UC Irvine Law Honor Roll: A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Incredible Partners in 2024

President

Eric Fanchiang ’17
Associate, Crowell & Moring LLP

First Vice President

Anne Marie Nicholson ’21
Associate, Haynes Boone

Second Vice President

Christopher Lawrence ’21
Associate, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

New Alumni Officer

Isabella Ordorica ’22
Associate, Crowell & Moring LLP

Global LL.M. Officer

Merve Kaner ’22
Associate, Demler Armstrong & Rowland LLP

Secretary

Kari Ferver ’21
Associate, Crowell & Moring LLP

Governing Council

Nefi Acosta ’16
Senior Product & Privacy Counsel, Strava

Marcel Budiono ’19
Associate, Rutan & Tucker, LLP

Joni Carrasco ’12
Staff Counsel, California Department of Fair Employment & Housing

Terence Desouza ’17
Associate, Fenwick & West

Khorshid Kamran ’22
Attorney, Iranian American Bar Association

Shirley Kim ’16
Associate Director, Sarepta Therapeutics

Eldrin Masangkay ’20

Robyn Lin ’21
Associate, Troutman Pepper

Brian Sutter ’20
Attorney, Bridgford, Gleason & Artinian

Jordin Wilcher ’21
Associate, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Jiaxiao Zhang ’17
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Maryam Meechka Zomorodian ’20
Program Director, UC Irvine School of Law

Past Presidents

Crystal Adams ’15
Deputy Attorney General, Healthcare Rights and Access Section of the California Department of Justice

Sheila Chen ’15
Associate, Troutman Pepper

Mohammad Elayan ’12
Senior Counsel, Pathway Capital Management

Alisa Hartz ’12
Ombudsperson, Office of Youth and Community Restoration

Samrah Mahmoud ’12
Partner, Troutman Pepper

Isra Shah ’12
Public Law Attorney, Best Best & Krieger LLP

Tracey Steele ’12
Real Estate Attorney, Levy Craig Law Firm

Irina Trasovan ’12
Supervising Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice

Jeffrey Wachs ’12
Principal Counsel, Netflix

Stefanie Wilson ’14
Deputy County Counsel, County of Santa Clara

Karisa Yocham ’17
Attorney, California Department of Social Services

Chair

John Hueston
Partner, Hueston Hennigan LLP

Chair Emeritus

Richard (Rich) Bridgford
Founding Partner, Bridgford, Gleason & Artinian

Members

Candida (Candy) Antone
Community Leader

Duraid Antone
CEO, Icon Advisors, LLC

Augusto Aragone
Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel, Ingram Micro Inc.

Amir Banifatemi
Founder and Managing Partner, K5 Ventures

Hon. William Bedsworth (Ret.)
Retired Associate Justice, California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District

Hon. André Birotte, Jr.
Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California

Hon. Richard Boulware
Judge, United States District Court for the District of Nevada

L. Kenneth (Ken) Brooks
Retired Vice President of Institutional Sales, T. Rowe Price

Jane Buchan
CEO, Martlet Asset Management LLC

Mary Carrington
Attorney at Law

Hazem Chehabi
President/Owner, Newport Diagnostic Center, Inc.

Salma Chehabi
Genetic Counselor

Amy Chen
U.S.-China Strategic Advisor

Karen Heath Clark
Retired Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Bruce Corbett
Founding Partner, Corbett, Steelman and Specter PLC

Hon. John Coughenour
Senior Judge, United States District Court of the Western District of Washington

Kate Duchene
CEO, Resources Global Professionals

Sen. Joe Dunn (Ret.)
Former California State Senator

Michael Ermer
Partner Emeritus, Irell and Manella LLP

Bruce Feuchter
Of Counsel, Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth

John Gibson
Partner, DLA Piper

Veronica Gray
Retired Partner, Nossaman LLP

Wayne Gross
Co-Founding Partner, Greenberg Gross LLP

Hon. Andrew Guilford (Ret.)
Mediator and Arbitrator, Judicate West

Susan Heller
Co-Managing Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig

Julie Hill
Corporate Director, Anthem Lord Abbett Mutual Funds

Hon. Brian Jackson
Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

Michelle Jordan
Principal, Jordan LLC

Johanna Kim
Principal and Founder, Kerymen LLC

John Lim
Partner, LimNexus

Paul Lin
Partner, Akin Gump

John Long
President, Highridge Partner, Inc.

