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{{Short description|Governing board of the University of California}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox government agency
| agency_name     = {{nowrap|Regents of the University of California}}
| type            = Governing board
| seal            = Seal of the University of California.svg
| seal_width      = 160px
| seal_caption    = Seal of the University of California
| formed          = {{Start date|1868|06|18}}<ref>[https://ucla.app.box.com/v/tax-pdf-articles-of-incorp Certificate of Incorporation] of The Regents of the University of California.</ref><ref>Incorporation date, as shown in the [https://businessfilings.sos.ca.gov/frmDetail.asp?CorpID=00008116 records] of the California Secretary of State.</ref>
| agency_type     = [[State university system]] [[Governing boards of colleges and universities in the United States|governing board]]
| jurisdiction    = [[University of California|University of California system]]
| headquarters    = [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], California, United States
| region_code     = US-CA
| budget          = $47.1 billion (2022–2023)<ref name="At a glance">{{cite web|title=The University of California at a Glance {{!}} February 2023|url=https://ucop.edu/institutional-research-academic-planning/_files/uc-facts-at-a-glance.pdf |publisher=University of California|date=February 2023|access-date=March 28, 2023}}</ref>
| chief1_name     = [[Gavin Newsom]]
| chief1_position = President and [[Governor of California]]
| chief2_name     = [[Janet Reilly]]
| chief2_position = Chair
| chief3_name     = [[Maria Anguiano]]
| chief3_position = Vice Chair
| website         = {{URL|https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu}}
}}
'''The Regents of the University of California''' (also referred to as the '''Board of Regents''' to distinguish the board from the corporation it governs of the same name) is the [[governing board]] of the [[University of California]] (UC), a [[state university system]] in the [[United States|U.S. state]] of [[California]]. The Board of Regents has 26 voting members, the majority of whom are appointed by the [[governor of California]] to serve 12-year terms.
The regents establish university policy; make decisions that determine student cost of attendance, admissions, employee compensation, and land management; and perform long-range planning for all UC campuses and locations.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.dailycal.org/2020/05/18/mysterious-body-of-people-a-look-into-the-uc-governing-board/|title='Mysterious body of people': A look into the UC governing board|last=Akkaraju|first=Maya|date=May 25, 2020|work=The Daily Californian|access-date=June 21, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref> The regents also control the investment of UC's endowment, and they supervise the making of contracts between UC and private companies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/policies/index.html|title='Regents Policies, The University of California|access-date=June 21, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref>
The structure and composition of the Board of Regents is laid out in the [[Constitution of California|California Constitution]], which establishes that the University of California is a "public trust" and that the regents are a "corporation" that has been granted the power to manage the trust on the public's behalf. The constitution grants the regents broad [[institutional autonomy]],<ref name="Grodin_Page243">{{cite book |last1=Grodin |first1=Joseph R. |last2=Shanske |first2=Darien |last3=Salerno |first3=Michael B. |title=The California State Constitution |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199988648 |pages=243 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Yx2CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA243 |access-date=June 5, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-road-map-university-california-independence-20170430-story.html|title=Political Road Map: So why can the UC regents thumb their noses at the Legislature?|last=Myers|first=John|date=April 30, 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=May 15, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> giving them "full powers of organization and government."<ref name="leginfo.legislature.ca.gov">{{Cite web|url=https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CONS&division=&title=&part=&chapter=&article=IX|title = Codes Display Text}}</ref> According to article IX, section 9, subsection (a), "the regents are "subject only to such legislative control as may be necessary to insure the security of its funds and compliance with the terms of the endowments of the university".<ref name="leginfo.legislature.ca.gov"/>
== History ==
Section 11 of the Organic Act establishing the University of California begins with the following sentence: "The general government and superintendence of the University shall vest in a Board of Regents, to be denominated the 'Regents of the University of California,' who shall become incorporated under the general laws of the State of California by that corporate name and style."<ref name="Section11">See [https://books.google.com/books?id=srpAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA252 Cal. Stats., 17th sess., 1867–1868, ch. 244, § 11].</ref>
