King Hall Hosts Largest-Ever Reunion Celebration
UC Davis School of Law hosted its largest-ever reunion celebration on October 22, as about 300 members of nine classes returned to King Hall to reconnect with classmates and teachers, tour the expanded and renovated law school building, and hear presentations from Dean Kevin R. Johnson and King Hall Alumni Board President Alberto Roldan '92.
The 2016 Milestone Reunions, held October 22, brought together members of the classes of 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, and 2011. Participants met in the King Hall courtyard for an informal reception, building tours, and class photos. In the evening, the celebration continued with a dinner at the nearby UC Davis Conference Center. The program included a slide show presentation of images of students and faculty from years past, a showing of video footage from Congressman John Lewis’s speech at the School of Law’s 2016 Commencement Ceremony, as well as remarks from Dean Johnson and Alberto Roldan.
Dean Johnson welcomed the alumni and King Hall faculty in attendance, including Professors Lisa Ikemoto `87, Carlton Larson, Joel Dobris, Bruce Wolk, Dan Simmons '71, and Cruz Reynoso, and Immigration Law Clinic Co-director Amagda Pérez ’91. He thanked the alumni volunteers who helped organize the event and briefly recapped recent developments at the School of Law, including the achievement of the only “majority minority” faculty of any top tier American law school, fundraising successes that have enabled the creation of new student scholarships, King Hall’s rising status in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, and other news.
“King Hall continues to graduate leaders in the legal profession—attorneys, partners of international law firms, political leaders, government officials, judges, including the Chief Justice of California, and even Olympic athletes, such as Linda Somers ’86, who is here tonight,” Johnson said. “Our upward trajectory in the rankings reflects the Law School’s accomplishments.”
Alberto Roldan, who is Chief Administrative Law Judge and Executive Director for the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, invited the alumni in attendance to take the reunion festivities as an opportunity to reconnect with the School of Law and join King Hall’s “network of support.”
“Think about coming back to the school and being part of the moot court competitions, finding students to mentor, reaching out to the associations you were a part of during your time in law school, and being part of their support network or being a resource as a professional,” said Roldan.
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