Paige Tucker '20 receives King Hall Alumni Association Award

The UC Davis School of Law Alumni Association has honored Paige Tucker ’20 will its annual award for outstanding service to King Hall.

Tucker is the current Law Students Association president and served as president of the Black Law Students Association in 2018-19. She is the recipient of the Deborah J. Frick Memorial Scholarship and the Dean’s Merit Scholarship.

“The Alumni Association is thrilled to bestow this award on Paige,” Alumni Association Board President Kim Chase ’07 said. “Through her personal hard work, leadership, and commitment to serving others, she has given back to her fellow students in innumerable ways and is an outstanding representative of King Hall.”

“Paige Tucker’s exemplary commitment to the greater community and keen sense of social justice have shaped her leadership of the King Hall student body,” UC Davis Law Dean Kevin R. Johnson said. “Paige has made a difference.”

In her role as LSA president, Tucker was instrumental in starting an emergency funds program for students affected by the COVID-19 crisis. She also helped organize an annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and Celebration. Held for the first time this year, the day included students, faculty, staff and alumni helping at a Woodland shelter for the unhoused population, and a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals clinic at King Hall.

Under Tucker’s leadership, the BLSA donated a mural of Dr. King, co-created by Reza Harris ’19, to the law school last year.

Tucker holds a master’s degree in religion from Yale Divinity School, and a B.A. in political science from UCLA. At Yale, she served as social justice and civic engagement coordinator at the Afro-American Cultural Center.