It is with a heavy heart that the SFPA announces to it's members that Pat Medina passed away on Friday, March 9, 2018. Pat Medina was the program director of the Paralegal Studies Program at San Francisco State Extended Learning, and widely considered to be the "mother" of the program. A former paralegal and educator extraordinaire, Pat Medina has a long list of accomplishments from the recipient of the President's Award in 1992, and honored in 2003 by the American Associates of Paralegal Educators as Teacher of the Year.

The SFPA expresses their deepest condolences to the Medina family, the Paralegal Community, and San Francisco State University of this tragic loss.