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Impressive victories for clinics and mock trial teams

Capital Center Lecture Series addresses hot-button issues

Multidisciplinary approaches to educating lawyers of the future

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Generous supporters of Pacific McGeorge, such as leading legislative advocate Michael Belote, ’87, help to

ensure quality legal education for generations to come

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Contact the Office of Advancement at 916.739.7300, or email [email protected].

Making a significant gift or directing a current gift toward one of the areas listed below will help Pacific McGeorge remain a leader among educational institutions locally, nationally and internationally. Current priority funding needs are:

• Annual Fund/McGeorge FundMany important programs are unfunded or underfunded annually and are able to continue only because of generous gifts to the McGeorge Fund. Your annual gift to the McGeorge Fund, no matter the size, can make a significant impact.

• Scholarships and EndowmentsEstablish your legacy as a leader in the Pacific McGeorge community by supporting current scholarships or by endowing a scholarship or program. Scholarships can be based on a current gift or a planned gift in the future. Endowments begin at $50,000. To sponsor a student for a full year through a scholarship requires an endowment of approximately $850,000.

• Campus Naming OpportunitiesPacific McGeorge has several naming opportunities that provide a special way for you to make your mark on campus or to make a tribute or memorial gift in honor of someone special.

• Centers of DistinctionThe Centers of Distinction at Pacific McGeorge need your support. Each of our three centers—Advocacy, Global and Capital—has overall campaign needs and requires your investment to grow and sustain unique program offerings. Your gift will make a significant difference.

• Legal ClinicsYour investment in Pacific McGeorge’s Legal Clinics both enhances student learning and helps local community members navigate difficult legal challenges. These hands-on innovative programs provide students with a learning environment that promotes real-world education and instills the value of service.

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feature12 Transformational GivingWith its promise of matching funds, Robert and Jeannette Powell’s record-breaking $125 million bequest is providing game-changing support to Pacific McGeorge and inspiring others to do the same.

departments2 From the Dean

3 DiscoveryAdd your memories to the law school’s Instagram: #ExperienceMcGeorge.

4 News BriefsWhat’s been happening on campus.

8 Areas of ExcellenceMock trial teams take home top honors, and Capital Center Lecture Series takes on controversial issues.

10 InnovationsPacific McGeorge is a leader in efforts to revamp legal education and address the rapidly evolving role of lawyers in society.

18 Faculty NewsFaculty appointments, publications and presentations.

20 Community Partnerships Clinics score victories in crucial cases ranging from grants of asylum for Salvadoran refugees to reversals of Medicare denials of care.

22 Alumni NewsNews and notes about your classmates and friends.

34 Honor Roll of DonorsPacific McGeorge is deeply grateful to these individuals and organizations for their generous support.

44 The Last WordLeading trial attorneys Noël M. Ferris, ‘79, and R. Parker White, ‘80, discuss how they are “hard-wired to try lawsuits.”

Transformation. It is a common word, but we tend to forget what it really means. To transform something is, literally, to change its form. In this issue of Pacific

Law we highlight transformation at Pacific McGeorge in a variety of ways.

Most important to our mission, our students experience a transformation as a result of the rigorous education that we provide. Despite my many years of teaching, it never ceases to surprise me how the students who began law school hiding in the last row of my contracts class hoping not to be called can stride so confidently across the stage at commencement, transformed into professionals who will represent their clients with skill and tenacity. This is why I am a law professor. Education transforms.

We also celebrate the transformation of legal education in response to the changing demands of practice. McGeorge students will not just be “practice ready” when they gradu-ate, they will be ready to participate in a changing practice. Building off the core analytical skills that have been our hallmark, we have transformed our curriculum to be deeply practical, experiential and career-oriented. For example, in our Legislative Clinic, students don’t just study law; they put laws on the books.

We can transform our educational program, and thereby transform our students, only with the ongoing support of our alumni, faculty, staff and friends. In this regard, the

Powell Gift to the University has been truly transforma-tional. The individuals and groups that have established scholarships and programs with Powell Gift match-ing funds have made it possible for us to hire three new professors, remake our curriculum, and thereby to enable our students to become lawyers at the highest level of our profession.

I have great confidence in the future of McGeorge. And, lest we forget our professional mission, I want to close by recognizing the greatest transformations that we foster in our role as lawyers. We remake the lives of our clients through our representation. And by fostering the rule of law, we strive to ensure a just society. Our profession is cer-tainly a noble one, but it is also very practical. Lawyers are devoted to the transformation of their clients’ lives, which in turn transforms them. This is beautifully described in the story about one of our Immigration Clinic successes. Thank you for your continued support to ensure that Pacific McGeorge is an agent of transformation.

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About Pacific LawPacific Law magazine is published by the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Marketing and Communications Department3200 Fifth Ave.Sacramento, CA 95817916.739.7152 —McGeorge School of Law is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and the Order of the Coif, and is accredited by the American Bar Association and the Committee of Bar Examiners, State Bar of California.

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CONNECT TO PACIFIC MCGEORGEStay connected by following @PacificMcGeorge on Instagram

and Twitter. Use #ExperienceMcGeorge as well as your own

hashtags to share with the community.

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From left: Megan Donaghey, Virginia Martucci, Anna Lucido, Michael Mahan and Professor Jeff Proske.

MCGEORGE TEAM IMPRESSIVE IN RETURN TO NEGOTIATION EVENT

Pacific McGeorge returned to the American Bar Association (ABA) Negotiation Competition, marking the first time the law

school has entered the annual competition since 2006. Pacific McGeorge was once a formidable regional power, advancing to the nationals in 1999–2000 and 2000–2001, but in recent years student interest in the event had fallen off.

Megan Donaghey, ’17, and Michael Mahan, ’15, posted the fifth-highest score out of 24 teams from California, Hawaii and Nevada that com-peted in the Region 9 tournament in November.

“The members of the Alternative Dispute

Resolution (ADR) Club deserve credit for our return to the ABA Negotiation Competition,” Professor Jeff Proske, the team’s coach, says. “Special thanks go to Professor Michael Colatrella and Mathew John, president of the student club, for their assistance in creating this opportunity for our students to participate in this important ADR competition.”

Proske and Colatrella credit Associate Dean Dorothy Landsberg for finding the funds to back the team. The faculty coaches are hopeful that an even bigger group of students will try out for the team in the fall.

Class of 2015 valedictorians Nick Kump (evening program) and Jackie Loyd (day program).


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CLASS OF 2015 STUDENT AWARDS

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The Outstanding Student Achievement Award went to Ernesto Falcon (day program) and Sarah Schumacher (evening program). Jackie Loyd (day) and Elizabeth Ramos (evening) received the Outstanding Graduating Senior Award. Vallerye Mosquera (day) and Nick Kump (evening) received the Outstanding Scholastic

Achievement Award. Devina Douglas (day) and Tia Kemokai (evening) were recognized with the ALI-ABA Scholarship and Leadership Award. The Outstanding Student Service Award went to Jackie Hang and Chelsea Tibbs (day) and to Lexi Howard (evening). Congratulations to the Class of 2015 award winners!

Spring Symposium on LinguisticsPacific McGeorge hosted a successful symposium on May 1, 2015, on “Inference, intention, and ‘ordinary meaning’: What jurists can learn about legal interpretation from linguistics and philosophy.” Many prominent scholars joined Pacific McGeorge faculty to explore issues relating to legal interpretation. Professor Larry Solum of Georgetown University School of Law posted about the symposium on his influential Legal Theory blog, lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory.

From left, front row: Gideon Rosen, Princeton University; Jill Anderson,

University of Connecticut; Karen Petroski, Saint Louis University; Benjamin Mark Shaer, Carleton University.

Middle row: Larry Solum, Georgetown University;

Dean Francis J. Mootz III; Nicholas Allot, University of Oslo; Larry Solan, Brooklyn

Law School. Back row: Frank Ravitch, Michigan

State University; Professor Brian Slocum. (Not pictured: Kent Greenawalt, Columbia

University.)

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Ten years ago, Pacific McGeorge hosted a symposium, co-organized by Associate Dean Clark Kelso, on reforming California’s sentencing

policies that resulted in a report outlining a proposal for reforming California’s sentencing scheme. Since then, Kelso, in his role as the California Correctional Health Care receiver for the state’s prison health care system, has been at the center of the controversy over sentencing reform.

A decade later, California is on the verge of address-ing the unsustainable reliance on prison as its solution to crime. To explore this timely issue, the McGeorge Law Review held its annual symposium on “The Long Overdue Reform of California’s Sentencing Practice and Policy.” Co-sponsored by the Pacific McGeorge Capital Center, the event featured a full day of discus-sion panels. A video of the symposium is on the Pacific McGeorge YouTube channel.

Law Review Symposium Revisits Need for Sentencing Reform

JUSTICE KENNEDY TAUGHT SUMMER SALZBURG PROGR AM

Associate Dean Clark Kelso at the McGeorge Law Review Symposium.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy taught for his

26th year at Pacific McGeorge’s annual summer program in Salzburg, Austria, which ran from July 5 through July 24, 2015. Justice Kennedy has taught in

the Salzburg program 25 of the past 26 years. He taught Constitutional Law as a member of the Pacific McGeorge faculty from 1965 until his 1988 appointment to the Supreme Court by President Reagan.


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SIXTH ANNUAL IMMIGRATION FAIR

Assistant Dean Tracy Simmons Joins LSAC Board of TrusteesTracy Simmons, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Diversity Initiatives and Financial Aid, has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the board of trustees of the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) as an appointee at large, starting May 2015. Simmons has also been named chair-elect for the Association of American Law Schools Section on PreLegal Education and Admission to Law School.

Pacific McGeorge Again Ranks High U.S. News & World Report 2016 Best Graduate Schools ranked Pacific McGeorge’s Trial Advocacy program No. 10 in the nation. The law school consistently ranks in the top 20 for International Law, and this year it was ranked 20. The part-time J.D. program was ranked No. 35, up from No. 38 last year. Pacific McGeorge was also ranked 45 on a list of the top 100 most diverse schools.

Pacific McGeorge Recognized With Diversity AwardPacific McGeorge received the second place 2015 Diversity Matters Award from the Law School Admissions Council, marking the third year in a row that the law school was recognized in the top three. The award is given to law schools that have demonstrated the highest level of outreach to racially and ethnically diverse students.

Pacific McGeorge hosted its sixth annual Immigration Fair on Nov. 7, 2014. Alumni,

students, staff and faculty provided free legal services to 140 fair attendees.

The focus was assisting community members with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and naturaliza-tion applications.

Professor Blake Nordahl, the supervising attorney in the Pacific McGeorge Immigration Law Clinic, organized the event, which serves so many in the community.

“It is a pleasure and a lot of fun to work with so many students, alumni, staff and faculty with such a strong commitment to service learning,” says Nordahl.

LAUDABLE COMPETITION PERFORMANCES BY THE MOCK TRIAL TEAM Selena Farnesi, ’15, and James Bradford, ’15, made the Elite Eight of the National Trial Competition Championship. Alan Donato, ‘09, and Jeff Schaff, ‘09, coached the team. Anna Padgett, Tia Kemokai and Kathryne Baldwin were quarterfinal winners.

Farnesi was selected to represent McGeorge in Baylor’s Top Gun National Trial Competition, with Kathryne Baldwin as second-chair assistant.

Kitty Tetrault, Shoeb Mohammad, Ashley Pane and Ryan Roebuck reached the regional finals of the American Association for Justice Competition.

Lauryn Tully, Natasha Machado, Elizabeth Ramos and Dayla Go made it to the round of 16 in the South Texas Mock Trial Challenge.

MOOT COURT CAPS SUCCESSFUL FALL AND SPRING CAMPAIGNS WITH AWARDSJackie Hang, Annette Rose and Suzan Karayel won the NTC Region 12 competition, and Hang was named the

MOCK TRIAL TEAMS ADVANCE IN SPRING EVENTS

Far left: Ryan Roebuck, Kathryne Baldwin, Anna Padgett, Selena Farnesi and James Bradford.Left: Chelsea Tibbs, Professor Adrienne Brungess, Elizabeth Kim, Janelle Covington, Maricar Pascual and Professor Ed Telfeyan.

top advocate of the regional. Another McGeorge team, Shay Billington, Andrew Naylor and Janelle Covington, made it to the event’s regional quarterfinals.

Maricar Pascual was named the Best Oralist and Caroline Soto received the Second Oralist award at the national finals of the Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition. In the Appellate Lawyers Association Invitational moot court competition, Robert Mayville, Erin Brennan and Elizabeth Kim received the award for second best brief.

Ryan Hawley-Jones and Matt Chen took home second place in the best brief competition at the USD National Criminal Procedure Tournament. Sean Baird, Craig Harris and Amelia Hicks advanced to the quarterfinal round in Pepperdine’s National Entertainment Law Moot Court Competition.

Janelle Covington, Maricar Pascual and Chelsea Tibbs took second place in the Roger J. Traynor California Appellate Moot Court Competition. Covington and Pascual were among the top 10 participants cited for “Outstanding Individual Achievement in Oral Argument.”

Global Symposium Examines Emerging International Law of PropertyThe International Law of Property (Oxford 2014), the new book by Distinguished Professor John Sprankling (left), inspired the 2015 Pacific McGeorge Global Symposium. Videos of the symposium are available at YouTube.com/pacificmcgeorge.

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Capital Center Lecture Series Tackles Hot-Button Issues Dynamic speakers presented lectures on political reform, eyewitness misidentification and end-of-life options

Political ReformThe Pacific McGeorge Capital Center and the Fair Political Practices Commission hosted “Political Reform’s 40th Anniversary: A Dynamic Look at the Past, Present and Future” on Sept. 17, 2014. The event featured a welcome by Jodi Remke, ’91, chair of the Fair Political Practices Commission, and a keynote address delivered by Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Elections Commission and lawyer for the Stephen Colbert “Super PAC.”

Eyewitness MisidentificationModerated by University of the Pacific Professor Jacqueline Austin, the Mike Belote Annual Endowed

Capital Center Lecture was held Dec. 10, 2014, at the Sutter Club in Sacramento. The event featured a lecture and discussion with Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton, authors of the New York Times best-selling book Picking Cotton. The book, which explores how the criminal justice system helped the witness “get it wrong,” provides the riveting narra-tive of suspect misidentification that resulted in Cotton spending 12 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. In their deeply personal and uplifting talk, Thompson and Cotton discussed critical policy questions relating to witness identification in the criminal justice system.

End-of-Life OptionsThe Capital Center Lecture Series presented “End of Life Options Act–SB-128” on April 20, 2015, moderated by Melissa Brown, Director of the Pacific McGeorge Legal Clinics. Speakers explored the legal, medical, cultural and moral concerns that will arise as SB-128, a bill that would allow those with a terminal illness to request medication to end their own life, makes its way through the legislative process.

LEGISLATIVE AND PUBLIC POLICY CLINIC STARTS STRONGGov. Jerry Brown signed four of the five bills drafted by stu-dents in the Pacific McGeorge Legislative and Public Policy Clinic. The bills, which include a law prohibiting the distribu-tion of “revenge porn,” were officially passed into law in late September 2014.

In only its first year, the clinic has received recognition as one of the top 15 most innovative clinics in the entire nation in the Winter 2015 issue of PreLaw Magazine.

Legislative and Public Policy Clinic Supervising Attorney Rex Frazier, ’01, with Clinic alumni Christopher Wu, ’14, Marisa Shea, ’14, and Jacob Smith, ’14.


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Embracing ChangeAs today’s legal landscape continues to evolve at

breakneck speed, Pacific McGeorge is preparing its students to recognize—and seize—the exciting

new opportunities that lie ahead


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History often provides comfort during challenging times by reminding us that we have overcome daunting problems before. As legal education and legal practice face disruptive change, it is helpful

to look back to the first issue of the California Law Review, published in 1912. The issue opens with an address delivered at the dedication of Boalt Hall by the dean and founder of the law school. “The Problem of the Law School” has a particularly provocative opening:

The law schools of this country have never faced their problems. Like most institutions coming down from generation to generation, they have been slow to inquire into the original justification of their plans and programs, or to seek to learn whether what was once justified still retained its reason for being.

