J. Clark Kelso
Professor of Law
B.A., University of Illinois
J.D., Columbia University
E-mail: ckelso@pacific.edu
Professor Kelso has worked closely with the leadership in the California Senate and Assembly and within the Judicial and Executive Branches on constitutional amendments, legislation, and rules of court to improve and reform California Judiciary and the administration of justice. In recognition of his service, the California Judicial Council selected Professor Kelso to receive the 1998 Bernard E. Witkin Amicus Curiae award. Professor Kelso was called upon to serve as Acting Insurance Commissioner for California in 2000 and was selected to serve as the Scholar-In-Residence at the California Administrative Office of the courts. He was selected by Governor Gray Davis to serve as the State's Chief Information Officer in May 2002, and continued to serve in this position in the Schwarzenegger Administration through 2007. He was recognized by Government Technology as one of the 25 Top Chief Information Officers in the public sector for 2004. Professor Kelso was appointed by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson to serve as the Federal Receiver overseeing health care for California prisons in January 2008. Professor Kelso clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on the U.S. Court of Appeal, Ninth Circuit, before he was appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
