 after the resignation this month of U.S. District Court Judge Joshua Kindred, which left only one full-time federal judge in Alaska. Kindred's resignation came at the request of the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit Court, which has also sent the matter to the Judicial Conference of the United States to consider impeachment proceedings against Kindred. Kindred, 46, had an inappropriate sexual relationship with one of his clerks, who later became an assistant U.S. attorney in Alaska, the report found.