The dean championed the “scientific” case method of instruction as the solution to the problems of legal educa-tion, but these words could be written today with equal validity as we attempt to move beyond the model created more than 100 years ago.

I am proud that Pacific McGeorge is a leader in re-creating legal education to serve the needs of tomorrow’s lawyers. Our graduates this year will likely be practicing law in 2060. We are innovating in numerous ways to provide them with the tools to be lifelong learners and entrepreneurs who can navigate the rapidly evolving roles of lawyers in society.

Every McGeorge student now takes a required course in Statutes and Regulations, in recognition of the regula-tory nature of most modern law, and a course in the Legal Profession, in recognition of the need for students to be prepared for contemporary practice. From this base, our students will choose courses from an experientially rich and modernized curriculum that positions them for suc-cess upon graduation.

Innovations in the law school curriculum tell only part of the story, however. Contemporary practice is increas-ingly interdisciplinary, and lawyers increasingly are employed in jobs that do not even require bar membership.

The University recognizes the need for more interdis-ciplinary elements, and so we have embarked on the development of a Sacramento Graduate Campus that will host degree programs in law, business and policy. Pacific McGeorge students will be able to complement their deep knowledge of legal doctrine with courses on public policy analysis, entrepreneurship and financial account-ing. Working on projects with their future colleagues and clients will provide the broad, real-world experience that is absent when law is taught in a silo.

The challenges we face today are very real, but so are the opportunities. One of the most astute commentators on legal practice and education, Richard Susskind, hits the nail on the head:

The legal market is in an unprecedented state of flux. Over the next two decades, the way in which lawyers work will change radically. Entirely new ways of delivering legal services will emerge, new providers will enter the market, and the workings of our courts will be transformed. Unless they adapt, many traditional legal businesses will fail. On the other hand, a whole set of fresh opportunities will present themselves to entrepreneurial and creative young lawyers.

Pacific McGeorge graduates will be positioned to take advantage of these exciting new opportunities.

GivingTransformational

Donors are giving game-changing support to Pacific McGeorge, inspiring others to do the same

There are many ways to support learning at University of the Pacific, and the long list of those who do includes

alumni, professors, staff and other members of the University of the Pacific community. But the largest gift

comes from benefactors who didn’t work at or attend the university; in fact, they didn’t even go to college.

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Giving“Our goal is for our students to be representative of the broader

community.” ( Cary Bricker ) professor, right, and professor jeff proske, left

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THE POWELL GIFTRobert Powell was a prominent Sacramento real estate developer whose many projects included the Gold River, Campus Commons and Selby Ranch communities and Pavilions shopping center. He and his wife, Jeannette, an interior designer, had a profound respect for the value of education, making important contributions to University of the Pacific and dedicating both resources and time to ensure the university’s continuing success. They didn’t have children of their own, but they helped put several teens through college, including a niece and the son of one of their tenants. In their estate, Robert, who passed away in 2007, and Jeannette, who died in 2012, left a record $125 million to University of the Pacific.

“Bob Powell understood that few people can thrive in today’s world, as he and Jeannette did, without a college education,” says Hayne Moyer, ’75, who was the Powells’ lawyer. Moyer is a member of the Powell Advisors, a group the university consults with about the distribution of the Powell funds.

The Powell funds are the largest gift University of the Pacific has ever received, and they immediately doubled the school’s endowment. In addition to supporting the Powell Scholars, the gift creates matching funds to inspire others to support academic programs and scholarships. “With the Powell Fund Match, whatever you give will be doubled, and the contribution will be in your name,” Moyer says. “It is a great way to make the most of your gift and to help the school and the students.”

Today, Pacific McGeorge encourages its supporters not only to increase the impact of the Powell gift but to con-tribute to the law school in any way they can—and alumni, faculty and friends have responded with an outpouring of generosity.

MIKE BELOTE CAPITAL CENTER ENDOWMENTMike Belote, ’87, president of the prominent Sacramento lobbying firm California Advocates and longtime Pacific McGeorge supporter, made the first gift to be matched by the Powell funds. In 2013, Belote established the Capital Center Lecture Series, which is held under the auspices of the Pacific McGeorge Capital Center for Public Law and Policy. The program invites top thinkers and policymak-ers to come to the state capital to address timely local and national policy issues.

“People invest a lot of time and money in law school, and being there to support them is important to me.” ( Mike Belote, ’87 ) legislative advocate

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“With the Powell Fund Match, whatever you give will be doubled, and the contribution will be in your name. It is a great way to help the school and the students.” ( Hayne Moyer, ’75 ) attorney

Belote, who funded the lecture series through the sale of an Aston Martin he had kept in storage, says he has always been motivated to give back to his alma mater, and the Powell gift has given him extra incentive. “People invest a lot of time and money in law school,” he says, “and being there to support them is important to me.”

Belote finalized an unprecedented second Powell Match gift in April 2015. This gift will support an endowment for public service, which will help fund the Pacific McGeorge Public Legal Services Society Summer Stipend Program.

FACULTY DIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP Powell funds will also double the donations raised for a new Faculty Diversity Scholarship at McGeorge. The scholar-ship was established by faculty members who want to help create a more diverse student body—and increase diversity in the legal profession as a whole.

“Our goal is for our students to be representative of the broader community,” says Professor Cary Bricker, who teaches trial advocacy and heads the school’s Diversity Affairs Committee. Professors Larry Levine, John Sprankling, Omar Dajani and Jeff Proske also worked with Bricker to launch the new scholarship and organize faculty participants.

Before coming to Pacific McGeorge, Bricker had worked as a staff attorney with the New York Legal Aid Society. Most of her clients were minorities, she says, while most of the lawyers representing them were white. “The attorneys were all very committed, but it didn’t make sense that there weren’t more African-American and Latino lawyers,” says Bricker. “With this new scholarship, we want to encour-age more diversity among the lawyers of tomorrow, to give everyone in the community a voice.”

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Schaber Chair in Health Law and Policy and has served as a University of the Pacific regent. “I am grateful to McGeorge for giving me the opportunity to develop a successful law practice and am happy I can give back,” he says.

“Scholarships are critical because the cost of education today is ludicrous,” Moyer adds. “I paid about $1,600 a year when I went to college. Now it costs $50,000 a year. I meet kids with college debts of $150,000. That kind of debt doesn’t give them a lot of options about the kind of law they are going to practice—or a lot of options, period. Scholarships help to create a citizen who can benefit society.”

Tania Dominguez, the first recipient of the Moyer schol-arship, is entering her second year at Pacific McGeorge. “Law school is a lot of work,” says Dominguez, whose interests include criminal and immigration law, “but I love it.”

Dominguez is thankful for the scholarship; along with other financial aid she’s received, it significantly reduced the loans she had to take out for her first year of law school. “The Moyer Scholarship was a deciding factor for me when I was choosing between law schools,” says Dominguez, who graduated from UC Davis, and was the first in her family

thrilled by the response thus far to the scholarship cam-paign. “Our long-term goal is to make this a permanent, ongoing scholarship,” she says.

In connection with the faculty’s fundraising efforts for diversity scholarship funds, Professor Charles Kelso established the Jane Kelso Diversity Endowed Scholarship through a $50,000 Powell-matched gift, in memory of his wife who was a beloved dean of students at the law school.

HAYNE AND SUSAN MOYER SCHOLARSHIPHayne R. Moyer graduated from McGeorge School of Law in 1975 and has been a supporter ever since. He and his wife, Susan, annually give to the Hayne and Susan Moyer Scholarship, in honor of former Pacific McGeorge professor and Moyer mentor Clarence S. Brown. They recently added a planned gift to the scholarship’s endowment, which will be matched by the Powell funds. The scholarship awards $5,000 to one student each year.

Moyer, who retired in 2011 after a successful 31-year law career that focused on business litigation, also contrib-uted $25,000 toward the endowment of the Gordon D.

“The Moyer Scholarship was a deciding factor for me when I was choosing between law schools.”

( Tania Dominguez )center, with hayne and susan moyer

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to attend college. “It felt like a vote of confidence and the push I needed to decide. That—and the awesome faculty at McGeorge!”

NOËL FERRIS AND R. PARKER WHITE TRIAL ADVOCACY SCHOLARSHIPNoël Ferris, ’79, and her husband, R. Parker White, ’80, met at Pacific McGeorge, where both participated in the trial advocacy program. Today, they have successful prac-tices in Sacramento—both specialize in personal injury and medical malpractice cases—and have been widely honored by the local, national and international legal community. (See Page 44 to learn more about Ferris and White.)

Their experience at Pacific McGeorge inspired them to create a new scholarship focused on trial advocacy. The Noël Ferris and R. Parker White Scholarship, while not part of the Powell Fund Match, will provide $10,000 for a student who demonstrates outstanding trial advocacy skills.

Ferris and White want to support McGeorge’s trial

“I have a particular interest in encouraging women to pursue trial advocacy. I think it’s a calling.”

( NoËl Ferris, ’79 ) above right, and r. parker white, ’80, left

advocacy program because they say it gave them the real-world skills they needed to thrive in the combative atmosphere of the courtroom. “We learned how to take evidence, how to pick a jury, how to make a case in front of a judge and how to think on our feet,” says Ferris. “We learned to get over the jitters of being in a strange courtroom. It was a huge experience for both of us. When we graduated law school, we were ready to walk into a courtroom.”

According to Ferris, many law schools don’t give students practical courtroom experience. “I have a particular interest in encouraging women to pursue trial advocacy,” she says. “I think it’s a calling; you either have it or you don’t. But the training is also so important. Today, cases are more and more complex, so building those courtroom skills in law school is all the more important.”

To learn more about supporting Pacific McGeorge, contact Senior Development Officer Sarra Ziari at 916.739.7391.


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Publication Highlights

Emily Whelan Parento will join the faculty as an associ-ate professor of law and the Gordon D. Schaber Health

Law Scholar. Parento will be teaching health law courses and administrative law. She previously served as the chief health policy adviser to Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear. Parento holds a Juris Doctor and Master of Laws in global health law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Jennifer Harder will join the faculty as an assistant pro-fessor of lawyering skills. Harder was a partner at Downey Brand, working in the water group for nine years, and she has recently served as adjunct professor at UC Davis and McGeorge. She is regularly sought out to present on water

topics and helped found the California Water Law Journal as a joint project of practicing lawyers and students from both Davis and McGeorge. Harder is a graduate of UC Davis School of Law.

Karrigan Bork will hold a joint appointment, serving as visiting assistant professor in the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences in the College of the Pacific, and visiting assistant professor of law at the McGeorge School of Law. Bork will teach Environmental Law at McGeorge in the fall semester. Bork is a graduate of Stanford Law School, and he was awarded his Ph.D. at UC Davis in ecology (conservation biology).

• Cary Bricker – Teaching the Power of Empathy in Domestic and Transnational Experiential Public Defender Courses, 32 Buff. Pub. Int. L.J. 1 (2014).

• Omar Dajani – Omar Dajani and Hiba Husseini, Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, Past the Point of No Return? A Rights-Based Framework for International Engagement in Israel/Palestine (2014).

• Franklin Gevurtz – Determining Extraterritoriality, 56 Will. & Mary L. Rev. 341 (2014). The Protection of Minority Investors and Compensation of Their Losses, 62 (Supp.) Am. J. Comp. L. 303 (2014).

• Leslie Gielow Jacobs – Compelled Commercial Speech as Compelled Consent Speech, 29 J.L. & Pol. 517 (2014).

• Brian Landsberg – Public Accommodations and the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Surprising Success?, 36 Hamline J. Pub. L. & Pol’y 1.

• Michael Malloy – Economic Sanctions Anthology (2 vols., Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd., 2015).

• Michael Malloy – There are no Bitcoins, Only Bit Payers: Law, Policy and Socio-Economics of Virtual Currencies, in Selected Issues in Public Private Law 13 (David A. Frenkel, ed., Athens Inst. for Educ. and Res. 2015).

• Stephen McCaffrey – “The 1997 UN Convention:

Compatibility and Complementarity,” in The UNECE Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes at 49 (Attila Tanzi, Owen McIntyre, Alexandros Kolliopoulos, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Rémy Kinna, eds., Brill 2015).

• Francis J. Mootz III – Book review of Lillian L. Beeson, Persuasion: Theory and Applications 11 Legal Communication and Rhetoric, JALWD 181 (Fall 2014).

• John E.B. Myers – California and Federal Evidence (Esquire Books, 2014).

California’s Eavesdropping Law Endangers Victims of Domestic Violence, 31

J. Marshall J. Info. Tech. & Privacy L. 57 (2014).• Brian Slocum – Ordinary

Meaning (University of Chicago 2015).

• Joseph Taylor – State v. Casey (NITA, 2nd ed. 2014).

• Michael Vitiello – Criminal Law Simulations (Bridge to Practice Series, West 2014) (with Emily Hughes).

• Michael Vitiello – The Expanding Use of Genetic and Psychological Evidence: Finding Coherence in the Criminal Law? 14 Nev. L.J. 897 (2014).

• Jarrod Wong – The Subversion of State-to-State Investment Treaty Arbitration, 53 Colum. J. Transnat’l L. 6 (2014).

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Presentation, Event and Appointment Highlights • Jay Leach and Cary Bricker, assisted

by numerous Pacific McGeorge faculty, hosted eight Russian law professors from Feb. 23 to Feb. 28, 2015, at the Pacific McGeorge campus for a variety of interactive and experiential teaching demonstrations. The program, part of a two-year U.S.-Russia Foundation Legal Education Exchange, continued with a visit by Pacific McGeorge faculty to the Moscow campus in April 2015.

• Michael T. Colatrella Jr. presented “Ethical Considerations in Mediating Disputes With Self Represented Litigants” during a panel he organized at the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Annual Conference on April 16, 2015.

• Michael Malloy hosted the second Annual Conference on Business, Law and Economics (BLE Conference) at the Athens Institute for Education and Research in Athens, Greece, May 4-5, 2015.

• Stephen McCaffrey spoke on two panels at the International Water Resources Association’s XVth World Water Congress, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 25-29, 2015.

• Rachael Salcido was appointed in 2014 as a member at large on the board of directors for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

• Jarrod Wong gave a talk on “Emergency Arbitrators” at the Conference on Effective Advocacy in International Arbitration at UC Berkeley Law School on Feb. 20, 2015.

PROFESSOR RAQUEL ALDANA CO-ORGANIZES AALS SYMPOSIUM

Professor Raquel Aldana co-organized the 2015 AALS Annual Meeting Academic

Symposium, “Congressional Dysfunction and Executive Lawmaking during the Obama Administration,” held Jan. 5, 2015, in Washington, D.C. C-SPAN live-streamed the symposium.

Aldana collaborated with Alina Das, assis-tant professor of clinical law at NYU School of

Law, and Jennifer Chacón, from UC Irvine School of Law, on the symposium proposal and organization.

PROFESSOR STEPHEN MCCAFFREY DRAFTS U.N. WATER CONVENTION

A groundbreaking multilateral treaty on international water cooperation,

the culmination of a decade’s work by Professor Stephen McCaffrey, took effect on Aug. 17, 2014.

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses obliges each nation to consider the impact of its actions on others

with a shared interest in a water resource such as a river, lake or groundwater. The convention was adopted in 1997 and, following a lengthy ratification process, began thereafter. The treaty took effect 90 days after the 35th country—Vietnam—approved the treaty in August 2014.

A member of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) from 1982 to 1991, McCaffrey served as the ILC’s “special rapporteur” on international watercourses from 1985 to 1991, when the commission adopted a full set of draft articles on the topic, based on his proposals.

Owen McIntyre, an international water law expert and faculty member at University College Cork, Ireland, said, “The convention would not have come about without the tireless work of a small number of champions, none of whom has played a role as significant as that of Steve McCaffrey.”

