1998 Pai
Milken Scholar 1998
Scholar Profile

Frances Ippolito

Law

Biography

Frances graduated from Harvard with a concentration in Chemistry. After a brief stint as a high school chemistry teacher, she went on to UC Davis Law and worked in San Francisco as an intellectual property attorney. Since 2013, Frances has served as an administrative patent judge at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.


High school:  Venice High School

Degrees

College Year Degree
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
2002 A.B. Chemistry
University of California - Davis
Davis, CA
2007 J.D. Law

News and Highlights

Frances Ippolito (MS '98)

Channeling the Power of the Pen: Frances Lu Pai Ippolito, MS ’98, lawyer, judge, writer, and most recently publisher, who seeks to shed a light on marginalized communities, released her first book, “A Tree of My Own.” A children’s picture book, sold out just minutes after its release, features the Karen refugee experience displaced by war in the Myanmar region. All the profits will go back into scholarships and educational projects for the Karen community, including those who still reside in refugee camps.