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This is a list of notable alumni of
Yale Law School , the
law school of the American
Yale University , located in
New Haven ,
Connecticut . (For a list of notable
Yale University graduates, see the
list of Yale University people .) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni.
All degrees listed below are
LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or
J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.
Yale Law's three–year
J.D. (
LL.B. , prior to 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.
Law and government
President
Gerald Ford '41
President
Bill Clinton '73
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton '73
Senator
Gary Hart '64
Senator
Chris Coons '92
Senator
Arlen Specter '56
Supreme Court Justice
Potter Stewart '41
Supreme Court Justice
Byron White '46
Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas '74
Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Alito '75
Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Sotomayor '79
Governor of California
Jerry Brown '64
Ambassador
Sargent Shriver '41
Ambassador
John R. Bolton '74
President of Germany
Karl Carstens '49
President of the Philippines
José P. Laurel '20
Dean of Harvard Law School
Martha Minow '79
Legal scholar
Alan Dershowitz '62
Legal scholar
Catharine MacKinnon '77
Legal scholar
Lawrence Lessig '89
Senator
Cory Booker '97
Attorney
David Boies '66
Actor
Ben Stein '70
Writer
Elizabeth Wurtzel '08
United States government
Executive branch
Gerald Ford (1941), 38th President of the United States, 1974–1977
Bill Clinton (1973), 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
Herbert Brownell Jr. (1927), 62nd U.S. Attorney General, 1953–1957
[1]
Homer Stille Cummings (1893), 55th U.S. Attorney General, 1933–1939
[2]
Nicholas Katzenbach (1947), 65th U.S. Attorney General, 1965–1966
[3]
Peter Keisler (1985), acting U.S. Attorney General, 2007
[4]
Edward H. Levi (1938), 71st U.S. Attorney General, 1975–1977
[5]
Wayne MacVeagh (1856), 36th U.S. Attorney General, 1881
[6]
Michael B. Mukasey (1967), 81st U.S. Attorney General, 2007–2009
[7]
Edwards Pierrepont (1840), 33rd U.S. Attorney General, 1875–1876[
citation needed ]
Alphonso Taft (1838), 34th U.S. Attorney General, 1876–1877
[8]
Drew S. Days, III (1966), 40th U.S. Solicitor General, 1993–1996
Walter E. Dellinger III (1966), Acting Solicitor General, 1996–1997
Neal Katyal (1995), Acting Solicitor General, 2010–2011
Thomas D. Thacher (did not graduate), 21st U.S. Solicitor General, 1930–1933
Seth P. Waxman (1977), 41st U.S. Solicitor General, 1997–2001
Clifford Alexander Jr. (1958), 13th
Secretary of the Army , 1977–1981
Alex Azar (1991), 24th
Secretary of Health and Human Services , 2018–2021
John R. Bolton (1974), 25th
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations , 2005–2006
John Bryson (1969), 37th
Secretary of Commerce , 2011–2012
Hillary Clinton (1973), 67th
Secretary of State , 2009–2013
Greg Craig (1972), 33rd
White House Counsel , 2009–2010
Lloyd Cutler (1939), 25th
White House Counsel , 1994
John Danforth (1963), 24th
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations , 2004–2005
Richard Danzig (1971), 71st
Secretary of the Navy , 1998–2001
Henry H. Fowler (1932), 58th
Secretary of the Treasury , 1965–1968
Gordon Gray (1933), 2nd
Secretary of the Army , 1949–1950
Carla Anderson Hills (1958), 5th
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development , 1975–1977
John King Jr. ,
Secretary of Education , 2015–2017
[9]
Victor H. Metcalf (1876), 2nd
Secretary of Commerce and Labor , 1904–1906; 38th
Secretary of the Navy , 1906–1908
Robert Reich (1973), 22nd
Secretary of Labor , 1993–1997
Stanley Rogers Resor (1942), 9th
Secretary of the Army , 1965–1971
Robert Rubin (1964), 70th
Secretary of the Treasury , 1995–1999
Gene Sperling (1985),
Director of the National Economic Council , 1996–2000, 2011–2014
Alphonso Taft (1838), 31st
Secretary of War , 1876
Cyrus Vance (1942), 57th
Secretary of State , 1977–1980
Christopher A. Wray (1992), 8th
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation , 2017–present
[10]
Eugene M. Zuckert (1936), 7th
Secretary of the Air Force , 1961–1965
Jake Sullivan (2003), 28th
National Security Advisor , 2021-present
[11]
Raymond E. Baldwin (1921), U.S. Senator (R-
Connecticut ), 1946–1949
[12]
Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1893), U.S. Senator (D-
Delaware ), 1922–1929
[13]
Michael Bennet (1993), U.S. Senator (D-
Colorado ), 2009–present
[14]
Richard Blumenthal (1973), U.S. Senator (D-
Connecticut ), 2011–present
[15]
Cory Booker (1997), U.S. Senator (D-
New Jersey ), 2013–present, 36th mayor of
Newark ,
New Jersey , 2006–2013
James L. Buckley (1950), U.S. Senator (R-
New York ), 1971–1977
[16]
Hillary Clinton (1973), U.S. Senator (D-
New York ), 2001–2009
[17]
Chris Coons (1992), U.S. Senator (D-
Delaware ), 2010–present
[18]
John A. Danaher (1922), U.S. Senator (R-
Connecticut ), 1939–1945[
citation needed ]
John Danforth (1961), U.S. Senator (R-
Missouri ), 1976–1995
[19]
David Davis (1835), U.S. Senator (R-
Illinois ), 1877–1883[
citation needed ]
Thomas J. Dodd (1933), U.S. Senator (D-
Connecticut ), 1959–1971
[20]
Peter H. Dominick (1940), U.S. Senator (R-
Colorado ), 1963–1975
[21]
Charles Goodell (1951), U.S. Senator (R-
New York ), 1968–1971
[22]
Gary Hart (1964), U.S. Senator (D-
Colorado ), 1975–1987
[23]
Josh Hawley (2006), U.S. Senator (R-
Missouri ), 2019–present
Estes Kefauver (1927), U.S. Senator (D-
Tennessee ), 1949–1963[
citation needed ]
Alfred B. Kittredge , U.S. Senator (R-
South Dakota ), 1901–1909
[24]
Joseph Lieberman (1967), U.S. Senator (D/I-
Connecticut ), 1989–2012
[25]
Augustine Lonergan (1902), U.S. Senator (D-
Connecticut ), 1933–1939
[26]
Brien McMahon (1927), U.S. Senator (D-
Connecticut ), 1945–1952[
citation needed ]
Trusten Polk (1831), U.S. Senator (D-
Missouri ), 1857–1862
[27]
Julius Rockwell (1826), U.S. Senator (D-
Massachusetts ), 1854–1855
[28]
Arlen Specter (1956), U.S. Senator (D-
Pennsylvania ), 1981–2011
[29]
Paul Tsongas (1967), U.S. Senator (D-
Massachusetts ), 1979–1985
[30]
Harris Wofford (1954), U.S. Senator (D-
Pennsylvania ), 1991–1995
[31]
Lewis Beach (1856), U.S. Representative (D-
New York ), 1881–1886
[32]
Carroll L. Beedy (1906), U.S. Representative (R-
Maine ), 1921–1935
[33]
Jackson Edward Betts (1929), U.S. Representative (R-
Ohio ), 1951–1973
[34]
Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1939), U.S. Representative (D-
New York ), 1965–1983
[35]
Clay Stone Briggs (1899), U.S. Representative (D-
Texas ), 1919–1933
[36]
C. Pope Caldwell (1899), U.S. Representative (D-
New York ), 1915–1921
[37]
Charles T. Canady (1979), U.S. Representative (R-
Florida ), 1993–2001
[38]
James Colgate Cleveland (1948), U.S. Representative (R-
New Hampshire ), 1963–1981
[39]
Thomas C. Coffin , U.S. Representative (D-ID), 1933-1934
[40]
Sam Coppersmith (1982), U.S. Representative (D-
Arizona ), 1993–1995
[41]
Albert W. Cretella (1921), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1953–1959
[42]
Peter Deutsch (1982), U.S. Representative (D-
Florida ), 1993–2005
[43]
Allen Ertel (1965), U.S. Representative (D-
Pennsylvania ), 1977–1983
[44]
Elizabeth Esty (1985), U.S. Representative (D-
Connecticut ), 2013–2018
[45]
Richard P. Freeman (1894), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1915–1933
[46]
Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (1941), U.S. Representative (R-
New Jersey ), 1953–1975
[47]
Foster Furcolo (1936), U.S. Representative (D-
Massachusetts ), 1949–1952
[48]
Edwin W. Higgins (1897), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1905–1913
[49]
Peter Hoagland (1968), U.S. Representative (D-
Nebraska ), 1989–1995
[50]
Colin M. Ingersoll , U.S. Representative (D-
Connecticut ), 1851–1855
[51]
Donald J. Irwin (1954), U.S. Representative (D-
Connecticut ), 1959–1961
[52]
Stephen Wright Kellogg (1848), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1869–1875
[53]
Ro Khanna (2001), U.S. Representative (D-California), 2017–present
[54]
Franklin F. Korell (did not graduate), U.S. Representative (R-
Oregon ), 1927–1931
[55]
William Lemke , U.S. Representative (R-
North Dakota ), 1932–1936[
citation needed ]
John Lindsay (1948), U.S. Representative (R-
New York ), 1959–1965
[56]
Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1859–1863
[57]
Allard K. Lowenstein (1954), U.S. Representative (D-
New York ), 1969–1971
[58]
John Miller (1964), U.S. Representative (R-
Washington ), 1985–1993
[59]
