Professor Reynoso Profiled in California Bar Journal
Professor Cruz Reynoso is profiled in the most recent issue of the California Bar Journal, the official publication of the State Bar, in an article celebrating California attorneys who have practiced in the state for 50 years. Professor Reynoso is one of only eight of the nearly 500 hundred California attorneys sworn in during 1959 to be profiled.
Internationally known as a civil rights champion, Professor Reynoso's career has included work as a lawyer, community organizer, law professor, legal services program director, appellate court justice, and state Supreme Court justice. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and has been member of the UC Davis School of Law faculty since 2001.
The article mentions Professor Reynoso's background as the son of farm workers and recounts how, as a child, he successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service to begin delivery to the rural barrio where he lived. Professor Reynoso went on to be the only Latino in his graduating class at UC Berkeley School of Law, the only Latino attorney practicing in El Centro, executive director of the pioneering California Rural Legal Assistance, and the first Latino on the California Supreme Court. The article also notes Professor Reynoso's continued activism, including his advocacy on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised.