June Pinnell-Stephens

June Pinnell-Stephens recently retired as collection services manager at the Fairbanks (Alaska) North Star Borough Public Library. A graduate of Pomona College (BA) and the University of Washington (MLS), she is a past president of the Alaska and Pacific Northwest library associations, was elected to the ALA Executive Board, and served four terms as president of the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska, where she remains on the Board of Directors. She was awarded the Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2003 and the Roll of Honor Award from the Freedom to Read Foundation in 2004.