Mohannad Malas
Principal, IRA Capital

Hon. Sheryl Gordon McCloud
Justice, Washington Supreme Court

Steven Nataupsky
Managing Partner, Knobbe Martens

Arthur Ong
Managing Member, Heuristic Consulting LLC

Arnold (Arnie) Pinkston
Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, Edwards Lifesciences

Gen. Francis (Frank) Quinlan
Of Counsel, Newmeyer & Dillion LLP

Mark Robinson
Senior Partner, Robinson Calcagnie, Inc.

Robert (Bob) Romney
Member, UCI Chief Executive Roundtable and Chairperson, Irvine Barclay Theatre

Daniel Sasse
Partner, Crowell & Moring

William (Gary) Singer
Of Counsel, O’Melveny & Meyers LLP

Hon. Fred Slaughter
Judge, United State District Court for the Central District of California

Ruben Smith
Office Partner-in-Charge, Frost Brown Todd AlvaradoSmith

Hon. Sheila Prell Soneshine (Ret.)
Mediator and Arbitrator, JAMS

Hon. Josephine Staton
Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of California

James Irvine Swinden
Owner, A.R.C. Properties and President, The Irvine Museum

Landon Taylor
CEO, MacFarlane Partners

Peter Zeughauser
Chair, Zeughauser Group

Ex Officio

Reza Torkzadeh
Chair, UC Irvine Law Dean’s Circle Executive Committee
Senior Partner, TorkLaw

Eric Fanchiang ’17
President, UC Irvine Law Alumni Association
Associate, Crowell & Moring LLP

Partner

Richard and Susan Bridgford
Amy Chen
Michael Ermer
Lynn Gardner and Paul Multari
Prof. Bryant Garth
Peter* and Kristie Polos
Josh Robbins
Daniel Sasse
Poonam Patel and Reza Torkzadeh**

Advocate

Anne Conley ’15
John and Mae Hueston
Hon. Kirk H. Nakamura (Ret.)
Hannah (MAT ’11) and Jeffrey Wachs ’12*
Peter Zeughauser

Associate

Samrah Mahmoud ’12**
Jim Pack
Chance Pardon ’17
Akhil Sheth ’13*
Gary and Melanie Singer

Member

Edgar Aguilasocho ’12
Vithya Aubee ’13
Clara Baik (3L)
Jazlyn Cabula ’20
Alexandra Cadena ’23
Chris Campbell ’15 and Stacy Spencer
Prof. Robert Chang
Christopher Dalbey ’12 and Lisa Petak ’14
Prof. Joseph DiMento and Deborah Newquist
Shannon Eagen ’24
JP Elberfeld (3L)
Eric Fanchiang ’17*
Kari Ferver ’21
Cinthia Flores ’14
John Fossum
Hon. Andrew Guilford (Ret.)
Prof. Kaaryn Gustafson
Alisa Hartz ’12
Prof. Carrie Hempel
Prof. Dalié Jiménez
Darren Kerstien ’13
Profs. Christopher Leslie and Tony Reese

Tryphena Liu ’18
Laura Lively ’17
Emily Malloch
Melissa Martorella ’15
Zoe McKinney ’16
Kasra Mirzabeigifini (3L)
Caroline Nestor ’23
Nick Nikols ’21
Arthur Ong and Ginger Sun
Sophie Paeng ’21
Katie Raitz ’21
Elizabeth and Andrew Schutz
Steven Simmons
Stephanie Sneddon ’22
Andrew Spink ’15
Jaclyn Stahl ’13
Jason Tkaczuk ’20
Irina Trasovan ’12*
Nick Ushiyama (3L)
Frank Visco
Tony Wang
Profs. Chris Whytock and Jessica Whytock
Annie Zwarg (3L)

