UH LAW CENTER STUDENT JOINS BOARD OF REGENTS

John Fields, a third-year UH Law Center student, will represent the nearly 74,000 students of the University of Houston System as the recently appointed student regent of the UHS Board of Regents. Gov. Greg Abbott appointed the native Houstonian to serve a one-year term, which began June 1 and runs through May 31, 2020.

The UH System is truly a family affair for Fields, who is one of seven siblings. His sisters, wife and in-laws are all graduates of UHS universities. Fields just completed his sixth year at UH.

“I have a really good working knowledge of the University and how it operates both from a student perspective and from working for UH in the General Counsel’s office,” Fields said. “I’d like to think I work really well with people. So, an opportunity to spend a year working with the people across the System and bringing ideas together is something I will really enjoy doing.”

Fields is student president of the Federalist Society at UH and a member of the UHLC’s Mock Trial Team. In 2017, he earned a bachelor of business administration in accounting and management from the C.T. Bauer College of Business and the Honors College. During his time as an undergraduate, Fields spent a semester as an intern at the United States Supreme Court through the Bauer in D.C. Fellowship program. That experience solidified his passion for law.

— Sara Tubbs