Arliss Sturgulewski received a BA in Economics and Business from the University of Washington and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from University of Alaska Anchorage in 1993.

Arliss has served on many municipal boards.
She was elected to the Anchorage Charter Commission, the Anchorage Assembly, and to the Alaska State Senate from 1979 through 1993.
 Sturgulewski originally ran for an open Senate seat in 1978 when one-term Republican incumbent Joseph Orsini, an engineering professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, did not seek re-election.
 Sturgulewski defeated Democratic nominee Bruce Kendall, who had defected to the Democrats since leaving the legislature over a decade prior.
 Mostly easily re-elected ever since, she chose not to stand for re-election in 1992.

In 1986 and 1990, she won the Republican primary for governor.
In 1990, her running mate Jack Coghill defected to the third party candidate Walter J. Hickel.
There was opposition within the Republican party to her abortion rights and development positions.

She is a trustee for the University of Alaska Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Alaska, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, in addition to numerous other statewide boards and commissions.

Her papers are held at University of Alaska Anchorage.

Her husband, Bernard Sturgulewski, died in a plane crash in 1968.
 Their only child, Bernard Jr. (nicknamed "Roe") is married to Carol Murkowski, the oldest of the six children of Nancy and Frank Murkowski (and the older sister of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski).
Arliss Sturgulewski received a BA in Economics and Business from the University of Washington and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from University of Alaska Anchorage in 1993.
Arliss has served on many municipal boards. She was elected to the Anchorage Charter Commission, the Anchorage Assembly, and to the Alaska State Senate from 1979 through 1993.  Sturgulewski originally ran for an open Senate seat in 1978 when one-term Republican incumbent Joseph Orsini, an engineering professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, did not seek re-election.  Sturgulewski defeated Democratic nominee Bruce Kendall, who had defected to the Democrats since leaving the legislature over a decade prior.  Mostly easily re-elected ever since, she chose not to stand for re-election in 1992.
In 1986 and 1990, she won the Republican primary for governor. In 1990, her running mate Jack Coghill defected to the third party candidate Walter J. Hickel. There was opposition within the Republican party to her abortion rights and development positions.
She is a trustee for the University of Alaska Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Council for the University of Alaska, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, in addition to numerous other statewide boards and commissions.
Her papers are held at University of Alaska Anchorage.
Her husband, Bernard Sturgulewski, died in a plane crash in 1968.  Their only child, Bernard Jr. (nicknamed "Roe") is married to Carol Murkowski, the oldest of the six children of Nancy and Frank Murkowski (and the older sister of U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski).
Arliss Sturgulewski