Dorothy Awes Haaland was born in Minnesota, received her law degree in Iowa, and moved to Alaska in 1945 where she was one of the first women to be admitted to the bar. In 1955 she was elected as a delegate to the Alaska Constitutional Convention, where she chaired the Committee on the Preamble and Bill of Rights. In 1957 she was elected to the last territorial legislature and then went to work for the new State of Alaska as an assistant attorney general for 16 years. She remained in the legal field as an Anchorage district attorney and finally the magistrate of Cordova.

Dorothy was a long-time member if the League of Women Voters because she believed that women should always be involved in public policy.

Sources

Creating Alaska website, University of Alaska
https://www.alaska.edu/creatingalaska/constitutional-convention/delegates/awes/

Obituary: OBITUARIES OF ALASKA’S PIONEERS, as extracted from “END OF THE TRAIL” a feature article of Alaska – The Magazine of Life on the Last Frontier, William Morris III, Publisher, and Ken Marsh, Editor4220 B St., Suite 210, Anchorage, AK 
https://files.usgwarchives.net/ak/obituaries/pioneers/akpione_l.txt