Alex Bryner
Alexander Ostroumov "Alex" Bryner (born July 26, 1943) is a Chinese-born 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, 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.