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Elder & Health Law Clinic Wins Major Denial of Care CaseJUDGE RELIES ON STUDENTS’ FINDINGS AND EXPERTISE TO REACH FAVORABLE DETERMINATION

Elder & Health Law Clinic students Aaron Claxton, ’17; Rick Lebherz, ’15; and Kimberly Van Spronsen, ’16, worked on a case that resulted in the estate of their deceased client receiving an order for a provider to reimburse the family for more than $100,000 in out-of-plan services. The issue was

whether the specialized surgery and treatment for a grade IV glioblastoma brain tumor qualified for out-of-plan services under the Medicare HMO plan through the provider. The judge heard testimony from McGeorge M.S.L. student Patrick Browning, M.D., who was qualified as a medical expert, which contributed to the favorable decision.

Extensive research, a detailed brief, production of evidence, and the presentation of lay and expert witnesses at the adversary hearing persuaded the Medicare administrative law judge to reverse the denials of care. The clinic, supervised by Professor Melissa Brown, has won each of its Medicare denial of care cases and is one of the few California sources of legal representation for Medicare patients and their families.

IMMIGRATION CLINIC SCORES ASYLUM VICTORYStudents help clients who suffered religious persecution in El Salvador obtain legal status in the United States

In January, former Immigration Clinic students, with supervision from Professor Blake Nordahl, won asylum for a family from El Salvador, concluding more than

two years of work. Among the students representing the clients were Cristina Andrade, ’14; Sahir Faidi, ’13; and Qamar Fareed, ’15.

The principal client is an evangelical pastor from El Salvador whose religious work included providing services to gang members to encourage them to leave gang life. His church also provided counseling, educa-tion, health services and ministry. The family faced threats and attacks as a result of this work. Eventually, the family fled to California when the attacks escalated. Religious persecution is a recognized ground for asylum and was the basis of the application.

The family contacted the clinic with less than a month left before its one-year filing deadline. Family members said they had been taken advantage of by a nonlawyer notary, who charged them fees but did not work on their case. The clinic quickly filed an application to protect the clients’ rights.

Faidi worked with each family member to draft their life histories and gather details about the basis of the claim. Andrade and Fareed finished the declarations and drafted the brief, which involved substantial research, comprehensive interviewing and fact checking. Fareed prepared the clients for the asylum interview in San Francisco, which he also attended. “I was in a position to do actual good and have a profound effect on a family’s life,” Fareed says. “So I took my job very seriously.”


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and litigation experience. | Lynn C. Harris was selected by his peers for inclusion in Utah Business magazine’s 2015 Utah Legal Elite. Harris is an attorney at Jones Waldo specializing in personal injury and medical malpractice. | Richard D. Meyer ran unopposed for the bench in Alpine County and was elected to a term that expires on Jan. 3, 2021. Prior to his election, Meyer served as a public defender in both El Dorado and Alpine counties for three decades. | Allan Zaremberg made the 2014 Capitol Weekly Top 100 list of the most powerful nonelected movers and shakers in California political circles at No. 12.

1979 Timothy Cronan retired from his position at the UC Davis School of Medicine. At UC

1967Ronald B. Robie won retention as a justice of the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District in the Nov. 4, 2014 election. He has served on the Court of Appeal since January 2002.

1974 Jim Crockett heard his first case on Nevada’s Eighth Judicial District Court on Jan. 6. The veteran Las Vegas litigator won election to an open seat on the Clark County bench in November. A founding partner of Crockett & Myers, he was named trial lawyer of the year by the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association in 2006. He joins Susan Johnson, ’85, and Jerry Wiese, ’94, on the 32-member Civil/Criminal Division of Nevada’s largest court.

1975 Janene Beronio captured 54 percent of the ballots in a four-way race to secure a seat on the Yolo

Superior Court. Beronio was previously commissioner for more than 25 years. | Steve Merksamer made the 2014 Capitol Weekly Top 100 list of the most powerful nonelected movers and shakers in California political circles at No. 67. | Tim Naccarato retired from his position as assistant dean at McGeorge on July 1, 2014; how-ever, he stayed on the faculty as an adjunct professor until May 8, 2015. He will be a community vol-unteer in retirement. He and his wife, Linda, reside in Elk Grove.

1978 John R. Brydon has formed a new firm, Brydon Law, in San Francisco. Brydon Law offers a national practice representing individuals and businesses in civil litigation, including complex prod-ucts liability claims, professional negligence claims (legal and medi-cal), insurance coverage matters, personal injury matters and insur-ance bad faith lawsuits. Brydon has more than 35 years of jury trial

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of Trial Advocates. Friedman will serve as membership chair in 2015 and is in line to be president of the local chapter in 2018. | Margaret Masunaga was sworn in as a judge of Hawaii’s Third Circuit Court in December after her fall appointment to the County of Hawaii bench by the chief justice of Hawaii’s Supreme Court. A former McGeorge Alumni Board of Directors member, she served several years as a deputy corporation counsel. She has been Hawaii’s state delegate to the ABA since 2009. | Deborah Ortiz won 67 percent of the vote to retain her seat on the board of the Los Rios Community College District in the Nov. 4, 2014, election. A for-mer state legislator, she has served on the Los Rios Community College District board of trustees since 2010.

1988 Ruthe Catolico Ashley was elected to the American Bar Association (ABA) Board of Governors as a minority member-at-large for a term of 2014-2017 at the ABA’s 2014 annual meeting in Boston. | Jeff Huron has been appointed to a three-year mem-bership term for the California State Bar’s Financial Institutions Committee beginning Sept. 14, 2014. The Financial Institutions Committee, part of the Business Law Section of the California State Bar, tracks legislative and case law developments affecting

Davis, Cronan functioned as a public health policy consultant assigned to lead completion of the California Department of Public Health’s Catastrophic Hazard Vulnerability Assessments for Pandemic, Firestorm, Earthquake, Tsunami, Radiological, and ARkStorm hazards and to priori-tize which of those hazards should be initially addressed. | Noël Ferris gave the Dean’s Address at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

1980 James Taylor returned to the Jacobson Firm, P.C., a New York-based intellectual property and entertainment law firm, resident in the Seattle office, after 10 years overseas that included working as the third-highest-ranking attorney in the Republic of Palau and the assistant attorney general of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. He was selected as a film judge by the 2015 Sonoma International Film Festival and wrote a script that was selected as runner-up at an international screenplay competition. | Fred Valdez has opened a law practice in Anchorage, Alaska, with con-centrations in family law, estate planning, personal injury, DUI defense and business disputes.

1984 Steven Cranfill won retention as a judge in the Fifth District

Court, winning a six-year term that expires on Jan. 3, 2021. Cranfill has served on the Fifth District Court in Wyoming since September 2006. | Andrea Lynn Hoch was elected to the University of the Pacific Board of Regents in April 2015 and will serve a three-year term extending through June 30, 2018. Hoch is an associate justice for the California Court of Appeal.

1985 John Zelezny has published six editions of Communications Law: Liberties, Restraints, and the Modern Media, a top-selling text-book. He is employed fulltime as a senior public relations executive and is also busy as a communica-tions consultant and glamour photographer.

1987 Donna Brownsey made the 2014 Capitol Weekly Top 100 list of the most powerful nonelected movers and shakers in California political circles at No. 98 | Patricia Curtin, a land use partner at Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP, has been selected as one of the San Francisco Business Times’ 2015 “Most Influential Women in Business.” | Jill Friedman, an attorney and litigator at Myers, Widders, Gibson, Jones & Feingold, LLP in Ventura, was elected to serve on the executive board for the California Coast Chapter of the American Board

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and writing for public speaking. | Michael Middleton has been pro-moted to shareholder at Trainor Fairbrook in Sacramento. | Evan Smiley has formed Smiley Wang-Ekvall, LLP, with seven of the 11 lawyers of his prior firm, where he spent 19 years. Smiley’s new firm, with offices in Orange County and Los Angeles, specializes in insolvency, business litigation and real estate. The firm’s lawyers include five former federal judicial clerks, the former OCBA presi-dent, and the president-elect of the California Bankruptcy Forum.

1993 Chris Delfino has co-founded a new law firm, Delfino Madden O’Malley & Koewler LLP, in Sacramento. | Michael B. Harper was appointed to a judgeship in the Trinity County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown.

financial institutions. | Erin Faith Rose published “Selling Ice in Alaska: Employment Preferences & Statutory Exemptions for Alaska Native Corporations 40 Years After ANCSA” by Gregory S. Fisher, Erin “Faith” Rose, Duke University, in the Alaska Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 1. 1989 Eugene C. (“Gene”) Blackard Jr. has been re-elected managing partner for a fourth term at Archer Norris. He has been managing partner since 2008. | Matina Kolokotronis was selected for the 2015 Sacramento Business Journal ’s Women Who Mean Business program. Kolokotronis is the president of business operations for the Sacramento Kings. | Alan Laskin received a jury verdict in favor of clients for $7.4 million and with interest and costs exceeding

$11.4 million for negligent repair by auto dealership resulting in a paralysis case. | Arthur G. Woodward has joined the Auburn law firm of Reynolds Maddux LLP as a partner. Upon Woodward’s arrival, the firm changed its name to Reynolds Maddux Woodward LLP. He will head Reynolds Maddux Woodward’s litigation practice group.

1990 Bryan Freedman was featured in Variety’s 2015 Legal Impact Report. He is a partner at Freedman & Taitelman, LLP.

1991 Fredericka McGee was selected for the 2015 Sacramento Business Journal ’s Women Who Mean Business program. McGee is general counsel and deputy chief of staff for the California State Assembly. | W. Kearse McGill was appointed as the presiding judge for the Stockton District Office of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. McGill was also appointed by the California State Bar board of trustees to the Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct, which writes ethics advisory opin-ions for the California State Bar. 1992 Gina Genova has retired from the active practice of law to work full time for UC Santa Barbara teach-ing legal writing, business writing

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Harper has served as Trinity County district attorney since 2007. | Torene L.M. Schwab has been appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown as deputy director of the Legal Division and chief counsel at the California Department of Social Services, where she has served as assistant chief counsel since 2010.

1994 Norman E. Allen was elected to University of the Pacific Board of Regents on July 17, 2014, and will serve a three-year term extending through June 30, 2017. Allen is a senior vice president and partner at Woodruff-Sawyer & Co. in San Francisco. | Eric Barnum has been appointed as Schiff Hardin’s new

labor and employment practice chair. Barnum is a partner in the firm’s Atlanta office, and he focuses his practice on a variety of matters related to employ-ment law and litigation. | Julie Shephard was featured in Variety’s 2015 Legal Impact Report. She is a partner at Jenner Block in Los Angeles.

The best career advice Katharine “Kate” Baragona, ’90, received at Pacific McGeorge was from a friend, an

Italian lawyer in the LL.M. Transnational Business Practice program. “Don’t submit your resume to California law firms,” he told her. “You won’t be able to rationalize quitting to follow your dreams. Leave yourself no option but to be international.”

She took his words to heart, heading off to McGeorge’s Salzburg program with no U.S.-based job awaiting her return. Her internship—a key feature of McGeorge’s interna-tional programs—led to a full-time position. Eventually, she became one of the first five American lawyers to qualify as a U.K. solicitor.

Since 2010, Baragona has been a senior infrastructure finance specialist at the World Bank, located in Washington, D.C., where she continues to advise governments, devel-opment institutions, lenders and project sponsors on the structure and financing of energy or transportation proj-ects that draw on private- and public-sector funding.

“Sometimes I feel like I’m working with the John Adamses and the Thomas Jeffersons of Mauritania, Zambia, Uganda and Nigeria,” Baragona says of her international colleagues. “Every day, I am inspired.”

A member of McGeorge’s International Board of Advisors, Baragona is grateful for the high-quality legal training she received at McGeorge and the school’s inter-national network of contacts and alumni.

“It was the first place where I was amongst people who had already accomplished what I was dreaming I might accomplish,” she says.

DREAMING BIGKate Baragona, ’90, an

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1996 Timothy Harris has joined the Seattle City Attorney’s Office as assistant city attorney. | Cary G. Palmer has been elevated to managing shareholder of Jackson Lewis P.C., in the firm’s Sacramento office. Palmer repre-sents management in employment, labor and benefits law and related litigation. | Jonathan Renner

won retention as a justice of the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District in the Nov. 4, 2014 election. He has served on the Court of Appeal since July 2014.

1997 Peggy Huang was elected to the City Council for the city of Yorba Linda. Huang is the first

Asian woman elected to the City Council. | Timothy H. Irons has joined Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing in Honolulu as an attorney of counsel. Irons was previously a shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, in Century City, representing private develop-ers, businesses, special districts and local government in entitle-ment proceedings and litigation

WATER LAW TRAILBLAZER

Environmental lawyer Kristian C. Corby, ’13, helps

advance Pacific McGeorge’s water law offerings

By Stephen Robitaille

Kristian C. Corby, ’13, knew he wanted to study water law, but he didn’t know where. Then he began to notice that his research

kept pointing him toward Pacific McGeorge—and he’s glad it did.“Once I got here, I realized this was the perfect place to be.

California has so many water issues, and Sacramento is the policy center of it all,” Corby says. “You’re in this hotbed of really smart people and cutting-edge ideas.”

Corby co-founded McGeorge’s Water Law Society, which orga-nizes lectures by leading water policy experts, such as legendary water lawyer and McGeorge alumnus George Soares, and Ronald Robie, associate justice for the state’s Third District Court of Appeal, a former vice chair of the state Water Resources Control Board and director of the state Department of Water Resources.

Corby was McGeorge’s first water fellow, assisting Professor Stephen McCaffrey, a renowned water law expert, in disputes before the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands.

At a meeting to pitch the Water Fellow concept, Corby came away with an approval and an offer for another task: help design a McGeorge water law institute. The Pacific McGeorge Water Resources Law Institute is slated to conduct policy research, provide collaborative solutions to California water issues, and work on legisla-tive and regulatory reforms.

Corby now has what he terms a “dream job” as an associate attor-ney at King Williams & Gleason, a Sacramento-based environmental law firm. “I couldn’t have asked for a better school. McGeorge is so willing to entertain students’ ideas,” he says. “I never would have expected that as a first-year attorney I would be gaining experience in the highly competitive field of environmental law. I’m working directly with partners, writing motions, helping determine strategy. I’m not just looking under the hood—I’m helping build the engine. It’s fantastic.”


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been appointed to fill a judicial vacancy on the Third District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, by Gov. Gary R. Herbert. Hogan has been the elected county attorney for Tooele County since 2007. | Zackery Morazzini, ’02 LL.M., has been appointed director of the Office of Administrative Hearings at the California Department of General Services by Gov. Jerry Brown. | Lizbeth West has been selected as a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA). The LCA is an exclusive trial lawyer honorary society lim-ited to 4,000 fellows, representing less than one-half of 1 percent of American lawyers.

2000 Carlos Ambriz has joined the Stockton law firm of Herum Crabtree Suntag as a senior litiga-tion attorney, where he focuses on

involving county, state and federal land use and environmental law. Prior to that, Irons was an income partner with Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP, in Los Angeles. | Nancy Park was awarded the Champion of Excellence Award by the Sacramento chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) on Nov. 13, 2014. The award honors those individuals who consistently deliver excellence in their personal and professional lives and whose efforts advance the industry and show support for everything CREW Sacramento stands for. Park is a partner at Best Best & Krieger, LLP. | Michelle Sheidenberger has been pro-moted to assistant city attorney for the city of Roseville. She has worked for the Roseville City Attorney’s Office for 13 years. | Dylan Sullivan was appointed to an interim judgeship in the El Dorado County Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown. After beginning her career as a defense attorney and California Parole Authority hearing officer, she has served as a court commissioner since 2011.

