University of Southern California Law School

The University of Southern California Law School (Gould School of Law), located in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

, is a law school

Law school in the United States

In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.Law schools in the U.S...

within the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States

Southwestern United States

The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...

, USC Law had its beginnings in 1896, and was officially established as a school of the university in 1904.

History

USC Law School had its beginnings in 1896 when Judge David C. Morrison opened his courtroom for 36 law apprentices, among whom were future California Supreme Court Justice Frederick W. Houser

Frederick W. Houser

Frederick Wilhelm Houser Frederick W. Houser was born to Justus Christian Houser and Martha Rodman in Jones County, Iowa...

and his wife, Sara Isabella Wilde; the couple would soon form the Los Angeles Law Students Association to discuss the concept of a formal law school. Their efforts resulted in the incorporation of the Los Angeles Law School in 1898. The first law degree was awarded in 1901 to Gavin W. Craig. Over the next several decades, USC Law rose to become one of the most prominent national law schools, priding itself on an interdisciplinary form of study. 2002 saw the beginning of the USC Law Graduate and International Programs. It is an American Bar Association (ABA) approved law school since 1924. It joined the Association of American Law Schools

Association of American Law Schools

The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...

(AALS) in 1907.

Academics

USC Law awards the J.D.

Juris Doctor

Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

, LL.M.

Master of Laws

The Master of Laws is an advanced academic degree, pursued by those holding a professional law degree, and is commonly abbreviated LL.M. from its Latin name, Legum Magister. The University of Oxford names its taught masters of laws B.C.L...

, and M.C.L. law degree

Law degree

A Law degree is an academic degree conferred for studies in law. Such degrees are generally preparation for legal careers; but while their curricula may be reviewed by legal authority, they do not themselves confer a license...

s. It currently has about 600 J.D. students (200 per year), and a growing LL.M. program of about 90 students. It offers two certificate programs: business and entertainment law.

USC Law will also offer a LL.M. in Taxation in Fall 2011.

Rankings

USC Law has consistently been ranked between 15th and 18th by the U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...

list of "America's Best Graduate Schools" since the magazine has published an annual version of its rankings, ranking 18th in 2011. "The Law School 100", a ranking scheme that uses qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranks the law school 14th overall, tied with Duke

Duke University School of Law

The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

, UCLA

UCLA School of Law

The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It has been approved by the American Bar Association since 1950. It joined the Association of American Law Schools in 1952.- History :...

, and the University of Texas

University of Texas School of Law

The University of Texas School of Law, also known as UT Law, is an ABA-certified American law school located on the University of Texas at Austin campus. The law school has been in operation since the founding of the University in 1883. It was one of only two schools at the University when it was...

. In addition, USC Law was ranked 14th in the 2008 National Law Journal job placement study, with over 43% of its graduating class hired by the NLJ 250 largest law firms in the United States. It was listed with an "A-" in the March 2011 "Diversity Honor Roll" by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.

Academic journals and honors programs

USC Law hosts three academic journals and offers one additional honors program: Southern California Law Review
Southern California Law Review
The Southern California Law Review is the flagship scholarly journal of the USC Gould School of Law. The law review was established in 1927, and its students publish six issues in each annual volume....

, Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice (formerly the Review of Law and Women's Studies), and the Hale Moot Court Honors Program.

Selected law students can participate in one honors program in an academic year.

USC Law has a chapter of the Order of the Coif

Order of the Coif

The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...

, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.

Clinical programs

USC maintains six client clinics to provide students real experience with lawyering skills.

Employer Legal Advice Clinic — counseling Los Angeles-area non-profits with employment law issues; assisted small businesses to regenerate after the 1992 L.A. riots
Immigration Clinic — providing pro bono representation to clients in a variety of immigration cases from over 25 different countries
Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic — assisting artists, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and policymakers with intellectual property issues
Mediation Clinic — providing mediation for small claims and civil harassment cases for the Los Angeles County Superior Court
Post-Conviction Justice Project — representing clients on civil issues related to incarceration, parole hearings, and constitutional rights
Small Business Clinic — providing corporate legal assistance to entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, and small businesses

Study abroad program

USC Law offers two international study abroad programs, providing credit to J.D. students. Students may spend a semester abroad at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law or pursue a J.D./LL.M dual degree with the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...

Dual Degree Programs

USC Law maintains dual degree programs with the Marshall School of Business

USC Marshall School of Business

The USC Marshall School of Business is a private research and academic institution at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. In 1997 the school was renamed following a US$35 million donation from alumnus Gordon S...

, the Department of Economics, the School of Public Administration

School of Policy, Planning, and Development

The USC Sol Price School of Public Policy , previously known as School of Policy, Planning, and Development , at the University of Southern California is a leading urban planning, public policy and public administration school in the United States...

, the School of Urban and Regional Planning, the School of Social Work, the Davis School of Gerontology, the School of Religion, the Annenberg School of Communications, and the School of International Relations.

Dual degree programs are accelerated - If a Master's degree normally requires one year of study, a student in a dual degree program earns both degrees in only three years. If the Master's degree normally requires two years of post-baccalaureate courses, a total of four years is required.

