This page lists notable alumni, students, and faculty of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, a public law school in San Francisco, California.
Alumni
Notable alumni include:[1]
- Dick Ackerman (1967) – California State Senate Republican Leader
- Jeff Adachi (1985) – Public Defender of San Francisco
- Jeffrey Amestoy (1972) – 40th Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Joseph M. Azam (2008) — Senior Vice President, Global Chief Compliance & Ethics Officer for Infor (Former SVP & Group Chief Compliance Officer for News Corp)
- Nestor Barrero (1984) – Former Vice -Employment Law for NBCUniversal
- Cynthia Bashant (1986) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Marvin Baxter (1966) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Joseph T. Bockrath – Professor of Law at LSU Law Center
- Michael Bradbury (1967) – former District Attorney of Ventura County, California
- Lloyd Braun (1983) – former media executive with Yahoo!, former chairman of the American Broadcasting Company Entertainment group
- Matthew Broad (1984) – Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Darden Restaurants (Former Exec. VP and General Counsel for OfficeMax Incorporated)
- Willie Brown (1958) – 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly and 41st Mayor of San Francisco
- Melvin Brunetti (1964) – Senior Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Richard Bryan (1963) – former U.S. Senator and 25th Governor of Nevada
- Cynthia Bryant (1995) – former Director and Chief Deputy Director, Policy of the California Department of Finance, former Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Oliver Jesse Carter (1935) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Ed Case (1981) – U.S. Congressman from Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District
- Suzanne Case (1983) – Chairperson, Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources, former Executive Director of The Nature Conservancy in Hawai'i
- Stephen H. Cassidy (1989) – Mayor of San Leandro, California
- Rachelle Chong (1984) – first Asian American Federal Communications Commission Commissioner (President Clinton appointee), first Asian American Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (Governor Schwarzenegger appointee), former General Counsel for Broadband Office and Sidecar
- James M. Cole (1979) – 35th United States Deputy Attorney General
- Carol Corrigan (1975) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Joseph Cotchett (1964) – Founding Partner of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP, Attorney for Valerie Plame and the NFL, named "Titan of the Plaintiff's Bar" by Law360[2]
- Robert Everett Coyle (1956) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Charles F. Creighton ( ? ) – Attorney General of the Hawaiian Kingdom
- Bill Dannemeyer (1952) – U.S. Congressman from California's 39th Congressional District (Orange County)
- Christopher Darden (1980) – prosecutor in O. J. Simpson murder case
- Edward Davila (1979) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Mabel Craft Deering
- Sanford Diller (1927) – American real estate developer
- Scott Drexel (1975) – former Chief Prosecutor, State Bar of California
- Sidney M. Ehrman (1897) – Co-Founder and Name Partner of former international law firm Heller Ehrman LLP
- Sean Elsbernd (2000) – Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors, 2004–2013
- Clair Engle (1933) – U.S. Senator from California
- Sam Fernandez (1980) – Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Sean Faircloth (1986) – Maine House Majority Whip, Executive Director Secular Coalition for America
- Edward Silsby Farrington — Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
- Clara Shortridge Foltz (1881) – first practicing female lawyer in the United States
- Earl Ben Gilliam (1957) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Louis Earl Goodman (1915) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Philip Kan Gotanda (1978) – playwright
- Abby Ginzberg (1975) – documentary filmmaker
- Karla Gray (1976) – 14th Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
- Amanda Grove (1990) – former Court TV anchor
- Ancer L. Haggerty (1973) — Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
- Terence Hallinan (1964) – 26th San Francisco District Attorney
- Kamala Harris (1990) – 49th Vice President of the United States
- Emanuel S. Heller (1889) – Founder and Name Partner of former international law firm Heller Ehrman LLP
- Robert Hertzberg (1979) – 64th Speaker of the California State Assembly and California State Senator
- William W. Hodgman (1978) - prosecutor in O. J. Simpson murder case
- Dennis Holahan (1973) – actor and entertainment lawyer, partner of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
- William Robert Holcomb (1950) – longest-serving mayor of San Bernardino, California[3]
- Michael Huttner (1995) – progressive activist and founder of ProgressNow
- Vicki Iovine (1980) – Playboy Playmate, author
- Gregg Jarrett (1980) – Anchor, Fox News Channel
- Nick Jones (2007) – Grandson of "Deep Throat" Mark Felt, responsible for coordinating revelation of Deep Throat's identity to the media
- Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson – Founder of Shakey's Pizza
- Michael John Kennedy – prominent criminal defense and civil rights lawyer and activist
- Robert Krimmer – Former actor, now attorney
- Christine la Barraque – first blind woman admitted to the bar in California
- Howard Lachtman – Literary critic, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner[4]
- Jacqueline Lee (2006) – General Counsel of Flynn Restaurant Group
- Otto Lee (1994) – Mayor of Sunnyvale, California
- Ronald B. Leighton (1976) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington
- Eugene F. Lynch (1958) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Frank D.G. Madison (1892) – Name Partner of Pillsbury Madison and Sutro, now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Lia Matera (1981) – mystery writer
