University of California College of the Law, San Francisco people

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]

Alexander Morrison (1881) – founder of Morrison & Foerster
Emma Ping Lum (1947) – first Chinese American Female Lawyer to practice in the United States
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
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
Lloyd Braun (1983) – former media executive with Yahoo!, former chairman of the American Broadcasting Company Entertainment group
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
Peter Buxtun (1971) – epidemiologist and whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
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
Linda G. Mills (1983) – 17th President of New York University
Katherine Feinstein (1984) – former Judge of San Francisco County Superior Court and President of the San Francisco Fire Commission
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
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
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
Robert Hertzberg (1979) – 64th Speaker of the California State Assembly and California State Senator
Dennis Holahan (1973) – actor and entertainment lawyer, partner of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
William Robert Holcomb (1950) – longest-serving mayor of San Bernardino, California^[2]
Michael Huttner (1995) – progressive activist and founder of ProgressNow
Vicki Iovine (1980) – Playboy Playmate, author
Gregg Jarrett (1980) – Anchor, Fox News Channel
Sherwood "Shakey" Johnson – Founder of Shakey's Pizza
Michael John Kennedy – 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"^[3]
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
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)
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
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
Ann Ravel (1974) – professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and former Chair of the Federal Elections Commission
Charles (Chip) Pashayan (1968) – U.S. Congressman from 1979 to 1991 for California's 17th Congressional District
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^[4]
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
Christine Pelosi (1993) – American Democratic Party political strategist from California
Nancy Tellem (1979) – Entertainment and Digital Media President of Microsoft and former CBS Entertainment President
Louis Sachar – (1980) American young-adult mystery-comedy author
Richard Thalheimer (1974) – founder and CEO of The Sharper Image
Guillermo Söhnlein (1995) – co-founder of OceanGate
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

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
^ 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.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-10-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[hastingsmag-1] 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

[cct-2] 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.

[3] "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.

[4] Lachtman, Howard (November 7, 1976). "Fantasy Fiction by Jack London". Los Angeles Times. p. 225.

[5] Lachtman, Howard (November 29, 1981). "West View". Los Angeles Times. p. 206.

[6] Lachtman, Howard (May 29, 1977). "Street Smart and Courtroom Wise". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 249.

[7] Lachtman, Howard (January 26, 1986). "The New Mysteries: Murder Among the Animals and Music". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 291.

[4] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-03-30. Retrieved 2017-10-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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