Qualified students can earn the following degrees in conjunction with their J.D.:

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
Master of Real Estate Development (M.R.E.D.)
Master of Business Taxation (M.B.T.)
Master of Science in Taxation
The Master of Science in Taxation is a professional graduate degree specifically designed for individuals that desire to become tax specialists. An alternate degree title is "Master of Taxation" or "Master Business Taxation" . A student taking a MST program studies tax law and its application...
Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.)
Master of Public Administration
The Master of Public Administration is a professional post-graduate degree in Public Administration. The MPA program prepares individuals to serve as managers in the executive arm of local, state/provincial, and federal/national government, and increasingly in nongovernmental organization and...
Master of Social Work (M.S.W.)
Master of Social Work
The Master of Social Work is a master's degree in social workand especiality of sociology.- United States :In the United States, MSW degrees must be received from a graduate school that has been approved by the Council on Social Work Education...
Master of Science in Gerontology (M.S.G.)
Master of Arts in Communications Management (M.A.)
Master of Arts in Economics (M.A.)
Master of Arts in International Relations (M.A.)
Master of Arts in Philosophy (M.A.)

USC Law also maintains two other dual degree programs. A program administered in conjunction with the California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

enables a student to receive a J.D. from USC and a Ph.D. in social science from Cal Tech. A dual degree program initiated with the USC School of Pharmacy enables a qualified student to earn a J.D. and a Pharm.D.

Doctor of Pharmacy

A Doctor of Pharmacy is a professional doctorate degree in pharmacy. In some countries, it is a first professional degree, and a prerequisite for licensing to exercise the profession of pharmacist.-Kenya :...

degree. Students admitted to the J.D./Pharm.D. program must begin their studies in the School of Pharmacy.At the request of individual students, other dual degree programs may be initiated with the concurrence of USC Law and the other departments involved.

Deans

1904-1927, Frank M. Porter
1927-1930, Justin Miller
Justin Miller (judge)
Justin Miller was a lawyer and a federal appellate judge.Miller was born in Crescent City, California in 1888. He got his B.A...
1930-1948, William G. Hale
1948-1952, Shelden Elliott
1952-1963, Robert Kingsley
1963-1968, Orrin B. Evans
1968-1980, Dorothy W. Nelson
Dorothy Wright Nelson
-Biography:Born in San Pedro, California, Nelson received an A.B. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950, a J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law in 1953, and an LL.M. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1956. She was a Research...
1980-2000, Scott H. Bice
2000-2006, Matthew L. Spitzer
2006-2007, Edward J. McCaffery
Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery is a tax law professor at the University of Southern California Law School and also a visiting professor of Law and Economics at the California Institute of Technology. At USC he is Robert C...

(interim)
2007-present, Robert K. Rasmussen
Robert K. Rasmussen
Robert K. Rasmussen is the dean of the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California.-External links:*...

Faculty

Jody Armour
Jody Armour
Jody Armour is Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California, where he specializes in race issues in legal decision-making.-Selected publications:...

- specializes in race issues; author of Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism
Scott Bice - expert on federal courts; former dean of USC law school (1980–2000)
Alexander Capron - specializes in law and medicine
Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich
Susan Estrich is an American lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate, and political commentator for Fox News.-Early life:...

- Professor of Law and Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

. A Fox News commentator, Professor Estrich is frequently asked to comment on political interest stories. As an author, most recently, she has published The Case for Hillary Clinton, 2005, and Soulless: The Right Wing Church of Hate, 2006. Estrich is a woman of firsts; she was the first woman to become Editor in Chief of the Harvard Law Review
Harvard Law Review
The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.-Overview:According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports, the Review is the most cited law review and has the second-highest impact factor in the category "law" after the...

, the youngest woman to receive tenure from Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

(before leaving to teach at USC), and the first woman to ever run a Presidential campaign (Dukakis
Michael Dukakis
Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...

, 1988
United States presidential election, 1988
The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...

).
Elizabeth Garrett
Elizabeth Garrett
Elizabeth Garrett is Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Frances R. and John J. Duggan Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Southern California...

- appointed to President Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform; USC Vice President of Academic Planning and Budget, Professor of Law, Political Science and Public Policy
Carole E. Handler
Carole E. Handler
Carole Enid Handler is an American lawyer who specializes in intellectual property litigation in the areas of trademark, copyright and antitrust laws, particularly those related to entertainment and media industry...

- Professor of antitrust
Competition law
Competition law, known in the United States as antitrust law, is law that promotes or maintains market competition by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies....

and intellectual property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

law
Edward Kleinbard - tax expert; former chief of staff of Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation
George Lefcoe - real estate expert; author of the widely used "Real Estate Transactions" textbook
Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery is a tax law professor at the University of Southern California Law School and also a visiting professor of Law and Economics at the California Institute of Technology. At USC he is Robert C...

- tax expert
Matthew McCubbins - specializes in statutory interpretation
Jean Rosenbluth - Professor of Legal Writing and noted expert on criminal law
Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks
Elyn Saks is Associate Dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School and an expert in mental health law....

