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Message from
The Dean
T
en years ago last month, Bob and I crossed the
Sierras in a memorable blizzard to begin the best
job of my long career — serving as the eighth
dean of Pacific McGeorge.
Admittedly my expectations in 2002 were high. I was
excited at the opportunity of joining a legal community
committed to preparing the very best lawyers in the next
generation of the legal profession. My experience over the
past decade, however, has far surpassed anything I imagined
thanks to the alumni, faculty and staff of our Law School.
I have met hundreds of you in person and read with pride
the success stories of many more of our alumni. It has been
one of the most enjoyable aspects of my job. McGeorge
alumni are a resilient, talented, hard-working bunch justly
proud of their law school.
Writing for the last time as Dean of Pacific McGeorge,
I want to share my thoughts about the accomplishments
of the last decade and how I see our wonderful Law School
positioned in a time described nationally as one of the most
challenging in memory for legal education.
Pacific McGeorge has grown in many ways since 2002 and
continues to evolve as a stronger law school each year. This view
has been reinforced by what I have learned from serving on
several important committees with the Association of American
Law Schools and the Law School Admissions Council. The
chance to participate on such committees has helped both to
advance Pacific McGeorge’s national reputation, but also has
provided me with a deeper look at legal education nationally.
They are opportunities to “benchmark” Pacific McGeorge
against the best in U.S. legal education. As a result, I can say
with confidence that our Law School compares very favorably
to its counterparts, large and small, although some may today
be better known. These comparisons have strengthened my
belief that the value of a Pacific McGeorge education has never
been greater. Most importantly, I am convinced that a Pacific
McGeorge degree has become a mark of growing distinction as
our graduates move into practice demonstrating the effectiveness
of their preparation.
This is something to celebrate. Despite the challenge
of the current economy, my conclusion is that our wellprepared graduates will always be prized and find their way
to a successful future.
And most exciting as we look forward, our new dean
of Pacific McGeorge will be Francis “Jay” Mootz. Jay is
currently the William S. Boyd Professor of Law and Associate
Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University
of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has been visiting campus this
semester, readying himself for his full time June 1 start date.
Following a career as a commercial litigator, Jay moved to
academia, teaching insurance, sales and labor law for 22
years. He has served as an associate dean at two law schools
and published widely on legal philosophy. He is also a strong
advocate for legal education in a liberal arts environment
— a core principle at Pacific McGeorge. I am delighted at
Dean Mootz’s selection. Working with him over the last few
months, it is clear that he is the leader we need for the Law
School to move to the “next level of excellence.”
Thank you for all you have done to help the Law School
and its students, whether through support for student
scholarships and our various law programs, offering advice,
or leading by example. You are the model of success for our
students to emulate. I also wish to thank you for your gift to
me: an exciting decade as Pacific McGeorge has realized its
current quality and remarkable potential.
With warm regards,
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
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Law School Makes Great Strides
During Rindskopf Parker’s Reign
By Jan Ferris Heenan
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker leaves Pacific
McGeorge School of Law a decade to the day she
arrived, closing the door not so much on a job but on
what she calls a “calling in life.”
2003-2004
U.S. News Top 11 Trial Advocacy Programs
Judicial Wall of Honor
Bordering on Terror Conference
IAJ California Parole Advocacy Contract
St. Hope/Sacramento High Charter Conversion
2002-2003
Reflections on 9/11 Symposium
First-Year Class Largest in 10 Years
Goodwill Mission to China
LL.M, J.S.D. Programs in International Water Law
On-Line California Initiative Review
2004-2005
China Summer Law Program
Global Center for Business & Development
Certificate Program in Advocacy
Entering Day Class Median LSAT 77th Percentile
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“It’s a little bit bittersweet, but there’s also some relief,”
says Rindskopf Parker, the eighth dean of Pacific McGeorge
and the first woman to hold the position in the school’s 88year history. “This is a very tense job, and I feel very gratified
that it has been a very successful 10 years. Everybody has
pulled together. We’re facing new challenges going forward,
but we have a good base to build on.”
Rindskopf Parker arrived in Sacramento in 2002 from
the 26-campus University of Wisconsin system, where she
was general counsel. Prior to that, she served as the principal
deputy legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State, as
well as general counsel of both the National Security Agency
and the Central Intelligence Agency. She will be replaced by
Francis “Jay” Mootz, who is currently associate dean at the
William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas. Her last day is June 30.
When Rindskopf Parker arrived at Pacific McGeorge, she
recalls, more than one well-intentioned person described
the law school as a “little-known jewel.” She, in turn, often
joked that she would one day sport a T-shirt proclaiming,
“No longer the best-kept secret; still the best.” As she takes
stock of the accomplishments of the past decade, Rindskopf
Parker stands by that description — though, with her
trademark humility, she shares credit for the growth at Pacific
McGeorge with staff and students.
“One might look to external measures, and isn’t it great now
that we are (listed) in the top 100 of law schools,” Rindskopf
Parker says. “But really, at the end of the day, what matters is
what happens inside people. That comes from not one person,
but from many people stepping up as an institution.”
That said, Rindskopf Parker is proud of the achievements
that have occurred under her watch, including the $10
million renovation and expansion of the campus’ Legal
Studies Center that was many years in the making. The law
school’s most prominent faculty member, U.S. Supreme
Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, was on hand for
the ceremonial reopening in September. Kennedy quoted
Winston Churchill at the time, and Parker took the words — “First we shape our buildings, then they shape us” — to heart.
“If you look at the Legal Studies Center, I think it has an
awful lot to say symbolically about who we are as a law school,
who we are as people,” Rindskopf Parker says. “There’s a real
2006-2007
National Ethics Trial Competition
U.S. News Top 20 International Law Programs Ranking
New Orleans Katrina Legal Relief Project
Natomas Pacific Pathways Prep Program
USAID China Rule of Law Grant
2005-2006
U.S. News Top 100 Law Schools Ranking
Claude Rohwer Retirement Gala
Journal of National Security Law & Policy
Mikhail Gorbachev Visit
Global Issues Legal Education Book Series
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2007-2008
Research in the Real-World Library Program
Three Centers of Distinction
Pacific McGeorge Convention Center Gala
20 Alumni Association Chapters
Schaber Library Collection at 500,000
2008-2009
LL.M. in Experiential Law Teaching
U.S. News Top 10 Advocacy Programs Ranking
Student Disqualification Rate Under 5%
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court Special Sitting
State Bar Honors for Pipeline Initiative
sense of pride and recognition that it’s a great school. It’s a
great school because of the people who are involved in it.”
Pacific McGeorge has sharpened its global focus in a
number of ways in recent years, and Rindskopf Parker is
pleased with the heightened emphasis. That includes West
Publishing’s 23-volume Global Issues casebook series, conceived
of and edited by Professor Franklin Gevurtz and authored in
large part by McGeorge faculty. “To me, that’s symbolic of
looking forward at what our school, our profession is going to
have to do to prepare people for the future,” Rindskopf Parker
says. “We’re making sure that our students are stretched, that
they think of themselves as lawyers for the world — not just
one city, one state, one nation.”
Rindskopf Parker says that one of her goals when she
became dean was to increase diversity at Pacific McGeorge.
She believes the strides the law school has made extend well
beyond race and ethnicity, also capturing an attitude of
inclusion and unity. Muslim and Mormon students recently
proposed co-hosting a program on religion and law, she
noted by way of example. And gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender students teamed up with the Military Law
Society last fall to organize on event on “don’t ask; don’t tell”
policies. Students also initiated the campus’ annual Diversity
Week, Rindskopf Parker says.
The position has not been without its challenges,
Rindskopf Parker acknowledges, and the economic
meltdown the past four years ranks high on the list. Those
in the legal profession, both within academia and without,
have had to grapple with what she calls “a resetting of our
compasses” — recognizing that law is a service-oriented
profession and one with a potentially lower economic yield
than in past years. “It is a tool to help others,” she explains.
“At the end of the day, any study would tell you that’s where
happiness lies: in what you can do for others.”
Much has been made over the years of Rindskopf Parker’s
distinction as the first female dean of Pacific McGeorge.
She is less fazed by the title, having borne it at the CIA, the
NSA and in other capacities over the years. “When you live
it, you’re not aware of it,” she says. “Having said that, trying
to put myself in others’ shoes, I’m struck by the number
of notes I’ve gotten from students, a number of them from
women…maybe it has had an impact.”
2009-2010
Global Lawyering Skills Program
Inaugural Citizenship Fair
Federal Defender Clinic
Ethics Across the Professions Initiative
Inter-American Program in Guatemala
2010-2011
U.S. News Top 5 Advocacy Programs Ranking
California Water Conference
300 Student Field Placement Externships
Justice Kennedy Lecture on ‘Painting the Law’
Moot Court Competition Team’s Greatest Season
2011-2012
Justice Kennedy Teaches For 24th Year in Salzburg
California Redistricting Commission Hearings
Opening of $10 Million Legal Studies Center
All-Time High for Applications: 3,556
Entering Class Minority Representation: 32.7 Percent
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Mootz Becomes Ninth
Dean of Pacific McGeorge
By Michael Curran
unlv professor emerges from strong field of candidates to succeed parker
F
rancis “Jay” Mootz, the associate dean for academic affairs
and faculty development at the William S. Boyd School of
Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, becomes the
ninth dean of Pacific McGeorge on June 1, 2012.
In January, Mootz was named to the law school’s top post
by University of the Pacific Provost Maria Pallavicini after
a nine-month search to replace Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker, who is stepping down as the law school’s leader after
10 years at the helm.
“Jay Mootz will be an inspirational leader of the whole
law school community — students, faculty, alumni and
staff,” says Professor Mary-Beth Moylan, the director of
Pacific McGeorge’s Global Lawyering Skills program. “He
has a vision about the role of legal education in society,
and the importance of developing young lawyers who
are equipped with practical skills and well-versed in legal
principles and theories.”
“Pacific McGeorge has all the right building blocks in
place, with its focus on strong lawyering skills, its location
in one of the country’s most important state capitals, and its
strong and committed faculty,” said Mootz. “I am excited to
continue the stellar work of Dean Parker and her faculty.”
Mootz earned a bachelor’s degree in history at the
University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in philosophy and a
J.D. from Duke University. He joined the William S. Boyd
School of Law at UNLV in 2008, after previous teaching
appointments at Penn State, Dickinson College, William and
Mary, and Western New England School of Law.
“Professor Mootz brings a compelling balance of
professional and academic experience to the table,” said
Pallavicini. “He has taught for 22 years, worked as an
associate dean at two law schools, practiced as a commercial
litigator, and published widely on legal issues. He is also
a strong advocate for legal education in a liberal arts
environment — a core tenet at Pacific McGeorge.”
Mootz has written in traditional doctrinal areas such as
insurance, contract and sales law, and he also has undertaken
an ambitious agenda of interdisciplinary scholarship
exploring relationships between law and contemporary
European philosophy. His courses at UNLV have included
Contracts, Sales, Payment Systems, and Insurance Law.
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“I am looking forward to a new era of alumni engagement
and fundraising,” Assistant Dean for Advancement
Charlene Mattison, ’06, says. “Dean Parker was a wonderful
ambassador for the school, and I’m sure our alumni will
enjoy getting to know Dean Mootz. He has taught in a
variety of law schools and is well aware of McGeorge’s
outstanding reputation inside and outside of legal academia.”
A search committee composed of law faculty members,
alumni and others worked for more than nine months in
finding someone with the credentials and vision to replace
the departing Dean Parker. Phillip Oppenheimer, dean
of the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy & Health
Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, chaired
the committee. Pacific McGeorge faculty committee
members included Raquel Aldana, Cary Bricker, Omar
Dajani, Associate Dean Julie Davies, Matthew Downs,
Larry Levine, Thom Main, Mary-Beth Moylan and John
Sprankling. They were joined by University regent Judge
Morrison England Jr., ’83, a graduate of both Pacific and
Pacific McGeorge; Nader Nadershahi, executive associate
dean at the University of the Pacific’s Arthur A Dugoni
School of Dentistry in San Francisco; Cynthia Ostberg,
director of the Pacific Legal Scholars Program in Stockton;
attorney Dustin Johnson, ’06; and Megan Cosgrove, ’12.
“I want to add my congratulations to the search committee,
which succeeded in recruiting such an impressive candidate,”
Dean Parker says. “They had several other outstanding
candidates, including the deans of other excellent law schools.
With the obvious enthusiasm this choice has received from
everyone on our campus — both faculty and staff — as well
as from President Eibeck and the provost, it is clear we have a
wonderful new chapter about to begin.”
Mootz, who was recently elected to the prestigious
American Law Institute, has been a frequent visitor of the
Pacific McGeorge campus this spring while winding down
his teaching and administrative activities at UNLV.
“I’m very impressed with the quality and caliber of faculty
members, the enthusiasm of the students, and the support
of the staff,” Mootz says. “I hope to live on campus, just as
Dean Parker did, and play a positive role in the everyday life
of the community.”
Photography: Steve Yeater
Pacific McGeorge School
of Law, which was founded
in 1924, has enjoyed
innovative, visionary
leadership in its 88-year
history. The longevity of its
deans reflects a passion
for legal education and
community service that
has greatly benefited from
the loyal support of its
alumni and friends.
Verne Adrian McGeorge
1924-1929
Russell A. Harris
1930-1933
Gilford G. Rowland
1933-1937
Lawrence G. Dorety
1937-1947
John Harold Swan
1947-1957
Gordon D. Schaber
1957-1991
John E. Ryan
1991-1992 (Interim Dean)
Gerald Caplan
1992-2001
John G. Sprankling
2001-2002 (Interim Dean)
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker
2002-2012
Francis “Jay” Mootz
Current
Dean Jay Mootz
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The Talent to Transcend the Times
by courtney nowling; photography by steve yeater
While in town a few years ago to
help usher in the re-opening of the
celebrated Crocker Art Museum,
long-time Pacific McGeorge
faculty member and U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Anthony Kennedy
presented at an on-campus lecture
an intriguing theory. An art and
history buff, Kennedy described
the parallels between the history of
art and the history of American law,
remarking: “Artists and attorneys seek to
Students
By the Numbers
FALL 2011
Entering
Day Division
Applications 3283
Class size 181
Minorities 32.7%
Median age 23
Women 45.2%
Entering
Evening Division
Applications 273
Class size 52
Minorities 32.7%
Median age 25
Women 46.9%
LSAT
75th percentile 160
Median 158
25th percentile 155
GPA
75th percentile 3.57
Median 3.40
25th percentile 3.09
Total enrollment
Day 664
Evening 254
LL.M. 43
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make order out of a world in disorder.”
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This fall, Pacific McGeorge also welcomed 49 diverse and
accomplished graduate-level international and exchange
students, hailing from five continents and 23 different
countries, including Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil,
Cameroon, China, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Kuwait,
Lebanon, Mexico, Nepal/India, Nigeria, Romania, Russia,
Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Tajikistan,
United Kingdom, United States, and Uzbekistan.
Andrea S. Moon
Photography: Steve Yeater
S
ome of the world’s most renowned
artists forged their talents in times
of political, social and economic unrest.
Today’s dour headlines, commentary by
pundits and blogs, and the experiences
of recent grads struggling in a difficult
job market have certainly made many
aspiring lawyers think twice about
pursuing law school. And yet the artist
parallel seems apt, that here we have
the smallest incoming class the law
school has seen since 1969, and they
stand ready to forge their talents during
uncertain times. As this handful of
profiles will demonstrate, these diverse,
talented and motivated students appear
to embody what Kennedy suggests:
doing their part to create order out of
a world in disorder, and through their
unique, inspired visions, will no doubt
contribute important strokes towards a
brighter future.
Hometown:
Berkeley, California
Undergraduate:
UC Berkeley
Major:
English
Graduation:
2013
Andrea Sogand
Moon is taking time
to smell the roses.
Given that she’s a
third year law student,
the timing may
seem odd, but this
motivated woman has
a history of being in a
hurry – to accomplish
great things.
She graduated from high school at 16, entered UC Berkeley as a
junior transfer at 18, got married and started at Pacific McGeorge
at 22. Her idea of taking a breather is deciding where she is
heading in life, and she’s definitely mapped out a clear strategy,
marching to her own unique beat. Most people don’t know that
she has a lot of tattoos, which makes it “an adventure to cover
them up for court.” Or that she is fluent in Farsi, is a first degree
black belt in the Korean martial art of taekwondo, and writes a
fashion blog for law students to make appropriate fashion “a little
bit edgy and funky.” How did someone with such varied interests
and talents decide on law school? “Law school was always the
path I thought I’d take,” she says. “My family said the same thing
because I never liked to listen and always asked why.” Location
was what initially drew her to Pacific McGeorge – her father
grew up in Sacramento, and family still lives here. She recalls
that her campus visit was like coming home – everyone friendly,
welcoming and helpful, and not just to her, but her husband as
well. When not immersed in study, Andrea serves on various
student organizations, including the SBA. Those relationships
– many she cites as her very best friends – are among the great
things about coming to Pacific McGeorge.
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Hometown:
Marietta, Georgia
Undergraduate:
University of West Georgia
Major:
B.B.A., Business Management
Graduation:
2014
For Georgia native
Jon Wood, charting
his own course and a
solid work ethic is in
the genes.
His grandfather built a career from
repairman up to CEO, sits on
numerous boards and has written
two books. His parents founded a
private school, The King’s Academy,
in Georgia, which Jon attended
until college. And in his own right,
he’s well-traveled, with destinations
including study abroad trips to Japan
and the Czech Republic, and mission
trips through his church to Ecuador
and El Salvador. But Jon’s greatest
adventure to date (besides meeting his
wife Heather who “changed his life”)?
Moving to Sacramento to attend Pacific
McGeorge. Home-schooled until the fifth grade, Jon jointenrolled at Kennesaw State University to jump start college
in his senior year, and then attended the University of West
Georgia (UWG), where he graduated cum laude in 2010
with a B.B.A. in business management. He then pursued an
MBA at UWG, and supported himself working as a property
manager, a graduate assistant, and in the IT department of a
medical firm in Atlanta. He later dropped out of the MBA
program after realizing that the classes, professors, and ideas
were the same as his undergraduate work. He wanted a new
challenge, and it would seem that the family entrepreneurial
spirit and head for business came roaring in as he chose law
school as the next step in his career trajectory. Jon’s first few
weeks at Pacific McGeorge were spent reading and re-reading
for classes, talking about cases with his long-time friend Zack
Hamilton (another Pacific McGeorge student whom Jon met
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in undergrad), and cooking with his wife, a shared pass-time.
When asked why he chose Pacific McGeorge, Jon cites “the
atmosphere of the student body and the faculty, the beautiful
campus, the small city it’s housed in, and the focus on practical
learning.” After graduation, Jon hopes to take a cue from his
grandfather’s self-made business successes, and would like to
work in business law, negotiating contracts or offering legal
and business advice to executives, directors, or upper level
management.
Theresa Schriever
Hometown:
St. Paul, Minnesota
Undergraduate:
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Major:
Legal Studies and Criminal
Justice Certificate
Graduation:
2014
Chinese philosopher
Lao-tzu has inspired
generations with
the famous
line: “The
journey of
a thousand miles
begins with a single step.”
For Theresa Schriever, her journey
began with a sense that she was
destined for more – all she needed to
do was to move on from her small
Midwest town and overcome her
childhood shyness to realize her dream
of advocating for others.
Born and raised in St. Paul to a Chinese mother and Caucasian
father, growing up biracial in Minnesota “was different.”
Theresa first thought of law in college, when she participated
Photography: Steve Yeater
Jon Wood
Gregory Hayes
Conduct a Google search for Gregory
Hayes and the results would paint
a picture of a life well-lived, welltraveled, and constantly evolving. This
small-town Michigan guy realized his
California dream working at Google
corporate; he’s visited all but one of the
50 states, has a well-stamped passport,
has swam with dolphins, met former
President Clinton, and trekked
through Machu Picchu. What could
possibly follow these feats? Law school!
A techie by trade, Gregory enjoyed his time at Google – and yes,
what you’ve heard it true: they have great free food, awesome
free gyms, and many other great amenities – but even that
couldn’t keep law school away for long. After seven years of
working in the tech field, he hoped to explore a new dream
of someday running his own business. Given his aptitude
for logical and process-oriented thinking, law or business
seemed a natural fit. He thought about graduate school for a
long time, and in 2008, turned down a full scholarship to an
MBA program. “In retrospect, it was a fortunate choice as the
financial crisis started shortly after I would have enrolled.” He
then turned to law, and knows he chose the right specialty.
While he was shopping schools, Pacific McGeorge beat out stiff
competition (Duke, USC, UC Davis, Temple) for his favor for
one reason: the top-ranked trial advocacy program. “McGeorge’s
trial advocacy program has consistently ranked among the best
in the country, and is a consistent force in the mock trial and
moot court competitions.” Since arriving at Pacific McGeorge,
his reasons for choosing the law school have
increased beyond the trial advocacy program
– he has been astounded by the support he’s
received along the way from faculty and
administration. “The professors engage
with students to challenge thinking,
beliefs, and arguments, and are helping
me see things in ways I had not
before considered. They are
approachable and genuinely
care about their students.”
Additionally, the administration
has helped him with whatever
he has needed: “they’re always
there, respond with a smile –
McGeorge feels like a family.”
In the future, Gregory
hopes to work in criminal
prosecution or defense, and
would love a position that
will provide trial experience
he can apply to better
California, his adopted home.
Photography: Steve Yeater
in the Innocence Project NY, involving inmates being released
based on DNA evidence. In 2007, she attended a “Life After
Exoneration” program and, completely captivated by the pursuit
of justice, found her passion and nerve to go to law school.
Her first big step was moving out of the Midwest and landing
in Foster City, CA, where she worked at a law firm as an office
manager. She also waitressed for a time to “force myself out of
my shell.” While her path to law school took a few twists and
turns, “the many steps it took to get to her destination” helped
her to be sure she was ready. Pacific McGeorge was the first
responder to her application, and Legal Scholars Day sold her
on the experience – “by far the best event” she’d attended. Teresa
also applied to Santa Clara, UC Hastings, UC Davis and USF.
Of those, she almost chose UC Hastings, but asserts that she
would have made a “huge mistake.” People are the biggest factor
in her success here at Pacific McGeorge. From “the accessibility
of the professors, the sense of community, the focus on working
together instead of competing against each other – Pacific
McGeorge is ‘very unique.’” No doubt Theresa will make a very
unique addition to either of her dream roles: working in the
public defender’s office or for Legal Aid.
Hometown:
Coldwater, Michigan
Undergraduate:
University of Michigan
Major:
Computer Science
Graduation:
2014
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Waiting on the High Court
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or three days during
the last week of March,
the American media and a large
segment of the public were riveted
by oral arguments made before the
Supreme Court of the United States on
the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable
Care Act, better known as Obamacare. The arguments are
complex; the Supreme Court’s decision likely polarizing. More
than half of all states have fought the measure in federal courts
since its signing by President Obama on March 23, 2010.
Three Pacific McGeorge professors, each a constitutional
law scholar, have followed the issue closely for the past two years.
Their opinions on the relative merits of each side’s arguments and
predictions on the high court’s ultimate ruling follow.
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Leslie Gielow Jacobs is the director of Capital Center for Public
Law & Policy. A former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis
F. Powell, Jr., she has been a prominent member of the faculty
since 1992. She offers an in-depth analysis of the issues.
Minimum Coverage Issue Clouds Health Care Reform
By Leslie Gielow Jacobs
T
wo years ago, a majority of both Houses of Congress
passed the Affordable Care Act. Before the ink was dry
on the President’s signature, opponents who lost in the
political process went to court to file the first of more than two
dozen lawsuits aimed at killing the new health care law.
Now its fate is up to the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices
heard a whopping six hours of oral argument in March. (One
hour of oral argument is the norm.) In the next week or so,
the nine justices, or at least a five-justice majority of them,
will rule on the case.
The key question at the heart of all the legal challenges: Does
the Constitution give Congress the power to enact this new law?
The health care reform law is more than 1,000 pages long.
But it’s just one short section that was of prime interest to the
justices during oral argument. This part says that all Americans
must purchase a minimum amount of health insurance if they
do not already have it through an employer or government
benefit, or pay a penalty with their taxes — up to $700.
The “minimum coverage” issue centers on Congress’ power
to regulate commerce. No one disputes that Congress has this
power. Putting the power to manage the national economy in
one central government was a major reason for creating the U.S.
Constitution, and its words give this power to Congress explicitly.
While Congress has the power to regulate the national
economy, it does not have the power to pass laws that are
aimed only at protecting health and safety, without a link to the
economy. The Constitution reserves this power to the states.
Nevertheless, Congress has the power to pass laws that do both
of these things — regulate a part of the national economy
and promote the health of citizens. For example, any product
available for purchase in this country likely has been inspected,
tested or labeled because of a valid law made by Congress.
In the health care law, Congress listed facts to prove that
the reason it enacted the “minimum coverage” provision was
not just to help people be healthy. It was to stabilize prices
and ensure access to products and services that are bought and
sold in the economy. One of these facts is that in our current
economy, without a “minimum coverage” provision in place,
those who are uninsured shift more than $40 billion in unpaid
costs onto other consumers and taxpayers each year.
And the courts have agreed that Congress has the power
to pass a health care reform law. The “minimum coverage”
question does not relate to the end. It relates to the means.
Other ways of regulating health care are familiar, and
would clearly be constitutional if used to expand access.
Congress could lawfully have chosen to tax everyone and use
the revenue to fund a national health insurance program as
it does now with Medicare. Or Congress could have required
that anyone who purchases health products or services must
first buy insurance.
Congress chose the “minimum coverage” method to
reach the health care access goal because it decided it was
more politically viable and efficient. It chose a plan where
private companies, rather than the government, provide the
insurance, and where people have a lot of choice about which
type of plan they get.
But Congress decided that the “minimum coverage”
provision was essential to support the law’s other key
requirement — that private insurance companies expand
coverage to people with pre-existing conditions or other
potentially expensive health risks.
If healthy people could opt out of insurance, and
gamble that they would be able to pay for health care when
it happened, the law would not work. Private insurance
companies could not afford to expand coverage. Rising health
care costs due to bad debt from the uninsured who lost their
gamble would still drag down the national economy.
So a majority of both Houses of Congress thought it had
the power to pass the “minimum coverage” provision. A
number of courts and judges have agreed.
Why? When courts decide what the Constitution means,
they look to its words, case law and principles that structure
the whole thing.
Not only do the words of the Constitution give Congress
the power to regulate commerce, they give it the power to
use all “necessary and proper” means.
No previous court cases analyze the “minimum coverage”
specifically. It’s new in law. (It’s actually not a new idea.
Conservative think tanks floated it as part of market-based
solutions to the rising costs of health care in the late 1980s.) But
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the U.S. Supreme Court has approved new ways of regulating
commerce to meet new economic problems in other cases.
Then there is the structure of the Constitution, and its
core principle of “will of the people” and “representative
democracy.” The Constitution gives the political branches — Congress and the president — the power to decide questions
of policy. If voters like a law, they can say so at the ballot box.
And if they don’t like it, they can say that, too.
Courts upholding the “minimum coverage” provision have
said that the choice of the means to regulate the national
market in health care and insurance is a matter of policy, to
be decided by the will of the people through their elected
representatives.
Courts striking down the “minimum coverage”
requirement have relied on principles of individual liberty
and states’ rights. These principles, the courts say, implicitly
limit Congress’ explicit powers to regulate commerce and
choose necessary and proper means.
These courts have focused on the provision’s timing —
forcing a person to make a purchase rather than putting
conditions on a purchase a person has decided to make.
Although the Constitution does not say it, these courts
have read past Supreme Court cases to say that Congress
has the power to regulate commercial “activity,” but not the
“inactivity” of choosing to remain uninsured.
These courts have also noted that the powers the
Constitution grants to Congress are limited, with some
powers to make some kinds of laws left to states. These courts
have reasoned that if Congress can require people to purchase
insurance, it can do anything, like force people to buy
broccoli because it’s healthy. The Constitution cannot give
Congress such broad power, these courts say.
So what will the U.S. Supreme Court decide? It’s not
clear. As noted above, the words of the Constitution and its
structure, and the Court’s other cases send — at best — mixed
messages. Since the Great Depression, with few exceptions, the
Court has interpreted Congress’ commerce power very broadly.
In our constitutional democracy, and especially months before
a national election, striking down a major piece of legislation
based on so little in the Constitution or case law would be a
very, very aggressive thing to do.
But it could happen. Oral argument revealed the justices
to be very closely divided, with Justice Kennedy — as he is
frequently — in the middle. So his vote will likely be key to
getting the five justices necessary to form a majority holding.
Justice Kennedy’s central concern during oral argument was
whether the Court could uphold the law and still articulate some
“limiting principle” to Congress’s regulatory power. Whether he
is able to find one will likely decide the fate of the law.
Charles Kelso was the youngest law professor
in the country when he began teaching at the
University of Indiana at the age of 21. A clerk to
Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton, he
has been a member of the faculty since 1978.
If Kennedy Shoots Down
Individual Mandate,
Whole Law May Fall
By Charles Kelso
J
ustice Kennedy is likely to be the swing vote on whether
the individual mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional
and whether, if so, how much of the remaining law will
be struck down.
Justice Kennedy often explores both sides of the issues
from the bench, as he did in this case. His statements
pointed both ways. For example, suggesting invalidity was his
statement that, “And here the government is saying that the
federal government has a duty to tell the individual citizen
that it must act, and that is different from what we have in
previous cases, and that changes the relationship of the federal
government to the individual in a very fundamental way.”
On the other hand, Justice Kennedy also said that those
who do not choose to buy insurance are in the market “in
the sense that they create a risk that affects the market,” and
prior cases have established that Congress has great power
under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate markets.
If the individual mandate is struck down, it seems likely
that Justice Kennedy would vote to strike down the rest of
the law because he said that “We would be exercising the
judicial power if one provision was stricken and the others
remained to impose a risk on insurance companies that
Congress never intended.”
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Clark Kelso is the co-founder of the Capital Center for Public Law
& Policy. A former clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy when the
latter was a member of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
Kelso has been a member of the faculty since 1986.
A Bridge Too Far for the Commerce Clause
By Clark Kelso
I
issued the following prediction a week before the oral
arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable
Care Act, and nothing in the oral arguments has caused
me to change my mind.
It is most likely the Court will strike down the individual
mandate because the mandate cannot draw support from
the Commerce Clause, and there is no other provision in the
Constitution which would authorize such a mandate. The
Commerce Clause is relevant when Congress is regulating a
market. If the Court were to decide that the mandate constitutes
a form of market regulation, then it would easily uphold the
mandate under the Court’s current Commerce Clause cases,
which give Congress quite a bit of power in that area.
But Justice Kennedy, who is probably the key swing vote
in the case, is likely to decide that the mandate does not itself
regulate the market. Instead, the mandate requires someone
who is not currently participating in a market to enter that
market without their consent. And in so doing, the mandate
goes beyond the power granted Congress by the Commerce
Clause. Mandating participation in a market is not the same
thing as regulating a market of voluntary participants.
Proponents of the mandate have asserted that everyone
is necessarily a participant in the health care market just by
virtue of being alive. But that argument proves too much,
which is why I think Justice Kennedy will reject it. If being
alive is enough to trigger Congress’ Commerce Clause
powers, then the Commerce Clause becomes the equivalent
of the General Police Power which has previously been
properly understood as part of State Sovereignty and not part
of the enumerated federal powers. The Founding Fathers
would be rather shocked to learn that the Commerce Clause
actually conferred broad police powers on Congress, and I
think the Supreme Court will strike down the individual
mandate in order to preserve the limits on Congress’ powers.
