Galena District Court is part of Alaska's Fourth judicial district. The court location is a temporary site. A couple of good roads exist here suh as Airport road and Tiger freeway.

Galena lies along the Yukon river. With no connecting roads outside the city, water and air are the only means of transportation to and from the city. However the airport, a former United States Air Force airfield, now welcomes heavy air traffic from Fairbanks; and Anchorage and during the Summer there is travel by boats and barges between neighboring communities and this city. Galena has a heated indoor Olympic-sized swimming pool and is home to a University of Alaska/Fairbanks Rural campus. The city is also home to the the Galena Interior Learning academy, a statewide boarding school for studentsa statewide boarding school for students taking accredited grades 9 through 12 and post secondary adult vocational programs. Here students study for careers in aviation, automotive technology, cosmetology, health sciences and the culinary arts.

Magistrate Judge Hon. Christopher McLain