History of McAuliffe Honor Society

The McAuliffe Honor Society was named after Florence M. McAuliffe, who received a bachelor of arts in liberal arts from USF in 1905, and was a founding partner of the San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman White and McAuliffe LLP. One of Florence McAuliffe’s major contributions at Heller Ehrman included, in 1929, negotiating the financing for the construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.

The Society has been in existence for many years, and many USF School of Law alumni have enjoyed this special recognition. However, the Society was reinvigorated in 2012 to include additional programming and benefits to students.