Justice Kennedy crystallized the issue during his questioning
at oral argument when he observed that the government’s
position is that even those persons who are not insured must
be taken into account by the health care system’s payors —
they are “actuarially real.” So the question for Justice Kennedy
is whether Congress’s Commerce Clause power encompasses
those “actuarially real” but not yet in the
market persons. Actuarial reality seems like
a pretty remote concept from what the
Founding Father’s probably
had in mind when they
gave Congress power over
interstate commerce.
Pacific McGeorge’s Capital Center educates lawyers to lead, to
analyze and influence public policy. Its location in California’s
capital city provides opportunities for students to work with
faculty experts and examine critical government issues while
completing a J.D. or LL.M. degree.
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Professors Leslie Jacobs and Paul Paton, left, listen as T.R. Reid speaks at the health care ethics symposium.
Reid Reflects on Ethics
Of Health Care Coverage
The annual Pacific
McGeorge Ethics Across
the Professions Initiative
Symposium featured
bestselling author T.R.
Reid, who spoke on “The
Ethics of Health Care in
Global Perspective,” to a
large lecture hall audience
in March.
A longtime Washington
Post correspondent
and former chief of the
newspaper’s Tokyo and
London bureaus, Reid is
best known for his 2009
book, The Healing of
America, which argues that
the other industrialized
democracies have achieved
something the United States
can’t seem to do: provide
health care for everybody
at a reasonable cost. A
frequent NPR and PBS
commentator, his television
documentary, “U.S. Health
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Care: The Good News,”
debuted on national TV
the night before Reid’s
appearance in Sacramento.
There were
representatives of many
health organizations in
the audience,” Professor
Paul Paton, the director
of the Ethics Across the
Professions Initiative, says.
“Many attendees expressed
to me their delight and
gratitude that the law
school had opened itself
to them and provided
this forum and accessible
opportunity to learn about
issues of concern from both
public policy and legal
perspectives.”
“The Sierra Health
Foundation has been
extremely generous in its
support of the initiative,
and I am happy to report
that its underwriting
sponsorship has been
granted for 2012-13.”
International Jurist Series
Features Famous Judges
The Pacific McGeorge
International Jurist Series
brought five distinguished
judges to campus during
the 2011-2012 academic
calendar. Each of the visitors
co-taught international
law courses with faculty
members, in addition to
delivering public addresses.
Judge Joan Donoghue,
the only American on the
15-member International
Court of Justice, came to
campus in August. She met
with members of Professor
Linda Carter’s International
Criminal Law class and other
students, encouraging them
to pursue their interests in
public international law.
Judge Fausto Pocar of
the International Criminal
Court for the former
Yugoslavia spent an October
week teaching here. Two
students, Yen Phan, ’12,
Large Crowd Mobs
Third Citizenship Fair
The Brubeck Fellows brought a music business forum alive.
Brubeck Fellows Play
Music Business Forum
An appearance by the
Brubeck Fellows highlighted
a forum, “The Evolution
of Music Artist to
Businessperson,” attended
by students, Sacramento area
musicians, and attorneys in
April in the Grand Salon of
the Legal Studies Center.
Simon Rowe, the director
of University of the Pacific’s
Brubeck Institute, and
entertainment law attorneys
Scott Hervey, ’95, and
Richard Jeweler comprised a
panel that discussed the fastchanging world of music
delivery and copyright.
After the MCLE portion
of the program, the Brubeck
Institute Jazz Quintet, based
out of the Stockton campus,
captivated the crowd with
a selection of original jazz
compositions from their new
CD, “Origins.” The Brubeck
Fellowship Program is a twoyear, full-scholarship program
in jazz performance for five
exceptionally talented young
musicians who have just
graduated from high school.
The Brubeck Institute was
established by the University
of the Pacific in 2000 to
honor its distinguished
alumni, Dave and Iola
Brubeck. Dave Brubeck,
a California Hall of Fame
inductee and a Kennedy
Center honoree, is one of the
most famous jazz musicians
and composers of all time.
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and Danielle Wheeler,’12,
served fall internships
at his court. Thanks to
the efforts of Carter and
other faculty members in
Pacific McGeorge’s Global
Center for Business &
Development, the law
school has greatly expanded
its presence and outreach in
public international law.
Other participants in the
series included: Judge Juan
Guzmán Tapia of Chile, who
delivered a lecture on the
investigation and prosecution
of General Augusto Pinochet
for human rights violations
committed during the late
dictator’s regime; Judge
Sebastián Picasso of the
Argentinian National Civil
Court of Appeals; and
Charles Brower, one of the
world’s foremost arbitrators
who has served since 1983 as
a judge of the Iran-United
States Claims Tribunal.
A huge crowd of would-be
citizens and their families
packed Pacific McGeorge’s
Third Annual Citizenship
Fair on Nov. 19, 2011, for
a day-long event to help
immigrants on the road to
citizenship.
“Approximately 350 people,
many with other family
members, came for some type
of legal advice at the event,”
says Professor Blake Nordahl,
a key organizer who oversees
the law school’s Immigration
Clinic. “We provided
consultations on nonnaturalization immigration
issues to about 75 people.
We provided full eligibility
review for naturalization to
210 people. Of those, we were
able to submit 75 applications
for naturalization after they
went through initial screening,
preparation with a law student
team and, finally, attorney
review. Unfortunately, we
couldn’t get to everyone; it was
that crowded.”
Attendees were also
able to take advantage of
two large mobile medical
facilities from the UC Davis
School of Medicine in
which medical technicians
provided free blood
pressure and vision tests.
“This event, led by
Professors Raquel Aldana
and Blake Nordahl, and
supported by other clinical
faculty (Melissa Brown,
Kathleen Benton, ’84,Warren
Jones, ’75), alums, and a cadre
of multilingual students, does
a lot to restore one’s faith in
the willingness of lawyers to
serve and the huge need for
help,” Associate Dean Julie
Davies says.
“We were successful
in reaching more ethnic
communities this year,”
Nordahl says. “We had our
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He is a 1942 graduate of the
College of the Pacific who
originally went to college
intending to study veterinary
science but ended up in the
music conservatory.
Rodrigo Rondon gives a thumbs-up to his dissertation defense panel.
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volunteers helping people
in Spanish, Arabic, Hmong,
Mein, Vietnamese, Korean,
Farsi, Russian, Mandarin,
and Tagalog, making this
the most diverse fair yet.”
Bearden, Rondon Earn
Water Resources J.S.D.
Bennett Bearden and
Rodrigo Rondon became
the third and fourth
persons, respectively, to earn
a J.S.D. in International
Water Resources Law
with successful oncampus defenses of their
dissertation(s).
Bearden’s paper,
“Following the Proper
Channels: Tributaries in the
Mekong Legal Regime,”
passed muster in December.
A special counsel on water
law and policy at the
Alabama Office of the State
Geologist, he credited his
advisor, Professor Steve
McCaffrey, for “the most
enjoyable and rewarding
educational experience of
my life.”
Rondon, an attorney and
law professor from Buenos
Aires, Brazil, delivered his
successful dissertation,
“The Law of Transnational
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Transnationalism in the
Brazilian Water Sector?,” in
April.
A J.S.D. (Doctor of
Juridical Science) is legal
education’s equivalent of a
Ph.D. The J.S.D. typically
requires three to five years
to complete, and requires
an advanced study in law as
a scientific discipline and a
dissertation, which serves as
an original contribution to
the scholarly field of law.
Arizona water law
attorney Margaret Vick, ’83,
J.S.D. ’09, and Taiwanese
attorney/engineer Wen-Lu
Wang, J.S.D. ’10, are other
successful recipients of
Pacific McGeorge’s unique
degree.
NTC Mock Trial Team
Continues Hot Streak
A Pacific McGeorge team
qualified for the national
championship finals of the
37th Annual National Trial
Competition with a stellar
performance in the NTC
Region 13 tournament in
San Francisco.
Michelle Trigger, ’12,
and Tony Danielson, ’12,
defeated UC Hastings
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Student’s Big Victory
Keeps Family Together
Beau Russell, ’12, won
an important decision
for Pacific McGeorge’s
Immigration Law Clinic in
December. Working with
Professor Blake Nordahl,
the third-year Day Division
student was able to
prevent a young father of
two children from being
deported back to Angola.
The client came to
Sacramento from the
war-torn African nation
in his early 20’s to go to
college. Short of funds
after one semester, he
dropped out — leaving
his immigration status in
jeopardy. He applied for
asylum, fearing a return to
Angola, but in the meantime
he met and married a U.S.
citizen and they had two
children. He dropped his
asylum case and applied for
immigration status through
the marriage with his wife.
Unbeknownst to him,
however, the government had
already begun deportation
proceedings after a failure-toappear-in-court notice was
sent to an old address. He
discovered the deportation
dilemma while appearing
for a meeting in Sacramento
concerning a petition based
on his marital status.
“At the time, we took the
case and appeared on behalf
of the client in San Francisco
Immigration Court,”
Russell says. “We informed
the court of our desire
to continue the process
toward a green card based
on the client’s marriage
to his wife. Our clinic
prepared an adjustment
of status petition, which
included obtaining various
documents, affidavits and
other evidence.
“After filing the petition
with the court, we again
appeared on behalf of the
client at an individual
hearing,” Russell says. “At
this hearing, we called and
questioned the client as a
witness and defended the
evidence presented in the
filing. The judge held that
the petition was satisfactory
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Beau Russell, ’12, and Professor Blake Nordahl won a rewarding victory.
in a regional final-round
match to advance to the
28-team national finals,
which were held in March
later in Austin, Texas. A
UC Berkeley team also
advanced from the 16-team
regional that included
teams from Stanford, UC
Davis, Santa Clara, USF
and Golden Gate.
Tim Balcom, ’97, and
David Wiksell, ’10, coached
the victorious team and
another Pacific McGeorge
entry, Shani Roark, ’12 and
Hunter Starr, ’13, which
advanced to the regional
semifinals before falling.
Pacific McGeorge mock
trial teams have strung
together an impressive
record in recent years
in the NTC, which is
sponsored by the Texas
Young Lawyers Association.
Pacific McGeorge has sent
a team to the national
championship round in
five of the last seven years.
Baylor University won the
national title this year.
Chicago-Kent Wins
Sixth NETC Event
The Military Law Society fundraiser gave everyone a taste of boot camp on the quad.
for an adjustment-of-status
filing. We then registered
the judgment with the
Sacramento office, and the
client received a green card
a few weeks later.”
Military Law Society
Pushes Up for Charity
The Military Law Society
raised more than $4,000
for homeless veterans
with an all-day November
fundraiser in the quad,
“The 131,000 Challenge,”
which featured law school
community members doing
push-ups and sit-ups for a
worthy cause.
“Thanks to all who
participated, they counted
41,603 between 8:30 a.m.
and 6:15 p.m.,” Principal
Assistant Dean Tim
Naccarato, ’77, says. “Several
alums who are veterans
committed to paying 10
cents a push-up or sit-up. So
$4,160.30 will be donated
to a local non-profit that
supports homeless veterans.”
“We owe special thanks
to the students, staff sections
and faculty members who
supported this cause —
sometimes coming out several
times during the day.” says
Naccarato, the MLS faculty
advisor. “Others dropped
by the Business Office and
donated to the Military Law
Society. Three individuals
logged counts of 2,200,
2,000, and 1,000 push-ups
and sit-ups, respectively. As I
visited the quad at 5:15 p.m.,
five female students from
the Evening Division, two in
business attire, were knocking
out push-ups and sit-ups.”
The fundraiser was the
brainchild of Phil Williams,
’13, a former U.S. Army
infantry officer who served
two tours of duty in Iraq.
MLS president Andrew
Londerholm, ’13, headed
a team that organized the
day’s activities. Sacramento
attorney Emmett Mahle,
’81, who teaches the Law
Chicago-Kent College of
Law took top honors at the
6th National Ethics Trial
Competition (NETC) hosted
by the University of the
Pacific McGeorge School of
Law in March at the Robert
T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse in
Sacramento. It was ChicagoKent’s second victory in
the prestigious national
invitational mock trial event,
which began in 2006.
Professor Jay Leach, the
director of the law school’s
Center for Advocacy &
Dispute Resolution, organized
the competition. Professor
Cary Bricker was the codirector and the muchpublicized Willingham fire
case from Texas formed the
factual foundation for this
year’s problem.
Chicago-Kent students
Bernadett Guy, Tara Korthals,
Jordan Leibovitz and Erin
Mayer comprised the winning
team, which edged Stetson
University in the final
round. Catholic University
and St. John’s University
also reached the semifinals.
Ryan Guptill of Georgetown
University won the award for
Top Advocate Preliminary
Rounds. Stetson’s Josef Rosen
won the Top Advocate Final
Rounds trophy and his team
walked off with the Most
Professional Team Award.
The NETC is sponsored
by Pacific McGeorge, the
Anthony M. Kennedy Inn
of Court, the American
Bar Association Section of
Litigation and ABOTA,
and made possible by the
generous donations of
Sacramento attorneys Bob
Buccola, ’83, Noël Ferris, ’79,
Parker White, ’80, David
Mastagni, ’73, and the law
firm of Porter Scott. The
field also included: American
University, University of
Buffalo, Brooklyn Law
School, Fordham University,
University of Houston,
Mercer University, UC
Hastings, South Dakota
University, South Texas
College, Temple University,
and Pacific McGeorge.
The final round of the
competition was judged
by a prestigious panel that
included Judge William
Shubb, U.S. District Court,
Eastern District of California;
Sacramento Superior Court
Judge Kevin Culhane, ’76,
Sacramento County chief
deputy district attorney
Cynthia Besemer, ’78,
University of Pacific Regent
Noël Ferris, ’79, and veteran
attorney Gary Gwilliam.
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of Armed Conflict elective
course in the spring, was
among the key alumni
backers.
The money that was
raised will go to the
Sacramento branch of the
United States Mission,
which has been helping
homeless veterans for 50
years. The Department of
Veteran’s Affairs estimates
that there are more than
131,000 homeless veterans,
hence “The 131,000
Challenge” name.
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The law review symposium on Justice Kennedy’s jurisprudence attracted an array of constitutional law scholars.
Symposium Celebrates
Kennedy’s 25 Years
The McGeorge Law Review
hosted an April symposium
celebrating Justice Anthony
M. Kennedy’s 25th year of
service on the Supreme
Court of the United States.
“The Evolution
of Justice Kennedy’s
Jurisprudence” featured
an impressive array of
constitution law scholars
including a number of
former Kennedy clerks who
examined the long-time
Pacific McGeorge faculty
member’s most noteworthy
opinions. The presenters
included his long-time
colleagues John Sprankling,
Larry Levine, Charles
Kelso, Steve McCaffrey
and Linda Carter. Michael
Vitiello and Clark Kelso,
who clerked for Kennedy
when he was on the U.S.
Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals, helped the law
review editorial board
organize the event.
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Invited Kennedy
constitutional law scholars
included: Randy Beck,
University of Georgia,
Gregory Maggs, George
Washington University;
Randall Kelso, South Texas
College of Law, Ashutosh
Bhagwat, UC Davis;
Stephen Bibas, University
of Pennsylvania; and Robert
Weisberg, Stanford.
Justice Kennedy taught
Constitutional Law at
Pacific McGeorge from
1965 to 1988. He continued
his service as a faculty
member of the law school
for 25 more years teaching
Fundamental Rights in
Europe and the United
States each summer in
Salzburg, Austria.
Chief Justice Names
Parker to Committee
Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker added another line
to her impressive resumé
of service to the federal
government last fall when
Chief Justice John Roberts
of the Supreme Court of the
United States appointed her
to the Judicial Conference’s
Committee on International
Judicial Relations.
The committee was
established by the federal
Judicial Conference in 1993
to respond to the enormous
increase in demand from
newly emerging democracies
and developing countries
for information about
judicial independence, legal
traditions, and effective court
administration in the U.S.
Parker will serve a three-year
term on the 14-member
committee, whose mission is
to serve as a resource in the
establishment and expansion
of the rule of law and the
administration of justice
throughout the world.
In January, Parker was
reappointed to the Public
Interest Declassification Board
by President Obama. She had
previously served a six-year
term on the board under the
Bush administration.
Young GLS Program
Garners High Praise
In only its third year
of existence, Pacific
McGeorge’s Global
Lawyering Skills program
has high praise from legal
academia for its forwardthinking in the teaching of
legal research and writing.
The most recent
edition of The Journal of
the Legal Writing Institute
includes an article,
“Preparing for Globalized
Practice: The Need to
Include International and
Comparative Law in the
Legal Writing Curriculum.”
It argues that all law
students will be better
prepared for practice if
they can begin to consider
international and foreign
law in their learning process
early in the academic
experience. The article
holds the GLS program
up as a model for other
American law schools.
In another sign of
the program’s spreading
influence, Professor MaryBeth Moylan, the director
of the two-year course, was
elected to the Association
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of Legal Writing Directors
(ALWD) Board of Directors
this spring. ALWD is
a professional group of
directors of legal reasoning,
research, writing, analysis,
and advocacy programs
from law schools throughout
the United States, Canada
and Australia.
Finally, in the March
2012 U.S. News & World
Report rankings, GLS
was ranked No. 13 in the
country in the magazine’s
Legal Writing specialty.
That same magazine
ranked Pacific McGeorge’s
International Law
program No. 17, tied with
Northwestern, UCLA, the
University of Minnesota,
and the University of
Pennsylvania. Pacific
McGeorge’s overall ranking
came in at No. 101, down
one spot from last year.
However, its Evening
Division program was rated
No. 23 out of 75 law schools
in the Part-Time Programs
category, and the law school’s
diverse student enrollment
was once again cited in the
publication’s Law School
Diversity Ratings Index.
Weber in Guatemala
For February Course
Professor Mary-Beth Moylan’s Global Lawyering Skills program has won high praise.
Professor Greg Weber
taught a course,
“Introduction to the
U.S. Legal System: An
Environmental Law
Focus,” to 30 attorneys
and government counsel
in February in Guatemala
City, Guatemala.
The course is part of
Pacific McGeorge’s InterAmerican Environmental
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the role of victims of serious
human right violations in
the aftermath of such events.
Wong Feels Like
Royalty in the UK
Professor Jarrod Wong was
an invited speaker at two
major conferences held in
the United Kingdom in the
last eight months.
He presented his article,
“Arbitrating in the Ether
of Intent,” at the 102nd
Annual Meeting of the
Society of Legal Scholars
(SLS) in September at the
University of Cambridge in
Cambridge, England. The
SLS is the British equivalent
of AALS, and his paper was
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Law Series, which is being
conducted in partnership
with CAFTA’s Secretariat for
Environmental Matters in
Guatemala. The secretariat is
an international organization
created within the framework
of the Dominican RepublicCentral America-United
States Free Trade Agreement
to oversee compliance with its
environmental commitments
under the treaty.
Pacific McGeorge’s
Inter-American Program is
an innovative educational
initiative designed to
graduate bilingual and
intercultural lawyers who
are competent to work
with Latino clients in the
U.S. or on Latin American
matters. The program
offers students the option
to pursue a domestic or
transnational track. Its
summer component in
Guatemala, now in its third
year, is co-sponsored by the
University of Denver and
Seattle University.
conference. Her co-panelists
included a judge from the
International Criminal Court
in The Hague, the director
of the criminal justice
program at the International
Center for Transitional
Justice in New York City,
and an official from the
German governmentfunded Remembrance,
Responsibility and Future
Foundation.
The conference,
sponsored by the renowned
University of Marburg
Center for Conflict Studies
and International Research
and Documentation Center
for War Crimes Trials,
explored ways to enhance
Aldana Presents Paper
At Marburg Forum
Professor Raquel Aldana
presented a paper and
participated on the final
wrap-up panel at a major
Professor Raquel Aldana brought her expertise on Central America to a conference in Germany.
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Professor Greg Weber
conference on “Victims
of International Crimes,”
which was held in October
at the Philipp University
of Marburg in Marburg,
Germany.
One of the few American
law professors invited to
the prestigious symposium,
Aldana presented her
paper, “A Preliminary
Assessment of War Crime
Victim Participation as
Complementary Prosecutors
in Post-Conflict Guatemala,”
during a session on victims in
transitional justice processes.
Aldana was a panelist
in a roundtable discussion
on victims’ rights and
peace that concluded the
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London. The paper
considers the doctrinal
and practical difficulties
relating to the awarding
of moral damages in
investment arbitration,
and concludes that many
of these difficulties arise as
a result of the failure both
to articulate precisely the
heads of moral damages,
and to treat them as strictly
compensatory rather than
punitive in nature
Another Wong project,
“Transparency and Public
Participation in InvestorState Arbitration,” was
selected for a November
discussion at the American
Society of International
Law’s 2nd annual Mid-Year
Meeting and Research
Forum in Los Angeles.
Main, Friedrich
Will Be Missed
One of Pacific McGeorge’s
most prolific scholars and
popular classroom teachers,
Thom Main, will join the
University of Nevada, Las
Vegas William S. Boyd School
of Law faculty next fall.
Main has taught
Civil Procedure to firstyear students annually
since joining the Pacific
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selected for presentation in
a worldwide call for papers
by the society’s Contract,
Commercial and Consumer
Law Section. In his paper,
Wong discusses the extent
to which the U.S. Supreme
Court’s contract-centered
Federal Arbitration Act
jurisprudence has been
distorted by its reliance on
(often nonexistent) parties’
intent. The article lays out
a case study of constructive
intent and the limits of a
consent-based theory of
contract law.
In April, he spoke
on “Moral Damages in
Investor-State Arbitration”
at the 7th Annual Fordham
Law School Conference on
International Arbitration
and Mediation, which was
held at King’s College,
Photography: Bethany Daniels
Professor Jarrod Wong is a much sought after speaker at international conferences.
McGeorge faculty 12 years
ago. He also has taught
Comparative Law, Complex
Civil Litigation, Conflict
of Laws, Remedies, and
Transnational Litigation.
A two-time winner of
the John G. Sprankling
Award for Faculty
Scholarship, Main is
an expert in the field of
domestic and international
civil procedure with
numerous publications
including Civil Procedure:
Doctrine, Practice, and
Context (Aspen), a leading
casebook in the field that is
now in its third edition.
Kathleen Friedrich, ’81,
who has been a supervising
attorney in Community
Legal Services and professor
in the Global Lawyering
Skills program for 27 years,
is taking a three-year leave
of absence.
“These are exceptionally
gifted teachers and
colleagues,” Associate Dean
Julie Davies says. “They
have made a positive impact
on the lives of a lot of
young attorneys who have
passed through our law
school, and we will miss
them dearly.”
Professor Thom Main
Professor Kathleen Friedrich
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Professor of Law
B.A., University of Rochester
J.D., Boston University
Courses Taught
Trial Advocacy, Advanced Trial Advocacy,
Federal Defender Clinic, LL.M. Seminar
In Experiential Law Teaching
Public Sector
Federal Defender’s Office
New York, N.Y.
Legal Academia
Adjunct Professor, Fordham Law School
Associate Professor, Temple University
Recent Scholarship
“Revisiting the Crime-Fraud Exception to
the Attorney-Client Privilege: A Proposal
to Remedy the Disparity in Protections for
Civil and Criminal Privilege Holders,” 82
Temp. L. Rev. 149 (2009)
Professor
Cary Bricker
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Teaching the Art and Practice of Courtroom Advocacy
the pacific mcgeorge profile
By Joanna Corman
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You could say being a public defender is in her DNA. Cary
Being an effective litigator, she teaches them, is about
Bricker grew up watching her mother, a public interest
preparation. “You need to know more than anybody else in
juvenile rights lawyer, try cases. Her father is a nephrologist
that courtroom at all times,” she says. “I never tried a case
at an academic hospital. She said both raised her to value
without going to the scene, without seeing where things
public interest work.
supposedly happened.”
“I used to go to court with her,” Bricker says, of her mom.
Three years ago, Bricker helped found Pacific McGeorge’s
“I watched her practice, and it fit. It felt comfortable.”
Federal Defender Clinic, which meets on-campus and at the
Bricker, professor of lawyering skills, went to law school
Federal Defender’s Office. She used the curriculum from
to be a public defender. She started her career as a Legal Aid
New York University School of Law, which supplied her with
Lawyer in Brooklyn and then worked as a federal defender in
students when she was a federal defender. The full-year clinic
Manhattan for 12 years. In that position, she also taught Trial
allows students to work in the Federal Defender’s Office and
Advocacy as an adjunct at Fordham Law School for a decade.
represent actual clients charged with federal misdemeanors.
In 2002, she left the courtroom for Temple University Beasley
One student recently argued before the U.S. Ninth Circuit
School of Law to be an associate professor of trial advocacy
Court of Appeals. Another two completed a jury trial.
and to direct the school’s trial advocacy program.
Bricker says she enjoys watching students grow. Not every
Bricker joined Pacific McGeorge
student who takes her classes goes
in 2005. She has been asked to
on to become a trial lawyer. But
take on a variety of roles in the
they all improve. “I see students start
classroom and has excelled at all
at ground zero and they come out
of them. She also oversees Pacific
confident, persuasive human beings,”
McGeorge’s nationally ranked
she says. “A lot of them say, ‘I was
Mock Trial Competition Team
able to walk into a courtroom (after
and is the faculty advisor for the
graduation) and handle myself, and
student Trial Advocacy Association.
that felt good.’ Others say, ‘As an
A year after Bricker joined Pacific
associate at a law firm, I was able to
McGeorge and began teaching Trial
argue this with a partner and I didn’t
Advocacy, students in the Day and
feel like I was a fraud.’ You gain
Evening Divisions both voted her
confidence when you gain skill.”
Professor Cary Bricker teaches in the courtroom.
professor of the year. Those students
As a public defender, Bricker
proved to be astute judges of teaching talent. This summer,
liked “the somewhat clichéd idea of giving voice to someone
she will be one of only 25 American law professors featured
who otherwise has no voice, who’s looking at having liberty
in a book, What the Best Law Teachers Do, written by Michael
taken from them.” As a federal defender, she most often
Schwartz, Sophie Sparrow and Gerald Hess.
represented clients faced with bank, postal and drug crimes.
Bricker has a gift for setting raw amateurs on a path to
She represented bank tellers who allegedly took from their
becoming confident, competent trial lawyers. That entails
tills, postal workers who pilfered mail, bank robbers and
learning how to be persuasive communicators and how to
small-time drug dealers caught up in large-scale drug rings.
connect with the jury and judge. The popular Trial Advocacy
A lot of her clients were first-time offenders who made bad
elective taught by her, Professor Joe Taylor, Keith Hill, ’96
choices, she says, although some were repeat criminals. She
and her husband, Professor Jay Leach, culminates in a fulllearned about humanity and humility from the ones who had
day jury trial with volunteer judges and citizen-jurists.
hard lives but made bad choices, she says. Clients generally
Students must be ethical litigators and strike a balance
received punishments proportionate to their offenses and those
between being zealous advocates for their client with appearing
who were acquitted deserved that outcome.
credible, Bricker says. She teaches them the importance of
“I saw a system that wasn’t broken, and that gave me
believing in their case and being able to convey that firmly
faith,” she says.
held conviction to a jury. They need a case theory based on
This is the seventeenth in a series of articles on Pacific
fact and inference that tells their client’s story in a way that
McGeorge faculty members who pursue excellence inside and
could win. “They need to learn when to object, when to admit
outside the classroom.
mistakes and when to pick their battles. They also need a
sophisticated knowledge of the federal rules of evidence and
how to use them to their advantage,” she says.
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Pacific
McGeorge
Faculty
Research &
Scholarship
Raquel Aldana
Transforming Students,
Transforming Selves: The
Power of Teaching Social
Justice Struggles in Context,
24 Pac. Mcgeorge Global
Bus. & Dev. L.J. 53 (2012)
Anne Bloom
Speaking ‘Truth’ to Biopower,
41 Southwestern L. Rev.
241 (2012)
Blindsight: How We See
Disabilities in Tort Litigation,
86 Wash. L. Rev. 709 (2011)
Zen and the Art of Tort
Litigation, 44 Loy. L.A. L.
Rev. 11 (2010)
To Be Real: Sexual Identity
Politics in Tort Litigation, 88
N.C. L. Rev. 357 (2010)
The University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law faculty
not only excels in the classroom, they render public service to the
university and the profession. Our faculty also engages in research
and scholarship to further The Rule of Law. Below is a listing of
selected 2010-12 Pacific McGeorge faculty publications.
Linda E. Carter
Global Issues In Criminal
Procedure (with others,
West Group 2011)
The Challenge of ‘Firsts’ in
International Criminal Justice:
First Courts, First Judges, and
Issues of First Impression, in
Protecting Humanity:
Essays In International
Law And Policy In Honour
Of Navanethem Pillay (C.
Eboe-Osuji ed., Martinus
Nijhoff 2010)
The Principle of
Complementarity and the
International Criminal Court:
The Role of Ne Bis in Idem, 8
Santa Clara J. Int’l L. 165
(2010)
Regulating Middlesex, in
Faultlines: Tort Law As
Cultural Practice 137 (D.
Engel & M. McCann eds. 2010)
Michael T. Colatrella
A “Lawyer for All Seasons”:
The Lawyer as Conflict
Manager, 49 San Diego L.
Rev. 93 (2012)
Gerald Caplan
Medical Marijuana: A Study of
Unintended Consequences, 43
Mcgeorge L. Rev. 127 (2012)
Cutting the Cost of Conflict
by Creating a Dispute-Wise
Organization, 11 Nev. L.J.
(2011)
Raymond R. Coletta
Property: A Contemporary
Approach (with J. Sprankling,
2d ed, West 2012)
Global Issues In Wills &
Trusts (Thomson/West 2010)
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Omar M. Dajani
Disproportionality
And Deterrence: The
Dahiya Doctrine Under
International Law (with N.
Gibson, Birzeit Univ. 2012)
No Security Without Law:
Prospects for Implementing
a Rights-Based Approach in
Palestinian-Israeli Security
Negotiations, in International
Law And The IsraeliPalestinian Conflict: A
Rights-Based Approach To
Middle East Peace (S. Akram
et al. eds., Routledge 2011)
Fred Galves
Teaching Litigation Technology,
in Educating The Digital
Lawyer, At Ch. 7 (O.
Goodenough & M. Lauritsen
eds., Matthew Bender 2012)
Global Issues In Evidence
(Thomson/West 2010)
Emily Garcia Uhrig
The Sacrifice of Unarmed
Prisoners to Gladiators: The
Access-to-the-Courts Demand
for Right to Counsel in Federal
Habeas Corpus Proceedings, 14
U. Pa. J. Const. L. 1219 (2012)
Federal And California
Evidence Rules: Printed
On Facing Pages With
Notes, Comments, Selected
Legislative History And
Comparative Commentary
(with D. Miller & T. Leach,
Wolters Kluwers 2012)
Franklin A. Gevurtz
The Globalization of Corporate
Law: The End of History or a
Never-ending Story? 86 Wash.
L. Rev. 475 (2011)
Using Comparative and
Transnational Corporate
Law to Teach Corporate
Social Responsibility, 24 Pac.
Mcgeorge Global Bus. &
Dev. L.J. 39 (2011)
Corporation Law (2d ed.
West 2010)
The Role of Corporate Law in
Preventing a Financial Crisis:
Reflections on in re Citigroup
Inc., Shareholder Derivative
Litigation, 23 Pac. Mcgeorge
Global Bus. & Dev. L.J. 113
(2010)
Leslie Gielow Jacobs
United States Legislation
and Presidential Directives,
in Encyclopedia Of
Bioterrorism Defense
(with E. Parker; R. Katz & R.
Zilinskas eds., 2d ed. WileyBlackwell 2011)
What the Abortion Disclosure
Cases Say About the
Constitutionality of Persuasive
Government Speech on Product
Labels, 87 Denv. U. L. Rev.
