The student regent is a position on the University of California Board of Regents created by a 1974 California ballot proposition to represent University of California (UC) students on the university system's governing board. Student regents serve an approximately one-year term as 'student regent-designate', followed by a one-year term as a full voting member of the Regents. The 2022–2023 student regent is Marlenee Blas Pedrail, a UC Berkeley law student, and the student regent-designate is Merhawi Tesfai, a UCLA graduate student.