Board of Directors

• Donald Bradley '68 - Current Chair
• Tina Combs '88
• Maureen Corcoran '79
• Marci Dragun '86 - Current Vice Chair
• Carin T. Fujisaki '85
• Thomas Gede '81
• Claes H. Lewenhaupt '89
• Brian D. Monaghan '70
• Carl W. "Chip" Robertson '98
• Bruce L. Simon '80
• Sandra Thompson '01

University of California Hastings College of the Law was established by statute in 1878 and is governed by a Board of Directors. With the exception of one Board member who, as specified by statute, shall always be an heir or representative of Serranus Clinton Hastings, the members of the Board are appointed by the Governor of the State of California, confirmed by the State Senate and serve for 12 years.

Donald Bradley, (current Chair of the Board) of Pleasanton, was appointed to the Board of Directors in May 2007. He has worked for Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati, Professional Corporation since 1984 and currently serves as partner and general counsel. Bradley also serves as president and a member of the Board of Directors for the Attorneys Insurance Mutual Risk Retention Group. Previously, he served as an associate and then partner with the law firm Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman, from 1972 to 1984. Bradley served in the U.S. Army from 1969 to 1970. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law, a Master of Laws degree from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Dartmouth College.

Tina Combs, of Oakland, was appointed to the Board of Directors in May 2007.  In 2009, she was appointed to serve as Deputy General Counsel for the University of California.  She is a member of the senior management group and the General Counsel's cabinet and heads the business and land use division.  Prior to joining the University of California, Ms. Combs was a 15-year veteran attorney at Wells Fargo, where she served as senior counsel, vice president and managing counsel and senior company counsel.  She began her career at Morrison & Foerster, where she practiced law as a senior associate in the business department.  Ms. Combs has held director and leadership positions on numerous boards, professional, civic and non-profit organizations during her career.  She earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Maureen Corcoran, of Tiburon, was appointed to the Board of Directors in May 2007. She previously served on the Board of Directors from 1993 to 2005 and has been a partner with the law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton since 2006, where she spearheads health practice for institutions and health plans. Corcoran previously served as a partner at Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman from 1987 to 2005. Prior to that, she served as general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education from 1984 to 1986 and special assistant to the general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1981 to 1983. Corcoran earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and Master and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Iowa.

Marci Dragun, (current Vice Chair of the Board) has been with the Lincoln Club of Northern California since 1997 serving as its Executive Director and as Membership Director. Prior to joining the Lincoln Club, Marci worked as in-house Political Analyst for Fisher Investments and as an associate for the law firm of Coddington, Hicks and Danforth. She has extensive political experience, having spent over 25 years working on numerous federal, state and local campaigns. Marci's expertise has been in fundraising and event organization and management. Marci earned a B.A. degree from Mills College and a J. D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1986. She is a member of the California State Bar.

Carin T. Fujisaki, of Walnut Creek, California, was appointed in September 2003.  Ms. Fujisaki serves as a judicial staff attorney for the Honorable Marvin R. Baxter of the California Supreme Court, and her work spans the entire range of civil, criminal, family law, administrative, and death penalty appeals.  Previously, she worked as a litigation associate at the San Francisco law firm of Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Robertson & Falk.  Ms. Fujisaki has been active with the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area and other local bar associations, most recently in mentoring law students and new attorneys.  She also served on the Commission for Judicial Nominees Evaluation, the State Bar body that evaluates all candidates seeking judicial appointments.  Ms. Fujisaki earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1985 from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Thomas Gede of Davis, was appointed to the Board of Directors in September 2009. Since 2006, he has been a principal with Bingham Consulting Group and of counsel at Bingham McCutchen LLP.  From 2000 to 2006, he was the executive director of the Conference of Western Attorneys General, and from 1987 to 2000, he served in the California Office of the Attorney General as a special assistant attorney general and deputy attorney general in the criminal division and the government law section. Prior to that service, Mr. Gede was a judicial attorney for Associate Justices Edwin Regan and Keith Sparks at the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District. Mr. Gede earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University. 

