Background
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Carpeneti was the son of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Walter I. Carpeneti.
Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Carpeneti was the son of San Francisco Superior Court Judge Walter I. Carpeneti.
Stanford University; University of California Berkeley School of Law.
After receiving an Bachelor of Arts in history from Stanford University in 1967 and a Juris Doctor from the University of California Berkeley School of Law in 1970, the younger Carpeneti became a law clerk for Alaska Supreme Court Justices John H. Dimond and Jay Rabinowitz. Leaving the family law practice, Carpeneti returned to Alaska in 1974 to join the Alaska Public Defender Agency as supervising attorney of its Juneau office. He left the Public Defender Agency in 1978 to enter private practice with William T. Council.
He was also the reporter to the Supreme Court"s Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions Committee.
On October 15, 1981, Governor Jay Hammond appointed Carpeneti to the Alaska Superior Court. He was also Chair of the Supreme Court"s Criminal Sentencing Practices and Procedures Committee.
In 1998, Governor Tony Knowles, a Democrat, appointed Carpeneti to the Alaska Supreme Court. While on the Supreme Court, he chaired its Judicial Education Committee.
Carpeneti served as the 16th Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from 2009 to 2012.
During his term as Chief Justice, he also served as Second Vice President on the Board of Directors of the national Conference of Chief Justices. In 1969, Carpeneti married Anne Dose, with whom he has four children: Chris, Marianna, Lia, and Bianca.
During this time, he was a member of the Alaska Judicial Council and of the committee that drafted the Alaska Rules of Evidence. While on the Superior Court, he was a member of the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct and of the Three-Judge Sentencing Panel.