* Executive Committe Member
** Co-Chair

ACLU Foundation of Southern California
ACLU of Southern California
Agnieszka Fryzman
Alliance for Boys and Men of Color
Almudena Bernabeu
American Association of University Women Legal Advocacy Fund
Barry Litt
Black Alliance for Just Immigration
Black Lives Matter
Brian Dunn
Brian Olney ’13
Brooke Weitzman ’14
California Center for Cooperative Development
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
California Partnership to End Domestic Violence
Camino Immigration Services
Carol Sobel
Catholic Charities of Orange County
Children’s Law Center
Christian Contreras
Cochran Firm
Cohen Milstein and Tolles
Colectivo Tonantzin
Community Legal Aid SoCal
Cooperacion Santa Ana
Culturally Responsive Domestic Violence Network
Dale Galipo
Dan Stormer
Denisse Gastelum
Denyse Clancy
EarthRights International
El Centro Cultural de Mexico
Elder Law & Disability Rights Center
EndTAB (End Technology Enabled Abuse)
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project
First Amendment Coalition
Fred T. Korematsu Institute
Guernica 37 Chambers
Haitian Bridge Alliance
Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice
Heah Bar-Nissim
Human Options
Human Rights Watch
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Immigration Resource Center of San Gabriel Valley

International Rights Advocates
Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism
Jill Jefferso
John Burton
John Fattahi
John Raphling
Julian
Just Futures Law
Justice Action Center
Laura’s House
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Los Angeles LGBT Center
Martinez Aguilasocho Law / United Farm Workers
Matt Putterman
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON)
National Union of Healthcare Workers
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles
Nuestras Manos
O’Melveny & Myers
Orange County Justice Fund
OC Rapid Response Network (OCRRN)
Peace and Justice Law Center
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
Public Counsel
Public Law Center
Project Rebound, Cal State Fullerton
Project Kinship
Radiant Futures
Requiem Workers United
Rick Copeland
Rideshare Drivers United
Robert J. Stein / DiVincenzo Schoenfield Stein
ROC USA (Resident Owned Communities)
Sabrina Damast
Strippers United
Terry Collingsworth
The Legal Clinic Fund for Local News
Thomas Seabaugh
UFCW Local 770
UNITE HERE! Local 11
Unemployed Workers United
Upturn
Vicki Sarmiento
VietRISE
Warehouse Workers Resource Center

A Better Childhood
ACLU of Alaska
ACLU of Southern California
Aesthetic Legal
Akerman LLP
Alliance for Children’s Rights
American Constitution Society
American Immigration Council
Anaergia Inc.
Animal Partisan
Anti-Defamation League
Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California
AT&T
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Barragan Monge Law
Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Big Horn County Attorney, MT
Bonial & Associates, P.C.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Capital Appeals Project
Catholic Charities of Orange County
Center for Biological Diversity
Center for Human Rights
Child Care Law Center
Children of Incarcerated Caregivers
Children’s Law Center of Los Angeles
Christian Legal Aid
Colorado State Public Defender
Common Cause
Communities Resist
CLA SoCal Office
Community Legal Aid SoCal
Disability Rights California
Disability Rights Mississippi
Drug Policy Alliance
Elder Law & Disability Rights Center
Environmental Law Institute
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project
Federal Public Defender
Futures Institute
Gates, Gonter, Guy, Proudfoot & Muench LLP
Giffords Law Center
Haitian Bridge Alliance
Harm Reduction Legal Project
Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law
HEART L.A.
Homeboy Industries

Immigrant Defenders Law Center
In-N-Out Burger
Inland Counties Legal Services
Innocence OC
Innovation Law Lab
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
International Rescue Committee
Irell & Manella LLP
Jackson Lewis P.C.
K&L Gates
Kadin Briggs
Kalamaya Goscha
Kids In Need of Defense
KTGY Group, Inc.
L.A. Care Health Plan
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
Last Prisoner Project
Law 4 Black Lives
Law Office of Minha Javed
Law Office of Renee Amador
Law Offices of Jeffrey Hua
Law Offices of Thomas B. Harvey
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights San Francisco
Lawyers for Good Government
Learning Rights Law Center
Legal Aid Association of California
Legal Aid at Work
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma
Legal Aid Society of San Diego
Legal Services of Northern California
Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Golubchik
LGBT Center of OC
Loan Depot
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Martinez Aguilasocho Law
McDermott Will & Emery
Miguel Contreras Foundation
Mississippi Center for Justice
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 
National Congress of American Indians
Natural Resources Defense Council
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Northwest Justice Project
Orange County Communities Organized for Responsible Development (OCCORD)
Orange County District Attorney’s Office

