List of Yale Law School alumni

Executive branch

U.S. Presidents

Bill Clinton (1973), 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

Gerald Ford (1941), 38th President of the United States, 1974–1977

U.S. Attorneys General

Herbert Brownell Jr. (1927), 62nd U.S. Attorney General, 1953–1957

Homer Stille Cummings (1893), 55th U.S. Attorney General, 1933–1939

Nicholas Katzenbach (1947), 65th U.S. Attorney General, 1965–1966

Peter Keisler (1985), acting U.S. Attorney General, 2007

Edward H. Levi (1938), 71st U.S. Attorney General, 1975–1977

Wayne MacVeagh (1856), 36th U.S. Attorney General, 1881

Michael B. Mukasey (1967), 81st U.S. Attorney General, 2007–2009

Edwards Pierrepont (1840), 33rd U.S. Attorney General, 1875–1876

Alphonso Taft (1838), 34th U.S. Attorney General, 1876–1877

U.S. Solicitors General

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

Other cabinet and cabinet-level officials

Clifford Alexander Jr. (1958), 13th Secretary of the Army, 1977–1981

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., incoming Secretary of Education, 2015–

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–present

Alphonso Taft (1838), 31st Secretary of War, 1876

Cyrus Vance (1942), 57th Secretary of State, 1977–1980

Eugene M. Zuckert (1936), 7th Secretary of the Air Force, 1961–1965

Legislative branch (U.S. Congress)

Senators

Raymond E. Baldwin (1921), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut), 1946–1949

Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1893), U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), 1922–1929

Michael Bennet (1993), U.S. Senator (D-Colorado), 2009–present

Richard Blumenthal (1973), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 2011–present

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

Hillary Clinton (1973), U.S. Senator (D-New York), 2001–2009

Chris Coons (1992), U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), 2010–present

John A. Danaher (1922), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut), 1939–1945

John Danforth (1961), U.S. Senator (R-Missouri), 1976–1995

David Davis (1835), U.S. Senator (R-Illinois), 1877–1883

Thomas J. Dodd (1933), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1959–1971

Peter H. Dominick (1940), U.S. Senator (R-Colorado), 1963–1975

Charles Goodell (1951), U.S. Senator (R-New York), 1968–1971

Gary Hart (1964), U.S. Senator (D-Colorado), 1975–1987

Joseph Lieberman (1967), U.S. Senator (D/I-Connecticut), 1989–2012

Augustine Lonergan (1902), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1933–1939

Estes Kefauver (1927), U.S. Senator (D-Tennessee), 1949–1963

Alfred B. Kittredge, U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota), 1901–1909

Brien McMahon (1927), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1945–1952

Trusten Polk (1831), U.S. Senator (D-Missouri), 1857–1862

Julius Rockwell (1826), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts), 1854–1855

Arlen Specter (1956), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1981–2011

Paul Tsongas (1967), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts), 1979–1985

Harris Wofford (1954), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1991–1995

Representatives

Lewis Beach (1856), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1881–1886

Carroll L. Beedy (1906), U.S. Representative (R-Maine), 1921–1935

Jackson Edward Betts (1929), U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1951–1973

Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1939), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1965–1983

Clay Stone Briggs (1899), U.S. Representative (D-Texas), 1919–1933

C. Pope Caldwell (1899), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1915–1921

Charles T. Canady (1979), U.S. Representative (R-Florida), 1993–2001

James Colgate Cleveland (1948), U.S. Representative (R-New Hampshire), 1963–1981

Sam Coppersmith (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Arizona, 1993–1995

Albert W. Cretella (1921), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut, 1953–1959

Peter Deutsch (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Florida), 1993–2005

Allen Ertel (1965), U.S. Representative (D-Pennsylvania), 1977–1983

Elizabeth Esty (1985), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 2013–present

Richard P. Freeman (1894), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1915–1933

Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (1941), U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey), 1953–1975

Foster Furcolo (1936), U.S. Representative (D-Massachusetts), 1949–1952

Edwin W. Higgins (1897), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1905–1913

