Monica Elkinton

Monica Elkinton is an Assistant Municipal Prosecutor at the Municipality of Anchorage. She handles over one thousand misdemeanor cases per year, all involving domestic violence, from screening and investigation to jury trial or negotiation through sentencing.

Prior to joining the prosecutor’s office, she was an Assistant Municipal Attorney, handling civil litigation for the Municipality in the areas of workers compensation, employment discrimination, civil rights, contracts, and personal injury. She runs the law student intern/extern program for the Municipality of Anchorage, placing interns in three different departments in city government every year.

She also formerly had a solo law practice with a focus on criminal defense, family law, and landlord-tenant law, and worked for the Alaska Public Defender Agency as a public defender. She started her career as a law clerk for Judge Sen K. Tan on the Alaska Superior Court.

 Ms. Elkinton currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Anchorage Women’s Commission, and on the CLE Committee of the Alaska Bar Association. She is a former member of other Alaska Bar statewide committees and a former Chair of the Alaska Bar’s Section on Unbundled Law.

 She has a B.A. in Mathematics from Bard College, and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. She and her husband are raising two young wonderful daughters.