Bill Mantle '74, a True King Hall Booster

One of UC Davis’ biggest fans, Bill Mantle ’74 roots for Aggie sports teams and King Hall students with equal enthusiasm.   

To help ensure equal access to a UC Davis legal education, Mantle recently established the Mantle Family Scholarship. In 2021-22, he gave an extraordinary $900,000 to UC Davis Law, including $100,000 to further fund the scholarship. Mantle’s gift helped lift the law school’s 2021-22 fundraising total to an impressive $2.63 million. 

Karina Lee ’24 said receiving the Mantle Family Scholarship was “the ultimate deciding factor” in bringing her to King Hall.  

“I wanted to attend a law school like UC Davis where I would be taught by amazing professors in a supportive, collaborative environment,” Lee said. “I am extremely grateful that the scholarship created the opportunity for me to join the King Hall community.”   

Mantle gave $800,000 toward a planned gift that now stands at $3.8 million. It will support students’ hands-on learning experiences in UC Davis Law’s world-renowned clinics and elsewhere.  

Explaining his extraordinary generosity toward his alma mater, Mantle said simply, “I am King Hall proud because we have such smart and committed students.”