Rex Lamont Butler has been an attorney in Anchorage for four decades, since he graduated from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. Soon after graduating from high school in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rex served as a hospital corpsman in the U.S. Navy from 1969 to 1973. After earning his B.A. in journalism from the University of North Florida, he worked for a time for The Florida Star newspaper. After earning his law degree in 1983, he worked as an associate for Anchorage attorney M. Ashley Dickerson, and then as a legislative aide for Alaska State Senator Joe Josephson. He also worked as an assistant attorney general in the Consumer Protection Division, served as general counsel for the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. for President Committee-Alaska, and taught for 16 years as an adjunct professor. Since founding his own firm in 1985, Rex has specialized in criminal defense work. He has been active in the community and in his church and has received a number of honors including a Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award, and a public service award from Anchorage Mayor Tony Knowles. Rex and his wife Stephanie have four children and a granddaughter.