Claes H. Lewenhaupt descendant of S.C. Hastings, is a lifetime member of the Board. He is a graduate of Hastings, a member of the California Bar and a colonel in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps.  COL Lewenhaupt is currently serving as the senior legal counsel for the Army Sustainment Command in Germany with over 125 lawyers and paralegals.  His initial assignment in Germany was as a prosecutor (1990 - 94), before reassignment to Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Colorado (94-97) where he handled criminal, contract and civilian litigation.  COL Lewenhaupt earned a J.D. from Hastings in 1989.  He obtained an LL.M. in military law at the Army JAG School in Charlottesville, VA, and then served in Hawaii as the senior defense counsel for the Pacific region (98 - 00). He also served at the Army (Civil) Litigation Division (00 - 03) before transferring to the D.C. U.S. Attorney Office, Civil Division, as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney (03 - 04). Claes attended the Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, KS in 04/05, before serving as the senior legal counsel in National Training Center in Fort Irwin CA (05 -07) and the as legal advisor to the U.S. Central Command in Tampa, FL (07 - 09).

Brian D. Monaghan, of San Diego, California, was appointed to the Board in 2000, and is now retired from the practice of law.  He was a solo practitioner, Mr. Monaghan was a prominent plaintiff's attorney in the area of civil litigation. The San Diego Trial Lawyers Association awarded Mr. Monaghan Outstanding Trial Lawyer Awards on 10 occasions from 1979 to 1998 as well as presenting him its Trial Lawyer of the Year Award for 1979, 1984 and 1988. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America Stephen J. Sharp Public Service Award, as well as the American Board of Trial Advocates' California Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. In February 1999 Mr. Monaghan received the American Ireland Fund Distinguished Heritage Award. He currently sits on the Board of Directors for the San Diego Padres and the International Board of Directors of the American Ireland Fund. He graduated from Hastings in 1970.

Carl W. "Chip" Robertson, 39, of Los Angeles, has been appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Robertson has been a Principal at Warland Investments since 2010. He has also been a member of the Management Committee at Sample Digital Holdings LLC since 2001. Previously Robertson was an Associate at Paul Hastings LLP from 1999 to 2001. Since 2006, he has served as a Trustee of the UC Hastings Foundation and currently serves as Treasurer. At Hastings, he endowed the Chip W. Robertson Faculty Research Fund. Mr. Robertson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a Masters in Business Administration degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management and a Juris Doctor degree from Hastings College of the Law.

Bruce L. Simon, of Hillsborough, California, was appointed in September, 2003. Mr. Simon has been a partner at Pearson, Simon, Warshaw & Penny since March 2007. Previously, he was a partner of Cotchett, Pitre, Simon and McCarthy where he worked since 1984. Mr. Simon currently serves as a Vice Chair of the Litigation Committee of the ABA's Antitrust Section, and is on the Steering Committee for that Section's bi-annual International Cartel Workshop.  He is a Past Chair of the State Bar Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, and is a frequent speaker as well as contributor on topics related to complex business litigation.  He is also the co-author of California Unfair Competition and Business Torts which is a Matthew Bender Practice Guide.  Mr. Simon has been selected for The Best Lawyers In America, and is one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Northern California. He graduated from Hastings in 1980.

Sandra Thompson is currently a resident of Woodside, CA.  She graduated from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2001.  While at Hastings, Sandi also served as the Editor in Chief of Hastings Constitutional Quarterly (CLQ).  During her summer at law school and following graduation, she worked at Fenwick & West LLC in Palo Alto as an associate in the international corporate tax arena.  Prior to attending law school, Ms. Thompson worked for IBM Corporation from 1979 - 1998 in various positions.  Her responsibilities ranged from sales to strategy both domestically and internationally.

Today, Sandi is a member of two non-profit boards: Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) where she is the chair of the Development Committee.  She has served Teach for America Bay Area as a board member since 2005 and is interested in improving the quality of education for all American youth regardless of their locale.  Sandi also is Chair of the Woodside Planning Commission, where she has served her local community since 2007.  She assisted in various search committee activities leading to the appointment of Frank Wu as Chancellor of UC Hastings.

Ms. Thompson performs legal services pro bono for indigent clients and non-profits, typically in taxation.

Sandi is a native of Iowa and graduated from Buena Vista University with a BA in 1979.   She and her husband, John W. Thompson, are actively involved in various philanthropic organizations, including POST, Teach for America, Second Harvest Food Bank, Abilities United and Napa Valley Vintners.  They are currently minority owners of the Golden State Warriors and several other high technology ventures.