Bruce Botelho

Infobox Officeholder


name = Bruce M. Botelho
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order = Mayor of Juneau, Alaska
term_start = 2003
term_end = "Present"
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successor = "Incumbent"
birth_date = 1948
birth_place = Juneau, Alaska
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party = Democrat
spouse = Maria De Guadalupe Alvarez
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order2 = Alaska Attorney General
term_start2 = 1994
term_end2 = 2002
president =
predecessor2 =
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order3 = Mayor of Juneau, Alaska
term_start3 = 1988
term_end3 = 1991
predecessor3 = Ernest E. Polley
successor3 = Jamie Parsons

Bruce M. Botelho (born 1948) is an American attorney and politician in the state of Alaska. Born in Juneau, Alaska, he has served as the mayor of Juneau on two occasions and was the Alaska Attorney General for eight years. He is currently mayor of Juneau.

Early life

Bruce Botelho was born in Juneau, Alaska, in 1948.cite web
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title = Elections 2006 Juneau Municipal Candidate Detail Page
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accessdate = 2006-11-19 ] He was raised in that city, and later attended school in Germany as a high school exchange student. After high school he graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, with a Bachelor of Arts in German Literature in 1971. Botelho then went to law school and graduated from Willamette’s School of Law with a Juris Doctorate in 1976. He also earned a ZP (Germanistik), at Ruprecht Karl Universität in Heidelberg, Germany. He married the former Maria De Guadalupe Alvarez, known as Lupita, and they have two children, Alex and Adriana. Bruce is an accomplished international folk dancer.

Career

The first job out of college for Bruce was in the Alaska Attorney General’s office in 1976.cite web
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title = Bruce Botelho: Problem-solver
work = Alumni Close Up
publisher = Willamette University College of Law
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url = http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/news/promos/full_story/0405_bb.htm
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accessdate = 2006-11-19 ] He then began his political career in 1983 when he was elected to the City and Borough of Juneau assembly. He was elected as mayor of Juneau in 1988, serving until 1991. Then in 1994 he was appointed by the governor as Alaska’s acting , although never confirmed, Attorney General, a position he retained through 2002. [ [http://www.law.state.ak.us/department/ag_past.html Past Attorney's General.] State of Alaska. Retrieved on February 21 2008.] In 2003, he was elected to his second term as mayor of Juneau. In October 2006, Botelho was re-elected. Botelho is a member of the Tongass Futures Roundtable, a trustee of the Alaska Permanent Fund, a member of the Alaska Children's Trust, serves on the Alaska Rural Justice and Law Enforcement Commission, and is a member of the Alaska Municipal League, he also participates in Boy Scouts Troop 11, with his son Alex.

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