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Service at high court slated for ex-chief
By LUCY MORGAN, Times Tallahassee Bureau Chief
© St. Petersburg Times
published January 28, 2002
TALLAHASSEE -- A memorial service for former Supreme Court Justice Alan C. Sundberg will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Supreme Court.
Mr. Sundberg died Saturday in Jacksonville, where he was being treated for lung cancer. He was 68.
Florida State University president Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte and others will deliver eulogies at the service.
Mr. Sundberg was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1975 by Gov. Reubin Askew in the midst of a scandal that had virtually destroyed the court's reputation. Sundberg helped restore the reputation of the court and wrote an opinion that opened the doors of all Florida courtrooms to cameras. He resigned in 1982 when he was chief justice to return to a private law practice with Carlton Fields in Tallahassee.
D'Alemberte persuaded him to leave his lucrative law practice and become general counsel at FSU from 1997 to 2000, when he joined the law firm of Smith, Ballard and Logan. In 2001 he was appointed to serve on FSU's board of trustees.
Mr. Sundberg is survived by his wife, Betty Steffens, a lawyer in Tallahassee; his son, William L. Sundberg, Tallahassee; daughters Allison Lane, La Jolla, Calif., Angela Estes, Winter Park, and Laura Sundberg, Orlando; a brother, Richard Sundberg of Jacksonville; and eight grandchildren.
Another son, Alan Jr., died of skin cancer in 1998.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions to the Florida Skin Cancer Foundation, 335 Beard St., Tallahassee, FL 32303, or the American Diabetes Association.
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