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Zoë Wise focuses on employment matters. Before joining the firm, she clerked for the Alaska Supreme Court, where she analyzed appellate case files, drafted bench memoranda and opinions, and researched Alaska and federal law. Zoë also brings experience supporting tribal governments and justice systems through prior legal and clinical roles. Prior to law school, Zoë worked as a paralegal and taught English at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Zoë is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
Admitted to Practice
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Alaska, 2026
Education
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J.D., University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 2025, cum laude
- Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Certificate
- Editor-in-Chief, Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy
- Sol Resnick Water Resources Fellow
- CALI Award, Tribal Water Law, Advanced Legal Research
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M.F.A., Creative Writing, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019
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B.A., English, Western Washington University, 2013
Background
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- Judicial Law Clerk, Chief Justice Susan Carney, Alaska Supreme Court, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2025-2026
- Law Clerk, Alaska Native Justice Center, Anchorage, Alaska, Summer 2023 and Summer 2025
- Summer Associate, Sonosky, Chambers, Sachse, Miller & Monkman, Anchorage, Alaska, 2024
- Adjunct Professor of English, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2016-2022