Alumni

 Aidín Castillo, a longtime immigration attorney and immigrants’ rights advocate and a UC Davis School of Law alumna from the Class of 2011, has been named executive director of the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center.

On May 11, Professor Elizabeth Joh delivered the talk “Artificial Intelligence and Policing: Challenges in the United States,” as part of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel Chair in Surveillance Studies Seminar Lecture Series.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Dutch and English-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium.

Professor Carlton W. Larson spoke to writer Wajahat Ali ’07 for a May 4 Daily Beast piece exploring the long-term implications of a Roe v. Wade reversal. Read the story.

UC Davis School of Law is honored to host the 2022 Unity Bar Summit, “Access to Justice,” on Saturday, May 21 at King Hall.

Speakers at the daylong event promoting diversity and excellence in the judiciary include Gov. Gavin Newsom (by video); the Chief Justice of California, Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye ’84; California Supreme Court Associate Justice Martin J. Jenkins, and the governor’s Judicial Appointments Secretary, Luis A. Céspedes.

The Honorable Stacy Boulware Eurie, a Sacramento Superior Court judge and a King Hall alumna from the class of 1995, will deliver the keynote address at UC Davis Law’s 2022 commencement on Saturday, May 14. 

Congratulations to Wayne Bartholomew ’71 and his wife, Jacque Bartholomew, who are among the recipients of this year's UC Davis Medals! Both longtime supporters of UC Davis Law and other campus units and initiatives, the pair met at UC Davis and both received their undergraduate degrees in 1964.

The campus' highest honor for individuals, the UC Davis Medal recognizes “extraordinary contributions that embody the campus’ Vision of Excellence.”

Another married pair of UC Davis alums, Pam Rohrich and Karl Gerdes, also will receive UC Davis Medals this year.

United States Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has appointed Joyce L. Noche ’99 as an immigration judge for the Santa Ana Immigration Court, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review announced.

Noche began hearing cases in March. The Justice Department's March 25 announcement of her appointment included this bio:

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Fernando Valle ’02 as an Orange County Superior Court judge. 

Valle has been a senior deputy public defender at the Orange County Public Defender’s Office since 2021. Read the governor’s press release.

Margaret Z. Johns ’76 will receive the 2020 King Hall Distinguished Alumna Award at the Celebrating King Hall event on March 12. Margaret taught at King Hall from 1980 to 2018, directing the Legal Writing program from 1984 to 2001. While at King Hall, she co-authored four books and published several law review articles. In 1993, Margaret founded the King Hall Civil Rights Clinic.