855 (2010)
Obama, Bush and Beyond:
Observations on the Prospect
for Fact Checking Executive
Department Threat Claims
Before the Use of Force, 26
Const. Comment. 433 (2010)
Charles D. Kelso
The Constitutional Jurisprudence
of Justice Kennedy on Liberty, 9
Dartmouth L. J. (2011) (with
R. Kelso)
Judicial Decision-Making and
Judicial Review, 112 W. Va. L.
Rev. 351 (2010) (with R. Kelso)
Amy L. Landers
Understanding Patent
Law (2d ed. LexisNexis 2012)
Banking And Financial
Services Law (3d ed.
Carolina 2011)
Principles Of Bank
Regulation (Concise
Hornbook Series, 3d ed.
West 2011)
Anatomy Of A Meltdown
(Aspen 2010)
Global Issues In Patent
Law (with others, West 2011)
Stephen C. McCaffrey
Beyond International Water
Law: Successfully Negotiating
Mutual Gains Agreements for
International Watercourses,
22 Pac. Mcgeorge Global
Bus. & Dev. L.J. 139 (2012)
(with others)
Ordinary Creativity in Patent
Law: The Artist Inside the
Scientist, 75 Mo. L. Rev. 1 (2010)
Transnational Litigation
In Comparative Perspective
(with T. Main, Oxford 2010)
Global Issues In
Intellectual Property Law
(with others, West 2010)
Public International Law:
Cases, Problems And Text
(with others, LexisNexis 2010)
Brian K. Landsberg
Promoting Social Justice Values
and Reflective Legal Practice in
Chinese Law Schools, 24 Pac.
Mcgeorge Glob. Bus. &
Dev. L. J. 107 (2012)
Michael Mireles
Towards Recognizing and
Reconciling the Multiplicity
of Values and Interests in
Trademark Law, 44 Ind. L.
Rev. 427 (2011)
The Kennedy Justice Department’s
Enforcement of Civil Rights:
A View from the Trenches, in
John F. Kennedy History,
Memory, Legacy: An
Interdisciplinary Inquiry (J.
Williams et al. eds., 2010)
Global Issues In Intellectual
Property Law (with others,
West/Thomson 2010)
Patent Claim Apportionment,
Patentee Injury and Sequential
Invention, 19 Geo. Mason L.
Rev. 413 (2012)
Thomas J. Leach
California Evidentiary
Foundations, Supp. (with
E. Imwinkelried, 4th ed.
LexisNexis 2010)
Lawrence C. Levine
Tort Law And Practice
(with others, 4th ed.
LexisNexis 2011)
Mary-Beth Moylan
Sovereign Rules of the Game:
Requiring Campaign Finance
Disclosure in the Face of Tribal
Sovereign Immunity, 20 B. U.
Pub. Int. L.J. 1 (2011)
Enduring Hope? A Study of
Looping in Law School, 48
Duq. L. Rev. 455 (2010)
(with S. Thompson)
John E.B. Myers
California Criminal Law
(West 2011)
Understanding Torts
(with others, 4th ed.,
LexisNexis 2010)
Myers On Evidence Of
Interpersonal Violence (5th
ed. Wolters Kluwer 2011)
Michael P. Malloy
Banking Law and Regulation,
3 vols. (2d ed. Aspen 2011)
Child Maltreatment: A
Collection Of Readings
(John E.B. Myers ed.,
Sage 2011)
Expert Testimony in Child Sexual
Abuse Litigation: Consensus and
Confusion, 14 U.C. Davis J. Juv.
L. & Pol’y 1 (2010)
Paul D. Paton
Cooperation, Co-Option or
Coercion? The FATF Lawyer
Guidance and Regulation of
the Legal Profession, 2010 J.
Prof. Law. 165
Multidisciplinary Practice Redux:
Globalization, Core Values, and
Reviving the MDP Debate in
America, 78 Fordham L. Rev.
2193 (2010)
Rachael E. Salcido
Siting Offshore Hydrokinetic
Energy Projects: A Comparative
Look at Wave Energy Regulation
in the Pacific Northwest, 5
Golden Gate U. Envtl. J.
108 (2011)
John Cary Sims
Responses to the Ten Questions,
Journal of the National Security
Forum, 37 Wm. Mitchell L.
Rev. 101 (2011)
Brian G. Slocum
Rethinking ‘Ordinary’ Meaning,
33 Statute L. Rev. 39 (2012)
The Importance of Being
Ambiguous: Substantive
Canons, Stare Decisis, and
the Central Role of Ambiguity
Determinations in the
Administrative State, 69 Md.
L. Rev. 791 (2010)
John G. Sprankling
Property: A Contemporary
Approach (with R. Coletta,
2d ed. West 2012)
The Emergence of
International Property Law, 90
N.C. L. Rev. 461 (2012)
Understanding Property
Law (3d ed., LexisNexis 2012)
Stephanie J. Thompson
Enduring Hope? A Study of
Looping in Law School, 48
Duq. L. Rev. 455 (2010)
(with M. Moylan)
Michael Vitiello
Why the Initiative Process is
the Wrong Way to Go: Lessons
We Should Have Learned from
Proposition 215, 43 Mcgeorge
L. Rev. 63 (2012)
Addressing the Special
Problems of the Mentally Ill:
Prisoners: A Small Piece of
the Solution to Our Nation’s
Prison Crisis, 88 DENV. L.
REV. 57 (2010)
Defining the Reasonable Person
in the Criminal Law: Fighting
the Lernaean Hydra, 14 Lewis
& Clark L. Rev. 1435 (2010)
A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, or Is It? A
Comparative Look at Italian
and American Sex Crimes,
40 Seton Hall L. Rev. 191
(2010) (with Cadoppi)
Gregory S. Weber
Cases And Materials On
Water Law (with D. Grant,
8th ed. Thomson/West 2010)
California Civil
Discovery (with J. Hogan,
2d ed. LexisNexis/Matthew
Bender 2005 & Supp.
2005-2010)
Jarrod Wong
The 2006 Procedural and
Transparency-Related
Amendments to the ICSID
Arbitration Rules: Model
Intentions, Moderate
Proposals, and Modest
Returns, in 2 Vale Columbia
Center Yearbook Of
International Investment
Law And Policy 233 (K.
Sauvant ed., Oxford 2010)
(with J. Yackee)
Global Issues In Remedies
(with T. Main, Thomson/
West 2010)
Kojo Yelpaala
Rethinking the Foreign
Direct Investment Process and
Incentives in Post-Conflict
Transition Countries, 30 Nw.
J. Int’l L. & Bus. 23 (2010)
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Message from
The Alumni Board
President
Dear Fellow
Alumni & Friends,
In my first message as the new
Pacific McGeorge Alumni Board
president, I wish to convey two
goals of the Board’s Strategic
Plan for the next year: assist with
improving Pacific McGeorge’s
rankings and increase interaction between current students and
alums. I ask for your help with both goals.
Historically, Pacific McGeorge’s rankings fail to capture
how determined, well-rounded, and practice-ready our
graduates are. We need to remedy that. When we do we
will assist not only current students and recent graduates,
but you as well. That is, the value of your law degree will
increase. While several rankings result from a mix of odd and
bizarrely-weighted factors, there are two key areas that will
greatly impact our standings: employment and giving.
We need to increase the number of graduates employed
at graduation and nine months after graduation. If you can
hire a Pacific McGeorge graduate, please do. If you cannot
hire a Pacific McGeorge graduate, please help open the door
in some way — be it by conducting mock interviews or
introducing a graduate to a potential employer you know.
I realize the concept of giving may anger some, especially
those still paying for their degree. Please realize, again, that
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when Pacific McGeorge’s ranking goes up so, too, does
the value of your degree. You need not give large amounts.
For many of these surveys, what matters is the percentage
of alums who contribute. We are currently at about 10-12
percent participation. We can do better. If every recipient of
this magazine agreed to give but $5 per month or an annual
amount, we would be well on our way to increasing Pacific
McGeorge’s rankings.
With regard to increasing interaction between current
students and alums, I ask that you consider participating in
events such as Dine with Alumni (currently scheduled for
October 12, 2012) and Career Search Saturday (currently
scheduled for October 13, 2012). I also ask that you become
involved with your local alumni chapter. We have seven
active chapters throughout California, two in Nevada, one in
Washington, D.C., and one in New York City. By increasing
our interaction with one another, we can make considerable
strides in raising awareness about Pacific McGeorge all over
California and throughout the nation.
Finally, I must address a bittersweet topic. Dean Elizabeth
Rindskopf Parker is stepping down after ten years of tireless
service to Pacific McGeorge. During that decade she has been
a true champion for the school. During her reign she worked
many miracles, including improving the range of courses
offered (including Bar preparation-like courses and practical
specialty courses), expanding Pacific McGeorge’s Legal Clinics,
beautifying campus (including the new Legal Studies Center),
raising alumni giving from 5.6 percent to its recent high of 14.4
percent, and creating a USAID-funded experiential learning
program with China. We cannot thank her enough and wish
her well for her future adventures. We similarly wish to thank
Barbara Thomas, who is retiring in June, for her 23 years of
irreplaceable dedication to the McGeorge family.
If you have thoughts about Pacific McGeorge or
suggestions on how to improve the school, please drop me a
line: erin.dunston@bipc.com.
Best regards,
Erin M. Dunston ’99
2011
Alumni
Board of
Directors
Executive Committee
Erin M. Dunston ’99
President
Scott M. Hervey ’95
Vice President of Development
Megan Moore ’08
Vice President of Planning
Kimberly K. Delfino ’93
Vice President of
Alumni Relations
Shanti Halter ’01
Immediate Past President
James M. Day, Jr. ’73
Past President
Directors
Ric Asfar ’06
Eric L. Barnum ’94
Dionne Choyce ’01
Hector deAvila Gonzalez LL.M. ’03
Kathryn M. Davis ’99
Rex Frazier ’00
Brian K. Harris ’00
Daniel L. Hitzke ’00
Dustin Johnson ’04
Kim Kakavas ’08
Debra J. Kazanjian ’79
Dunston New Alumni Board Leader
By Michael Curran
Erin Dunston, ’99, who played a major role
in revitalizing Pacific McGeorge’s Washington,
D.C. alumni chapter, is the Pacific McGeorge
Alumni Association’s new president.
Dunston takes over for Shanti Halter, ’01,
who led the alumni association through an
exciting, event-filled 2011 that saw the opening
of the law school’s new Legal Studies Center and
an expansion of board of directors’ activities.
“Before she moved to Little Rock,
Arkansas, Shanti and I worked together to
build up the DC chapter,” Dunston says.
“She brought my name up to the board as
a possible member. It took a few years to
actually make it onto the board but I wanted
to be as active as possible once on it.”
The DC chapter has been one of the most
active in the past decade with two or three events
scheduled each year. Just this spring, Supreme
Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy attended
one of their receptions near the White House.
Chapter members have also been very supportive
of Pacific McGeorge’s summer internship
program there, helping to find and place students
in federal and non-governmental agencies.
“Soon after joining the board, I was tasked
with helping the Planning Committee,”
she says. “We tackled updating the bylaws
and helped the various subcommittees get
chapters going or reinvigorated. I continued
to help with the DC chapter. Three years
ago, I was happy to take on the role of vice
president of planning for the Executive
Committee. Now, I’m happy to commit even
more time to our school’s alumni.”
Dunston is not shy about tooting her legal
alma mater’s horn. “Pacific McGeorge’s strong
suit is its ability to produce practice-ready
graduates. The professional accomplishments
of my classmates and fellow alumni make
me very proud,” she says. “I also am very
thankful for the wonderful friends I made
at McGeorge, including my husband, Sean,
who is a ’98 Day graduate. I still see many of
them quite frequently and keep in touch with
others via Facebook, etc.”
Dunston is a shareholder and patent attorney
with Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC where
she focuses her practice on biotechnology
and chemical inventions. “I prosecute patents
(draft the applications, communicate with the
Patent Office (PTO) until the application is
granted) as well as litigate them. I also do a lot
of interferences, an inter partes proceeding at
the PTO to determine who first invented the
claimed subject matter.”
Photography: Megan Laurie
Gayle J. Lau ’74
C. Emmett Mahle ’81
Gustavo Matheus ’96
John R. Masterman ’78
Dennis J. Olmstead ’84
Kirupa Pushparaj ’07
Diana K. Rodgers ’94
Lisa V. Ryan ’01
Jennifer A. Scott ’99
Evan D. Smiley ’92
Morgan C. Smith ’93
Dawn C. Sweatt ’05
Thomas J. Tarkoff ’92
Andrew P. Tauriainen ’01
Vida L. Thomas ’93
Bruce M. Timm ’98
Serge Tomassian ’83
Marianne L. Waterstradt ’03
The 2012 McGeorge Alumni Association Board of Directors: From left, first row, Diana Rodgers, Shanti
Halter, Erin Dunston, Debra Kazanjian, Jennifer Scott and Colin Hendricks; second row, Scott Hervey, Hector de
Avila, Nirav Desai, Megan Moore, Marianne Waterstradt and Morgan Smith; third row, Kathryn Davis. Dawn Sweatt,
Evan Smiley, Bruce Timm and Emmett Mahle; back row, Kim Kakavas, Dustin Johnson, Kim Delfino, Andrew
Tauriainen, Tom Tarkoff, Serge Tomassian, Rick Asfar and Thom Main.
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Alumni News
1960s
Geoff Burroughs, 1964
Burroughs has written a book about
his older brother’s exploits in World
War II and the war’s upheaval on his
family. The book, Destiny Answers,
has been published in paperback
and Kindle editions. The former
Sacramento County deputy district
attorney taught Trial Advocacy at
Pacific McGeorge as an adjunct
professor for many years.
(Sacramento)
Ronald B. Robie, 1967
Robie was named a recipient of
the Judicial Council of California’s
highest honor for a state jurist, the
Ronald M. George Award for Judicial
Excellence. A justice of the Court
of Appeal, Third Appellate District,
he is the longest-serving adjunct
professor at Pacific McGeorge.
my outstanding caregiver wife, I am
Alternate Public Defender’s Office in
recuperating very well. (Sacramento)
2007. My daughter, Sarah, is married
and living in Washington, D.C. I have a
granddaughter, Mya, and the second
granddaughter arrives in February
2012. I got through two surgeries
last year and am now back surfing.
(Los Angeles, CA)
1971
Britton was co-counsel in Placer
Superior Court and successfully
defended a car dealership, Auburn
Honda, against charges of age
discrimination in the layoffs of four
former employees. He is a senior
partner in the firm of Wright &
Britton. (Roseville, CA)
John DeRonde Jr.
Please contact me or John Britton
Phil Hiroshima
if you wish to help with the 40-year
Glenn Fait
Fait stepped down as director of the
Institute for Administrative Justice at
Pacific McGeorge, but will continue
as Associate Dean for Special
Class of 1972 Reunion that is
scheduled for September 22,
2012, at jbritton@surewest.net
or derondelaw@sbcglobal.net.
(Fairfield, CA)
Programs and Lecturer in Law at
Darrel W. Lewis
the law school. (Sacramento)
I attended my 50th high school
Commission voted to name the
I am enjoying semi-retirement
Thermalito Pumping-Generating Plant
though still “of counsel” at
in Oroville after him. (Sacramento)
Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth & Lewis.
I limit my practice to family law
1970
mediation, collaborative practice
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committee. It was wonderful to see
Raul A. Ramirez
old friends last fall. (Sacramento)
Terence B. Smith
John Britton
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H. Vincent Jacobs
and private judging. Thanks are due
to Phil Hiroshima and his reunion
reunion (Analy High in Sebastopol). I
found out that the late Jerry Garcia
of the Grateful Dead joined our
class as a junior when his parents
moved from San Francisco to
Sebastopol to get him out of the
drug environment. (Sacramento)
1973
Anthony Poidmore
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Al Carrion
I was honored to be named in the
Rudy Nolen
Carrion announced that he will run
Northern California Super Lawyers
George F. Wolcott
for an open seat on the Sutter
magazine. (Sacramento)
County Superior Court bench next
1986 to 1998 before returning to
1972
private practice. (Yuba City, CA)
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June. The veteran attorney served
as a judge in Colusa County from
Michael Manley
Gordon Adelman
I retired for the second and hopefully
Gordon Adelman
last time, though I still handle several
I served on the 2010–2011
clients’ healthcare law issues.
Sacramento County Grand Jury. It
Serving on four non-profit boards
was an enlightening experience. I
keeps me busy. (Roseville, CA)
learned more about city and county
Raul A. Ramirez
I have enjoyed 42 years of practice.
I am still working as a mediator
though really trying to slow down.
added to the family; there really is
more to life than the practice of law.
Hope you are all well. (Sacramento)
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I retired from the Los Angeles County
Earlier this year, the California Water
We have a new granddaughter
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government operations and its
facilities and installations in one term
on the grand jury than I did in the 60
years I have lived here. I recommend
it for all retired attorneys. Besides
the grand jury experience, the
second most exciting event in 2011
was a triple bypass heart and carotid
David Kristjanson
Despite retiring in 2003 as
managing partner of Laughlin, Falbo,
Levy & Moresi, I have kept busy.
Activities include assistance for
sight- and hearing-impaired students
as a Saddleback College staff
person; membership in the Laguna
Greenbelt, Inc. and the Dana Point
Historical Society Board Member;
and the celebration of a 50-year
anniversary. (Irvine, CA)
Photography: Steve Yeater
Patricia Lynch
Soares, Agriculture
Remain Inseparable
Despite Career Path
In 2006, I retired as Reno City
Attorney and was elected as a judge
in the Reno Justice Court. I am
finishing my first six-year term and
running for the election this year. I
gave a paper on cyber-bullying and
cyber stalking in October 2011
at the World Jurist Conference in
Prague, Czech Republic after taking
By Michael Heenan
a 10-day vacation in Romania with
my husband, Drew. (Reno, NV)
David Lo
Lo sentenced a puppy mill
operating under the corporate
name Bradley International to
reimburse the Hawaiian Humane
Society nearly $371,000 for the
care of the animals. A judge for the
Hawaii First Circuit Court, he also
fined the company the $306,000 in
the high-profile animal cruelty case.
(Kaneohe, HI) 1974
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Gary L. Vinson
Jim Fallman
Fallman was sworn in as the
Municipal Court judge for a city
on the southwestern coast of
Oregon. He was a long-time senior
deputy district attorney in Del Norte
County in northern California.
(Gold Beach, OR)
Robert Long
In addition to spending the last
35 years in the shopping center
development business, from which
I retired in 2010, I have been
involved in the Napa Valley wine
business. My brother and I started
David Arthur Vineyards in 1983
and started Montagna Napa Valley
in 2001. Our wineries are located
on the eastern mountains of Napa
Valley on Pritchard Hill in St. Helena,
California. We focus on the high-end
winegrowing of Cabernet Sauvignon
and Bordeaux blends from 35
planted acres. (Rutherford, CA)
Like a lot of farm boys,
George Soares, ’73, left the
fields to make his way in
the city. But unlike most,
Soares found a way to keep
the farm with him every
step of the way.
A co-founder with Jan Kahn, ’72, of the law
firm of Kahn, Soares & Conway LLP, he
became one of the most influential nonelected power brokers in Sacramento. But
at every step on this journey, agriculture has
been right there with him.
“I started in agriculture and it has stayed
in the picture throughout my life. It’s allowed
me to develop the kind of relationship with
it you can develop when you’re involved in
something for decades,” Soares says.
Soares’ parents were dairy farmers in tiny
Harmony, California. The family kept a few
dozen head of dairy cows and farmed a few
fields. Later, they would move to Hanford
and another small family farm.
After getting a bachelor’s degree at Cal
Poly, Soares came to Pacific McGeorge.
Working in the legislature was not a part
of the plan, but he became the principal
consultant for the Assembly Committee
on Agriculture, a position he defined more
than held. In this role and in his career
since, Soares’ contributions have changed
the face of California agriculture. Among
his achievements are the passage of the
largest-ever tax relief package for California
agriculture as well as the modern notion of
commissions for commodity crops.
Since the 1970s, Soares has written the legal
framework for more than 20 commissions —
quasi-government bodies that give growers and
handlers the ability to expand markets, engage
in public education and conduct production
and marketing research.
Soares’ firm has expanded to include a
government relations arm and consistently
attracts top-drawer clients with no
connection to farming. Still, the firm — with
offices in Sacramento and Hanford — keeps
agriculture as a key element of its practice.
On the weekends, Soares trades power
suits for “a different uniform” and returns
to Hanford, where he and his wife, Gloria,
own a dairy farming operation that is
considerably larger than the hillside one of
his childhood. And while the dairy is fully
modern and as technically advanced as any
21st century business operation, much of the
time Soares can be found holding a timeless
tool of his trade.
“I’m there at 6:30 in the morning with a
shovel in my hand with the rest of the crew,”
Soares says.
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Steve Martini
Frederick Henderson
Winfield Gallery in Carmel. You can
Martini had his latest novel, Trader
I retired in 2010 after 25 years as
see examples of her paintings at
of Secrets, published by Harper
circuit judge in northern Wisconsin.
www.mahonyart.com. We have no
1977
Collins. In the book, his protagonist
We moved to Florida but still
complaints and hope all is well with
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defense attorney is on the trail of
spend summer months up here.
you and yours. (Carmichael, CA)
R. Marilyn Lee
dangerous criminals who are trying
(Ladysmith, WI)
to steal state-of-the-art weapons
Gary F. Zilaff
Thomas Johnson
House has joined Rodemich and
George Hendrickson
I have been engaged in the practice
Sons LLC in Illinois as a realtor-broker
The California District Attorneys
Jerry Spolter
of law in Mendocino County for
specializing in homes, farms and
Association presented me with
Spolter was named to the 2011 Top
almost 36 years. I also own and
land. An Illinois native, he recently
its 2011 William E. James Award,
40 Neutrals list in the Los Angeles
operate a small vineyard and
returned home after four years
awarded for outstanding assistance
Daily Journal. The former managing
winery. Visit us online at
working in Israel and a successful
to district attorneys and their
partner of Spolter, McDonald &
www.silversmithvineyards.com.
nine-year real estate career in Las
deputies. The plaque reads: “As a
Mannion is one of JAMS’ most
(Redwood Valley, CA)
Vegas that included helping to make
leading expert on People’s appeals,
his Century21 office the top-selling
we laud your commitment to
office in the world for that franchise
prosecutors and to the citizens of
for two consecutive years. (Quincy, IL)
California.” (Sacramento)
R. Marilyn Lee
technology. (Bellingham, WA)
recognized mediators.
Christopher Kaempfer
(San Francisco, CA)
Kaempfer, a partner at Kaempfer
John Welch
Crowell Renshaw Gronauer &
I am heading into semi-retirement
Fiorentino, was named the Best
Mike McGowan
Lawyers’ 2012 Southern Nevada
McGowan was elected 2012
Life in Los Angeles continues to be
Government Relations Practice
president of the California State
sunny and I am trying to see more
Lawyer of the Year. (Las Vegas, NV)
Association of Counties at the
as a walker than rider. Despite
117-year-old organization’s annual
retirement, I find myself watching
conference held in San Francisco.
endless hours of MCLE classes
The first mayor of West Sacramento,
on-line to stay active. I see Sandy
he has been a member of the Yolo
Price and Bob Armstrong, and
County Board of Supervisors since
receive John Donegan’s rare views
1993. (West Sacramento, CA)
on the world. Also, I am active on
after 37 years in private practice,
but staying involved with sports
by coaching high school boys
basketball in Stockton. (Lodi, CA)
Michael Schneider
Over the last few months I have
1975
enjoyed visiting with or hearing
from Candace Fry, Dave Byers,
and Jeff Smyth. I flew from Alaska
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to Yakima, Washington, where my
Ervin A. DeSmet, Jr.
UC Santa Barbara and University
plane was rebuilt. More recently,
Terrence Roberts
I received a good outcome in a
After 35 years, I retired from teaching
rafting injury/death case. I still love
in clinical legal education. What a
my wife, our son, my life, and my
ride — 15 years at McGeorge and 20
practice, and wish the same for all
years at Western State. I don’t know
traveling when we can. I am still
of you. (Anchorage, AK)
how I could have had a better career.
Chris Melonakis
working 50-hour plus weeks but
Fred Wapner
Working with law students (you
Work: District Court Judge,
remember who those creatures are,
Seventeenth Judicial District
don’t you?) and having someone else
I’m still grinding toward retirement,
pay the overhead. My hope is that I
enjoying my grandchildren and
have touched their lives in meaningful
waiting for John Donegan’s
ways and that they have carried
extradition back to Colorado for
the beginning lessons into their
unspeakable offenses against good
professional lives. I am now in a part-
taste. (Broomfield, CO)
time appellate family law practice.
Jennifer Moss
Ira Rubinoff
Robert Adams
My wife, Nancy, and our dog,
Boston, are doing great. We are
finally having something to show for
it. (Irvine, CA)
Wapner was profiled on November 28
in the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He is
a long-time judge of the Los Angeles
John Black
Black was named president of the
Superior Court. (Los Angeles, CA)
El Dorado Community Foundation,
funds. He is a co-founder of the
1976
workers’ compensation defense
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firm of Cuneo, Black, Ward &
R. Steven Corbitt
which solicits and manages
charitable gifts through endowed
Missler. (Sacramento)
Dennis Freidig
Roger Cartozian
I am a pilot for, and chairman of the
After 22 months spent commuting
board of Los Medicos Voladores —
to Oakland, I have returned to
The Flying Doctors. (Bowman, CA)
Sacramento. It’s great to be back.
A grandson, Finley, was born in
senior year of high school and,
make it to law school, but the
McGeorge bib looks good on him.
(Sacramento)
Randolph Getz
Our daughter, Camille, is in her
February 2011. Not sure if he’ll
remarkably, still talking to us.
Patti’s art continues to ascend
with both local shows of her work
as well as representation by the
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We had a wonderful class and I am
proud to be a member of the Class of
1976. (Borrego Springs, CA)
William Wood
of California President’s Foundation
and as a docent at El Pueblo de Los
Angeles — come for a tour. (Los
Angeles, CA)
I continue to practice tax, trust
and estates in Sacramento. My
daughter, Julie, joined the practice
and daughter, Lisa, graduated from
I am now a book publisher —
Santa Clara Law in May 2011. I
Willow Bank Books, to be exact.
have two beautiful granddaughters
We publish fiction and non-fiction,
— Parker and Berkley. I’m looking
available as hard cover and
forward to seeing everyone
ebooks. Our major title in 2012 is
this year for our 35th reunion.
First of Hearts, which features an
(Sacramento)
introduction by Emmy Award winner
Cokie Roberts. There are more
titles on the way. (Sacramento)
Dorothy Nash Holmes
I have served the first year of my
six-year term as a criminal/traffic
judge in Reno. I run three treatment
courts, as well, for DUI, Cooccurring Disorders, and Downtown
Homeless Inebriates. My husband
has run over 12 marathons in four
years, including Boston and New
York. I will be a grandmother for
the third time by Christmas 2011.
(Reno, NV)
Douglas Noll
Noll was selected as a recipient of
the 2012 California Lawyer of the
Year Award by California Lawyer
magazine. He was honored as the
1978
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Thomas O. Freeburger
Peggy Chater-Turner
Bruce Busch
Pamela Gates and I were married
on June 9, 2011. Our delayed
author of Elusive Peace: How Modern
Diplomatic Strategies Could Better
Resolve World Conflicts, which was
published last year by Prometheus.
(Clovis, CA)
John Taylor
Taylor won a large monetary
settlement for the family of slain
actress Lana Clarkson in Los Angeles
Superior Court. The settlement came
from the estate of Phil Spector, who
Bernardino Superior Court in which
in which the plaintiff sought more
the plaintiff sought more than $1
than $300,000 in damages. He is
million in damages. He is a senior
a principal in the firm of Schuering,
counsel for Union Pacific Railroad.
Zimmerman & Doyle. (Sacramento)
(Roseville, CA)
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with September travels to Nevada
Barbara L. Haukedalen
and California. We met while
Judith A. Smith
serving on various committees of
the Volunteer Hospice of Clallum
Deborah DeBow
firm of Noll & Associates, he is the
FELA workplace safety case in San
Court in a medical malpractice case
in southern Alaska, and concluded
bono project that provides the Valley
peacemaking skills. A principal in the
Johnson won a defense verdict in an
in Sacramento County Superior
August with a trip to the Tsiu River
a trip to Montana, continued in
County. (Sequim, WA)
with communication, mediation and
Michael Johnson
Zimmerman won a defense verdict
1979
honeymoon began in July with
co-founder of the Prison of Peace pro
State Prison for Women in Chowchilla
Robert Zimmerman
We are celebrating our 13th year
here in San Diego County, supporting
our son’s sophomore adventures at
Haverford College and dealing with
retirement. I continue to serve on a
variety of boards, helping to preserve
native habitat, develop a regional
park, and oversee community service
projects. (Rancho Santa Fe, CA)
Brian Kirchoff
I retired in October 2007, but
served as a juror on a 4-week
high profile murder trial, seeing
a side of the law I never saw in
25-plus years of real estate. It was
fascinating, tragic, gruesome, but a
very worthwhile experience I would
James Anthony
I recently retired from Kern County
Public Defender’s Office after a 30-
from. (San Rafael, CA)
year career there. (Bakersfield, CA)
Jeffery Kuhn
William Benz
Kuhn was profiled in the Sanger
Herald. A partner with the Fresno
Benz was re-elected to a six-
firm of Lozano Smith and former
year term as district magistrate
county counsel for Madera County,
in Northampton Township,
he is the city attorney for Sanger.
Pennsylvania. That state’s
magisterial district courts are
(Fresno, CA)
responsible for adjudicating all
Kathleen McCade
traffic and non-traffic citations as
well as processing criminal and
Laurel Gaiser
private criminal complaints inclusive
Comment: Same old spouse, Don
of arraignments and preliminary
Green, ’76D; same old house; same
hearings. (Northampton, PA)
old desire that all my classmates
have all they require. (Martinez, CA)
skiing and just about any activity
Kevin A. Enright
me a call. (Gold River, CA)
I currently serve as the presiding
Bart Mowry
judge of the San Diego Superior
for her 2003 murder in his Alhambra
I retired this year after 32 years as
Court and just completed my term
mansion. (Los Angeles, CA)
a deputy district attorney in Alameda
as the chair of the California Trial
County and am now enjoying life
Court Presiding Judges Advisory
rescuing and racing greyhounds and
and Executive Committees. My
singing. (Walnut Creek, CA)
wife, Judy, and I celebrated our 33rd
lengthy profile story on November
traveling, camping, hiking, snow
see some of my classmates – give
is serving a 19 years-to-life sentence
Thomas was the subject of a
We’re loving retirement. We enjoy
that keeps us on the go. I’d love to
Ann Graf
Randy Thomas
encourage you to not shy away
wedding anniversary in August. We
Mowry was listed in the Best
Lawyers in America for the 20th
year in a row in the category of
taxation. He is a shareholder in
the Nevada firm of Maupin, Cox &
LeGoy. (Reno, NV)
12 in the Lodi News-Sentinel.