Peter Hoagland (1968), U.S. Representative (D-Nebraska), 1989–1995

Colin M. Ingersoll, U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1851–1855

Donald J. Irwin (1954), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1959–1961

Stephen Wright Kellogg (1848), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1869–1875

Franklin F. Korell (did not graduate), U.S. Representative (R-Oregon), 1927–1931

William Lemke, U.S. Representative (R-North Dakota), 1932–1936

John Lindsay (1948), U.S. Representative (R-New York), 1959–1965

Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1959–1963

Allard K. Lowenstein (1954), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1969–1971

John Miller (1964), U.S. Representative (R-Washington), 1985–1993

Bruce Morrison (1973), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1983–1991

Eleanor Holmes Norton (1964), Congressional delegate (D-Washington, D.C.), 1991–present

Miner G. Norton (1880), U.S. Representative (D-Ohio), 1921–1923

George M. O'Brien (1947), U.S. Representative (R-Illinois), 1973–1986

Tom Perriello (2001), U.S. Representative (D-Virginia), 2009–2011

Aaron F. Perry, U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1871–1872

William Scranton, U.S. Representative (D-Pennsylvania), 1961–1963

David Skaggs (1967), U.S. Representative (D-Colorado), 1987–1999

J. Joseph Smith (1927), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1935–1941

Wint Smith (1922), U.S. Representative (R-Kansas), 1947–1961

John Spratt (1969), U.S. Representative (D-South Carolina), 1983–2011

Joseph E. Talbot (1925), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1942–1947

Frank Tejeda (LL.M. 1989), U.S. Representative (D-Texas), 1993–1997

John Q. Tilson (1893), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1909–1913, 1915–1932

William H. Upson (1845), U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1869–1873

Stuyvesant Wainwright (1947), U.S. Representative (R-New York), 1953–1961

Mel Watt (1970), U.S. Representative (D-North Carolina), 1993–present

Washington F. Willcox (1862), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1889–1893

David Wu (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Oregon), 1999–2011

Dick Zimmer (1969), U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey), 1991–1997

Judicial branch

Supreme Court justices

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

Sherman Minton (1916), 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

Federal courts of appeals

Robert P. Anderson (1929), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1964–1978

Herschel Arant (1915), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1939–1941

Edward Roy 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

William Duane Benton (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2004–present

Wilbur F. Booth (1888), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1925–1932

José A. Cabranes (1965), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–present

Guido Calabresi (1958), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–2009

Charles Edward Clark (1913), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1939–1963

Eric L. Clay (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1997–present

Richard Clifton, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2002–present

R. Guy Cole Jr. (1978), 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–present

Steven M. Colloton (1988), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2003–present

Richard Cudahy (1955), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1979–1994

Conrad K. Cyr (1956), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1989–1997

William A. Fletcher (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present

Susan P. Graber (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present

Morton Ira Greenberg (1957), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1987–present

Pamela Harris (1990), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2014–present

David Hamilton (1983), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2009–present

A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1952), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1977–1993

Stephen A. Higginson (1987), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2011–present

Carroll C. Hincks, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1954–1964

Andrew D. Hurwitz (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2012–present

Robert Katzmann (1980), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1999–present

Brett Kavanaugh (1990), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2006–present

Carolyn Dineen King (1962), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1979–present

Kermit Lipez (1967), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1998–2011

Scott Matheson Jr. (1980), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2010–present

William Ernest Miller (1933), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1970–1976

Jon O. Newman (1956), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979–present

Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1969), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2001–2009

Cornelia (Nina) T.L. Pillard (1983), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2013-present.

