J. Clifford Wallace will receive an honorary Doctor of Law and Public Service degree at Brigham Young University’s commencement exercises on Thursday, April 24. Judge Wallace has been a long time friend of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies. For 20 years, he has contributed his expertise in bringing together members of the judiciary from all over the world to speak at the annual Symposium and other ICLRS events throughout the world.
Wallace was sworn in as a United States District Judge for the Southern District of California on October 29, 1970. He was then elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he served for almost 26 years.
He then served as Chief Judge of the Circuit from 1991-1996 and took senior status on April 8, 1996.
Wallace taught as a visiting professor at numerous universities, including BYU, where he created and taught a course in judicial administration in 1982.
After three years as a sailor in the U.S. Navy, Wallace graduated from San Diego State College with honors and distinction in 1952, majoring in economics and minoring in political science. He graduated from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and was a member of the Board of Editors of the California Law Review.
We congratulate Judge Wallace on this honor.