About Jason
Jason Dominguez has built a career that moves easily between classrooms, city halls and international institutions. He studied psychology at Stanford, receiving an A.B. in 1986. He then turned to law, earning a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1995. Later he completed an LL.M. at Heidelberg University, where he concentrated on German and European Union environmental law.
His early work included an instructional post at Charles University in Prague in 1990, a role that preceded his formal entry into U.S. legal practice. By 2000 he was engaged in a series of public-interest and government legal positions. Records list work for the United Nations, California Rural Legal Assistance, the Legal Aid Foundation, Santa Barbara County Counsel and the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. Those roles ranged from direct client representation to advisory work for public agencies.
Dominguez has moved between practice and teaching throughout his career. He served as an assistant professor of law at Texas Southern University in 2006. In 2017 he joined the faculty of The Santa Barbara & Ventura Colleges of Law as a professor, and that same year he took on the executive director post at New Civic Forum. His civic profile also includes a stint as a city councilmember in Santa Barbara in 2015, where he participated in local governance and municipal decision making.
In 2020 he joined Radcliff Mayes LLP as a lawyer. That position followed decades of mixed public-sector, nonprofit and academic work. Colleagues describe his background as broad: courtroom and prosecutorial experience, county counsel practice, international agency work and law school teaching. He has handled matters that touch on environmental regulation, public law and access-to-justice issues, drawing on both his LL.M. study and hands-on government practice.
Dominguez combines classroom habits—research, writing, explaining complex rules—with the day-to-day demands of client work and public service. He has taught, administered and served in elected office, then returned to private practice. He currently practices at Radcliff Mayes LLP, handling matters that draw on his environmental law training and public-sector experience.
