutional Convention Studies. Fischer is an honorary Doctor of Science via the Russian Academy of Economics (Plekhanov). He continues to be engaged in state policy, local government, and Alaska-Russia issues. In 2006 he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UAA. In 2012 he published his autobiography, To Russia With Love.

Sen K. Tan was the presiding superior court judge for the Third Judicial District in Anchorage, Alaska. Judge Tan was appointed on December 4, 1996, by Governor Tony Knowles. He retired on July 1, 2014. He served as the presiding judge of the court from 2011 to through 2013. Judge Tan graduated from the University of Kent in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts in Law. In 1982 he graduated with his J.D. from the Northeastern University School of Law in Massachusetts.

The symposium is co-sponsored by the UAA Justice Center and the Alaska Law Review in cooperation with the Historians Committee of the Alaska Bar Association

Recorded on October 12, 2018

Appearing: Vic Fischer (Member of the Alaska Constitutional Convention) & Hon. Sen Tan (Alaska Superior Court, ret.)