Paul Jones
A criminal defender who has
As a special counsel for construction
handled several major cases, the
for the Florida Department of
Woodbridge lawyer is well-known as
Transportation, I am a member of
Gary Gale
a big-game hunter who has toured
FDOT legal team for two $800 million
I’m now in my 20th year as a
the world and been involved in
public-private partnership projects. I also
consumer bankruptcy attorney
conservation efforts to save exotic
enjoy coaching Florida State University
working with a fellow classmate,
animals in Africa. (Lodi, CA)
student teams for ABA competition in
Jerry White. I continue to stay in
negotiating. (Tallahassee, FL)
touch with many of the “Moonies,”
James Rushford
and I’m pleased to say most of
Rushford won a defense verdict
them are doing well. With two kids
in Sacramento Superior Court for
in college, retirement seems a long
the Harley-Davidson motorcycle
way off. The key for me is I haven’t
company in an accident case in
lost any distance on the golf course
which a severely injured plaintiff
— yet. (Folsom, CA)
claimed a manufacturer’s design
Mary Muse
Muse was profiled on January 18
in Placerville’s Mountain Democrat
newspaper. A former El Dorado County
court commissioner, she is a longtime
family law specialist. (El Dorado Hills, CA)
have three daughters, all of whom
Allan Owen
are 6-0 tall or taller. (San Diego, CA)
I’m still working as managing
partner of Timmons, Owen &
Owen Inc., and trying to get Linda
to retire. I’m still golfing and even
beat Pam Palmieri last year.
(Sacramento)
defect and sought a multi-million
award. (Sacramento)
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Daniel Wong
Martha Evensen Opich
Parker White
Noreen Evans
I left my position as chief deputy
Opich is serving as president of
White was co-counsel with William
Evans received the Stanley Mosk
attorney general, chief counsel for the
the Friends of Sacramento Crisis
Brelsford, ’99, for a plaintiff family
Defender of Justice Award at
Nevada Department of Transportation
Nurseries this year. She is a partner at
that won a $1.2 million wrongful
a Judicial Council of California
(and 60+ hours per week not
Kraft Opich LLP. (Citrus Heights, CA)
death verdict against a nursing
ceremony in San Francisco. A state
home in Sacramento Superior
senator who chairs the California
Court. He also was co-counsel and
Senate Judiciary Committee, she
gained a net verdict of $3 million
is one of two state legislators who
by proportionate fault in a Napa
serve on the Judicial Council, the
Superior Court in a wrongful death,
policymaking body of the California
auto accident case. He is a senior
courts. (Santa Rosa, CA)
including commuting) to return to
criminal law and the courtroom as
chief criminal deputy city attorney
for the Reno City Attorney’s Office in
January 2011. No more 45-minute
each way commutes between Reno
and Carson City. We work four 10hour shifts and an occasional Friday
morning. It has been and continues to
be fun to be back in the courtroom.
Dan Richard
Richard was elected chairman of the
California High-Speed Rail Authority.
Appointed to the board last fall by
Governor Jerry Brown, he served
on the BART board of directors
from 1992 to 2004 and as senior
vice president of public policy and
government relations at PG&E from
& Cutler. (Sacramento)
William Seegmiller
1981
1980
Seegmiller hosts a new hour-long
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weekly radio show on KFWB News
Fritz-Howard R. Clapp
Talk 980 (Los Angeles) that will
Jennifer J. Tachera
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focus on advice for everyday legal
Richard A. Harris
problems. He is the founder of the
Paul Richardson
West Seegmiller Law Firm, which has
(Reno, NV)
1997 to 2006. (Piedmont, CA)
offices in five cities. (Las Vegas, NV)
F. Lavar Christensen
Terry Cassidy
Cassidy is the new managing
shareholder of Porter Scott. Nancy
Sheehan, ’83, and Carl Calnero, ’84,
Indeed, the days pass slowly but
Virginia Shane
are the co-managing shareholders.
the years pass quickly. I am all
I retired from law practice in 2007
Tony Warburg, ’77, stepped down
the more gratified for our legal
and moved to Montana where I
as managing partner after 15
education at McGeorge as I serve in
work part-time at an historic ranch
years at the helm of the well-known
the Utah House of Representatives
resort to pay for hay and “beer for
Sacramento civil litigation defense
and help shape law and public
my horses.” I occasionally fill in
firm that is loaded with Pacific
policy for the good of our state. Sue
as pro tem Justice of the Peace in
McGeorge alums. (Sacramento)
and I celebrated our 36th wedding
Livingston, probably the greatest
anniversary, and we now have five
little city in the West, populated
grandchildren and a wonderful new
with numerous actors, writers,
season of life. (Draper, UT)
artists and majestic scenery on
Yellowstone River. I won a first-place
Joseph Fletcher
trophy in July 4 parade this year —
Fletcher was chosen to serve
riding English in cowboy country.
as Ojai city attorney by that
(Livingston, MT)
municipality’s city council. He
served for 14 years as city attorney
Michael Van Zandt
for Santa Ana before his retirement
Hanson Bridgett LLP won a $14.2
in 2010. (Ojai, CA)
million judgment against the United
States for the taking of water rights
John Greaney
from a ranch in central Nevada. I
I have a busy personal injury
was elected to the board of directors
practice in a suburb of Seattle.
My wife, a family law attorney, has
been battling cancer for last two
years. She’s my inspiration. Our two
teenagers are doing well. (Kent, WA)
of Easter Seals Northern California.
Eileen and I live in Marin County, and
we just celebrated our 40th wedding
anniversary. (San Rafael, CA)
My two-year old firm is doing well —
we are very busy and feeling very
fortunate. My wife, Mayla, retired
from Washoe County last year. Our
three adult children are doing well
and keep us busy. (Reno, NV)
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Madeline CresaliaThompson
Frank and I are still practicing law
in Nevada. It is hard to believe we
graduated from McGeorge 30 years
ago. Our son, Connor, is a senior
in high school and hopes to play
Spring 2012
John Gerrard
Gerrard was confirmed as a judge
of the U.S. District Court, District
of Nebraska, by the U.S. Senate.
Nominated by President Obama last
May, he has served as a justice of
the Nebraska Supreme Court since
1995. (Lincoln, NE)
Michael Knowles
Knowles was appointed by
the Tuolumne County Board of
Supervisors to serve as county
district attorney for the next three
years. The veteran prosecutor
will serve out the term of the
previous DA, who was appointed
to the bench in December by the
governor. (Sonora, CA)
Ron Lamb
Lamb was named managing
partner of Wilke Fleury Hoffelt
Gould & Birney LLP. Prior to
joining the firm in 2005, he was
the managing shareholder of Rust,
Armenis, Schwartz, Lamb & Bills.
(Sacramento)
baseball in college. (Reno, Nevada)
C. Emmett Mahle
David Doyle
of stolen valor at the Levi-Schwartz
I continue to enjoy and look forward
to practicing law, especially trying
cases. All five of my children, Joe,
Caitlin, Brenna, James and Colleen,
have graduated from college and
have jobs. Brenna is pregnant and
due in May 2012 with our first
grandchild. I plan on attending the
2012 Kentucky Derby with Irv Joseph
and Terry Cassidy. (Fresno, CA)
Stephen Kent
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partner in the firm of Poswall, White
Mahle was a panelist on the subject
Inn of Court at UC Davis. An adjunct
professor at Pacific McGeorge,
he recently retired from an active
criminal defense practice where
he defended several stolen valor
cases in U.S. District Court. He
is also a member of the Pacific
McGeorge Alumni Association Board
of Directors. (Sacramento)
Paul Rees
Denice Brue-Clopton
Bruce Miroglio
Glenn Wichinsky
It was a good year for my family
Alas, I left retirement and opened my
Miroglio made his acting debut as
I am the president and general counsel
and my clients. Josh continues on
own office doing employment law. I’m
a deputy sheriff in Twixt, a 2011
of a gaming hardware manufacturing
his 10-year plan to get through
enjoying things immensely and have
Francis Ford Coppola horror movie
company with facilities in the U.S.,
college. Sean was promoted at
been very busy in my community with
starring Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern,
Taiwan and China. I have been involved
Google and really enjoys living in
volunteer activities, including heading the
Elle Fanning and Don Novello. After
in global marketing and market
Dublin. Beth and I visited him in June
legal ministry at my church. My husband,
24 years with the Napa law firm
expansion, presenting products last
and had a great time touring that
Otis, and I just returned in November
of Gaw, Van Male, Smith, Myers
year at Macau, London and Buenos
part of Ireland. We also managed
from a western Caribbean cruise to
& Miroglio, he opened his own
Aires gaming expositions. Laura is
to squeeze in a visit to Beth’s aunt
celebrate my birthday. We celebrated our
practice in November 2009. His firm
seeking an MBA at U of Texas at
and cousins in The Netherlands.
16th anniversary in February 2012. My
specializes in dispute resolution and
Austin. David is pursuing his acting
(Carmichael, CA)
best wishes go to all of my colleagues.
wine industry law. (St. Helena, CA)
career. Best regards to my friends and
Krista J. Stein
(San Bernardino, CA)
colleagues. (Las Vegas, NV)
Paul Ready
It has been over a year since I
Carleton Cramer
Despite what I consider to be
retired from the Sacramento District
I continue as a professor at the
outrageous efforts, I’ve still yet
Attorney’s Office after 29 years
Asia-Pacific Center for Security
to be published in the New Yorker
there. My husband, Max, and I are
Studies and get to travel regularly in
cartoon caption contest. Having
enjoying skiing, hiking, tennis and
the Asia-Pacific region. The kids are
a legal practice to keep my mind
travel. We love Barcelona as well as
now 4, 4 and 5. (Honolulu, HI)
occupied has helped somewhat in
trans-Atlantic voyages. My daughter
graduated from UCSB, and my
son is at Sac City. I have enjoyed
reconnecting with classmates Kim
James, Gary Slater, Sal Gugino,
Roger Monty, Harry Colombo,
Ron Lamb and Todd Gruenhagen.
(Truckee, CA)
John H. Tiernan
Since retiring from the bench
in 2010, I have been working
around the north state in the
assigned judge program. Judy
and I have been able to visit much
more frequently with family and
Paul Gold
Our first daughter is at Georgetown
University while the second daughter
is a high school senior. We foster
care golden retrievers for a rescue
organization. I’m still evicting people
left and right. (Valley Village, CA)
avoiding the depression that would
otherwise likely result from the deep
frustration of going un-published.
I’ve recently had both open-heart
surgery and the addition of a
titanium hip. I still hear occasionally
from some of my old McGeorge
classmates, many of whom appear
Pierre Hascheff
to be on the verge of senility, but it
The 20-year Reno councilman is
would be absolutely inappropriate
running in a June election for a new
to name them so not to worry Keith
justice of the peace position in the
or Tom. I’m most proud of all my
Reno/Verdi area. He is a principal in
friends and classmates who have
the Law Office of Pierre A. Hascheff.
shown their support for Jack’s
(Reno, NV)
Helping Hand, jackshelpinghand.
1983
Class Representatives
Paula G. Tripp
Susan H. Hollingshead
Phil Bonotto
Bonotto was co-counsel for a successful
defense team in San Joaquin County
Superior Court in a premises liability
case against a shopping mall and its
security services. He is a principal at
Rushford & Bonotto. (Sacramento)
Daniel Costa
Costa was co-counsel for the defense
in an arbitration case in Marin Superior
Court involving charges of sexual
harassment and a hostile work
environment. He was co-counsel in
org. (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Placer Superior Court and successfully
I am still living and working —
Edward Smith
Smith was featured in a Sacramento
Honda, against charges of age
presiding judge, El Dorado Superior
1982
Court — in beautiful South Lake
Business Journal story. The veteran
Tahoe. Our court just hired Dylan
Sacramento personal-injury attorney
Sullivan (Class of 1997) as our new
has an unusual specialty — handling
Class Representative
commissioner. Dylan is handling a
cases in which vehicles collide with
Debra Steel Sturmer
wide variety of cases both here and
livestock. (Sacramento)
Josephs was co-counsel for a plaintiff
Robert Vaage
a wrongful termination case in San
have really come to know our
Suzanne N. Kingsbury
grandchildren. (San Francisco, CA)
Paul Brimberry
I continue to transition from litigation
to collaborative and mediation
practice. My door is open if you are
in Placerville. She has been a great
addition to our bench. If you are
in the area, please stop by. (South
Lake Tahoe, CA)
defended a car dealership, Auburn
discrimination in the layoffs of four
former employees. He is a principal in
The Costa Law Firm. (Gold River, CA)
Diane Josephs
who won a $1.1 million verdict in
Vaage won a $1.27 million arbitration
award in a medical malpractice,
Francisco Superior Court. She is a
principal in the firm of Josephs &
failure-to-diagnose case. He is a
Blum. (San Francisco, CA)
in the area - Water Tower Plaza, Suite
Andrew Meisel
principal in the Law Offices of Robert
100, 2100 Northrop Avenue. Take
Meisel won a $1.56 million settlement
E. Vaage. (San Diego, CA)
Timothy McAdam
care and be well. (Sacramento)
in San Francisco Superior Court for
William Ward
year as the Town Justice for
the family of a woman who was killed
by a San Francisco Water Department
vehicle in a 2010 accident. He is
a principal in the firm of Meisel &
Krentsa. (San Francisco, CA)
McAdam is completing his 24th
Ward won a $405,197 award in
San Bernardino Superior Court in
a nine-day, breach of fiduciary duty
partnership contracts trial. He is a
principal in the firm of Ward & Ward.
Shawangunk, New York. He will
continue his general private practice
in a neighboring Ulster County town.
(Walden, NY)
(San Bernardino, CA)
Spring 2012
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Jeff Nevin
Andrew Wiener
Richard Jacobson
Dana Fox
Nevin was honored as one of
Wiener was co-counsel for a plaintiff
Jacobson was co-counsel for a
Fox was co-counsel for a successful
California’s 2011 Attorneys of the
company that won a $630,000
successful defense team in San
defense team in a home mold
Year in The Recorder newspaper.
verdict in U.S. District Court, Northern
Joaquin County Superior Court in
negligence case against a mold
He and a co-counsel were cited for
District of California, in a case
a premises liability case against
remediation company in San
their defense work in an explosive
involving interference of economic
a shopping mall and its security
Bernardino Superior Court. He is a
Santa County Superior Court trial in
advantage. He is a principal in the
services. He is a partner at Jacobson
partner at Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard
which a plaintiff sought $9 million
Law Offices of Andrew R. Wiener.
Markham LLP. (Sacramento)
& Smith. (Los Angeles, CA)
in damages from an alleged sexual
(San Francisco, CA)
Janice Keller
David Gianelli
Robert Wilson
Retirement is wonderful. I’ve
Gianelli is the chairman-elect of the
Nancy Sheehan
Wilson joined Boyd Kimball & Wilson
been traveling far and wide. Last
Modesto Chamber of Commerce’s
I was honored to be inducted
LLP as a partner where his practice
year’s visits included France,
executive committee. He is the
into the American College of Trial
will focus on white collar criminal
England, Belgium, Greece, Albania,
managing attorney at Gianelli &
Lawyers and the International
defense and business litigation.
Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia.
Associates. (Modesto, CA)
Academy of Trial Lawyers. I am still
Previously, he was executive
When home, I sit as a temporary
litigating on a full-time basis and still
director of Sacramento Child
judge handling traffic and small claims
loving it. In January 2012, I take
Advocates, a nonprofit law firm that
matters, do volunteer work, and
on co-managing partner duties at
serves Sacramento County children
dabble in city affairs. (Lompoc, CA)
Porter Scott. Rich and I enjoy being
in foster care. (Sacramento)
assault. (San Francisco, CA)
with our grandchildren, ages 8 and
4, kayaking in Tahoe, and traveling
as much as we can. (Sacramento)
James Spurling
Spurling has been appointed chief
counsel at the Office of Inspector
General by Governor Jerry Brown.
He has served as assistant chief
counsel for the Department of
1984
Class Representative
Patricia A. Day
Raneene Belisle
I retired from EdVoice and
government work, but still enjoying
Personnel Administration since
2006 and is an adjunct professor at
Pacific McGeorge. (Sacramento)
work as a private education
consultant. Children are doing well —
oldest daughter is a public defender
figuring things out probably an MBA.
Stevenson was appointed to
serve as general counsel for the
California Health Benefits Exchange
Board. Previously, she was the
chief administrative law judge and
deputy director of the California
Department of Health Care
Services. (Sacramento)
Serge Tomassian
Tomassian was elected chairman of
the World Affairs Council of Orange
County, an organization he previously
led 10 years ago. He is a principal in
(Mount Aukum, CA)
Carl Calnero
Calnero was chosen to serve as
co-managing shareholder of Porter
refocus and to work more with
Laurie and I just celebrated our
our facilitation — especially large
35th wedding anniversary, my 60th
groups — training, organizational
birthday, and 17 years on the bench.
development, and dispute resolution
I am the presiding judge of Dallas
services. (Sacramento)
Municipal Court No. 2. We have two
grandsons, 6 and 3, who are a great
deal of fun. I don’t think a day goes by
that I do not recall our great times in
Sacramento and days in law school.
If any classmates are ever passing
through, please call us. (Dallas, TX)
1985
Class Representative
Cheryl L. Van Steenwyk
litigation defense practice with the
With one daughter graduating from
firm. (Sacramento)
college and another from high
bench and am still honored every
day I go to work. We are raising our
school, life is rapidly changing. I
argued my first, and probably my
last, case before the United States
Supreme Court. (Sacramento)
Thomas Parker
I was named to a two-year term as
a director of the County Counsels’
Association of California beginning
in September 2011. I am enjoying
my current position as the county
counsel of a rural California county.
(Colusa, CA)
1986
Class Representative
Andrea C. Nelson
Deborah Bain
Bain commented on the prevalence
of domestic violence and sexual
assaults against Native American
women in California in the
December issue of the California
6-year-old granddaughter and that
James Dighero
Bar Journal. She is the director
is an honor as well. I just wish my
My son, John, became a teenager this
of the Victim Services Unit for the
knees were younger. Best wishes to
year, but thinks he is 18. My girlfriend,
California Attorney General’s Office.
Paula Tripp
you all. (Cody, WY)
Cara, recently overcame cancer
(Sacramento)
Tripp won a defense verdict in a golf-
Andrea L. Hoch
the firm of Tomassian, Throckmorton
& Inouye LLP. (Irvine, CA)
cart collision case in Los Angeles
Superior Court. A veteran personal
injury defense attorney, she is a
partner at Anderson, McPharlin &
Conners LLP. (Los Angeles, CA)
After serving six years as the
Governor’s Legal Affairs Secretary, I
love the variety of legal issues as a
justice on the Third District Court of
Appeal. (Sacramento)
after a two-year battle. She is doing
well. I resolved a case for $200,000
involving a pre-existing cervical disc
with only $15,000 in medical bills
(we had a great mediator). We are
spending lots of time in Tahoe going to
concerts, riding dirt bikes and playing
golf. (Sacramento)
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E-move to www.langandassociates.
net. It provided a chance to
Robert Bonsall
I am beginning my sixth year on the
makeover last year, including an
We have much to be thankful for.
Scott after nearly 30 years of civil
Steven R. Cranfill
Lang & Associates underwent a
Jay E. Robinson
and the other is a teacher. Our son is
Sharon Stevenson
Marsha Lang
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Spring 2012
Stephen H. Baker
Baker has been reappointed to a
three-year term as a member of
the Judicial Council of California by
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye.
He is a judge of the Superior Court
of Shasta County. (Redding, CA)
Jill Barr
Veteran Trial Attorney
Nevin Victorious
In High-Profile Case
Barr has joined Kring & Chung. She
is a longtime certified family law
specialist who previously operated
the Law Offices of Jill L. Barr.
(Sacramento)
Diane Boyer-Vine
Boyer-Vine won a bench decision
and restraining order in Tehama
by Michael Curran
County Superior Court against
a man who was stalking state
Assemblyman Jim Nielsen. She
is an attorney with the Office of
Legislative Counsel. (Sacramento)
Carlos Chavarria, Jr.
I retired from the California Attorney
General’s Office in June 2011 and
am starting a new adventure.
(El Cajon, CA)
John Clarkson
I am in the process of selling my
law practice, Clarkson Law Office,
Ltd., and will be retiring soon.
(Reno, NV)
Kathleen Drakulich
Drakulich was the subject of a
feature story in the Reno Gazette
Journal. A partner at McDonald
Carano Wilson LLP, she was
recently appointed by Governor
Brian Sandoval to the state’s new
Economic Development Board.
Her article, “Renewable Energy
Resources: Let’s Keep It Interesting,”
appeared in the April 2011 issue of
Communique, the magazine of the
Clark County Bar Association. She
is a partner at McDonald Carano
Wilson. (Las Vegas, NV)
Nicholas P. Forestiere
I received a $1.7 million judgment
after a four-week bench trial that my
partner and I at Gurnee & Daniels
LLP tried on behalf of a buyer of a
cemetery who did not receive all of
the cemetery assets it purchased.
(Roseville, CA)
Jo Kuchle
In May 2011, I traveled to Udaipur,
India, as a non-medical volunteer on
a Rotaplast team. We operated on
68 patients to repair cleft lips and
cleft palates. It was an awesome and
humbling experience. (Fairbanks, AK)
Jeffrey Nevin, ’83, has a
well-earned reputation as
one of the best defense
litigators in the state, but
he had to be at the top
of his game to be named
one of The Recorder legal
newspaper’s California
Attorneys of the Year.
Nevin and his co-counsel, Alison Crane,
were cited for their courtroom work in an
explosive Santa Clara County Superior
Court civil trial that ended in April 2011
with a complete defense verdict against a
plaintiff who sought $9 million in damages.
The case stemmed from a 2007 incident
in which eight members of the De Anza
College baseball team allegedly participated
in the sexual assault of a minor. The
allegations were reviewed by the county
Sheriff ’s department, county DA’s office and
state Department of Justice. No criminal
charges were ever filed.
Meanwhile, the case was tried over-andover again in the media with the defendants
predictably “found guilty.” ABC’s 20/20
ran a lengthy program on the controversy,
featuring “eyewitnesses” who were lauded for
rescuing the alleged victim.
But one-by-one, defendants were
dropped from the civil suit that followed
until there were just two young men
remaining in the spotlight. Nevin, who
boasts years of experience in high-profile
criminal and civil cases, was brought to
represent an insurance carrier faced with a
huge exposure. He led a lengthy voir dire
session, was front-and-center for much of
the witness testimony, and handled the
closing argument. At one crucial point
in the trial, plaintiff attorneys introduced
transcripts from portions of police
interviews of the defendants. Using the “rule
of completeness,” Nevin jumped on the
opportunity to show the police interviews
in their entirety — videos that were very
favorable to the defense.
The trial lasted for nine weeks with 3 1/2
days of jury deliberations. “You could have
heard the proverbial pin drop when the jury
foreman read the verdict,” Nevin says. “It
was tremendously emotional for all involved
and we were mobbed by the media outside
the courtroom.”
At the time of the case, Nevin headed his
own self-titled San Francisco firm. Just this
month, he moved to Rancho Cordova to
be the managing attorney for the Farmers
Insurance staff counsel division. “They
put me, a trial attorney, in a management
position,” Nevin says. “Now I’m looking for
bright, young attorneys who want to be in the
courtroom right away. But that doesn’t mean I
won’t get in there myself once in a while.”
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J. Patrick McNicholas
Jennifer Rosenfeld
Patricia Curtin
Leslie Wolf
McNicholas negotiated a $1.63
After an 11-year hiatus, I returned
Curtin has joined Wendel, Rosen,
I am a full-time mom to Brent, age
million settlement with the Inglewood
to the California Attorney General’s
Black & Dean as a partner and will
11, part-time contract attorney, and
Unified School District in Los Angeles
Office, this time in the land law
lead the firm’s land use practice.
run a part-time business making and
Superior Court for two unnamed
section. My oldest daughter started
An environmental law specialist and
selling jewelry, which is less lucrative,
minors who were sexually assaulted
college at UC Irvine. The other two,
recognized “Northern California
but more fun. (Incline Village, NV)
at school. He is a senior partner in
ages 16 and 13, are growing up so
Super Lawyer” for the last five
the firm of McNicholas & McNicholas.
it was a good time for me to resume
years, she previously chaired the
(Los Angeles, CA)
my career. I love being back and
land use practice group at Morgan
practicing law. (Los Angeles, CA)
Miller. (Oakland, CA)
I joined the North American renewable
Marcelle Strauss
Kevin Dunbar
affiliate of Electricite de France (EDF).
I’m now in solo practice so I have
The defense verdict I obtained for
EDF Renewable Energy, Inc., and finally
the best boss ever. I had a blast at
Rite Aid Corporation in a multi-
Bob Aguilar
found a use for my old college French
our 25th law school reunion — thank
million dollar pharmacy malpractice
Bob was the subject of a feature
major when I visit the parent company
you, Deb Cregger. Everyone looked
lawsuit — only defense attorney
story in the Visalia Times-Delta.
in Paris. My wife, San Diego Superior
awesome. And good old McGeorge
to obtain such an award for the
After running a successful family law
Court Judge Ramona See, sent me on
looks pretty upscale these days.
company nationwide in last 10
practice for 15 years, he turned to
a heli-skiing trip in Himachal Pradesh,
Drop by if you are in Orange County.
years — was recognized in the Los
teaching and coaching basketball
India in the Himalayas for my 50th
(Irvine, CA)
Angeles Daily Journal as one of the
at Mt. Whitney High where he led
Top Verdicts of 2011.
the boys team to a 28-7 record this
(Rolling Hills Estates, CA)
season. (Visalia, CA)
friends at Class of 1986 reunion.
W. David Herbert
Ruthe Ashley
We are still enjoying life and family
I have been placed on the list
I chair and lead the California Law
at North Lake Tahoe where I am
of arbitrators for the Montana
Academy Strategic Task Force,
Andrea Nelson
a judge pro tem at Incline Justice
Supreme Court and begin work as a
a partnership between the State
What a great 25-year reunion we had
Court. (Incline Village, NV)
FINRA arbitrator in a couple months.
Bar of California and the California
last fall! I would like to thank Debbie
My novel, Phantom Driver, is still
Department of Education that is
and Tom Cregger, Suzie Small-Lovell,
building law academies in the state’s
was published under my full name
public high schools. We launched six
Winter and Bart Melhop for organizing
1987
selling on Amazon after 10 years. It
Walter David Herbert. (Billings, MT)
new law academies, 10th grade and
the dinner at the Firehouse Restaurant.
Class Representative
Margaret Masunaga
Robert Miller Jr.
birthday. We have two golden retrievers.
Unfortunately, I missed the 25th reunion
but I did run into classmate Jacques
Kirch at a McGeorge event last August.
(San Diego, CA)
Brian Plant, Karen Ponton, Doug
What a blast from the past that was.
I think we shut the place down. It was
really fun to see so many of you again.
I would also like to thank Megan Laurie
and the McGeorge staff for their help
with the organization, the on-campus
reunion events, and the private tour
of the lovely new library, study areas,
and media rooms. It’s nice to see that,
somehow, McGeorge has continued
to thrive even though we are no longer
students there. They still tell our
stories, though, and those of you that
couldn’t make it will be glad to know
that they have preserved the Perry
Mason memorabilia. You should check
Andrew Wolf
I enjoyed catching up with old
Megan Halvonik
up, in August. (Sacramento)
Robert Eglet
Eglet was co-counsel for three
a White House Forum on Women &
plaintiffs who won $162.5 million in
the Economy in November 2011. I
punitive damages against three drug
also took a family vacation to Japan
companies in Clark County District
and enjoyed the Mira Costa Hotel at
Court in a case involving the 2008
desk every day. Perhaps the
Disney Sea. (Kona, HI)
Hepatitis C outbreak in southern
most challenging and rewarding is
David McHale
Frank Bacik
As chief executive of the company
that owns and operates the last
true “company town” in the West,
myriad legal matters cross my
facilitating formation of a new civic
governance to take over community
services, from water and sewer
plants to recreational and
institutional facilities. I love helping
to preserve this historic community
while shepherding its rebirth and
independence. (Scotia, CA)
recently. Looks good. Until next time,
Hagop Bedoyan
In September of 2011, I was
As senior vice president and general
Mainor Eglet. (Las Vegas, NV)
Julius Engel
closed on the second of two large
Engel is running for a position on
acquisitions that make the company
the bench in Yuba County. He is a
the leading provider of medical liability
principal in the Engel Law Group in
insurance in the country. (Napa, CA)
Sacramento. (Marysville, CA)
Lisa Peskin
Susan Koontz
I took and passed the Maryland State
Koontz joined the Colorado Medical
Bar Examination after being out here
Society as general counsel and
these many years. (Cumberland, MD)
senior director of government
State Bar’s Board of Legal
Barry Swan
Specialization. (Fresno, CA)
Swan won an $821,476 arbitration
software products dispute. He is
a principal in the firm of Reynolds,
Jensen & Swan. (Riverside, CA)
Spring 2012
Nevada. He is a senior partner at
counsel of The Doctors Company, I
award in a breach of contract licensed
P a c i f i c L aw
Lisa A. Specchio
Department deputy, I participated in
appointed chair of the California
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Class Representative
As the County of Hawaii’s Planning
it out if you haven’t seen the campus
Cheers! (Sun Valley, ID)
1988
relations. Prior to joining CMS,
she was senior counsel and senior
director of Kaiser Foundation Health
Plan of Colorado’s Quality, Risk and
Legal Department. (Denver, CO)
Bruce Notareus
Married to the Law,
Culver Kapetan Finds
Bench to Her Liking
I retired from SMUD in April 2011
after 22 years with the public utility.
(Folsom, CA)
George Ogilvie
Ogilvie was named to the Nevada
Business magazine’s list of
Southern Nevada’s Top 100
Attorneys. Ogilvie, a prominent
By Joanna Corman
water law attorney and the chairman
of the Colorado River Commission,
is the managing partner of
McDonald Carano Wilson’s office in
southern Nevada. (Las Vegas, NV)
1989
Class Representatives
William W. Palmer
Billie B. Line, Jr.
Rex Cluff
I do wills and trusts law work on
the side, evenings and weekends.
I am also a notary, a family history
consultant, and a Ward mission
leader at church. My six children
are grown and we have six
grandchildren. (Woodland, CA)
Richard Glovin
I continue to transition my practice
towards mediation after taking
Mike Colatrella and Greg Weber’s
fine mediation training last year. If
I can assist anyone with mediation
services, please contact me.
(Sacramento)
Robert Moss Jr.
I retired as director and deputy
general counsel from Vision Service
Plan on December 31, 2010. My
part-time services are available for
counseling, serving on boards of
directors, consulting and teaching.
(Loomis, CA)
Laura Skojec
I am happy to announce my
marriage in April 2011 to Don
Prusakowski. Our ceremony took
place on the beach at Turtle Bay,
Oahu. In attendance were my
beautiful daughter, Abbey, and
my best friend from law school,
Charlene Ikeda. (Hyde Park, NY)
Sitting on the bench is an
all-encompassing job. But
Kristi Culver Kapetan, ’88,
was married to the law
before former Governor
Arnold Schwarzenegger
appointed her to the
Fresno County Superior
Court in 2007.
Kapetan’s husband, Peter Kapetan, is a
fellow Pacific McGeorge graduate, and his
brothers also are Pacific McGeorge alumni:
Jon Kapetan, ’89, is a Fresno County
Superior Court judge while Marc Kapetan,
’91, practices with Peter Kapetan, ’88, in their
Fresno-based personal injury and criminal
defense law firm, Kapetan Brothers LLP.
Kristi first became interested in the law while
attending Chico State University. She volunteered
to work at the Community Legal Information
Center, an on-campus clinical program with
supervising attorneys. She worked in the housing
law department, helping landlords and tenants
in disputes. She also volunteered to help people
receive Social Security benefits. The research, the
idea of helping others and the diverse nature of
the profession inspired her to pursue law.
Kapetan’s varied career spans trial and
transactional work, and criminal and civil cases.
After graduating from Pacific McGeorge, she
clerked for an associate justice on Nebraska’s
Supreme Court for a year before joining a Los
Angeles firm.
