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Below is a list of notable associated people of
Washington and Lee University in
Lexington, Virginia , United States. The year after each name designates the graduation year, if the person is an alumnus.
Law and politics
Robert H. Adams 1806 -
United States Senator from Mississippi
[1]
Samuel B. Avis , Law -
United States Congressman from
West Virginia , 1913-1915
Ronald J. Bacigal , Law 1967 - professor of law,
University of Richmond School of Law
[2]
Robert D. Bailey Jr. , Law -
West Virginia Secretary of State , 1965-1969
Meredith Attwell Baker , 1990 - former
Federal Communications Commission Commissioner; President of
CTIA – The Wireless Association
Newton D. Baker , Law 1894 -
Secretary of War under President
Woodrow Wilson ,
Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio ,
[3] and named partner at
BakerHostetler
Matt Bevin , 1989 - 62nd
Governor of Kentucky
Bill Brock 1953 - 2021 former U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1971–77), chairman of the National Republican Party (1977–81); U.S. Trade Representative (1981–85); Secretary of Labor (1985–87)
Franklin Brockson , Law - United States Congressman from
Delaware , 1913-1915
William T. Brotherton Jr. , Law - Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of West Virginia , 1989-1994
Clarence J. Brown , Law 1915 - President of
Brown Publishing Company and US Congressman from Ohio, 1939-1965
Nathan P. Bryan , Law 1895 - U.S. Senator from the State of Florida, Judge on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
[4]
William James Bryan , Law 1899 - U.S. Senator from Florida
[5]
Archibald C. Buchanan , Law 1914 - Justice on the
Supreme Court of Virginia
Bruce L. Castor Jr. , Law 1986 - district attorney,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (2000–2008); Commissioner, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (2008-2016); Attorney General (interim) and first Solicitor General of Pennsylvania 2106; president, Pennsylvania District Attorneys' Association
[6]
Lewis Preston Collins II , Law - Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
[7]
Christian Compton 1950, Law 1953 - Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, 1974-2006[
citation needed ]
Edward Cooper , Law 1892 - U.S. Congressman from West Virginia, 1915-1919
William Fadjo Cravens , Law - U.S. Congressman from Arkansas
T. Kenneth Cribb Jr. 1970 - former Reagan aide and former president of the
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
John J. Crittenden 1805 -
Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives ; U.S. Senator, Governor of Kentucky,
U.S. Attorney General under Presidents
William Henry Harrison and
Millard Fillmore ; proposed the
Crittenden Compromise to keep the Union intact
George William Crump 1804 - member of the
United States House of Representatives ; first recorded
streaker in American history
John J. Davis , Law 1856 -
United States Representative from West Virginia
[8]
John W. Davis 1895, Law 1892 - 1924
Democratic nominee for
United States President ; Ambassador to
Britain ;
Solicitor General ; argued more cases before the Supreme Court than anyone else in the twentieth century;
American Bar Association President; first President of the
Council on Foreign Relations ; named partner at
Davis Polk & Wardwell
[9]
Mark Steven Davis , Law 1988 - United States District Court Judge for the
Eastern District of Virginia
[10]
Rita Davis , B.A., English, 1993 - Counsel to the Honorable Governor Ralph S. Northam, Governor of Virginia
John W. Eggleston , Law 1910 - Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court, 1958-1969
Gay Elmore , Law - two-time
Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Sarah Feinberg (1999), interim president of the
New York City Transit Authority , and former administrator of the
Federal Railroad Administration
John P. Fishwick Jr. , Law - United States Attorney for the
United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
[11]
Henry S. Foote , 1919 - 19th governor of Mississippi
[12]
Vance A. Funk, III , Law 1968 -
Mayor of
Newark, Delaware
Maciej Golubiewski (born 1976) - Polish political scientist and Consul General at the
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York City
John Goode , Law - 3rd
Solicitor General of the United States ; United States Congressman from Virginia
[13]
John W. Goode - attended undergraduate school 1939-1942 but transferred to the
University of Texas at Austin - attorney and Republican political figure in his native
San Antonio ,
Texas
[14]
Bob Goodlatte , Law 1977 - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
[15]
R. Booth Goodwin , Law 1996 -
United States Attorney for the
Southern District of West Virginia
Herbert B. Gregory , Law 1911 - Justice on the Virginia Supreme Court, 1930-1951
Robert J. Grey Jr. , Law 1976 - American Bar Association President 2004–2005[
citation needed ]
Morgan Griffith , Law 1983 - Congressman from Virginia
[16]
Duncan Lawrence Groner , Law 1894 - U.S. Attorney; Federal District Judge for
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ; Chief Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
[17]
Pike Hall Jr. , attended 1940s - judge in
Shreveport , Louisiana
[18]
Alexander Harman , Law - Justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia, 1969-1979
James Hay , Law 1877 - United States Representative from Virginia; Federal Judge on the
