Craig Manson, ’81, is a distinguished visitor and lecturer in law at Pacific McGeorge who returned to the faculty full-time after a notable career in public service. A United States Air Force Academy graduate, he served on active duty from 1976 to 1989. After four years in private practice in Sacramento, Manson became general counsel of the California Department of Fish and Game. In 1998, he was appointed to the Sacramento County Superior Court where he served four years before his appointment to the Department of the Interior in 2002 by President George W. Bush. Manson served four years as Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks before returning to Sacramento in 2006 to teach again at the law school where he had taught as a member of the adjunct faculty from 1993 to 2001.