Albert Kookesh
Board Co-Chair
Sealaska Corporation

Senator Albert M. Kookesh serves in the Alaska State Legislature for Senate District C, the Largest in the United States. In 1996 he was elected into the State House of Representatives (D), and in 2004 to the Senate. He received his undergraduate degree from the Alaska Methodist University and law degree from the University of Washington, J.D. In service to the Native community, Sen. Kookesh is the Co-Chair of the AFN Board of Directors, Chair of the Sealaska Corporation, Trustee of the First Alaskans Institute, and Executive Committee Member for life in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand Camp. He is Tlingit of the Eagle - Bear Clan and his is Ka'shaan and lived his whole life in Angoon with his wife Sally Woods-Kookesh from Tanana. He is a proud father of five children and five grandchildren.

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