David W. Márquez
# David W. Márquez

David W. Márquez (born 1946) is an American lawyer and politician, and the former attorney general of the state of Alaska. He is the Senior VP and COO of NANA Development Corporation, an Alaska native corporation, owned by the Iñupiaq people of northwest Alaska.

## Early life and education

Márquez was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. He graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, and was admitted to the Alaska Bar Association in 1973.

## Career

After a career working in the oil industry, including jobs doing land title work for the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, as general counsel for the pipeline operator Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, and later ARCO. Márquez then moved into politics, serving as Chief Assistant Attorney General, Legislative and Regulations Section in the Alaska Department of Law, and the Acting Deputy Attorney General for the Civil Division.

On March 31, 2005, Governor Frank Murkowski appointed Márquez as Alaska Attorney General. He served as Attorney General until Sarah Palin took office as the new governor of Alaska on December 4, 2006.

