Grace Berg Schaible has been a major player in the shaping of this state and its institutions.
She started her law career in Fairbanks, becoming the first person admitted to practice in the newly-minted Alaska court system. A graduate of the University of Alaska, she served on its Board of Regents, 1985-87, and currently serves as a member of the UAF Board of Visitors. From her private law practice, she was appointed in 1987 as the first (and to date, only) female Attorney General . She served, again as the first woman, as chair of the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Permanent Fund from 1995-97. In 1998 to 2003, she was the President of the Board of Trustees, University of Alaska Foundation. She has been a major donor of money, land, buildings and art to the university system. Among her many, many awards, she received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from UAF in 1991 and in 2000 the William A. Egan Outstanding Alaskan award from the Alaska Chamber of Commerce.
The recent (2009) comments of President Mark Hamilton in connection with her latest award, the University of Alaska President’s Medal for Excellence, best sums up the breadth and depth of her contributions to shaping Alaska: “Grace has been a steadfast supporter of the University of Alaska and this entire state for so long that it is inconceivable for me to think how Alaska would be today without her having touched it so tremendously.”
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Americanbar.org
uaf.edu/marketing/media/F97/030.html
Alaska Alumnus, spring 1976, Grace Berg Schaible: Arctic Attorney