Joseph Graham "Gray" Davis Jr. is an American attorney and former politician who served as the 37th governor of California from 1999 to 2003. In 2003,under a year into his second term,Davis was recalled and removed from office. He is the second state governor in U.S. history to have been recalled.
The University of California College of the Law,San Francisco,is a public law school in San Francisco,California. The law school was formerly known as the University of California,Hastings College of the Law from 1878 to 2023.
Kevin Francis Shelley is an American politician,who was the 28th California Secretary of State from January 6,2003,until his resignation on March 4,2005.
Barry "The Fish" Melton is the co-founder and original lead guitarist of Country Joe and the Fish and Dinosaurs. He appears on all the Country Joe and the Fish recordings and he also wrote some of the songs that the band recorded. He appeared in the films made at Monterey Pop and Woodstock,and also appeared as an outlaw in the neo-Western film,Zachariah, and other films in which Country Joe and the Fish appear. An attorney and member of the State Bar of California,Melton has maintained a criminal defense practice since 1982.
Clara Shortridge Foltz was an American lawyer,the first female lawyer on the West Coast,and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002,and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
Serranus Clinton Hastings was an American politician,rancher and lawyer in California. He studied law as a young man and moved to the Iowa District in 1837 to open a law office. Iowa became a territory a year later,and he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Iowa Territorial General Assembly. When the territory became the state of Iowa in 1846,he won an election to represent the state in the United States House of Representatives. After his term ended,he became Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
Jeffrey Gordon Adachi was an American attorney,pension reform advocate,and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019.
San Francisco Law School is a private,for-profit law school in San Francisco,California. Founded in 1909,it is the oldest evening law school in the Western United States.
John Lowell Burton is an American politician who served in both the California State Assembly and the United States House of Representatives. He was a member of the Democratic Party and represented California's 5th and 6th congressional districts.
Joseph Raymond Grodin is a lawyer,law professor,and a former Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal and an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California. Grodin lost his Supreme Court seat in a contentious 1986 retention election that also removed Justice Cruz Reynoso and Chief Justice Rose Bird.
Robert Howard Schnacke was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.
Edward John Davila is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was previously a state court judge on the Superior Court of Santa Clara County from 2001 to 2011.
Jesse Stout is an American attorney and drug policy reform activist. He practiced business law for the cannabis industry with Greenbridge Corporate Counsel. He was appointed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to serve as a member of the San Francisco Cannabis State Legalization Task Force and its successor body the San Francisco Cannabis Oversight Committee. He also recruited employees for cannabis companies,through THC Staffing Group.
The Judiciary of California or the Judicial Branch of California is defined under the California Constitution as holding the judicial power of the state of California which is vested in the Supreme Court,the Courts of Appeal and the Superior Courts. The judiciary has a hierarchical structure with the California Supreme Court at the top,California Courts of Appeal as the primary appellate courts,and the California Superior Courts as the primary trial courts.
The San Francisco Public Defender's Office is an agency of the Government of San Francisco. Since 1921,it has provided legal assistance to indigent individuals charged with violations of California state law by the San Francisco District Attorney's Office.
This page lists notable alumni,students,and faculty of the University of California College of the Law,San Francisco,a public law school in San Francisco,California.
Rachelle B. Chong is an American attorney and former government official who served as a Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1994 to 1997. A member of the Republican Party,Chong was the first Asian-American to serve on the FCC. Chong later served as a commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from 2006 to 2009.
Kimiko Burton,formerly Kimiko Burton-Cruz,is an American attorney and government official. Burton is serving a second term as a member of the California State Personnel Board after having been reappointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in 2019. From 2001 to 2003,Burton served as Public Defender of San Francisco.