Jill A. Pryor (1988), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2012–present

Stephen Reinhardt (1954), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1980–present

Roger Robb (1931), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1969–1982

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

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

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

Ralph Winter (1960), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1981–present

Federal district courts

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

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–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 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

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

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

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 Sullivan (1990), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2007–present

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

J. Rich Leonard (1976), U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, 1992–present

Albert Levitt (1923), Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 1935–1968

Thomas B. McNamara (1990), U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for District of Colorado, 2015–present

William Josiah Tilson (1896, LL.M. 1897), Judge for the United States Court of International Trade

State government

Governors

Jerry Brown (1964), 34th and 39th Governor of California, 1975–1983, 2011–present

Foster Furcolo (1936), 60th Governor of Massachusetts, 1957–1961

Bibb Graves (1896), 38th Governor of Alabama, 1927–1931

Henry Baldwin Harrison, 52nd Governor of Connecticut, 1885–1887

William W. Hoppin, 24th Governor of Rhode Island, 1854–1857

William J. Mills (1877), 19th Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1910–1912

Gina Raimondo (1998), 75th Governor of Rhode Island, 2015–present

Raymond P. Shafer (1941), 39th Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967–1971

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

James M. Brown (1967), Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1981

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

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

Frederick Lippitt (1946), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1961–1983

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, Majority Whip of the Ohio Senate from the 22nd district, 2011–present

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

Bryan Townsend, member of the Delaware Senate, 2012–present

Francis W. Treadway (1892), 30th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1909–1911

Anthony Van Wyck (1844), member of the Wisconsin State Senate 1864–1865, 1868–1869

John Wesley Wescott, Attorney General of New Jersey of New Jersey, 1914–1919

State judges

William B. Chandler, III, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1985–1996

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

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 female to hold this position); Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1996–1999

Marshall F. McComb (1919), Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1955–1977

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

George Williamson Crawford (1903), second black graduate of the Law School and Corporation Counsel of the City of New Haven

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

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

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

Alex Azar, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services

David B. Barlow, U.S. Attorney for the district of Utah, 2011–present

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

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

Ro Khanna (2001), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce

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–present

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 political figures

Heads of state or heads of government

Karl Carstens (LL.M. 1949), 5th President of Germany, 1979–1984

José 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 Canadian House of Commons, 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

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

David Howarth (LL.M. 1983), Member of Parliament for Cambridge, 2005–2010

Shunmugam Jayakumar (LL.M. 1966), Senior Minister of Singapore, 2009–2011

H. H. Kung (LL.M. 1907), Premier of the Republic of China, 1938–1939

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–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

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

National court judges

Luís Roberto Barroso (LL.M. 1989), Judge for the Supreme Court of Brazil, 2013–present

Carlos Rosenkrantz, Judge for the Supreme Court of Argentina, 2016–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

Wan Exiang (LL.M. 1987), Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, 1998–2003

Enrique Fernando (1948), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

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

Rosalyn Higgins (J.S.D. 1962), president of the International Court of Justice, 2006–2009

Stavros Lambrinidis (J.D. 1988), European Union Special Representative for Human Rights (since Sept. 2012)

Johan C. Verbeke (LL.M. 1978), head of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG)

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

Francis N. Bangs (1847), founding partner of Bangs & Stetson, a precursor to the modern firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell

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 and son of Vice 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

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

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 cased 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

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

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

John P. Hannah, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Carla Anderson Hills, 5th chairwoman of the Council on Foreign Relations

Bruce J. Katz (1985), vice president of the Brookings Institution

Bayless Manning (1949), 1st president of the Council on Foreign Relations

University presidents and other administrators

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

Ronald J. Daniels (1988), president of Johns Hopkins University, 2009–present

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

Robert Prichard (LL.M. 1976), president of the University of Toronto, 1990–2000

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

Law school deans

T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1977), dean of Georgetown University Law Center, 2004–2009

Michelle Anderson (1994), dean of City University of New York Law School, 2006–present

Evan Caminker (1986), dean of the University of Michigan Law School, 2003–present

Daniel Coquillette (1973), dean of the Boston College Law School, 1985–1993

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

Robert Klonoff (1979), dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, 2007–present

Anthony T. Kronman (1975), dean of Yale Law School, 1994–2004

Janet Koven Levit (1994), dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law, 2008–2015