Bruce Morrison (1973), U.S. Representative (D-
Connecticut ), 1983–1991
[60]
Eleanor Holmes Norton (1964),
Congressional delegate (D-
Washington, D.C. ), 1991–present
[61]
Miner G. Norton (1880), U.S. Representative (D-
Ohio ), 1921–1923
[62]
George M. O'Brien (1947), U.S. Representative (R-
Illinois ), 1973–1986
[63]
Tom Perriello (2001), U.S. Representative (D-
Virginia ), 2009–2011
[64]
Aaron F. Perry , U.S. Representative (R-
Ohio ), 1871–1872
[65]
William Scranton , U.S. Representative (D-
Pennsylvania ), 1961–1963
[66]
David Skaggs (1967), U.S. Representative (D-
Colorado ), 1987–1999
[67]
J. Joseph Smith (1927), U.S. Representative (D-
Connecticut ), 1935–1941
[68]
Wint Smith (1922), U.S. Representative (R-
Kansas ), 1947–1961
[69]
John Spratt (1969), U.S. Representative (D-
South Carolina ), 1983–2011
[70]
Joseph E. Talbot (1925), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1942–1947
[71]
Frank Tejeda (LL.M. 1989), U.S. Representative (D-
Texas ), 1993–1997
[72]
John Q. Tilson (1893), U.S. Representative (R-
Connecticut ), 1909–1913, 1915–1932
[73]
William H. Upson (1845), U.S. Representative (R-
Ohio ), 1869–1873
[74]
Stuyvesant Wainwright (1947), U.S. Representative (R-
New York ), 1953–1961
[75]
Mel Watt (1970), U.S. Representative (D-
North Carolina ), 1993–present
[76]
Washington F. Willcox (1862), U.S. Representative (D-
Connecticut ), 1889–1893
[77]
David Wu (1982), U.S. Representative (D-
Oregon ), 1999–2011
[78]
Dick Zimmer (1969), U.S. Representative (R-
New Jersey ), 1991–1997
[79]
Judicial branch
Samuel Alito (1975), Associate Justice, 2006–present
Henry Billings Brown (did not graduate), Associate Justice, 1891–1906
David Davis (1835), Associate Justice, 1862–1877
Abe Fortas (1933), Associate Justice, 1963–1969
Brett Kavanaugh (1990), Associate Justice, 2018–present
Sherman Minton (1916), (also graduated from Indiana University Maurer School of Law), Associate Justice, 1949–1956
George Shiras Jr. (1853), Associate Justice, 1892–1903
Sonia Sotomayor (1979), Associate Justice, 2009–present
Potter Stewart (1941), Associate Justice, 1958–1981
Clarence Thomas (1974), Associate Justice, 1991–present
Byron White (1946), Associate Justice, 1962–1993
Federal Court judges
Robert P. Anderson (1929), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1964–1978
[80]
Herschel W. Arant (1915), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , 1939–1941
[81]
Edward R. Becker (1957), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , 1998–2003;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , 1998–2003
[82]
Duane Benton (1975), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit , 2004–present
[83]
Stephanos Bibas (1994), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , 2017–present
[84]
Wilbur F. Booth (1888), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit , 1925–1932
[85]
José A. Cabranes (1965), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1994–present
[86]
Guido Calabresi (1958), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1994–2009
[87]
Charles Edward Clark (1913), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1939–1963
[88]
Eric L. Clay (1972), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , 1997–present
[89]
Richard Clifton , Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , 2002–present
[90]
R. Guy Cole Jr. (1975), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , 1995–present;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , 2014–2021
[91]
Steven Colloton (1988), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit , 2003–present
[92]
Richard Cudahy (1955), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit , 1979–1994
[93]
Conrad K. Cyr (1956), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , 1989–1997
[94]
William A. Fletcher (1975), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , 1998–present[
citation needed ]
Susan P. Graber (1972), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , 1998–present[
citation needed ]
Morton Ira Greenberg (1957), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , 1987–present
[95]
Pamela Harris (1990), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit , 2014–present
[96]
David Hamilton (1983), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit , 2009–present
[97]
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1952), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit , 1977–1993[
citation needed ]
Stephen A. Higginson (1987), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , 2011–present
[98]
Carroll C. Hincks , Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1954–1964
[99]
Andrew D. Hurwitz (1972), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , 2012–present
[100]
Robert Katzmann (1980), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1999–2020
[101]
Carolyn Dineen King (1962), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , 1979–2013
[102]
Kermit Lipez (1967), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , 1998–2011
[103]
Scott Matheson Jr. (1980), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit , 2010–present
[104]
William Ernest Miller (1933), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , 1970–1976
[105]
Jon O. Newman (1956), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1979–1997
[106]
Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1969), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 2001–2009
[107]
Jill A. Pryor (1988), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , 2012–present[
citation needed ]
Stephen Reinhardt (1954), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , 1980–2018[
citation needed ]
Roger Robb (1931), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , 1969–1982
[108]
Oliver Seth (1940), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit , 1962–1984;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit , 1977–1984
[109]
Richard G. Taranto (1981), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit , 2013–present
Albert Tate Jr. (1947), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit , 1979–1986
[110]
William H. Timbers , Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1971–1981
William Kneeland Townsend , Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1902–1907
Patricia Wald (1951), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , 1979–1999;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , 1986–1991
George Thomas Washington (1932), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , 1949–1965
[111]
Ralph Winter (1960), Judge for the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit , 1981–2020
[112]
[113]
Ronnie Abrams (1993), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 2012–present
William Acker (1952), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama , 1982–1996
Roy Altman (2007), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida , 2019–present
Cecilia Altonaga (1986), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida , 2003–present
Harold Baer Jr. (1957), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1994–2014
David Barlow , Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah , 2020–present
James E. Boasberg (1990), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia , 2011–present
Paul D. Borman (LL.M. 1964), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan , 1994–present
Howard C. Bratton (1947), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico , 1964–1987;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico , 1978–1987
Philip A. Brimmer (1985), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado , 2008–present
Ellen Bree Burns (1923), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1978–1992;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1988–1992
Edward N. Cahn (1958), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1974–1998
Charles Hardy Carr (1926), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California , 1962–1966; Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California , 1966–1973
Paul Charlton , Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico , 1911–1913
Frank C. Damrell Jr. (1964), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California , 1997–2008
Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. (1966), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire , 1992–2007;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire , 1992–1997
Jan DuBois (1957), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1988–2002
Warren William Eginton (1951), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1979–1992
