Jay Rabinowitz (jurist)
| Jay Andrew Rabinowitz | |
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Jay Rabinowitz during his first term as chief justice.
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| Chief Justice of Alaska Supreme Court | |
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In office 1972–1992 |
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| Preceded by | George Boney |
| Succeeded by | Allen T. Compton |
| Associate Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court | |
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In office March 4, 1965 – February 28, 1997 |
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| Appointed by | Bill Egan |
| Preceded by | Harry O. Arend |
| Succeeded by | Alexander O. Bryner |
| Personal details | |
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February 25, 1927 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Died | June 16, 2001 (aged 74) Seattle, Washington |
| Spouse(s) | Anne |
Jay Andrew Rabinowitz (February 25, 1927 – June 16, 2001) was an American lawyer, jurist, and Chief Justice of the Alaska Supreme Court four non-consecutive terms (1972–1975, 1978–1981, 1984–1987, 1990–1992) remaining active as a justice from February 1965 to February 1997.
Rabinowitz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a Jewish-American family. His paternal grandfather had emigrated from Riga, Latvia to Woodbine, New Jersey at age fourteen, leaving his own family behind. Jay Rabinowitz grew up in Brooklyn, New York where his father, Milton, a 1922 graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, worked as a bookkeeper for a wholesale fish distributor during the [[Great Depression]].
Jay served in the U.S. Army Air Forces near the end of World War II. During his service overseas Rabinowitz happened to meet his great-uncle Chaim, whom he'd never before met, in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Chaim was the family's only relative in Europe who had survived the Holocaust. Following some careful forgery of paperwork, Chaim was able to join his relatives in Brooklyn after the war ended.
After returning home, Jay Rabinowitz attended Syracuse University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949.
He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1952 and was admitted to the bar in New York State the same year. After practicing law in New York City for five years, Rabinowitz moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, accepting a position as law clerk to U.S. Territorial Court Judge Vernon Forbes in 1957. Later that year, he met and married Anne Nesbit. The couple remained together until Rabinowitz's death in 2001.
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