As a water treatment engineer, Robert Emerick ’92, M.S. ’93, Ph.D ’99, may seem like an unlikely owner of two chic restaurants and the vintage Crest Theatre on K Street in Sacramento.

Craig Stowers, J.D. ’85, began his three-year term as chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court—an achievement he said would have shocked his younger self—last summer.

Sara Margulis ’97 reached a major milestone with her business, Honeyfund, this year: its 10th anniversary.