Alma mater

University of California-Santa Barbara

61 U.S. federal judges studied here. See where it ranks among law schools by judges produced.

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Mariana R. Pfaelzer	A.B.	Judge	1949
Raymond C. Fisher	B.A.	Judge	1961
Frederic Leonard Link		Judge	1965
Robert Fredrick Cochran	Political Science	Judge	1968
Roslyn O. Silver	B.A.	Judge	1968
Howard Chester Horn Jr.		Judge	1969
Kenneth Rodney Yegan		Associate Justice	1969
Fred Nathan Wapner		Judge	1971
Valerie Baker Fairbank	B.A.	Judge	1971
Richard Hughes DuBois		Judge	1972
Gail Angela O'Rane		Judge	1975
Rafael Astraquill Ongkeko		Judge	1975
Gayle L. Peron		Judge	1976
Jamie Olsen Thistlethwaite		Judge	1976
William J. Monahan	Economics, Political Science	Judge	1979
Brian M. Arax		Judge	1980
Colleen Kathryn Sterne	English	Judge	1980
M. Bruce Smith	U.S. History	Associate Justice	1981
Kevin James Haskins	English	Judge	1982
Deirdre Hughes Hill		Judge	1983
Louis Robert Keane Mauro	with high honors	Associate Justice	1983
Jeffrey F. Fraser	highest honors	Judge	1984
Scott Douglas Patton		Judge	1984
Steven Curtis Malone	Law & Society	Judge	1984
Timothy L. Fall	Environmental Studies, honors	Judge	1984
Heidi Kyne Whilden		Judge	1985
Sam Ohta		Judge	1985
Cara Denise Hutson		Judge	1988
Judith L. Meyer		Judge	1988
Daniel Jonathan Lowenthal	Psychology	Judge	1989
Stephen P. Acquisto	Economics, Political Science	Judge	1990
John Charles Hinderaker	B.A.	Judge	1991
Peter Marshall Williams		Judge	1991
Somnath Raj Chatterjee		Judge	1991
Andre Manssourian	Political Science	Judge	1994
Jesse John Marino		Judge	1994
Wendy Michelle Behan		Judge	1994
James Justin Hosking	Business Economics	Judge	1995
Jeremy David Dolnick		Judge	1995
Samuel John Dalesandro	Business Economics	Judge	1998
Antony Christopher Ufland		Judge	–
Brooke Ann Blecher		Judge	–
Christopher Martin Honigsberg		Judge	–
Diego Hernan Edber		Judge	–
Esteban Hernández		Judge	–
Firdaus Firoze Dordi		Judge	–
Garen James Horst	Economics, Political Science	Judge	–
Jean Marie Dandona	Teaching Credentials	Judge	–
JoAnne McCracken	magna cum laude	Judge	–
John W. Lua		Judge	–
Michael John Shultz		Judge	–
Miriam Ivy Morton	Sociology	Judge	–
Nathan Gehr Leedy		Judge	–
Pauline Marie Maxwell		Judge	–
Raimundo J. Montes de Oca		Judge	–
Raymonda Burnham Marquez	History of Public Policy	Judge	–
Renée Fenton Korn		Judge	–
Richard W. Pollack		Justice	–
Sandip S. Sandhu		Judge	–
Shereen J. Charlick	Law & Society, Economics	Judge	–
Timothy John Hollenhorst		Judge	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-09-30. Verify against the primary source before relying.