Daniel Edward Winfree (born February 1953) is an American lawyer who served as chief justice of the

Alaska Supreme Court The Alaska Supreme Court is the state supreme court for the U.S. state of Alaska. Its decisions are binding on all other Alaska state courts, and the only court its decisions may be appealed to is the Supreme Court of the United States. The Alas ...

from 2021 to 2023. He was appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court by Governor

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in 2008. He was sworn in on February 13, 2008.

Education

Winfree received a

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in finance from the

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in 1977, a

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from the

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and

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from

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both in 1981.

Alaska Supreme Court

He was appointed to the court in 2008 by Republican Governor

to succeed former Associate Justice

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. He retired from the court in February 2023.

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