David A. Faber (1967), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia , 1991–2008
Eldon E. Fallon (LL.M. 1963), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana , 1995–present
A. Joe Fish (1968), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas , 1983–2007;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas , 2002–2007
Dabney L. Friedrich (1992), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia , 2017–present
Jesse Furman (1998), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 2012–present
Nina Gershon (1965), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York , 1996–2008
Nancy Gertner (1971), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts , 1994–2011
Gerhard Gesell (1935), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia , 1967–1993
James Tyrone Giles (1967), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1979–2008
Charles Haight (1955), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1976–1995
Jean Constance Hamilton (LL.M. 1982), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri , 1990–present;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri , 1990–present, 1995–2002
A. Andrew Hauk (1942), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California , 1966; Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California , 1966–1982;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California , 1980–1982
Truman McGill Hobbs (1948), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , 1980–1991;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , 1984–1991
Marvin Katz (1954), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1983–2010
Bruce William Kauffman (1959), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1997–2009
Samuel Pailthorpe King (1940), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii , 1972–1984
John A. Kronstadt (1976), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California , 2011–present
Morris E. Lasker (1941), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1968–1983
Victor Marrero (1968), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1999–2010
Frank Hampton McFadden (1955), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama , 1969–1982
Richard Wellington McLaren (1942), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois , 1972–1976
Louis F. Oberdorfer (1946), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia , 1977–present
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor (1909), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California , 1940–1949
J. Paul Oetken (1991), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 2011–present
Jill Parrish (1985), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah , 2015–present
James Perry Platt (1875), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1902–1913
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (1950), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York , 1974–2001
Louis H. Pollak (1948), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1978–1991
Michael Ponsor (1975), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts , 1994–2011
Michael Shea (1993), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 2012–present
Oliver Perry Shiras (1856), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa , 1882–1903
Dominic J. Squatrito (1965), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1994–2004
Leonard P. Stark (1996), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware , 2010–present
Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr. (1931), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware , 1958–1969
Sidney Stein (1969), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1995–2010
Richard J. Sullivan (1990), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 2007–2019;
Robert Sweet (1948), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1978–1991
Robert Taylor (1924), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee , 1950–1984;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee , 1961–1969
Charles Henry Tenney (1936), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York , 1963–1979
Edwin Stark Thomas (1895), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1913–1939
Alvin Thompson (1978), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1994–present
Myron H. Thompson (1972), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , 1980–1998;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama , 1991–1998
Stefan R. Underhill (1982), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1999–present
William H. Walls (1957), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey , 1994–2005
Henry Travillion Wingate (1972), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi , 1985–present;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi , 2003–present
Caleb Merrill Wright (1933), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware , 1955–1973;
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware , 1957–1973
William H. Yohn Jr. (1960), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania , 1969–1980
Robert Carmine Zampano (1954), Judge for the
U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut , 1964–1994
Other courts
State government
Governors
Jerry Brown (1964), 34th and 39th
Governor of
California , 1975–1983, 2011–2019
[116]
Foster Furcolo (1936), 60th
Governor of
Massachusetts , 1957–1961
[117]
Bibb Graves (1896), 38th
Governor of
Alabama , 1927–1931
[118]
Henry Baldwin Harrison , 52nd
Governor of
Connecticut , 1885–1887[
citation needed ]
William W. Hoppin , 24th
Governor of
Rhode Island , 1854–1857
[119]
William J. Mills (1877), 19th
Governor of
New Mexico Territory , 1910–1912[
citation needed ]
Gina Raimondo (1998), 75th
Governor of
Rhode Island , 2015–2021,
[120]
United States Secretary of Commerce 2021–present.
Raymond P. Shafer (1941), 39th
Governor of
Pennsylvania , 1967–1971
[121]
State politicians
Peter H. Behr (1940), member of the
California State Senate , 1970–1978
Asa S. Bloomer (1916), member of the
Vermont House of Representatives , 1937–1945, and
Speaker of the House , 1943–1945; member of the
Vermont Senate , 1947–1963, and
President Pro Tem , 1949, 1955, 1959–1963
Rob Bonta (1998),
Attorney General of
California , 2021–present
James M. Brown (1967),
Attorney General of
Oregon , 1980–1981
Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1824), Connecticut State Senator, 1838–1840, Connecticut State Representative, 1834–1838
John A. Busterud (1949), member of the California State Assembly, 1956–1962
Kimberly B. Cheney (1964),
Attorney General of
Vermont , 1973–1975
Robert E. Cooper Jr. (1983),
Attorney General of
Tennessee , 2006–2014
Robert Del Tufo (1958),
Attorney General of
New Jersey , 1990–1993
Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), member of the
New York State Assembly from the 68th district, 1997–2001
Matthew Denn (1991), lieutenant governor of
Delaware , 2009–present
Tilton E. Doolittle (1846), Speaker of the House of the
Connecticut House of Representatives , and
US Attorney for the district of Connecticut
John R. Dunne (1954), member of the
New York Senate from the 6th district, 1966–1989
Daniel C. Esty (1986), commissioner of the
Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, 2011–2014
Shirley Adele Field , member of the
Oregon House of Representatives , 1956–1960, 1962–1966
Tom Foley ,
Secretary of Labor and Industry of
Pennsylvania , 1991–1994
Ammi Giddings , member of the
Connecticut Senate , 1858–1864
Harrison Goldin (1960), member of the
New York Senate , 1966–1973
Cyrus Habib , 16th
Lieutenant Governor of Washington , former State Senator from
Washington state , 2014–2016, former member of the
Washington House of Representatives , 2012–2014
L. W. Housel (1900), member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives , 1900–1902
Michael Johnston , member of the
Colorado Senate from the 33rd district, 2009–present
Daniel Kagan , member of the
Colorado House of Representatives , 2009–present
Jeff King , member of the
Kansas Senate from the 15th district, 2011–present
Kris Kobach (1995), 31st
Secretary State of
Kansas , 2001–present
John Latta (1859), 1st Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1875–1879
Frederick Lippitt (1946), member of the
Rhode Island House of Representatives , 1961–1983
J. Edward Meyer (1961), member of the
Connecticut Senate , 2005–present
Robert W. Naylor (1969), member of the
California State Assembly for the 20th district, 1978–1986; chair of the
