Alex Cleghorn is the Senior Legal and Policy Director of the Alaska Native Justice Center. Alex is of Sugpiaq descent, a tribal citizen of Tangirnaq Native Village (Woody Island), and a shareholder of Alaska Native Corporations – Natives of Kodiak, Koniag Incorporated, and CIRI. As an attorney licensed in Alaska, California, and several tribal jurisdictions, his work has focused primarily on representing tribal interests. Alex is President of the Woody Island Tribal Council, a pro tem judge of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Alutiiq Museum, Koniag, Inc., and the Alaska Native Heritage Center. He was a 2018-2019 Marshall Memorial Fellow and served as a Special Assistant to the Alaska Attorney General on Alaska Native legal issues, General Counsel of Southcentral Foundation, and Chief Judge of the Northern California Intertribal Court System. He is a husband and a father and lives in Anchorage with his family.
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