1998 James Michael Davis retired with the rank of commander from the U.S. Navy in December 2014. Davis completed 28 years of combined active and reserve time. He spent 2013 recalled to active duty at U.S. Naval Forces Central Command in Manama,

Bahrain. At his retirement, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in recognition of his service. | Jeff Gorell has been named deputy mayor overseeing homeland security and public safety issues in Los Angeles. Gorell represented District 44 in the California State Assembly from 2010 to 2014 and currently serves as a commander (intelli-gence officer) in the United States Navy Reserve. | Nicky Jatana has been named a 2015 Rising Star by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. He is a shareholder at Jackson Lewis P.C. in the Los Angeles office. | Christina W. Kelly has been elected as a share-holder of the national law firm Polsinelli in the Phoenix office.

1999 Paul J. Bauer has been elected to become the managing shareholder for Walter & Wilhelm Law Group in Fresno. Bauer joined the firm in 2010 as senior counsel and joined Riley Walter and Michael Wilhelm as a shareholder in 2012. | Danielle Douglas was appointed as a judge to the Contra Costa Superior Court by Gov. Jerry Brown in July 2014 and joined the bench in late August after con-cluding her last murder trial as a San Francisco prosecutor. Douglas had previously served as a deputy district attorney in the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office from 2000 to 2013. | The Honorable L. Douglas Hogan has

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Bridgett LLP. Bernard counsels private, nonprofit and public employers regarding all aspects of retirement health plan design, implementation and compliance. | Monica Hans has been promoted to partner at the Sacramento firm Delfino Madden O’Malley Coyle & Koewler. | Alana Mathews was among 10 young leaders featured in Comstock’s magazine’s March 2015 article “The Next Wave.” Mathews has been the public adviser at the California Energy Commission since June 2013. | Anthony McClaren reached the summit of the largest and high-est volcano in Peru, the Nevado Coropuna, elevation 21,079 feet. | Mhare Mouradian has joined the Los Angeles law firm Clark & Trevithick as partner. Mouradian was selected for the 2014 Southern California and Mountain States Rising Stars list for a fifth

areas of public agency, employ-ment, bankruptcy, creditors’ rights and natural resources litigation. | Rex Frazier made the 2014 Capitol Weekly Top 100 list of the most powerful nonelected movers and shakers in California political circles at No. 29. | Timothy Healy was sworn in as a judge of the Calaveras County Superior Court on Jan. 5, 2015. The former San Joaquin County deputy district attorney scored a rare victory over an incumbent judge in the November election. | William Schuetz has been named a new shareholder of the Sacramento law firm Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard.

2001 Daniel A. Flores was elected a judge in the San Francisco Superior Court on Nov. 4, 2014. Flores began his term on Jan. 15, 2015. He gave the

Pacific McGeorge commencement address on May 16, 2015. | Piper Hanson (Laird) has formed a new law firm, Piper Hanson Law, in San Mateo County. Hanson is a mobile attorney specializing in estate planning, real estate, and elder law, and she is an active member of the Pacifica Chamber of Commerce.

2002 Patrick Bergin has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 21st edition of The Best Lawyers in America for 2015. A partner with Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP, he represents American Indian tribes in the areas of litiga-tion, gaming law and economic development. | Jack Duran was re-elected to another four-year term to the Placer County Board of Supervisors, District 1, which encompasses the city of Roseville and unincorporated West Placer County. | Bruce Last started a solo firm in 2014 after leaving a 10-year position with the Jellins Group, APLC. He is also a contract-ing remote attorney editor with Thomson Reuters. | Rachel Miller has opened her own office after 10 years at the Public Defender’s Office in El Dorado County. | Todd Trotter has been appointed to the California Veterans Board by Gov. Jerry Brown.

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consecutive nomination, and he was selected as a Top Attorney in Pasadena magazine for business litigation. | Rochelle Swanson was selected for the 2014 Sacramento Business Journal ’s Women Who Mean Business program. Swanson is a regional account manager at CTI Towers, Inc. and a City of Davis council member.

2004 Rebecca Dietzen is the 2015 president of Women Lawyers of Sacramento. She is an attorney III at the California Department of Health Care Services. | Neil Forester has co-founded a new firm, Forester and Purcell Inc., in Folsom. | Aaron Ralph joined the Washington, D.C. office of

Greenberg Traurig as an associ-ate in its government contracts and projects practice group. Prior to joining the firm, he served as an attorney with the Air Force’s Acquisition Law and Litigation Directorate.

2005 Annie Amaral has been named partner in the Sacramento firm

Most of our time in law school is spent reading judicial deci-sions as law schools traditionally focus on the development

of common law. Because our legal training is based largely on case law interpretation, law students spend little time on statu-tory development and construction. Moreover, law schools rarely teach aspiring lawyers about how laws and regulations are made, or how to change laws or regulations to benefit their clients. In most instances, when you are practicing law, you interpret the law as written based upon application of cases and statutes to the specific facts of your client’s case.

While any lawyers will apply the facts of their case to the law as it exists, a really good lawyer should also look closely at changing the law to benefit his or her client’s position. Lawyers today will be bet-ter able to think about changing the law (statutes or regulations) by understanding the lawmaking and rulemaking processes, as well as the role of lobbyists in these processes at the state level.

There are considerable benefits for a lawyer to understand the lawmaking and rulemaking processes. When appropriate, chang-

ing the law should be an option that is provided to your client.

Chris Micheli, ’92, is an attorney and registered lobbyist with the Sacramento government rela-tions firm of Aprea & Micheli, Inc. who writes frequently for Capitol Weekly. Jennifer Barrera is an attorney and policy advocate with the California Chamber of Commerce.

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Downey Brand. | William Lapcevic has been named a partner in the Sacramento law firm Ellis Law Group LLP. | John Newell has been named director of the Rozier E. Sanchez Judicial Education Center of New Mexico, which provides education and training to the judges, administra-tors and other staff of the New Mexico judicial branch. | Anthony

Williams has been appointed to the California Fish and Game Commission. Williams has been director of government relations at the Boeing Company since 2014.

2006 Ric Asfar has joined the Vaka Law Group as an attorney in Tampa, Florida. Asfar will continue to practice civil appeals and litigation

with an emphasis on representing plaintiffs in catastrophic personal, wrongful death, and insurance coverage and bad faith matters. | Meghan Baker has been named partner in the Sacramento firm Downey Brand. | Adam Koss has been promoted to partner at Murphy Pearson Bradley & Feeney. Koss represents profes-sionals and their businesses in real

SERVING AND CONNECTING

Two alumni offer personalized legal services to the local Muslim

and South Asian communities

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Sahreen Manzar, ’13 (left), and classmate Sameera Ali, ’12, noticed in law school that there was a lack of Muslim attor-

neys serving communities of Indian or Pakistani descent. So they decided to start their own firm, Crimmigration, in June 2013.

The term “crimmigration” describes the intersection of criminal defense and immigration law. While this is the main focus of their firm, they also practice family law and corporate law when it over-laps with immigration law.

Manzar developed the firm’s blueprint during Professor Raquel Aldana’s immigration law class. Aldana talked about the many immigrants whose legal needs are served by lawyers abroad who are not familiar with U.S. laws and practices. Manzar wanted to address that niche.

Crimmigration was founded with the intention of serving South Asian and Muslim communities in the Sacramento area; the firm has since opened another office in Fremont. Though their ser-vices are available to everyone, they specifically wanted to reach out to Pakistani and Indian immigrants and their families—populations, they say, that are often hesitant to seek out legal advice, in part for cultural reasons.

Manzar, who was born in Pakistan, and Ali, who was born in Southern California to Indian-born parents, emphasize “cultural competency.” That means, in part, speaking to clients in their native languages and connecting with them through

their shared backgrounds. Starting out on their own was a risk, but Manzar and Ali say the

proximity to McGeorge means access to their mentors when they need it most. “I feel like McGeorge is looking after us,” Manzar says.


[Alumni News]

estate litigation and lawyer mal-practice and serves as appellate counsel on a wide range of subject matters. | John J. Moffatt has been promoted to partner at the Sacramento law firm of Nielsen Merksamer. | Stephanie Rice was honored as one of Sacramento Business Journal ’s “40 under 40” in the Nov. 21, 2014, issue. She is an associate with Spinelli Donald and Nott PC and is active in Junior League, MetroEdge and the SCBA. | Brandon Schindelheim has joined the tax and accounting firm Saxe, Roth, Schwartz, Dokovna & Lynskey CPAs as partner. | Brandon A. Takahashi has joined Adli Law Group PC as partner and head of labor and employment. Prior to joining Adli Law Group PC, Takahashi was senior associate with the national employment law firm, Jackson Lewis PC.

2007 Jared Gaynor has joined University of the Pacific as the executive coordinator for special projects, analysis and com-munication in the Office of the Provost. He is married to Annette Ferrante, ’08, and they have two children, Abigail (2012) and Jacob (2013). | Gavin McGrane was featured as a 2014 Legal Rebel in the September 2014 issue of the ABA Journal. | Jon Oldenburg has been promoted to managing attorney and partner at United Law Center in Roseville.

| Jinnifer Pitcher has accepted a clerkship with Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Pitcher recently completed a clerkship for District Judge Troy L. Nunley, Eastern District of California.

2008 Natalie Bustamante has joined Kennaday, Leavitt & Daponde, PC as an associate attorney. Bustamante specializes in employment litigation and counseling for employers. | Conor P. Flynn has been named to the 2015 Mountain States Rising Star list. Flynn is a litigation attorney whose practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in Armstrong Teasdale’s Nevada practice. | Kenneth Mackie has been named shareholder in the law firm of Canelo, Wallace, Padron & Mackie, PC in Merced. | James Watson has been pro-moted partner at Gaw Van Male, the largest firm serving Solano and Napa counties.

2009 David M. Marchiano has been elected to serve on the Contra Costa County Bar Association board of directors for 2015 start-ing Jan. 1, 2015. Marchiano is an attorney in Archer Norris’ litiga-tion practice.

2010 Jeremy Luke Hendrix has been named partner in the Sacramento

firm Desmond, Nolan, Livaich & Cunningham.

2011 Kim M. Bowman Jr. is serving as the interim manager of the Department of Population Health Sciences and as the manager of the Health System Innovation and Research Division for the University of Utah Health Sciences. Bowman has been com-missioned a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, Judge Advocate General’s Corps Reserve and has been assigned to the 75th Air Base Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. He is serving as the parliamentarian of the Salt Lake County Democratic Party and was recently re-elected as a member of the Greater Avenues. | Kathleen Donelan-Maher has been named partner at Mopsick Tax Law, LLP. | Amy Gowan has joined Donahue Fitzgerald LLP as an associate attorney in the Walnut

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Creek office. | AnnMichelle Hart has opened a law office, HartLaw, PLLC, in Seattle. | Justin Keys joined Jones Waldo as a litigation associate in Salt Lake City. Keys previously practiced as a judicial law clerk for former Chief Judge Ted Stewart, handling civil and criminal cases. | Corrie (Erickson) Manning joined the League of California Cities as deputy general counsel. | Lauren Manning will begin the University of Arkansas School of Law’s highly competi-tive LL.M. program in food and agriculture law in August 2015, with a full tuition waiver. She will serve as a visiting professor at the law school while attending. Manning has also started a food and agriculture news and editorial blog called The California Crow. | Lawrence Manzi, LL.M., made a statement at the U.N. Security Council debate on U.N. Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) on Sept. 11, 2014, in his role as political coordinator at the Permanent Mission of Rwanda to the United Nations.

2012 Saad Alabdulwahed launched Mubarak A. Al Juwair & Partner, a professional partnership, in 2013 in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. | Michelle DuCharme has joined the Sacramento office of Greenberg Traurig as an associate in the firm’s litigation practice. | Lt. Clayton McCarl, JAGC, USN, and Lt. Lindsay McCarl,

JAGC, USN, and their daughter, Sophie, will spend the next two years of their U.S. Navy careers practicing law in Guam!

2013 Taylor Bloom has joined Dhillon Law Group Inc. as an associ-ate attorney in the San Diego office, where she represents clients in campaign and elec-tion law matters. | Shari Borba has joined Herum Crabtree Suntag as an associate attorney. | Alyssa Cervantes has joined Lorenz in its Brussels office as an associate attorney specializing in privacy and data protection. | Colleen Flannery has joined the North Delta Water Agency as the assistant manager, and the California Central Valley

Flood Control Association as the assistant director. | Peter Handy was admitted to the Nevada bar in October 2014 and began working for the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office in Douglas County, Nevada, as a deputy district attorney in April 2015. | Andrea S. Moon has joined the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation Non-Medical Class Action Team as an attorney. Moon previously worked as an attorney with the California Prison Industry Authority. | Tara Rojas presented “Divorce Cases From Start to Finish for Paralegals” for the National Business Institute in Sacramento in November 2014.

2014 Christopher Blau has joined Heidell, Pittoni, Murphy & Bach, LLP as an attorney in the Bridgeport, Connecticut, office, where his practice includes general civil litigation defense and appellate practice. He was married in July 2014 and passed the Connecticut bar exam in fall 2014. | Michelle Chester is an executive fellow to Commissioner Janea Scott at the California Energy Commission in the 2014-2015 CSUS Capital Fellows Program. | Haley Cose has joined the 5th District Court of Appeal as an Appellate Court attorney. | Sosan Madanat has joined the Foundation for Democracy and Justice as executive director. |

Matthew Fleming, ’11, and Katie (Oldham) Fleming, ’12, on their wedding day. Professor Raquel Aldana officiated the ceremony.


[Alumni News]

Michelle Nam has joined the Criminal Defense Practice of the Bronx Defenders in New York. | Katherine Pankow has accepted an offer to publish a lead article in the Whittier Law Review. Her article is titled “Under Construction: The California Appellate Court’s Misguided Decision in Liberty Mutual Ins. Co. v. Brookfield Crystal Cove LLC

and the Legislature’s Blueprint to Reconstruct the Right to Repair Act.” She is an associate with Green & Hall APC, and her practice includes construction defect, real estate and business litigation. | Camille Rasmussen has joined Goyette & Associates as an associate in the firm’s labor and employment and litigation practice. | Anastasia Salmon is

building the family law practice at Hackard Law, a PLC from the ground up. She will be working with the legal subcommittee for the new Sacramento County Family Justice Center. | Myles Taylor has joined Radoslovich | Parker, PC as an attorney. | Maro Walther is a legal intern at the United States Senate in Washington, D.C.

Selena Farnesi, ’15, established herself as one of the best student advocates in the country, tying for third place

in Baylor Law School’s 2015 Top Gun National Mock Trial Competition, held June 4-7 in Waco, Texas. Farnesi also earned the competition’s Most Professional Award.

The Top Gun tournament is an invitation-only mock trial event where the best individuals from the leading law school teams go head-to-head for a trophy and a first-place prize of $10,000. Unlike in other competitions, participants do not receive a case file until they arrive at the host school the day before the tournament begins.

“McGeorge was invited for the first time to this event because of Selena’s outstanding performance in the National Trial Competition and other competitions in which she represented our school,” says Professor Cary Bricker, Pacific McGeorge’s Mock Trial Team director. “Coaches Jake Flesher (’00), and Jason Schaff (’06) not only advo-cated for her participation, but they paid her expenses.”

Farnesi was accompanied by coach Schaff and third-year student coach Kathryne Baldwin as second-chair assis-tant. She won preliminary rounds against Chicago-Kent, Faulkner University, Hofstra and UC Berkeley and advanced to a semifinal round against NYU. In a well-fought round, NYU advanced to the finals, and went on to win the compe-tition, beating out Yale.

Farnesi’s sensational showing in the event came as no surprise to those who had seen her in action at Pacific McGeorge. In April, she had been chosen as the first win-ner of the law school’s $10,000 Ferris-White Best Student Advocate Prize, a new prize funded by alumni and former trial team stars R. Parker White, ’80, and Noël Ferris, ‘79.

TOP GUNSelena Farnesi, ’15, shines in

elite mock trial competition

By Mike Curran

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[Alumni News]

Frank Hue, ’60, died at the age of 87 on Dec. 19, 2014, in Roseville. He served as a Kern County public defender for several decades.

