Newest California Supreme Court Justice ‘Tino' Cuéllar to Speak at King Hall Commencement

UC Davis School of Law is proud to announce that Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, the newest justice of the California Supreme Court, has agreed to deliver the Commencement Address for the King Hall graduating Class of 2015.

Cuéllar, widely known as "Tino," is the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He was nominated for a seat on California's highest court  by Governor Jerry Brown in July and approved by voters on November 4. He will take the seat of retiring Justice Marvin R. Baxter in January of 2015.

Born in Matamoros, Mexico, Cuéllar was educated in the United States and Mexico, and for a time he crossed the border to attend school in Brownsville, Texas.  As a teenager, he immigrated to the United States with his family, moved to California, and graduated from Calexico High School in Imperial County.  Cuéllar earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, a law degree from Yale Law School, and a doctorate in political science from Stanford, and went on to work as a law clerk to the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has enjoyed a distinguished career as a legal scholar with a research and teaching focus in administrative law, criminal law, and public policy.  He has led Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and co-chairs the university's Global Development and Poverty Initiative.  His public service career includes service in two presidential administrations, at the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

Cuéllar will speak as part of the Class of 2015 Commencement Ceremony held on May 15, 2015 at the UC Davis Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.