Then she followed her future husband to
Fresno, where she worked for several private
firms, practicing mostly employment law and
civil rights defense and becoming a partner
at one firm. She also clerked for the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District in
Fresno for several years and joined the U.S.
Attorney’s Office’s Civil Division as a litigator.
She was appointed to the bench in June 2007.
Her wide-ranging career prompted her
in part to apply for a judgeship. “I liked the
idea of not having to pick a side and doing
what you thought was right in any particular
case,” she says. “I admired all the judges I
had worked with and how hard they worked
and how much good they tried to do. I
wanted to take that path.”
In her first two years as judge, Kapetan
presided over misdemeanor cases, including
14 jury trials. Now she handles preliminary
hearings for felony domestic violence cases.
It is a difficult, emotional assignment,
making decisions in which every case has a
victim of violence.
She likes knowing that both sides get her
respect. “I’m what people see as just and
that acting that way, they feel like they’ve
been heard … and haven’t been railroaded
on either side, or their rights haven’t been
trampled. I find that rewarding,” she says.
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Jud Waggoman
Trezza is one of 10 candidates
Waggoman is among the
running for a seat on the Sutter
candidates for an open seat on the
County Superior Court bench. He
Sutter County Superior Court bench
is a partner in the firm of Trezza
following the retirement of one of
Ithurburn. (Yuba City, CA)
the court’s judges. He has practiced
Lt. Fred Cavese
criminal and civil law for more than
Gary Branton
20 years. (Marysville, CA)
1990
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David M. Miller
scholarships for college. I would
Gregg S. Garfinkel
love to visit if anyone makes it down
Mark J. Reichel
here. (Las Vegas, NV)
returned to the full-time practice of
Sean Beatty
Linda C. Brown
tax, probate, and elder law. I spent
Beatty was co-counsel for a
Brown joined Health Net as a
the previous several years earning
successful defense team in a Los
government affairs representative.
my master’s degree in education
Angeles Superior Court slip-and-fall
She will represent Health Net
and teaching middle school math.
case. He is a principal in the firm of
before the state health insurance
As much as I love teaching, it is
Beatty & Myers. (Long Beach, CA)
exchanges in California,
(San Jose, CA)
Matthew Donahue
Donahue won a $327,709 verdict
started college at Boise State
University last year. The twins are in
the 8th Grade and hoping to win golf
Washington, Oregon and
Arizona. (Sacramento)
Maria De Angelis
in Sacramento Superior Court for a
Penelope Changaris
I work as assistant chief counsel,
plaintiff injured in a rear-end collision.
Changaris has become a
Department of Child Support
He is a senior partner with Sevy,
shareholder in the firm of Guth &
Services and will hit the 20-year
Donahue & Talcott. (Roseville, CA)
Changaris. She was previously an
mark with the State of California in
December 2012. Tempest fugit.
(Rancho Cordova, CA)
Anthony Garafola
I recently celebrated the fifth
anniversary of my solo law practice,
August 23, 2010. I continue to
practice with Sedgwick LLP in San
Francisco, while Jeff continues as
deputy public defender of Sonoma
Steve Strauss
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time to return to my legal work.
our first child, a daughter, on
year I graduated from McGeorge,
John R. Brownlee
As of January 2012, I have
Jeff Mitchell, ’92, and I welcomed
County. (Santa Rosa, CA)
Derek R. Longstaff
Susan Allen
Veena Mitchell
Daughter Kaitie, who was born the
1991
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Strauss continues to write his
syndicated “Ask an Expert” column
that appears weekly on Mondays at
USAToday.com. He is also a small
business columnist for Microsoft
and AT&T. (Portland, OR)
Thomas Tarkoff
Tarkoff has been elevated to
partner at Foley & Mansfield in the
firm’s Oakland office. His practice
includes asbestos litigation,
commercial, employment, personal
injury matters and construction
defect and construction site injury
litigation. (Oakland, CA)
associate at what was formerly
1993
known as the Law Office of John C.
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Guth. (Yuba City, CA)
Violet R. Radosta
Traci F. Lee
Stephen Foondos
which has prospered despite
GayLynn Conant
Foondos hosts the “Ask Steve
our dismal economy. I attribute
Conant won a defense verdict
Tamara Boeck
For Free” radio show at 6 p.m.
my success, in large part, to the
in San Francisco Superior Court
Boeck has joined the Idaho office
on Saturdays on KFBK 1530 and
ongoing support of my family and
for the University of California
of Stoel Rives LLP as a partner.
92.5 FM. He is the managing
many friends, colleagues and fellow
San Francisco in an FEHA race
While also maintaining a practice
partner of the United Law Center,
alumni. I especially wish to thank
discrimination case. She is a
in the firm’s Sacramento office,
which specializes in plaintiff action
Doug Kraft, John Airola, Jeff Sevey,
partner in the firm of Lombardi,
she represents diverse clients
against banking fraud and predatory
Mark Reichel, Michael Terhorst
Lopez & Conant. (Oakland, CA)
in the areas of construction law
lending. (Roseville, CA)
and Herb Santos for all of their
professional assistance over these
Shannon Shogren
past five years. (Sacramento)
Our eldest daughter married a
David Cusick
On August 1, 2011, I was
appointed to take over a Chapter
and litigation, providing risk
management advice relating to
construction development projects
from concept through dispute
fine young man serving in the U.S.
Jane Ryan
13 trusteeship. After 18 years in
Army as a guard at the Tomb of
After 20 years of ending marriages
private practice, it was a very big
the Unknown Soldier. Our middle
and all the gnarly stuff that entails,
change in my life. Nonetheless, I
Jason Curliano
daughter is finishing her last
I now do prenuptial agreements,
love being a Chapter 13 trustee and
Our oldest son is back at college
year of homeschool at the local
cohabitation, and domestic
I don’t miss being in private practice
in New York City. The youngest is
community college. That leaves just
partnership agreements exclusively.
for a second. (Sacramento)
graduating from high school. We
one daughter at home for me to
I’ve also taken up real estate.
homeschool. I also work part-time at
Helping people with new beginnings,
our local library, serve as chair of our
be they relationships or finding new
county’s planning commission, give
digs is very rewarding and, dare
voice lessons, direct our small church
I say, fun. In fact, if you want to
choir, and on and on. I would love
see my happy, smiling face, visit
to keep in touch with classmates so
my websites: sacprenup.com and
please send me a friend request on
lovemynewhouse.com. (Sacramento)
Facebook. (Cambridge, MN)
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Michael Trezza
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Rhea Giannotti
Rick and I just finished building our
dream house on the 17th green of
the Bailey Creek Golf Course in
are ready to become empty nesters
who can spend a little less time
working and more time traveling.
(Oakland, CA)
Lake Almanor. I was just appointed
Daniel Gold
as the Lassen County Public
I became managing partner of
Defender for Lassen County by our
Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle LLP in
board of supervisors. It has been a
July 2011. (Irvine, CA)
very hectic year! (Susanville, CA)
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resolution. (Boise, ID)
William Harn
James Greer
Julie Shepard
Michael Baytosh
I completed my term as president
I was cited for the 2010
Shepard was named a partner in
I moved my litigation practice to Prout
of the Association of Corporate
Investigation of the Year (U.S. v.
the Los Angeles office of Jenner
LeVangie in January 2011. I love
Counsel, Southern California
Stephen Schneider, et. al) by the
& Block, a national firm with 470
the downtown location, people and
Chapter. Joy, ’98, and I had the
National Healthcare Anti-Fraud
attorneys. She focuses on broad-
regular events. I have increased my
distinct pleasure of meeting and
Association. I recently joined the
based commercial, entertainment
ADR caseload and now offer more
hosting George W. Bush for dinner
U.S. Department of Justice, Office
and IP litigation. Her practice
mediation service dates. (Sacramento)
at the organization’s annual gala
of Inspector General, where I am
includes defending clients in class
dinner. (Seal Beach, CA)
investigating criminal internal
actions, shareholder derivative
affairs matters involving FBI, DEA,
suits, and business torts. She
ATF and other Justice Department
was previously a partner at Hogan
employees. (Tucson, AZ)
Lovelis LLP. (Los Angeles, CA)
the 30th most influential person
Garrett Hamilton
Mary Swanson
wrongful death, auto accident case.
in that state’s New Jersey real
Hamilton won a guilty verdict as a
Swanson was named acting director
Chan is a principal in the Allaye
estate industry. The article cited
co-prosecutor in the capital murder
of the Institute for Administrative
Chan Law Group. (Sacramento)
his work on the redevelopment of
trial of a man convicted of killing
Justice at Pacific McGeorge where
the U.S. Army’s Fort Monmouth,
a sheriff’s deputy in 2008. He is a
she has served as IAJ’s assistant
known for its history of high tech
Yolo County deputy district attorney.
director since 1999. (Sacramento)
communications research and
(Woodland, CA)
Michael Pane
Pane has been named by New
Jersey Business 12 magazine as
Richard Chan
Chan was co-counsel on a $4
million verdict (reduced to $3 million
by proportionate fault) in Napa
Superior Court for the plaintiff in a
David Eichman
Eichman wrote a whodunit novel,
BULL, which has been published by
Patrick Whalen
Xlibris. The former theater actor,
Valli Israels
Whalen won an equitable settlement
who began his legal career as a
Jeff Witthun
I have enjoyed my first year on the
of the state employees’ lawsuit
deputy district attorney in Contra
Witthun joined the Clark County
bench. I work as a criminal courts
against former Governor Arnold
Costa County, is a civil rights and
District Attorney’s Office as the
judge and have enjoyed getting to
Schwarzenegger’s order on
appellate attorney in Arizona.
assistant director of its Family
know the bench, court staff, and
furloughs. He is a senior attorney at
(Scottsdale, AZ)
Support Division in Nevada.
attorneys in Stanislaus County.
the Law Offices of Brooks Ellison.
Previously, he was the lead attorney
(Modesto, CA)
(Sacramento)
development. (Fair Haven, NJ)
at Kenosha County Child Support
Agency and the president of the
child support organization Woodford
County Special Education Association
in Wisconsin. (Las Vegas, NV)
Catherine MacMillan
I retired as of November 22, 2011.
(Sacramento)
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Moorehead was named the
Ryan J. Raftery
1994
executive director of the California
Christopher J. Kaeser
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McGeorge. (Sacramento)
Museum. Previously, she was
the major gifts officer at Pacific
I founded The Evans Law Firm, www.
evanslaw.com. It is a plaintiffs’ firm
1995
Dori Dennis Moorehead
Ingrid Evans
that concentrates on elder abuse,
consumer fraud class actions
involving insurance and banking
claims, consumer product liability and
personal injury/wrongful death cases,
particularly asbestos-mesothelioma,
as well as Qui Tam (whistleblower/
Robert Angres
A published reversal in one of my
false claims) and employment
cases garnered some significant
litigation. (San Francisco, CA)
Steven Oshins
media attention. In People v.
I was inducted into National
Gerber (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th
Kelly Hull
James Cordes
Association of Estate Planners
368, a unanimous Court of
Cordes won a $153,545 bench
and Councils Estate Planning Hall
Appeal agreed that my client’s
decision for the plaintiffs in
of Fame last year. I have been
possession of computer-generated
a San Diego Superior Court
fortunate to be included in the Best
or virtual pornography was not a
wage-and-hour case. He also
Lawyers in America book every
crime in California. The court also
won a $788,678 arbitration
year since 2005 and was named
agreed with me that my client’s
award in Santa Barbara Superior
Best Lawyers Las Vegas Trusts
convictions for furnishing his
Richard Mosher
Court in a breach of contract,
and Estates Lawyer of the Year for
daughter with methamphetamine
Mosher was profiled in the Law
sex discrimination case. He is a
2012. (Las Vegas, NV)
had to be reversed because the
Technology News. He is the general
trial court gave the jury erroneous
counsel of Meru, a publicly-
supplemental jury instructions that
traded Sunnyvale company that
permitted a guilty verdict based on
manufactures access points,
an invalid legal theory. Interestingly,
controllers and network management
the AG’s office did not petition
applications that transmit video, voice
the California Supreme Court to
and data over wi-fi networks. His
review the case, but the high court
wife, Mia (Praisner) Mosher, ’94, is a
considered review on its own
family law attorney who practices in
accord, voting 6–1 to let the lower
Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
court opinion stand. (Fresno, CA)
(Sunnyvale, CA)
Captain Laura H. Heller
Guy E. Ortoleva
principal in the Law Firm of James
H. Cordes. (Santa Barbara, CA)
Kelly Ryan
I was promoted to assistant general
counsel at Molina Healthcare and
remain happily married to Jim
Walter, ’94, with whom I am raising
two girls, Sarah, 9, and Sophia, 5.
(Elk Grove, CA)
On April 1, 2011, I opened my own
law practice, Kaeser Hull LLP, with
one of my McGeorge classmates,
Carin Azarcon Kaeser. We specialize
in workers’ compensation defense
litigation. (Sacramento)
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Melanie Ogren
I got married in January 2012. I am
a certified workers’ compensation
specialist at Hanna, Brophy,
MacLean, McAleer & Jensen. (San
Francisco, CA)
1996
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Jane Greaves Sargent
Theresa A. Dunham
James Bean
Erik Schimmelbusch
I am the managing shareholder, of
the Schimmelbusch Law Group PC
and was elected a Fellow of the
American College of Trust and Estate
Council last year. (Lake Oswego, OR)
I married Jeanette S. Rowland,
Central District of California,
Riverside Division. (Mission Hills, CA)
Robert Wareham
Wareham is a candidate for District
Attorney in Colorado’s 18th Judicial
District — Douglas, Arapahoe,
business transactions between
daughter, Lily, on August 3, 2011. I
American and Chinese companies.
continue to work part-time from our
(San Francisco, CA)
defense. (Sacramento)
Jeff Reisig
Health Group’s 2012 Executive
Jeffrey Carra
Reisig won a guilty verdict as a
Development Program. (Auburn, CA)
I am a U.S. Army colonel proudly
serving on my third deployment to
the Middle East. I’m hoping this is
I have served as an administrative
law judge for the Workers’ Comp
Appeals Board WCAB since 2006.
Humphreys Law School since 2008.
I took and passed the Nevada Bar
Justice Award from the Orange
County Hispanic Bar Association.
Exam in July 2011. (Stockton, CA)
I was appointed senior assistant
Jonathan Hobbs
attorney general for the state
Hobbs was named city attorney for
Department of Justice’s Health,
Education and Welfare Section. We
celebrated the birth of our third child,
Quinn Weng-Gutierrez. (Elk Grove, CA)
Lincoln. A shareholder and chair
of the board of directors at the
Sacramento law firm of Kronick
Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard, he
also serves as city attorney for Rio
Randy Wong
co-prosecutor in the capital murder
trial of a man who gunned down
a sheriff’s deputy in 2008. He is
the Yolo County District Attorney.
(Woodland, CA)
1997
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Molly J. Mrowka
Katherine J. Hart
Gary S. Winuk
Tad Devlin
Devlin has joined Willis DePasquale
as a partner where he will focus on
complex civil litigation, insurance,
ERISA/life, health and disability and
criminal defense. He was previously
a partner at Gordon & Rees. (San
Francisco, CA)
Vista and interim city attorney for
Lina Hughes
of the nation’s largest award-winning
Elk Grove. (Lincoln, CA)
Hughes is a founding member
self-storage facilities. Recently,
Carl Joseph
I continue to own and operate one
I opened a 5,000 square-foot
Joseph has been appointed
photography studio and have
photographed Miss California USA
2011, Katie Blair, as well as a
variety of commercial clients and
products. My portfolio is viewable
at www.randesignstudio.com.
(Newport Beach, CA)
counsel for Multistate Affairs at the
Franchise Tax Board. He has been
of Strive2Free, a new nonprofit
whose mission is to combat human
trafficking in California. She is an
immigration attorney. (Sacramento)
with the FTB for 15 years and has
Jennifer McQuarrie
represented the state tax agency
McQuarrie won a bench decision
in many significant multistate tax
for a former district attorney who
issues. (Sacramento)
was sued by the County of Plumas
for alleged negligence in office. She
is a principal in the Law Office of
Jennifer McQuarrie. (Quincy, CA)
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Robert Rodgers
(Honolulu, HI)
Law as an adjunct professor at
Award and a 2011 Guardians of
home on the north shore of Oahu.
David Nemecek
practice focuses on personal injury
Law, Agency and Constitutional
I was a recipient of a 2011 CLAY
torts. (San Diego, CA)
Nemecek, a law firm that handles
I have also taught Administrative
Julie Weng-Gutierrez
expertise in environmental and toxic
served in that role for 27 years.
I celebrated the birth of our
Jeanette Bean Wedding.” (Exton, PA)
Allyson C. Hall
(Highlands Ranch, CO)
partner at Gordon Rees with an
managing shareholder of the firm
Nemecek has co-founded Qian &
faces at least one challenger in the
budget and nearly 200 employees.
premises liability case. He is a
Miller Starr Regalia. The previous
My husband, Burt Moritz, and
on youtube.com under “James and
the last one. (Long Beach, CA)
18th District DA’s has an $18 million
co-counsel for the defense in a
prominent real estate law firms,
Laura Moritz
Elbert and Lincoln counties. He
June 2012 Republic primary. The
Los Angeles Superior Court as
2012, of one of California’s most
Virginia. There are photos available
Powers & Miller APC where his
trustee for U.S. District Court,
Meyer won a bench decision in
shareholder, effective January 1,
October 20, 2011, in Winchester,
Bowley was named a partner at
I was appointed as a Chapter 7
Jason Meyer
Leones was named the managing
(Walnut Creek, CA)
Gordon Bowley
Lawrence Simons
Anthony Leones
Spring 2012
I was selected for United
Dennis Stone
Dennis was appointed president
of the Charlotte School of Law. As
an interim dean, he led the school
to full ABA accreditation. He has
more than 35 years of experience
in legal education, having served
as professor of law and director
of the law library at the University
of Connecticut School of Law, and
he played an integral role in the
founding of Florida Coastal School
of Law. (Charlotte, NC)
Wendy A. Taylor
Taylor joined Hansen, Kohls, Jones,
Sommer & Jacob, LLP as an
associate. She continues to defend
lawyers and insurance professionals
in malpractice and bad faith cases.
(Sacramento)
David Zocchetti
Zocchetti was appointed deputy
director and chief counsel at the
California Department of General
Services by Governor Jerry Brown.
He has served as chief counsel and
legislative director for the California
Emergency Management Agency
since 2009. (Sacramento)
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To Take On Any and
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Kara La Bella-Parker
Emily Randon
Bob Bale
Bale was co-counsel for plaintiffs
who won a $73 million jury verdict
By David Graulich
against Ford Motor Company in
Sacramento County Superior Court
in a case involving deaths and
injuries in a van rollover in 2008.
He is an associate with the firm
of Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood &
Campora. (Sacramento)
Kresta Nora Daly
Daly joined the existing firm of
Barth & Tozer LLP as a partner, and
the firm has been renamed Barth
Tozer & Daly, LLP. Her practice
focus remains white collar and
non-white collar criminal defense.
Other members of the firm practice
business litigation. (Sacramento)
Nicole Gleason
Gleason was elevated to partner at
Downey Brand where she practices
environmental law. (Sacramento)
Peter Hirsig
Hirzig was co-counsel for a
successful defense team in an auto
accident case in Lake Superior
Court. He is a partner at McNamara,
Ney, Beatty, Slattery, Borges &
Ambacher LLP. (Fairfield, CA)
Brian Lamb
Lamb has rolled up a string of
victories in recent years as a senior
trial attorney at the Dolan Law
Firm. He negotiated a $2 million
settlement for the family of a San
Quentin prison guard who was
killed in a motorcycle accident. He
reached a $1.5 million settlement
against the City and County of
San Francisco and a confidential
settlement with the San Francisco
49ers involving the death of an
85-year-old man who was knocked
over by a police horse. He won
$1.25 million for a parole officer who
was struck on the head with a bag of
construction materials while she was
walking to an apartment to check on
a parolee. (San Francisco, CA)
With a bachelor’s degree
in accounting from
Sacramento State and work
experience in business
systems, June Coleman,
’97, seemed a natural
for the tax law program
when she entered Pacific
McGeorge in 1994. Instead,
she opted for a different
approach. “I decided
to try the full range of
experiences that law school
could offer,” she recalls.
During her law school years, Coleman was
managing editor of the law review, represented
clients in Community Legal Services, interned
at the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office,
and represented Pacific McGeorge in the ABA
Client Counseling Competition. In addition,
Coleman worked at a variety of part-time jobs
to pay for her education while raising a young
daughter. Despite the hectic pace, she has
fond memories of those years. “I had a terrific
experience at McGeorge,” she recalls.
Coleman has become a nationally
recognized authority in debt collection law,
involving such landmark legislation as the
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)
and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act
(TCPA). She also represents defendants in
professional liability disputes, including legal
malpractice claims, as well as commercial
litigation and employment law.
Coleman, a native of the Sacramento
suburb of Elverta, was a co-founder and name
partner of the Sacramento firm Ellis Coleman
Poirier LaVoie & Steinheimer. Recently,
she joined Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann
& Girard, where she is a shareholder. Her
practice focuses on claims against collection
professionals and complex civil litigation at
the trial and appellate levels.
In January 2012, Coleman was sworn
in as president of the Sacramento County
Bar Association. As a leader of the local
bar, she is striving to make SCBA more
useful to Sacramento practitioners, such as
introducing mentoring programs to help
younger attorneys in a tough job market.
Coleman is also emphasizing support
for California’s court system at a time of
austerity and budget cutbacks. SCBA has
endorsed the Open Courts Coalition, a
statewide effort to respond to the projected
$300 million shortfall in court funding.
“The justice system is under attack. And
when someone attacks the justice system,
we, the lawyers, must answer the challenge
and protect it.”
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Jennifer Rouse
Erin Dunston
Glen Piper
Mark Hausholder
Last year, I officially became
I returned to Buchanan, Ingersoll
Piper was co-counsel for a
Hausholder has been recognized
a certified specialist in Estate
and Rooney PC, the new incarnation
successful defense team in Los
by Cambridge’s Who’s Who as a VIP
Planning, Trust and Probate Law,
of my first firm, from Bingham
Angeles Superior Court in a
of the Year for his work in criminal
putting all that I learned from
McCutcheon in fall 2009. I was
dangerous condition of public
defense. The managing partner
Professor Coletta to good use. I
recently promoted to shareholder/
property, personal injury case
of Okabe & Hausholder, he has
enjoyed a recent mini-McGeorge
partner and continue to practice
against the City of Los Angeles. He
represented several high-profile
reunion with Jessica Poyner, ’98,
patent law — both prosecution
is a shareholder with Keesal, Young
clients in Southern California and
Christine Long, ’98 and Sunny Kwon
and litigation — primarily in the
& Logan. (Long Beach, CA)
appeared on CNN, NBC and CBS
Glendon, ’98, in San Jose. We had
biotechnology area. If you’re in the
our seven kids in attendance as
area, Sean and I would love to see
well. (Sacramento)
you. (Washington, D.C.)
Brennan LLP as a partner where she
Amy Haydt
Van Vu
Jeffrey Fulton
advises clients on state and local
Haydt won a bench decision and
Vu was appointed to a two-year term
Fulton won a $1.2 million verdict in
tax matters. She is the immediate
restraining order in Tehama County
as a public member of the Statewide
San Joaquin County Superior Court
past chair of the Tax Section
Superior Court against a man who
Pupil Assessment Review Panel by
for three whistleblowers in a case
of the State Bar of California.
was stalking state Assemblyman
the state Senate Rules Committee.
against the San Joaquin County
(Sacramento)
Jim Nielsen. She is an attorney with
She is a partner at Gibson Vu LLP.
Regional Transit System. He is a
(West Sacramento, CA)
principal in the Law Office of Jeffrey
D. Fulton. (Sacramento)
1999
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Kathryn Davis
Bauer was promoted from senior
counsel to shareholder at Walter
Briny Woods
I love living in Orange County and
(Redondo Beach, CA)
the Office of Legislative Counsel.
(Sacramento)
having fun practicing personal injury
Lisa Kaplan
litigation, helping people involved in
Kaplan left her position as assistant
My wife, Louisa, and I are expecting
accidents. (Irvine, CA)
executive officer to the State
or second child in April 2012. (Elk
Allocation Board and opened her own
Grove, CA)
2000
law firm, Kaplan Law Group, in March
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issues. Kaplan, who also serves as a
In June, I married Chad Granger, a
wonderful man. I’ve also enjoyed
teaching as an adjunct professor at
Samantha Tali
2011. She handles civil litigation with
a specialty in school construction
trustee for Natomas Unified School
James S. Overman
District, formerly co-owned L & B
(Sacramento)
Jonelle Beck
Amanda Gould
In 2008, we relocated our family
advocacy firm. (Sacramento)
employment and labor law specialist
was recently recognized as a rising
My husband and I celebrated the
star by Northern California Super
birth of twin girls, Dagney and
Lawyers magazine. (Fresno, CA)
Eulee, on January 22, 2011. (Las
& Wilhelm Law Group in Fresno.
An active leader in numerous area
community organizations, the
McGeorge for the past four years.
Cruces, NM)
William Brelsford
After 11 years in Elk Grove, we
Dean Hakkak
are moving to El Dorado Hills.
Hakkak was co-counsel for a
Jennifer is training for her first
plaintiff who won a $939,932 award
marathon, Cole is literally kicking
in a Los Angeles Superior Court
butt in karate, and Cooper is
auto accident case. He is a principal
learning defensive techniques
in the Law Offices of Z. Dean
fending off the kicks and punches
Hakkak. (Los Angeles, CA)
thrown by Cole. Me, I just continue
practice at Poswall, White & Cutler.
(Sacramento)
Ryan Hiete
Hiete was on a plaintiff team that
won a $2.5 million settlement in U.S.
Michael Daponde
District Court, Central District of
Daponde was promoted to
California, in a government liability
partner at Wilke, Fleury, Hoffelt,
environmental contamination case.
Gould & Birney LLP where his
He is a partner with Musick Peeler &
practice focuses on disputes
Garrett. (Westlake Village, CA)
involving governmental agencies.
(Sacramento)
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Roberts joined Sutherland Asbill &
as a commentator on other trials.
Justin Gingery
Kimberly Graham
Paul Bauer
Carley Roberts
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and my law practice back to my
hometown, Stockton. Our daughter
is 5 years old and just started
kindergarten and our son is now 3.
Associates LLC, a governmental
James R. Lewis
Lewis was appointed to the
membership of the Million Dollar
Advocates Forum, a collection
(Stockton, CA)
of the best trial attorneys in the
Derek Egge
group of fewer than 200 California
Egge was co-counsel for the defense
in an arbitration case in Marin
Superior Court involving charges of
sexual harassment and a hostile work
environment. He is an associate with
The Costa Law Firm. (Gold River, CA)
Doreen Spears Hartwell
Hartwell has been elected as
president of the Las Vegas chapter
of the National Bar Association. She
is an associate at Lionel Sawyer &
Collins. (Las Vegas, NV)
United States. He joins an elite
attorneys who have won $1 million
and multi-million dollar verdicts and
settlements. He is an attorney at
the Law Offices of Frank D. Penney.
(Roseville, CA)
Matt Maclear
Maclear was appointed assistant
general counsel for enforcement
at the California Environmental
Protection Agency by Governor
Jerry Brown. He had been the
statewide environmental circuit
prosecutor for the California District
Attorneys Association since 2006.
(El Cerrito, CA)
2003
Courtney McAlister
Tony Smith
Claire Tauriainen
McAlister is among the candidates
It has now been 15 years with
Andrew Tauriainen, ’01E, and I were
for an open seat on the Sutter
Judson Enterprises, Inc., the last
married in the McKinley Park Rose
County Superior Court bench
12 of those as in-house counsel.
Garden in Sacramento on August
following the retirement of one
(Rancho Cordova, CA)
21, 2011. It was a beautiful day to
Kristin A. Odom
marry a wonderful man. I organized
Patrick Bergin
of the court’s judges. McAlister
serves as in-house counsel for K.
Hovnanian Homes. (Yuba City, CA)
Michael Sollazzo
After spending the last eight years
primarily as a real estate investor,
Karen O’Neil
I am excited to be in private
O’Neil joined the board of directors
practice again. My experience in
of the UCSB Economic Forecast
the real estate investment and
Project. A partner firm of Kirk &
business world has allowed me to
Simas, she is also on the boards
provide advice to clients taking into
of several other community
consideration their perspectives
organizations in northern Santa
as I uniquely know what it means
Barbara County. (Santa Maria, CA)
to be in a similar position to them.
Clinton Parish
(Sacramento)
Parish announced he will run for
Tom Woods
election to the Yolo County Superior
Woods has joined Stoel Rives in
Court against a sitting judge. He is
an of counsel capacity. Previously
a county deputy district attorney.
with Greenberg Traurig, he brings
(Woodland, CA)
experience in product liability
Michael Pope
After two years in property law
foreclosing on homes and handling
other property-related matters, I am
back where I belong in insurance
defense. I love helping people and
working on things that matter. Also,
I will be moving into a new house in
February. (Boise, ID)
Mark Posard
Posard was co-counsel for a defense
team that received a summary
judgment against a plaintiff in U.S.
District Court, Northern District
of California, in a case involving a
school district’s alleged infringement
on a student’s freedom of expression
He is partner with Gordon & Rees.
(San Francisco, CA)
Sandeep Shah
I was cited in the Los Angeles
Magazine Super Lawyers Southern
litigation on behalf of medical
device and pharmaceutical
manufacturers. (Sacramento)
2001
a team to walk in the Walk to
Defeat ALS on October 1, 2011.
Our team, The Dancing Bears, had
nearly 60 members, raised $9,816,
and walked to honor Thomas C.
2002
Angelique Ashby, ’03, was named
vice mayor of Sacramento by
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unanimous vote of her City
Lan Li
Council colleagues. The District 1
Andre Batson
representative on the board, she will
Elisabeth DeBartolo
preside over council meetings when
DeBartolo spoke on “New 2012
the mayor is absent. (Sacramento)
Employment Laws Impacting
Mat Larsen
California Employers” for the
Development Executives Network.
She is a principal at DeBartolo Law.
Which specializes in employment
and labor law, wage and hour law,
and wrongful termination claims.
(Monterey, CA)
this year’s president of the Women
Lawyers of Sacramento, which is
I still have a full head of hair here at
Burke, Williams & Sorensen LLP. That
spells success. (Los Angeles, CA)
at Seyfarth Shaw where he is a
member of the firm’s litigation
Lincoln was appointed a shareholder
practice. (Sacramento)
at Boutin Jones Inc., where she
David O’Mara
practices in the firm’s litigation group
O’Mara successfully litigated a
with a specialty in escrow and title
special election lawsuit against
insurance law. (Sacramento)
the Nevada Secretary of State,
partner at Murphy Campbell Guthrie
Danesha Nichols
& Alliston, PLC. (Sacramento)
I received a promotion to
Nevada Republican Party v. State
of Nevada. He is a principal in The
investigations coordinator at UCD
list again and serve as the Orange
Andrew has taken a legal counsel
County chair of the South Asian Bar
position with the state Water
Association. We celebrated our one-
Resources Control Board’s Office
year wedding anniversary on May
of Enforcement. Previously, he was
29, 2011. (Costa Mesa, CA)
in private practice with Kronick,
Anne Sherlock
Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard.
Erin Riley
(Sacramento)
My husband, Jason, and I welcomed
districts. (Sacramento)
(Kansas City, MO)
McNairy was promoted to partner
Andrew Tauriainen
law and representing school
on environmental litigation.
