Alumni

Once a Law Dawg, Always a Law Dawg

Your UW Law connection doesn’t end when you leave campus.

At UW Law, we believe having a strong alumni network built on enduring relationships among our alumni is critical to the success of our school and future generations of lawyers. We hope you will join in our efforts to engage our alumni to benefit students, inform the public about UW Law’s remarkable achievements, and serve as ambassadors to the legal community and beyond.

Join us as we encourage students to explore their passions and equip them with intellectual tools and hands-on experience in their journey to become professionals who use their legal education to meet the needs of their community and work in any field they choose. Celebrate the impact our alumni are making in the communities they serve. Remain connected with your school and its alumni, students and faculty.

Alumni in the Media

• Trailblazing Washington jurist Carolyn Dimmick dies at 96
  Jan 02, 2026 | Source: Seattle Times

  Dimmick, the first woman on the Washington Supreme Court and the second-ever in Western Washington to be elevated to the federal bench, died Dec. 24. in Seattle. She was 96.

• First woman on Washington Supreme Court, Carolyn R. Dimmick, dies at 96
  Dec 30, 2025 | Source: King5

  A Seattle local, Dimmick was born Carolyn Joyce Reaber and attended the University of Washington. She was among the first women to graduate from the UW School of Law in 1953, despite being discouraged from applying by an undergraduate adviser who told her she would take a spot from a man.

• First Woman on Washington Supreme Court, Carolyn R. Dimmick, Passes Away
  Dec 30, 2025 | Source: Washington State Courts News

  A Seattle native, Dimmick (then Carolyn Joyce Reaber) attended the University of Washington and was one of the first women to graduate from the UW School of Law, in 1953. Her undergraduate advisor had discouraged her from attending law school, saying she would take a spot from a male who needed it.

• Colleen Melody appointed to the Washington State Supreme Court by Gov. Bob Ferguson
  Dec 18, 2025 | Source: UW Magazine

  Melody earned two degrees from the UW: her bachelor’s degree in Law, Societies & Justice and Spanish as well as her J.D. from the UW School of Law, when she graduated at the top of her law class.

• Seattle Sounders FC and Seattle Reign FC name Christine Masse as Chief Legal Officer
  Oct 09, 2024 | Source: Seattle Sounders

  An Illinois native, Masse attended law school at the University of Washington and has been in the Seattle area since departing Montlake. She is a passionate soccer fan and former player. Additionally, Masse has been involved in the local youth soccer landscape, having coached Rocket 88, a boys’ premier soccer team for the Woodland Soccer Club in Seattle from 2001-2007 and now cheering for her sons’ Seattle United and Seattle Youth Soccer Association teams.

• Inslee vetoed a study of data center power use. Here’s what other states are doing (Eli Sanders, Tech Policy Lab)
  Jul 28, 2024 | Source: The Seattle Times

  Eli Sanders contributed in-depth research to this story as part of the Technology, Law, and Public Policy Clinic at the University of Washington School of Law.

• UW Law presents a celebration of diversity with panel moderated by Chief Justice Steven González
  Feb 27, 2024 | Source: The Daily

  UW law students, professors, alumni, and various professionals gathered in the Burke Museum Feb. 22 to celebrate diversity within the field of law. The event was largely organized by the UW School of Law’s Women’s Law Caucus (WLC), an organization that aims to encourage gender equality and support women of color at UW Law.

• City Hall’s top dawg: A conversation with UW football alum and Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell
  Jan 27, 2024 | Source: University of Washington Magazine

  A product of the Central District, Garfield High School, and UW’s law school, the biracial Harrell could have continued his career as a successful lawyer and gone anywhere in life. Instead, he has chosen to be a public servant in Seattle, where in 2021 he became the city’s first Japanese American and second African American mayor after an impressive city council tenure.

• FTC's Rite Aid Action Puts AI Facial Recognition Users on Notice (Jevan Hutson quoted)
  Dec 21, 2023 | Source: Bloomberg Law

  “It is now clear going into the new year that the FTC is going to incorporate model deletion into privacy security and AI related orders,” Hutson said. “Reasonable algorithm fairness practices are going to be important to organization to undertake if they wish to avoid model deletion.”

• Explaining model disgorgement (Jevan Hutson quoted)
  Dec 13, 2023 | Source: IAPP

  As Jevan Hutson and Ben Winters describe in their legal analysis, the FTC has ordered model disgorgement in five separate instances: In the Matter of Everalbum, In the Matter of Cambridge Analytica, USA v. Kurbo Inc. and WW International, FTC v. Ring, USA v. Edmodo.

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