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This list of notable people associated with Claremont McKenna College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.

Notable alumni

Politics

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
David Dreier Class of 1975 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California and Chairman of the House Rules Committee; Republican B.A.
Steve Bullock Class of 1988 Governor of Montana (2013–present); Attorney General of Montana (2009–2013); Democrat B.A.
Muhammad Al-Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah Class of 1978 Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait B.A.
Ken Cheuvront Class of 1983 Member, Arizona State Senate; Democrat B.A.
Patrick J. Conroy Class of 1972 60th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives B.A.
Chuck DeVore Class of 1985 member, California State Assembly, candidate for U.S. Senate; Republican B.A.
Johnny Ellis Class of 1982 Minority Leader, Alaska State Senate; Democrat B.A.
Sean Elsbernd Class of 1997 Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Democrat B.A.
Rob Hurtt Class of 1966 California State Senate Republican Leader, 1995–1998 B.A.
Adam Kokesh Class of 2006 political activist, talk radio host B.A.
Tom Leppert Class of 1977 Former Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan, Inc. Mayor of Dallas, Texas (2007-2011) B.A.
Tyler Olson Class of 1998 house member for the 38th district of Iowa B.A. [1]
Surin Pitsuwan Class of 1972 Secretary-General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, former Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs B.A.
Simon Salinas Class of 1978 Monterey County Supervisor, former member of the California State Assembly B.A.
Thomas B. Hofeller Political consultant B.A. [2]

Nonprofit

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
Hugh Gallagher disability advocate, drafted the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 B.A.

Business

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
Michael S. Jeffries Class of 1966 Chairman and CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Co. B.A.
Tom Leppert Class of 1977 Former Chief Executive Officer of Kaplan, Inc. Mayor of Dallas, Texas (2007-2011) B.A.
Douglas Peterson Class of 1980 S&P Global President and CEO B.A. [3]
Peter Weinberg Class of 1979 former CEO of Goldman Sachs from 1999 to 2005 and founder of Perella Weinberg Partners B.A.
Michael Arrington Class of 1992 Internet entrepreneur, Founder of Techcrunch, Co-founder of CrunchFund B.A.
Sloane Citron Class of 1978 magazine publisher B.A.
Julie Sweet Chief Executive Officer of Accenture B.A.
Alexander Crutchfield Class of 1980 financier, real estate investor, Senior Managing Director of Oasis Partners B.A.
Robert Addison Day former chairman and chief executive officer of Trust Company of the West; chairman and President of the W. M. Keck Foundation B.A.
Michael Larson Class of 1980 Chief Investment Officer of Cascade Investment, the investment vehicle for The Gates Foundation and the Gates' personal wealth. B.A.
Patrick Lencioni Class of 1987 best-selling management book author, corporate speaker B.A.
Ihab "Joe" Massoud Class of 1989 private investor, Managing Director of Anholt USA, founder and former CEO of Compass Diversified Holdings B.A.
Ashwin Navin Class of 1999 President and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc., founder of The Claremont Independent B.A.
Augie Nieto Class of 1980 founder of Life Fitness and Augie's Quest B.A.
Thomas Pritzker Class of 1972 Executive Chairman, Hyatt Corporation B.A. [4]
George R. Roberts Class of 1966 founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. B.A.
Peter Thum Class of 1990 founder of Ethos Water, and social entrepreneur B.A.

Academia

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
Orley Ashenfelter Class of 1964 Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University; former editor of the American Economic Review B.A.
Tibor R. Machan Class of 1965 former editor of Reason magazine, Stanford Hoover Institution fellow and professor at Chapman University B.A.
Vincent Phillip Muñoz Class of 1993 Tocqueville Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame B.A. [5]
Jack L. Stark Class of 1957 former CMC president B.A.
Francisco Vázquez Class of 1972 Professor and director of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University B.A.
Harriet Nembhard Class of 1988 President of Harvey Mudd College, 2023-

Entertainment

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
Paul Brickman Class of 1971 screenwriter, producer, and filmmaker; directed and wrote the screenplay for Risky Business B.A. [6]
Mason Gordon Class of 1997 inventor of SlamBall B.A. [7]
John King Class of 1986 half of the music-producing duo The Dust Brothers B.A.
Douglas Day Stewart Class of 1962 screenwriter of An Officer and a Gentleman B.A. [8]
Dean Taylor Class of 1972 Vice President of Baseball Operations, Assistant General Manager of the Kansas City Royals B.A. [9]
Claire Thomas Class of 2007 food blogger and presenter of Food for Thought on Food Network B.A.

Military

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
William W. Crouch Class of 1963 retired United States Army four-star general; former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army B.A.
Ron Ridenhour Class of 1972 My Lai massacre whistleblower, Vietnam War whistleblower B.A.