Fleury. (Sacramento)
California Rising Stars Attorneys
I am enjoying practicing education
Division and focuses his practice
James McNairy
practice group. (Riverside, CA)
Super Lawyers magazine. She is a
he is a member of the firm’s Torts
celebrating its 50th anniversary this
Kelley Lincoln
California Rising Stars section of
at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, where
year. She is a partner with Wilke
environmental and natural resources
Quinn was named to the Northern
Larsen has been named a partner
Anthony McClaren
Raijunder Rai-Nielsen
Stephanie Quinn
year, he and other members settled
Shawn M. Krogh
Lewis has been elected to serve as
where he is a member of the
in December 2011. Earlier that
(Sacramento)
Lisa V. Ryan
partner by Best Best & Krieger
Fredericks, Peebles & Morgan LLP
over a tribal state gaming compact.
Megan Lewis
Ackerman has been promoted to
Bergin was named partner at
a significant case with South Dakota
Hughes, ’78. (Sacramento)
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Jason Ackerman
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Health System in October 2010.
My oldest turned 6 years old, and
my triplets turned 4. My husband
and I celebrated our eighth year of
marriage. (Sacramento)
O’Mara Law Firm. The outcome of
the case had a direct bearing on the
eventual outcome of the September
special election that sent Mark
Amodei, ’83, to the U.S. House of
Representatives. (Reno, NV)
our daughter, Matilda Evelyn Riley,
on July 17, 2011. (Sacramento)
Spring 2012
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Edward Randolph
Randolph joined the California
Public Utilities Commission as its
Energy Division director. Previously,
he spent eight years as chief
consultant to the California State
Assembly’s Committee on Utilities
and Commerce. (San Francisco, CA)
2005
Robert Plagmann
Richard Asfar
I got married on March 21, 2011.
I relocated to Florida, and have
I was recently awarded the Naval
associated with the firm of Saxon,
Meritorious Unit Commendation
Gilmore, Carraway & Gibbons
for support of relief efforts for the
P.A. My practice is focused on
earthquake and tsunami off the coast
commercial litigation, defense
Lori Asuncion
of Sendai, Japan. (Iwakuni, Japan)
litigation, and bankruptcy/creditor’s
I am a deputy city attorney for the
Brian Plummer
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Sarah M. Lightbody
Michal Meciar
City of Stockton and expecting
2004
I obtained defense verdicts in
Nathan Barankin
two civil jury trials defending the
Barankin was named chief of staff
Union Pacific Railroad last year.
to California Attorney General
The first case involved a former
Kamala Harris. He previously served
employee suing my client for
as communications director for
wrongful termination. The second
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell
Races tragedy. (Reno, NV)
case involved an employee suing
Steinberg. (Sacramento)
Anand Jesrani
the Federal Employers’ Liability
Jesrani was named to the Record
Act. Both of the cases were tried in
Searchlight newspaper’s 2011 20
Placer County. (Roseville, CA)
second child in November 2011.
(Stockton, CA)
Matt Digesti
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I am co-chairing the Family Assistance
Carolyn Kubish
Fund for the victims of the Reno Air
Ryan E. Fillmore
William Bishop
Bishop left big law in July 2011 to
open The Bishop Law Firm where he
practices plaintiff side employment law
and personal injury. He also provides
sports law advice and counsel to
numerous sports organizations and
athletes. (Sacramento)
Under 40 list of area professionals
who demonstrate leadership,
initiative and innovation in their
community. He opened the Law
Office of Anand “Lucky” Jesrani last
Chad Bunch
Bunch was voted into the partnership
at Palmieri, Tyler, Wiener, Wilhelm
& Waldron LLP where he practices
estate and business succession
Kwun has joined the Law Offices of
Bowman and Associates APC. An
Lapcevic was a member of a
Governmental Laws’ (COGEL)
defense team that won a jury
Annual Conference in Columbus,
Ohio this year. COGEL is the trade
association of federal, state and
local ethics agencies. Lim serves as
a political law compliance counsel
with Nielsen Merksamer Parrinello
Gross & Leoni in Marin County where
verdict in U.S. District Court,
Eastern District of California, for
Foster Farms in an employment law
constructive discharge case. He is
an associate with Arata, Swingle,
Sodhi & Van Edmond. (Modesto, CA)
he advises large corporations on
Sarah Litchney
campaign finance, lobby and ethics
Litchney was recognized in the
matters. (San Rafael, CA) Sacramento-area Inc. 500 as her
loss mitigation and financial services
Matt Young
Young has been hired as an
associate attorney at the Law
Offices of Alan Laskin where he
works in the firm’s personal injury
division. (Sacramento)
Financial Services Group as a
financial services representative. He
previously was in private practice.
(Modesto, CA)
Tavenier is prosecuting two gang
members charged with murder in
a 2011 vehicle homicide. She is a
shareholder at Boutin Jones Inc.,
where she practices estate planning
law. (Sacramento, CA)
Meredith Felde
Felde won an expungement for
the respondent in a securities
arbitration case. She is counsel for
ETrade Financial. (Roseville, CA)
John Gatschet
As a deputy district attorney, I am
assigned to our county’s Violence
Against Women Grant, prosecuting
serious and violent domestic
violence offenders. (Fresno, CA)
Michelli Jenni
2006
Jenni teamed up with lead counsel
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family of a deceased individual
Richard N. Asfar
in a medical malpractice case in
Channone Marie Smith
Butte County Superior Court. He
M. Diane Anderson
I am serving as president of the
Amador County Bar Association
William Callaham, ’74, to win a
$3 million verdict for the plaintiff
is a principal, and she is a senior
attorney partner at Wilcoxen
Callaham LLP. (Sacramento)
Alan Lee
I am currently working as tax
an intense National Institute for
counsel to Congressman Jim
Trial Advocacy week-long training
McDermott, a senior member
Katherine Pettibone
program to prepare for a two-day
of the House Ways & Means
Pettibone was the subject of a
trial — reminded me of law school
Committee. I’m enjoying the
feature story in the Sacramento
and it made me miss all of you.
diversity of tax issues that come
Bee. A lobbyist for the Civil Justice
(Jackson, CA)
before the committee as well as the
Association of California, she is also
Andrea Tavenier
Brennan was appointed a
Chamber of Commerce. I attended
No. 350 on the list. (Folsom, CA)
Qualls has joined the Principal
Stacey Brennan
and director in the Amador County
Litchney Law Firm PC, was ranked
Brian Qualls
a world-class yachtswoman who
recently competed for a spot in the
2012 Olympics. (Sacramento)
Contra Costa County deputy district
attorney. (Martinez, CA)
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attorney. Previously with Nossaman
William Lapcevic
Committee of the Council of
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litigation team at Smith Dollar as an
cases. (Santa Rosa, CA)
corporation. (Folsom, CA)
Lim will co-chair the Program
Sutherland joined the mortgage
Richard Kwun
attorney for a large national
Darrin Lim
Richard Sutherland
LLP, he handles mortgage banking,
he previously served as a managing
individuals. (Irvine, CA)
my client for personal injuries under
year. (Redding, CA)
experienced bankruptcy attorney,
planning for high net worth
rights. (Tampa, FL)
Spring 2012
opportunity to work on national tax
policy. (Washington, D.C.)
Photography: Steve Yeater
Bobby Luna
Pushparaj Punches
Ticket to Success
In Dynamic IP Field
I finally passed the bar exam. It
took a few tries, but now I am off
and running. I’ve opened up my
own practice, the Law Offices of
Bobby P. Luna. I primarily do family
law, but I’m helping out another
attorney with some of his personal
injury cases. I wish all of my 2006
Evening classmates the best.
By Steve Kennedy
(Sacramento)
Conor McElroy
I was the primary attorney for the
respondent in Eggers Industries
v. Flintco, Inc., et al, certified for
publication from the Third District
Court of Appeals on Dec. 5, 2011.
The appellate court affirmed the
trial court ruling in favor of my
client, Eggers Industries, following
oral argument. My wife, Crystal
(Chen) McElroy, ’06D, and I are the
proud parents of twin girls, Cassidy
and Colbie, born August 2, 2011.
(Sacramento)
Matthew Ninke
Ninke is a captain and assistant
legal officer for the California wing
of the Civil Air Patrol, a component
of the United States Air Force that
flies search and rescue missions
looking for downed aircraft, crash
survivors and missing persons in
remote areas. He is a principal in
the Law Offices of Matthew K. J.
Ninke. (Jackson, CA)
Robert Sanders
I opened a solo practice, Robert
Sanders, Attorney at Law, in March
2011, focusing on real estate
transactions, business law, and
estate planning. Previously, I was
general counsel to a regional
commercial real estate brokerage.
(El Dorado Hills, CA)
Matthew Silver
We are expecting our second
daughter in January 2012. I prevailed
in a Court of Appeal decision
upholding a preliminary injunction
issued against a large property owner
to abate multiple public nuisances. I
was also able to obtain a favorable
judgment against a hoarder, including
a receivership and a large fee award
for a city client. (Irvine, CA)
It’s not that Kirupa
Pushparaj, ’07, doesn’t
have any goals. It’s just that
he’s always changing them,
though not in a bad way.
Out of high school, Pushparaj headed
straight for medical school, a typical path
in India, and planned to be a heart surgeon.
Within a month, he discovered a problem:
He couldn’t tolerate the cadavers.
So he rewound his career goals in a hurry.
He became an electrical and computer
engineer, earning a B.S. in India before arriving
in the United States on 9/11 and earning his
master’s at UC Santa Barbara in 2002. He
thought about earning his Ph.D. And then …
He took a one-year internship with Intel
Corporation in the semiconductor chip
maker’s Folsom plant, which quickly led to a
job as a software engineer then a position as a
senior design engineer. While there, his boss
suggested Pushparaj think about law school.
The LSAT was only two weeks away, but
Pushparaj decided to go for it. He scored
well on the law school admittance exam,
applied only to nearby Pacific McGeorge
and got in. Intel was paying for it so
Pushparaj figured he would try a semester.
But Torts classes with Associate Dean Julie
Davies and Patents classes with Professor
Amy Landers hooked him. He was elected
to membership in the Roger P. Traynor
Honor Society and in 2007 earned his J.D.
Now he’s riding the crest of being named a
Northern California Rising Star lawyer in
2011 and 2012.
“After law school, it’s easy to land a patent
job,” he says. He had 12 offers, and worked
four years for Perkins Coie, one of the
premiere intellectual property law firms in the
world, in its Palo Alto office. He flourished
there working long hours and became a
regular author on Chip Law, the firm’s blog
about IP law and patent litigation issues
surrounding the semiconductor industry. He
also managed to find time for some pro bono
work that he found very rewarding.
Now it’s on to Amazon’s Lab 126 in
Cupertino, California, where he’ll help
protect Kindle’s patents, supervise legal
work outsourced to India and do other stuff
he can’t reveal. “It’s important to protect
your rights, or you’ll be eaten up by various
competitors,” he says simply.
He’s also an adjunct professor teaching
Patent Prosecutions at Pacific McGeorge,
where his students call him by his first name.
And why not? He won’t be 32 until July,
likely younger than some of his audience.
At Amazon, he admits, he may have met
his match, at least for now. “This is getting
out of my comfort zone,” he says. “I know
it’s a flexible world, and I know it’s always
changing.”
He has already proven that.
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2007
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Amyann Rupp
Michelle Laidlaw
Brian Sudano
Sheila Hard
Andrew Schouten
I founded the Sudano Law Firm and
Hard was named the director of
Schouten was a member of a
was fortunate to be selected as a
gift planning for the University
claimant team that won a $488,260
2011 Rising Star by Super Lawyers
of New Mexico Foundation.
FINRA arbitration award in a
magazine. (Walnut Creek, CA)
(Albuquerque, NM)
securities breach of fiduciary duty
in July 2011 in San Francisco.
2008
I am an associate at Hoge, Fenton,
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Jones & Appel with a civil litigation
Kimberly L. Kakavas
pactice. Leah is an associate at the
John P. Oglesby
John Adams
Leah Daughetee and I got married
Law Office of Daniel Jensen where
she practices criminal defense and
family law. We met in class in our
first year. (San Jose, CA)
Darren DeFrance
I am working at the King County
Alice Thomas
With the help of my dear friends,
I started working for fellow alum
mentors and fellow lawyers, Keith
Kimber Goddard, ’85E, after my
Tierney and Michael O’Rourke, we
first year of law school and now
set up Civil Rights for Seniors as a
am the owner of the new firm,
non-profit company. The plight of
The Law Offices of Daniel A. Hunt.
seniors in this current economic,
Kimber has entered a semi-retired
political and legal systems as well
California. (Sacramento)
phase, but stays of counsel to
as personal experience provided the
Matt Olson
help the firm. I love working with
motive for me to do so. (Reno, NV)
fellow classmate Benjamin Rowe,
Noel Calvillo
Calvillo has joined the Office of
Legislative Counsel for the state of
Dougherty joined Powers McCulloch
& Bennett LLP as a senior
associate. After clerking for two
years at the Oregon Tax Court,
she opened a solo practice. In her
new position, she will continue to
represent individuals and closely
held businesses with transactions
and tax issues. (Portland, OR)
2010
Melissa Van Ruiten
busy and very happy. (Sacramento)
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I married Nicholas Giannecchini
Amir Javideyan
Catherine Mattesich
on December 11, 2010, and gave
birth to daughter Renee Claire
Mary (Edes) Krugh
Kate Rankin, ’10, and I graduated
2009
LLP as an associate. She previously
Sandeep S. Vishwa
Electronic Frontier Foundation. We
Andrew O. Meditz
reversals in U.S. v. Alcazar-Bustos
382 Fed. Appx. 568 (9th Cir. 2010)
and U.S. v. Lara 366 Fed. Appx. 831
(9th Cir. 2010). (San Francisco, CA)
Hubert J. Johnson Sr.
of Bowman and Associates APC.
He previously practiced as a city
prosecutor in Idaho and as a tax
attorney in California. (Folsom, CA)
James Kuhne
Kuhne was co-counsel for the
respondent in a FINRA securities
arbitration and won dismissal of
fraud charges. He is an associate
with Keesal, Young & Logan.
(Long Beach, CA)
Krugh joined Kazanjian Wohl Hodson
was an associate with Porter Scott
where she and longtime Pacific
McGeorge adjunct professor
Jennifer Duggan won a major
defense decision in Sacramento
Superior Court and $735,000 in
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School/Commissioned Officer
Training a couple of weeks ago.
Kate is in Langley, VA and I am at
RAF Lakenheath near Cambridge,
England. This is going to be an
amazing experience in the USAF
JAG Corps for both of us.
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
attorneys’ fees before they moved
Carlos announced his campaign
to Kazanjian Wohl. (Sacramento)
Dustin Dyer
Preston Morgan
I am an associate at the Law Offices of
for the Republican nomination for
Congress in California’s redrawn
3rd Congressional District. The
Marysville-Yuba City native is a
Sutter County deputy district
Stella Choe
Choe has joined the legal counsel
for the California Assembly and
works with the Assembly Committee
on Public Safety. (Sacramento)
Morgan joined Downey Brand as
an associate where he will work in
the firm’s litigation practice group.
(Sacramento)
Ramin Naderi
Naderi was co-counsel for a
successful defense team in San
Joaquin County Superior Court in
a premises liability case against
a shopping mall and its security
Michael J. Dyer Law. (Stockton, CA)
Christine Elliott
I am practicing workers’
compensation and employment
law at Canlas Law Group APLC. I
also enjoy doing pro bono work at
Neighborhood Legal Services of
Los Angeles dealing with both civil
and administrative rights for lowwage workers. I am also currently
competing with the Claremont Club
Natalie Cordellos
services. He is an associate
I transferred to the San Francisco
at Jacobson Markham LLP.
office of Laughlin, Falbo, Levy
(Sacramento)
Emily Foehr
Jeffrey Schaff
Foehr has joined the Drobny Law
& Moresi, and am enjoying the
commute to and from Marin.
(Novato, CA)
Schaff joined the Mastagni Law
Firm. Previously, he was a solo
practitioner. (Sacramento)
50
from U.S. Air Force Officer Training
Tony Carlos
attorney. (Yuba City, CA)
Johnson joined the Law Offices
Jillian Brown
2011. (Stockton, CA)
I am a staff attorney at the
(9th Cir. 2011) and two unpublished
Javideyan co-founded The
Diane Crawford
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Sandoval-Gonzalez, 642 F.3d 717
attorneys. Janay and I now have
Bankruptcy Group PC. (Roseville, CA)
Giannecchini on November 22,
Hanni Fakhoury
won a published reversal in U.S. v.
’08D, who is one of our associate
three children who keep us very
District of California. (Sacramento)
Mary Dougherty
& L’Estrange. (San Diego, CA)
has provided me and my family.
Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern
(Seattle, WA)
I am amazed at the opportunities
case. He is an associate with Wright
my Pacific McGeorge education
Olson is an attorney with the U.S.
Prosecuting Attorney’s Office.
Daniel Hunt
Spring 2012
Masters Swim Team. (Montebello, CA)
Offices where she will specialize in
estate planning. (Sacramento)
Elizabeth Leet Jackson
Steve Hansen
Mark Narveson
Elizabeth joined Downey Brand as
Hanson filed to run for an open seat
Narveson joined Patterson Sheridan
an associate where she will work
on the Sacramento City Council
LLP, an intellectual property firm, as
in the corporate practice group.
next year. A member of the City
an associate. (Palo Alto, CA)
(Sacramento)
Council-appointed redistricting
Seaton Tsai
Tsai has joined the Law Offices of
Rene Korper where his practice
focuses on plaintiffs work,
particularly consumer protection
litigation. (Valencia, CA)
Adam Link
I am an associate at Somach
Simmons & Dunn. (Sacramento)
2011
Class Representatives
Katherine Oldham
Jamie Sammut
Dustin Bankston
Bankston has opened the Bankston
Immigration Law Office. (Albany, CA)
advisory committee, he is on the
board of directors of the Downtown
Sacramento Partnership. A senior
I married Thomas Colegrove on
INTERNATIONAL
WATER LAW
RESOURCES
September 9, 2011. (Sonoma, CA)
Bennett Bearden ’09
Elizabeth Newton
Bearden became the third person
regional manager at Genentech
Matthew Scott
Inc., he was profiled in the January
Scott released his debut album,
edition of Comstock’s magazine.
“Soul,” as a singer/pianist. The Elk
(Sacramento)
Grove attorney, who has opened
Ryan Cogdill
Cogdill was selected for the
2011-12 California Senate Fellows
program and has been assigned to
minority leader Bob Huff’s office.
(Sacramento)
Carmen-Nicole Cox
Cox has joined Downey Brand
as an associate in its litigation
to earn a Pacific McGeorge J.S.D.
Scott, performs a collection of 10
classic African-American spirituals
that were arranged by a well-known
composer. (Elk Grove, CA)
Speaker joined Koeller, Nebeker,
Carlson & Haluck as an associate.
(Roseville, CA)
Chris Stiles
served as a post-bar exam extern
Stiles joined Remy Moose Manley
for Presiding Justice Vance Raye of
LLP as an associate. (Sacramento)
Justin Delacruz
Liam Roger Tiapani, on November
Delacruz has joined Downey
11, 2011. He weighed 7 ½ pounds
Brand as an associate in the
and it was an all-natural birth.
firm’s corporate practice group.
(Lincoln, CA)
Mahallati, ’11, in Sacramento on
May 18, 2012. (Salt Lake City, UT)
Marilee Breternitz
I am serving as a judicial law
Clerk for the Honorable Connie J.
Steinheimer of the Nevada Second
Judicial Court. (Reno, NV)
Anna Buck
My husband, Mike, and I celebrated
(Sacramento)
I gave birth to a beautiful baby boy,
at the Alabama Office of the State
LL.M.
PUBLIC LAW &
POLICY
Clinton Parish ’02
election to the Yolo County Superior
Court against a sitting judge. He is
a county deputy district attorney.
(Woodland, CA)
Vu was appointed to a two-year
Conness Thompson
term as a public member of the
I have started a solo appellate
Erickson has joined Kronick
practice, which includes working as
Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard in
a court-appointed appellate attorney
the firm’s labor and employment
through Central California Appellate
practice group. (Sacramento)
Program, which serves the Third
I have worked as an investigator for
counsel on water law and policy
Van Vu ’04
Corrie Erickson
Nadia Mahallati
three-judge panel. He is a special
Parish announced he will run for
Shelly Strahle
I moved home to Utah after
Associates PLLC. I will marry Nadia
of his dissertation, before a
Geologist. (Tuscaloosa, AL)
(Sacramento)
exam and opened Kim Bowman &
Law in December 2011 with a
Joseph Speaker
Kim Bowman, Jr.
graduation, passed the Utah bar
in International Water Resources
successful on-campus defense
The Law Office of Matthew D.
practice group. Previously, she
the Third District Court of Appeal.
J.S.D.
and Fifth District Courts of Appeal.
(Martinez, CA)
Statewide Pupil Assessment Review
Panel by the state Senate Rules
Committee. She is a partner at
Gibson Vu LLP. (West Sacramento)
LL.M.
the Utah Department of Commerce,
Matthew Vance
Division of Securities, after passing
Vance has joined Klein, DeNatale,
TAXATION
the Utah bar exam. I will marry Kim
Goldner, Cooper, Rosenlieb &
Bowman Jr., ’11, in Sacramento on
Kimball LLP as an associate. He
Jo Kuchle ’87
Amy Byrne
May 18, 2012. (Salt Lake City, UT)
works in the firm’s trust, estate
Byrne has joined Guth & Changaris
Lauren Manning
my February birthday with a trip
south of the border to Cabo San
Lucas, Mexico. (Sacramento)
as an associate. (Yuba City, CA)
Skylar Curtis
Curtis has joined The Lawfare
Project, a nonprofit think tank that
specializes in counterterrorism, as
a writer researcher. (New York, NY)
Manning joined Kershaw, Cutter &
In May 2011, I traveled to Udaipur,
and probate litigation department.
(Bakersfield, CA)
India, as a non-medical volunteer
on a Rotaplast team. We operated
on 68 patients to repair cleft
lips and cleft palates. It was an
Ratinoff as an associate. The Order
Bianca Watts
of the Coif graduate worked as a
Watts joined Wilke Fleury Hoffelt
law clerk for the firm prior to her
Gould & Birney LLP as an associate
hiring and was involved in a record
and will practice in its business
medical malpractice jury verdict
litigation, employment, and
the firm recently obtained for a
healthcare units. (Sacramento)
awesome and humbling experience.
(Fairbanks, AK)
paraplegic woman. (Sacramento)
Spring 2012
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LL.M.
IN MEMORIAM
TRANSNATIONAL
BUSINESS
PRACTICE
Stephen Foondos
The University of the Pacific
McGeorge School of Law expresses
sympathy to the families and friends
of the following law school alumni:
Louis Desmond ’53
Desmond died on January
Foondos hosts the “Ask Steve
For Free” radio show at 6 p.m. on
Saturdays on KFBK 1530 and 92.5
FM. He is the managing partner of the
United Law Center, which specializes
in representing homeowners against
banking fraud and predatory lending.
(Roseville, CA)
13, 2012, at the age of 85 in
John Gilroy ’79
Spears died on January 30, 2011,
Gilroy died unexpectedly on October
at the age of 87. She practiced
21, 2011, at the age of 65 in
bankruptcy law for many years in
Sacramento. He retired in December
Sacramento.
2007 after a career that included
John Egan ’68
John died on October 29, 2008, at
the age of 93.
Rickdall died on September 9, 2010,
Board of Education, and as the first
judge in the South Sacramento
at the age of 74 in Las Vegas. He
executive officer of the California
Judicial District, and partner with
practiced civil litigation law in Clark
Education Audit Appeals Panel.
Desmond, Miller and Desmond.
County for 20 years, first with
He was general counsel for the
Rickdall & Schulman and later as a
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
solo practitioner.
years and was active in numerous
community organizations
Michael A. White ’74
White died of complications
from cancer on November 20,
Tom Chinn ’59
2011, at the age of 71. A former
Chinn died on January 21, 2012,
Sacramento County deputy district
at the age of 85 in Pleasant Hill.
attorney, he spent several years
An engineer by trade, he worked
as a charter boat captain in the
for the state General Services
Caribbean before operating his own
Sebastian Nielsen ’10
Department for more than 35 years
family law practice in Sacramento
Nielsen joined Danders & More
retiring as deputy state architect.
until his retirement in 2004.
in Denmark, as an attorney in its
From 1971 to 1983, he served on
dispute resolution team. He is also
the Sacramento City Unified School
a new member of the State Bar of
District Board. He went on to serve
New York. (Copenhagen, Denmark)
two terms on the Sacramento City
visitor visas. (Sunnyvale, CA)
Diploma holders
Michael E. Scullin has been elected
president of the Consular Corps
Association of Philadelphia, the
oldest consular corps in the United
States. The honorary consul of
France in Philadelphia and Wilmington,
Scullin is counsel to McElroy,
Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP,
a law firm with offices in Philadelphia,
Wilmington, New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut, Boston and Colorado. (Philadelphia, PA)
Robin Senter ’75
Senter died on January 31, 2011,
at the age of 67.
Harley died on July 12, 2008, at the
age of 62.
Susanne K. Reed ’81
Reed died of cancer on July 18,
2010, at the age of 63 in Santa
Rosa. She spent most of her legal
career working for the Sonoma
County Office of Education
as an attorney specializing in
construction law and was involved
in almost every school and college
construction project in the county
for the last 23 years.
Ward Skinner LL.M. ’83
Skinner died of cancer after a year-
Richard Sorenson ’76
long battle with a malignant brain
for 12 years.
Sorenson died on November 7,
tumor on March 31, 2011, at the
2009, at the age of 76.
age of 56. He practiced corporate
Loren Smith ’61
law for three decades in Los
Smith died on November 24, 2011,
Gregg Eichler ’77
at the age of 84 in Sacramento
Eichler died of a heart attack on
after a long illness. His legal career
November 12, 2011, at the age
William H.
included managing the California
of 63. A sports car enthusiast, he
Copenhaver LL.M. ’84
School Employees Association,
practiced bankruptcy law for more
Copenhaver died on July 12,
founding the lobbying firm of
than 30 years in southern California,
2009, at the age of 80 in Portland,
California Advocates, and serving
most recently with Fransen &
Oregon, where he practiced estate
as the dean of Lincoln Law School
Molinaro LLP in Corona.
planning for many years.
from 1995 to 1999.
Thomas Hughes ’78
Bob Willett ’61
Hughes died on February 12, 2012,
Willett died on February 27, 2012,
at the age of 59 at his Sacramento
at the age of 86 in Sacramento. He
home after a year-long battle with
spent more than 20 years in the
ALS. He had served as the general
Sacramento County Counsel’s Office
counsel for the California Housing
working on land-use issues. After
Finance Agency since 2001 after a
serving as counsel for the county
20-year career at Kronick, Moskovitz,
planning department, he practiced
Tiedemann & Girard in Sacramento
at Hefner, Stark & Marois achieving
where he was a senior partner.
David C. Fuller ’79
Fuller died on September 27, 2010,
at the age of 60.
P a c i f i c L aw
Janet Harley ’80
Council, holding the District 4 seat
partner status before his retirement.
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of Education, serving as deputy
served as a deputy district attorney,
Blueseed Co., which has floated a
back-and-forth to Silicon Valley with
for the California Department
executive director of the State
Mutabdzija was named president of
entrepreneurs who would commute
Legislature, private practice, working
R. Larry Rickdall ’74
Sacramento for more than 25
California coast to house foreign
teaching high school, working for the
Sacramento. During his career, he
Dario Mutabdzija ’09
plan to anchor a large vessel off the
Mildred Spears ’64
Spring 2012
Angeles and Woodland Hills.
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
The following lists recognize individuals and organizations that have made current gifts,
pledges and estate or planned gifts to Pacific McGeorge in excess of $20,000.
LIFETIME
INVESTORS
Elvin F. & Pauline C. Sheehy
Scott S. Slater
Edward H. Telfeyan
Mark K. White
Individuals
$1,000,000+
$35,000+
Dona K. Buckingham
Richard Stack
$500,000+
Francis B. Dillon
Hayne & Susan Moyer
$250,000+
James & Dorothy Adams
John Brownston
Raymond Burr
Thomas J. Feeney
Roberta C. & Carl Kierney
Betty Knudson
Enlow & Melena Ose
Gordon D. Schaber
John Stauffer
Angelo K. Tsakopoulos
$100,000+
Rosalie S. Asher
Irving H. & Katharine O. Biele
Robert F. Butler
Sam Gordon
Kathleen C. Henderson
Pamela M. Henderson
Edward D. & Carol Spurgeon
Genshiro Kawamoto
Daniel D. Richard, Jr.
Robert N. & Doris Stark
$50,000+
Daniel E. Angius
Gilles S. Attia
Thomas R. & Suzanne Bales
Michael D. Belote
Robert A. Buccola
Benjamin D. Frantz
Sherrill Halbert
Timothy E. & Linda Naccarato
Kenneth E. & Linda Olson
Linda K. Olson
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker &
Robert A. Parker
Anthony J. Scalora
Walter & Janet Alexander, Jr.
Lexis M. Allen
David Allen
Fred Anderson
Anonymous
Leighton D. Armstrong
David & Carol Cairns
Glenn A. Fait
Noël M. Ferris
Doris Gross
Ben E. Johnson
Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong
Albert J. & Mae Lee
James R. Lewis
Thomas J. Long
John R. Masterman
Gregory Ogrod
Claude D. & Lynn L. Rohwer
Hardie G. Setzer
R. Parker White
$25,000+
Katharine O. Biele Howze
John Q. Brown
Timothy F. Cahill & Laurel V.
Bell-Cahill
Charles B. & Kathleen T. Coyne
Helen Harney Crittenden
Loren S. Dahl
Sharon G. Fait
Anna Rose Fischer
Morton L. & Marcy Friedman
Emil Gumpert
Michael A. Hackard
William Davis & Joy F. Harn
John W. Hawkins
Daniel L. Hitzke
Anthony M. Kennedy
David J. Kristjanson
Frank LaBella, Jr.
Brian K. & Dorothy S. Landsberg
David P. Mastagni
Eugene W. McGeorge
C. Roman Rector
Marc D. & Mona Roberts
Annie M. Rogaski
Donald R. & Dorothy Steed
Edward J. Tiedemann
Charles W. Trainor
Sunny Von Bulow
Daniel E. Wilcoxen
Alba Witkin
Bernard E. Witkin
$20,000+
Thadd A. Blizzard
Edgar A. Boyles, Jr.
Samuel Chicos
Frank J. Christy, Jr.
K. C. Fan
Richard A. Harris
Mark Hefner
Pauline Johnson
Warren A. Jones
R. Marilyn Lee
James M. Mize
Perry & Sophia Potiris
Robert L. Roush
Elaine & Edward Samans
Tom Sinetos
Philip H. Wile
Alfred E. Yudes, Jr.
$100,000+
The Ahmanson Foundation
Anonymous
C.L.E.P.R.
Margaret Deterding Fund
Downey Brand Attorneys, LLP
Gannett Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. William D. James
Foundation
John A. McCarthy Foundation
Public Legal Service Society
The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento Region Community
Foundation
$50,000+
The Dana Foundation
Dreyer, Babich, Buccola, Callaham
& Wood LLP
Red River Shipping Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Telfeyan Evangelical Fund,
Inc.
