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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
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
Current
Former
Sixty-Five Club
Some of the members of the UC Hastings Sixty-Five Club include
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:
^ 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
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