Roy Shults ’70

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A familiar name to many, Roy Shults has achieved a stellar record of achievement outside of UCLA. As the co-chair of the litigation department at Mitchell, Silberburg and Knupp, Shults has been senior member of the litigation team representing the Record Industry Association of America’s copyright infringement case against Napster.

A Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he received a law degree from Harvard, where he was a member of the moot court board. Shults was the founding president of the UCLA History Bruins and chair of the UCLA Alumni Association’s Committee for Campaign UCLA.

If it is true that when you need something done, you ask the busiest person you can find, then ask Shults, who served as president of the UCLA Alumni Association while simultaneously serving as a regent of the University of California and maintaining his law practice. Shults’ eloquent presentations before high school scholars have been responsible for many of California’s bet and brightest choosing to attend UCLA over the many other nationally ranked universities for which they were recruited.

You can find this distinguished member of the bar and former regent attired at UCLA football games in blue and gold socks, Bruin shorts, a UCLA shirt, and pom-poms – and rumor has it that he has painted his face blue and gold for games against another local university.