COVER STORY
Bryan Hawkins
SCBA President for 2022 By Judge Sean P. Dabel
Hon. Sean P. Dabel, Judge, Superior Court of San Mateo County, assigned to the Criminal and Appellate Divisions.
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am happy to write an introduction for Bryan Hawkins, your incoming President of the SCBA for 2022 - someone I have been proud to call a classmate, roommate and longtime friend. Bryan grew up in Dallas, Texas and remembers developing a love of reading at a young age, with a particular fondness for comic books and Stephen King novels. His mother, a public school teacher, and his father, an electrician, instilled in Bryan a deep respect for education, service, and hard work and supported his love of reading. He attended Jesuit College Preparatory School from 1994 until 1998. It was at this point that Bryan developed a new passion – B rate horror movies. After knowing Bryan for twenty years and being dragged to countless terrible horror movies, I can personally attest to the long-standing nature of this passion. Bryan’s grades at Jesuit led one of his teachers to recommend that he take a look at Santa Clara
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