United States Court of Claims
[19]
George Washington Hays , Law -
Governor of Arkansas , 1913-1917
Homer A. Holt 1918, Law 1923 -
Governor of West Virginia , 1937-1941
[20]
Linwood Holton , 1944 -
Governor of Virginia , 1970-1974
James Murray Hooker , Law 1896 - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
J. Bennett Johnston Jr. 1953 - U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1972 to 1997; Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist
Jerrauld Jones , Law 1980 - Judge on the Norfolk Circuit Court
Walter Kelley , 1977, Law 1981 - former
federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia and current partner at
Hausfeld
[21]
James L. Kemper , Law 1842 - Governor of Virginia; Confederate General wounded during
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
[22]
Jackson L. Kiser , Law 1952 - Judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Ruby Laffoon , Law 1890 - Governor of Kentucky
[23]
Joseph Rucker Lamar , Law 1878 -
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of the
United States Supreme Court (1911–1916), Justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia (1903-1905)[
citation needed ]
Edwin Gray Lee , Law 1859 -
brigadier general in the
Confederate States of America
Harry Jacob Lemley , Law 1910 - federal judge on both the
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and the
United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
Scott Marion Loftin , Law 1899 - U.S. Senator from Florida; president of the American Bar Association
[24]
Mary Beth Long , Law 1998 - former
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs at the
United States Department of Defense and former attorney with
Williams & Connolly LLP [
citation needed ]
Daniel B. Lucas , Law - poet; justice on the Supreme Court of West Virginia, 1889-1892
J. Michael Luttig 1976 - Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Council and Counselor to the Attorney General; former
United States Circuit Court of Appeals judge; twice considered by President
George W. Bush for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court; current executive vice president and general counsel,
The Boeing Company
John Ashton MacKenzie , Law 1939 - federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
[25]
John Otho Marsh Jr. , Law 1951 -
Secretary of the Army , 1981–1989, United States Congressman
[26]
Robert Murphy Mayo , Law 1859 - United States Representative from Virginia
[27]
Hayes McClerkin 1953 - former
Speaker of the
Arkansas House of Representatives ;
Texarkana ,
Arkansas , attorney
Alexander McNutt - 12th Governor of Mississippi
[28]
Thomas Chipman McRae , Law - Governor of Arkansas, United States Representative
[29]
John Marks Moore -
Secretary of State of Texas , 1887–1891
[30]
Jackson Morton 1814 - U.S. Senator from Florida
Robert Mosbacher 1947 -
Secretary of Commerce , 1989-1992
Mark Obenshain , Law 1987 - member of the
Senate of Virginia ; Republican nominee for
Attorney General of Virginia in the
2013 Virginia election
Robert E. Payne , Law 1967 - Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
[31]
Mosby Perrow Jr. - Virginia Senator (1943–1964); key figure in Virginia's abandonment of "Massive Resistance" to desegregation
Archer Allen Phlegar - Virginia Supreme Court justice, Virginia State Senator
Miles Poindexter , Law 1891 - Senator from the State of Washington
[32]
Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. 1929, Law 1931 - Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1972–1987); president of the American Bar Association; named partner at
Hunton Williams Gay Powell & Gibson
[33]
William Ray Price Jr. , Law 1978 - longest-serving judge and former Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Missouri
[34]
Prescott Prince , Law 1983 - attorney defending
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [
citation needed ]
Lacey E. Putney , Law - longest-serving member of the
Virginia House of Delegates in the history of the
Virginia General Assembly [
citation needed ]
Heartsill Ragon , Law - U.S. Congressman from Arkansas; federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas
Robert W. Ray , Law 1985 - partner at
Pryor Cashman LLP in New York City and former head of the US
Office of the Independent Counsel (succeeded
Kenneth Starr )
[35]
Alfred E. Reames , Law 1893 - U.S. Senator from
Oregon
[36]
Pat Robertson 1950 - Christian
televangelist ; founder of several organizations, including
Christian Broadcasting Network , the
Christian Coalition , the
American Center for Law and Justice , and
Regent University ; host of
The 700 Club ; candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 1988
Daniel K. Sadler , Law - Justice on the
New Mexico Supreme Court
Jared Y. Sanders Jr. , attended 1912-1913 - member of the United States House of Representatives from
Louisiana's 6th congressional district
Tom Sansonetti , Law 1976 -
United States Assistant Attorney General for the
United States Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division
William H. Smathers - Senator from the State of New Jersey
[37]
Abram Penn Staples , Law 1908 - Attorney General of Virginia; justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia
Lawrence Vess Stephens , Law 1877 –
Governor of Missouri
Roscoe B. Stephenson Jr. 1943, Law 1947 - Justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia
Charles L. Terry Jr. - Governor of Delaware 1961–1965
[38]
Thomas Todd 1783 -
United States Supreme Court Justice nominated by
Thomas Jefferson
Paul S. Trible Jr. Law 1971 - former US Senator from Virginia, president of
Christopher Newport University
[39]
William M. Tuck , Law 1921 - Governor of Virginia
[40]
Henry St. George Tucker III , Law 1876 - U.S. Congressman from Virginia; president of the American Bar Association
[41]
James Clinton Turk , Law 1952 - federal judge and chief judge (1973 to 1993) on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
David Gardiner Tyler , Law 1869 - U.S. Representative, son of President
John Tyler , present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox
[42]
Sol Wachtler , Law - former
chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals (1985–1993)[
citation needed ]
John W. Warner Jr. 1949 - former secretary of the Navy and retired U.S. Senator from Virginia; for a time, a husband of Elizabeth Taylor
Junius Edgar West , Law - 22nd
Lieutenant Governor of Virginia
Kennon C. Whittle , Law 1914 - Justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia and president of the
Virginia Bar Association
H. Emory Widener Jr. , Law 1953 - Judge for the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
[43]
Seward H. Williams , Law 1895 - U.S. Congressman from Ohio
Joe Wilson 1969 - Congressman from South Carolina who shouted "You lie!" at President Obama during the 2010 State of the Union address
John Minor Wisdom 1925 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Christopher Wolf , Law 1980 - partner at
Hogan Lovells ; one of the leading American practitioners in the field of privacy and data security law[
citation needed ]
Harry M. Wurzbach , Law 1896 - U.S Congressman from Texas
Business
Drew Baur 1966 - businessman and owner of St. Louis Cardinals
Berry Boswell Brooks - cotton broker and big-game hunter
Christopher Chenery 1909 - industrialist and horse breeder of
Secretariat
Richard L. Duchossois - industrialist, investor, and director of
Churchill Downs
Kenn George 1970 - businessman/investor and former member of the
Texas House of Representatives
Rupert H. Johnson 1962 - vice chairman of
Franklin Resources ; donor of $100 million, the largest gift in Washington and Lee's history, mostly directed to honors scholarships
Julius Kruttschnitt 1873 -
Southern Pacific Railroad executive
H. F. Lenfest 1953 - philanthropist and CEO of Lenfest Group; gave the second largest donation in W&L's history, a $33 million challenge gift requiring a 1:1 match, on March 21, 2007 (As of December 31, 2009, over $20 million of the $33 million goal had been met
[44] )
Sydney Lewis 1940, Law 1943 - Virginia businessman; art collector; founder of
Best Products ; recipient with his wife, Frances, of 1987 National Medal of the Arts [
citation needed ]
Bill Miller 1972 - chairman and former chief investment officer of
Legg Mason Capital Management
Warren Stephens 1979 - American businessman; chairman, president, and CEO of
Stephens Inc.
Academia
David Lawrence Anderson - Founder and first President of
Soochow University ,
China
George A. Baxter - President of W&L and
Hampden-Sydney College
J. Bowyer Bell 1953 - historian, artist and art critic
John Chavis 1799 - educator and Presbyterian minister, among the first U.S. college graduates of color
George H. Denny - Professor of Latin and President at Washington and Lee University; President at the University of Alabama
Charles A. Graves , Law 1872 - professor at W&L Law and at the
University of Virginia School of Law
[45]
William B. Hesseltine 1922 - history professor at
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Milton W. Humphreys - alumnus; introduced the Roman pronunciation of Latin at Washington and Lee as a professor; first Professor of Latin and Greek at
Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin; taught at the
University of Virginia ; president of the
American Philological Association , 1882-1883
Robert Huntley 1950, Law 1957 - former dean of W&L Law, former
president of Washington and Lee University , former president, chairman, and CEO of Best Products[
citation needed ]
William Swan Plumer 1825 - professor at
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1854-1862); professor of didactic and polemic theology at
Columbia Theological Seminary (1867-1875); professor of pastoral, casuistic, and historical theology at Columbia (1875-1880)
John Thomas Lewis Preston 1828 - founder of
Virginia Military Institute
[46]
Henry L. Roediger III 1969 - cognitive psychologist and researcher at
Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth P. Ruscio 1976 - professor of public policy, president of Washington and Lee University
Jeffrey L. Seglin , (1978), writer of weekly column "The Right Thing," faculty member,
John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University
Robert Shepherd 1959, Law 1961 -
professor emeritus of law at the University of Richmond School of Law
[47]
Robert Waymouth 1982 - professor of chemistry at
Stanford University
Charles M. Williams 1937 -
Harvard Business School professor
Literature and journalism
Samuel Zenas Ammen - literary editor of
The Baltimore Sun ; founder of the
Kappa Alpha Order
Terry Brooks , Law 1969 - author of fantasy fiction, 12 million copies in print
[48]
David Brown , Law - former host of the
Marketplace radio program