The Organic Act described three groups of regents: six [[Ex officio member|ex officio regents]], eight appointed regents, and eight "honorary" regents.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_35">{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/35 35]}}</ref>  To expedite the formation of the university, the Organic Act authorized the [[Governor of California|governor]] to unilaterally select the eight appointed regents after the end of the current legislative session and allowed them to assume office immediately without the consent of the [[California State Senate|state senate]].<ref name="Stadtman_Page_35" />  Governor [[Henry Huntly Haight]] announced his selections in May 1868.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_35" />  On May 23, a notice was published in the ''[[San Francisco Examiner]]'' of a meeting of the regents scheduled for May 28, but no record was made of this meeting.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_35" />  On June 9, 1868, the first two groups of regents gathered together in San Francisco for the first recorded meeting of the Board of Regents, where the appointed regents drew lots to determine the lengths of their initial terms, and then the board proceeded to elect the eight honorary regents.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_35" />  The "honorary" regents enjoyed the same authority and privileges as the first two groups of regents; the term "honorary" referred only to their method of selection.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_35" />
As required by Section 11, the Board of Regents proceeded to form a corporation denominated the Regents of the University of California on June 12, 1868, and filed the certificate of incorporation on June 18, 1868 with the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]].<ref>[https://bizfileonline.sos.ca.gov/api/report/GetImageByNum/123126026094215051008050103146208127234018050164 Certificate of Incorporation of the Regents of the University of California], filed June 18, 1868, California Secretary of State.</ref> The corporation's official name today is still the Regents of the University of California.<ref>[https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/bylaws/bl10.html Bylaw 10, Bylaws of the Regents of the University of California] (as adopted on July 20, 2016).</ref> Today, it is unusual for universities (or any other kind of corporation) to incorporate in the names of their boards, but it used to be a common practice among American universities.  For example, [[Harvard University]] is still legally incorporated as the [[President and Fellows of Harvard College]].<ref name="GoverningHarvard">{{cite news |last1=Chait |first1=Richard P. |last2=Daniel |first2=D. Ronald |last3=Lorsch |first3=Jay W. |last4=Rosovsky |first4=Henry |author-link2=Ron Daniel |author-link3=Jay Lorsch |author-link4=Henry Rosovsky |title=Governing Harvard: A Harvard Magazine Roundtable |url=https://harvardmagazine.com/2006/05/governing-harvard.html |work=Harvard Magazine |date=May–June 2006}}</ref>
Incorporating the university under the exact same name as its board was just as confusing in the 19th century as it is today. In an 1894 [[Wrongful death claim|wrongful death]] case, the plaintiffs did not understand this; they sued 16 regents individually, which forced the [[Supreme Court of California]] to analyze Section 11 and the June 18, 1868 certificate to hold that the original members of the Board of Regents had properly formed a corporation as a [[legal entity]] distinct from themselves.  Therefore, the current members of that board could not be held liable in their individual capacities for the [[tort]]s of the corporation.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Omc7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA658 ''Lundy v. Delmas,''] 104 Cal. 655, 658–659 (1894).</ref>
The current Board of Regents is a "policy board," as a result of reforms unanimously adopted from 1957 to 1960 at the instigation of [[Clark Kerr|UC President Clark Kerr]]. Before Kerr's reforms, the regents operated as an "administrative board" (in Kerr's words) for almost a century. The board met 12 times per year and its finance committee (with full authority to act on behalf of the board) met an additional 11 times, and the university budget was excruciatingly detailed. The result was that the board collectively supervised every aspect of university affairs—no matter how trivial or minor.  One sign of the regents' unusually extreme level of [[micromanagement]] during this period was that it was seen as a major milestone when acting UC President [[Martin Kellogg]] gained the power in 1891 to independently hire janitors (as long as he reported on what he had done at the next meeting of the regents).