- John Matta (1977) – CEO of Wizard World and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Warner Bros. Studios
- Wiley Manuel (1953) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court and first African American California Supreme Court Justice
- Robert Matsui (1966) – U.S. Congressman from California's 5th Congressional District (Sacramento)
- Edward J. McCutchen (1879) – Founder and Name Partner of former international law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP (formerly McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen)
- Frank McGlynn Sr. (1894) – stage and film actor
- Rodney Melville – California Judge, notable for presiding over the People v. Jackson case
- Thomas Mesereau (1979) – Criminal defense attorney with celebrity client list, including Michael Jackson and Robert Blake
- Alexander Morrison (1881) – Founder of the international law firm Morrison & Foerster LLP (also member of UC Hasting's first graduating class)[5]
- George Moscone (1957) – Mayor of San Francisco, assassinated in 1978
- Ray Mueller (2001) – District 3 Supervisor, San Mateo County Board of Supervisors – Mayor, Councilmember of Menlo Park, CA
- Paula A. Nakayama (1979) – Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court
- Troy L. Nunley (1990) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Lawrence Joseph O'Neill (1979) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Andrew Downey Orrick (1947) – former Acting Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and son of William Horsley Orrick, Sr. of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Charles (Chip) Pashayan (1968) – U.S. Congressman from 1979 to 1991 for California's 17th Congressional District
- Horace Davis Pillsbury (1896) – General Counsel & President, Pacific Bell; Son of Evans Searle Pillsbury of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Richard W. Pollack – Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court
- Mario R. Ramil (1975) – Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court
- John Skylstead Rhoades Sr. (1951) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- Robert Rigsby (1986) - Associate Justice of the D.C. Superior Court, former Attorney General for the District of Columbia, former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, U.S. Army Colonel, Bronze Star Recipient, former JAG and Military Judge[6]
- George R. Roberts (1969) – co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts Company
- Veronica S. Rossman (1997) — Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- James David Santini (1962) – U.S. Congressman from Nevada
- Robert Howard Schnacke (1938) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- Kevin Shelley (1980) – 28th California Secretary of State
- Douglas W. Shorenstein — real estate developer and former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- James Francis Smith — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; Governor-General of the Philippines
- Jackie Speier (1976) – U.S. Congresswoman
- Todd Spitzer (1989) – California State Assemblyman, Orange County District Attorney
- J. Christopher Stevens (1989) former U.S. Ambassador to Libya
- Alfred Sutro (1894) – Name Partner of Pillsbury Madison and Sutro, now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Timothy Tau (2007) - Award-winning fiction writer and filmmaker as well as law professor
- Nancy Tellem (1979) – Entertainment and Digital Media President of Microsoft and former CBS Entertainment President
- Richard Thalheimer (1974) – founder and CEO of The Sharper Image
- Anne Traum (1996) — Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
- Tom Umberg (1980) – California State Senator
- Ann Veneman (1976) – 27th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Executive Director of UNICEF
- Philip Charles Wilkins (1939) — Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- Michael Wood (1979) – former CEO and founder of LeapFrog Enterprises
Faculty
- Current
- Former
- Sixty-Five Club
Some of the members of the UC Hastings Sixty-Five Club include
- Arthur Goldberg, Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice
- William Prosser, Torts
- Rudolf Schlesinger, International & Comparative Law
- Julius Stone, Jurisprudence & International Law
- Roger Traynor, Former California Supreme Court Justice
References
- ^ UC Hastings Law, Hastings Magazine - 2019, Gamechangers: A Special Issue Honoring Prominent Alumni Who Have Made Extraordinary Contributions to Their Fields, https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=hastings_magazine
- ^ Ed Beeson, Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Joseph Cotchett, https://www.law360.com/articles/582276/titan-of-the-plaintiffs-bar-joseph-cotchett
- ^ Edwards, Andrew (2010-12-09). "Former SB mayor W.R. "Bob" Holcomb laid to rest". Contra Costa Times. Archived from the original on 2010-12-13. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
- ^ "They're Engaging: Lachtman-Corren". The San Francisco Examiner. January 12, 1964. Sec. Reviews, pg. 12. Retrieved January 28, 2022. See also:
- Lachtman, Howard (November 7, 1976). "Fantasy Fiction by Jack London". Los Angeles Times. p. 225.
- Lachtman, Howard (November 29, 1981). "West View". Los Angeles Times. p. 206.
- Lachtman, Howard (May 29, 1977). "Street Smart and Courtroom Wise". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 249.
- Lachtman, Howard (January 26, 1986). "The New Mysteries: Murder Among the Animals and Music". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 291.
- ^ Morrison Foerster, Press Release, 11/17/2008, Morrison & Foerster Joins Forces with University of California Hastings College of the Law and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to Promote Diversity in the Legal Profession, https://www.mofo.com/resources/press-releases/morrison-foerster-joins-forces-with-university-of-california-hastings-college-of-the-law-and-congressional-black-caucus-foundation-to-promote-diversity-in-the-legal-profession.pdf
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
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