California Republican Party , 1987–1989
Charles R. Nesbitt (1947), 9th
Attorney General of
Oklahoma , 1963–1967;
Secretary of Energy of
Oklahoma , 1991–1995
Larry Obhof , President of the
Ohio Senate from 2017 to 2020, State Senator for the 22nd district, 2011–2020
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Edwin Archer Randolph , the first African-American to graduate from the law school, Randolph served in both houses of the
Virginia Legislature
James Paull , president of the
West Virginia Senate , 1943–1945
Jamie Pedersen , member of the
Washington House of Representatives from the 43rd district, 2007–present
Charles B. Perry , Speaker of the
Wisconsin State Assembly , 1929
Stephen Sachs ,
Attorney General of
Maryland , 1979–1987
Shirley Adelson Siegel (1941),
Solicitor General of
New York , 1979–1982
Bryan Townsend , member of the
Delaware Senate , 2012–present
Francis W. Treadway (1892), 30th
Lieutenant Governor of
Ohio , 1909–1911
Ralph E. Van Norstrand (1961), minority leader of the
Connecticut General Assembly , 1979–1985;
Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives , 1985—1987
[123]
Anthony Van Wyck (1844), member of the
Wisconsin State Senate 1864–1865, 1868–1869
John Wesley Wescott ,
Attorney General of New Jersey , 1914–1919
State judges
William B. Chandler III , Chancellor,
Delaware Court of Chancery , 1985–1996
John M. Comley (1920), Associate Justice of the
Connecticut Supreme Court , 1963–1965
[124]
[125]
Rick Haselton , Chief Judge,
Oregon Court of Appeals , 2012–present; Judge,
Oregon Court of Appeals , 1994–2012
Ernest A. Inglis , Chief Justice,
Connecticut Supreme Court , 1953–1957; Associate Justice,
Connecticut Supreme Court , 1950–1953
Jeffrey W. Johnson (1985), Judge,
California Court of Appeal , 2009–present
Leondra Kruger (2001), Associate Justice,
California Supreme Court , 2015–present
Hans A. Linde (1966), Justice,
Oregon Supreme Court , 1977–1990; correspondent for
CBS Evening News
Goodwin Liu (1998), Associate Justice,
California Supreme Court , 2011–present
William M. Maltbie (1905), Chief Justice,
Connecticut Supreme Court , 1930–1950; Judge,
Connecticut Supreme Court , 1925–1930
Monica Márquez (1997), Associate Justice,
Colorado Supreme Court , 2010–present
Margaret H. Marshall , Chief Justice,
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court , 1999–2010 (first woman to hold this position); Associate Justice,
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court , 1996–1999
Marshall F. McComb (1919), Associate Justice,
California Supreme Court , 1955–1977
Walter Myers Jr. (1938), Associate Justice,
Indiana Supreme Court , 1963-1967
George W. Wheeler (1883), Chief Justice,
Connecticut Supreme Court , 1920–1930
J. Craig Wright (1954), Associate Justice,
Ohio Supreme Court , 1985–1996
City government
Jane Bolin (1931), judge for the
New York City Domestic Relations Court , 1939–1979; also the first
African–American woman to serve as a judge in the
United States
Luke Bronin (2006), 67th mayor of
Hartford , Connecticut
Richard Buery (1997),
former deputy mayor of New York City
George Williamson Crawford (1903), second black graduate of the Law School and Corporation Counsel of the City of New Haven
David Hansell (1983), commissioner of the
New York City Administration for Children's Services
[126]
Bruce Harris , mayor of
Chatham Borough ,
New Jersey , 2012–present
Robert J. Harris , mayor of
Ann Arbor ,
Michigan , 1969–1973
John Lindsay (1948), 103rd mayor of
New York City ,
New York , 1966–1973
Robert M. Morgenthau (1948),
New York County District Attorney , 1975–2009
Charles Phelps Taft II (1921), mayor of
Cincinnati ,
Ohio , 1955–1957
Caroline Van Zile (2012), 3rd solicitor general of
Washington, D.C. , 2022–present
U.S. diplomatic figures
Winthrop G. Brown (1930), 16th
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea , 1964–1967
William Smith Culbertson (1910), president of the
United States Tariff Commission , 1922–1925
Richard N. Gardner (1951),
U.S. Ambassador to Spain , 1993–1997;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy , 1977–1981
Ulric Haynes (1956), 6th
U.S. Ambassador to Algeria , 1977–1981
David Huebner (1986), 17th
U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand , 2009–present
Eugene M. Locke (1940), 9th
U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan , 1966–1967
Robert McCallum Jr. (1973), 23rd
U.S. Ambassador to Australia , 2006–2009
John O'Leary (1969), 48th
U.S. Ambassador to Chile , 1998–2001
Sargent Shriver (1941), 44th
U.S. Ambassador to France , 1968–1970; also the driving force behind the
Peace Corps
Gerard C. Smith (1938), Chief Delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1969–1972
R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (1946), 22nd
U.S. Ambassador to Norway , 1984–1989
Peter Tufo ,
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary , 1997–2001
Other U.S. political figures
Mark D. Agrast (1985),
Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the
Office of Legislative Affairs of the
United States Department of Justice , 2009–present
Meade Alcorn , chairman of the
Republican National Committee , 1957–1959
Dillon Anderson (1929), 2nd
National Security Advisor , 1955–1956
Joe Andrew (1985), chairman of the
Democratic National Committee , 1999–2001
Michael Barr (1992),
Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions of the
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Rubén Berríos (1961),
Puerto Rico
senator at large , 1972–1976, 1984–1988, 1993–1996
Matthew Berry ,
Republican primary challenger in
Virginia's 8th congressional district election , 2010
Boris Bershteyn (2004),
Associate White House Counsel , 2010–present
William L. Borden (1947), executive director of
United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy , 1949–1953
Beth Brinkmann (1985), Assistant to the
U.S. Solicitor General , 1993–2001
Antonia Handler Chayes (did not graduate), 14th
Under Secretary of the Air Force , 1979–1981
William Thaddeus Coleman III , 17th
General Counsel of the Army , 1994–1999
Mathea Falco (1968), 1st
Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs , 1979–1981
Roswell Gilpatric (1931),
Deputy Secretary of Defense , 1961–1964
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. (1973),
Commissioner of Internal Revenue , 1989–1992
Stephen Hadley (1972), 21st
National Security Advisor , 2005–2009
Coleman Hicks (1968),
General Counsel of the Navy , 1979–1981
Steven S. Honigman (1973),
General Counsel of the Navy , 1993–1998
Jerry MacArthur Hultin (1972), 27th
Under Secretary of the Navy , 1997–2000
Reed Hundt (1974), chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission , 1993–1997
Rashad Hussain (2005), 2nd
Special Envoy to the
Organisation of the Islamic Conference , 2010–present
Harrison Loesch (1939),
Assistant Secretary of the Interior , 1969–1972
Malcolm A. MacIntyre , 5th
Under Secretary of the Air Force , 1957–1959
Burke Marshall (1951),
Assistant Attorney General for the
Civil Rights Division of the
United States Department of Justice , 1961–1964
Joe Miller (1995),
Republican
Senate
candidate from
Alaska , 2010
Roderic L. O'Connor (1947), 2nd
Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs , 1957–1958
Stephen A. Oxman , 19th
Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs , 1993–1994
Troy A. Paredes , commissioner of the
Securities and Exchange Commission , 2008–2013
Michael Pertschuk (1959), chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission , 1977–1981
Randal Quarles (1984), 15th
Under Secretary for Domestic Finance , 2005–2006
Eugene Rostow (1937),
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs , 1966–1969
Kevin K. Washburn (1993), 12th Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs for the
U.S. Department of the Interior , 2012–2015
Neal S. Wolin ,
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury , 2009–present
R. James Woolsey Jr. (1968), 16th
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency , 1993–1995
Adam Yarmolinsky , political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the
Kennedy ,
Johnson and
Carter administrations
David Yassky , member of the
New York City Council from the 33rd District, 2002–2009
Non-United States government
Non-United States political figures
Heads of state or heads of government
Karl Carstens (LL.M. 1949), 5th
President of
Germany , 1979–1984
Jose P. Laurel (J.S.D. 1920), 3rd
President of the
Philippines , 1943–1945
Salvador Laurel (J.S.D. 1960), 10th
Vice President of the Philippines, 1986–1992; 5th
Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1986
Peter Mutharika (LL.M., J.S.D.), President of the Republic of
Malawi , 2014–present; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malawi, 2011–2012
Other political figures
Ron Atkey (LL.M. 1966), member of the
House of Commons of Canada , 1972–1974, 1979–1980
Kwesi Botchwey (LL.M.),
Minister of Finance of
Ghana , 1982–1995
Irwin Cotler (LL.M. 1966),
Minister of Justice of
Canada , 2003–2006
Wan Exiang (LL.M. 1987),
Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China , 2013–present
Francisco Afan Delgado (LL.M. 1909),
Senator of the
Philippines , 1951–1957
Philip S. Deloria , founder and 1st Secretary-General of the
World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Eoghan Fitzsimons (LL.M. 1966),
Attorney General of Ireland , 11 November to 15 December 1994
David Howarth (LL.M. 1983),
Member of Parliament for
Cambridge , 2005–2010
S. Jayakumar (LL.M. 1966),
Senior Minister of
Singapore , 2009–2011
Antonio La Viña , Undersecretary of the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the
Philippines
Stavros Lambrinidis (1988),
Member of the European Parliament , 2004–2009;
Vice President of the European Parliament , 2009–2011; 23rd
Minister for Foreign Affairs of
Greece , 2011;
European Union Special Representative for
Human Rights , 2012–2019;
European Union Ambassador to the United States, 2019–present
Jovito Salonga (J.S.D. 1949), 14th
President of the Senate of the
Philippines , 1987–1992
Lebbeus R. Wilfley (1892), 1st
Attorney General of the
Philippines , 1901–1906
Michael Yaki , commissioner on the
United States Commission on Civil Rights , 2005–2016
Non-United States judicial figures
International court judges
Rosalyn Higgins (J.S.D. 1962), English judge, 1995–2009, and president, 2006–2009, of the
International Court of Justice
Philip Jessup (1924),
American judge for the
International Court of Justice , 1961–1970
Shigeru Oda (J.S.D. 1953),
Japanese judge for the
International Court of Justice , 1976–2003
Ksenija Turkoviç ,
Croatian judge at the
European Court of Human Rights 2015–present
National court judges
Luís Roberto Barroso (LL.M. 1989), Judge for the
Supreme Court of Brazil , 2013–present
Leo Barry (LL.M. 1968), Justice for the
Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador , 2007–present
Daryl Dawson (LL.M. 1956), Justice of the
High Court of Australia , 1982–1997
Todd Ducharme (LL.M. 1991), Judge for the
Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Enrique Fernando (1948),
Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of the Philippines
Stephan Harbarth (LL.M. 2000), President of the
Federal Constitutional Court of Germany , 2020–present
Gérard La Forest (LL.M. 1965),
Puisne Justice of the
Supreme Court of
Canada , 1985–1997
Johnnie Lewis (LL.M. 1971), 18th
Chief Justice of
Liberia , 2006–present
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (LL.M. 1954), first woman appointed to the
Supreme Court of the Philippines
International organization figures
Notable attorneys
Floyd Abrams (1960), attorney at
Cahill Gordon & Reindel who has had a substantial influence on
constitutional law in the
United States through the
argument of important cases
Douglas Arant (1923), attorney in
Birmingham ,
Alabama
Michael F. Armstrong , attorney
Francis N. Bangs (1847), founding partner of Bangs & Stetson, a precursor to the modern firm of
Davis, Polk & Wardwell
Thomas D. Barr (1931–2008), prominent lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Bouvier Beale , attorney and first cousin of
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and
Lee Radziwill
Dana Berliner , public interest attorney at the
Institute for Justice
Hunter Biden , founding partner of Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP; son of
President
Joe Biden
David Boies (1966), chairman of
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Ralph Cavanagh , environmental attorney and co–director of the Air/Energy Program at the
Natural Resources Defense Council
William Coblentz (1947), attorney and power broker who played an important role in
California politics in the years after
World War II
Julien Davies Cornell , attorney noted for his defense of
Ezra Pound following Pound's indictment for treason
J. Richardson Dilworth (1942), attorney for the
Rockefeller family
Tali Farhadian (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
Peter E. Fleming Jr. (1958), criminal defense attorney
Bob Giuffra (1987), partner,
Sullivan & Cromwell
Charles Halpern (1964), co-founder of the
Center for Law and Social Policy , the first public interest law firm in the
United States
James Hamilton (1969), assistant chief counsel for the
United States Senate Watergate Committee
Whitfield Jack (1932), attorney in his native
Shreveport ,
Louisiana ;
United States Army
colonel in World War II under General
Matthew Ridgway , and
United States Army Reserve
major general
David Kendall (1971), attorney who advised
President
Bill Clinton during the
Lewinsky scandal and Clinton's subsequent
impeachment proceedings
George Kern (1952), partner of
Sullivan & Cromwell
Ernest Knaebel (1896, LL.M. 1897), 11th
Reporter of Decisions of the
Supreme Court , 1916–1944
Arthur Kramer , founding partner of
Kramer Levin
Dawn Johnsen (1986), attorney twice nominated by
President
Barack Obama to head the
Office of Legal Counsel
Mark I. Levy (1975), appellate attorney who argued 16 cases before the
Supreme Court
Arthur Mag , legal counsel to
Harry S. Truman
Bessie Margolin (1933), labor attorney who argued numerous cases before the
Supreme Court
Arvo Mikkanen (1986), attorney nominated by
President
Barack Obama to the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Ann Olivarius (1986), Chair of
McAllister Olivarius , plaintiff in
Alexander v. Yale , and notable sexual harassment lawyer
Jesselyn Radack (1995), ethics adviser to the
Department of Justice who disclosed that the
FBI committed an ethics violation in their interrogation of
John Walker Lindh
Robert Raymar (1972), attorney nominated by
President
Bill Clinton to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Stephen Shulman (1958), attorney most notable for representing
Egil Krogh during the
Watergate scandal
John Thomas Smith (1901), first general counsel and a director of General Motors, 1910 – 1947
Paul M. Smith (1979), attorney at
Jenner & Block who argued many notable cases including
Lawrence v. Texas
Leonard Weinglass (1958), notable criminal defense attorney and constitutional law advocate
Andrea R. Wood (1998), senior counsel for the
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Gregory Howard Woods (1995), general counsel of the
United States Department of Energy
Arnold M. Zack (1956), notable arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes
Public policy leaders
Academia
University presidents and other administrators
Michelle Anderson (born 1967), President of
Brooklyn College , and a scholar on rape law
Nancy Y. Bekavac (1973), president of
Scripps College , 1990–2007
Alfred Benjamin Butts (1930), chancellor of the
University of Mississippi , 1935–1946
Gerhard Casper (LL.M. 1962), president of
Stanford University , 1992–2000
Hiram Chodosh (1990), president of
Claremont McKenna College , 2013–present
Ronald J. Daniels (1988), president of
Johns Hopkins University , 2009–present
JoAnne A. Epps (1976), provost
Temple University , 2016-2021
William R. Greiner , president of the
University at Buffalo , 1991–2004
Robert S. Harrison , chairman of the
Cornell University Board of Trustees
Ira Michael Heyman (1956), chancellor of the
University of California, Berkeley , 1980–1990
Robert Hutchins (1925), president of the
University of Chicago , 1929–1945; chancellor of the
University of Chicago , 1945–1951
Joseph S. Iseman (1941), acting president of
Bennington College , 1976
Thomas H. Jackson (1975), president of
University of Rochester , 1994–2005
Marvin Krislov (1988), president of
Oberlin College , 2007–present
Ted Landsmark (1973), president of the
Boston Architectural College , present
Frederick M. Lawrence (1980), president of
Brandeis University , 2011–present
Edward H. Levi (1938), president of the
University of Chicago , 1968–1975
Wallace Loh , president of the
University of Maryland, College Park , 2010–present
Linda Lorimer , vice president of
Yale University ; president of
Randolph-Macon Woman's College , 1986–1993
Cyrus Northrop , president of the
University of Minnesota , 1884–1911
Russell K. Osgood (1974), president of
Grinnell College , 1998–2010
