The University of California,Davis School of Law is the professional graduate law school of the University of California,Davis. The school received ABA approval in 1968. It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1968.
Charles Hamilton Houston was an American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel. A graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School,Houston played a significant role in dismantling Jim Crow laws,especially attacking segregation in schools and racial housing covenants. He earned the title "The Man Who Killed Jim Crow".
Dale Minami is a prominent Japanese American civil rights and personal injury lawyer based in San Francisco,California. He is best known for his work leading the legal team that overturned the conviction of Fred Korematsu,whose defiance of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II led to Korematsu v. United States,which is widely considered one of the worst and most racist Supreme Court decisions in American history.
Karen K. Narasaki is an American civil rights leader and human rights activist. She most recently served as a Commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights after President Barack Obama appointed her in July 2014. She is the former president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC. Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC is a Washington,D.C.-based,nonprofit,nonpartisan,civil rights organization whose mission is to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through advocacy,public policy,public education and litigation. Prior to her post at AAJC,she served as the Washington,D.C. representative to the Japanese American Citizens League. Narasaki has also served as the chairperson of the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans and as the chairwoman of the Asian Pacific American Media Coalition.
Frank H. Wu is an American law professor and author currently serving as the president of Queens College,City University of New York. He served as the William L. Prosser Distinguished Professor at UC Hastings. Wu was also the first Asian American to serve in that position. In November 2015,he announced he would return to teaching.
Delbert Gee was an Alameda County Superior Court Judge from 2002 until his retirement in 2022,presiding over both civil and criminal cases. During the COVID-19 public health emergency,he presided over two civil jury trials conducted entirely by video.
Bill Lann Lee is an American civil rights attorney who served as Assistant United States Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton.
John David Trasviña is a human rights attorney. He is the former dean of the University of San Francisco School of Law. Previous to that,he was assistant secretary of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF),and special counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was named principal legal advisor at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in January 2021.
Charles Arthur Bane was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who was a former federal judicial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and who also was the first president of the United Way's Illinois chapter.
Marvin E. Aspen is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Milton Irving Shadur was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
Jeffrey Laurence Bleich is an American lawyer and diplomat from California.
Stewart Kwoh is an American attorney,educator,and civil rights leader. Kwoh is the founding President and Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles,formerly known as the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC).
William Robert Ming Jr. was an American lawyer,attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and law professor at University of Chicago Law School and Howard University School of Law. He presided over the Freeman Field mutiny court-martials involving the Tuskegee Airmen. He is best remembered for being a member of the Brown v. Board of Education litigation team and for working on a number of the important cases leading to Brown,the decision in which the United States Supreme Court ruled de jure racial segregation a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Gilbert F. Casellas is an American lawyer and businessman. He is a private investor and business consultant in the Washington,D.C. area,a director of Prudential Financial,trustee of the University of Pennsylvania,and advisor to Toyota Motor North America,T-Mobile US,and Comcast Corporation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,the American Law Institute,trustee of the Pan American Development Foundation and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Workplace Harassment Second Edition 2018 published by Bloomberg Law.
James D. Ward is an associate justice of the California Courts of Appeal,Fourth District,Division Two. As an attorney,he argued two cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court that defined key rights for the free press under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Glenn Duque Magpantay is the former executive director of the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance,an instructor at Brooklyn Law School and Hunter College/CUNY,and a former civil rights attorney in the role of Democracy Program director for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. In 2023,Glenn D Magpantay was appointed as a Commissioner to the United States Commission on Civil Rights by Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer. He is chair of the LGBT Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York,former co-chair of the Gay Asian &Pacific Islander Men of New York,and recognized as an "authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and expert on Asian American political participation,including bilingual ballots,election reform,minority voter discrimination,multilingual exit polling,and census." He has served as a commissioner on the New York City Voter Assistance Commission. He is also a contributing writer for the Huffington Post. The Glenn Magpantay Leadership Award at his undergraduate alma mater,the State University of New York at Stony Brook,is named after him.
Benes Zapanta Aldana is a retired United States Coast Guard captain and military lawyer who served as the Chief Trial Judge of the Coast Guard from 15 June 2016 until his retirement from military service in 2017. Aldana served as the first Asian Pacific (Filipino) American chief trial judge in U.S. military history. Aldana currently serves as president of the National Judicial College.
Michael N Martinez was the first Hispanic American lawyer in Utah. He went on to a long career in the law working in both government and private practice. He was a "vocal minority rights advocate" during his career,serving on many boards and commissions dedicated to furthering the rights of Hispanics and other people of color.
Hugh Ellwood Macbeth Sr. (1884-1956) was an African American attorney who defended Japanese American wartime legal rights in California during the Second World War.
