In a section of 68 students, only two did not pass during their first time sitting for the bar exam. For the first time in McGeorge’s history, the evening section outperformed the day section.
The bar exam pass rates for the Class of 1993 speak for themselves. “When you have someone like her as the highest ranked student in your class, everyone else feels embarrassed about not helping others.” “Even in a competitive environment like law school, Beth was always willing to help her classmates,” Schmitz said. Schmitz says that as the top student, O’Neill set the tone for the rest of the evening section.
“Everyone respected her tremendously and wanted to hear what she was going to say as the answer to the question.” When she did raise her hand, you just knew the right answer was going to come out,” Schmitz recalls. “Beth was always prepared for class, but she would not necessarily raise her hand - although, she probably could have answered every single question. She earned the top grade in nearly all her classes, competed on the international moot court team, and was a research assistant for both Levine and Davies.įormer classmate, coworker, and longtime friend Anne Schmitz, ‘93, remembers the way O’Neill’s intellect shone in the classroom. While working weekends at the Nevada City Children’s Home, O’Neill excelled in law school. O’Neill attended McGeorge School of Law from 1989 to 1991, and transferred after her second year of law school.
She was not a show-off she was just so smart.” Like Beth, many of her class members were larger than life. “Everyone had a different background, and though they did not all share the same worldview, they got along incredibly well. “We had so much fun with this extraordinary class,” Levine recalls. The Class of 1993 at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law was taught by a group of young, untenured professors who became legendary faculty, including Professor Emerita Julie Davies and Professor Levine, who now serves as the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He fondly recalls that Elizabeth “Beth” O’Neill was one of the brightest among them. In 1989, Professor Larry Levine remembers teaching a remarkably bright class of first-year evening students.
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