Holm appointed to redistricting board

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
July 9, 2010

FAIRBANKS — Former state Rep. Jim Holm, of Fairbanks, will serve on the state board appointed to redraw Alaska’s election district boundaries following the 2010 U.S. Census.

House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, appointed Holm on Thursday. Holm joins former Kodiak Mayor Robert Brodie, Albert Clough of Douglas and former state Sen. John Torgerson, R-Soldotna, on the state Redistricting Board.

Brodie was appointed by Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak. Torgerson and Clough were Gov. Sean Parnell’s picks. The final member will be named by Alaska Supreme Court Justice Walter Carpeneti.

Holm served two terms as a Republican in the state House, from 2003 to 2006. He also spent one term on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, from 1999 to 2002.

Holm owns Holm Town Nursery and has served with a variety of civic organizations, including the Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce, Fairbanks Rotary, Greater Fairbanks Memorial Hospital Foundation and the Fairbanks Tanana Valley Fair Association.

“Jim is a no-nonsense, ‘tell it like it is’ kind of person, and I think we need to have someone with his approach and wealth of Alaska historical sense on the board,” Chenault said in a news release.

The Redistricting Board will begin meeting after release of the 2010 Census data. The redistricting plan is to be in place before the 2012 general election.