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[edit]

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
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
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]
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
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
Clara Shortridge Foltz (1881) – first practicing female lawyer in the United States
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
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
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)
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
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
George R. Roberts (1969) – co-founder of Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts Company
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]
James David Santini (1962) – U.S. Congressman from Nevada
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
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
Tom Umberg (1980) – California State Senator
Ann Veneman (1976) – 27th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Executive Director of UNICEF
Michael Wood (1979) – former CEO and founder of LeapFrog Enterprises

Faculty[edit]

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[edit]

^ 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.{{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

[2] Ed Beeson, Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Joseph Cotchett, https://www.law360.com/articles/582276/titan-of-the-plaintiffs-bar-joseph-cotchett

[cct-3] 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.

[4] "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.

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

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

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

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

[5] 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

[6] "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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