<ref name="ClarkKerr_Page191">{{cite book|last1=Kerr|first1=Clark|title=The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1|date=2001|publisher=University of California Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520223677|pages=191–205|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jMEZ_47vXkAC&pg=PA191}}</ref>  Another example is that until 1901, replacements for lost diplomas required the approval of the regents.<ref name="Pelfrey_Page47">{{cite book |last1=Pelfrey |first1=Patricia A. |last2=Cheney |first2=Margaret |title=A Brief History of the University of California |date=2004 |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley |isbn=9780520243903 |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qbEwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT46 |access-date=January 8, 2021}}</ref> At Kerr's encouragement, the Board of Regents cut down on the number of meetings, delegated powers and responsibilities to the university president and the campus chancellors, delegated more power to the Academic Senate, simplified the UC budget, and greatly reduced the amount of detail that flowed upwards to the regents.<ref name="ClarkKerr_Page191" />
== Composition ==
The majority of the board (18 Regents) is appointed via nomination by the [[governor of California]] and confirmation by the [[California State Senate]] to 12-year terms. One [[University of California Student Regents|student Regent]] is selected by the board to represent the students for a one-year term through a hiring process that is conducted by the board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/_documents/pdf/studentregentapplication.pdf/|title=Application for 2021–22 Student Regent, University of California|access-date=June 21, 2020}}</ref> The remaining 7 Regents are [[ex officio members]]. They are the [[Governor of California|governor]], [[Lieutenant Governor of California|Lieutenant Governor]], Speaker of the [[California State Assembly|State Assembly]], [[California State Superintendent of Public Instruction|State Superintendent of Public Instruction]], President and Vice President of the Alumni Associations of UC, and president of the University of California.<ref name="Hollender">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2016/09/29/rundown-on-the-regents/|title=Rundown on the Regents|last=Hollender|first=Allison|date=September 29, 2016|work=[[City on a Hill Press]]|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref>
The Board also has two non-voting [[faculty (teaching staff)|faculty]] representatives and two non-voting Staff Advisors. The incoming student Regent serves as a non-voting Regent-designate from the date of selection (usually between July and October) until beginning their formal term the following July 1.
The vast majority of the Regents appointed by the governor historically have consisted of lawyers, politicians and businessmen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ses.unam.mx/integrantes/ordorika/publicaciones/Handbook.pdf |author1=Brian Pusser|author2=Imanol Ordorika|date=2001|title=Bringing political theory to university governance|publisher=Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México|access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref> Over the past two decades, it has been common that UC Regents appointees have donated relatively large sums of money either directly to the governor's [[election campaigns]] or indirectly to party election groups.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://occupyucdavis.org/documents/regents-fact-sheet |title=Regents Fact Sheet &#124; #OccupyUCDavis |access-date=June 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131119191939/http://occupyucdavis.org/documents/regents-fact-sheet |archive-date=November 19, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caldisorientation.org/MeetTheRegents |title=Welcome caldisorientation.org - Justhost.com |publisher=Caldisorientation.org |access-date=June 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629080155/http://www.caldisorientation.org/MeetTheRegents |archive-date=June 29, 2009 }}</ref>
Administrative support is provided to the Regents by the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Regents of the University of California,<ref>[https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/governance/bylaws/bl23.html#bl23.5 Bylaw 23.5(a)] of the Bylaws of the Regents of the University of California.</ref> which shares an office building with the UC Office of the President in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]].<ref name="UCOPWelcomeGuide">{{cite book |last1=University of California Office of the President |title=UCOP Franklin-Broadway Campus Welcome Guide |date=2022 |publisher=Regents of the University of California |location=Oakland |page=9 |url=https://www.ucop.edu/future-of-work/_files/ucop_franklin_welcome_guide_f2_web.pdf |access-date=6 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220613053613/https://www.ucop.edu/future-of-work/_files/ucop_franklin_welcome_guide_f2_web.pdf|archive-date=June 13, 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Significant corruption scandals==
The Board of Regents has been the subject of various corruption scandals throughout the university's long history.
