Bill Mantle '74, a True King Hall Booster
![Photo of Bill Mantle '74, Karina Lee '24 and Dean Kevin R. Johnson.](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk10866/files/media/images/Bill-Karina-2022.jpg)
One of UC Davis’ biggest fans, Bill Mantle ’74 roots for Aggie sports teams and King Hall students with equal enthusiasm.
To help ensure equal access to a UC Davis legal education, Mantle recently established the Mantle Family Scholarship. In 2021-22, he gave an extraordinary $900,000 to UC Davis Law, including $100,000 to further fund the scholarship. Mantle’s gift helped lift the law school’s 2021-22 fundraising total to an impressive $2.63 million.
Karina Lee ’24 said receiving the Mantle Family Scholarship was “the ultimate deciding factor” in bringing her to King Hall.
“I wanted to attend a law school like UC Davis where I would be taught by amazing professors in a supportive, collaborative environment,” Lee said. “I am extremely grateful that the scholarship created the opportunity for me to join the King Hall community.”
Mantle gave $800,000 toward a planned gift that now stands at $3.8 million. It will support students’ hands-on learning experiences in UC Davis Law’s world-renowned clinics and elsewhere.
Explaining his extraordinary generosity toward his alma mater, Mantle said simply, “I am King Hall proud because we have such smart and committed students.”