- expert on mental health law who has paranoid schizophrenia, author of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Former faculty

Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky is an American lawyer and law professor. He is a prominent scholar in United States constitutional law and federal civil procedure...

- former Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political Science, 1983–2004; former professor at the Duke University School of Law
Duke University School of Law
The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

; founding Dean at the University of California, Irvine School of Law
University of California, Irvine School of Law
The University of California, Irvine School of Law is the law school at the University of California, Irvine . It is the fifth law school in the UC system and the first public law school to open in California in 40 years...
Richard Epstein - well-known for his arguments against anti-discrimination
Discrimination
Discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their membership in a certain group or category. It involves the actual behaviors towards groups such as excluding or restricting members of one group from opportunities that are available to another group. The term began to be...

laws; currently the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School
University of Chicago Law School
The University of Chicago Law School was founded in 1902 as the graduate school of law at the University of Chicago and is among the most prestigious and selective law schools in the world. The U.S. News & World Report currently ranks it fifth among U.S...
James Brown Scott
James Brown Scott
James Brown Scott, J.U.D. was an American authority on international law.-Biography:Scott was born at Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. He was educated at Harvard University . As Parker fellow of Harvard he traveled in Europe and studied in Berlin, Heidelberg , and Paris...

- authority on international law
International law
Public international law concerns the structure and conduct of sovereign states; analogous entities, such as the Holy See; and intergovernmental organizations. To a lesser degree, international law also may affect multinational corporations and individuals, an impact increasingly evolving beyond...

, founding dean of USC Law School
Charles Whitebread
Charles Whitebread
Charles H. Whitebread Charles H. Whitebread Charles H. Whitebread (April 2, 1943-September 16, 2008 was the George T. Pfleger Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School. He was an authority on criminal law and criminal procedure, writing and lecturing on those and other...

- expert on Criminal Procedure and lecturer for BarBri
BarBri
BarBri is a company in the United States that offers a widely used bar exam preparation course. A majority of American recipients of a Juris Doctor degree attend a six-week BarBri course, which features lectures by law professors on the six major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination —...

; author of The Eight Secrets of Top Exam Performance in Law School

Debra Wong Yang
Debra Wong Yang
Debra Wong Yang was the United States Attorney for the Central District of California. She was appointed in May 2002 by President George W. Bush, who made her the first Asian American woman to serve as a United States Attorney...

- trial advocacy expert; the first Asian American woman served as a United States Attorney
United States Attorney
United States Attorneys represent the United States federal government in United States district court and United States court of appeals. There are 93 U.S. Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands...

U.S. federal Court of Appeals judges

Arthur Lawrence Alarcon
Arthur Lawrence Alarcon
Arthur Lawrence Alarcon is a United States federal judge.Born in Los Angeles, California, Alarcon was a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946, then received a B.A. from University of Southern California in 1949 and an LL.B. from University of Southern California Law School in...

(1951) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1979–1992)
James Marshall Carter
James Marshall Carter
James Marshall Carter was a United States federal judge.Born in Santa Barbara, California, Carter received an A.B. from Pomona College in 1924 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1927. He was in private practice in Los Angeles, California from 1928 to 1940...

(1927) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1967–1971); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1949–1967)
Walter Raleigh Ely - Jr. (LL.M. 1949) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1964–1979)
Ferdinand Francis Fernandez
Ferdinand Francis Fernandez
Ferdinand Francis Fernandez is a United States federal judge.Born in Pasadena, California, Fernandez received a B.S. from the University of Southern California in 1958, a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1962, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 1963. He was a law...

(1962) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1989–2002); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1985–1989)
Warren J. Ferguson
Warren J. Ferguson
Warren John Ferguson was an American jurist who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.-Career:...

(1949) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1979–1986); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1966–1979)
Dorothy Wright Nelson
Dorothy Wright Nelson
-Biography:Born in San Pedro, California, Nelson received an A.B. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1950, a J.D. from University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law in 1953, and an LL.M. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1956. She was a Research...

(LL.M. 1956) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1979–1995)
David R. Thompson
David R. Thompson
David R. Thompson was a United States federal judge.Born in San Diego, California, Thompson received a B.S. from the University of Southern California in 1952 and an LL.B. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1955. He was in the United States Navy from 1955 to 1957...

(1955) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1985–1998)
Charles E. Wiggins
Charles E. Wiggins
Charles Edward Wiggins was a U.S. Representative from California, and later a United States federal judge.He was initially elected to California's 25th congressional district...

(1956) - Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

(1984–1996)

U.S. federal District Court for the Central District of California judges

William Matthew Byrne, Jr. (1956) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1971–1998)
Thurmond Clarke
Thurmond Clarke
Thurmond Clarke was a United States federal judge.Born in Santa Paula, California, Clarke received an LL.B. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1927. He was a Deputy district attorney of Los Angeles County, California from 1927 to 1929. He was a Deputy city attorney of City of...

