Early and Personal Life
Eric Chancy Croft was born in Anchorage, Alaska on November 6, 1964 to Toni (née Williamson) and Leland Chancy Croft. His parents had recently came to Alaska from West Texas. His maternal grandfather, John Conwell Williamson (1912 – 2001), was a wildcatter in West Texas whose geology found more oil in Texas and New Mexico than any contemporary. His father served in the Alaska House and Alaska Senate, and was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Alaska governor in 1978.
Croft grew up in the South Addition neighborhood adjacent to downtown Anchorage, graduating from West Anchorage High School in 1982. He went on to Stanford University, earning an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering; his mother, uncle Ralph Ervin Williamson and sister Kymberly Croft Miller also graduated from Stanford. He then received a law degree from the University of California's Hastings College of Law.
Croft is an attorney in Alaska. He and his wife, Joanna Burke Croft, own Alaska Professional Testing, Inc. Joanna Croft, an architect by training, is also an alumnus of Stanford.
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