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Craig Stowers

Alaska Supreme Court

Biography

LENGTH OF RESIDENCY IN ALASKA: 35 years ALASKA COMMUNITIES LIVED IN:
McKinley Park, Juneau, Anchorage
EDUCATION:
I majored in biology and received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Blackburn College in 1975. I earned my J.D. in 1985 from the University of California School of Law at Davis. (Order of the Coif.) I have taken a number of post-graduate courses in theology, Biblical studies, and Christian counseling.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
I worked for several years as a National Park Ranger at Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia. I transferred to Mount McKinley National Park (now known as Denali National Park) in Alaska in 1977, where I was the East District Naturalist and then the West District Ranger. While in law school, I was employed for two years by Professor Daniel Fessler and the Alaska Code Revision Commission to research and prepare drafts of what became the Alaska Corporations Code, the Alaska Nonprofit Corporations Code, and the official commentary to those acts. I served as a judicial law clerk for Justice Robert Boochever of the United States Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit) in Juneau, and then as a law clerk for Justice Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme Court in Anchorage. Thereafter, I was an attorney and partner with Atkinson, Conway & Gagnon, and subsequently founded the Anchorage- Fairbanks law firm, Clapp, Peterson, and Stowers.
I was appointed to the Alaska Superior Court in Anchorage in 2004 by Governor Frank Murkowski, and appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court by Governor Sean Parnell in 2009.
I have served as a member on a number of committees of the Alaska Court System, the Alaska Bar Association, and various legal organizations, including among others the Alaska Bar Examiners Committee, the Civil Pattern Jury Instructions Committee, the Judicial Education Committee, and the Appellate Rules Committee.

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