Hastings College of the Law

The University of California Hastings College of the Law is a law school located in downtown San Francisco, California. It was founded in 1878 by Serranus Clinton Hastings, the first Chief Justice of California, as the first law school of the University of California (UC), and it remains affiliated with UC today. Hastings is one of the few university-affiliated law schools in the United States which does not sit on a general university campus.

Notable Alumni

• Dick Ackerman (1967) - California State Senate Republican Leader
• Marvin Baxter (1966) - Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
• Willie Brown (1958) - former Speaker of the California State Assembly and Mayor of San Francisco
• Ed Case (1981) - U.S. Congressman from Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District
• Bill Dannemeyer (1952) - U.S. Congressman from California's 39th Congressional District (Orange County)
• Christopher Darden (1980) - prosecutor in O. J. Simpson trial
• Clair Engle (1933) - U.S. Senator from California
• Terence Hallinan (1964) - San Francisco District Attorney
• Robert Matsui (1966) - U.S. Congressman from California's 5th Congressional District (Sacramento)
• Thomas Mesereau (1979) - Famous criminal defense attorney with a star-studded client list, including Michael Jackson
• George Moscone (1957) - Assassinated Mayor of San Francisco
• Paula A. Nakayama (1979) - Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court
• Mario R. Ramil (1975) - Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court
• Kevin Shelley (1980) - 28th California Secretary of State
• Jackie Speier (1976) - California State Senator
• Todd Spitzer (1989) - California State Assemblyman
• Tom Umberg (1980) - California State Assemblyman
• Ann Veneman (1976) - 27th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture