List of University of California, Hastings College of the Law people

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This page lists notable alumni, students, and faculty of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, a public law school in San Francisco, California.

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

References[edit]

  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
  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:
  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)