Her father, Hans A. Berg, was from Otteren (near Davik), Nordfjord, Norway. Her mother, Mandis, hailed from a village near Lindesberg, Sweden. When her mother was seven month pregnant, she left the Alaska Territory and moved to Tacoma, Washington, where Berg was born on November 28, 1925.
George Washington University. Yale Law School.
She served as Alaska"s attorney general from 1987 to 1989. Grace L. Berg was the product of immigrant parents. Both arrived in the United States separately in 1910.
While still a babe in arms, she returned with her mother to Alaska.
She attended public schools in Juneau and graduated from high school in May 1943. Rather than immediately enroll in college, she took time off to work.
She would alternate between work and academic pursuits until she finished her studies at Yale Law School in January 1959. He was a prominent physician in Alaska and head of the Alaska Native Health Services Hospital in Tanana.
After graduating from law school, Schaible clerked for the law firm of McNealy, Merdes, Camarot and Fitzgerald in Fairbanks before taking the bar exam in October 1959.
Beginning in 1960, she practiced law for the firm, eventually becoming a partner. Foreign nine years she simultaneously served as general counsel for Arctic Slope Regional Corporation. In 1987, she became Alaska"s attorney general, the first female attorney general of any state.
She served in that capacity until 1989.
Other positions she"s held include chair of the Alaska Permanent Fund, the first female to do southern In 2009, Schaible was inducted into the inaugural class of the Alaska Women"s Hall of Fame.
