Andy Josephson was born in Anchorage, AK in 1964. Andy is a certified school teacher and actively taught in the mid-Kuskokwim region from 1991-1994 in the village of Kalskag. After law school, Andy was a judicial law clerk to superior court judges in Fairbanks and Kenai. Following that, he served as an Assistant District Attorney in Kotzebue. Andy entered the private practice of law in 2001 and practiced law in Anchorage from 2001-2012. During portions of that span, Andy taught Constitutional Law at U.A.A. (5 years), and served on the municipal Zoning Board of Examiners and Appeals and the Planning and Zoning Commission.Andy was elected to the Alaska State House of Representatives serving the UMED District in 2012. He holds a B.A. in History from Whitman College, and Master of Arts in Teaching from U.A.A., and a Juris Doctorate from Penn State-Dickinson.