(1927) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1966–1970); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1955–1966)
Elisha Avery Crary
Elisha Avery Crary
Elisha Avery Crary was a United States federal judge.Born in Grundy Center, Iowa, Crary received a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1929. and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1929. He was in private practice in Los Angeles, California from 1930 to...

(1929) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1966–1975); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1962–1966)
Richard Arthur Gadbois, Jr. (1960) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1982–1996)
Peirson Mitchell Hall - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1966–1968); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1942–1966)
James M. Ideman
James M. Ideman
James M. Ideman is a former United States federal judge.Born in Rockford, Illinois, Ideman received a B.A. from The Citadel in 1953 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1963. He was a Lieutenant in the United States Army from 1953 to 1956...

(1963) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1984–1998)
David Vreeland Kenyon
David Vreeland Kenyon
David Vreeland Kenyon is a former United States federal judge.Born in San Marino, California, Kenyon received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1957. He was a U.S. Marine Corps Infantry Officer from 1953...

(1957) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1980–1995)
George H. King
George H. King
George H. King is a judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of California.King was born in Shanghai, China. He received an A.B. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1971 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1974. He was in...

(1974) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1995–present)
Stephen G. Larson
Stephen G. Larson
Stephen Gerard Larson is a former United States District Court judge.Larson was born in Fontana, California. He received a B.S. from Georgetown University in 1986. He received a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School and was admitted to the California State Bar in 1989. He was...

(1989) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(2006–2009)
Nora Margaret Manella
Nora Margaret Manella
Nora Margaret Manella is an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal.Manella was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, Arthur Manella, was a well-known local tax lawyer and a founding partner of Irell & Manella....

(1975) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1998–2006)
Edward Rafeedie
Edward Rafeedie
Edward Rafeedie was a judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1982.-Biography:...

(1959) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1982–1996)
Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.
Albert Lee Stephens, Jr.
Albert Lee Stephens Jr. was a United States federal judge, President John F. Kennedy's first appointee to the federal courtBorn in Los Angeles, California, Stephens was the son of Judge Albert Lee Stephens, Sr...

(1938) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1966–1979); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1961–1966)
Alicemarie Huber Stotler
Alicemarie Huber Stotler
-Early life and education:Born in Alhambra, California, Stotler received a B.A. from University of Southern California in 1964 and a J.D. from University of Southern California Law School in 1967.-Career:...

(1967) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1984–2009)
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi was a United States federal judge.-Early life:Takasugi was born in Tacoma, Washington. When he was 12 years old, he and his family were interned in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, part of the World War II internment of 130,000 Japanese Americans.After the war,...

(1959) - first Japanese American
Japanese American
are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity...

federal judge; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1976–1996)
Dickran Tevrizian
Dickran Tevrizian
Dickran M. Tevrizian, Jr. was a United States federal judge for the Central District of California. Confirmed in 1985, he is the first United States federal judge of Armenian ancestry....

(1965) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1985–2005)
Laughlin Edward Waters, Sr.
Laughlin Edward Waters, Sr.
Laughlin Edward Sr. Waters was a United States federal judge.Born in Los Angeles, California, Waters received an A.B. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1939 and was in the United States Army Infantry during World War II, from 1942 to 1945, achieving the rank of Captain...

(1947) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1976–1986)
David W. Williams
David W. Williams
David W. Williams was an American attorney and judge, the first African American federal judge west of the Mississippi. He is best known for his work in the abolition of restrictive covenants and for overseeing 4,000 criminal cases that stemmed from the 1965 Watts riots.-Early life and...

(1937) - first African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

federal judge west of the Mississippi River
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...

; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1969–1981)

Other U.S. federal court judges

Mary Ann Cohen
Mary Ann Cohen
Mary Ann Cohen is a judge of the United States Tax Court.Cohen attended public schools in Los Angeles before earning a B.S. from UCLA in 1964 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1967...

(1967) - Judge of the United States Tax Court
United States Tax Court
The United States Tax Court is a federal trial court of record established by Congress under Article I of the U.S. Constitution, section 8 of which provides that the Congress has the power to "constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court"...

(1982–present)
J. Lawrence Irving
J. Lawrence Irving
J. Lawrence Irving is a former United States federal judge.Born in San Diego, California, Irving was in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. He received a B.S. from the University of Southern California in 1959 and an LL.B. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1963...

(1963) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1982–1990)
David W. Ling
David W. Ling
David W. Ling was a United States federal judge.Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Ling received an LL.B. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1913. He was in private practice in Clifton, Arizona from 1913 to 1927. He was a County attorney of Greenlee County, Arizona from 1921 to 1927...

(1913) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
United States District Court for the District of Arizona
The United States District Court for the District of Arizona is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Arizona. Court is held in the cities of Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Yuma, and Prescott. The district was created on June 20, 1910, by 36 Stat. 557...

(1936–1964)
Leland Chris Nielsen
Leland Chris Nielsen
Leland Chris Nielsen was a United States federal judge.Born in Vesper, Kansas, Nielsen received an A.B. from Washburn College in 1941 and was in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II, from 1941 to 1946, achieving the rank of Major. He received a J.D. from the University of Southern...

