Alex Bryner
Alexander Ostroumov Bryner (born July 26, 1943) is a Chinese-born Russian American retired lawyer and jurist. Bryner was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska from February 1997 to October 2007.
Born in Tianjin, China in 1943 to Russian immigrant parents, Bryner was raised in Menlo Park, California.[1] He received his J.D. from Stanford University in 1969, thereafter moving to Alaska and serving as a law clerk for Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice George Boney.[1] He returned to Alaska to settle permanently in Anchorage in 1972. Bryner served as the U.S. attorney for Alaska from 1977 to 1980,[2] when he was appointed to the newly created Alaska Court of Appeals.[3] He served as that court's chief judge until he was appointed to the Supreme Court, replacing that court's longest-serving justice, Jay Rabinowitz. Bryner retired in 2007.
Bryner married Carol Crump, an artist, with whom he had a son and a daughter.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program page on Alex Bryner.
- ^ "The Political Graveyard: U.S. District Attorneys in Alaska".
- ^ a b "Three chosen for appeals court", Anchorage Times (July 28, 1980), p. 1.
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[edit]- 1943 births
- Justices of the Alaska Supreme Court
- American people of Russian descent
- Chinese emigrants to the United States
- Living people
- Lawyers from Anchorage, Alaska
- People from Menlo Park, California
- United States Attorneys for the District of Alaska
- Politicians from Anchorage, Alaska
- Chief justices of the Alaska Supreme Court