E.L. Weigand Foundation
$35,000+
Corporations/Organizations
$1,000,000+
Hugh & Hazel Darling
Foundation
The Max C. Fleischmann
Foundation
$500,000+
Arata Bros. Trust
The Fletcher Jones Foundation
$250,000+
E.L. Cord Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
Sacramento Estate Planning
Council
George H. Sandy Foundation
The Sierra Health Foundation
California NBR Settlement Fund
Carpenters Local Union 586
Hefner, Stark & Marois, LLP
Kaweah Lemon Company
$25,000+
American Association of Retired
Persons
Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann
& Girard
Medpac
Pfund Family Foundation
Sierra Oaks Mortgage
University of Phoenix Foundation
US Bank
$20,000+
Brian L. Hintz Memorial Golf
Tournament
McDonough, Holland & Allen,
PC
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe,
LLP
William C-B Foundation
Spring 2012
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University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
The following lists recognize individuals and organizations that have made
gifts to Pacific McGeorge during the 2011 calendar year.
Dean’s
Council
Counselor ($25,000+)
Kathleen C. Henderson*
Pamela M. Henderson*
Shareholder ($10,000+)
Gilles S. Attia**
John W. Hawkins***
Timothy E. & Linda Naccarato*
Scott S. Slater**
Cabinet Member ($7,500+)
Michael D. Belote*
Mark K. White
Patron ($5,000+)
Daniel E. Angius***
Thomas R. Bales, DDS*
Katharine O. Biele Howze*
Harry K. Grafe*
David P. Mastagni***
Hayne R. & Susan F. Moyer****
Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker**
Robert A. Parker**
Claude D. Rohwer***
Lynn L. Rohwer***
Francis S. L. Wang*
Laura W.Y. Young*
Advocate ($2,500+)
Into B. Champon
Rocky K. Copley
Ross E. de Lipkau
Ellen P. DeMaio
C. Emmett Mahle
Robert E. Murphy
Gregory & Nancy Ogrod**
Robert Sorrentino
C. M. Starr, II
Malcolm S. Swift
Michael Van Zandt*
Thomas J. & Stacy Welsh*
Alfred E. Yudes, Jr.**
Member (various levels)
Inderjit S. Ahluwalia
David Allen****
Lexis M. Allen****
Ronald D. Alling
Laurie M. Aloisio
Diana Alvarado
Mitchell J. Alward
David F. Anderson*
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P a c i f i c L aw
Anonymous
Fareena Siddiqui Azhar
Chad T. Bacchus
Dustin C. Bankston
Christo D. Bardis
William C. & Connie Bartels*
Jeanne W. Benvenuti
Andrew S. Bernick
Timothy Blaine**
Jocelyn N. Blinn
Ronald E. Blubaugh**
Marilee Breternitz
Jennifer L. Bretschneider
Chad C. Brooks
John Q. Brown****
Ileana Butu
Amy E. Byrne
Joy G. Cadiz
Connie M. Callahan*
Clay Calvert*
Scott N. Cameron*
Gerald M. & Deborah B.
Caplan***
Sarah M. Carlson*
Leanne R. Carroll
Zelia M. Cebreros*
Alberta C. Chew*
Louise L. Chiu***
Caitlin Urie Christian
Frank J. Christy, Jr.**
Raymond R. Coletta*
Katherine Larsen Cook
John L. Cosgrove, Sr.*
Charles B. Coyne****
Kathleen T. Coyne****
Andrew M. Cummings
Julie A. Davies &
Thomas A. Busch**
James M. Day, Jr.*
Hector M. de Avila Gonzalez*
Mallory E. DeLauro
Matthew P. De Moura
Nirav K. Desai
Richard K. Dickson, II*
Matthew P. Downs
Cody A. Drabble
Mark S. Drobny**
Steven A. Dugoni
Erin M. Dunston*
Sean A. Dunston*
Jennifer Anderson Eason
Matthew R. Eason
Olena Eckert
Spring 2012
Mona Halprin Ehrenreich
Robert M. Ehrenreich
Mariam A. Elmenshawi
Morrison England, Jr. &
Torie F. England*
Theresa R. Esquerra
Gail R. Fadenrecht*
Glenn A. Fait***
Casandra J. Fernandez
Noël M. Ferris**
Michele M. Finerty*
April Matsinger Flores
L. Kalei Fong*
Kurt A. Franke
Kathleen T. Friedrich**
Faith Geoghegan***
Randolph H. Getz*
Heather E. Gibbons
Lance D. Gibson
Thomas J. Godfrey
Barbara L. Goldberg*
Diane Gould
Gantry C. Griffin
Rebekah L. Grodsky
Evelyn A. Grosenick
Adam K. Guernsey
Mark H. Gunderson
J. Michelle Hahn*
Roger G. Halfhide*
Shanti R. Halter*
Christine Hansen
Stephen R. Hansen
Alex S. Harary
Sheila A. Hard
Judith A. Harper
AnnMichelle G. Hart
Vinton J. Hawkins*
Kevin T. Hennessy*
Scott M. & Andrea Hervey
Julia A. Himovitz
Ashley L. Hines
Emily R. Hirsekorn
Allysia D. Holland
George C. Hollister
Sara F. Hoover
David S. & Barbara Horiuchi
Jane P. Hu
Daniel A. Hunt
Lori A. Hunt
Carol J. Hunter*
Jeffrey G. Huron
Edward Imwinkelried
David R. Isola
*5+ years of membership ****20+ years of membership
Lisa F. Isola
H. Vincent Jacobs*
Allan J. Jacobson
David C. James
Nicole L. Jamison
Douglas L. Johnson
Melissa L. Johnson
Warren A. Jones****
Kimberly L. Kakavas
Kristi R. Kapetan
Debra J. Kazanjian*
Christian M. Keiner**
Charles D. Kelso****
C. Daniel Kim
Daniel A. King
Yonit M. Kovnator
Michelle L. Kral
Mark C. Krausse
David J. Kristjanson****
Marla A. Kurtz
Mary Lou & Wayne Lackey*
David M. Lambertson*
Bryan G. Landgraf
Brian K. Landsberg**
Dorothy S. Landsberg**
David R. Lane**
Nicholas A. LaPlaca*
Mallory Lass
Megan A. Laurie
Lauren D. Layne
Courtney G. Lee
R. Marilyn Lee**
Richard K. Lee
May Ling Leong
Lawrence C. Levine**
Darrel W. & Kathleen Lewis*
James R. Lewis****
Darrin Lim
Barbara Louie-Cardinal
Robert C. MacKichan, Jr.
Richard A. Madsen, Jr.
David A. Magnan
Thomas O. Main**
Catherine A. Mariano
Stephanie Maroun
Lilka B. Martinez
John R. Masterman**
Sandra G. Mathews
Charlene Stratton Matteson*
Evelyn M. Matteucci*
Charlene A. Mattison*
Stephen C. McCaffrey**
Rysheda M. McClendon
**10+ years of membership
***15+ years of membership
Sandra A. McCune
Douglas W. McGeorge**
Patricia A. McVerry**
Andrew O. Meditz
Lauren E. Mehler-Clark
Jennifer Lee L. Mendoza
Brian J. Miller
Mikyla J. Miller
Mike S. Mireles, Jr.*
Katherine A. Mitchell
James M. & Rita Mize****
Christopher J. Moenig
Megan M. Moore
Preston L. Morgan*
Barbara D. Morris*
Fred K. Morrison*
Jared S. Mueller
Michael A. Murphy
Robert D. Murta
Marie A. Nakamura*
Mark A. Narveson
Jeffrey B. Nelson
Anne N. Nguyen
Sara L. Nighbor
Katie V. Nystrom
John P. Oglesby
Katherine A. Oldham
Matthew J. Olson
Rosalind D. Olson
Rizaldy T. Ortiz
Tyson Michael Page
Angie H. Palmerin
Kelsey E. Papst
Scott H. Park*
Paul D. Paton
Jeffrey N. Paule*
Diana L. Perez
Thomas P. & Shevi Peters
Zachary B. Powell
Jennifer M. Protas
J. Brian Putler**
Bryan R. Pyle
Trevor M. Quirk
Wayne C. Raabe
William E. Rainey, III
Katherine I. Rankin
Mark C. Raskoff
Catherine Gunderson Reichenberg
Andrew B. Reisinger
Ronald B. Robie*
Christopher L. Russell*
Lisa V. Ryan
David Salem
Tammy L. Samsel
Brian J. Schall
Diana L. Schall
Arthur G. Scotland*
Colin Scott
Glendalee Scully*
Jed Scully*
Damian M. Sebold
Jeff Sevey
*5+ years of membership ****20+ years of membership
Marisa E. Shea
Cheryl M. Shitabata
Michael I. Sidley*
Craig A. Simmermon
John C. Sims**
Anthony M. & Patricia Skrocki**
Evan D. Smiley
Paul C. Smith
R. Michael Smith*
Tanya T. Smith
David E. Snapp
John G. Sprankling**
William J. Staack
Ashley A. Standfield
Margaret C. Stark-Roberts*
Donald R. & Dorothy Steed****
Kara B. Stein-Conaway
Colette Stone Carlson
Christopher D. Sullivan
Megan R. Sullivan
Mary L. Swanson
Joseph E. & Susan Taylor**
Rachel A. Taylor
Edward H. Telfeyan****
Barbara Thomas**
Conness A. Thompson
Joseph B. Thuesen
Edward J. Tiedemann****
Serge Tomassian
Ann L. Trowbridge*
Colleen Van Egmond-Avila*
Matthew C. Vance
Bindhu J. Varghese
Michael Vitiello**
Jessica A. Warne
Sharon J. Waters*
Ethan M. Weisinger
Carrie G. Weitinger
R. Parker White***
Lisa E. Wilkins
Jaime M. Williams
Martin K. Williams
David A. Wolf
William P. Yee**
Julie Young*
Weiquan Yu
Etan Zaitsu
Jennet Zapata
Allan S. Zaremberg*
Jacqueline C. Zee
Victor F. Zonana*
CORPORATE
COUNCIL
Businesses, Corporations,
Law Firms & Organizations
Abbott & Kindermann, LLP
Abi-Nader & Walker
Aerojet General
AICCU
Law Office of Hugh O. Allen
**10+ years of membership
American Board of Trial
Advocates SAC Valley Chapter
American Society of
Comparative Law, Inc.
The American Society of
International Law
Anderson & Johnson LLP
Andrada & Associates
Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff
Law Offices of George Arack, Jr.
Law Offices of Michael N.
Balikian
Barnaby & Barnaby
Baydaline & Jacobson, LLP
Becker, Runkle, Laurie,
Mahoney & Day
Roger V. Bennett, Attorney at Law
Law Offices of William Bernard
Berryessa Gap Vineyards
Law Office of Fay Blix
CPI
California Beer and Beverage
Distributors
California Chamber of Commerce
Scott N. Cameron, Attorney
at Law
Capitol City Trial Lawyers
Association
Claremont Law Group, Inc.
Law Office of Brent P. Collinson
Law Office of Rocky K. Copley
Criminal Justice Legal Foundation
De Avila Law Firm
Law Offices of Jill A. Demmel
Law Office of Linda Deos
Downey Brand Attorneys, LLP
Doyle & Schallert, Attorneys
at Law
Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood LLP
Dunbar & Associates
Dyer, Lawrence, Penrose, Flaherty
& Donaldson Law Firm
Edison International
Engel Law Group
Evans, Wieckowski & Ward, LLP
The Feldhake Law Firm
Law Office of Noël M. Ferris
Frank Law Firm
Law Office of Frieze & Paul
Genentech, Inc.
Gieleghem Law Office
Law Offices of S.M. Gitlen
Law Office of Alex Gortinsky
Graves Law Offices
Green & Hall
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Gunderson Law Firm
Linda Gunderson Attorney at Law
Law Office of Edward J. Hanigan
Hanna Brophy MacLean
McAleer & Jensen LLP
M. Lynn Hansen Attorney at Law
***15+ years of membership
J.R. Hastings Law Corporation
Heintz & Robyn, LLP
Law Offices of Robert C. Hess,
LLC
Law Office of Higgins & Higgins
Huron Law Group Inc.
Isola Law Group,
LLP Attorneys at Law
The Law Office of Allan J. Jacobson
Richard S. Jeweler,
Attorney at Law
Jimenez Law Office
Meissner, Joseph, & Palley, Inc.
Marshall F. Johnson, Inc.
Kaiser Permanente
Law Office of Fred W. Kaiser
Kaplan Higher Education
Kershaw, Cutter & Ratinoff, LLP
Law Offices of Gary A. Kessler
Kingsley, Bogard, & Thompson,
LLP
KJK Law
Paul C. Kozlow, Attorney at Law
Kring & Chung, LLP
Kronick, Moskovitz,
Tiedemann & Girard
Kruse Law Corporation
Jerry M. Kuperstein, Attorney
at Law
LaFollette, Johnson, DeHaas,
Fesler & Ames
Mark H. LaRocque,
Attorney at Law
Law Office of Andre J. LeLievre
Lexis Nexis Law School
Publishing Team
Liberty Mutual
Law Offices of Gary L. Link
Law Offices of Bobby P. Luna
MacKenzie & Brody
C. Emmett Mahle, Attorney at
Law
William A. Malloy, Attorney
at Law
Mariposa County District
Attorney’s Office
Law Offices of Martinez &
Martinez
Martinez Law Firm
Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller,
Johnsen & Uhrhammer
Matheny, Sears, Linkert, &
Jaime, LLP
The Office of Gustavo Matheus
Esq, LLC
Law Office of Euell E. McKown, III
Mequity Real Estate, Inc.
Meridian Pacific, Inc.
Law Office of Mark E. Merin
Law Office of William F. Michaud
Mikacich Law Office
Robert B. Mikel Law Offices
Spring 2012
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DONORS—ALUMNI & FRIENDS, McGeorge Circle:
Ronald E. Moe, Attorney at Law
Molina Healthcare
Montague & Viglione
Muro & Lampe, Inc.
Law Office of Pamela A. Nelson
Ray Newman, Attorney at Law
Orrick, Herrington &
Sutcliffe, LLP
Oxford University Press, Inc.
Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation
Palmer, Kazanjian, Wohl &
Hodson, LLP
Gary G. Perry, Attorney at Law
Poindexter & Doutre, Inc.
Porter Scott
Poswall, White & Cutter
Powers & Miller
James M. Ratzer, A Professional
Corporation
Real Estate Law Group
Law Office of William C. Rolfe
Law Office of Eric D. Rouen
Christopher P. Rugaard,
Attorney at Law
Sacramento Estate Planning
Council
Sacramento Traffic Citation Clinic
Woodruff, O’Hair, Posner
& Salinger, Inc., A Law
Corporation
Dwight M. Samuel, A
Professional Corporation
Sevey, Donahue & Talcott
Law Office of Jerry E. Shapiro
Sheridan Law Corporation
Janet G. Sherwood, Attorney
at Law
Sidley Law Group
Smith Law Firm
Snodgrass and Micheli LLC
State Farm Companies Foundation
Stone & Associates
Sutter Health
The T. Rowe Price Program for
Charitable Giving
Carlsen Thomas, LLP
Thomson Reuters
Thurbon & McHany, LP
Tomassian, Throckmorton &
Inouye, LLP
Trimble, Sherinian, & Varanini
J Scott Turnbull, Inc.
Twohy, Darneille, & Frye
Ubaldi & McPherson
Union Pacific Fund for Effective
Government
United Way of Snohomish County
J. T. Walker Law
Law Office of Alice H. Ware
Weintraub Genshlea Chediak
Law Corp.
Whittall-Scherfee Law Office
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The Law Office of Fred G.
Wiesner
Wilke Fleury Hoffelt Gould
Birney LLP
Williams + Paddon Architects +
Planners, Inc.
Zach Stahlecker
Robert G. Thurlow
James R. Wakefield
Michael C. Weed
R. Hillary Willett
Alba Witkin
Foundations
Amicus Lex Circle $250+
Bardis Foundation
Consumer Attorneys Public
Interest Foundation
Hugh & Hazel Darling
Foundation
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund
Margaret Deterding Fund
The Morrison & Foerster
Foundation
Pfund Family Foundation
Sacramento Region Community
Foundation
The Sierra Health Foundation
The Telfeyan Evangelical
Fund, Inc.
Wang Family Foundation
Gordon P. Adelman
Seward L. Andrew
Anonymous
Richard N. Asfar
Paul A. Bacigalupo
John C. Barnes
David J. Beauvais
Brendan J. Begley
Jay L. Berger
Margaret M. Broussard
Jarrod J. Burch
Noran J. Camp
Lisa M. Cho
Kaushik & Asha Desai
Thalia Dorwick
Leslie A. Dunsworth
Stephen J. Egan
Steven J. Fields
Kelli L. Fuller
Manuel Garcia, Jr.
Daniel Gershburg
Randal W. Graves
Fred J. Hiestand
Andrea L. Hoch
Jennifer B. Kaufman
Mark W. Knobel
Carolyn M. Kramer
Rob Kramer
Mark H. LaRocque
Anthony L. Leggio
Dayna Petersen Leggio
Melinda Levy-Storms
David Ingalls & Jan Lippen-Holtz
Donna W. Low
Robert P. McElhany
Patrick J. McGrath
James R. McGuire
Mary C. McGuire
Crystal H. McMurtry
Daria F. Milton
Thomas M. Morlan
Michael B. Mount
Jon A. Nakanishi
Andrew R. Nelson
Benjamin J. Packard
Jane M. Picker
Sidney I. Picker
Matthew J. Rexroad
Darrell S. Richey
Curtis D. Rindlisbacher
Stephen A. Saitas
Douglas A. Sears
William & Claudia Shelly, Jr.
Therese Stewart &
Carole Scagnetti
DONORS—
ALUMNI &
FRIENDS
Barristers Circle $500+
William G. Anderson, Jr.
Clifford P. Berg
Greg M. Block
Brian H. Charter
C. Brooks Cutter
Mariel E. Dennis
Larry K. Dunn
Michael R. Faber
Anne C. Fadenrecht
Victor J. Gallo
Justin M. Gingery
Walter D. Herbert
Thomas W. Hiltachk
Christian P. Kerry
William Kershaw
Marc B. Koenigsberg
Daniel V. Kohls
Stephen A. Koonce
Daniel A. Levin
Bryan A. Lowe
Catherine C. MacMillan
Gustavo E. Matheus
Evangelin M. Miller
Jennifer Miller Moss
John B. Mulligan
Karl F. Munz
Ovidio Oviedo
Jere M. Owen
William W. Oxley
Nancy A. Peverini
Amy D. Ronner
Morgan C. Smith
Spring 2012
Adam L. Streltzer
Brian M. Taylor
John H. Tiernan
Mary E. Tryon
Alan & Jeanne Vanderhoff
Sim von Kalinowski
Marlin D. Wall
Stephen A. Weiner
David L. Winter
Jarrod L. P. Wong
Douglas L. Youmans
McGeorge Circle $100+
Wendy K. Abkin
Bashar Ahmad
Anonymous
Thomas W. Anthony, Jr.
Philip Bach
Bernhard D. Baltaxe
Katharine Baragona
Nathan R. Barankin
Norman P. Barth
David C. Becker
Raneene Belisle
Lawrence A. Bennett
Janene D. Beronio
Hubert O. Bower, Jr.
Hugh E. Brereton
Daniel J. Breuer
Cary A. Bricker
Cynda L. Bunton
Bruce W. Busch
Margaret Carew Toledo
Susan B. Carlsen
John P. Carpenter
Donald Carper
Patricia A. Carper
Jeffrey B. Carra
Linda E. Carter
George D. Cato
Ann Bailey & Boren Chertkov
David W. Clifton
Robert F. Cochran
Michael T. Colatrella, Jr.
Dawn H. Cole
Ronald W. Collett
Brent P. Collinson
William S. Colwell
Miles Cooley
Thomas A. Coyne
Steven R. Cranfill
Barry A. Currier
Omar M. Dajani
Maria V. Daquipa
John H. & Marilyn S. Darlington
Harry M. Dasinger
James F. Dawson
John L. Defenbaugh
John Del Pozzo, Jr.
Paul M. DeMersseman
John A. DeRonde, Jr.
John C. & Lucia Diamond
Lauren R. Diefenbach
James E. Dighero
Michaelle DiGrazia-Rafferty
Timothy J. Donovan
David D. Doyle
Mark D. Dunlop
Angelo A. DuPlantier, III
Lawrence J. & Ramona J. Duran
Anne E. Elbrecht
Christopher H. Engh
Howard E. Engle, Jr.
Janice M. Fallman
Steven Faringhy
Andrea Charlton Feeney
Thomas J. Feeney
Thomas E. Flynn
Neil M. E. Forester
Timothy M. Frawley
Donna Freeman & Gene Erbin
Christine Morse Galves
Fred T. Galves
Emily S. Garcia Uhrig
Brian W. Garrett
William E. Gasbarro
Franklin A. Gevurtz
Cindy D. Goldberg
Michael & Joyce Goodman
Julie L. Greenlaw-O’Toole
Scott Gregerson
Gilbert A. & Susan Grodsky
Robert M. Guiol
Linda Gunderson
Ronald I. Harrison
Katherine J. Hart
Patricia E. Hart
Bryan C. Hartnell
Robert A. Hawley
Jennifer A. Hemmer
Arnulfo Hernandez, Jr.
John A. Herring
Robert C. Hess
Christina A. Hickey
Maureen P. Higgins
Howard K. Hirahara
Shelby L. Hladon
Philip R. Homsey, II
Harry E. Hudson, Jr.
Kirby W. Hughes
Frank Y. Jackson
Leslie Gielow Jacobs
John W. Jay
Janice C. Johnson
Mark K. Johnson
Marshall F. Johnson
Sarah B. Johnson
Carolee D. Johnstone
Catherine H. Jones
James F. Kane
Alice Kessler
Gary A. Kessler
Bruce A. Kilday
Rodney Kim
Jeffrey King
Pamela P. King
Michael F. Klein
Clemence L. &
Gregory M. Kucera
Jeannene L. Lafarga
Mitchell Landsberg &
Mary MacVean
Thomas J. Leach
Anna E. Leach-Proffer
Thomas C. Lee
Arthur S. Leonard
Andrew S. Levey
Elan S. Levey
Joel J. Loquvam
Ronald & Marilyn Louie
James W. Luther
Brian W. Maas
Christine Garske Machado
Joe J. Machado
Yvonne A. Manford
Dennis H. Mangers
Jeff B. Marschner
Richard A. Matasar
Anthony K. McClaren
J. Douglas McGilvray
Polly W. McGilvray
John P. McKelvey
Euell E. McKown, III
Camela J. McLaren
Suzanne L. McNealy
Michelle S. Michaels
David R. Miller
Julie A. Milligan
Alice E. Mimms
Jessie Morris, Jr.
Mary-Beth Moylan
Kimberly J. Mueller
Kathleen M. Mullarkey
Gary L. Nemetz
Timothy A. Nettesheim
John G. Neville
Ralph R. Nevis, III
John S. Nitao
Shannon D. Nordstrom
Mark A. O’Connor
David C. O’Mara
Allen C. Ostergar, III
Thomas P. O’Toole
Analea J. Patterson
Svetlana V. Petroff
Anthony I. Picciano
Constance L. Picciano
Peter H. Pickslay
Joseph S. Pinkas
Jinnifer D. Pitcher
Robert A. Plagmann
Patricia Ellis Poilé
Jeffrey W. Proske
John C. Provost
Donald C. Pullen
James M. Ratzer
Bettina C. Redway
Mark S. Roelke
Katherine A. Rojo del Busto
Mario Rojo del Busto
John W. Rosskopf
Ronald W. Ruth
Steven C. Sabbadini
David B. Sacks
Dwight M. Samuel
Kevin Sandford
Leslie Sandford & Francisco Lobaco
Nina Santo
Roger J. Sato
Richard G. Schickele
John F. Scoles
Margaret S. Shedd
Janet G. Sherwood
Robin L. Singer
James C. Smith
Jennifer Keller Smith
Roger A. Smith
Ronald S. Smith
Rita-Jane M. Spillane
James C. Spurling
Jill R. Stecher
Kathryn Schmalz Stengell
Val G. Stephens
Robin L. Stewart
Dawn C. Houston Sweatt
Roger Teeslink
Ronald J. &
Stephanie C. Thomas, Jr.
Vida L. Thomas
D. Ron Thompson
William J. Turpit
Cynda R. Unger
Emily Vasquez
Paula Tripp Victor
Plauche F. Villere, Jr.
Charles Volpe
Christopher W. Waddell
Clarence Walden
Kelly J. Walls
Frederick N. Wapner
Peter A. Warmerdam
Giles & Leah Wayland-Smith
Kerrie D. Webb
Robert J. Weiss
Daniel A. Weitzman
Richard M. Wiesner
Noreen Santella Williams
Terrence D. Williams
F. L. Willis, Jr.
Sarah Beth Wilner
Neal R. Winchell
Jimmie Wing
Gerrit W. Wood
David E. Wooten
Rebecca Durst Wooten
Phillip D. Wyman
Linda Yackzan
Cameron T. Yee
Matthew R. Young
Donations
Francis J. Abi-Nader
Bernadine Schaber Adams
Robert B. Adams
Virginia D. Adams
Kevin J. Adamson
Raquel E. Aldana
Theodore F. Aldrich
April C. Alexander
Andrew L. Allen
Gretchen E. Allen
Hugh O. Allen
John B. Allen, Jr.
Laura A. Allen
Carlos M. Ambriz
Anonymous
James D. Anthony
Maureen Meehan Aplin
Thomas P. Aplin
George Arack, Jr.
Brenna M. Arceo
Thomas S. Archer
C. Lee Armstrong, III
Robert W. Armstrong
Leslie A. Arnal
Jerry P. Arnold
Kim Rowbatham Arnold
Robert A. Aronson
David A. Austin
Donald J. Ayoob
Isaac T. Bacher
J. Stanton Bair, III
Bruce S. Baker
Michael N. Balikian
Marie C. Ballon
Diane L. N. Balma
William E. Barnaby
Jennifer D. Barrera
Amanda J. Barrett
Charles R. Barrett, Jr.
David H. Bartholomew
Michael Bartok
Bruce E. Bartram
David Bass
Randi L. Fujimoto Baugerter
Rod A. Baydaline
Jon P. Beaver
Robert H. Beaver
Heather M. Beckman
Katie E. Belisle
Laurel V. Bell-Cahill
George N. Benesch
Monica A. Bennett
Robert F. Bennett, Jr.
Roger V. Bennett
Wesley Benoit
Anna Maria Bereczky-Anderson
Patrick R. Bergin
William E. Bernard
Deborah A. Berry
Kenneth Berry, III
Katherine A. Beshak
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DONORS—ALUMNI & FRIENDS, Donations:
Claude L. Biddle, Jr.
D. James Bjorkman
Elizabeth A. Blair
Carleton E. Blankenburg
Andrea Bloodworth
Eric M. Bonzell
Stephen M. Boreman
Carlyle Brakensiek
Anne M. Brandt
Robert W. Brannen
Gary G. Branton
Diane L. Bras
Amy H. Breitbart
Eric R. Brenneman
Christopher L. Brooks
Leonard L. Broseker
Carrie L. Brown
Hazen D. Brown
Louis A. Brown, Jr.
Sue Brown
Rosemary A. Bruckner
Julia D. Brynelson
Anna K. L. Buck
Millie Bun
Karen A. Burt
Timothy Busler
Benjamin Cadranel
Timothy F. Cahill
Jacqueline A. Campbell
Linda S. Campbell
Danniel P. Cano
Eric R. Carleson
Christy M. Carlisle
Kristopher L. Carpenter
Jamie Carrieri
Jessica T. Carriger
Jeffrey A. Carriker
Gay L. Carroll
Joseph W. Carroll
Mark A. Carroll
Trevor Carson
Greg A. Casagrande
Paul Cass
P. Gary Cassel
Brian J. Cassidy
Tami V. Castillo
Kristen H. Cerf
Christopher Chamness
Melvin D. Chan
Frederic R. Chan-You
Gregory M. Chappel
Lawrence H. Chladek
Rebecca M. H. Choi
Nilesh Choudhary
Matthew F. Christy
Catherine R. Chyi
Bruce D. Clark
Walter M. Clark
Paul C. Clauss
Stephanie A. Clauss
Ed M. Cleofe
Rex A. Cluff
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Naomi E. Coady
Nicolaie Cocis
Diane E. Coderniz
J. Ryan Cogdill
Ross D. Colburn
Jessica Cole
Elizabeth K. Colegrove
Thomas A. Collins
Diana N. Connaughton
Kevin D. Cooksy
Sharon V. Cooper
Christopher L. Cordes
Armando Coro
Tiffany D. Corona
Amy-Marie Costa
Barry J. Cox
Carmen-Nicole Cox
Robert R. Coyle
Carissa K. Crail
Scott Craven
Lucille Crespo
Peter A. Cress
Sharon Cronin
Marlene Cullen
Michael T. & Catherine Curran
Christine J. Cusick
David P. Cusick
Daniel P. Custodio
Jody A. Dahms
Timothy P. Dailey
Matthew W. Darby
Jenny L. Darlington-Person
Lon D. Davenport
Benjamin A. Davies
Alison Foster Davis
Daniel M. Davis
James M. Davis
Sarah L. Davis
Valerie M. Dawson
Joseph J. De Hope, Jr.