The board's first scandal surfaced in 1874.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_69">{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/69 69]}}</ref>  By June 1872, regent [[Samuel Merritt]] had become the chair of the board's building committee and initiated planning for the original [[UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science|College of Letters]] building (later known as North Hall).  Although the board also passed a resolution that same month prohibiting [[self-dealing]] with respect to construction of campus buildings, the winning bid was ultimately submitted by Merritt's preferred contractor, Power and Ough, "and much of the lumber and cement for the building came from Merritt's own lumber company."<ref name="Stadtman_Page_43">{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/43 43]}}</ref>  The ''San Francisco Evening Post'' broke the story on January 6, 1874, and two days later, the [[California State Assembly]]'s public building committee launched an investigation which held hearings through March 3 of that year.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_70">{{cite book|last1=Stadtman|first1=Verne A.|title=The University of California, 1868–1968|url=https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad|url-access=registration|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/universityofcali00stad/page/70 70]}}</ref>  The committee concluded that Merritt had profited financially from providing an inferior building to the university at an exorbitant cost: $24,000 over its reasonable value.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_70" />  Merritt resigned from the board in June 1874 and in October refunded $867 of his lumber company's profits to the university.<ref name="Stadtman_Page_70" />
In 1965, free-speech movement activist [[Marvin Garson]] responded to a call by the California Federation of Teachers to "investigate the composition and operation of the Board of Regents." He produced a 19-page report documenting prior cases of corruption, concluding that, "taken as a group, the Regents are representatives of only one thing—corporate wealth."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt9p30076p&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text|title=The Regents|last=Garson|first=Marvin|date=1965|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1970, the California state auditor found that regent Edwin W. Pauley, who owned Pauley Petroleum, personally profited when university officials steered $10.7&nbsp;million dollars into one of his company's business deals.<ref name="Press">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/61387632|title=UC President facing probe of business deals.|agency=Associated Press|date=June 25, 1970|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|access-date=June 20, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="newspapers.com">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/61579535|title=Reagan, Hitch Disagree on Handling of UC Problems.|agency=Associated Press|date=July 19, 1970|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|access-date=June 20, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref>
In 1970, the California state auditor investigated regent William French Smith and regent Edward Carter for conflict of interest dealings. The actions investigated included the joint purchase of a $253,750 piece of property for Carter's personal use, with the university paying $178,750 and Carter paying the remaining $75,000.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/60933338|title=State Auditor Names 2 Regents in Possible Conflict of Interest.|agency=Associated Press|date=June 25, 1970|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|access-date=June 20, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref> Smith, who was Governor Reagan's personal lawyer and a Reagan appointee to the board, was a lawyer at the law firm representing the [[Irvine Company]], a private real estate company. Carter was a lifetime board member of the [[Irvine Foundation]], which has a controlling interest in the [[Irvine Company]].
In 2007, the Board of Regents signed [[the EBI contract]], a $50&nbsp;million university privatization contract funded by the [[BP]] oil company.<ref name="berkeley.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/11/14_ebi-contract.shtml|title = 11.14.2007 - EBI: Highlights of the Master Agreement}}</ref> The contract gave financial control over all clean energy research at UC Berkeley to [[BP]], with $15&nbsp;million directed towards proprietary research allowing the oil company able to keep around a third of the patents produced by the academic employees while also financially controlling all other clean energy research upon the campus. The contract likewise allowed BP oil to construct a building on the UC Berkeley campus with entire floors that only BP employees are allowed to enter.<ref name="berkeley.edu"/> Before the signing of the contract, a number of environmental organizations, including [[Greenpeace]] penned a letter to the regents, which was read during the regents meeting on November 2, 2007, which stated "The prospect of giant carbon polluters directing research related to and gaining control of key energy technologies is very troubling – especially when the research is conducted at, and the technologies are developed in collaboration with, public institutions."