Louis H. Pollak (19433), federal judge and dean of
Yale Law School and the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Ariel Porat (1990), president of
Tel Aviv University
Robert Prichard (LL.M. 1976), president of the
University of Toronto , 1990–2000
L. Song Richardson (1966/67), President of
Colorado College , 2021 - PRESENT
Michael H. Schill (1984), president of the
University of Oregon , 2015–
Clayton Spencer (1985), president of
Bates College , 2012–present
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1962), president of
George Washington University , 1988–2007
Louis Vogel (LL.M. 1982), president of
Panthéon-Assas University , 2006–2012
Nora Demleitner (1992), president of
St. John's College - Annapolis , 2022–present
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Legal academia
Law school deans
T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1977), dean of
Georgetown University Law Center , 2004–2009
Nicholas Allard (1979), Dean and President of
Brooklyn Law School
Michelle Anderson (1994), dean of
City University of New York Law School , 2006–2016
Evan Caminker (1986), dean of the
University of Michigan Law School , 2003–2013
Nora Demleitner (1992), dean of the
Washington and Lee University School of Law , 2012–2015
John Hart Ely (1963), dean of
Stanford Law School , 1982–1987
JoAnne A. Epps (1976) dean of
Temple Law School , 2008- 2016
Sarah Harding , dean of
Schulich School of Law ,
Dalhousie University , 2023–present
Robert Klonoff (1979), dean of
Lewis & Clark Law School , 2007–2014
Anthony T. Kronman (1975), dean of
Yale Law School , 1994–2004
Saul Levmore (1980), dean of the
University of Chicago Law School , 2001–2009
Paul Mahoney (1984), dean of the
University of Virginia School of Law , 2008–2016
Earl F. Martin (LL.M. 1996), dean of
Gonzaga University School of Law , 2005–2010
Michael Meltsner (JD 1960), dean of
Northeastern University School of Law , 1979–1984
Martha Minow (1979), dean of
Harvard Law School , 2009–present
Jennifer Mnookin (1995), dean of
UCLA Law School , 2015—present
Russell D. Niles (LL.M. 1931), dean of
New York University School of Law , 1948–1963
Robert Post (1977), dean of
Yale Law School , 2009–2017
Wendell Pritchett , Chancellor of
Rutgers University–Camden , Interim Dean and Presidential Professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School , and Provost of the
University of Pennsylvania
Norman Redlich (1950), dean of
New York University School of Law , 1974–1988
Richard Revesz (1983), dean of
New York University School of Law , 2002–2013
Michael H. Schill (1984), dean of
UCLA Law School (2004–2009) and
University of Chicago Law School (2010–2015)
David Schizer (1993), dean of
Columbia Law School , 2004–2014
Aviam Soifer (1972), dean of the
William S. Richardson School of Law , 2003–present
[128]
William Treanor (1985), dean of
Georgetown University Law Center , 2010–present
Frans Vanistendael (LL.M.), dean of
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , 1999–2005
Kevin K. Washburn (1993), dean of the
University of New Mexico School of Law , 2009–2012
Joan Wexler , Dean and President of
Brooklyn Law School
Thomas C. Athur, Dean of Emory Law School, 2002-2005
Legal scholars
Constitutional law
Bruce Ackerman (1967), professor at
Yale Law School and author of
Social Justice in the Liberal State , 1987–present; regarded as one of the most frequently cited legal academics in the United States
Akhil Amar (1984), professor at
Yale Law School
Vikram Amar (1988), professor at the
University of California Davis School of Law
C. Edwin Baker , professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School , 1981–present; considered one of the country's foremost authorities on the
First Amendment
Charles Black , professor at
Yale Law School , 1956–1987
Philip Bobbitt (1975), professor at
Columbia Law School and author of
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History , 2007–present
William Eskridge (1978), professor at
Yale Law School , 1998–present
Noah Feldman (1997), professor at
Harvard Law School , 2007–present; scholar on
Islamic law and the intersection of religion and politics
Paul W. Kahn (1980), professor at
Yale Law School
Kermit Roosevelt III (1997), professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School , 2002–present
Reva Siegel (1986), professor at
Yale Law School , 1994–present
Carol M. Swain (M.S.L. Law), Professor of Political Science and Law at
Vanderbilt University
Charles Alan Wright (1949), professor at
University of Texas School of Law , 1995–2000; considered to be one of the foremost authorities in the
United States on
constitutional law
Kenji Yoshino (1996), professor at
New York University School of Law , 2006–present; focused on
anti-discrimination law ,
civil and
human rights law , and
law and literature
Johannes Reich (Rechtswissenschafter) (1975), Professor at the
University of Zurich , 2018-present; scholar on constitutional law, energy law and environmental law
[129]
Criminal law
Barbara Babcock (1963), professor at
Stanford Law School , 1972–present
Alan Dershowitz (1962), professor at
Harvard Law School , 1964–present; also a prolific attorney, jurist, and legal commentator and author of
The Case for Israel
Don Kates , professor at
Saint Louis University School of Law and author of numerous books on gun control
Mark Osler (1990), professor at the
University of St. Thomas School of Law ,
[130] clemency advocate,
[131] and critic of
capital punishment
Civil and human rights law
David D. Cole (1984), professor at
Georgetown University Law Center
Lani Guinier (1974), professor at
Harvard Law School , 2001–present; also the first tenured female
African–American professor at
Harvard Law School and well-known civil rights activist
Christof Heyns (LL.M.), professor at the
Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the
University of Pretoria
Randall Kennedy (1982), professor at
Harvard Law School
Andrew Koppelman (1989), professor at
Northwestern University , 2007–present
Catharine MacKinnon (1977), professor at the
University of Michigan Law School , 1989–present;
feminist scholar focused on
sexual harassment and
pornography
Tobias Barrington Wolff (1997), professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School ; notable for his legal advocacy on
same-sex marriage and other
LGBT -related issues
Intellectual property
International law
Harold J. Berman (1947), professor at
Harvard Law School , 1948–1985; professor at
Emory Law School , 1985–2007
George Bermann (1971), professor at
Columbia Law School , 1975–present
Rosa Brooks (1996), professor at
Georgetown University Law Center , 2011–present
Steve Charnovitz (1998), professor at
George Washington University Law School , 2004–present
Jerome Cohen (1955), professor at
New York University School of Law , 1990–present
Jack Goldsmith (1989), professor at
Harvard Law School ; also head of the
Office of Legal Counsel 2003–2004
David O'Keeffe (LL.M. 1978), Professor of European Law at
University of Durham , 1990–1993; professor of European Law at
University College London 1993–2005;, emeritus professor of European Law at
University of London 2005–present; part-time European administrative law judge
John Yoo (1992), professor at the
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law , 1993–present; primarily known for authoring the
Torture Memos
Jurisprudence
Peter Berkowitz , professor at
George Mason University School of Law , 1999–2007; senior fellow at
Stanford University 's
Hoover Institution , 2007–present
Jules Coleman (1976), professor at
Yale Law School
Arthur Corbin (1899), professor at
Yale Law School and one of the progenitors of
legal realism
Jan Deutsch (1962), professor at
Yale Law School
Richard Epstein (1968), professor at
New York University Law School , 2010–present; considered one of the most influential legal thinkers in the
United States
Duncan Kennedy (1970), professor at
Harvard Law , 1976–present; founder of the
critical legal studies movement
Karl Llewellyn , professor at
Columbia Law School , 1925–1951; professor at the
University of Chicago Law School , 1951–1962; leading proponent of
legal realism
Other legal scholars
Matthew Adler (1991), law professor
Ian Ayres (1986), professor at
Yale Law School and the
Yale School of Management , 1994–present
David C. Baldus (1964, LL.M. 1969), professor at the
University of Iowa College of Law
Boris Bittker (1941), professor at
Yale Law School , 1946–2005
Peter A. Bradford (1964), professor at
Vermont Law School and former member of the