William A. Dean
Gary S. Decker
Joanne R. Delong
Jill A. Demmel
Dori L. Dennis-Moorehead
Linda D. Deos
John W. D’Ewart
Sheila Slaughter Dey
Geraldine E. Diaz
Barbara Dieter
Bradford J. Dozier
Ruanne Dozier
Joshua Dressler
Carol W. Dreyer
Daniel H. Drummy
Kevin T. Dunbar
Katherine R. Ebert
Christine A. Elliott
Christine McLaughlin
Emanuelson
Mark C. Emanuelson
Stephen T. Emery
Spring 2012
Julius M. Engel
Leslie K. English
Corrine L. Erickson
Raul A. Escatel-Jara
Brandon A. Esraelian
Tyler H. Fair
Hanni M. Fakhoury
Kali Kuehn Fama
Tommy D. Fama
Cynthia J. Fee
Steven H. Felderstein
Eric G. Fernandez
David Fillerup
Kathleen E. Finnerty
James Fischer
Danielle A. Flores
Pedro Flores
Kathleen Foley
Brooke A. Fong
Thomas E. Foran
Carol L. Foster
Gregory W. Foster
Kristian E. Foy
Thomas M. Frame
William S. Frank
Gretchen Franz
Dennis R. Freidig
Julia Capozzi Fuentes
Ariel N. Gabbert
Mary C. Garcia
Jamie L. Garrett
Helen M. Geoffroy
J. Neil Gieleghem
Roger G. Gilbert
Suzanne B. Giorgi
Scott M. Gitlen
Luisa Giuffrida Jaffe
Alex T. Goetze
Robert H. Gold
Jerrold Goldberg
Daniel P. Golla
Jennifer V. Gore
Alex Gortinsky
Craig T. Gottwals
Pamela D. Gourley
Justin M. Graham
Kimberly Sullivan Gray
Robert Greeley
Raymond D. Green
Carly A. Gregory
Paul L. Grimm
Martin Grossman
Mira C. Guertin
Aaron M. Gumbinger
Leanne Gurney
James H. Haag
Ray D. Hacke
David E. Haddock
Brandon T. Hale
Sylvia B. Halkousis Coyle
Allyson C. Hall
Christine R. Hall
Richard H. Halladay
Diana D. Halpenny
Lon D. Hamburger
Joy Y. Han
Alexander Handy
Edward J. Hanigan
Robert K. Hanna
Barbara D. Hannon
Ann M. Hansen
John D. Hansen
Kyle R. Hansen
Craig L. Harasek
William Hardy
Jace E. Hargis
Jenni L. Harmon
Lovelle R. Harris
Robert I. Harris
Kellie Harrington Hartman
Sarah R. Hartmann
Allison L. Harvey
James R. Hastings
Amy E. Haupert
Edgar W. Hawkyard
Susan C. Hayden
Jonathan R. Hayes
Frances A. Headley
Michael F. Hearn
Charles M. Heintz
Carol Helding
Max D. Hellman
David K. Henderson
George M. Hendrickson
David S. Henshaw
Seng Her
Jeffery C. Hesseltine
Karin S. Hesseltine
Valerie J. Higgins
Jennifer L. Hippo
Judy F. Hirano
Stephanie M. Hodson
Paul Hoff
Gary C. Hoffman
Jason L. Hoffman
John R. Holstedt
Patrick D. Holstine
Stephen E. Horan
Victoria G. Horton
Susan M. Hough
William Hovsepyan
Glenn A. Howard
Christine E. Howson
Carolle R. Hudson
Douglas W. Hudson
John A. Hudson
Bronwyn E. Hughes
Rodney G. Hughes
A. Eugene Huguenin, Jr.
David W. Humphreys
Hugh T. Huynh
Vivien C. Ide
Thomas P. Infusino
Stephen R. Isbell
J. Scott Isherwood
Valli Israels
Robert T. Iwama
Esther R. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson
Kurtiss A. Jacobs
Wendy S. Jaffe-Pressman
David W. Janes
Judy C. Janes
Barry G. Jardini
John P. Jarrett
Mark R. Jensen
Anand B. Jesrani
Richard S. Jeweler
Jason L. Jimenez
Marco A. Jimenez
David B. Johnson
Dustin D. Johnson
Kenneth R. Johnson
Lester Johnson
Summer A. Johnson
Tiffany M. Johnson
Tom R. Johnson
Jeffrey G. Jones
Nathan O. Jones
Pamela S. Jones
William B. Jones
Hannah I. Jorgensen
Todd A. Juchau
Carin C. Kaeser
Christopher J. Kaeser
Fred W. Kaiser
Warren E. Kamm
Allen M. Kato
Sukhdeep Kaur
Joel E. Kautz
Scott D. Keefe
Maneet K. Keith
Janice N. Keller
Crystal L. Kelly
Michael R. Kelly
Richard D. Kelly
Amy L. Kendrick
Mary L. Kennedy
Alicia R. Kennon
Rodney J. Key
Robert T. Keyser
Carolee Kilduff
Douglas M. Kilduff
Deborah G. Kiley
Derek J. King
Robert E. Kingsley
Lianold L. Kinnett
Amanda L. Kirchner
A. Jennifer Kishimizu
Joseph F. Klatt
Alexis M. Klein
Mark S. Klitgaard
Teresa L. Kludt
David A. Knoll
Donna C. Kodama
Katie Konz
Terry L. Korte
Stephen L. Kowalewski
Paul C. Kozlow
Douglas H. Kraft
William E. Kruse
Andreanna I. Ksidakis
S. Devi Kumar
Kerry J. Kunz
Jerry Kuperstein
Richard Kwun
Jane L. Lamborn
Marsha M. Lang
Jacquelyn E. Larson
Casey J. LeClair
Andre J. Le Lievre
Jessica R. Lee
Monica Lee
Ralph C. Lee
Ryan A. Leggio
Nicole A. Legrottaglie
Jason R. Lehfeldt
Linda M. Lemiesz
Gerald Lenahan
Sheri L. Leonard
Gina L. Lera
Alec Levine
David I. Levine
Benjamin J. Levy
Thomas R. Lewandowski
Gregg R. Lien
Thomas R. Lincoln
Kristina B. Lindquist
Travis J. Lindsey
Ted Lindstrom
Gary L. Link
Miki R. Liviakis
Anna L. Locke
Nancy Lockshin
Michael Loeffler
James P. Logan, Jr.
Patricia C. Lonzo
Pamela C. Loomis
Katherine E. Lothrop
Amanda Roberts Lowe
Lawrence L. Lozensky
Kent M. Luckey
Bobby P. Luna
John S. Lupo
Dorothy Osuna Luther
James J. Lynch, Jr.
Justin G. Lynch
Robert A. Lytle
Hether C. Macfarlane
Stephen M. Macfarlane
Roderick L. MacKenzie
Peter L. Madson
Donald J. Maher
William R. Majernik
Scott P. Mallery
William A. Malloy
Scott Malm
P. John Mancuso
Carl H. Mandabach
Michelle J. Mandel
Edward Manning
Christine Manolakas
Caitlin Ross Manoogian
Jason A. Manoogian
Ann Marie Marciarille
Efren De Los Reyes Marinas
Jennifer E. Marsh
Darrell C. Martin
Gerald P. Martin
Daniel V. Martinez
Eric T. Martinez
Kelley Martinez
Marvin C. Marx
Paul W. Mason
Anne-Leith F.W. Matlock
K. Brian Matlock
Mark S. Mayfield
James D. Maynard
Whitney K. McBride
Michael N. McCallum
Corey D. McCarthy
W. Daniel McCord
Melisa A. McCoy-Evans
Michael B. McDonald
Jean C. McEvoy
Steven J. McEvoy
Steven A. McGee
John P. McGill
W. Kearse McGill
Michael H. McGowan
John R. McIntyre &
Francesca J. Negri
Brady D. McLeod
Melissa A. McMillon
Nikole E. McQuillan
Joan M. Medeiros
Peter F. Melnicoe
Kyle W. Memmott
Andrew S. Mendlin
Roberta E. Mendonca
Steven A. Merksamer
Erin K. Merrill
Daniel S. Meyer
Julie A. Michaelis
Susan Wigh Michaud
Christopher M. Micheli
James L. Mikacich
Robert B. Mikel
Brian B. Miles
Benjamin E. Miller
R. James Miller
Lane R. Mills
Victoria K. Min
Monica M. Miner
Craig B. Mingay
Eugenie D. Mitchell
Jeffrey A. Mitchell
Karoleen N. Mito
Ronald E. Moe
Janine Molgaard
Jack T. Molodanof
Jill Wright Molohan
John D. Montague
Vanessa R. Montague
William V. W. Moore
Fredericka Moore McGee
Donna M. Morgan
Jeffrey D. Morgan
D. Robert Morris
Kevin R. Morrison
Howard E. Moseley
Lianne Silver Moseley
Robert E. Moss, Jr.
Matthew J. Moye
William A. Muha
M. Greg Mullanax
Daniel F. Mullin
Steven D. Muni
Roman Munoz
Gene G. Muramoto
Carol N. Murphy
Mary T. Muse
Debra L. Myers
Beverly J. Myers-Budge
Andrew S. Nahl
Jeremy B. Namm
Jill Brockman Nathan
Daniel G. Nauman
Mark T. Neel
Thomas A. Neil
Daniel T. Nelson
David S. Nelson
Michael R. Nelson
Pamela A. Nelson
Marcell P. Neri
James L. Nerli, Jr.
Abelardo A. Nevarez
Ray Newman
Phyllis Newton
Timothy R. Nibler
Brian R. Niegemann
Carolynne J. Nocella
Reuben L. Nocos
Nancy A. Nolen
Rhudolph Nolen, Jr.
Stephen W. North
Robert E. Oakes
Barbara L. Ochsner
Brian J. O’Connor
Manolo H. Olaso
Timothy O’Laughlin
Stephen E. Oliva
Chet H. Olsen
John R. Olson
Sally Flory-O’Neil & Paul O’Neil
Michaela O’Neill
Araceli Ontiveros-Venegas
Martha Evensen Opich
Richard Opich
Christopher J. Ore
Dennis M. O’Reilly
Teri A. Ostling
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DONORS—ALUMNI & FRIENDS, Donations:
Mitchell S. Ostwald
Masako A. Ota
James S. Overman
Martin D. Owens, Jr.
Jaime D. Pacheco
Joe Paglieroni
Anil Pai
Grace L. Pak
Rachel V. Palmer
William W. Palmer
Young L. Park
Linda R. Parke
William P. Parquette
Stephan L. Parshall
Ruben M. Pastrana
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Robert E. Oakes
Barbara L. Ochsner
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Paul Cass
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Jeff Sevey
Melody A. Trujillo
Karen Y. Uchiyama
Plauche F. Villere, Jr.
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Ronn R. Uchihara
Hubert O. Bower, Jr.
Margaret Carew Toledo
Kevin D. Cooksy
Linda D. Deos
Thomas E. Foran
Scott M. Hervey
Jason L. Hoffman
J. Scott Isherwood
Carin C. Kaeser
Christopher J. Kaeser
Mark C. Krausse
Mark H. LaRocque
Gina L. Lera
Andrew S. Mendlin
Jon A. Nakanishi
Dean Pollack
William E. Rainey, III
Steven M. Rotblatt
Stephen B. Rye
Katherine C. Sabo
Tammy L. Samsel
Carole A. Smith
Jason J. Sommer
Robert C. Strambi
Linda L. Unruh
Kimberly A. White
Robert H. Beaver
Amy-Marie Costa
Christine Morse Galves
Katherine J. Hart
Robert C. Hess
Robert T. Iwama
Melinda Levy-Storms
Darrell C. Martin
John P. McGill
Brian B. Miles
Manolo H. Olaso
Robert S. Phillips
Brian G. Popkes
Matthew J. Rexroad
Laura J. Roopenian
Todd D. Ruggiero
Jeffrey C. Schneider
Kathryn Schmalz Stengell
Christopher D. Sullivan
Wendy A. Taylor
R. Todd Vlaanderen
Kimberly D. Willy
Audrey B. Winters
Gary S. Winuk
Linda Yackzan
class of 1994
Kevin J. Adamson
Bernhard D. Baltaxe
Linda S. Campbell
Jeffrey B. Carra
Lisa M. Cho
Bruce D. Clark
Maria V. Daquipa
Lauren R. Diefenbach
Thomas J. Godfrey
Allyson C. Hall
Amy E. Haupert
Gretchen E. Allen
Christopher L. Brooks
Melvin D. Chan
Paul C. Clauss
Stephanie A. Clauss
Dori L. Dennis-Moorehead
Leslie A. Dunsworth
Kristian E. Foy
Kyle R. Hansen
Valli Israels
Spring 2012
class of 1996
class of 1997
class of 1998
Randi L. Fujimoto Baugerter
Robert W. Brannen
Joseph W. Carroll
Brian J. Cassidy
Nicolaie Cocis
Benjamin A. Davies
James M. Davis
Sean A. Dunston
Alex T. Goetze
David E. Haddock
Donald J. Maher
Caitlin Ross Manoogian
Jason A. Manoogian
Mike S. Mireles, Jr.
Joe Paglieroni
Suzanne J. Pyne
Nancy Armentrout Reagan
Lana M. Shearer
Mark D. Smith
Sarah B. Telschow
Michael C. Weed
class of 1999
Zaida Zuraek Bridgford
Gay L. Carroll
Erin M. Dunston
Justin M. Gingery
Alex Gortinsky
Jason L. Jimenez
Deborah G. Kiley
Marc B. Koenigsberg
Jason R. Lehfeldt
Michelle J. Mandel
Brady D. McLeod
Lane R. Mills
William V. W. Moore
Donna M. Morgan
Roman Munoz
Ralph R. Nevis, III
Thomas P. O’Toole
Shalend S. Singh
Melanie Snider
Richard M. Wiesner
class of 2000
Carlos M. Ambriz
Jenny L. Darlington-Person
Daniel P. Golla
Craig T. Gottwals
Kellie Harrington Hartman
Christina A. Hickey
Douglas L. Johnson
Catherine H. Jones
Sukhdeep Kaur
Christian P. Kerry
Katherine E. Lothrop
Melissa A. McMillon
Monica M. Miner
James S. Overman
Ovidio Oviedo
Terri L. Popkes
Kimberley H. G. Sakai
Nina Santo
Todd A. Schaffer
Erica L. Seeman
Jennifer Keller Smith
Stephen A. Smith
Tony K. Smith
Michael A. Sollazzo
Mark R. Stewart
Debra H. Stoll
Kerrie D. Webb
class of 2001
John C. Barnes
Amy H. Breitbart
Louis A. Brown, Jr.
Nilesh Choudhary
Geraldine E. Diaz
Mark C. Emanuelson
Mary C. Garcia
Pamela D. Gourley
Shanti R. Halter
Carolee D. Johnstone
Casey J. LeClair
Victoria K. Min
Marie A. Nakamura
Andrew R. Nelson
James L. Nerli, Jr
Shannon D. Nordstrom
Kristi J. Powers
Michael J. Richardson
Lisa V. Ryan
Joseph M. Spector
Melinda J. Steuer
Sandra N. Tang
Brian M. Taylor
Blake P. Temple
Marc J. Victor
class of 2002
Margaret M. Broussard
Christine McLaughlin
Emanuelson
Raul A. Escatel-Jara
Jennifer L. Hippo
Kurtiss A. Jacobs
Travis J. Lindsey
Patricia C. Lonzo
Justin G. Lynch
Karoleen N. Mito
Carolynne J. Nocella
Justin D. Peters
Gena C. Peyton
Paula D. Salinger
Tiffani S. Sharp
Charles J. Stone
Troy R. Szabo
Kate Leary Wheatley
Andrew D. White
class of 2003
Marie C. Ballon
Anna Maria Bereczky-Anderson
Patrick R. Bergin
Scott N. Cameron
Harry M. Dasinger
Hector M. de Avila Gonzalez
Kimberly Sullivan Gray
Pamela C. Loomis
Dorothy Osuna Luther
Anthony K. McClaren
David C. O’Mara
Analea J. Patterson
Trevor M. Quirk
Jacklin R. Rad
Ian A. Rambarran
Eric D. Rouen
John G. Roussas
Robert L. Starnes
Marianne L. Waterstradt
Kenneth G. Zanotto
class of 2004
April C. Alexander
Chad C. Brooks
Millie Bun
Jarrod J. Burch
Sarah L. Davis
Joanne R. Delong
Nirav K. Desai
Neil M. E. Forester
Jennifer V. Gore
J. Michelle Hahn
Jonathan R. Hayes
Valerie J. Higgins
William Hovsepyan
Lori A. Hunt
Dustin D. Johnson
Darrin Lim
John S. Lupo
Christine Garske Machado
Erin K. Merrill
Craig B. Mingay
Jill Wright Molohan
Vanessa R. Montague
Matthew J. Moye
Andrew S. Nahl
Anil Pai
Ross W. Prout
Julie D. Robbins
Naoki Sekiya
Kelly J. Walls
Alexis W. White
Joshua H. Willert
class of 2005
David H. Bartholomew
Heather M. Beckman
Elizabeth A. Blair
Carleton E. Blankenburg
Frederic R. Chan-You
Matthew W. Darby
Sarah R. Hartmann
Charles M. Heintz
Kirby W. Hughes
Anand B. Jesrani
Alicia R. Kennon
Derek J. King
Clemence George Kucera
Richard Kwun
Ted Lindstrom
Robert A. Lytle
Reuben L. Nocos
Jaime D. Pacheco
Robert A. Plagmann
Chris R. Robyn
Casie M. Roussas
Roy G. Shannon
C. Jason Smith
K. Thomas Smith, Jr.
Dawn C. Houston Sweatt
Colleen Van Egmond-Avila
Rachel A. Voss
John C. Whidden
Matthew R. Young
Nicholas M. Zovko
class of 2006
Brenna M. Arceo
Richard N. Asfar
Nathan R. Barankin
Amanda J. Barrett
Sarah M. Carlson
Kristen H. Cerf
Naomi E. Coady
Peter A. Cress
Leslie K. English
Cynthia J. Fee
Stephen R. Isbell
John P. Jarrett
Summer A. Johnson
Amanda L. Kirchner
Ryan A. Leggio
Bobby P. Luna
Anne-Leith F.W. Matlock
K. Brian Matlock
Charlene A. Mattison
James D. Maynard
Alice E. Mimms
Benjamin J. Packard
Andrea E. Pelochino
Amber L. Poston
Glenn N. Powell
Joel D. Rapaport
Catherine Gunderson
Reichenberg
Dimitrios T. Rigopoulos
Janelle A. Ruley
Chad M. Salzman
Brandon M. Schindelheim
Katherine E. Underwood
Daniel S. Wesp
Stephanie Moseman Young
class of 2007
Christy M. Carlisle
Daniel P. Custodio
Hanni M. Fakhoury
Allison L. Harvey
Patrick D. Holstine
Hugh T. Huynh
Pamela S. Jones
Spring 2012
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William B. Jones
Kristina B. Lindquist
Miki R. Liviakis
Daniel S. Meyer
Kevin R. Morrison
Heather N. Philpot
Jinnifer D. Pitcher
Jennifer M. Protas
Craig A. Simmermon
Justin J. Simpson
Robin L. Singer
Lance S. Stenhouse
Jared T. Walker
class of 2008
Bashar Ahmad
Robert F. Bennett, Jr.
D. James Bjorkman
Benjamin Cadranel
Matthew F. Christy
William A. Dean
Theresa R. Esquerra
Tommy D. Fama
Eric G. Fernandez
Justin M. Graham
Mira C. Guertin
Alexander Handy
John D. Hansen
Jennifer A. Hemmer
Daniel A. Hunt
Nathan O. Jones
Kimberly L. Kakavas
Amy L. Kendrick
Daniel A. King
Joseph F. Klatt
Courtney G. Lee
Ralph C. Lee
Corey D. McCarthy
Steven J. McEvoy
Megan M. Moore
Jared S. Mueller
Marcell P. Neri
John P. Oglesby
Rizaldy T. Ortiz
Masako A. Ota
Veronica J. Philipp
Christina E. Poley
Byron I. Roope
Benjamin D. Rowe
Rebecca L. Sommers
Kara B. Stein-Conaway
class of 2009
Inderjit S. Ahluwalia
David A. Austin
Chad T. Bacchus
Isaac T. Bacher
Danniel P. Cano
Daniel H. Drummy
Julia Capozzi Fuentes
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Carly A. Gregory
Stephanie M. Hodson
Allysia D. Holland
Bronwyn E. Hughes
Barry G. Jardini
Marco A. Jimenez
Maneet K. Keith
S. Devi Kumar
Bryan G. Landgraf
Jacquelyn E. Larson
Rysheda M. McClendon
Andrew O. Meditz
Christopher J. Moenig
Preston L. Morgan
Matthew J. Olson
Grace L. Pak
Kelsey E. Papst
Ulises Pizano
J. Richard Sellers
Lee E. Sheldon
Kerriann E. Sheppard
Richard D. Shoemaker-Moyle
Adam B. Shoor
Megan R. Sullivan
Jacqueline C. Zee
Dylan Zorea
class of 2010
Katie E. Belisle
Andrew S. Bernick
Jennifer L. Bretschneider
Ileana Butu
Kristopher L. Carpenter
Tami V. Castillo
Ross D. Colburn
Diana N. Connaughton
Katherine Larsen Cook
Christopher L. Cordes
Tiffany D. Corona
Mallory E. DeLauro
Cody A. Drabble
Olena Eckert
Christine A. Elliott
Brooke A. Fong
Helen M. Geoffroy
Heather E. Gibbons
Rebekah L. Grodsky
Evelyn A. Grosenick
Ray D. Hacke
Brandon T. Hale
Joy Y. Han
Christine Hansen
Alex S. Harary
Sheila A. Hard
Jenni L. Harmon
David S. Henshaw
Julia A. Himovitz
Emily R. Hirsekorn
Nicole L. Jamison
Melissa L. Johnson
Spring 2012
Joel E. Kautz
Scott D. Keefe
C. Daniel Kim
Alexis M. Klein
Katie Konz
Yonit M. Kovnator
Michelle L. Kral
Lauren D. Layne
Nicole A. Legrottaglie
May Ling Leong
Alec Levine
Stephanie Maroun
Jennifer E. Marsh
Lilka B. Martinez
Jennifer Lee L. Mendoza
Brian J. Miller
Mikyla J. Miller
Young L. Park
Doronne S. Perras
Zachary B. Powell
Katherine I. Rankin
Andrew B. Reisinger
Cheryl M. Shitabata
Joseph B. Thuesen
Colleen R. Villarreal
Ethan M. Weisinger
Mikaela J. West
Jennet Zapata
class of 2011
Diana Alvarado
Fareena Siddiqui Azhar
Dustin C. Bankston
Jocelyn N. Blinn
Eric R. Brenneman
Marilee Breternitz
Anna K. L. Buck
Amy E. Byrne
Joy G. Cadiz
Leanne R. Carroll
Trevor Carson
Rebecca M. H. Choi
Caitlin Urie Christian
Catherine R. Chyi
Diane E. Coderniz
J. Ryan Cogdill
Elizabeth K. Colegrove
Carmen-Nicole Cox
Matthew P. De Moura
Katherine R. Ebert
Corrine L. Erickson
Brandon A. Esraelian
Tyler H. Fair
April Matsinger Flores
Danielle A. Flores
Ariel N. Gabbert
Jamie L. Garrett
Lance D. Gibson
Gantry C. Griffin
Adam K. Guernsey
Stephen R. Hansen
AnnMichelle G. Hart
Michael F. Hearn
Max D. Hellman
Ashley L. Hines
Jane P. Hu
Tiffany M. Johnson
Crystal L. Kelly
A. Jennifer Kishimizu
Marla A. Kurtz
Mallory Lass
Jessica R. Lee
Benjamin J. Levy
Barbara Louie-Cardinal
David A. Magnan
Scott P. Mallery
Catherine A. Mariano
Eric T. Martinez
Sandra G. Mathews
Whitney K. McBride
Sandra A. McCune
Nikole E. McQuillan
Lauren E. Mehler-Clark
Katherine A. Mitchell
Jeffrey D. Morgan
Jeremy B. Namm
Mark A. Narveson
Anne N. Nguyen
Sara L. Nighbor
Katie V. Nystrom
Katherine A. Oldham
Rosalind D. Olson
Araceli Ontiveros-Venegas
Tyson Michael Page
Angie H. Palmerin
Diana L. Perez
Bryan R. Pyle
Scott E. Radcliffe
Brian J. Schall
Colin Scott
Damian M. Sebold
Nicole M. Shaker
Peter H. Shenkin
Tanya T. Smith
David E. Snapp
Joseph T. Speaker
Ashley A. Standfield
Rachel A. Taylor
John M. Thackeray
Conness A. Thompson
Matthew C. Vance
Bindhu J. Varghese
Michael J. Waldren
Jamie L. Walker
Jessica A. Warne
Kristin M. Weigle
Michael A. Wheable
Jaime M. Williams
Martin K. Williams
Weiquan Yu
T
M c G e o rg e S c h o o l o f L a w
he Legacy Society is made up of our alumni and friends who have
included, or have notified us of their intention to include Pacific
McGeorge in their estate planning or will. These families and
individuals have made a long-term commitment to the Law School – they
have planned a legacy that will exist beyond their life and into perpetuity.
We would like to thank all of those who are listed on this page for their
gifts and commitment to the law school. We would also like to thank our
newest members who have informed us of their intent over the past year.
LEGACY
SOCIETY
M c G e o rg e S c h o o l o f L a w
The following individuals have
included Pacific McGeorge in their
estate plan and have either made or
will make a planned gift.
James Adams*
Rosalie S. Asher*
Katharine O. Biele*
Irving H. Biele*
Steve & Teri Block
John Brownston*
Dona Buckingham
Robert F. Butler*
Peggy Chater-Turner
Joseph Cooper
Helen H. Crittenden
Loren S. Dahl*
Margaret K. Distler
Mark S. Drobny
Glenn A. Fait
Robert O. Fort*
Louis F. Gianelli
Gregory Graves
Lawrence B. Hagel
Eleanor L. Hale
Sheila Hard
Scott & Andrea Hervey
Phil Hiroshima
Ben E. Johnson
Frank La Bella*
Daniel R. Lang
R. Marilyn Lee & Harvey Schneider
Lawrence C. Levine
James R. Lewis
Patricia K. Lundvall
Sharon L. McDonald*
Hayne R. Moyer
Ramon E. Nunez
Laraine C. Patching
Ronald G. Peck
Marc D. Roberts
Georgia A. Rose*
Anthony J. Scalora*
*Indiates Deceased
Art G. Scotland
Edward D. (Ned) & Carol Spurgeon
Doris Stark*
Robert N. Stark*
Donald Steed
Sandra E. Stockman
Susan & Joe Taylor
Barbara Thomas
Bradley S. Towne
ENDOWments
Pacific McGeorge endowments:
James & Dorothy Adams
Memorial Scholarship
Ahmanson Foundation Scholarship
Walter F. Alexander, III Memorial
Scholarship
Alumni Endowed Scholarship
Lou Ashe Memorial Fund
Robert, Aimee & Rosalie Asher
Scholarship
Asian-American Scholarship
Bales Family Endowment
Raymond Henry Biele, II
Memorial Scholarship
Raymond Burr Memorial Scholarship
Dean Gerald Caplan Endowed
Scholarship
Carpenters’ Local Union #586
Scholarship
Jerome J. Curtis Memorial
Scholarship
Honorable Loren S. Dahl Award
Addalou Davis Loan Repayment
Assistance Program Fund
Charles D. Driscoll Labor Award
European Programs Endowed
Scholarship
Anna Rose Fischer Scholarship
Stanley B. Fowler Memorial
Scholarship
Benjamin D. & Verdele R. Frantz
Scholarship
B. Abbott Goldberg Memorial
Scholarship
Become a Legacy Society Member
If you have already included, or are interested in including Pacific
McGeorge as part of your estate plan, please contact us and we will mail
you information about the Legacy Society, its activities and recognition
efforts. We also want to be sure that your gift is used as you deem, so
communication will ensure we understand your wishes.
A named charitable endowment can be established to support programs and
scholarships starting at $25,000. A planned gift is a great way to establish a
lasting legacy at Pacific McGeorge and a meaningful way to support students.
Visit our website for great information, articles and examples on:
Transfer of Wealth Issues, Setting up Annuities, Charitable Remainder Trusts,
Life Insurance Gifts, IRA Rollover Gifts, Estate and Tax Law Updates.
www.mcgeorgelegacy.org
Sam Gordon Memorial
Scholarship
Martin & Doris Gross Memorial
Scholarship
Hawaii Scholarship Fund
Archie Hefner Memorial Fund
Tracy G. Helms Memorial
Scholarship
Brian L. Hintz Memorial
Scholarship
Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth & Lewis
Scholarship
International Programs
Scholarship
Anthony M. Kennedy
Constitutional Law Scholarship
Kierney Family Endowed
Scholarship
William Russell Knudson
Memorial Scholarship
Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong
Scholarship
Frank & Joann LaBella
Scholarship
Latino Law Students Association
Scholarship
Albert & Mae Lee Scholarship
Legal Education Fund
E.M. Manning Jr. Endowed
Memorial Scholarship for
Single Parents
John A. McCarthy Foundation
Scholarship
Tom McNally Memorial Book
Award
Carol J. Miller Memorial
Scholarship
Hon. William K. Morgan
Endowed Scholarship
John P. Morris Memorial Scholarship
Nevada Alumni Endowed Scholarship
Amy Olson Memorial Scholarship
Edwina V. Pfund Memorial
Scholarship
Jeffrey K. Poilé Gay & Lesbian
Civil Rights Scholarship
Daniel D. Richard Endowment
Marc & Mona Roberts Labor Law
Scholarship
Annie M. Rogaski Endowed
Scholarship for
Women in Science & Law
Professor Claude D. Rohwer
Vietnam Endowed Scholarship
David C. Rust Memorial
Scholarship
Sacramento Bee Legal Scholars
Program
Sacramento Estate Planning
Council Scholarship
Kamal Ramsey Sadek Memorial
Scholarship
Susan J. Samans Memorial
Scholarship
Philomena Scalora Memorial
Scholarship
Gary V. Schaber Memorial
Scholarship
Gordon D. Schaber Endowed
Chair in Health Law
Emil Schellenbacher Memorial
Scholarship
The Honorable Arthur G.
Scotland Judicial Award
Diane P. Scott Memorial Award
Judge Elvin F. & Pauline C.
Sheehy Scholarship
O. Robert Simons Memorial Book
Award
John Sprankling Faculty Scholarship
Robert N. & Doris Stark Endowed
Scholarship
R.T. Stratton Memorial Book Award
Albert Frederick Zangerle
Memorial Scholarship
Every effort has been made to ensure the
accuracy of this list, if you cannot find
your name or feel your listing might be
inaccurate, please call our Advancement
Office at 916.739.7300.
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New Endowment Expands Funding
For Public Legal Services Society
A
tribute celebration for Dean Elizabeth
Rindskopf Parker on March 3, 2012, at the
Sheraton Grand Sacramento, attracted 600
attendees and raised more than $200,000
for the Pacific McGeorge Public Legal Services Society.
The successful fundraiser marked the 20th anniversary of
PLSS, a student-led organization dedicated to enhancing
employment opportunities for young graduates who
choose to serve in often low-paying public-interest
careers. Funds raised enabled the PLSS to establish an
endowed fund for summer grants and its Loan Repayment
Assistance Program (LRAP).
Many members of the Pacific McGeorge family participated
in the tribute stage events. Judge Morrison England Jr., ’83,
served as emcee. University President Pamela Eibeck and
Provost Maria Pallavicini gave welcoming remarks. Associate
Dean Julie Davies, Kim Delfino, ’93, Mike Belote, ’87, and
Yoon-Woo Nam, ’12, spoke about the PLSS cause. Adjunct
Professor Walter Dahl energetically conducted the live auction
with help from Jenny Bain, ’12. Judge Connie Callahan, ’75,
Noël Ferris, ’79, Brian Putler, ’85, and Katy O’Connor, ’13,
paid tribute to Dean Parker.
Pacific McGeorge wishes to thank all of the generous
firms and other sponsors for making the event a major
success and memorable night for the community.
Photography: Steve Yeater
Tribute Sponsors
Noël Ferris, ’79 and R. Parker White, ’80
Tim, ’77 and Linda Naccarato
Platinum Sponsors
Robert A. Buccola, ’83 and Joseph J. Babich
Michael D. Belote, ’87 California Advocates, Inc.
DLA Piper • Downey Brand Attorneys LLP
Gold Sponsors
Pacific McGeorge Alumni Association Board of Directors
Mastagni, Holstedt, Amick, Miller and Johnsen
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Board member Yoon-Woo Nam, ’12, spoke on PLSS achievements.
UC Davis Health System
Silver Sponsors
BarBri Bar Review • Comstock’s Magazine • Delegata
Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard
Brian and Dorothy Landsberg • Lester Consulting Group
Murphy Austin Adams Schoenfeld LLP
Porter | Scott Attorneys • Reeve – Knight Construction
Remy Moose Manley, LLP • Somach Simmons & Dunn
Teichert Foundation • Sofia and Angelo Tsakopoulos and
Kyriakos Tsakopoulos, ’97 • Williams + Paddon
Guests bid on hundreds of silent auction items.
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Calendar of Events
For details on these and other events, please see the Alumni
and News & Events sections on the Pacific McGeorge website
mcgeorge.edu or call 916.739.7141.
May 25-26, 2012
International Alumni Chapter Reunion-Conference
Rome, Italy
June 4, 2012
U.S. Supreme Court Bar Swearing-In Ceremony
Washington, D.C.
August 24, 2012
McGeorge Alumni Night at the River Cats
Raley Field, West Sacramento
September 14, 2012
Jeffrey Poilé Memorial Scholarship Reception
Pacific McGeorge
September 22, 2012
Reunion: Classes of 1962, 1967, 1972, 1977,
1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007
Pacific McGeorge
September 27, 2012
Sacramento Alumni Chapter
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
October 3, 2012
New York Alumni Chapter Reception
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October 4, 2012
Washington, D.C. Alumni Chapter Reception
Barbara Thomas, Director, Alumni
Washington, D.C.
October 24, 2012
Bay Area Alumni Chapter Reception
Oakland
December 3, 2012
State and Federal Bar Swearing-In
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January 19, 2013
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January 19, 2013
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January 26, 2013
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