Judiciary Backs Sexual Misconduct Findings Against Alaska Judge

A national judicial conduct committee backed findings that Joshua Kindred sexually harassed his former clerk and created a hostile work environment while serving as a federal judge in Alaska.

The Judicial Conference’s Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability said in a Thursday decision that the Ninth Circuit judicial council “conducted a thorough investigation” and “afforded Judge Kindred all the process he was due.”

Kindred, a Trump appointee who joined the bench in 2020, stepped down last month after the circuit’s judicial panel found he had an “inappropriately sexualized relationship” with one of his clerks that constituted harassment,and created a hostile ...