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# Dario Borghesan

Alaska Supreme Court · Justice

## Profile

- Court: Alaska Supreme Court
- State: Alaska
- Role: Justice
- Service status: active
- Last verified: 2026-10-02

## Summary

Official statewide and applicable court procedural guidance applies to this judge.

## Biography

### Professional career

- Dario Borghesan is an American judge and the current Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, appointed in 2020 and re‐elected in 2024
- He then worked for the Alaska Department of Law from 2009 to 2020, including as supervising attorney for the department’s civil appeals section.
- Borghesan clerked for Alaska Supreme Court Justice Daniel Winfree (2008–2009)
- Law clerk to the Honorable Justice Daniel E. Winfree Special Assistant to Attorney General Daniel S. Sullivan Chief Assistant Attorney General, Civil Appeals Section, Alaska Department of Law

### Education

- He later received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2008, also magna cum laude and inducted into.

### Additional information

- Term: Ends Feb 5, 2035
- Re‐elected: Nov 5, 2024 (60.6% yes)
- Appointed: July 1, 2020 by Gov.
- He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College in 2002, graduating magna cum laude, and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo from 2002 to 2004.
- Born: Dec 11, 1979, Springfield, MA
- Dario Borghesan was born December 11, 1979 in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- Mike Dunleavy
- Based in Anchorage.
- Full name: Dario Borghesan
- As an Associate Justice, Borghesan participates in the Alaska Supreme Court’s appellate jurisdiction over civil and criminal cases, along with supervisory authority over lower courts.

## Before you appear

- Read the judge-specific standing order first when one is listed.
- Check the docket and case orders for requirements that supersede broader guidance.
- Confirm current remote-access and courtroom technology arrangements before the proceeding.

## Courtroom Rules

### photography filming recording

Scope: statewide

Alaska generally prohibits photographing, filming, and recording in courthouse common areas unless an application is approved, while separate courtroom and adjacent-area rules remain governed by Administrative Rule 50 and Administrative Bulletin No. 45.

Evidence excerpt: Except as specifically authorized by this order, photographing, filming, and recording are permitted in common areas inside the courthouse only upon the issuance of an approved application.

[Presiding Judges' Statewide Order on Use of Cameras and Electronic Devices in Common Areas of Court Facilities](https://courts.alaska.gov/jord/docs/2023/statewide-electronic-devices.pdf)
Source checked: 2026-07-26

### courtroom media requests

Scope: statewide

Alaska states that media may request permission from a judicial officer for coverage inside a particular courtroom or adjacent area, and the judicial officer rules on those requests.

Evidence excerpt: not intended to interfere with or restrict the rights of the media to request permission from a judicial officer to allow media coverage within a particular courtroom or adjacent area

[Presiding Judges' Statewide Order on Use of Cameras and Electronic Devices in Common Areas of Court Facilities](https://courts.alaska.gov/jord/docs/2023/statewide-electronic-devices.pdf)
Source checked: 2026-07-26


## Sources

- [Official profile](https://courts.alaska.gov/judges/)
- [Official roster](https://courts.alaska.gov/judges/)
- [Alaska Court System official judicial roster](https://courts.alaska.gov/judges/)
- [Presiding Judges' Statewide Order on Use of Cameras and Electronic Devices in Common Areas of Court Facilities](https://courts.alaska.gov/jord/docs/2023/statewide-electronic-devices.pdf)
- [Hearings & Trials](https://courts.alaska.gov/trialcourts/hearings.htm)
- [ajc.alaska.gov](https://ajc.alaska.gov/judges/judgemain.html)
- [www.elections.alaska.gov](https://www.elections.alaska.gov/election/2024/General/OEPbooks/2024-AK-OEP_Region4_web72dpi.pdf)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Borghesan)
- [ajc.alaska.gov](https://ajc.alaska.gov/judges/judgemain.html)
- [courts.alaska.gov](https://courts.alaska.gov/jord/docs/2023/statewide-electronic-devices.pdf)
- [courts.alaska.gov](https://courts.alaska.gov/judges/)
- [courts.alaska.gov](https://courts.alaska.gov/trialcourts/hearings.htm)
- [www.elections.alaska.gov](https://www.elections.alaska.gov/election/2024/General/OEPbooks/2024-AK-OEP_Region4_web72dpi.pdf)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Borghesan)
- [ajc.alaska.gov](https://ajc.alaska.gov/judges/judgemain.html)
- [courts.alaska.gov](https://courts.alaska.gov/jord/docs/2023/statewide-electronic-devices.pdf)
- [courts.alaska.gov](https://courts.alaska.gov/judges/)
- [courts.alaska.gov](https://courts.alaska.gov/trialcourts/hearings.htm)
- [www.elections.alaska.gov](https://www.elections.alaska.gov/election/2024/General/OEPbooks/2024-AK-OEP_Region4_web72dpi.pdf)
- [en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Borghesan)

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## Published courtroom rules

### Shared court rules

- [Presiding Judges' Statewide Order on Use of Cameras and Electronic Devices in Common Areas of Court Facilities](https://knowjudges.com/courtroom-rules/national-shared-set-4195c4aa8c36145cd11c25b9) — Scope is limited to the court class in the source claim.  Shared court context only; case-type restrictions, exceptions, later amendments and case orders apply. This is not a personal preference or a complete rules inventory. [Official source](https://courts.alaska.gov/jord/docs/2023/statewide-electronic-devices.pdf). Collected 2026-07-26.