John Gates, ’63, died at the age of 81 on May 4, 2014, in Sacramento. He practiced law for several years before embarking on a successful career as a real estate broker.

Tony Stathos, ’63, died at the age of 85 on Dec. 15, 2013, in Sacramento. After a career as an Air Force pilot and 10 years as an elementary school teacher, he practiced law for 45 years before his retirement in 2000.

James Harrison, ’64, died after a brief illness at the age of 87 on Jan. 1, 2014, in Sacramento. He practiced law for more than three decades with Coben, Cooper & Zilaff before ending his career as a solo practitioner.

Burl Waits, ’66, died at the age of 83 on Aug. 21, 2014, in Sacramento. A veteran who came to law school without attend-ing college, he practiced law for more than 40 years in Sacramento and was instrumental in forming several nonprofit organizations.

John Jachens, ’67, died at the age of 79 on March 3, 2014, in Sacramento. In addition to practicing law, he once served as an administrative assistant to the Assembly speaker and was a long-time American River Fire District board member.

Frank Cook, ’69, died at the age of 75 on Dec. 28, 2013, in Las Vegas. He practiced law in California and Nevada for 35 years.

Kenneth Baker, ’72, died at the age of 71 on June 15, 2014, in Chico. He practiced law for 42 years and was very active in the Butte County community, serving as president of several area charities includ-ing the Butte College Foundation.

William Chapman, ’72, died at the age of 70 on April 27, 2014, in St. Augustine, Florida. He practiced maritime and labor law in California until moving to St. Croix, Virgin Islands, where he practiced for many years in federal courts.

Craig Pridgen, ’73, died at the age of 68 on Jan. 15, 2014, in Woodland. He prac-ticed law with firms in Mountain View, Bakersfield, Beverly Hills and San Francisco before opening a private practice in Tahoe City.

Fred Schroeder,’73, died at the age of 72 on March 13, 2015, in Elk Grove. He enjoyed a 35-year career as an assistant deputy district attorney in Sacramento and Sutter counties while also serving on several civic and charity boards.

Robert G. Miller, ’74, died at the age of 71 on March 1, 2014, in Auburn. He worked for 30 years as an attorney for the California State Legislative Council before retirement.

Chuck Blakeley, ’75, died at the age of 73 on Dec. 3, 2014, in Sacramento. He was a longtime criminal defense attorney in the capital city area.

Joseph Key, ’75, died at the age of 99 on May 30, 2014, in Reno, Nevada. Awarded his law degree at the age of 61, he began his legal career as a Washoe County deputy district attorney before entering private practice.

Robert Milam, ’75, died after a long ill-ness at the age of 75 on Feb. 3, 2014, in Davis. He had a distinguished 26-year career with several state agencies and once argued a case for the California Attorney General before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Stephen Emery, ’76, died of cancer at the age of 66 on Feb. 5, 2015, in Bangor, Maine. He was one of the most promi-nent workers’ compensation attorneys in that New England state.

Charles Rose, ’77, died at the age of 68 on July 10, 2014, in Napa. He practiced law for more than four decades, primarily in the Sacramento area where he served as senior counsel for Foundation Health Corp.

Sharon C. Stevens, ’77, died from com-plications following a heart attack at the age of 66 on July 7, 2014, in Keizer, Oregon. She began her career as a dep-uty district attorney in Marion County, later moving into private practice as a 20-year partner in Callahan & Stevens.

Cynthia Pyzel, ’78, died at the age of 60 on Dec. 17, 2013, in Reno, Nevada. After several years in private practice, she joined the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, serving agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services until her retirement in 2011.

Judith Smith, ’79, died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 69 on Aug. 17, 2014, in Sacramento. She worked for several law firms over the years and was very active in the community. In 1984, she served as president of the McGeorge Alumni Association.

IN MEMORIAM


[Alumni News]

Robert Lucas, ’80, died at the age of 67 on Jan. 8, 2015, in Sacramento. He oper-ated his own lobbying business, Lucas Advocates, for three decades, represent-ing alliances and companies involved in energy production and environmental quality control.

Kenneth Kay, ’80, LL.M. ’85, died at the age of 58 on May 5, 2014, in Fresno. He practiced real estate law for many years and was a published author, political talk show host and university adjunct professor.

John Tosney, ’80, died of a heart attack at the age of 62 on Jan. 11, 2014, while vacationing in Costa Rica. A well-known Sacramento attorney, he operated a practice in bankruptcy law for more than three decades.

Gerald Deady, ’82, died at the age of 58 on Oct. 15, 2013, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He was a prominent crimi-nal defense attorney who once won a reversal of a death-penalty sentence.

Nancy Hotchkiss Smith, ’82, died after a long battle with brain cancer at the age of 57 on Jan. 19, 2015, in Sacramento. She spent her entire legal career with Trainor Fairbrook after joining the prominent real estate firm as its second employee.

Jeff Corzine, ’84, died at the age of 58 on Jan. 14, 2014, in Folsom. A former president of the El Dorado County Bar Association, he was a personal injury attorney and partner at Adams & Corzine in Folsom.

Barbara Eckard, ’84, died at the age of 69 on Sept. 16, 2014, in Roseville. She

worked for more than three decades for the state of California’s Office of Administrative Law and was involved in many community organizations.

Anne E. Elbrecht, ’84, died of a brain tumor at the age of 74 on Sept. 24, 2014, in Davis. A scholar of Armenian his-tory, she worked as an attorney for the California state government for nearly two decades.

James Meier, ’85, died suddenly at the age of 58 on Feb. 19, 2015, in Sacramento. He taught science at two Waldorf schools for more than 20 years.

Roger Whomes, ’85, died at the age of 58 on Jan. 28, 2014, in Reno, Nevada. He was a prosecutor in the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office for 18 years with a three-year hiatus in private practice. He later moved to the county Public Defender’s Office.

Denny Forland, ’86, died from complica-tions related to pneumonia at the age of 60 on Dec. 20, 2014, in Sacramento. A former public defender and criminal defense attorney, he was a judge of the Butte County Superior Court bench.

Robert Lucherini, ’86, died at the age of 58 on May 15, 2014, in Logan, Utah. He served as a deputy district attorney for Clark County, Nevada, and was later a highly regarded criminal defense attorney.

Kurt Kumli, ’87, died of brain cancer at the age of 52 on Aug. 2, 2014, in San Francisco. A nationally recognized expert on juvenile law and policy, he was a well-known judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court who spent

20 years as a prosecutor before taking the bench. Surviving family members include his wife, Sue Gillett, ’87, and brother Karl Kumli, ’81.

John Gezelius, ’89, died of a heart attack at the age of 58 on Aug. 2, 2014, in Orange. A former missile launch com-mander in the U.S. Air Force, he was a longtime probate attorney and special-ized in elder law.

Samantha Spangler, ’89, died after a long battle with progressive supra-nuclear palsy at the age of 49 on April 10, 2014, in Auburn. She was an assistant U.S. attorney who was honored in 1999 with a Director’s Award from Attorney General Janet Reno.

Harry Bivens, ’90, died at the age of 60 on Aug. 8, 2014, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He began his career with Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP before founding the Law Offices of Harry R. Bivens, which specialized in construction contracts law.

Patricia B. Jennings, ’94, died at the age of 46 on Sept. 16, 2014, in San Jose. She practiced law with Henk, Bock, Leonard & Vega in Sacramento before moving to the South Bay.

Krysten Hicks, ’05, LL.M. ’06, died after a long battle with breast cancer at the age of 34 on Sept. 20, 2014, in Poway. She practiced municipal law with Meyers Nave, serving as assistant city attorney for Citrus Heights, Colusa and Pittsburg.

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E.L. Weigand FoundationRed River Shipping

CorporationThe Telfeyan Evangelical

Fund, Inc.United States Department

of State

$35,000+Albert J. and Mae Lee

Memorial TrustAYCO Charitable

FoundationCalifornia NBR Settlement

FundCarpenters Local Union 586Hefner, Stark & Marois,

LLPKaweah Lemon CompanyKronick, Moskovitz,

Tiedemann & GirardOrrick, Herrington &

Sutcliffe, LLP

$25,000+Brian L. Hintz Memorial

Golf TournamentLaw Office of Noёl M. FerrisMedpac of the CA Assn. of

Physician GroupsPfund Family FoundationRussian-United States Legal

FoundationSierra Oaks MortgageThe Thomas P. & Thelma B.

Hart FoundationUN Environment

Programme TrustUniversity of Phoenix

FoundationUS Bank

$20,000+American Board of Trial

AdvocatesMcDonough, Holland &

Allen PCWilliam C-B Foundation

2014 DEAN’S COUNCILThe following lists recognize individuals and organizations that made gifts to Pacific McGeorge during the 2014 calendar year.

Individuals

Elaine SamansTom Sinetos Michael J. & Eileen Van

ZandtMichael & Erie P. VitielloPhilip H. & JoAnne S. WileJames M. & Rita M. WizeWilliam P. & Judy Yee

Corporations/Organizations

$1,000,000+Hugh & Hazel Darling

FoundationThe Max C. Fleischmann

Foundation

$500,000+Arata Bros. TrustThe Fletcher Jones

Foundation

$250,000+Albert & Elaine Borchard

FoundationThe Ahmanson FoundationC.L.E.P.R.Downey Brand Attorneys,

LLPE.L. Cord FoundationGannett FoundationGeorge H. Sandy

FoundationGordon D. Schaber 1996

Charitable Remainder Unitrust

The James Irvine FoundationJohn A. McCarthy

FoundationJohn Brownston Charitable

Remainder TrustJohn Stauffer Charitable

TrustMargaret Deteerding

FoundationPublic Legal Services SocietySacramento BeeSacramento Estate Planning

CouncilSacramento Region

Community FoundationThe Sierra Health

FoundationThe William D. James

Foundation

$50,000+Alfred P. Sloan FoundationThe Dana FoundationDreyer Babich Buccola

Wood Campora LLP

$25,000+John Q. & Phyllis Brown Laurel V. Bell-Cahill &

Timothy F. CahillGerald M. & Deborah B. Caplan

Frank J. Christy Jr. Charles B. & Kathleen T.

CoyneHelen H. & Bradford M.

CrittendenLoren S. DahlSharon G. FaitAnna Rose Fischer Morton L. & Marcine

FriedmanEmil GumpertMichael A. & Lisa Hackard Richard A. & Karen Harris John W. Hawkins Anthony M. Kennedy

J. David & Margaret Kistjanson

Frank & JoAnn LaBella Jr. Marilyn R. Lee & Harvey A.

SchneiderDavid P. & Kathleen R.

MastagniEugene W. McGeorgeMarc D. & Mona RobertsAnnie M. & Chris RogaskiEdward J. & Marian M.

TiedemannCharles W. & Paulette

TrainorWinifried van den

Muijsenbergh Sunny Von Bulow Borden D. & Kathleen WebbAlba WitkinBernard E. WitkinAlfred E. Yudes Jr.

$20,000+Thadd A. & Elaine M.

BlizzardRonald E. & Carola C.

BlubaughEdgar A. BoylesSamuel ChicosLouise L. & Thomas A. ChiuK. C. FanFaith GeogheganRoger G. Halfhide &

Patricia A. McVerryMark HefnerPauline JohnsonWarren A. JonesDarrel W. & Kathleen LewisPerry & Sophia PotirisRobert L. Roush

$50,000+Daniel E. & Jacqueline F.

AnguisGiles S. & Cynthia AttiaThomas R. & Suzanne BalesMelissa C. BrownNoёl M. FerrisBenjamin D. FrantzDonald W. FraulobSherill HalbertCharles D. KelsoBrian K. & Dorothy S.

LandsbergJames R. LewisFrancis J. Mootz III &

Leticia SaucedoTimothy E. NaccaratoGergory D. & Nancy A.

OgrodKenneth E. & Linda K.

OlsonElizabeth Rindskopf &

Robert ParkerClaude D. & Lynn L.

RohwerAnthony J. ScaloraElvin F. & Pauline C. SheehyRobert N. & Doris StarkEdward H. Telfeyan &

Jeri PaikMark K. WhiteR. Parker White

$35,000+Walter F. & Janet K.

Alexander Jr. David & Lexis M. AllenFred AndersonLeighton D. ArmstrongDavid & Carl CairnsGlenn A. FaitDoris GrossWilliam D. & Joy M. HarnBen E. Johnson Ken & Bonnie Jean KwongJohn LonerganThomas J. LongJohn R. & Peggy MastermanHardie G. & Cheryl SetzerDonald R. & Dorothy A.

SteedDaniel E. Wilcoxen

LIFETIME INVESTORS The following lists recognize individuals and organizations that have made gifts, pledges, and estate or planned gifts to Pacific McGeorge in excess of $20,000.

Individuals

1,000,000+Dona K. Buckingham Richard L. Stark

$500,000+Hayne R. & Susan Moyer

$250,000+James & Dorothy AdamsIrving H. & Katherine O.

BieleJohn BrownstonRaymond BurrRoberta & C. & Carl

KierneyBetty KnudsonEnlow & Melena OseGordon D. SchaberAngelo K. Tsakopoulos

$100,000+Rosalie S. AsherMichael D. and

Jacqueline S. BeloteRobert A. BuccolaRobert F. ButlerFrancis B. DillonSam GordonJanis Besler HeaphyKathleen C. HendersonPamela M. HendersonGenshiro KawamotoJeanette PowellDaniel D. RichardScott S. SlaterEdward & Carol SpurgeonSteve Weiss

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[Donors]

Kristin B. WangMingpei Wang Sharon J. Waters*Jake C. WeaverBorden D. Webb**Thomas J. Welsh**Joseph J. & Lynne

Weninger**Elena A. WilsonJames R. Wirrell William P. & Judy Yee**Jennet ZapataAllan S. & Karen Jo

Zaremberg*

****20+ Years of Membership

***15+ Years of Membership**10+ Years of Membership

*5+ Years of Membership

CORPORATE COUNCIL

Businesses, Corporations, Law Firms & Organizations

Adams & Hayes Law OfficeAdvoCalAEP River OperationsAerojet GeneralDavid Allen and AssociatesAmerican Board of Trial

AdvocatesThe American Society of

International LawThe Law Office of Frances AnThe Law Office of Diane

AndersonThe Law Office of Maureen

Meehan AplinAprea & Micheli, Inc.Arnold and AssociatesAssociation of California

State SupervisorsAstin EnterprisesAtherton & DozierAvansino, Melarkey, Knobel,

Mulligan & McKenzieThe Law Office of Ball and

YorkeRJ Bath Group, IncBaydaline & Jacobsen, LLPBayer Crop Science, LPBeattie & Aghazarian, LLPBeeson Terhorst LLPBernard E. & Alba Witkin

Charitable Foundation

Mike S. Mireles, Jr.*James M. Mize****Andrea S. MoonIvan M. & Kelly MoralesRaissa N. MorrisJohn B. & Emma MulliganRobert D. & Donna Murta* Timothy E. & Lina

Naccarato**Marie A. Nakamura &

Tammy Lynn Samsel*Tien M. NguyenJohn A. Norwood*Nikole M. OmotoyRichard & Martha OpichGeralynn Patellaro**James B. PierceBrian J. Plant & Suzanne E.

RogersGregory M. PorterJ. Brian Putler**Frank M. RadoslovichWilliam E. & Libbey D.

RaineyMark C. Raskoff*Andrew B. ReisingerTara M. RojasDouglas L. RopelChristopher L. Russell**Lisa Rettig RyanAndrew E. Schouten &

Megan M. MooreKarl A. SchweikertArthur G. & Susan

Scotland*Stacey K. ShellyAdam B. ShoorMichael I. & Wendy Sidley*Tracy L. Simmons John C. Sims**Elise M. SissonChristopher A. SkeltonEvan D. Smiley*Jacob C. SmithMorgan C. Smith**Simone C. SmithStuart L. SomachWilliam J. Staack*Margaret C. Stark-Roberts*C. M. Starr IIDonald R. & Dorothy A.

