[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 121 (Friday, August 5, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1506]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF EDUCATING LAWYERS WHO LEAD AT SANTA CLARA 
                        UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW

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                            HON. ZOE LOFGREN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, August 5, 2011

  Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the 
centennial celebration of Santa Clara University School of Law. The law 
school was founded in 1911 and has always been dedicated to educating 
lawyers to become leaders in our community.
  Santa Clara University, founded in 1851 as ``Santa Clara College,'' 
is California's oldest operating institution of higher learning. It was 
established on the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, one of the 
original California missions. The Institute of Law was formed in 1911 
as a small night program and, in 1914, degrees were conferred upon the 
first graduating class of the law school--a class consisting of just 14 
young men. Women were first admitted to the law school in 1956 and in, 
1963, Associate Dean Mary Emery was among a group of 3 women who were 
the first to graduate. Dean Emery went on to become the Director of the 
Heafey Law Library, a post she continues to hold today.
  Santa Clara Law has a long history of dedication to underrepresented 
groups. In the early 1970s, law students formed organizations for 
Asian, Black, Latino, and female law students, and a law clinic was 
formed to assist low-income clients in 1971. In the early 1980s, groups 
were founded to support Jewish, Middle Eastern, and gay law students as 
well.
  In the last decade, Santa Clara Law has fought injustice with the 
Northern California Innocence Project, The Katharine and George 
Alexander Law Center, and the 9th Circuit Immigration Law Clinic. The 
law school has stayed on the cutting edge of local and international 
issues through the Law Review, High Tech Law Journal, and International 
Law Journal.
  For the last 100 years, Santa Clara Law has educated thousands of 
lawyers while emphasizing the University's ideals of competence, 
conscience and compassion. Our Santa Clara County community as well as 
the legal profession have benefited from the efforts of Santa Clara to 
produce lawyers who lead.
  I am proud to be an alumna of Santa Clara University School of Law, I 
would like to commend them for a hundred years of exceptional work, and 
I wish them the best in years to come.

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