Professor Behre Receives UC Davis Distinguished Service Award

UC Davis has honored Professor Kelly Behre with its 2025 Academic Federation Distinguished Service Award.

Behre has directed the Domestic & Sexual Violence Law Clinic for more than a decade. The clinic provides free civil legal assistance to low-income victims of intimate partner violence and sexual assault in Yolo County.

As the UC Davis Dateline announcement of Behre’s award points out, “Over the years, Behre and her students have provided invaluable support, knowledge, and leadership to students navigating what has become a very legalized Title IX process. She has spent hundreds of hours providing pro bono legal assistance to and consultation in service of UC victims of sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking. “

The story notes that the procedural justice the clinic helps create “has been life-changing for many,” and that “this is all due to Director Behre’s passion, expertise, and phenomenal leadership.”

Read about Behre and all the 2025 Academic Senate and Federation awardees in Dateline.

Kelly Behre is the director of the UC Davis Domestic & Sexual Violence Law Clinic. She has more than 20 years of experience working with victims of domestic and sexual violence, including directing clinics at West Virginia University College of Law and the University of Alabama School of Law.