Harry Arend

{{Short description|American judge, 1903–1966}}

{{infobox officeholder

|name=Harry Arend

|office=Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court

|term_start=May 1960

|term_end=January 1965

|predecessor=Walter Hartman Hodge

|successor=Jay Rabinowitz

|office2=United States Attorney for the Fourth Division of Alaska Territory

|term_start2=1944

|term_end2=1949

|predecessor2=Ralph Rivers

|successor2=Everett W. Hepp

|birth_name=Harry Oscar Arend

|birth_date={{birth date|1903|10|26}}

|birth_place=Spokane, Washington, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1966|6|28|1903|10|26}}

|education=University of Washington (LLB, LLM)

|profession=Jurist

}}

Harry Oscar Arend (October 26, 1903 – June 28, 1966) was an American jurist who served as a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court from May 1960 to January 1965. He is the only member of this court to have lost an election for retention to office. A street is named in his honor in the outskirts of Ester, Alaska.

Born in Spokane, Washington, Arend received his Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws degrees from the University of Washington."Former Justice Harry Arend Collapses, Dies in Anchorage", Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (June 28, 1966), p. 1, 7.

Arend moved to Alaska in 1933, and was a schoolteacher for a year until his admission to the bar. He served as United States attorney for the District of Alaska, and in 1959 was appointed presiding judge for the Fourth Judicial District, and then associate justice of the Alaska Supreme Court."For Harry Arend", Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (June 30, 1966), p. 4. In 1964, he was defeated in a retention election following "a complicated dispute between the Supreme Court and the Alaska Bar Association".

After leaving the court, Arend served as a regional solicitor for the United States Department of the Interior.

Arend was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.[http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/mormon.html political graveyard entry on Arend]. In the mid-1950s Arend served as president of the Fairbanks branch of the church.[http://www.akleg.gov/pdf/billfiles/ConstitutionalConvention/Proceedings/Proceedings%20-%20Day%2033%20-%20December%2010%201955%20-%20Pages%20650-659.pdf transcript of Alaska Constitutional Convention].