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5 unusual facts about Kim Elton


Kim Elton

From 1995 to 1999, Elton represented the 3rd District, which encompasses the portion of Juneau on the mainland from Thane to Juneau International Airport, in addition to Douglas Island.

He left the Assembly in 1994 to run for an open seat in the Alaska House of Representatives, which incumbent Fran Ulmer had given up to successfully run for lieutenant governor.

Muñoz, whose family came to Juneau from Wrangell in 1928, became the fourth generation in her family to hold elected office in Southeast Alaska when she was appointed to replace Dennis Egan (who was appointed Juneau's mayor) on the Juneau Assembly in 1995.

Elton served in a number of staff positions in state government: he was a staff assistant to the Legislative Ethics Committee, an assistant State Ombudsman, Director of Policy for Lieutenant Governor Terry Miller, and as Executive Director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute.

During his second term in the House, Elton moved from downtown Juneau to Point Louisa, at mile 15 of the Glacier Highway, located in the Mendenhall Valley-centered 4th District represented by Republican Bill Hudson.


Elton Engstrom, Jr.

After unsuccessfully challenging Juneau's state senator, Kim Elton, in 2002, she would be elected to the Alaska House in 2008 from a district centered on Juneau's Mendenhall Valley.


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