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

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in 1943 to Russian immigrant parents, Bryner was raised in Menlo Park, California.University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program page on Alex Bryner
He received his J.D. from

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in 1969, thereafter moving to Alaska and serving as a

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for Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice

George Boney George Frank Boney (July 3, 1930 – August 30, 1972) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska from December 2, 1968, until his death. He was the court's second chief justice following the retirement of Buell A. Nesbett in 1970, becoming the ...

. He returned to Alaska to settle permanently in Anchorage in 1972. Bryner served as the U.S. attorney for Alaska from 1977 to 1980, when he was appointed to the newly created

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. 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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