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Opponents-ask-UC-regents-to-delay-signing-BP-3301953.php|title = Opponents ask UC regents to delay signing BP contract|date = November 3, 2007}}</ref> Following the signing of the contract by the UC Regents, professors complained that BP Oil bypassed normal university hiring and tenure protocol and hired professors directly, without consulting any academic department.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2007-04-13/article/26803?headline=UC-BP-Debate-Reveals-Two-Cultures-Schism--By-Richard-Brenneman|title = UC-BP Debate Reveals 'Two Cultures' Schism. Category: Features from the Berkeley Daily Planet}}</ref> Opponents have also argued this and other privatization contracts are a way to replace middle class engineering jobs with cheap graduate student labor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slingshotcollective.org/5-corporations-off-campus-time-to-expel-bp-and-monsanto/|title=5- Corporations off campus: time to expel BP and Monsanto – Slingshot}}</ref>
Regent [[Richard C. Blum]], financier and husband to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, served on the board of regents' Investment Committee. Allegations of conflicts of interest have arisen because, during Blum's tenure, UC has invested hundreds of millions of dollars where he had concurrent business interests.<ref name="Byrne">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/regents-club/content?oid=1854684|title=The regents club: Conflicts of interest are nothing new at the University of California, but they may be getting worse.|last=Byrne|first=Peter|date=July 10, 2010|work=Sacramento News & Review|access-date=June 20, 2020|language=en-US}}</ref>
According to an investigation by the [[Sacramento News & Review]], conflict-of-interest dealings by the UC Board of Regents accelerated in the years prior to the 2008 recession. Beginning in 2003, "[M]embers of the board of regents benefited from the placement of hundreds of millions of university dollars into investments, private deals and publicly held enterprises with significant ties to their own personal business activities, while simultaneously increasing the cost of university attendance."<ref name="Byrne"/> Additionally, the investigation found that some members of the regents’ investment committee, individuals who are also "Wall Street heavy hitters," modified long-standing UC investment policies, specifically, steering away from investing in more traditional instruments (such as blue-chip stocks and bonds) toward largely unregulated and risky "alternative" investments, such as private equity and private real-estate deals.<ref name="Byrne"/> These changes in UC investment policy brought personal gain to individual members of the board of regents Investment committee, while also reducing the funds within the UC endowment that might have otherwise been used to cover costs related to the operations of the university.
In May 2017, ''[[The San Francisco Chronicle]]'' reported that the Regents had been hosting costly [[dinner parties]] using university funds.<ref name="San Francisco Chronicle">{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Regents-throw-parties-at-UC-s-expense-11178628.php|title=Regents throw parties at UC's expense|last1=Gutierrez|first1=Melody|date=May 28, 2017|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=May 30, 2017|last2=Asimov|first2=Nanette}}</ref> Only after extensive public outcry, university leadership released a statement saying the university would no longer fund these dinners.<ref name="sfchronicle.com">{{Cite news|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/education/article/UC-reverses-policy-won-t-pick-up-tab-for-11181194.php|title=UC reverses policy, won't pick up tab for regents' parties|last1=Asimov|first1=Nanette|date=May 29, 2017|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=May 30, 2017|last2=Gutierrez|first2=Melody}}</ref>
==Regents==
===Appointed regents===
The eighteen appointed regents are appointed by the governor of California to serve 12-year terms.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|+ style="padding-top:1em;" |Appointed Regents<ref>{{cite web |url=https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/members-and-advisors/index.html |title=Members and Advisors UC Regents |publisher=UC Regents |access-date=August 23, 2020 }}</ref>
! Name !! Occupation !! Year Appointed !! Appointed by !! Reappointed !! Term  expires !! Notes
|-
| [[Hadi Makarechian]]|| Businessman || 2008 || Gov. Schwarzenegger || 2020 (by Gov. Newsom) || 2032
|-
| [[Richard Sherman (Regent)|Richard Sherman]]|| High Finance || 2014 || Gov. Brown || || 2025
|-
| [[John A. Pérez]]|| Politician || 2014|| Gov. Brown || 2024 (by Gov. Newsom)|| 2036
|-
| [[Gareth Elliott]]|| Lobbyist || 2015 || Gov. Brown || || 2025
|
|-
| [[Peter Guber]]|| Businessman || 2017 || Gov. Brown ||  || 2029
|-
| [[Maria Anguiano]]|| Finance || 2017 || Gov. Brown || || 2028
|Vice Chair
|-
| [[Lark Park]]|| Policy Research || 2017 || Gov. Brown || || 2029
|-
| Michael Cohen|| Finance || 2018 || Gov. Brown || || 2030
|
|-
| [[Richard Leib]]|| Businessman || 2018 || Gov. Brown || || 2026
|
|-
| [[Jay Sures]]|| Businessman || 2019 || Gov. Brown || 2020 (by Gov. Newsom)|| 2032
|
|-
| [[Janet Reilly]]|| Businesswoman || 2019 || Gov. Newsom || || 2028 ||Chair
|-
| [[José M. Hernández]]|| Astronaut || 2021 || Gov. Newsom || || 2033 ||
|-
| Mark Robinson || Finance || 2022 || Gov. Newsom || || 2034
|
|-
| Ana Matosantos|| Policy || 2022 || Gov. Newsom || || 2034
|
|-
| [[Greg Sarris|Gregory Sarris]]|| Writer || 2023 || Gov. Newsom || || 2026
|
|}
===Student regent===
The student regent is appointed by the board of regents to serve for a 2 year term, 1-year voting.