Steed****Brandon A. TakahashiEdward H. Telfeyan & Jeri

Paik****Kelly O’Rourke ThomasBarbara Thomas**Kelly L. ThomasJennifer A. ThompsonJulianne TriphonAnn L. Trowbridge*Michael & Erie P. Vitiello***

Michelle Hahn**Howard S. HamiltonSheila A. Hard*Judith A. Harper*Mr. Bryan C. Hartnell &

Monica M. Neumann**Melissa A. HastieGregory A. HayesKevin T. Hennessy**Leah E. HernandezScott M. & Andrea Hervey*Thomas W. HiltachkNicholas J. HortonJoshua P. HunsuckerLori A. Hunt*Leslie Gielow & Matthew

G. JacobsKaren L. JacobsenMelissa L. JohnsonWarren A. Jones****Nicholas A. JordanRyan D. KassoDebra J. Kazanjian**Christian M. Keiner**Randall E. Kessler*Ester KimDeborah J. KollarsShawn M. KroghFern M. Laethem*David R. Lane**Gerald D. Latasa, Jr.Gayle J. Lau**Alexander K. LeeJenith E. Lee R. Marilyn Lee & Harvey

A. Schneider**Richard K. Lee*Lawrence C. Levine**James R. Lewis****Darrin Lim*Adam D. LinkPatricia A. & George C.

LytalS. Hether C. & Stephen M.

MacfarlaneCatherine C. MacMillan**Janice D. MagdichC. Emmett MahlePatricia S. Mar*Aimee C. MartinDavid P. & Kathleen R.

Mastagni****Gustavo E. & Talia

Matheus*Charlene Stratton

Matteson**Evelyn M. Matteucci*Stephen C. & Susan J.

McCaffrey**Danielle A. MesrobianMelissa A. MethDavid R. Miller

MEMBER (VARIOUS LEVELS)David W. & Susan H.

Abbott***Raquel E. Aldana &

Luis A. Mogollón Ronald D. & Francis

Alling*William G. & Lisa K.

Anderson, Jr.*David F. Anderson**James C. AndersonRichard N. Asfar*Paul A. & Lucille

BacigalupoDustin C. BankstonRobert A. BartleyBennett L. BeardenClifford P. Berg**Steven A. & Teri L. Block*Ronald E. & Carola C.

Blubaugh**Kristina A. BrownTristan G. Brown Connie Callahan &

Randy Haight**Colette Stone Carlson*Alberta C. Chew**Thomas A. & Louise L.

ChiuJung H. ChoJohn L. Cosgrove, Sr.**Robert S. CoxJohn F. Cruikshank, IIIAndrew M. & Laura

Cummings*Bethany F. Daniels

Muhlhauser James F. & Emily DawsonColleen VanEgmond

Delahanty*Nirav K. Desai*Richard K. Dickson II**Kerry Campbell DoyleVictor G. DrakulichStephen J. Egan & Andrea

L. HochGinny M. EllisMorrison England, Jr.**Scott H. EppersonAnne C. FadenrechtCasandra J. Fernandez*Colleen R. FlanneryPatrick I. FordTimothy M. FrawleyFaith Geoghegan***Randolph H. & Patricia M.

Getz**Lance D. GibsonJustin R. GiovannettoneThomas H. Gourlay, Jr.*Lawrence B. Hagel

COUNSELOR ($20,000+)Michael D. & Jacqueline S.

Belote** Charles D. Kelso**** Scott S. Slater**

SHAREHOLDER ($10,000+)Robert A. Buccola* Paul E. DassenkoNoёl M. Ferris*** Brian K. & Dorothy S.

Landsberg** R. Parker White***

CABINET MEMBER ($7,500+)Francis J. Mootz III &

Leticia Saucedo

PATRON ($5,000+)Daniel E. & Jacqueline F.

Angius****William C. Bartels*Hayne R. & Susan

Moyer****Vigo G. Nielsen*Tamarra T. RennickClaude D. Rohwer***John G. Sprankling**

ADVOCATE ($2,500+)Walter F. & Janet K.

Alexander*David & Lexis M. Allen****Joseph J. BabichCary A. Bricker & Thomas

J. LeachLaurel M. Bell-Cahill &

Timothy Cahill***Gerald M. & Deborah B.

Caplan****Julie A. Davies & Thomas

A. Busch**Erin M. & Sean A.

Dunston*Roger G. Halfhide &

Patricia A. McVerry**William D. & Joy Harn**Richard & Karen Harris***Jeffrey G. HuronJ. David & Margaret

Kristjanson****Darrell W. & Kathleen

Lewis*Gregory D. & Nancy A.

Ogrod***Malcolm S. Swift*Michael & Eileen Van

Zandt*Alfred E. & Deborah E.

Yudes, Jr.**

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[Donors]

The Law Office of P. John Mancuso

Mason & ThomasMastagni, Holstedt, Amick,

Miller & JohnsenMatheny Sears Linkert

Jaime, LLPMatlock Law GroupThe Law Office of Brian C.

McClayMcDonald Carano Wilson

LLPRichard M. Mehigan, PCThe Law Offices of Robert

M. MerrittMeyers, Nave, Riback, Silver

and WilsonMicrosoft CorporationMikacich Law OfficeMiles & WestbrookThe Miles Law FirmMiller & Olson LLPMiller Owen & TrostThe Law Office of Jack T.

MolodanofMontague and ViglioneMorgan Stanley Global

Impact Funding Trust, Inc.

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation

The Law Office of Robert E. Moss, Jr.

Meridian Pacific, Inc.Murphy, Austin, Adams &

Schoenfeld, LLPNationwide Insurance

CompanyNevada County Public

DefenderThe Law Office of Ray

NewmanNielsen Merksamer

Parrinello Gross & Leoni LLP

Norwalk Consulting, LLCNorwood & AssociatesNossaman, LLCNovey, Tribuiano &

Yamada, LLPNovozymes, Inc.The Law Office of Linda

O’BrienOrrick, Herrington &

Sutcliffe, LLPOstergar Law Group PC

Law Offices of Gary A. Kessler

The Law Office of David Keyzer, PC

KJK LawKlein DeNatale Goldner

LLPKlink Law Office, A

Professional CorpKoeller, Nebeker, Carlson &

Haluck, LLPThe Law Office of Terry L.

KorteThe Law Office of Paul C.

KozlowKristensen Weisberg, LLPKronick, Moskovitz,

Tiedemann & GirardLane, Duncan &

LambertsonLang and AssociatesThe Law Office of John C.

LaufenbergThe Law Office of Jorge B.

MaradiegueLaw Office of Katherine C.

SaboThe Law Office of Mark E.

MerinLaw Office of Pino and

AssociatesLaw Offices of Gary L. LinkLaw Offices of James B.

MacyLaw Offices of Joseph W.

Scalia, APCLaw Offices of Leticia

TannerLaw Offices of Ruthe WynneWebb & Tapella Law

CorporationThe Law Office of Casey

LeClairLeupp & Woodall Attorneys

at LawLexis NexisThe Law Office of Peter N.

LindquistThe Law Office of Michael

G. LoefflerThe Law Office of Gilberto

Lopez, Jr.Lucas LawMacKenzie & BrodyThe Law Office of Tara J.

Macomber

Habbas, Nasseri & Associates

The Law Office of Linda Hamel

The Law Office of Michael L. Hanks

Hanna Brophy MacLean McAleer & Jensen LLP

The Law Office of William Hardy

Richard Harris Law FirmHart KingHartnell Law Group, APCJ R Hastings Law

CorporationHector M. de Avila

Gonzalez, FLCLaw Offices of John P.

HendersonLaw Offices of Robert C.

Hess, LLCLaw Office of Higgins &

HigginsKenneth J. Hilliard Law

OfficeHolden Law GroupThe Law Office of Catherine

L. HughesRodney G. Hughes, CPALaw Offices of Patricia

HughesThe Law Offices of Daniel

A. HuntLaw Office of Jennifer HuntLaw Offices of Michael B.

IndrajanaInman Law Group LLPJacobson Markham, LLPThe Law Office of Barbara

M. JacobsonJames M. Ratzer A

Professional CorporationJames W. Laroe Insurance

Agency, IncThe Law Office of Martin F.

Jennings, Jr.Jerry M. Kuperstein

Attorney at LawThe Law Office of Thomas F.

JohnsonJones & DyerJones and Beardsley, PCK & L Gates LLCKaeser Hull, LLPThe Law Office of Warren E.

KammKaplan and AssociatesThe Law Office of Stephanie

KapposThe Law Office of David

Karabinus

Christopher CovingtonCrimmigration, Inc.Marie Crowley FoundationCuneo Black Ward &

MisslerDannis Woliver KelleyDavid Weiner Attorney at

LawDavis Wills & TrustsThe Law Firm of Joanne

DeLongDennis John Durkin,

Attorney at LawDesmond, Nolan, Livaich &

CunninghamRick and Donna Dickson

FoundationThe Digesti Law Firm LLPLaw Offices of Dopkins and

RolfeDreyer Babich Buccola

Wood Campora LLPDrobny Law Offices, Inc.Drury Pullen PLCDwight M. Samuel A

Professional CorporationDyer, Lawrence, Penrose,

Flaherty, Donaldson & Prunty

Eden Consulting ServicesEricksen ArbuthnotErnst & Young LLPEvans, Wieckowski & Ward,

LLPLaw Office of Noёl M. FerrisFirst Pacific AdvisorsFredericks Peebles &

Morgan LLPGarner Products, Inc.Gary G. Perry Attorney at

LawGary L. Nemetz, PCGary, Till & BurlinghamGeorge H. Sandy

FoundationGibson & Gibson, Inc. LCGieleghem Law OfficeGilmore, Wood, Vinnard &

MagnessThe Law Office of Shareen

GolbaharThe Law Office of Alex

GortinskyGoyette & Associates, Inc.Greve, Clifford, Wengel &

Paras, LLPGunderson Law FirmLinda Gunderson Attorney

at LawGurnee, Mason & Forestiere,

LLPGustavo Matheus, Esq., LLC

Bissell Law CorporationThe Law Offices of Steven A.

Block PLCThe Law Office of Mark

BoehmeBoutin Jones, Inc.Bradford & Barthel, LLPBrewer Lofgren LLPLaw Offices of Paul L.

BrimberryThe Law Office of Jonathan

D. Brown PCThe Law Office of Richard

D. BrownBryant, Lovlien & Jarvis, PCBuilding A Better Work

PlaceThe Law Office of Karen

A. BurtRandall J. Burton Attorney

at LawC. Emmett Mahle Attorney

at LawCabe Law OfficeCounty of CalaverasCalifornia Association of

RealtorsCalifornia Beer and

Beverage DistributorsCalifornia Chamber of

CommerceCalifornia Correctional

Peace Officers’ AssociationCalifornia Dental

AssociationCalifornia MuseumCalifornia Political

Attorneys AssociationCallahan Thompson

Sherman & Caudill, LLPCapitol City Trial Lawyers

AssociationCarothers, DiSante &

Freudenberger LLPCassel Ginns, A Professional

Law CorpDonahue Davies, LLPCava & Faulkner Attorneys

at LawChoudhary Law OfficeCity of RosevilleCity of Santa Barbara

Attorney’s OfficeThe Law Office of Sara

Coghlan McDonaldCollinson & LaChance,

Attorneys at LawComplete Wireless

ConsultingConsidine Sorensen &

Trujillo APCThe Law Office of H.

The 23rd Annual Live & Silent Auction Benefitting the Public Legal Services Society (PLSS) was held April 10, 2015, in the Pacific McGeorge Student Center.

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[Donors]

John H. CowardJames M. Coyne, USA (Ret)Jeffrey W. & Marianne

CurcioSarah R. DansereauJames M. DavisKathryn M. DavisWilliam W. DavisHector M. de Avila

GonzalezEkaterina P. DeaverJana N. DuBoisAngelo A. DuPlantier IIIDennis J. DurkinHoward E. Engle, Jr.E. Scott EwingGlenn A. FaitMargaret C. FeltsCharles V. FennesseyKenneth H. FloodEden ForsytheGretchen FranzR. Ram and R. GanapathyVignesh R. GanapathyGordon P. & Christine

GerwigGuy R. GibsonPaul L. & Maria GrimmEugene T. GualcoLinda GundersonGarrett L. HamiltonStephen R. HansenAllan D. & Vickie J.

HardcastleRonald I. HarrisonRobert C. HessMaureen P. HigginsStuart L. & Rhoda HingHoward K. HiraharaRobert T. HjelleJames F. HodgkinsPaul S. HokokianRodney G. HughesJohn S. Husser, Sr.William D. IngersollMarc L. & Kimberly JacuzziJohn W. & Corrine JayJanice C. JohnsonDavid B. JohnsonMarshall F. & Sarah B.

JohnsonSusan Holland JohnsonMichael F. & Beverly J.

JohnsonLisa Baker JonesChristina H. Jones JanssenDavid KarabinusMatthew E. KaranianJennifer B. KaufmanMichael R. KellyGary A. Kessler

Gary P. ReynoldsJoseph W. ScaliaJulie A. Shepard Thomas & Janet G.

Sherwood Karen L. Snell & Raymond

McGrathMichael D. StumpJoseph E. & Susan TaylorJohn H. TiernanSim von KalinowskiMichael C. WeedStephen A. WeinerDavid L. WinterJarrod L. P. WongMichael D. WorthingDouglas L. Youmans

MCGEORGE CIRCLE ($100+)John A. AberasturiLynette S. AndersenThomas W. Anthony, Jr.Tamarin Janssen AustinJacqueline E. BaileyAnn Bailey & Boren

ChertkovWilliam E. & Paige Baker, Jr.Paul N. BalestracciEric L. BarnumDavid T. BartelsNorman P. BarthRaneene BelisleLawrence A. BennettDeborah A. BerryMark E. BerryTerry M. BorchersHugh E. BreretonDaniel J. BreuerBruce W. BuschLinda S. CampbellMargaret Carew & Gary D.

ToledoMalcolm R. Carling-SmithDonald L. & Patricia A.

CarperThe Honorable Christine A.

CarringerLinda E. Carter & Michael

DazeyRobert M. & Susan S.

CavallaroJohn B. CinnamonThe Honorable Richard M.

ClarkCalvin J. Clements IIIJ. Mitchell CobeagaPamela E. Cogan & J. RiddleClifford G. CollardRonald W. CollettBrent P. CollinsonH. Christopher Covington

Timothy J. LongKathleen R. & David P.

MastagniPatrick M. McGrathMary T. MuseJere M. OwenCurtis D. RindlisbacherAnthony M. & Patricia

SkrockiAdam L. StreltzerBrian A. TippensMary E. TryonR. Hillary Willett

AMICUS LEX CIRCLE $250+Lauren M. Aloisio & David

S. SalemGeorge D. CatoJohn M. CochraneDawn H. ColeJ. Russell CunninghamPeter H. & Jeanne D.

CuttittaGary DiGraziaJennifer Anderson &

Matthey R. EasonJohn D. & Pamela FeeneyDaniel A. FloresL. Kalei FongKurt A. FrankeKimberly Kakavas GarnerWilliam E. GasbarroShanti R. HalterPierre A. HascheffEmily Hirsekorn DavidsonGeorge C. & Cathleen

HollisterDaniel A. HuntMark K. JohnsonWilliam J. KadiRodney KimJean S. KlotzMark W. KnobelL. Rob KramerDennis D. LawLois B. LevineMike H. MadokoroGregory A. MathesAnthony K. McClarenElizabeth A. McEnaney-FellW. Kearse McGillCrystal H. McMurtryRussell H. MillerMichael B. MountRalph R. & Sandra Nevis, IIIMatthew J. OlsonRebecca J. OlsonAllen C. Ostergar IIIThomas A. PedreiraJennifer M. ProtasJames M. & Martha Ratzer

Stone & AssociatesThe Law Office of Robert C.

