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New Law Dean at UC Davis is First Latino in the Position

Posted May 15, 2008, 07:30 pm CDT
By Martha Neil

Kevin Johnson was confirmed today as the new law school dean at the University of California at Davis by the school's board of regents.

He is the first Latino to be appointed dean of any of the law schools in the UC system, according to a press release.

Johnson, 49, is an expert on immigration, race and civil rights law who has been serving as associate dean for academic affairs. A 1983 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review, he subsequently worked as a clerk for 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt and in private practice at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco. He has… Continue reading...

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