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Tomiko Brown-Nagin , professor at
Harvard Law School
Stephen Carter , professor at
Yale Law School , 1982–present
John C. Coffee (1969), professor at
Columbia Law School
Arthur Linton Corbin (1899), professor at
Yale Law School , 1903–1943
Omar Dajani , professor at
McGeorge School of Law at the
University of the Pacific
Harlon L. Dalton , professor at
Yale Law School
Stuart L. Deutsch (1969), professor at
Rutgers School of Law–Newark , 1999–2009
Bill Dodge (1991), professor at the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Elizabeth Emens (2002), professor at
Columbia Law School , 2005–present
Cynthia Estlund (1983), professor at
New York University School of Law
Bill Felstiner (1958), professor at
Cardiff University , 1995–2005; specializes in
law and sociology
Claire Finkelstein (1993), professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Nicole Garnett (1995), professor at
Notre Dame Law School , 1999–present
Richard Garnett (1995), professor at
Notre Dame Law School , 1999–present
Michael Gottesman , professor at
Georgetown University Law Center
Daniel Halberstam , professor at the
University of Michigan Law School
Clarence Halbert (1897), co–founder of
William Mitchell College of Law
Kermit L. Hall , legal historian and member of the
Assassination Records Review Board
Philip Hamburger (1982), professor at
Columbia Law School
Samuel Issacharoff (1983), professor at
New York University School of Law
Brian Kalt (1997), professor at
Michigan State University College of Law
Michael I. Krauss (LL.M. 1978), professor at
George Mason University School of Law , 1987–present
Ethan Leib (2003), professor at
Fordham Law School
Louis Loss (1937), professor at
Harvard Law School , considered the intellectual father of modern securities law
Jonathan R. Macey (1982), professor at
Yale Law School
Robert T. Miller (1997), professor at the
University of Iowa College of Law
Eric L. Muller (1987), professor at the
University of North Carolina School of Law
H. Jefferson Powell (1982), professor at
George Washington University School of Law , 2010–present
Jedediah Purdy (2001), professor at
Duke University Law School
Charles A. Reich (1952), professor at
Yale Law School and author of
The Greening of America
Glenn Reynolds , professor at the
University of Tennessee College of Law
Deborah Rhode (1977), professor at
Stanford Law School
Daniel Richman (1984), Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at
Columbia Law School
Fred Rodell , professor at
Yale Law School
Joel Rogers , professor at the
University of Wisconsin Law School
Chris William Sanchirico (1994), professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Brett Scharffs (1992), professor at the
J. Reuben Clark Law School of
Brigham Young University , 1997–present
Wesley Alba Sturges (1923), professor at
Yale Law School
Eleanor Swift , professor at the
UC Berkeley School of Law
Donald F. Turner (1950), professor at
Harvard Law School
Mark Tushnet , professor at
Harvard Law School
Steven Walt (1988), professor at the
University of Virginia School of Law
Matthew Waxman , professor at
Columbia Law School
Rivka Weill, professor at
Harry Radzyner Law School , Interdisciplinary Center
[132]
Mark S. Weiner , professor at
Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Charles Whitebread , professor at the
University of Southern California Law School
Steven Wilf , professor at the
University of Connecticut School of Law
Michael Wishnie , professor at
Yale Law School
Theodore Salisbury Woolsey , professor at
Yale Law School
Katra Zajc (LL.M.), professor at the
University of Ljubljana
Other scholars
Peter Berkowitz , professor of
political science at
Harvard University , 1990–1999
Scott Boorman (1978), professor of
sociology at
Yale University
Lawrence Douglas (1989), professor at
Amherst College
Murray Gerstenhaber (1948), mathematician and lawyer, professor at the
University of Pennsylvania
Austin Sarat (1988), professor of
political science at
Amherst College
Ian Shapiro (1987), professor of
political science at
Yale University
Ruth Wedgwood , professor of
international relations at the
School of Advanced International Studies at
Johns Hopkins University
Michael Woodford , professor of
economics at
Columbia University
Kyu Ho Youm (M.S.L.), professor of journalism at the
University of Oregon
Activism
Jasper Alston Atkins (1922), civil rights activist and the first black editor of the
Yale Law Journal
D'Army Bailey (1967), civil rights activist and founder of the
National Civil Rights Museum
Mark Barnes (1984), attorney and AIDS activist
Craig Becker , labor attorney and a member of the
National Labor Relations Board , 2010–2011
Cornell William Brooks , civil rights activist, attorney, and former President & CEO,
NAACP
Kathleen Neal Cleaver , prominent member of the
Black Panther Party
Bill Drayton (1970), founder of
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public , a global social entrepreneurship organization
Marian Wright Edelman (1963), president and founder of the
Children's Defense Fund
Robert Gnaizda , co-founder of the
Greenlining Institute
Seth Green , founder of
Americans for Informed Democracy
Michael Harrington , chairman of
Democratic Socialists of America , 1982–1989
Kenneth Hecht , public interest attorney and advocate for improved access to affordable, nutritious food
Louis Clayton Jones , civil rights activist and founder of the
National Conference of Black Lawyers
Van Jones (1993), environmental activist, civil rights activist, and attorney; founder of
Green For All
Henry T. King (1943), prosecutor at the
Nuremberg trials , 1946–1947
Gay McDougall , civil rights activist and executive director of
Global Rights , 1994–2006
Michael Meltsner , civil rights litigator
First Asst.Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund , 1961–1970
Creighton Miller , founder of the
National Football League Players Association labor union
Lisa Richette , child welfare activist
Catherine Roraback (1948), civil rights attorney best known for representing the plaintiffs in the landmark 1965
Supreme Court case
Griswold v. Connecticut
Kenneth Roth (1980), executive director of
Human Rights Watch , 1993–present
Linda Rottenberg , founder of Endeavor
Andrew Shapiro , founder of
GreenOrder , an environmental sustainability consulting firm
James Speth (1969), attorney and environmental activist
Gregory Stanton , founder and president of
Genocide Watch , 1999–present
R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (1946), founder of the
America First Committee , the foremost
non-interventionist
pressure group against the American entry into
World War II , while a student at Yale Law
Neera Tanden (1996), president of the
Center for American Progress , 2011–present
William Taylor (1954), civil rights activist
Maxim Thorne , senior vice president of the
NAACP
Business
Lon Babby (1976), President of the
Phoenix Suns
Jeff Ballabon , senior vice president of
CBS News ; also an
Orthodox Jewish lobbyist and the founder of
Coordinating Council on Jerusalem
Alfred Wellington Carter (1893), prominent landowner in
Hawaii
Dick Cass (1971), president of the
Baltimore Ravens from 2004 to 2022
[133]
Sam Cohn (1956), co-founder of
International Creative Management and
talent agent to
Paul Newman ,
Woody Allen , and
Meryl Streep , among others
E. Virgil Conway (1956), chairman and CEO of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Michael R. Eisenson (1981), co-founder, managing director, and CEO of
Charlesbank Capital Partners , a
private equity investment firm based in
Boston and
New York City
Charles E. Fraser , real estate developer
Arthur Frommer (1953), publisher of
Frommer's travel guidebook series
Tom Glocer , CEO of
Thomson Reuters and
Reuters
Najeeb Halaby (1940), businessman and father of
Queen Noor of
Jordan
Joel Hyatt , co-founder of
Current TV with
Al Gore
Eli Jacobs (1964), financier and owner of the
Baltimore Orioles , 1989–1993
William M. Jennings , executive in the
National Hockey League and president of the
New York Rangers
Victor S. Johnson, Jr. , president of
Aladdin Industries
John Koskinen , non-executive chairman of
Freddie Mac , 2008–2011
Michael E. Levine (1965), airline executive
Larry Lucchino (1971), president and CEO of the
Boston Red Sox
J. Howard Marshall (1931), oil magnate, known for his marriage to
Anna Nicole Smith
Mark McCormack , founder of
IMG , an international sports and media company
Nicolas D. Muzin (1975), Politico and founder of
Stonington Global .
