Alaska District Judge Resigned Over Inappropriate Sexual Relationship, Misconduct: Judicial Council

A former U.S. district judge in Alaska, Joshua Kindred, resigned after allegedly creating a hostile environment for his law clerks and having an inappropriate sexual relationship with one of them, according to a misconduct order filed with the Judicial Council for the Ninth Circuit. The council said it asked Judge Kindred to voluntarily resign from his position over the misconduct allegations. The district judge tendered his resignation on July 3, and it became effective on July 8. In a 30-page judicial misconduct order, filed in May and made public on July 8, the council concluded that then-Judge Kindred engaged in misconduct and had “an inappropriately sexualized relationship with one of his law clerks both during her clerkship and after she became an Assistant United States Attorney.”...