Writing and journalism

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
Gregg Jarrett Class of 1977 anchor, Fox News Channel B.A.
Michael D. Shear Class of 1990 White House Correspondent, New York Times B.A. [10]
David Enrich Class of 2001 reporter, Wall Street Journal B.A. [11]

Dropouts and transfers

Name Class Year Notability Degree Reference
Robin Williams actor and comedian N/A [12]
Michael Feuer N/A Los Angeles City Attorney, former California Assemblyman and L.A. City Councilman (transferred to Harvard, where he got his BA and JD) N/A
Blake Gottesman N/A personal aide to President George W. Bush N/A
Wes Parker N/A baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers N/A

Notable faculty

  • Roderic Ai Camp- McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim; author of 34 books on Mexico and Latin America; founding member of the Advisory Board, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2003-present; elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; Global Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2017-;recipient of the Medal of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed to a foreigner for his contributions to Mexico.”
  • William Ascher - Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics; served as Dean of the Faculty from 2000 to 2005; prolific author and winner of the G. David Huntoon, Sr., Award for Superior Teaching
  • Fred Balitzer - professor of government. He was director of the Republican National Committee under President Ronald Reagan, chairman of Scholars for Reagan-Bush in 1984, and special emissary to the Sultan of Brunei. He helped bring about diplomatic relations with China and Israel and played a leading role in preventing efforts to make the District of Columbia a state.
  • Ross Eckert - professor of economics who dedicated his life to cleaning up the blood supply. The matter affected him personally as he was a hemophiliac who contracted HIV/AIDS from a bad transfusion. Eckert worked with Elliott on market-incentives to reduce congestion. He also worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation. (deceased)
  • Ward Elliott - researched market solutions to Los Angeles smog problem. Elliott drafted the economic-incentives of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Thanks to his efforts, the number of first-stage smog-alerts days declined from one day in three in the 1960s to only one day in 1997.
  • Diane Halpern - former president of the American Psychological Association
  • Eric Helland — Professor of Economics, Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2003–2004)
  • Alan Heslop – Government consultant, founding director of the Rose Institute, felon, and former dean of faculty [13] [14]
  • Harry V. Jaffa - professor of political philosophy, scholar of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Aristotelian virtue, and the American founding. The National Review once had a cover story that described Jaffa as "the foremost contemporary interpreter of the American political tradition."
  • Charles Kesler - editor of the Claremont Review of Books and noted conservative scholar
  • Jamaica Kincaid - novelist
  • Morcos Massoud - professor of Accounting at Claremont McKenna College since 1981. Publisher of numerous articles. Awarded CMC Presidential Award for Merit. 13 time recipient of the Glenn R. Huntoon Award for Superior Teaching. Recipient of CMC Alumni Association Jack Stark Distinguished Service Award. Recipient of John Faranda Student Service Award.
  • Kenneth P. Miller - professor of Government specializing in California politics, direct democracy, and state constitutional law. Miller is the Associate Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, a research institute known for its expertise in redistricting, elections, demographic research, and public policy analysis.
  • Jonathan Petropoulos - historian and scholar of Holocaust-era looted art [15]
  • Mort Sahl - speech writer for President John F. Kennedy; famed comedian
  • Michael Uhlmann - former Assistant Attorney General to President Gerald Ford; special assistant to President Ronald Reagan; reportedly convinced Justice Clarence Thomas to join the federal judiciary

References

  1. ^ "Tyler Olson Biography". Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2010.
  2. ^ Wines, Michael (2018-08-21). "Thomas Hofeller, Republican Master of Political Maps, Dies at 75". The New York Times. ISSN  0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  3. ^ "Investor Relations Overview - S&P Global".
  4. ^ "#559 Thomas Pritzker - The World's Billionaires 2009". Forbes.com. 2009-03-11.
  5. ^ "Vincent Phillip Muñoz". Department of Political Science. University of Notre Dame. Retrieved March 29, 2017.
  6. ^ Sandra Brennan (2012). "Movies: Biography forPaul Brickman". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.
  7. ^ "The latest cultural evolution of SlamBall". Insidesocal.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  8. ^ "Claremont McKenna College - Academic Experience, Past Performance, Policies, Academic Calendar Apply4Admissions.com". Apply4admissions.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  9. ^ "Kansas City Royals: Front Office". Kansascity.royals.mlb.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  10. ^ "Michael D. Shear - The New York Times". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  11. ^ "Charlie Rose - charlierose.com". Charlierose.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015.
  12. ^ The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians, edited by Stephen Randall, 2007, p.342
  13. ^ Nelson, Joe (30 June 2014). "Rose Institute founder sentenced in bribery, kickback case". San Bernardino Sun. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  14. ^ Gruszecki, Debra (11 July 2014). "Former professor sentenced to 21 months for scheme to siphon Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians funds". Press Enterprise. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  15. ^ Boehm, Mike (2008-04-15). "Prof ensnared in case of Pissarro looted by Nazis". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
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