Orange County Public Defender’s Office
Orange County Superior Court
Origence
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Pacific Life
Pandemic Legal
Peace & Justice Law Center
Perry Law
Positive Women’s Network – USA
Prisoners with Children
Public Advocates
Public Counsel
Public Law Center
Radiant Futures
Rainbow Services
Root & Rebound
Rutan & Tucker LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Shulman Bastian
U.S. Small Business Administration
Snell & Wilmer
Southern California Gas Company
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Surfrider Foundation
Tax Appeals Assistance Program
Thai Community Development Center
The Boeing Company
Twitch Interactive, Inc.
University of Hawaii School of Law
U.S. Air Force JAG
UNITE HERE! 111 Local 11
Veterans Legal Institute
Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld, APC
Wells Fargo Bank

Edgar Aguilasocho ’12
Renee Amador ’14
Tyler Anders
Denise Antoine
Matt Arnold ’21
Mahum Shere Asef
Bhairavi Asher
Shaista Azad
Ben Azar
Marchelle Bailey
Taylor Ball
David Baloche
Seth Bank
Jose Barragan-Monge
Veronica Basilio
Jessica Bautista
Mark Berry
Cristina Quinones Betancourt
Katie Binkley
Caitlin Blanche
Lt. Daniel Boddie
Brynna Bolt
Nick Borkowski
Ezekiel Bottorff
Luke Boughen ’12
Jonathan Bremen
Deliesha Brown
Charity Bruce
Elie Buchanan
Rochelle Calderon ’18
Melissa Camacho
Kevin Camino
Diego Cartagena
Natalie Cauley
Stephen Cazares
Victoria Cendejas ’22
Joan Chang
David Chiang
Ashely Choy
Rosaisela Lopez Cienfuegos
William Clark
Maisha Cole
Dean Conklin
Christopher Cook
Diana Cruz
Carmine Cuevas
Mariah Daly
Jacqueline Dan
David Daniels
Don Daybell
Matthew DeCarolis
Eva DeLair
Janet Dennerline
Annee Della Donna
Michael Drake
Megan Edge
Steven Eldred
Caitlin Emmons ’15
Brittany Emsais ’23
Nikki Endsley
Ashley Erickson
Michael Ermer
Judith Escobar ’18
William Espinoza
Rosemary Estrada
Paul Estuar
Rachael Ettinger
Amanda Glover Evans
Maj. Steven Evans
Erenie Fahmy
Victor Felix
Donald Field
Jennifer Fisher
Kelly Flannery
Alexandra Flippova
Rebecca Frane
Kennedy Freeman
Kristina Fried
Laurie Furstenfeld
Mike Gaitley
Arely Garcia
Diana Garcia
Glenda Garcia
Javier Garcia
Sean Garcia-Leys ’16
Lori Gauthier
Alexandra Gay
Sophia Genovese
Emily Genzlinger ’20
Sarah Gersten
Heather Gioffredi
Dan Glassman
Monica Glicken
Julia Gomez
Jenni Gomez-Haddad
Meredith Grant
Paulette Gray
Sarah Gross
Noe Gudino
Jessica Guerrero
KyMara Guidry
Ian Gustafson

