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USD Law Alumni Recognized in San Diego Magazine’s 2026 Top Lawyers List
University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is pleased to recognize 234 alumni included in San Diego Magazine’s 2026 Top Lawyers list.
To compile this list, San Diego Magazine invited Martindale-Hubbell to identify local attorneys who have demonstrated high ethical standards and professional excellence.
Congratulations to:
| Michael Abramson ’00 (JD), ’03 (LLM) | Daniel Gleason ’91 (JD) | Thomas F. Olsen ’96 (JD) |
| Meredith Alcock ’86 (JD) | Russell Gold ’95 (JD) | Gregory P. Olson ’95 (JD) |
| Gregory Alcorn ’86 (JD) | Mitchell Golub ’83 (JD) | William O’Nell ’96 (JD) |
| Ryan Alexeev ’16 (LLM) | Charles Goria ’76 (JD) | K. Jill Osmars ’87 (JD) |
| Phillip Alpert ’76 (JD) | Michael Green ’75 (JD) | Jeffrey Padilla ’05 (JD) |
| Dale Amato ’88 (JD) | Terence Greene ’88 (JD) | Michael Padilla ’75 (JD) |
| Michael Angello ’77 (JD) | Robert Grimes ’72 (JD) | Kennett Patrick ’89 (JD) |
| Mark Angert ’05 (JD) | Randall David Gustafson ’84 (JD) | Mary Peshel ’85 (JD) |
| Peter Attarian Jr. ’85 (JD) | Alexis Gutierrez ’97 (JD) | Christopher Peterson ’01 (JD) |
| Jason Baker ’98 (JD) | Susan Hack ’89 (JD) | JaVonne Phillips ’95 (JD) |
| Thomas Balestreri Jr. ’80 (JD) | Roland Haddad ’69 (JD) | Sarah Pinkerton ’06 (JD) |
| Elizabeth Banham ’86 (JD) | Kendra Hall ’93 (JD) | Barry Plotkin ’71 (JD) |
| Murray Bankhead ’80 (JD) | Patrick Hall ’80 (JD) | Timothy Principe ’84 (JD) |
| Mark Barber ’78 (JD) | John Haller ’74 (JD) | Richard Prochazka ’68 (JD) |
| Douglas Barker ’80 (JD) | Kristina Hancock ’88 (JD) | William Pultz ’84 (LLM) |
| Su Barry ’03 (JD) | Bernard Hansen ’84 (JD) | Michael Pundeff ’81 (JD) |
| Bradley Bartlett ’80 (JD) | James Hargreaves ’72 (JD), ’00 (LLM) | Charles Purdy IV ’81 (JD) |
| Teresa Beck ’90 (JD) | Ann Harris ’80 (JD) | Nancy Rady ’77 (JD) |
| Lynn Beekman ’90 (JD) | Michael Hartney ’84 (JD) | Craig Ramseyer ’81 (JD) |
| George Blackmar ’82 (JD) | Steven Haskett ’75 (JD) | Malgorzata Realin ’08 (LLM) |
| Shaun Boss ’76 (JD) | Robert Heft ’77 (JD) | Paul Reynolds ’81 (JD) |
| Richard Boyer ’87 (JD) | Julia Hegemier ’94 (JD) | Guy Ricciardulli ’81 (BA), ’84 (JD) |
| Andrew Boylan ’06 (BA), ’09 (JD), ’10 (MBA) | Terence Hellenkamp ’86 (JD) | Maria Christine Roberts ’85 (BA), ’88 (JD) |
| John Bradley Little IV ’75 (JD) | Patrick Hennessey Jr. ’70 (JD) | Roberta Robinson ’77 (JD) |
| Edward Brennan ’66 (JD) | Daniel Herbert ’82 (BBA), ’86 (JD) | Steven Romanoff ’87 (JD) |
| Michael Breslauer ’83 (JD) | John Hilbert ’82 (JD) | Andrea Russell ’08 (JD) |
| Robert Brewer Jr. ’75 (JD) | Donald Hildre ’75 (JD) | Phillip Samouris ’92 (JD) |
| James Broder ’91 (JD) | Christopher Charles Hoffman ’95 (JD) | Bryan Sampson ’89 (JD) |
| David Brody ’83 (JD) | Graham Hollis ’85 (LLM) | Frederick Schenk ’78 (JD) |
| Michele Brown ’94 (JD) | Rhonda Holmes ’91 (JD) | Gerry Schmelter ’84 (JD) |
| Alan Brubaker ’76 (JD) | Jeffrey Hood ’01 (JD) | Alexandra Selfridge ’06 (JD) |
| Sarah Bunge ’84 (JD) | Susan Horner ’89 (JD) | David Semelsberger ’82 (JD) |
| Benjamin Bunn ’89 (JD) | Lincoln Horton ’92 (JD) | Ronson Shamoun ’88 (BACC), ’02 (JD), ’03 (LLM) |
| Philip Burkhardt ’75 (JD) | Randolph Houts ’84 (JD) | Sharon Sherman ’76 (JD) |
| Michael Buscemi ’96 (BA), ’99 (JD) | Peter Hughes ’84 (BBA), ’87 (JD) | Steven Shewry ’82 (JD) |
| Robert K. Butterfield ’77 (JD) | Robert Hulburt ’88 (JD) | Eric Shwisberg ’81 (JD) |
| Kevin Cahill ’84 (JD) | Knut Johnson ’86 (JD) | David Siegel ’78 (JD) |
| Robert Caietti ’82 (BA), ’85 (JD) | Kenneth Jones ’85 (JD) | Mark Siegel ’86 (JD) |
| Kurt Campbell ’93 (JD) | Jennifer Kearns ’86 (JD) | John Simpson ’85 (JD) |
