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NEW ACTL ACCESS TO JUSTICE DISTINGUISHED PRO BONO FELLOWS AT THE 2018 ANNUAL MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS, THE COLLEGE LAUNCHED ITS ACCESS TO JUSTICE PRO BONO FELLOWS PILOT PROGRAM. THE COLLEGE AN- NOUNCED THAT THE GOAL OF THE NEW PROJECT WAS TO ACKNOWLEDGE ON A YEARLY BASIS A SELECT GROUP OF FELLOWS WHO HAVE DISTINGUISHED THEM- SELVES THROUGH THEIR DEDICATION TO IMPROVING ACCESS TO JUSTICE THROUGH THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. THESE DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS PARTNER WITH HOST ORGANIZATIONS TO ADVANCE THE COLLEGE’S MISSION OF IMPROVING THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. BECAUSE OF THE SUCCESS OF THE PILOT PROGRAM, THE BOARD OF REGENTS FORMALLY CREATED A NEW PERMANENT COMMITTEE, THE DISTINGUISHED PRO BONO FELLOWS COMMITTEE. THE COMMIT- TEE IS CHARGED WITH IDENTIFYING ADDITIONAL ACTL DISTINGUISHED PRO BONO FELLOWS, PROMOTING THEIR GOOD WORK AND OTHERWISE ASSISTING IN THEIR EFFORTS TO ENHANCE ACCESS TO JUSTICE. The current Distinguished Pro Bono Fellows are Mark C. Surprenant, Terri L. Mascherin, Charlie Weiss, David A. Barry, Howard A. Cabot, Marie Des- champs, Bryan Finley, John P. Gilligan, Christy D. Jones, Dinyar Marzban, Douglas Mitchell, Guy J. Pratte, Herschel E. Richard, Jr., Joseph Roper, Sam- uel W. Silver, Joseph A. Tate, Michael D. Jones, Kimball R. Anderson, Douglas R. Young, and Ronald Safer. We highlight below our two most recent Distin- guished Pro Bono Fellows, Douglas R. Young and Ronald Safer. DOUGLAS R. YOUNG Doug is a partner with the Farella Braun & Martel firm in San Francisco, where he concentrates on complex commercial litigation. Doug has tried over fifty cases to verdict and has argued over forty-five appellate matters, reflecting his unusu- ally diverse experience and thirty-five-plus years of courtroom and counseling experience. Doug is a Past President of the College, a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a recipient of many awards, including the Judge Learned Hand Award, American Jewish Committee of San Francisco, the Cal- ifornia State Bar/California Appellate Project Award of Appreciation for work as appointed counsel in death penalty cases, and the American Bar Association Pro Bono Publico Award. Doug is the co-founder of the Berkeley Law Founda- tion (a public interest organization), former President of the Legal Aid Society of San Franscisco, former Board Chair of the Public Interest Clearinghouse, board member and cooperating attorney with the ACLU, Chair of the Attorneys’ Task Force for Children, Legal Advocate with the Native American Rights Fund, and Member of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco. Doug has made public interest work a core aspect of his varied practice. Doug’s commitment to public interest work was recently summarized by Drucilla Stender Ramey, a prominent San Francisco civil rights attorney, former law dean, and past longtime Executive Director of the Bar As- sociation of San Francisco (BASF). Speak- ing of her long opportunity to observe Doug’s work, Dean Ramey said: I have, therefore, been lucky enough over the course of many decades to have had the privilege of witnessing and learning from Doug’s unconditional commitment 89 JOURNAL