Christine Hutchison, a conservative Republican activist on the Kenai Peninsula, unexpectedly died Thursday, April 27..
“Live every day, every minute, as if it were your last because one day you will lay down and not get up. RIP my friend. Christine Hutchison was a remarkable lady and today she was called home. You will be missed by all,” wrote former Rep. Ron Gillham.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Montana State University Billings.
Before retiring, Hutchison worked at Hilcorp, where she was a senior field operations assistant. She also worked for Chevron and Unocal in similar positions.
She served on the Kenai Harbor Commission and was a Regional Representative for the Alaska Republican Party.
“With a bachelor’s degree in education, it came naturally for me to encourage people to become informed about government; however, the difficulty in getting Kenai people inspired enough to become involved confused me,” she wrote when she filed for Kenai City Council in 2016. She was concerned that the city council was not responsive to the needs of citizens, was not as business-friendly as she would like it to be. She also ran for borough Assembly in 2020.
During the Covid pandemic, she became concerned about medical freedom issues, and advocated for early treatment of Covid and the use of medications such as Ivermectin. She served on the steering committee for Convention Yes, which advocated for a constitutional convention in Alaska, and she had a keen interest in reforming the judicial system in the state, including keeping judges from interfering with grand juries.
This report will be updated when details are available.