William Alexander Caruthers - author of novels, including The Kentuckian in New York (1834)
Kelly Evans 2007 - journalist; co-host of
Worldwide Exchange and
Squawk on the Street on the
CNBC business news channel
Jerry Hopkins 1957 - journalist, biographer, author - longtime editor of and contributor to Rolling Stone magazine, biographer of Jim Morrison
No One Here Gets Out Alive , Elvis Presley, Yoko Ono, David Bowie and others
Alex S. Jones 1968 - Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter for The New York Times ; director of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy
Philippe Labro - French author, journalist and film director
Rebecca Makkai 1999 - author of novels, including Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers , and short stories
Roger Mudd 1950 - Congressional Correspondent for
CBS and
PBS ; host on the
History Channel ; member of the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity
Mark Richard 1986 - author and winner of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award
Tom Robbins - author of
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (did not graduate; attended for two years before moving to New York to become a poet)
Tom Wolfe 1951 - writer (creator of
New Journalism ); author of
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and
The Bonfire of the Vanities , with
I Am Charlotte Simmons chronicling college life; former trustee; in 2005, became the only outside speaker in recent times to deliver the undergraduate commencement address
Science and technology
Jennifer Dowd 1996 - social scientist and public health researcher
Joseph L. Goldstein 1962 - won Nobel Prize for Medicine for research in cholesterol metabolism and discovery that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that extract cholesterol from the bloodstream
William Wilson Morgan 1924-26 undergraduate classes (graduated from
University of Chicago 1927) - astronomer; co-developed the
MK system for the classification of stars, and classification systems for galaxies and clusters; Director of
Yerkes Observatory
Art, entertainment, and athletics
Rob Ashford 1982 - choreographer and director; eight-time
Tony Award nominee (winning one), five-time
Olivier Award nominee,
Emmy Award winner,
Drama Desk winner, and
Outer Critics Circle Award winner
Fielder Cook 1946 - three-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer; director of The Homecoming (TV, 1971), which begat series
The Waltons
Kate Cordsen 1986 - photographer and contemporary artist; first female graduate of W&L
Dom Flora 1958 - basketball standout
Warren Giles - executive in
Baseball Hall of Fame
Jay Handlan 1952 - basketball standout who once scored 66 points in a single game
Mike Henry - writer, comedian, producer,
Family Guy
T. C. Lin - Taiwanese filmmaker, photographer, and writer
Walt Michaels 1951 - head coach of NFL's
New York Jets , 1977-1982; fullback for Generals, led them to 1951
Gator Bowl against
Wyoming
Meagan Miller 1996 - opera singer
Mike Pressler 1982 - head lacrosse coach at
Bryant University ; former coach at
Duke University who resigned during
Duke lacrosse case
W. Stanley Proctor - sculptor
Gordon P. Robertson , Law - CEO of the Christian Broadcasting Network
Cy Twombly 1953 - abstract artist
Justin Walker - actor, Christian Stovitz in the 1995
comedy film
Clueless
Religion
Faculty
John White Brockenbrough - federal judge, founder, and former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
Martin P. Burks - former Dean of W&L Law and justice on the
Virginia Supreme Court
Judy Clarke - criminal defense attorney for
Ted Kaczynski ,
Zacarias Moussaoui ,
Eric Rudolph ,
Susan Smith ,
Jared Lee Loughner , and
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
Creigh Deeds (born 1958), Democratic nominee for
Governor of Virginia in 2009 and Virginia State Senator
Nora Demleitner (born 1966), former dean of W&L Law and
Hofstra University School of Law
Edward Southey Joynes - Professor of Modern Languages
James G. Leyburn (1902–1993), sociologist, former dean
[49]
Donald W. Lemons - Justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia
Lee McLaughlin (1917–1968), American football player with the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) and a head football coach at Washington and Lee University.
Jeffrey P. Minear - counselor to Chief Justice
John G. Roberts Jr.
Clark R. Mollenhoff , journalism professor 1976-1991, former Washington bureau chief Des Moines Register, Pulitzer Prize winner in 1958
Blake Morant , dean of the
George Washington University School of Law
Fred Perry (1909–1995), tennis champion; won 8
Grand Slams and coached the W&L tennis team
Marvin Banks Perry Jr. (1918–1994), president of
Goucher College and
Agnes Scott College .
Rodney A. Smolla - Dean of
Widener University School of Law ; former dean of W&L Law; First Amendment scholar; former president of
Furman University
Waller Redd Staples - member of the
Confederate House of Representatives ; justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
Barry Sullivan - former dean of W&L Law; professor at
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
John Randolph Tucker - Virginia Attorney General, former dean, and former president of the American Bar Association
Trustees and benefactors
Presidents
See
List of presidents of Washington and Lee University .
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