Alumni Leadership
UCI Law was founded in 2008 by leading visionaries who wanted to reimagine legal education, while building a premier law school embedded in one of the most innovative public research universities in the United States, with a deep commitment to public service and social justice. Because of that history, UCI Law is unique in the emphasis we place on being leaders in myriad ways throughout the legal industry.
Our graduates go on to do great things, including influencing policy and the law in leadership positions in law firms of all sizes, public interest organizations, government agencies, the judiciary and major corporations. And an extraordinary number of our alumni lead local, regional and national bar associations, affinity bar associations and public interest organizations, as listed below.
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- Mimi Ahn ’14, President, Orange County Korean American Bar Association
- Shirley Diaz ’18, President, Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia
- Kelly Galligan Dunn ’15, President-Elect, Project Youth OC; Immediate Past President, OC Women Lawyers Association; Board of Directors, Orange County Bar Association
- Cinthia Flores ’14, President, Latina Lawyers Association
- Josh Ji ’16, Past-President, Orange County Korean American Bar Association (2019-2020), Board of Directors, Orange County Bar Association
- Teddy Nguyen ’14, President, Vietnamese Bar Association of Southern California
- Honieh Udenka ’17, President, Thurgood Marshall Bar Association
- Hollie Washington ’16, Past-President, Thurgood Marshall Bar Association
- Tremayne Wilson ’18, President-Elect, Thurgood Marshall Bar Association
- Brooke Weitzman ’14, President, William P Gray Inn of Court
- Christina Zabat-Fran ’12, President-Elect of OCBA
- Rochelle Calderon ’18, Secretary, Filipina American Lawyers of OC
- Shirley Diaz '18, Delegate on the Board of Governors, Hispanic National Bar Association
- Gordon Dunn ’16, Chair-Elect of Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Ryan Ghassemi ’24, Treasurer, Iranian American Bar Association (National) (current 2L student)
- Sean Lobb ’18, Chair-Elect, Federal Bar Association OC, Young Lawyers Division Board
- Brooke Weitzman ’14, Parliamentarian, Thurgood Marshall Bar Association; Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Tremayne Wilson ’18, Treasurer, Thurgood Marshall Bar Association
- Christina Zabat-Fran ’12, Treasurer, Orange County Bar Association
- Thea Ali ’18, Board Member, California Women’s Law Center
- Adam Brauner ’12, Emeritus Board Member, Orange County Lavender Bar Association
- Jessica Brostek-Maciel ’16, Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Yashina Burns ’16, Board of Directors, Orange County Korean American Bar Association
- Nicole Carbonel ’19, Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Eric Fanchiang ’17, Board of Directors, Orange County Asian American Bar Association
- C. Ryan Fisher ’16, Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Jared Gheen ’24, Law Student Representative, Orange County Lavender Bar Association
- Vanessa Gomez ’18, Board Member, California Women’s Law Center
- Lupe Gonzale ’14, Board of Directors, Hispanic Bar Association of OC
- Khorshid Kamran ’22, Law Student Representative, Iranian American Bar Association
- Kristie Kang ’22, Law Student Liaison, Orange County Asian American Bar Association
- Abby Leigh ’24, Law Student Representative, Orange County Lavender Bar Association
- Tryphena Liu ’18, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association affiliate to Young Lawyers Division, American Bar Association
- Laura Lively ’17, Board Member, California Women’s Law Center
- Sean T. Lobb ’18, Board of Directors of OCBA
- Samrah Mahmoud ’12, Board Member, Public Law Center; Board of Directors, Federal Bar Association – OC
- Anne Nicholson ’21, Board of Directors, OC Women Lawyers Association, Business Development Co-Chair, Orange County Bar Association, Board Member, California Women Lawyers
- Kellye Ng ’16, Board Member, Board of Governors for the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
- Teddy Nguyen ’14, Board Member, Community Legal Aid SoCal Advocacy Advisory Council
- Andrew Rothenberger ’15, Veterans & Military Committee at OCBA
- Nicholas J. Schuchert ’15, Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Lauren Shelby ’16, Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Hamaseh Sorooshian ’22, Law Student Representative, OC Women Lawyers Association
- Rouzbeh Soleymani ’20, Board Member, Iranian American Bar Association, Orange County Chapter
- Honieh Udenka ’17, Board Member, Community Legal Aid SoCal Advocacy Advisory Council
- Kate Wagner ’13, Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC'
- Jiaxiao Zhang ’17, Board of Directors, Public Law Center
- Christina Ahluwalia, Treasurer, Filipina American Lawyers of OC
- Michele Anderson, Governor, California Women Lawyers
- Ronald Baldonado, Board Member, Filipina American Lawyers of OC
- Thorey Bauer, Community Outreach Committee at OCBA
- Bicvan Brown, Board of Directors, Vietnamese Bar Association of Southern California, Chair-Elect for Labor & Employment Law at OCBA
- Matthew Bures, Chair of Environmental Law at OCBA
- Allison E. Burns, Chair-Elect for Environmental Law at OCBA
- Matthew Buttacavoli, Vice-President, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Marty Chao, Secretary, Japanese American Bar Association
- Audrey Cheng, Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Katherine Corrigan, Board of Directors of OCBA
- Heather DeSha, Chapter Administrator, Federal Bar Association OC
- Alisa Edelson, Board Member, Board of Governors for the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
- Timothy W. Evanston, Chair for Commercial Law & Bankruptcy at OCBA
- Brian Farrell, Immediate Past President, Orange County Bar Association and Public Law Center
- Julie Ferguson, Co-President Elect, South Asian Bar Association of Southern California
- Jenos Firouznam-Heidari, Chair-Elect for Business Litigation Section at OCBA
- Victor Franco, Board of Directors, Hispanic Bar Association of OC
- Jeannette Garcia, President Elect, Hispanic Bar Association of OC
- Christopher Hernandez, Director, Hispanic Bar Association of OC
- Sonja M. Hourany, Secretary/Treasure for Commercial Law & Bankruptcy at OCBA
- Eemaan Jalili, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee at OCBA
- Baraa Kahf, Secretary, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Kristine Koo, Chair-Elect for Criminal Law at OCBA
- Joseph K. Lee, Intellectual Property & Technology Law at OCBA
- Melissa Lucar, Board of Directors, Latina Lawyers Association
- Monica Min, Governing Board Member, Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Ryan D. O'dea, Chair-Elect for Commercial Law & Bankruptcy at OCBA
- David M. Owh, Chair for Workers' Compensation Law at OCBA
- Pamela Palmer, Secretary, California Women’s Law Center
- Stella Park, Alternative Dispute Resolution OCBA
- Joseph E. Patton, Chair, Conservatorship, Guardianship, & Protective Proceedings Section at OCBA
- Teri T. Pham, Advisory Board, Asian Pacific American Bar Association
- Charla “Sue” Riley, Board of Directors, Public Law Center
- Dhara Waghela Sheth, Secretary, South Asian Bar Association of Southern California
- Jonathan Y. Shin, Secretary, Orange County Korean American Bar Association
- William C. Sung, Board Member, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County
- Leyla Tabatabaie, Board Member, Iranian American Bar Association, Orange County Chapter
- Elvis Tran, Director, Vietnamese Bar Association of Southern California
- Christina Le Trinh, Associate Board, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Cherrie I. Tsai, Mentoring at the OCBA
- Thomas W. Tuttle, President, Constitutional Rights Foundation – OC
- Jennifer Waier, Board of Directors of OCBA