Neal Pilson (1963), former president of
CBS Sports
[134]
Robert Pozen (1972, J.S.D. 1973), vice chairman and president of
Fidelity Investments
Ken Stern , CEO of
National Public Radio
John Butler Talcott (1846), industrialist and founder of the New Britain Museum of American Art
Brooks Thomas , CEO of
Harper & Row
Raymond S. Troubh , independent financial consultant who served as a general partner at
Lazard , 1961–1974; interim chairman of
Enron , 2002–2004
Hubertus van der Vaart ,
Dutch businessman and co-founder and chairman of
SEAF
Fay Vincent (1963), 8th
Commissioner of Major League Baseball , 1989–1992
John P. Wheeler III (1975), chairman of the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Tim and Nina Zagat (1966), co-founders and publishers of
Zagat
John E. Zuccotti (1963), real estate developer and namesake of
Zuccotti Park
C. Montgomery Burns
Film, theater, and television
Lisa Bloom (1986), anchor of Lisa Bloom: Open Court on
Court TV
Katy Chevigny , documentary filmmaker.
[135]
La Carmina ,
Canadian fashion blogger, author, journalist, and host on
CNNGo
[136]
[137]
[138]
Jeff Greenfield (1967), senior political correspondent for
CBS Evening News
Yul Kwon (2000), host of American Revealed on
PBS and winner of
Survivor: Cook Islands
D. G. Martin , host of North Carolina Bookwatch on
UNC-TV
Gene Sperling (1985), writer on
The West Wing
Ben Stein (1970), actor and host of
Win Ben Stein's Money
Writers
Renata Adler (1979) , novelist, staff writer for
The New Yorker , and film critic for
The New York Times
Joseph Amiel (1962), attorney and writer of popular fiction
Aditi Banerjee , co-author and editor of
Invading the Sacred
Chesa Boudin (2011), progressive writer
Lan Cao , author of the 1997 novel
Monkey Bridge and 2014 novel
The Lotus and the Storm (Viking)
Stephen Carter (1979), novelist
Ken Chen , poet
Nelson Denis (1980), editorial director of
El Diario/La Prensa , author of War Against All Puerto Ricans (
Nation Books , 2015)
Heidi W. Durrow (1995), novelist
Robin Goldstein (2002), food and wine critic
Adam Haslett (2003), short story writer
Julie Hilden (1992), novelist
Laura Chapman Hruska , novelist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of
Soho Press
Jamil Jivani (2013), author of
Why Young Men
Bruce Judson (1984), author of business and public policy books
Edward Lazarus (1987), author of the 1998 non-fiction book
Closed Chambers
He Li (2003),
Chinese -language poet
Walter Lord (1948), author of the 1955 book
A Night to Remember , considered a definitive account of the
Titanic disaster
Daniyal Mueenuddin (1996), short story writer
David Orr (1999), poet
Matthew Pearl , novelist
Daniel Pink , author
Gretchen Rubin (1995), author of the 2009 book The Happiness Project
David Stewart (1978), non-fiction writer
Julius Taranto (2016), novelist
[139]
Alina Tugend (M.S.L.), columnist for
The New York Times
J. D. Vance (2013), author of
Hillbilly Elegy
Qian Julie Wang (2012), author of Beautiful Country
Clement Wood , poet
Elizabeth Wurtzel (2008), author of the 1994 memoir
Prozac Nation
Monica Youn , poet
Media and journalism
Journalists
Emily Bazelon (2000), staff writer,
The New York Times Magazine , former senior editor of
Slate
Bob Cohn , executive editor of
Wired , 2001–2008
Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), editorial director of
El Diario/La Prensa , former member of the
New York State Assembly
Ronan Farrow (2009), contributor to
The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize winner
Craig Forman , foreign correspondent and bureau chief for
The Wall Street Journal
Jack Fuller ,
Pulitzer Prize –winning journalist and president of the
Tribune Company
Linda Greenhouse (M.S.L. 1978),
Supreme Court correspondent for
The New York Times
Patrick Radden Keefe , staff writer for
The New Yorker , appointed as a
Guggenheim Fellow in 2006
David Lat (1999), founder and managing editor of Above the Law, a blog about the legal profession
Adam Liptak (1988),
Supreme Court correspondent for
The New York Times
Victor Navasky (1959), editor of
The Nation , 1978–1995; publisher of
The Nation , 1995–2005; chairman of the
Columbia Journalism Review , 2005–present
Viveca Novak (M.S.L.), political correspondent for
Time
Charlie Savage (2003), reporter for
The New York Times
Luiza Savage , Washington bureau chief,
Maclean's magazine
Military
Sports
Other
T. Bill Andrews , abstract impressionist painter, author, federal ALJ
Dyke Brown (1941), founder of
The Athenian School
John Anthony Flood , sociologist, legal academic, consultant, author and a researcher
Richard Green (1987), psychiatrist specializing in homosexuality and transsexualism
Stewart Rhodes (2004), founder of the
Oath Keepers , convicted for seditious conspiracy in the
January 6 United States Capitol attack
Pat Robertson (1955), televangelist and founder of
Regent University
Vanessa Selbst (2012), professional poker player
Sherman Day Thacher (1886), founder of
The Thacher School
Iwan Tirta (1964), fashion designer
Louis W. Tompros , academic and lawyer
Yona Reiss (1991), Chief Rabbinical judge of the
Chicago Rabbinical Council
Non-graduates
These students attended Yale Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.
Judah P. Benjamin , Secretary of State of the Confederate States; U.S. Senator from Louisiana
Henry Billings Brown , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1890–1906
Henry Louis Gates , professor of
history at
Harvard University
Alexander T. Hawthorn ,
Confederate States Army general
[141]
Michael Medved , author, film critic, and radio talk show host
David Milch (expelled), television writer and producer
Robert B. Silvers , co-founder and editor of The New York Review of Books
Fictitious alumni
Arthur Branch , character on the TV series
Law & Order
Alexis Davis , character on the TV series
General Hospital
Greg Foster , character on the TV series
The Young and the Restless
Amy Gardner , character on the TV series
The West Wing
Judge Chamberlain Haller , character in the film
My Cousin Vinny
Josh Lyman , character on the TV series The West Wing
Jordan McDeere , character on the TV series
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Selina Meyer , character on the TV series
Veep
Wayne Palmer , character on the TV series
24
Bruce Wayne , alter ego of
Batman , as disclosed in
Detective Comics 439
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