(1946) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1971–1985)
Howard Boyd Turrentine
Howard Boyd Turrentine
Howard Boyd Turrentine was a United States federal judge.Born in Escondido, California, Turrentine received an A.B. from San Diego State College in 1936 and an LL.B. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1939...

(1939) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
United States District Court for the Southern District of California
The United States District Court for the Southern District of California is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties in California: Imperial and San Diego. In terms of filed indictments, it is one of the busiest criminal districts in the United States...

(1970–1984)
Ronald M. Whyte
Ronald M. Whyte
Ronald M. Whyte is a United States federal judge in San Jose, California.Born in Pomona, California, Whyte earned an A.B. in Mathematics from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1964, and a J.D. degree from the USC Gould School of Law in Los Angeles, California in 1967.Whyte was in...

(1967) - Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San...

(1992–2009)

California Supreme Court justices

David Eagleson
David Eagleson
David N. Eagleson served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from 1987 to 1991. He practiced law in Long Beach, California for 20 years...

(1950) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

(1987–1991)
Douglas L. Edmonds
Douglas L. Edmonds
Douglas L. Edmonds was an American jurist, serving on the Supreme Court of California and the United Nation's International Law Commission....

(1910) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

(1936–1955)
Frederick W. Houser
Frederick W. Houser
Frederick Wilhelm Houser Frederick W. Houser was born to Justus Christian Houser and Martha Rodman in Jones County, Iowa...

(1900) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

(1937–1942)
Marcus Kaufman
Marcus Kaufman
Marcus M. Kaufman served as the 103rd justice on the Supreme Court of California from March 1987 until his retirement in January 1990. Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, Justice Kaufman served for 17 years as an Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate...

(1956) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

(1987–1990)
Joyce L. Kennard
Joyce L. Kennard
Joyce Luther Kennard is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Appointed by Governor George Deukmejian in 1989 she is the longest-serving justice sitting on the Court, having been retained by California's voters three times—first to fill the unexpired term in 1990, followed by...

(1974) - first Asian-American
Asian American
Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...

to serve as an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

(1989–present)
Malcolm M. Lucas
Malcolm M. Lucas
Malcolm Millar Lucas was the 26th Chief Justice of California. He was appointed to the position after his predecessor, Rose Bird, was removed by the electorate in 1986 for reasons including her staunch opposition to capital punishment, which was reflected in her voting for reversal in all 61...

(1953) - 26th Chief Justice of California (1987–1996); Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
Supreme Court of California
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...

(1984–1987); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
United States District Court for the Central District of California
The United States District Court for the Central District of California serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial district by population...

(1971–1984)

From 1989–1990, with Eagleson, Kaufman, Kennard, and Lucas were concurrently serving on the California Supreme Court, USC Gould School of Law became the first (and so far only) law school whose alumni constituted a majority of that Court's justices. All four were appointed by Republican

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

Governor George Deukmejian

George Deukmejian

Courken George Deukmejian, Jr. born June 6, 1928) is an Armenian American politician from California who as a Republican served as the 35th Governor of California and as California Attorney General .-Early life:...

Business

C. Bertrand Thompson
C. Bertrand Thompson
Clarence Bertrand Thompson was an American man of letters. In 1900, at the age of 18, he was the first African-American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. He later served as a business consultant, business professor, clergyman in the Unitarian Church and scientist.-...

(1900) - First African-American graduate of USC Law School at age 18, later a Unitarian minister, assistant to Frederick W. Taylor and early scholar of scientific management
Scientific management
Scientific management, also called Taylorism, was a theory of management that analyzed and synthesized workflows. Its main objective was improving economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. It was one of the earliest attempts to apply science to the engineering of processes and to management...

, lecturer at the Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...

(1908–1917), international business consultant (awarded the French Légion d'honneur
Légion d'honneur
The Legion of Honour, or in full the National Order of the Legion of Honour is a French order established by Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of the Consulat which succeeded to the First Republic, on 19 May 1802...

), and researcher in biochemistry
Louis Galen
Louis Galen
Louis "Lou" J. Galen was an American philanthropist. Before he retired he was a successful banker and CEO of Golden West Financial Corporation....

(1951) - former CEO of Golden West Financial
Golden West Financial
Golden West Financial was the second largest savings and loan in the United States, operating branches under the name of World Savings Bank.-History:...

, philanthropist
Frank Rothman (1951) - former chairman and CEO of MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...

Studios and noted trial attorney
Sol Price
Sol Price
Sol Price was the founder of FedMart and Price Club . He is considered a pioneer of the "warehouse store" retail model....

(1957) - founder of Fed Mart and Price Club
Price Club
Price Club was the pioneer of the warehouse store. Founded by Sol Price in San Diego, California in 1976, the company charged shoppers a $25 annual membership fee to purchase bulk products at discount prices in a no-frills warehouse setting. Price Club's high sales volume enabled Price to give his...

