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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW 135^'' COMMENCEMENT May 15, 2016 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium San Francisco, California PROGRAM ENTRY OF CANDIDATES Procession led by Associate Academic Dean Jeffrey A. Lefstin Please stand during the entry of the candidates. Student Marshals: Pallavi Madhure Vishwanath - M.S.L Jean Elias Xavier - LLM. Monder Khoury - J.D. NATIONAL ANTHEM Isaac J. Jackson & Justin P. Page Members of the Legal Notes and the Graduating Class OPENING OF CEREMONIES Thomas Cede Chair, UC Hastings Board of Directors REMARKS FROM THE DEAN David L. Faigman Acting Chancellor & Dean REMARKS FROM THE CLASS OF 2016 Jennifer Horn Chen, Valedictorian Jeanette M. Acosta & Chris Ballard, Student Speakers COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS The Honorable Nancy Gertner United States Federal Judge (Ret.) and Professor of Law PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES AND CONFERRAL OF M.S.L., LL.M. AND J.D. DEGREES Provost & Executive Vice President, Academic Affairs, UCOP Aim^ Dorr; Acting Chancellor & Dean David L. Faigman; Provost & Academic Dean Elizabeth L. Hillman; Associate Dean for Global Programs and Professor of Law Richard A. Boswell; and Professor of Law Leo Martinez FAREWELL REMARKS Nancy Stuart Clinical Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Experiential Learning CLOSING REMARKS Acting Chancellor & Dean David L. Faigman Please remain seated until the graduates have exited the auditorium. Greetings from Acting Chancellor & Dean David Faigman Congratulatory Note from The UC Hastings Alumni Association President Congratulations! It is with great pleasure and a true honor to welcome you to the 135th commencement exercises of the University of California Hastings College of the Law. May 15, 2016 When people achieve milestones in life as momentous as graduating law school, On behalf of the UC Hastings Alumni Association Board of Governors, it is a commonplace truism that they did not get there on their own. It takes a congratulations to you on your graduation from UC Hastings, and welcome community. In fact, it takes many communities. We come together today to to the global family of UC Hastings alumni. celebrate all of these communities. You are joining an active and illustrious group of more than 20,000 UC Foremost, we celebrate the graduates. Before ever entering the halls of UC Hastings graduates. We are busy at work as lawyers, judges and business Hastings, our graduates traveled multiple and diverse paths. These paths varied leaders across California and around the world. We give our time, talent and considerably, from working odd jobs in high school and college to support their resources to influence change, right wrongs and provide pro bono assistance education (and, sometimes, their families), to public service such as the Peace to those in need. We are also essential partners in building a strong and Corps or Teach for America. Together with their shared academic excellence, these vibrant bridge between the UC Hastings academic community and the larger rich experiences prepared our graduates well for the challenges and opportunities of law school. legal professional world that you are entering now. We also celebrate the communities of families that supported today's graduates You have already been shaped by your UC Hastings education and by the along the way, from their earliest formative years through the excitement and, friendships and professional connections you made at the law school. But occasionally, the angst, of the law school classroom. These families are as diverse as that was just the beginning - the individuals that they supported, and include various combinations of parents, spouses, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and often just those who came So take today off, celebrate, but then get active. As a UC Hastings alumni, I together in friendship and love. Whatever the diversity of their constitutions, they ask you to both give and take: all shared the commitment of support to our graduates. * It is never too early to start building your network. Remember UC Hastings is composed of many layers, all of which also support our mission as a that there is a strong group of alumni mentors waiting to meet and law school. UC Hastings is our current students, a multitalented and extraordinary embrace you. group of young people who have the potential to change the world. UC Hastings is the more than 20,000 living alumni in California and across the nation who * Whatever your field