Student Regent:
*Merhawi Tesfai, appointed in 2023 by the board of regents, term expires June 30, 2024
===''Ex officio'' regents===
The Ex officio regents serve on the board of regents by virtue of holding positions elsewhere.
''Ex officio'' regents:
* [[Gavin Newsom]] (Governor of California)
* [[Eleni Kounalakis]] (Lieutenant Governor of California)
* [[Robert A. Rivas]] (Speaker of the California State Assembly)
* [[Tony Thurmond]] (California Superintendent of Public Instruction)
* [[Michael V. Drake]] (UC President)
* [[Joel Raznick]] (President, Alumni Associations of UC, 2023–2024)
* Keith Ellis (Vice-President, Alumni Associations of UC, 2023–2024)
===Non-voting participants===
The following positions do not carry voting abilities or regent status.
====Regents-designate====
Regents-designate are non-voting participants who are scheduled to transition to full board membership at later date.
* Geoffrey Pack <small>(given alumni Regent-designate status 2022; designate status expires June 30, 2023)</small>
* Alfonso Salazar <small>(given alumni Regent-designate status 2022; designate status expires June 30, 2023)</small>
* Josiah Beharry <small>(given student Regent-designate status 2023; designate status expires June 30, 2024)</small>
====Faculty Representatives====
Faculty Representatives to the Regents are non-voting participants who may be assigned as representatives to certain committees.
* James Steintrager (UC Irvine) <small>(became a representative in 2022; representative status expires August 31, 2024)</small>
* Steven W. Cheung (UC San Francisco) <small>(became a representative in 2023; representative status expires August 31, 2025)</small>
====Staff Advisors====
Non-voting participants who are assigned as representatives to Regents' committees.
* Lucy Tseng, [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]]<small>, July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022)</small>
* Priya Lakireddy, [[University of California, Merced|UC Merced]] <small>(Staff advisor-designate, July 1, 2021 – June 30, 2022; Staff Advisor, July 1, 2022 – June 30, 2023)</small><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://staffadvisors.universityofcalifornia.edu/about-staff-advisors/index.html|title = About the Staff Advisors &#124; Staff Advisors}}</ref>
==Past Regents==
{{see also|List of Governors of California|List of lieutenant governors of California|List of Speakers of the California State Assembly|California State Superintendent of Public Instruction#List of California State Superintendents of Public Instruction|l4=List of California State Superintendents of Public Instruction|University of California#UC Presidents|l5=List of University of California presidents}}
===Past Appointed Regents===
* [[Richard C. Blum]] (2002-2022) [appointed by Gov. Davis; died in office]
* [[Laphonza Butler]] (2018-2021) [appointed by Gov. Brown; resigned]
* [[Ellen Tauscher]] (2017-2019) [appointed by Gov. Brown; died in office]
* [[George Kieffer]] (2009-2021) [appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger]
* [[Charlene Zettel]] (2009-2021) [appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger]
* [[Bonnie Reiss]] (2008-2020) [appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger]
* [[William De La Peña]] (2006-2018) [appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger]
* [[Bruce D. Varner]] (2006-2018) [appointed by Gov. Schwarzenegger]
* [[Ben Allen (California politician)|Ben Allen]] (2007–2008)<ref name=Sumers>{{cite news |first=Brian |last=Sumers |title=Ben Allen, Santa Monica school board member, seeks state Senate seat |url=http://www.dailybreeze.com/government-and-politics/20140530/ben-allen-santa-monica-school-board-member-seeks-state-senate-seat |work=[[Daily Breeze]] |date=May 30, 2014 |access-date=September 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Gerry Parsky]] (1996–2008)<ref>{{cite web|last=Kalem |first=Stefanie |url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/parskys-party/Content?oid=1083283 |title=Parsky's Party |date=May 9, 2007 |publisher=EasbBayexpress.com |access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref>
