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Assembly Leadership

Together, the Chair and Vice Chair form the Assembly's leadership team, responsible for facilitating effective governance, promoting transparency and civic engagement, and supporting the participation of all twelve Assembly members. They work jointly to organize committee assignments, communicate with the Mayor's Office and municipal departments, and uphold the legislative integrity and independence of the Anchorage Assembly as established in Anchorage Municipal Code Chapters 2.30 and 2.40 and the Anchorage Municipal Charter.

Learn more about the Chair and Vice Chair and read the Chair's regular reports on this page. 


​​Chair of the Anchorage Assembly

Photo of Christopher Constant


The Chair serves as the presiding officer of the Anchorage Assembly, elected by fellow Assembly members. Guided by the Anchorage Municipal Code, the Chair is responsible for ensuring the orderly and efficient conduct of Assembly meetings, maintaining decorum, and upholding the rules of procedure adopted by the body. The Chair sets Assembly agendas, signs official documents and ordinances, and serves as the primary liaison between the legislative and executive branches of municipal government. The Chair also represents the Assembly in ceremonial, intergovernmental, and community functions, articulating the collective priorities of the legislative body. ​Visit the Elections website​ to review the honor roll of previous chairs. 

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Assembly Chair Anna Brawley

Assembly Chair Anna Brawley represents District 3, West Anchorage. She was first elected in 2023 and became the Assembly Chair at the April 28, 2026 Regular Assembly Meeting.

anna.brawley@anchorageak.gov

 

Vice Chair of the Anchorage Assembly

Photo of Anna Brawley


The Vice Chair is also elected among members and serves as the Chair's principal deputy. The Vice Chair assumes the duties of the Chair in their absence or when delegated, supports the coordination of committee work, and helps ensure that legislative processes and records are handled consistently with municipal law and Assembly policy.


Assembly Vice Chair Daniel Volland

Assembly Vice Chair Daniel Volland represents District 1, North Anchorage. He was first elected in 2022 and became the Assembly Vice Chair at the April 28, 2026 Regular Assembly Meeting.

daniel.volland@anchorageak.gov 

Chair Report

At each Regular Assembly Meeting, the Chair gives a report on recent community events and issues of interest before the Assembly. If you missed the Chair's Report, you can catch up below.

Notice: this page contains the opinion and views of the Assembly Chair, which do not necessarily represent the views of the Anchorage Assembly or Municipality of Anchorage.​


April 28, 2026 - Chair Brawley

​View the recording​ of the remarks. 

After being voted in as the new Assembly Chair, Assembly Member Anna Brawley gave the following acceptance speech:

To my colleagues: thank you for your confidence in my leadership, and for Vice Chair Volland, reflected in this organization vote. Also congratulations to the new members, and colleagues returning to the body for another round. You have agreed to do a job that is difficult, impossible to do perfectly, but is also rewarding and meaningful.

The 12 of us are entrusted with leading the legislative branch of the Municipality, representing 290,000 residents from Eklutna and Chugiak, from Cook Inlet to the Chugach Range, down to Girdwood and Turnagain Arm (and of course, to quote two former colleagues, you can’t avoid Midtown). I look forward to working with all of you, the diverse communities you represent, and the unique perspectives, values, and energy we each bring to this dias.

We are inheriting an Assembly that is strong, committed to its policy priorities, and already hard at work toward achieving positive changes for the good of our community. But I also want to emphasize that this body, this institution, has been now entrusted to us 12, and it is ours to steward, to shape under our collective leadership and care. I am excited to continue strengthening, stewarding, and shaping this branch—we can anticipate more changes to come, after we all take time to settle into our roles.

I look forward to the next year of our work together, to realize some the results of our shared work, and also have some fun along the way.


April 28, 2026 - Chair Constant

​View the recording​ of the remarks. 


Tonight’s Agenda
Tonight we’re going to adjust the agenda in a few different ways. We’ll make some changes to the order of the recognitions resolutions and we’ll take up the certification of the election after we complete the first quarter budget amendment. It’s really not fair to the new Members to be asked to approve a half billion-dollar budget when they haven’t had the benefit of spending the last year working on it. So we’ll take up the certification of the election as the final action before this body dissolves and the new Assembly is empaneled.

Youth Representatives
Tonight will be full of goodbyes, but before we get caught up in the action, I want to recognize the final meeting of the current Youth Representative cohort. Over the past school year, these three young leaders (Kennedy Bowser of Chugiak High School, Gwyneth Eggleston of Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School, and Jacob Lavarias of West Anchorage High School) have brought thoughtful perspectives, energy, and a strong commitment to civic engagement in Anchorage. 

One thing they did which was quite amazing is that they helped lead a voter registration drive in high school senior social studies classes and this year, we had resounding results. Over 300 high school students registered to vote before the municipal election and it’s the most we ever had in that category of people to register to vote between February and March. And if an amendment to the budget passes later tonight, we will be setting up a high school civic leadership day, but we’ll have more discussion about that later tonight. It’s pretty exciting and that’s built on the work of these three youth Representatives – thank you for your service to the Municipality.

As a reminder to anyone who has a high school student in their lives, the application for next year’s cohort can be found at muni.org/assembly and applications are due by May 8, for ages 16-19.
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