StrambiSutter HealthSweeney, Greene & Roberts,

LLPTaylor & Wiley, APCThe Telfeyan Evangelical

Fund, Inc.The Law Office of Albert S.

WongThe Law Office of Brian K.

WanermanThe Law Office of Jimmy

N. YeeThe Law Office of John E.

Virga APCThe Law Office of Juan J.

Vera, Inc.The Law Office of Justin N.

TierneyThe Law Office of Lorna A.

VoborilThe Law Office of Timothy

YaryanThe Law Offices of Mingpei

WangThomas Law GroupThomson ReutersUnion Pacific CorporationWalters & ZinnWeintraub Tobin Chediak

Coleman Grodin Law Corporation

Wilcoxen Callaham, LLPWiley W. Manuel Bar

AssociationWise Law Group, PCYrulegui & Roberts

ALUMNI &FRIENDS

Individuals

BARRISTERS CIRCLE $500+

Gordon P. AdelmanAndrei F. BehdjetJoseph J. CatalanoRobert F. CochranJames F. & Emily DawsonRoss E. & Sally de LipkauMariel E. DennisMichael R. FaberDonald C. HillStephen R. HoldenH. Vincent JacobsKenneth D. Leppert, Jr.

The Law Office of Clint Parish

Parsons Brinckerhoff Group Adm., Inc.

The Law Office of Christopher W. Patterson, Esq.

Pfund Family FoundationPhillips Land Law, Inc.Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw

Pittman, LLPPitre & Teunisse, Inc.Placer County District

Attorney’s OfficeThe Law Office of Timothy

PomykalaPorter ScottRadoslovich Parker PCThe Law Office of Kenneth

W. RalidisThe Ramirez FirmThe Law Office of Joel

RapaportRebate Realty & LawRecology, IncThe Law Office of Eliot

Reiner, PLCRemy Moose Manley, LLPThe Law Office of Robert

RiceRobinson & Wood, Inc.Rosenthal LawThe Law Office of Bret R.

RossiSacramento Estate Planning

CouncilSacramento Valley

Bankruptcy ForumThe San Francisco

FoundationThe Law Office of Edward G.

Schloss LCSchneider Wallace Cottrell

Brayton KonecSeyfarth Shaw, LLPThe Law Office of Tiffani

S. SharpSidley Law GroupThe Sierra Health

FoundationSmith Law FirmThe Law Office of Lawrence

M. SmithSmith, McDowell & Powell,

ALCThe Law Office of Stephen

A. SmithSmolich & SmolichSnodgrass and Micheli LLCSolomon, Grindle,

Silverman & WintringerSomach Simmons & Dunn

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[Donors]

Timothy J. DonovanBradford J. Dozier Ruanne DozierCassidy D. DraegerMark S. & Carol DrobnyJennifer E. DruryJames M. DuncanVirginia J. DunlapPatricia R. DwyerTamara L. DyerJonathan D. EdwardsJeremy P. Ehrlich & Amy

HammondRochelle R. EllenburgKailyn N. EllisonJulius M. & Mary EngelMary C. EngelLeslie K. EnglishRaul A. Escatel-JaraErin M. Evans-FudemRobert W. Farnsworth &

Cathy ChristianAlan N. FernandesDustin K. FinerIsaac L. FischerMarvin G. FischlerBirgit A. FladagerReed M. FlocksThomas E. Flynn &

Rita-Jane SpillaneThomas H. FowlerKristian E. FoyJames R. FreyAriel N. GabbertLaurel A. GaiserVictor J. GalloPatricia L. GaramoneDeborah A. GarciaRichard A. GaryHelen M. GeoffroyJohn M. GerrardSteven G. GibbsJennifer Gibson-FerraiuoloJ. Neil GieleghemAmanda Labrot GilbertRichard L. Gilbert Roger G. GilbertSuzanne B. GiorgiDeborah A. GlynnAlex T. GoetzeWilliam P. GoldsmithDaniel P. GollaAlex GortinskyCraig T. GottwalsPamela D. GourleyDon E. GreenPaul H. & Mary GreisenChristina M. GriffinBenjamin A. GrimesTeriAnn GrimesRebekah L. GrodskyAaron M. Gumbinger

Rosemary A. BrucknerMikel D. BryanDayna M. BryantJulia D. BrynelsonPatrick S. BuparaSamantha H. BurkatTeresa M. BurkeSteven R. BurlinghamKaren A. BurtRandall J. BurtonTimothy C. BuslerEileen J. BuxtonMark D. ByrnePhillip A. CabeJohn W. CadwaladerDonald C. CadyDouglas H. CalkinsMichelle Towle CammarataEric R. CarlesonChristopher C. CarlisleJeffrey B. CarraMark A. CarrollJim R. CarsonRoger A. & Patricia

CartozianGreg A. CasagrandeDavid L. CavaFrederic R. Chan-YouAthena ChaseDale C. ChipmanLisa M. ChoNilesh ChoudharyAlison M. ClarkPaul C. & Stephanie ClaussRex A. CluffJessica ColeThomas A. CollinsJohn M. ComboDiana N. ConnaughtonDarren M. CordanoBarry J. CoxRobert R. CoyleTerri L. CrawfordStephen A. CritzerKellen M. CroweDennis C. CusickDaniel P. CustodioKerri A. Rich CutforthTimothy P. DaileyGregory S. DanielsMichael J. DapondeLon D. DavenportBenjamin A. DaviesDaniel M. DavisValerie M. DawsonD. Rae De LongJoanne R. DelongSusan Rhodes & William F.

DeniousDori L. Dennis-MooreheadJulia C. & Tyler DeVosClaudia A. Dias

Jennifer J. Wilke-BerryKatherine A. WilliamsJimmie WingE. Terrence WoolfDavid E. & Rebecca WootenJack J. & Nancy WuLinda YackzanLeilani L. YangJimmy N. YeeMatthew R. YoungGeorge G. Zarubin

DONATIONSVirginia D.

Adams-McdougalGregory G. AghazarianTheodore F. AldrichSameera AliSusan A. AllenFrances AnGary R. AndereggM. Diane Landry AndersonJames D. & Catharine

AnthonyMaureen Meehan AplinThomas P. AplinC. Lee Armstrong IIIRobert W. ArmstrongCecilia T. ArnoldKim Rowbatham & Jerry P.

ArnoldRobert A. AronsonRussell J. AustinJ. Stanton Bair IIIAlice J. BakerWilliam E. Barnaby IIDebra J. BarnesJennifer D. BarreraDavid BasnerJon P. Beaver Robert H. BeaverDavid C. BeckerBrendan J. BegleyClaude L. Biddle, Jr.Carleton E. BlankenburgBarry C. BlayKristin A. BlocherMark T. BoehmeKimberly M. BottMatthew V. BradyJennifer L. BretschneiderRoy E. BrewerJohn C. BridgesPaul L. BrimberryBradley A. BristowLauren E. BrittWilliam P. BrodbeckAlbert W. BrodieChanel R. BrownJillian E. BrownLester J. Brown Matthew T. Brown

Joseph M. Quinn & James Humes

Carol A. RaderJason E. ResnickJohn E. Riddle & Pamela

CoganMichael J. & Shirley RitterCheryl P. RobertsonRonald B. & Lynn RobieLeland S. RosnerCraig W. RussiMark E. SamsonDwight M. SamuelVictoria A. SapunorStephen H. Schmid & Lori

PeggRoger M. & Delsie SchrimpR. Craig SettlemireMargaret S. SheddJohn A. SheehanGary N. Smith James C. & Jennie SmithJennifer K. SmithRoger A. & Barbara SmithMarilyn Berlin SnellJames C. SpurlingPamela L. StarrVal G. StephensLawrence W. StevensJ. Kelly Strader and Harold

A. GunnRodney E. SumpterLaurel E. SundermanWard A. TaborMarilyn E. TaysHarold M. ThomasWilliam L. ThompsonGary D. & Margaret Carew

ToledoChance L. & Elizabeth S.

TrimmCynda R. UngerPhillip R. & Peggy UrieRobert S. Van Der Volgen, Jr.Charles & Jane VolpeClarence WaldenFrederick N. Wapner &

Audrey SchlesingerWilliam J. & Alexandra S.

WardPeter A. & Annette

WarmerdamDavid WeinerSteven J. WeitzerJohn W. WelchRichard T. WelshDon P. White, Jr.Sharon Conway & John

WibleFrederick G. & Judy K.

WiesnerCarl R. Wilander

Bruce A. & Susan Abate Kilday

Daniel P. KirleyMichael F. KleinStephen A. & Lesley J.

KoonceJeannene L. LafargaDaniel C. & Lisa

LambertsonMarsha M. LangLauren D. LayneRussell E. & M. Susan Thiel

LeatherbyCourtney G. LeeRichard B. LewkowitzRonald & Marilyn LouieR. Lynn LovejoyDonald B. MacDougall, Jr.Christine Garske & Joe J.

MachadoVirginia C. MaganThe Honorable James V.

MancusoP. John MancusoChristine ManolakasH. Craig MansonM. Penny MansonStacy & Robert N. Abott

McGillJ. Douglas McGilvrayPolly W. McGilvrayAndrew O. MeditzJames L. & Barbara J.

MikacichCatherine H. MorrisJessie Morris, Jr.Mary-Beth MoylanKari L. MuellerKarl F. MunzLeslie C. MurphyGary L. NemetzJohn G. NevilleJohn S. NitaoBlake C. NordahlGary W. NorrisL. Jeffrey NorwalkKathleen A. O’ConnorSusan L. OldhamDavid C. O’MaraTeri A. OstlingChristopher W. PattersonKathryn L. PattersonSvetlana V. Petroff, Esq. &

Philip SmithConstance L. PiccianoPeter H. PickslayJoseph S. PinkasEstela O. PinoPatricia Ellis PoiléTimothy M. PomykalaDonald C. Pullen


[Donors]

Barbara L. OchsnerMichaela O’NeillGrant R. OrbachDennis M. O’ReillyMartin D. Owens, Jr.Anil PaiGabriel Pallikka William W. PalmerClinton E. ParishLinda R. ParkeCraig L. ParkerSally A. Parker Gerardo PartidaMichael D. PatrickKim L. PenroseJohn H. PentecostFernanda M. PereiraEumir PerezMichael R. & Cynthia

PerineGary G. PerryC. Braid PezzagliaGeorge E. PhillipsDavid D. PolandLaury PorterDouglas E. Powell Glenn N. PowellKristi J. PowersThomas J. PrestonW. David PritchettMark A. PrunerHeather M. PuentesSusanna V. PullenValerie E. QuanJacklin R. RadHeather L. RaeAli RakhshanifarKenneth W. RalidisSharon Pogue RanasingheCamille K. Rasmussen Jacob C. RasmussenBettina C. RedwayKatharine M. ReedFrank J. ReganThomas M. ReganCatherine Gunderson

ReichenbergEliot M. ReinerSteven P. RettigMatthew J. RexroadRobert J. RiceKatherine M. RigbyJames M. RitcheyMatthew S. RitchieColin H. & Kristin RobertsMatthew J. RobertsJuliette Tognetti RobertsonPeter A. RodeWilliam C. RolfeLawrence H. RootJason A. RoseJohn D. Rose

Melissa A. McMillonGregory T. Meath &

Fernanda PereiraJohanne C. MedinaRichard M. Mehigan, Jr.Peter F. MelnicoeKyle W. MemmottRoberta E. MendoncaDavid K. MenezesAnn K. MerrillRobert M. MerrittJeremy R. MerzAnnemarie MeyerIngrid A. MeyersChristopher M. MicheliTrevor J. MichelsRobert B. MikelRoseanne P. MilanesBrian B. Miles Luisa Aguilar MilesMadeline E. Miller Nancy C. MillerWhitney R. MinerGreg T. MinoJeffrey A. MitchellDaniel G. MoellerJohn J. MoffattBrooke N. MollerJack T. MolodanofLeo N. MonizJohn D. MontagueVanessa R. MontagueDonna M. MorganKarole R. Morgan-PragerAndrea S. MorrisMichael J. MorrisonRobert E. Moss, Jr.Rodney R. MoyKimberly J. MuellerWilliam A. MuhaJessica J. MuhlemanC. Nicole MurphyCorinne L. MurphyDr. Beverly J. Myers-BudgeRamin A. NaderiDeborah J. NaganoDaniel S. NagleJill Brockman NathanDebra A. NauDaniel G. NaumanThomas A. NeilDavid S. NelsonRay NewmanThien T. NguyenMatthew K.J. NinkeDavid B. NitkaCarolynne J. NocellaFrank E. NoeyRobert E. OakesJohn P. O’BanionLinda Powell O’BrienEurik D. O’Bryant

Jason R. LehfeldtDanielle M. LenthSheri L. LeonardDaniel A. LevinAdam W. LevyMary Marsh LindePeter N. LindquistRobert E. LindquistRoberta A. Lindsey-ScottGary L. LinkStan L. LinkerFrancisco Lobaco & Leslie

SanfordMichael LoefflerMartha LofgrenConstance LoganJames P. Logan, Jr.Pamela C. LoomisTimothy J. LopezDeidre E. & Michael LoweDonald E. Lown, Jr.Lawrence L. LozenskyBobby P. LunaJohn S. LupoJames W. LutherSteven H. LybbertRoderick L. MacKenzieTara J. MacomberEunice Majam-SimpsonErin M. MallonCarl H. MandabachJorge B. MaradiegueAlbert W. MarchettiDarrell C. Martin IICharlotte I. MartinezEric T. MartinezEric G. MasamoriJohn A. MasonPaul H. Masuhara IIIK. Brian MatlockMark S. MayfieldMichael J. MazzeiRachel A. McCammonThelonius C. M. McCannBrian C. McClayEsperanza McConnW. Daniel McCordMichael McCormickMary C. McCunePatrick E. McDonnellConor H. McElroy Crystal Chen McElroySteven J. McEvoySteven A. McGeeJohn P. & Wanda McGillMichael H. McGowanJames R. McGuire Mary C. McGuireKirk McKayAmanda J. McKechnieBrian J. McLaughlinBrady D. McLeod

Carl P. & Beverly JacobsBarbara M. JacobsonWendy S. Jaffe-PressmanDavid C. JamesRobert B. JavanDaniel P. JayMartin F. JenningsMark R. JensenJason L. JimenezJulie Brown JohnsonThomas F. JohnsonMark A. & Charolette JonesPamela S. Jones Sheila Worley JonesCarin C. KaeserChristopher J. KaeserFred W. KaiserWarren E. KammLisa M. KaplanAabneet Kaur Sukhdeep KaurThomas J. KearneyMatthew S. KeaslingScott D. KeefeAmanda C. KellyRichard D. Kelly Timothy E. KellyJoyce A. Kelly-ReifRodney J. & Kathy KeyRobert T. KeyserDavid M. KeyzerCarolee & Douglass KilduffSang P. KimMark S. KlitgaardThomas F. KlumperSarah J. KnechtDavid A. KnollYury A. KolesnikovTerry L. KortePaul C. KozlowRobert G. Kruse William E. KruseAndreanna I. KsidakisRussell T. KubotaS. Devi KumarKerry J. KunzJerry KupersteinKristine E. KwongJohn R. LallySarah Carlson LambertMichael K. & Norah

LamondJames H. LandisElizabeth A. LandsbergRachel Landsberg and Tzvi

MacksonJacquelyn E. LarsonJohn C. LaufenbergSandra G. LawrenceRebecca Davis & Eric LeeRoss W. LeeRyan A. Leggio

David E. HaddockEmily J. HadenCarl A. Hakenen, Jr.Sylvia B. Halkousis &

Robert CoyleRichard H. HalladayLinda L. HamelAmy M. Hammond &

Jeremy EhrlichJennifer L.

