Former Alaska Chief Justice Craig Stowers, who retired from the Alaska Supreme Court in 2020, died on Thursday. He was 67.
Current Chief Justice Daniel Winfree notified court staff of Stowers’ passing in an email on Friday. In it, Winfree wrote that Stowers had died peacefully Thursday evening. He did not include a cause of death.
“I don’t know that Craig ever really got over leaving his job as a Park Ranger in Denali National Park, but I know he loved his work as a law clerk, judge, justice, and chief justice,” Winfree wrote in the email.and worked as a naturalist and ranger in Denali National Park. He earned his law degree in 1985 from the University of California School of Law at Davis, and became an Anchorage Superior Court judge in 2004.
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