Biography
Bernadette Wilson is an Anchorage business owner who has not held elected office. She owns the trash-collection company Denali Disposal, previously directed the Alaska chapter of Americans for Prosperity, and has worked on more than a dozen political campaigns. She advocates restoring the statutory Permanent Fund dividend and has criticized relying on bipartisan legislative coalitions.[1][2][3]
Wilson was born on the Kenai Peninsula and raised in Anchorage, and she is the great-niece of former Gov. Wally Hickel.[1] She owns Denali Disposal, an Anchorage trash-collection company that, according to her campaign website, she launched in 2016.[1][4]
Wilson hosted a talk-radio show until 2015, and she has worked as Alaska director of Americans for Prosperity and for the Alaska Policy Forum.[1] She has worked on more than a dozen campaigns, including Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson's and a 2010 ballot measure requiring parental notification of a minor's abortion, and she advised Rep. Nick Begich's 2024 campaign. As of May 2025 she was campaigning for a ballot measure to repeal ranked-choice voting.[1]
- 1.Third Republican candidate, Bernadette Wilson, enters Alaska governor's race · Alaska Beacon · 2025-05-14 News report
- 2.Heeding ranked choice voting, candidates refine their strategies in Alaska governor's race · Anchorage Daily News · 2026-09-17 News report
- 3.2026 Alaska gubernatorial election · Wikipedia · 2026-10-21 Reference
- 4.Bernadette Wilson for Governor · Bernadette Wilson campaign website Candidate's own words
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.