Alex Bryner

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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 Tientsin, 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. 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.

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Legal offices
Preceded by
James L. Swartz
United States Attorney for the District of Alaska
1977 – 1980
Succeeded by
Rene J. Gonzalez
Preceded by
Jay Rabinowitz
Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
1997 – 2007
Succeeded by
Daniel Winfree
Preceded by
Dana Fabe
Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
2003 – 2006
Succeeded by
Dana Fabe