Craig Stowers

Craig F. Stowers is an American lawyer .

Life

Stowers grew up in Yorktown , Virginia . He studied at Blackburn College in Carlinville , Illinois , where he received a bachelor's degree in biology in 1975. After working as a Seasonal Park Ranger for the National Park Service at the Jewel Cave National Monument in South Dakota and the Colonial National Historical Park in Virginia between 1970 and 1976 , he began working as a permanent park ranger in the Colonial National Historical Park in 1976 . In 1977 he was transferred to Mount McKinley National Park in Alaska . In 1982 he left the National Park Service.

Stowers began studying at the Law School of the University of California, Davis , and received a Juris Doctor there in 1985 . He then served as judicial law clerk for Judge Robert Boochever of the 9th District of the United States Court of Appeals and then as law clerk for Judge Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme Court . He then began practicing as a lawyer in Alaska .

In 2004 he was appointed a judge at the Alaska Superior Court by Governor Frank Murkowski . He held this office until his appointment as judge at the Alaska Supreme Court in 2009 by Governor Sean Parnell . From July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2018, he was the Chief Justice of that court and chaired the Alaska Judicial Council .

Web links

• Short biography on the Alaska Court System website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Application for Judical Appointment , website of the Alaska Judicial Council