Janice L. Pearson
Dean
Professor of Law
Education
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Prior to her 1985 appointment as Dean of San Joaquin College of Law, Dean Pearson served as Staff Attorney, Managing Attorney and Interim Director of Fresno-Merced Counties Legal Services, Inc. (1976-1984). Dean Pearson taught Torts for many years. During her tenure as dean, she was a finalist in the YWCA/Fresno Bee Outstanding Business/Professional Woman of the Year Competition (1990) and received the Fresno Women Lawyers’ Justice Pauline Hanson Award (1992) and the Fresno County Bar Association Liberty Bell Award (1993). She also was awarded the Soroptimist Women Helping Women Award (2001).
Scholarship
- FORECLOSURE LAW MANUAL (Co Author).