People

Katie Hockerson

Katie Hockerson joined UC Davis as a Labor Relations Consultant in Employee and Labor Relations in February 2018. She administers the grievance and complaint process, provides interpretation on contract and policy issues, and represents UC Davis during collective bargaining as well as administrative and arbitration hearings.

Devin Horton

Devin L. Horton is the Graduate Diversity Officer for STEM disciplines at UC Davis. With nearly 10 years of experience in teaching and program development, Dr. Horton has a strong background in mentoring and student success.

Lyndon Huling, Ed.D., SHRM-SCP

Lyndon Huling is the Manager for Leadership Recruitment & Diversity Services. He has a Doctoral Degree in Educational Leadership from UC Davis and completed his undergraduate education at UC Davis as well. In each of Dr. Huling’s roles, he has worked to advocate for the needs of diverse students, staff, and faculty. Most recently, he served as Chair of the African American Faculty and Staff Association at UC Davis Health. Additionally, he is a member of the Staff Diversity Administrative Advisory Committee, the Staff Advisory Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, and the Staff Assembly. He is passionate about doing his part to make UC Davis a welcoming and inclusive community to everyone and giving back to his alma mater.

Russell Johnigan

  • Employee Relations Consultant
Russell has a background in federal aviation security with the Department of Homeland Security. He holds an undergraduate degree in Business from Sacramento State University as well as a Law Degree.

Gayle D. Johnson

  • Employee and Labor Relations Consultant
Gayle joined the UCDH ELR Team in March 2022. She has a Bachelor of Science in Sociology, Human Resources management curriculum from the Graduate School USA (formally USDA Grad School), and many other HR-related certificates obtained throughout her HR Career.

Philip Kass

Philip Kass, Vice Provost, Academic Affairs, was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in the San Fernando Valley. Philip attended UC Davis as an undergraduate in 1976, and remained to obtain five degrees, including Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (1983), Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (1984), M.S. in Statistics (1988), and Ph.D. in Comparative Pathology (Epidemiology) (1990). Following completion of a post-doctoral fellowship in environmental epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health in 1990, he joined the UC Davis faculty and currently hold appointments as a Professor of Analytic Epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine. His research has centered around companion animal epidemiology, where he studies determinants of health and disease using statistical models, and has co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed scientific articles and several book chapters. His research seemingly covers almost every aspect of companion animal health, ranging from studying factors affecting relinquishment to and adoption from animal shelters, to developing statistical approaches to conducting syndromic surveillance using electronic medical records from networked animal hospitals, to conducting epidemiologic research into causes of injection-site sarcomas in cats.