USD School of Law Alumna Marie F. Shimada '18 (JD) Named Executive Director of Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Alliance

SAN DIEGO (December 17, 2020) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumna Marie F. Shimada, ’18 (JD) was named Executive Director of the Snoqualmie Valley Preservation Alliance (SVPA). SVPA identifies sustainable solutions for land use and floodplain management in Washington's King County. Snoqualmie Valley is located 30 miles east of Seattle in the scenic Cascade foothills.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

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 law 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 36th nationally among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 22nd nationally 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, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.