Roqayah Hamdi
Spencer Hamer
Cassie Hardacre
Lisa Harrington
Cynthia Harris
Thomas Harvey
Zeenat Hassan ’13
Chelsea Helena
Kaela Henderson
Peter Hering
Nicole Heringer
Diana Hernandez
Maria Tapia Hernandez
Roxanne Hernandez
Jonathon Hershey
Stephen Hicklin
Chrystal Hicks
Ethan Higa
Rochelle Higgins
Lana Le Hir
Beth Holtzman
Chris Hoo
Angela Howe
Marlin Howes
Brian Hu
Jeffrey Hua
Patrick Hulbert ’20
Shannon Hurt
Ken Ichiroku
Janae Ivory
Nick James
Minha Javed
Mayra Joachin
Lynette Jones
Brigid Joyce
Sarah Kahn ’21
Minouche Kandel
Mark Karpe
Darya Kashani
Sojin Kim
Carmen Hidalgo Kirschner
Ernan Kiselica
Skip Koenig
Justin Kolacinski
Hollin Kretzmann
Matthew Kugizaki
Angela Kung
Jeffrey Kwong
Michael Larkin
Star Leal ’18
Ofelia Ledesma
Grace Lee
Joelle Leib ’21
Claudia Leon
Kevin Lerman ’16
Amy Lieberman ’17
Peter Lin-Tsai
Traci Feit Love
Will Lowrey
Kerri Lyman
Trip Mackintosh
Sandra Madera
Ryan Maher
Catherine Malone
Henry Mantel
Monica Mar
Jonathan Markovitz ’14
Kate Marr
Debra Sudo Marra
Ana Marson
Greta Martin
Gloria Martinez
Kirsten Martinez
Julie Matonich
Molly Mauck
Rose Mauro
Rachel McMains
Nathaly Medina
Justin Mello
Lauren-Ashley Mendez
Ana Graciela Najera Mendoza
Jeslynn Mendoza
Angela Mestre
Beth Meyerhoff
Eric Michael
Sarah Mohammadi
Jessica Monterey
Justin Montis
Alyssa Morrison
Adam Morton
Kelley Munoz
Antoinette Naddour
Joseph Navales
Trang Nguyen
Ayami Nieves
Maricela Nunez
Josh Occhiogrosso-Schwartz
Thomas O’Hagan
Iraida Oliva
Yolanda Omana
Olu Orange
Zachary Orjuela
Morgan Cienfuegos Padgett
Stephanie Padilla
Irene Pai
Mona Patel

Stephen Peters
Nicole Phillips
Nora Phillips
Evan Phoenix
P.J. Podesta
Stella Pogosyan
Jennifer Porche
Michaela Posner ’21
Amber Poston
Ariel Prado
Staley Prom
Emily Propersi
Gabriella Pulham
Ameena Qazi
Kelly Querijero
Quelin Querijero
Dominique Quevedo
Gilberto Quirarte
Kaitlin Radvansky
Shahin Rahimi
Norma Ramirez-Marin
Marisol Ramirez
Arvin Ratanavongse
Ellen Reinig
Jacob Reisberg
Caroline Reiser ’15
Michelle Robinson
Ariana Rodriguez
Paul Rogers
Liliana Rosas
Brandon Rubin ’19
Tyler Rueda
Ashley Russell
Zoe Russell
Kellen Russoniello
Panida Rzonca
Barbara Sanchez
Daniel Sanders
Crystal Sandoval
Thomas Sanford
Eric Sapp
Valerie Sarigumba
Anthony Sbardellati
Allyssa Scheyer ’20
Martin Schwarz
Thea Sebastian
Tina Segura
William Seldeen
Theo Ser-Ramin
Jacqueline Shepherd ’16
Lena Silver
William Simonsick
Debra Slone
Kelsey Sloop
Justin Small
Andrea Smith ’13
Ethan Smith ’23
Chariese Solorio ’15
Corey Steady
Rachel Stein
Terry Steinhart
Sydney Steinkohl
Jetaun Stevens
Betty St. Marie
Chris Strawn
Manohar Sukumar
Emily Sugarman
Lucinda Svidler
Matthew Swanlund
Greta Swanson
Abby Taylor
Alejandra Thorpe
Lt. Ryan Tome
Jeanne Torske
Andy Tran
Diamond Tran
John Tran
Nhien Tran
Shelly Tsai
Lydia Tse
Zoe Tucker
Ryan Ueda
Juan Garcia Urrutia
Mary Kreber Varipapa
Scott Ventrudo
Eric Vera ’16
Dan Vicuna
James Voge
Lihn Vuong
Nathan Vuong
Richard Walker
Yufei Wang ’22
David Watkins
Brooke Weitzman ’14
Sean Whitney
Riley Williams
Robin Williams
Shawntel Williams
Victoria Williamson
Erin Wilson
Amy Wong
Gabby Wong
Joanna Wong
Phong Wong
Lauren Worsek
Ed Wunch ’13
Andrew Wylam
Christina Yang
Justin Yi
Christine Yoon
Doris Yuen
Heather Zakson
Andrii Zubar