Alumna Vickie Turner '82 (JD) Receives USD Alumni Honors Award

Alumna Vickie Turner '82 (JD) Receives USD Alumni Honors Award

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San Diego (May 4, 2018) - University of San Diego honored Vickie Turner '82 (JD) at the 23rd Annual Alumni Honors Awards on April 28 with the Author E. Hughes Award for Career Achievement.

As a trial lawyer for 35 years, Turner has earned national recognition defending complex product liability cases throughout California and in 12 other Western states. She has been recognized as one of San Diego’s top five product liability defense attorneys by the San Diego Super Lawyers and twice named the Best Lawyers’ San Diego Product Liability Litigation – Defendants Lawyer of the Year. She has been featured in Diversity & The Bar as a Leading Law Firm Rainmaker and in profiles of Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching.”

She also is co-founder of the Turner Dream Foundation and the Links to STEM Program which prepares fourth-through-eighth-grade students for science, technology, engineering and math careers with an emphasis on robotics.

“Vickie is a leader and Changemaker in San Diego with an outstanding record of accomplishment, excellence and service and we are very proud to honor her,” said USD School of Law Dean Stephen Ferruolo.

At USD, Turner also serves on the Law School’s Board of Visitors, is an adjunct professor and funds an annual scholarship for deserving and diverse law students. Turner also was honored as Woman of the Year by the 79th California State Assembly, was recognized as a local hero by KPBS, and as a Woman of Dedication by the Salvation Army for her community service.

She also serves on the executive boards of the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section and the National Bar Institute. She is the past president of the Gilliam Bar Association and Lawyers Club.

Turner and her late husband are the proud parents of three sons.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is recognized for the excellence of its faculty, depth of its curriculum, and strength of its clinical programs. Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 35th nationally and 6th on the West Coast among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 20th nationally and 4th on the West Coast in past-year faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, nonprofit, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.

Vickie Turner and Dean Stephen Feruuolo

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