* [[John Moores (baseball)|John J. Moores]] (1999–2007)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-California-Regent/39944 |title=U. of California Regent Resigns Abruptly – Graduate Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education |publisher=Chronicle.com |date=November 13, 2007 |access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref>
* [[David S. Lee (business)|David S. Lee]] (1994–2006)
* [[Ward Connerly]] (1993–2005)
* [[Dolores Huerta]] (2003–2004)
* [[Howard H. Leach]] (1990–2001)
* [[Stephen Nakashima]] (1989-2001)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mecartea |first1=Shauna |title=Regent Stephen Nakashima leaves board after 11 years |url=https://dailybruin.com/2001/04/15/regent-stephen-nakashima-leave |access-date=28 September 2022 |work=Daily Bruin |issue=April 15, 2001}}</ref>
* [[Clair Burgener]] (1988–1997)
* [[John F. Henning]] (1989–1997)
* [[Tirso del Junco]] (1985–1997)<ref>{{cite news|author=Greg Lucas |url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/UC-Regent-Rejected-By-State-Senate-Democrats-2829495.php |title=UC Regent Rejected By State Senate / Democrats say del Junco too partisan |publisher=SFGate.com |date=August 29, 1997 |access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Willis Harman]] (1980–1990)
* [[William French Smith]] (1968–1990)
* [[Sheldon Andelson]] (1982–1987)
* [[Janice Eberly]] (1985–1986)
* [[Gregory Bateson]] (1976–1980)
* [[William Coblentz (attorney)|William Coblentz]] (1964–1980)
* [[Yvonne Brathwaite Burke|Yvonne Burke]] (1979)
* [[Fred Dutton]] (1962–1978)
* [[William M. Roth]] (1961–1977)
* [[Elinor Raas Heller]] (1961–1976)
* [[Norton Simon]] (1960–1976)
* [[Edwin W. Pauley]] (1940–1972)
* [[Dorothy Buffum Chandler]] (1954–1968)
* [[H. R. Haldeman]] (President, AAUC, 1965–1967; 1968)<ref name="Days">{{cite web|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/regents.html#student|title=The Regents of the University of California Through the Years |date=1997 |work=Days of Cal|publisher=The Bancroft Library|access-date=September 5, 2009}}</ref>
* [[William E. Forbes]] (1960–1961, 1962)
* [[Thomas M. Storke]] (1955–1960)
* [[Chester W. Nimitz]] (1948–1956)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/overview/regents/biographies_n.html#nimitz_c|title=University of California History Digital Archives: Regents' Biographies – N|website=www.lib.berkeley.edu|language=en|others=John Douglass, Sally Thomas|access-date=November 8, 2017}}</ref>
* [[John Francis Neylan]] (1928–1955)
* [[Stanley Mosk]] (1940–1941)
* [[Paul Peek (politician)|Paul Peek]] (1939–1940)
* [[William H. Crocker]] (1908–1937)
* [[William John Cooper]] (1927–1929)
* [[Phoebe Hearst]] (1897–1919)
* [[Stanley Sheinbaum]] (1977–1989)
* [[Charles Stetson Wheeler]] (1892–1896, 1902–1907, 1911–1923)
* [[Leland Stanford]] (1882–1883)
* [[Timothy Guy Phelps]] (1880–1899)
* [[Benjamin B. Redding]] (1880–1882)
* [[Samuel Merritt]] (1868-1874) [founding Regents appointed by Gov. Haight]<ref name="Gov Haight appts">{{cite web |title=State Agricultural College [University of California] |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDI18680522.2.5&srpos=6&e=------186-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-merritt+regents-------1 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu |publisher=Stockton Independent, Volume XIV, Number 96, 22 May 1868 |access-date=10 October 2022 |quote=Governor Haight yesterday, by virtue of the same Act, appointed the following persons Regents in addition to those above named [ex-officio]: S. R. McKee, Judge of the Third District; Lawrence Archer, Judge of Santa Clara county; Rev. Horatio Stebbins, John T. Doyle, John W. Dwinelle and Richard P. Hammond of San Francisco county; Dr. Samuel Merritt of Oakland; William Watt of Grass Valley.}}</ref>
===Past Honorary Regents=== <!-- Honorary Regents were full board members. The title "Honorary Regent" simply means that they fell under a special category of members who were elected to the board by the board members themselves. -->