of interest, we are there. Call us, ask us to buy are already changing the world. UC Hastings is our staff, whose commitment to you a cup of coffee, introduce yourself to us at an industry event - we excellence ensures the smooth operations of the school day in and day out. And UC are excited to get to know you and to help you along your path. Hastings is our faculty, whose teaching prepares the next generation of lawyers and whose scholarship brings the UC Hastings name to lawyers, judges, policy makers, * And remember where you came from. Look back to UC Hastings and and academics, both nationally and internationally. pay it forward. Donate your time to judge a moot court or the value of We celebrate all of those who contributed to this momentous day, for the road of life a billable hour to support a scholarship fund. Stay involved! is never traveled successfully alone, and however busy we get and however much we keep our heads down to attend to life's details, we should never forget to look As of today, you are now one of us. We welcome you with open arms to the up and thank those around us who have made the road so fulfilling to walk. UC Hastings alumni community and look forward to working with you ... wherever your path may lead. Best Wishes, Warm Congratulations, Acting Chancellor & Dean Marilyn Klinger '78, President UC Hastings Alumni Association Pro Bono Recognition The California Bar and the American Bar Ass<Kialion encourage attorneys to devote at least 50 hours annually to the provision of pro bono (free) legal services. At UC Hastings, we believe the delivery of pro bono services is an integral part of legal education and the practice of law. Therefore, graduates engaged in pro bono are recognized with the following distinctions. Pro Bono Society - J.D. Graduate met the UC Hastings goal for the provision of pro bono legal services. Jeanette M. Acosta B. Christopher Grauman Jessica Marie Murad Jerel Pads Agatep Jessica L. Guest Zach Newman Julie Stephannie Alarcdn Alex Hadduck Ali L. Nicolette Nancy C. Arfyalo Lesley Rae Hamilton T. Connor O'Carroll Alexia Arocha (Dec. Grad) Brandon M. Haugrud Sean Pan NANCY GERTNER Sarah Marie Ayad Cliclsca Ellen Heaney Sang Bum Park United States Federal Judge (Ret.) and Professor of Law Debashish Bakshi David Hernandez Lucas Pastuszka Chris Ballard Kirsten Anderson Housel Katelyn Miriam Phillips Judge Nancy Gertner is a graduate of Barnard College (B.A. 1%7) and Yale Law School Christina Emil Batshoun Gavin Hu Alexis Heather Pomwsli Rachel D. Belden Isaac ]. Jackson Mona Amy Razani (J.D. 1971) where she was an editor on The Yale Law Journal, and has a Yale M.A. in Veronica Bravo-Chavez Kaflicrine Howland Jordan Spencer J. Reckon Political Science. After more than two decades as a criminal defense lawyer, civil rights fency Megan Butler Mira P. Karageorge Anthony Rodriguez and women's rights activist, in April of 1994 she was appointed by President William J. Grecia Elisa Ceja Catherine A. Kauffelt Kelsey /. Rybum Clinton to the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. In September Evelina Chang Monder Klioury Julian Sarkar Clarissa J. Choy Shane Kolding Peter Selawsky of 2011, Judge Gertner retired the federal bench and become part of the faculty of the Kim S. Crawford Nalalir Koski-Karell Katherine Elizabetli Shaffer Harvard Law School teaching a number of subjects including criminal law, criminal Nafant L. Crisologo Stacy Kowalski Shiva Rupal Pramod Shall procedure, forensic science and sentencing, as well as continuing to teach and write An Tu Dang Vest Lagunas Kiran Sidhu about women's issues around the world. Brittaney D. de la Torre Louis Lee Green Son Matthew Dean (Dec. Grad) Claire Marie Lesikar Susan Ann Spiker Andrew Demirchyan Andrew M. Levad Tiffany Sh She has been profiled on a number of occasions both as a civil rights/women's rights Stephanie Dominguez Emma Levey Rachelle Uy and criminal defense lawyer and as a judge in the Boston Globe, the ABA Journal, Boston Jacklyn Fang Lidia Lopez Allyssa B. Villanueva Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. Both careers, lawyer and judge, have been Samantha Finegan Sean Lukins Kristin Louise Williams honored by numerous organizations. On August 9, 2008, Judge Germer received the Liliana Garda Daisy Vanessa Mateo Alexandra Danielle Wilson Andrew J. Garrett Kirstin Michelle McRae Sarah M. iVin^eld Thurgood Marshall Award from the American Bar Association, Section of Individual Kora L. Gilman Arash Merpour Nicholas Walter Yoka Rights and Responsibilities. She is the second woman to receive this honor; Justice Ruth fustin Globerson George M.