(Costco Wholesale Corp.)
Walt Zifkin (1961) - CEO Emeritus, William Morris Agency
William Morris Agency
WME is the largest talent agency in the world, with offices in Beverly Hills, New York City, Nashville, London, and Miami. WME represents elite artists from all facets of the entertainment industry, including motion pictures, television, music, theatre, publishing, and physical production...
James Rogers (1963) - CEO & owner, Sunbelt Communications
Richard Ziman
Richard Ziman
Richard Ziman is the founding Chairman and CEO of Arden Realty, Inc., the largest owner of commercial office real estate in Southern California.-Early life:...

(1967) - CEO, Arden Realty
Stanley Gold
Stanley Gold
Stanley Phillip Gold is President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, Roy E. Disney's private investment company. He was on the Walt Disney Company's board of directors 1984; 1987-2003. He and Roy resigned to publicly campaign to oust then CEO and Chairman of the Board Michael Eisner. He also helped...

(1967) - President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings
Shamrock Holdings
Shamrock Holdings is the firm founded as the Roy E. Disney family investment firm and the Disney family remains a key investor. Roy was its chairman, and Stanley Gold its President/CEO. Shamrock owns a number of assets including hotels and radio and television stations. Shamrock often takes an...
Bruce Karatz (1970) - CEO of KB Home
KB Home
KB Home is a homebuilding company based in the United States, founded in 1957 as Kaufman & Broad in Detroit, Michigan. It was the first company to be traded on the NYSE as a home builder and is a Fortune 500 company...
Larry Flax (1971) - co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen
California Pizza Kitchen
California Pizza Kitchen , known within the food industry as CPK, is a casual dining restaurant chain that specializes in California-style pizza...
Jeff Smulyan
Jeff Smulyan
Jeffrey Smulyan born April 6, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana is the founder and CEO of Emmis Communications.He earned undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Southern California....

(1972) - founder and CEO of Emmis Communications
Emmis Communications
Emmis Communications is a media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company owns radio stations and magazines in the United States, Hungary, Slovakia and Bulgaria.-History:...
Charles Prince
Charles Prince
Charles O. "Chuck" Prince, III is an American former chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup. He succeeded Sandy Weill as the CEO of the firm in 2003, and as the Chairman of the Board in 2006...

(1975 - former chairman & CEO of Citigroup
Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Citigroup was formed from one of the world's largest mergers in history by combining the banking giant Citicorp and financial conglomerate...
Alan Hoffman (1991) - Chief of Staff for Senator Joe Biden
Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama...

; former Vice President of Timmons and Co.
Richard Rosenblatt
Richard Rosenblatt
Richard Rosenblatt is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Demand Media. He has built, operated, and sold over $1.3 billion of Internet media companies.-Early life:...

(1994) - Founder, CEO, Intermix & Demand Media; former Chairman, MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

; Founder, former CEO, iMALL

Other

Arthur Alber
Arthur Alber
Arhur Alber was an attorney and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1927 to 1929.-Biography:Alber was born September 16, 1892, in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents were Hermann Alber, a native of Germany, and Mary Wing of Cape Cod, Massachusetts...

- Los Angeles, California, City Council member (1927–29
Litta Belle Hibbens Campbell (1913) - first female deputy district attorney in the United States
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Mabel Walker Willebrandt , popularly known to her contemporaries as the "First Lady of Law", was the U.S. Assistant Attorney General from 1921 to 1929, handling cases concerning violations of the Volstead Act, federal taxation, and the Bureau of Federal Prisons during the Prohibition Era.-Early...

(1916) - Assistant U.S. Attorney General
United States Attorney General
The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...

(1921–1929
You Chung Hong
You Chung Hong
You Chung Hong was an American attorney and community leader who was the first Chinese American lawyer admitted to practice law in the state of California, having passed the bar examination before he became the first Chinese American graduate of the University of Southern California Law School...

(1898–1977) (1924) - first Chinese American
Chinese American
Chinese Americans represent Americans of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans...

admitted to practice in California
Gordon Dean
Gordon Dean
Gordon Evans Dean was a Seattle-born American lawyer and prosecutor who served as chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission from 1950 to 1953....

(1930) - former USC Law School professor; chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission
United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by Congress to foster and control the peace time development of atomic science and technology. President Harry S...

(AEC)
Edwin Jefferson (1931) - first African American
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

judge west of Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
Jack Carl Greenburg
Jack Carl Greenburg
Jack Carl Greenburg was a Los Angeles attorney who served as Chief Clerk of the California Assembly from 1939 to 1941....

(1933) - former Chief Clerk of the California State Assembly
California State Assembly
The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members in the Assembly, representing an approximately equal number of constituents, with each district having a population of at least 420,000...
William P. Hogoboom (1919–2003) (1949) - former California Superior Court judge, author of Rutter Group California legal practice guides
David Getches
David Getches
David Harding Getches was Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law in Boulder, Colorado. He taught and wrote on water law, public land law, environmental law, and Indian law.- Biography :Getches was born in Abington, Pennsylvania in...

(1967) - Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law
University of Colorado School of Law
The University of Colorado Law School is one of the professional graduate schools within the University of Colorado System. It is a public law school, with more than 500 students attending and working toward a Juris Doctor or Master of Law. The Wolf Law Building Located in Boulder, Colorado, and...
Scott Bice (1968) - Dean of USC Law School from 1980–2000, Supreme Court Clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren. Board of Directors, Arena Pharmaceuticals.
James P. Gray
James P. Gray
James "Jim" P. Gray is an American jurist, politician, and writer. He was the presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County, California. Gray was the 2004 Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate in California...

(1971) - presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County; former Libertarian
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...

candidate for the U.S. Senate
Stephen Cooley (1973) - Los Angeles County's 36th District Attorney
District attorney
In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is an elected or appointed government official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...
Douglas Kmiec
Douglas Kmiec
Douglas W. Kmiec is an American legal scholar, author, and former U.S. ambassador. He is the Caruso Family Chair and Professor of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law. Kmiec came to prominence during the United States presidential election, 2008 when, although a Republican, he...

(1976) - U.S. AmbassadorCaruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University is an independent, private, medium-sized university affiliated with the Churches of Christ. The university's campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States, near Malibu, is the location for Seaver College, the School of...

,fmr. U.S. Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
Office of Legal Counsel
The Office of Legal Counsel is an office in the United States Department of Justice that assists the Attorney General in his function as legal adviser to the President and all executive branch agencies.-History:...

, fmr. Dean and St. Thomas More Professor, The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...

, fmr. Director of Law & Government Center, University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...
Margaret Radin
Margaret Radin
Margaret Jane Radin is a professor at University of Michigan Law School. She is well-known for her work on property law and her emphasis on the theory of commodification. In particular, she holds that the buying and selling of things, such as body parts, can diminish human dignity and the value of...

(1976) - influential law professor at Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...

; former USC Law School professor
Matthew Spitzer (1977) - Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law and Political Science and visiting professor of Law and Economics at the California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

; Dean of USC Law School from 2000–2006; currently Hayden W. Head Regents Chair for Faculty Excellence and professor of administrative law, regulatory policy, and broadcast regulation at the University of Texas School of Law
Jacob Stein
Jacob Stein
Jacob Stein is a California attorney and an authority on the subject of asset protection. His textbooks on asset protection are used by Lorman Education Services, National Business Institute, California CPA Society, and the California CPA Education Foundation...

- attorney, authority on the subject of asset protection
Asset protection
Asset protection is a set of legal techniques and a body of statutory and common law dealing with protecting assets of individuals and business entities from civil money judgments...
George Hedges
George Hedges
George Reynolds Hedges was a lawyer with a list of celebrity clients including Mel Gibson and David Lynch who gained attention in the field of archeology for his discovery of the ancient city of Ubar.-Biography:...

(1978) - senior partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP and attorney to numerous celebrity clients; led team of archaeologists in discovering the lost city of Ubar
Iram of the Pillars
Iram of the Pillars , also called Aram, Iram, Irum, Irem, Erum, Wabar, Ubar, or the City of a Thousand Pillars, is a lost city on the Arabian Peninsula.-Introduction:Ubar, a name of a region or a name of a people, was mentioned in ancient records, and was spoken of in folk...

in Oman
Oman
Oman , officially called the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab state in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by the United Arab Emirates to the northwest, Saudi Arabia to the west, and Yemen to the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the...

in 1991.

Politics

Arthur Alber
Arthur Alber
Arhur Alber was an attorney and a member of the Los Angeles, California, City Council from 1927 to 1929.-Biography:Alber was born September 16, 1892, in Birmingham, Alabama. His parents were Hermann Alber, a native of Germany, and Mary Wing of Cape Cod, Massachusetts...

- Los Angeles City Council member (1927–29)
Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand W. Gearhart
Bertrand Wesley "Bud" Gearhart was an American lawyer and politician. Gearhart, a Republican, served as the United States Representative for California's 9th congressional district from 1935 to 1949.-Background:...

(1910) - lawyer and former member of the United States House of Representatives
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two Houses of the United States Congress, the bicameral legislature which also includes the Senate.The composition and powers of the House are established in Article One of the Constitution...
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron
Fletcher Bowron was the 35th Mayor of Los Angeles, California from September 26, 1938 until June 30, 1953. Until Thomas Bradley passed his length of service during the 1980s, Bowron held the distinction of having the longest tenure in that position in city history.Bowron was born in Poway,...

(1911) - former mayor of Los Angeles
J. Curtis Counts
J. Curtis Counts
James Curtis Counts , known primarily by his first initial and middle name, was an American lawyer and labor mediator who served as the sixth Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, appointed by President of the United States Richard Nixon.-Early life and education:Counts was...

(1941) - Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (USA)
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is an independent agency of the United States government, founded in 1947, which provides mediation services to industry, community and government agencies worldwide. One of its most common tasks is to help to mediate labor disputes around the country....

.
Buron Fitts
Buron Fitts
Buron Rogers Fitts was a California politician, who was the 29th Lieutenant Governor of the state from 1927 to 1928 and Los Angeles County district attorney thereafter until 1940....