| Ryan Caplan ’07 (JD) | Ally Keegan ’16 (JD) | Arthur Skola ’01 (LLM) |
| Anthony Case ’90 (JD) | Michael Kiesling ’03 (JD) | Paul Smigliani ’89 (IMBA), ’94 (JD) |
| Avery Chazen ’89 (JD) | Todd Kinnear ’00 (JD) | Suzanne Smigliani ’94 (JD) |
| Charles B. Christensen ’73 (JD) | Patrick Klingborg ’13 (JD) | Miguel Smith ’87 (JD) |
| Kristin Cline ’05 (JD) | Mark Krasner ’81 (JD) | Bryan Snyder ’86 (JD) |
| Steven Cologne ’84 (JD) | Alex Landon ’71 (JD) | Allison Soares ’15 (LLM) |
| Kathryn Cooney ’76 (JD) | Carl Larson ’94 (LLM) | Gerald Solomon ’85 (JD) |
| Chrissa Corday ’86 (JD) | Douglas Law ’83 (JD) | Wendy St. John ’83 (JD) |
| Ezekiel Cortez ’83 (JD) | Mary Lehman ’91 (JD) | Jack Stephens ’90 (LLM) |
| Ben Coughlan ’12 (JD) | Sean Leslie ’90 (JD) | Susan Stevenson ’86 (JD) |
| John Cronin ’87 (JD) | Jenna Leyton-Jones ’07 (JD) | Elise Streicher ’81 (JD) |
| James Crosby ’83 (JD) | Thomas Lincoln ’80 (JD) | Robert Swain ’89 (JD) |
| Stephen Cummings ’82 (JD) | Andrew Liska ’87 (JD) | Craig Swanson ’82 (BA), ’85 (JD) |
| K. Todd Curry ’90 (JD) | Russell Lockwood ’82 (JD) | John Tannenberg ’72 (JD) |
| Anthony Dain ’81 (JD) | Stephen Lopardo ’78 (JD) | Nancy Taylor ’84 (JD) |
| Michael Dallo ’06 (BACC), ’06 (BBA), ’11 (JD) | Susana Mahady ’91 (JD) | Stephen F. Tee ’94 (JD) |
| Michael Daly ’82 (BA), ’85 (JD) | Richard Mahfouz II ’06 (JD) | John Tower ’82 (JD) |
| Susan Daly ’85 (JD) | John Marino ’86 (JD) | Daniel Towson ’92 (JD) |
| Sebastian D’Amico ’64 (BS), ’70 (JD) | Jennifer Martinez ’05 (JD) | Timothy Truxaw ’82 (JD) |
| Alicia Dearn ’04 (JD) | John McCabe Jr. ’67 (JD) | Wendy Tucker ’94 (JD) |
| Jeffrey Doggett ’89 (JD) | Stephen McCue ’83 (JD) | Jason Turner ’99 (JD) |
| Jodi Doucette ’87 (JD) | Jennifer McGibbons ’01 (JD) | John Turner III ’77 (JD) |
| Brian Dunn ’78 (BBA), ’81 (JD) | Lann McIntyre ’82 (JD) | Michael Alan Van Horne ’86 (LLM) |
| Timothy Earl ’94 (JD) | Cary Miller ’74 (JD) | Jacqueline Vinaccia ’90 (JD) |
| Donald English ’84 (JD) | William Miller ’89 (JD) | Julie Vogelzang ’94 (JD) |
| Jeffery Feasby ’00 (JD) | Janice Mulligan ’78 (BA), ’81 (JD) | Mark Vranjes ’82 (JD) |
| P. Randolph Finch Jr. ’93 (BBA), ’96 (JD) | Enrique Munoz ’77 (JD) | Peter Ward ’86 (JD) |
| Stephen Fitch ’80 (BBA), ’84 (JD) | Douglas Munro ’89 (JD) | Thomas Warwick Jr. ’72 (JD) |
| Amie Flynn ’90 (JD) | Kathleen Murphy Jones ’93 (JD) | Shawn Weber ’01 (JD) |
| Thomas Friedberg ’83 (JD) | Andrew Myers ’10 (JD) | Brian White ’99 (JD) |
| William Fuhrman ’73 (JD) | Charles Nachand III ’76 (JD) | Evelyn Wiggins ’86 (JD) |
| John Garcia ’78 (JD) | William Naumann Jr. ’80 (JD) | Scott Wilson ’75 (JD) |
| Gregory Michael Garrison ’05 (JD) | Virginia Nelson ’79 (JD) | Randall Winet ’84 (JD) |
| Roger Geddes ’83 (JD), ’91 (LLM) | Paul Neuharth Jr. ’89 (JD) | Jack Winters Jr. ’78 (JD) |
| Robert Gerard ’80 (JD) | David Norris ’90 (JD) | Eugene Yale ’74 (BA), ’78 (JD) |
| Gordon Gerson ’76 (JD) | C. Noziska ’82 (JD) | Christy I. Yee ’93 (JD) |
| William Getty ’85 (BBA), ’91 (JD) | Sean O’Bryan ’84 (JD) | Anna Yum ’05 (JD) |
| Diane Gibson ’86 (JD) | Alexander Olander ’79 (JD) | Troy Zander ’93 (JD) |
| Andrew Glatt ’85 (JD) | Joseph Oliva ’83 (JD) | Michael Zech ’04 (JD) |
We strive to capture all USD Law alumni included in San Diego Magazine’s 2026 Top Lawyers list. If we have inadvertently omitted an alumnus/a, please reach out to us.
Read the July issue of San Diego Magazine here.
About the School of Law
Each year, USD Law 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 law and taxation.
USD School of Law is one of the 88 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. 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, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.