in those cases, and advocate in all appropriate forums for the release of the project's clients. Founded in 1999, the California Innocence Project reviews more than 2,000 claims of innocence from California inmates each year. The project was founded by Professors Justin Brooks and Jan Stiglitz and is currently directed by Prof. Brooks. William J. McGill Center for Creative Problem Solving Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy National Center for Preventive Law Faculty The law school has 25 tenured faculty members, three faculty members on the tenure track and six legal skills professors. From 2010 to 2014, 28 tenured and tenure-track faculty members published 18 books, 15 book chapters, 55 law review articles and 75 other scholarly publications. Tenure-track or tenured faculty who were members of the faculty in the last seven years wrote 70 additional publications. The law school created six endowed professorships to support faculty members in their research and scholarship. California Western has also been named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the past five years. Student debt According to U.S. News & World Report, the average indebtedness of 2016 graduates who incurred law school debt was $143,592 (not including undergraduate debt), and 88% of 2016 graduates took on debt. Notable people Alumni Anthony J. Battaglia, U.S. district court judge for the Southern District of California Scott C. Black, former judge advocate general of the United States Army Bruce Blakeman, Nassau County (New York) county executive and commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Shana Dale, former deputy administrator of NASA David Francis, former member of the United States cycling team James B. Gibson, former mayor of Henderson, Nevada M. James Lorenz, U.S. district court judge for the Southern District of California Bruce E. MacDonald, former U.S. Navy vice admiral and judge advocate general of the Navy Brian Maienschein, member of the California state assembly Afa Ripley Jr., attorney general of American Samoa Margaret Catharine Rodgers, United States federal judge David Roger, district attorney of Clark County, Nevada Kevin Sandkuhler, retired brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps Michael Tsai, former minister of national defense, Taiwan Christina Bobb, OANN broadcaster, touted falsehoods about the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump, then apparently lied about whether Donald Trump had turned over all classified materials at Mar-A-Lago, potentially putting herself at risk of prosecution for obstruction of justice. Faculty Justin