Hometown:
Richmond, Virginia

Undergraduate:
University of Richmond,
Leadership Studies
Graduation: May 2009

Awarded :
James and Dorothy Adams Scholarship, Jerry Curtis Scholarship

Cameron Desmond was with the Peace Corps in the Federated States of Micronesia when she decided to go to law school. She took her LSAT on the tiny island of Kosrae. A year later, she started at Pacific McGeorge.

“It was a wonderful experience, and was so motivating -- especially seeing the role that the women had on the island,” says Desmond of her Peace Corps duty. “It makes law school seem easy.”

In Micronesia, Desmond developed elementary school curriculum in health and physical education, and taught English to high school students. She began to understand “the power of the law,” she says, when she attempted to start a girls’ basketball team. She was ultimately successful, but the effort took some doing.

Desmond -- who will serve as editor-in-chief of the McGeorge Law Review next year -- has deep ties to Pacific McGeorge. Her great-grandfather, Earl Desmond, was a 1932 graduate. He went on to become a state senator, and helped push through legislation to authorize Sacramento State College. Her grandfather was the late Sacramento attorney Richard Desmond.