(1916) - former Lieutenant Governor of California
Lieutenant Governor of California
The Lieutenant Governor of California is a statewide constitutional officer elected separately from the Governor who serves as the "vice-executive" of California. The Lieutenant Governor of California is elected to serve a four year term and can serve a maximum of two terms...
Thomas Kuchel
Thomas Kuchel
Thomas Henry Kuchel was a moderate Republican U.S. Senator from California. From 1959 to 1969 he was the minority whip in the Senate, where he was the co-manager on the floor for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.-Biography:Kuchel was born in Anaheim in Orange County,...

(1935) - former United States Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
Craig Hosmer
Craig Hosmer
Chester Craig Hosmer was a United States Representative from California.Hosmer was born in Brea, California, in Orange County. He attended the public schools, graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School...

(1940) - former United States Representative
Fred Hall
Fred Hall
Frederick "Fred" Lee Hall was a Republican lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, 1951–55 and the 33rd Governor of Kansas, 1955-57...

(1941) - former Governor of Kansas
Governor of Kansas
The Governor of the State of Kansas is the head of state for the State of Kansas, United States. Under the Kansas Constitution, the Governor is also the head of government, serving as the chief executive of the Kansas executive branch, of the government of Kansas. The Governor is the...
James B. Utt
James B. Utt
James Boyd Utt was a conservative Republican Congressman from populous Orange County, California, from 1953 to 1970.-Biography:...

(1946) - former United States Representative
Carlos Moorhead
Carlos Moorhead
Carlos John Moorhead was a United States Congressman from California. Born in Long Beach, he attended the public schools of Glendale, graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in 1940 and earned a B.A. from the UCLA in 1943 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School in 1949...

(1949) - former United States Representative
Robert Finch (1951) - attorney, former Lieutenant Governor of California, former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is a politician from Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. She was the Los Angeles County Supervisor representing the 2nd District . She has served as the Chair three times . She was the first African-American woman to represent the West Coast in Congress...

(1956) - Los Angeles County supervisor, former member of the United States House of Representatives
Michael L. Williams
Michael L. Williams
Michael Lawrence Williams is a former member of the elected Texas Railroad Commission, a regulatory body over, not railroads, but the oil and natural gas industries. Williams is the first African American to hold a statewide elected executive office in Texas history. He was appointed to the...

(1979) - senior commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas
Railroad Commission of Texas
The Railroad Commission of Texas is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry, and surface coal and uranium mining .Established by the Texas Legislature in 1891, it is the state's oldest regulatory...
John Heilman
John Heilman
John Heilman is an American municipal politician and frequent mayor of West Hollywood, California.A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Heilman moved to Southern California to attend the University of Southern California Law School....

(1982) - mayor of West Hollywood
West Hollywood, California
West Hollywood, a city of Los Angeles County, California, was incorporated on November 29, 1984, with a population of 34,399 at the 2010 census. 41% of the city's population is made up of gay men according to a 2002 demographic analysis by Sara Kocher Consulting for the City of West Hollywood...
James Stuart McKnight (1908) - Los Angeles City Council member (1931–33)

Sports and media

Carey McWilliams
Carey McWilliams (journalist)
Carey McWilliams was an American author, editor, and lawyer. He is best known for his writings about social issues in California, including the condition of migrant farm workers and the internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II...

(1927) - author (lawyer (journalist (and editor of The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...

for twenty years
Joseph Wapner
Joseph Wapner
Joseph Albert Wapner is a former American judge and TV personality of the real-life courtroom-style show The People's Court, which ran in syndication from 1981 to 1993 for 2,484 episodes....

(1948) - Judge of The People's Court
The People's Court
The People's Court is a US television court show in which small claims court cases are heard, though what is shown is actually a binding arbitration....

(former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Terry Baker
Terry Baker
For the Canadian football player of the same name see Terry Baker .Terry Wayne Baker is a former quarterback for the Oregon State University football team. He played for them through the 1960-1962 seasons. He is most notable for winning the 1962 Heisman Trophy and playing the Final Four in the...

(1968) - played quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos
Edmonton Eskimos
The Edmonton Eskimos are a Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. They currently play in the West Division of the Canadian Football League . Edmonton is currently the third-youngest franchise in the CFL, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895...

while earning a J.D. at USC
Amy Trask
Amy Trask
Amy Trask is the current CEO of the Oakland Raiders, hired in 1997. Trask is currently the only female CEO in the NFL.Trask grew up in the Brentwood district of Los Angeles and graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1982 with a degree in political science and with a law degree from...

(1985) - CEO of the Oakland Raiders
Oakland Raiders
The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
Rick Neuheisel
Rick Neuheisel
Richard Gerald "Rick" Neuheisel, Jr. , is an American football coach, former player, and attorney. He was most recently the head football coach at University of California, Los Angeles, a position he held from 2008 to 2011...

(1990) - College and professional Football Coach. Current head football coach at UCLA and former UCLA quarterback.

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