Darrel J. Gardner
| Darrel J. Gardner | |
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| Born |
Darrel James Gardner June 18, 1957 Anchorage, Alaska, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Assistant Federal Defender, District of Alaska |
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| Children | 1 |
| Parent(s) | James T. Gardner and Joyce K. Gardner |
| Website | [5] |
Darrel J. Gardner (born 1957 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a criminal defense lawyer in Alaska. He is a founding director and former president of the Alaska Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; former president of the Alaska Chapter of the Federal Bar Association; Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference; and member of the Board of Governors of the Alaska Bar Association.
Darrel Gardner was born in Anchorage, in the Territory of Alaska, shortly before statehood. His parents were both from small towns in Minnesota, and his aunt and uncle, Wilhelmina ("Minnie") and Frank Swanda, were among the 203 original Colony families of Palmer and the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. His cousin, Dorothy Swanda Jones, served on the Assembly and as Mayor of the Mat-Su Borough; the Mat-Su Borough Administration building in Palmer is named in her honor. Gardner received his B.A. in English from Santa Clara University, California in 1980; he was a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, the National Jesuit Honor Society, and Phi Alpha Theta, the National History Honor Society. Gardner was also an exchange student at the University of London and the Institute of European Studies in Paris. Following college, Gardner moved to San Francisco. Gardner obtained his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of California, San Francisco Hastings College of the Law in 1983. Gardner attained honors in moot court during his second year of law school, and he was thereafter selected to be a member of the 1982-83 Hastings Moot Court Board.
Gardner began his career as private lawyer at a small firm in Anchorage in 1983. In the early 1990s he joined the Alaska Office of Public Advocacy as an Assistant Public Advocate. At the time, Gardner was the state's only traveling felony attorney engaged in statewide criminal defense of class A and unclassified felony crimes. Gardner left state employment in 2003 to open his own private criminal law practice emphasizing the defense of serious felony and federal prosecutions. In 2008 Gardner was appointed to the federal Criminal Justice Act Panel for the District of Alaska, and he was later appointed to the CJA Panel Advisory Committee. In 2012 Gardner left private practice and returned to public service as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the United States Courts, District of Alaska.
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