John Havelock

He co-founded and headed the law firm Havelock and Duffy until his retirement in 2019.

In 2012, Havelock published a book, Let's Get It Right: Why We Need an Alaska Constitutional Convention, supporting the convening of a new state constitutional convention.

He married several times, the last being May 17, 2008 to Mona (Pitts) Havelock who became his widow. They had a "shared family" of five children and seven grandchildren.

After the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, he became the lead lawyer and staff director for the state of Alaska commission which was tasked with investigating the accident.

In 1977, he became a professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He was a founding director of the University's Criminal Justice Center and its legal studies program. In 1990, he unsuccessfully ran for an Anchorage seat in the state Senate.

In 1974, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House, losing to Alaska Native Willie Hensley in the Democratic primary. Ten years after that loss, he finished second in the All-party primary for U.S. Senate though he lost to Republican incumbent Ted Stevens in the general election.

It is the foundation of Alaska Supreme Court opinions decriminalizing marijuana and upholding the right to abortion. Although in 1972, when it was crafted, there was concern over the government's collection of the personal data of Alaskans, but Havelock subsequently contended applying it to abortion rights is very appropriate. "It is a broad idea. Privacy should apply to that situation," "A woman's consultation with her doctor — Jiminy Crickets. There's a limit to what you can do with that with a judicial proceeding."

After four years at the Alaska Department of Law he entered private practice. In 1967 Havelock was named a Fellow at the White House, working as a special assistant to Orville Freeman, the Secretary of Agriculture. He was appointed as the state's Attorney General by Governor Bill Egan in 1970, an office he held for three years. In that capacity he drafted the Constitutional Privacy Amendment. Havelock said he was approached by then-Senate President, Republican Terry Miller] with a draft privacy amendment intended to be adopted into the Alaska Constitution. Instead Havelock drafted a 22-word substitute which was adopted as he had written it.

Havelock was born in Toronto, Canada and emigrated to the United States when he was fourteen years old. He attended boarding school in the U.S., and entered Harvard where he graduated in 1956 and was drafted into the U.S. Army where he served as a military police investigator. After his discharge, he reentered Harvard and graduated from law school in 1959, he moved to Alaska.

John Eric Havelock (July 30, 1932 – August 31, 2021) was the Attorney General of Alaska from 1971-1973, a champion of individual privacy and Native American resource and subsistence rights.