2013 Recipient
Professor Leticia Saucedo is the recipient of the 34th Annual William and Sally Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award.
Professor Saucedo earned her A.B., cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1984, and following a stint in Nicaragua with the group Witness for Peace, and several years as a community organizer in inner-city Philadelphia and Boston, she enrolled in Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. She earned her J.D., cum laude, in 1996. She served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court, and worked as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson in New York, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999-2003, she worked as a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases.
In 2003, she joined the faculty at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where she co-directed the Immigration Law Clinic and conducted research on the intersections of employment, labor, and immigration law, publishing articles in leading academic journals. In 2010, she accepted an offer to come to UC Davis School of Law, where she is Director of Clinical Education and teaches Immigration Law and Employment Law.
Professor Saucedo is a passionate believer in the importance of clinical education. "I have come to believe that experiential teaching is the most effective way to get students to apply the theoretical aspects of the law in real-world situations that prompt them to think deeply about not only what they'll be doing in the real world when they practice but also broader issues of social justice."
Professor Saucedo will be presented with the award at the 34 th Annual Distinguished Teaching Award and Scholarship Recognition Celebration Dinner on March 14, 2013 in the ballroom of the new UC Davis Conference Center.
Past Recipients
2012
Evelyn A. Lewis
2011
Clay Tanaka
2010
Amagda Perez
2009
Jennifer Chacon
2008
Floyd F. Feeney
2007
Donna Shestowsky
2006
Edward J. Imwinkelried
2005
Millard A. Murphy
2004
John W. Poulos
2003
James E. Hogan
2002
Debra Lyn Bassett
2001
James F. Smith
2000
Diane Marie Amann
1999
John D. Ayer
1998
Florian Bartosic
1997
Martha S. West
1996
Harrison C. Dunning
1995
Alan E. Brownstein
1994
Joel C. Dobris
1993
Kevin R. Johnson
1992
Rex R. Perschbacher
1991
Margaret Z. Johns
1990
Edward H. Rabin
1989
Edward J. Imwinkelried
1988
Robert W. Hillman
1987
Bruce A. Wolk
1986
Floyd F. Feeney
1985
Friedrich K. Juenger
1984
Jean C. Love
1983
Richard C. Wydick
1982
Daniel W. Fessler
1981
Daniel J. Dykstra
1980
James E. Hogan