Hammond-CarrollMichael L. HanksScott R. HanleyChristine E. HansenGeoffrey K. HansenCraig L. HarasekJoseph F. Harbison IIIStefanie U. HardyWilliam HardySummer Jennings HaroWilliam T. HarperJeremy HarrisJames R. HastingsThomas D. HathawayDouglas P. HaubertDaniel B. HawkEdgar W. HawkyardJessica M. HaymondFrances A. HeadleyCarol HeldingJohn P. HendersonGeorge M. HendricksonFrances G. & Eric HerbertArnulfo Hernandez, Jr.Erin L. HileyTeresa Y. HilleryKenneth J. HilliardJudy F. HiranoShannon R. HochsteinDerek R. HoffmanHeather Cline HogansonJohn R. HolstedtMichael A. HorowitzVictoria G. HortonBahara B. HosseiniDarcie Lynn HouckLexi Purich HowardDouglas W. HudsonHarry E. Hudson, Jr.Catherine L. HughesA. Eugene Huguenin, Jr.Kelly M. HullDavid W. HumphreysJennifer King Hunt Robert W. HuntStephen C. HunterOsama A. HussainVivien C. IdeMichael B. IndrajanaThomas P. InfusinoSarah B. InmanStephen R. Isbell

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[Donors]

Lawrence E. WesterlundJames C. WeydertKate Leary WheatleyDanielle E. WheelerBertram C. WhiteKimberly A. WhiteStanley M. WiegRichard E. WilliamsonMichael M. WintringerMichael J. WiseJacque D. & Sheena WolfeAlbert S. Wong Laurie A. WongC. Craig WooJonathan W. WoodJoan C. WoodardCharlene L. WoodwardAllan J. Woodworth IICathy Shaw WootonJ. Steven WorthleyDouglas A. WrightChristopher W. WuPhillip D. WymanRuthe WynneEdmund V. YanMary Allasina YaryanTimothy H. & Mary YaryanMelissa A. YeeMichael A. Yee Brett D. YorkeStephanie Moseman YoungJoseph C. YruleguiRichard J. YruleguiKenneth G. ZanottoOphelia H. ZeffSarra L. ZiariDennis S. ZinnLaurie E. ZmrzelHarriet E. Zook

Matching Gifts

Aerojet GeneralJohn M. ComboMicrosoft CorporationThe Morrison & Foerster

FoundationPillsbury Winthrop Shaw

Pittman, LLPUnion Pacific Corporation

Varon B. Smith, Jr.Andrew J. SmolichAdam O. SpearJoseph M. SpectorMark J. SpencerJana S. StabileNicolas S. StarkRobert L. StarnesMegan K. StedtfeldDavid J. SteffensonRobert H. StemplerCharles J. StoneRobert C. StrambiS. Paul SukhramRochelle I. Harry SwansonKenneth L. Swenson Samuel K. SwensonMolly K. SwordDavid M. Syme, Jr.Troy R. SzaboLeticia TannerThomas J. & Jill TarkoffLaura Roopenian TchulluianMichael A. TerhorstPatricia A. TeunisseSterling E. Thayer, Jr.Justin N. Tierney, Jr.Craig A. TomlinsKenric P. & Amy TorkelsonSue E. TorngrenPatricia Hughes TorresTami Iskyan ToumayanSpencer R. TresslerJohn P. Tribuiano IIIKristin J. TriepkeAngela A. TruebloodCynthia K. TuckDarren J. Van BloisJoel M. Van ParysSharyn A. Van TassellTia Y. VangEmilio E. Varanini IIIRaechelle L. VelardeJuan J. VeraBryan D. VictorJohn E. & Megan VirgaMarc W. VitoloLorna A. VoborilDarius A. VosyliusO. Veronica VrancutaDavid A. WallisJames W. WalterJames K. WardJessica A. WarneMarianne L. WaterstradtNathaniel WeaverMichael L. WebbDavid L. WeisbergRichard B. & Laura

WeisbergEthan M. WeisingerDeborah Urell Wesseln

R. Mark RoseGeraldine Rosen-ParkSteven M. RotblattElizabeth M. RothEric D. RouenCasie M. Roussas John G. RoussasDavid L. RowellJanelle A. RuleyWilliam H. RussellKelly A. RyanKaitlyn L. SaberinKatherine C. SaboSarah Morgan SabunasStacy SaechaoRose SafarianGrace K. Sakaguchi-Lally Kimberley H. G. SakaiKevin H. & Sophia Kim

SakamotoMichelle SamonekAlison Lee SandmanRobert K. SandmanJustin A. SantarosaNina SantoMichelle A. ScheinmanJulia Capozzi ScheppachJohn & Elia SchiavoBrandon M. SchindelheimEdward G. SchlossHoward J. SchmidtTimothy D. SchreckPeter C. SchreiberJeremy SchroederDeborah R. SchulteGail C. SchulzeJed & Glendalee ScullySteven L. SeebachNaoki SekiyaHema Bhamre SelfMichael C. Self Robert E. & Hema Christine

SelfJ. Richard SellersMarla B. ShahTiffani S. SharpJanice R. ShawEugenie H. SheaMarisa E. SheaTimothy A. SheafferEric K. ShiuRichard D.

Shoemaker-MoyleMichael M. SievingGail H. SilvermanRichard C. SinclairJennie Unger SkeltonAmy M. SmithEdward A. Smith Stephen A. SmithTanya T. SmithThomas H. Smith

GORDON D. SCHABER LEGACY SOCIETYMcGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW

The Gordon D. Schaber Legacy Society is made up of our alumni

and friends who have included, or have told us of their intentions 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 these supporters for their gifts and commit-ment to the law school. We would also like to thank our newest members who have informed us of their intent over the past year.

Become a Legacy Society MemberIf you have already included, or are interested in including, Pacific McGeorge as part of your estate plan, please contact us so we can send you information about the Schaber Legacy Society, its activities and recognition efforts. We 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 $50,000. Gifts of $50,000 or more to establish or enhance an endowment may be eligible to receive a Powell Match.

A planned gift is a great way to establish a lasting legacy at Pacific McGeorge and a meaningful way to support students.

For information on transfer of wealth issues, annuities, charitable remainder trusts, life insurance gifts, IRA rollover gifts, and estate and tax law updates, visit mcgeorgelegacy.org.


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Endowments

Pacific McGeorge is grateful to these alumni and friends who established the endow-ments that follow. These generous gifts keep alive the names and memories for whom the endowments are established and will benefit Pacific McGeorge students in perpetuity.

Ahmanson Foundation Endowed Scholarship

Albert J. & Mae Lee Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Albert F. Zangerle Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship

Amy Olson Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Anna Rose Fischer Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Annie M. Rogaski Endowed Scholarship for Women in Science & Law

Anthony M. Kennedy Constitutional Law Endowed Scholarship

Archie Hefner Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Asian-American Association Endowed Scholarship

B. Abbott Goldberg Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Bales Family Endowed Scholarship

Benjamin D. & Verdele R. Frantz Endowed Scholarship

Brian L. Hentz Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Carol J. Miller Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Carpenters’ Local Union #586 Endowed Scholarship

Charles D. Driscoll Endowed Labor Law Scholarship

Daniel D. Richard Endowed Scholarship

David C. Rust Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Dean Gerald Caplan Endowed Scholarship

Diana P. Scott Endowed Prizes

E.M. Manning Endowed Memorial Scholarship for Single Parents

Edwina V. Pfund Endowed Graduate Law Scholarship

Emil Schnellbacher Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Frank & Joann LaBella Endowed Scholarship

Gary V. Schaber Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Hawaii Endowed Scholarship

Hiroshima, Jacobs, Roth & Lewis Endowed Scholarship

Honorable William K. Morgan Endowed Scholarship

International Programs Fund Endowed Scholarship

James & Dorothy Adams Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Jeffrey K. Poilé Endowed Memorial Civil Rights Scholarship

Jerome J. Curtis, Jr. Endowed Memorial Scholarship

John A. McCarthy Foundation Endowed Scholarship

John P. Morris Endowed Memorial Scholarship

John Stauffer Endowed Memorial Fellowship in Legal Research

Judge Elvin F. & Pauline C. Sheehy Endowed Scholarship

Judge Loren Dahl Endowed Award for Bankruptcy Excellence

Kamal Ramsey Sadek Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Ken & Bonnie Jean Kwong Endowed Scholarship

Kierney Family Married Student Endowed Scholarship

Latino-Latina Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship

Latino Law Students’ Association Scholarship

Legal Education Endowed Scholarship

Lou Ashe Endowed Legal Medicine Award

Marc & Mona Roberts Endowed Labor Law Scholarship

Martin & Doris Gross Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Nevada Endowed Scholarship

O. Robert Simons Endowed Memorial Book Award

Philomena Scalora Endowed Memorial Scholarship

R. T. Stratton Endowed Memorial Book Award

Raymond Burr Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Raymond H. Biele, II Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Robert N. & Doris D. Stark Endowed Scholarship

Robert, Aimee & Rosalie Asher Endowed Scholarship

Sacramento Bee Endowed Legal Scholars Program

Sacramento Estate Planning Council Endowed Scholarship

Sam Gordon Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Stanley B. Fowler Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Student Recruiting Endowed Scholarship

Susan J. Samans Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Tom McNally Endowed Memorial Book Award

Tracy G. Helms Endowed Memorial Scholarship

Walter F. Alexander III Endowed Memorial Scholarship

William Russell Knudson Endowed Scholarship for Leadership in Law

Legacy Society

The following individuals and families have included Pacific McGeorge in their estate plan and have either made or will make a planned gift.

James & Dorothy Adams*Leighton D. Armstrong*Rosalie S. Asher*Irving H. Biele*Katherine O. Biele*Steven & Teri BlockJohn Brownston*Dona K. BuckinghamRobert F. Butler*Peggy Cahter-TurnerJoseph CooperHelen Harney CrittendenLoren S. Dahl*Margaret K. DistlerMark S. DrobnyGlenn A. FaitStanley J. Gale*Louis F. Gianelli*Sam Gordon*Gregory M. GravesLawrence B. HagelSheila A. HardScott M. HerveyPhil HiroshimaBen E. JohnsonBeryl V. Kirk*Daniel R. LangR. Marilyn LeeLawrence C. LevineJames R. LewisJames D. Loebl*Patricia K. LundvallRichard L. Miller*Hayne R. MoyerArthur G. ScotlandDonald R. SteedJoseph E. TaylorBarbara Thomas

*deceased

Noël M. Ferris, ’79, and R. Parker White, ’80, met at Pacific McGeorge, where they each discov-

ered a passion and talent for trial advocacy. In the years since law school, Ferris and White have built successful litigation practices and top-notch reputa-tions; both are fellows of the prestigious International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Ferris is currently vice president, the second woman to hold that post in the organization’s history) and the American Board of Trial Advocates. Ferris and White are also dedicated to Pacific McGeorge, which they support with time and funds, including a recently established scholar-ship for students who demonstrate outstanding trial advocacy skills. They credit Pacific McGeorge not only with helping them find their life’s work but also for introducing them to each other (they married while law students). Thirty-seven years, three children and countless trials later, they both say their happiest memory of law school was meeting each other.

Why did you decide to become a trial lawyer?NOËL FERRIS: In my second year of law school, I took a class on evidence, and I loved it. I loved evidence, loved the courtroom—I realized this was what I wanted to do.PARKER WHITE: I went to law school because I wanted to go into politics. Then, at McGeorge, I discovered trial work. I thought, “That looks pretty interesting!” After I made the trial advocacy team, I realized that this was what I was born to do. I was hard-wired to try lawsuits. I love it. I love going to work every day.

Did Pacific McGeorge adequately prepare you for life after law school?PW: McGeorge’s trial advocacy program gives you practical training—that isn’t true at many law

schools, even many top-tier law schools. Two days after graduating, I was in court and prepared to go to battle. NF: The trial advocacy program gives you the chance to work on multiple cases, in state and federal ven-ues—this prepared us for the courtroom. When I got my first job, I said, “I will try any case you have.”

Two of your three daughters are pursuing careers in law. How do you feel about that?NF: We’re happy because both of us have loved being lawyers. We’ve had the opportunity to change lives and make a difference. Our youngest daughter is a psychotherapist, and I always say, with four law-yers in the family, we also need a shrink!PW: It’s a great profession, a great job. I’m at an age when people ask me, “When are you going to retire?” I always say, “When it stops being fun.” That hasn’t happened yet.

What’s your advice for students to get the most out of law school?PW: It’s like the old bromide, “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” My advice is: work hard. And get a good study group. Study groups are key.

A SHARED PASSIONAfter meeting and marrying at McGeorge, Noël M. Ferris, ’79, and R. Parker White, ’80, established careers as top trial attorneys

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PACIFIC McGEORGE

ALUMNI BOARD OF

DIRECTORS

The Pacific McGeorge Alumni Board of Directors is a volunteer group of alumni dedicated to advancing the interests and promoting the welfare of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law by acting as the voice of more than 13,000 alumni. The board serves as a conduit between the law school and alumni interested in engag-ing with and furthering the activities and programs of the law school.

The Pacific McGeorge Alumni Board of Directors has been dedicated this year to moving the law school forward and ensuring the success of our students and our alumni. The board is focused on three areas:

• FIRST: Develop and promote a robust Bridge to Practice Program for our students and graduates. This means board members and regional chapter volunteers will do three things—assist with recruiting new students from new and varied regions; assist with student professional development, including a focus on an alumni mentor program for students; and assist with the identifica-tion and promotion of job opportunities and externships for students.

• SECOND: Assist in raising the repu-tation of the law school, specifically outside Northern California.

• THIRD: Aid the law school’s fundraising efforts and encourage alumni participa-tion in the annual giving program.

2014-2015 Alumni Board of Directors

The October 2014 Alumni Board meeting, from left: Chris Rusby, Charlene Mattison, Jeff Proske, Jeff Huron, Hector de Avila Gonzalez, Hong Tang, Kim Garner, Brandon A. Takahashi, Dustin Johnson, Debra J. Kazanjian, Marie A. Nakamura, Francis J. Mootz III, Jennifer Scott, Kristen Brown, Ernesto Falcon, Andrea Moon, Thomas J. Tarkoff, Stevey Clement, Lisa Ryan, Megan Moore, Kathryn M. Davis, Scott Hervey.

Scott M. Hervey, ’95, President

Megan Moore, ’08, Vice President

Kimberly K. Delfino, ’93 Vice President

Kim Garner, ’08, Vice President

Patrick Blood, ’12Kristen Brown, ’08Sarah Dansereau, ’10Kathryn M. Davis ’99Hector de Avila Gonzalez, ’03 Kerry Doyle, ’07Jeff Huron, ’88Dustin Johnson, ’04Serena Kallas, ’14Debra J. Kazanjian, ’79Jenith Lee, ’14Gustavo Matheus, ’96Anthony McClaren, ’03Amanda McKechnie, ’99Andrew Meditz, ’09Katherine Mitchell, ’11Andrea Moon, ’13Mhare Mouradian, ’03Marie A. Nakamura, ’01Shakira Pleasant, ’04Tamarra Rennick, ’91

Chris Rusby, ’08James Sammut, ’11Jennifer Scott, ’99Brandon A. Takahashi, ’06Hong Tang, ’05Thomas J. Tarkoff, ’92Serge Tomassian, ’83

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[ Upcoming Alumni Events ]

SEPTEMBER 17• Sacramento Alumni Chapter Happy Hour

SEPTEMBER 24• Fresno Alumni Reception

OCTOBER 16• Stockton Wine Law CLE at Pacific’s

Homecoming

OCTOBER 23• Sacramento Dine With Alumni

OCTOBER TBD: • San Francisco/Oakland Alumni Reception • Palo Alto/San Jose Alumni Reception

NOVEMBER 4: • Orange County Alumni Reception

NOVEMBER 5: • Los Angeles Alumni Reception

DECEMBER 2: • Sacramento Alumni Chapter’s Holiday

Reception with the Dean and the Mike Belote Endowed Capital Lecture

Please Join Us at Our Fall Events

For more information, contact Alumni Relations at [email protected] or 916.739.7141.

Distinguished Professor John Sprankling presented a Wine CLE at Pacific’s 2014 Homecoming.

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