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

• 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 StevenGonzález
  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.

• 'Seen and validated': LGBTQ + Allies After Party builds, supports community (Jevan Hutson quoted)
  Jun 21, 2023 | Source: IAPP

  "Some of the OGs in the field are here, queer and ready to support you. That's an exciting thing," Hutson said. "This is a diverse and amazing community of folks doing cool work."

• 40 Under 40: 2023 (UW Law alumni named)
  Jun 05, 2023 | Source: South Sound Business

  UW Law alumni Janelle E. Chase Fazio and Samuel Daheim were named among the South Sound Business 40 under 40 for 2023.

• Alumna Lara Fowler named director of Sustainability Institute, chief sustainability officer
  May 26, 2023 | Source: Penn State University

  She holds a bachelor of arts degree in Asian studies from Dartmouth College while accomplishing a senior fellowship program on Native American water rights and earned her juris doctor from the University of Washington School of Law with a focus on environmental mediation.

• Expansive Health Data Privacy Law for Washington State (Jevan Hutson quoted)
  Apr 25, 2023 | Source: IEEE Spectrum

  Washington state’s consumer privacy act also enables state judges to triple damages and legal fees resulting from such a lawsuit. “That is a significant risk,” says Jevan Hutson, a legal associate and data-privacy expert in Washington. “The penalties for noncompliance could be impactful.”

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