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1971  Gary Solis, J.D., author, instructor, legal commentator and former Marine Corps judge advocate, was named a distinguished alumnus of the UC Davis School of Law. Retiring in 1989 as a lieutenant colonel after serving for 18 years as judge advocate, Solis wrote three books about military law and war crimes, served as a commentator for BBC radio and taught at West Point, developing the academy's first law of war course.

1972  Nick Concolino, a captain with the Davis Police Department, retired in September after 30 years in Yolo County law enforcement, but continues his work as a contract instructor/coordinator for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Advanced Explosives Destruction Techniques School in Fredericksburg, Va., and as contract instructor for the U.S. State Department Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program for foreign police at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He lives in Davis with his wife, Shirley, and 8-year-old son, Kevin.  •  Barbara Ackley Gudis, an elementary school principal in Chandler, Ariz., recently completed an assignment as a Baldrige National Quality Award evaluator. Appointed by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Gudis evaluated a school district on the East Coast using the Baldrige criteria for performance excellence. She lives in Tempe, Ariz., with her husband, Larry Gudis '72.  •  Alfred Murray was appointed chief of staff to Oakland City Council member Moses Mayne Jr. in May. He serves as council analyst for policy and constituent issues. Murray is also the owner of Quality Assurance Legal Services, a student at the John F. Kennedy University School of Law and serves on the board of trustees for Golden Gate Academy in Oakland.

1974  Michael Garcia was elected presiding judge of the Sacramento County Superior Court, heading the county courts and serving as its chief administrative decision-maker and spokesman.  •  Jay Hestbeck, Ph.D. '83, was named the director of the U.S. Geological Survey's Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in Jamestown, N.D., where he is responsible for USGS biological research activities in the northern Great Plains and other areas of the western United States. Hestbeck previously worked at USGS's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Maryland and the Massachusetts Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit.  •  DeAnne Julius, M.A., Ph.D. '75, was appointed as a non-executive director of Lloyds TSB Group. She was previously a member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee and chair of the Banking Services Consumer Codes Review Group.  •  Stephen Peithman, who heads the community relations office at American River College in Sacramento, was named a fellow of the American Association of Community Theatre for his contributions to community theater. Peithman is a founding member of the Davis Comic Opera Company, co-founder of Stage Directions magazine, host of the weekly radio program "Musical Stages" on Capital Public Radio, an instructor and author.  •  Jacqueline Schultz, a theatrical producer, was named Arts Executive of the Year by the Arts and Business Council of Sacramento.  •  Emily Vasquez, a partner in the Sacramento law firm Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard, was appointed to the Sacramento County Superior Court by Gov. Gray Davis. Vasquez immigrated to the United States as a child with her farm-worker parents.

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