SAN FRANCISCO — UC Berkeley chief campus counsel Christopher Patti died Sunday in a hit-and-run accident while bicycling in Sonoma County.

In a post on UC Berkeley's news website, Chancellor Carol Christ spoke highly of Patti.

“I speak for the Berkeley community in saying how grief-stricken we are at Chris Patti's untimely death. He was an extraordinary colleague,” Christ said in a statement. “He loved the university and he had a deep core of integrity that motivated everything he did.”