In its early years, UC had thirteen Honorary Regents, with eight elected in 1868.<ref name=Days/><ref>{{cite web |title=ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18680610.2.4&srpos=61&e=-------en--20--61-byDA-txt-txIN-organization+regents-ARTICLE------1 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu |publisher=Daily Alta California, Volume 20, Number 6661, 10 June 1868}}</ref> "Honorary Regents" were full board members, with the word "Honorary" simply denoting their manner of selection (that is, they were ''elected'' to serve on the board by the other board members, instead of being appointed by the governor). Some were then appointed to another term, following their term as Honorary Regent, by the governor. One (Tompkins) was re-elected.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/overview/regents/index.html |title=University of California History Digital Archives |publisher=Sunsite.berkeley.edu |access-date=June 6, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Low]] (1868), 9th Governor of California from 1863 to 1867; considered the "father of the University of California"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_9.html|title=Frederick Low|last=Schaechtele|first=Molly Shoemaker|work=The Governors of California and their Portraits (excerpt)|publisher=California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association|access-date=September 6, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917142809/http://www.californiagovernors.ca.gov/h/biography/governor_9.html|archive-date=September 17, 2009}}</ref>
* Andrew J. Moulder (1868), State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 1862–1863; a founder of [[George W. Minns|Minns’ Evening Normal School]] in San Francisco in 1857 and of the first [[California State Normal School]] in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], approved by the legislature in 1862<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgenealogy.com/santaclara/schools/sns89000.htm|title=California State Normal School History, 1862–1889|date=1889 |work=Historical Sketch of the State Normal School at San Jose, California |publisher=State Printing Office|access-date=January 24, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Edward Tompkins (regent)|Edward Tompkins]] (1868–1872)
* [[Samuel F. Butterworth]] (1868–1873)
* Joseph M. Moss (1868–1874)
* John B. Felton (1868–1877)
* [[Isaac Friedlander]] (1868–1869)
* Augustus J. Bowie (1868–1880)
* [[William Chapman Ralston]] (1868:after Low resigned–1875), founder of the [[Bank of California]]
* [[John S. Hager]] (1868:after Moulder resigned–1890), California state senator and district judge; United States senator from California (1873–1875)
* Louis Sachs (1869–1875)
* [[Henry H. Haight]] (1872), 10th governor of California; signed the Charter of the University of California on March 23, 1868
* [[Andrew Smith Hallidie]] (1873), "regarded as the inventor of the cable car and father of the present day San Francisco cable car system"; President of the [[San Francisco Mechanics' Institute]] 1868–1877 and 1893–1895
==Notable legal cases==
* ''[[Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California]]''
* ''[[Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California]]''
* ''[[Moore v. Regents of the University of California]]''
* ''[[Regents of the University of California v. Bakke]]''
* ''[[Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California]]''
* ''[[USL v. BSDi]]''
==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website}}
* Former Regents are listed chronologically at [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHistory/regents.html UC Berkeley's history site]
* [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/uchistory/general_history/overview/regents/biographies_a.html Regents of the University of California—Biographies], UC History Digital Archives (UC Regents from 1868 to 2003).
* Trombley, William. 1974. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160311151825/http://studentunitymovement.org/uc_regents-an_elite_club_that_runs_a_vast_university.pdf UC Regents: An Elite Club That Runs a Vast University]. ''Los Angeles Times'' (Sunday, June 23, 1974), pages II-1, II-7, II-8.
* [http://www.UCDemocracy.org UC Democracy Project]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090629080155/http://www.caldisorientation.org/MeetTheRegents 2008 Meet the Regents article]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928151218/http://sbdisorientation.org/whoaretheregents.htm The UCSB Disorientation Guide's article on the UC Regents]
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