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–present

Earl F. Martin (LL.M. 1996), dean of Gonzaga University School of Law, 2005–2010

Martha Minow (1979), dean of Harvard Law School, 2009–present

Russell D. Niles (LL.M. 1931), dean of New York University School of Law, 1948–1963

Eduardo Penalver (1999), dean of Cornell Law School, 2014–present

Robert Post (1977), dean of Yale Law School, 2009–present

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–present

Robert Schapiro (1990) dean of Emory University School of Law, 2012–present

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–present

Aviam Soifer (1972), dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law, 2003–present

William Treanor (1985), dean of Georgetown University Law Center, 2010–present

Frans Vanistendael (LL.M.), dean of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999–2005

Matt Vega (1993), dean of the Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, 2014–present

Kevin K. Washburn (1993), dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, 2009–2012

Harold G. Wren (J.S.D. 1957) dean of Louis D. Brandeis School of Law of the University of Louisville, 1976-1981, T.C. Williams School of Law of The University of Richmond, (1972-1976), and Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, (1969-1972).

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

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

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, clemency advocate, 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

Lori Andrews, professor at Chicago–Kent College of Law

Susan P. Crawford, professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Lawrence Lessig, professor at Harvard Law School, 2008–present; professor at Stanford Law School, 2000–2008, where he founded its Center for Internet and Society, candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Eben Moglen (1985), professor at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Pozen (1972, J.S.D. 1973), vice chairman and president of Fidelity Investments

Ken Stern, CEO of National Public Radio

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

Film, theater, and television

Lisa Bloom (1985), anchor of Lisa Bloom: Open Court on Court TV

La Carmina (did not graduate), Canadian fashion blogger, author, journalist, and host on CNNGo

Jeff Greenfield (1967), senior political correspondent for CBS Evening News

Charlie Korsmo (2006), former child actor, appeared in Dick Tracy

Yul Kwon (2000), host of American Revealed on PBS and winner of Survivor: Cook Islands

Hans A. Linde (1966), correspondent for CBS Evening News

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, novelist, essayist, and critic

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

Stephen Carter, novelist

Ken Chen, poet

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

Bruce Judson (1980), author, 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 1995 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

Alina Tugend (M.S.L.), columnist for the New York Times

Clement Wood, poet

Elizabeth Wurtzel (2008), author of the 1994 memoir Prozac Nation

Monica Youn, poet

Commentators

Michael Barone (1969), conservative political analyst, pundit, and journalist; principal author of The Almanac of American Politics

Lanny Davis (1970), political commentator and author of Scandal: How "Gotcha" Politics Is Destroying America

Van Jones (1993), political analyst for CNN

Jonathan Kay (1997), editor-in-chief of The Walrus

Mark Levine, progressive political pundit and radio host

Journalists

Emily Bazelon (2000), senior editor of Slate, an online magazine

Bob Cohn, executive editor of Wired, 2001–2008

Nelson Antonio Denis, journalist and former member of the New York State Assembly

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

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

Norman Dike, captain of the United States Army during World War II (promoted to lieutenant colonel after the war)

Alfred Terry, general of the Union Army during the American Civil War

Sports

Rodney Aller, masters skier

Al Hessberg (1941), college football player

Fay Moulton, Olympic sprinter and college football player

William G. Norton, college football coach

Ted St. Germaine (1914), professional football player in the National Football League

Other

T. Bill Andrews, abstract impressionist painter, author, federal ALJ

Dyke Brown (1941), founder of The Athenian School

Richard Green (1987), psychiatrist specializing in homosexuality and transsexualism

Daniel Greer, rabbi and founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven

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

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

Diego Massimiliano De Giorgi, Head of the House of Giorgi (2014–)

Henry Louis Gates, professor of history at Harvard University

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

Amanda Bonner, character in the movie Adam's Rib

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 movie My Cousin Vinnie

Josh Lyman, character on the TV series The West Wing

Jordan McDeere, character on the TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Wayne Palmer, character on the TV series 24

Bruce Wayne, alter ego of Batman, as disclosed in Detective Comics 439

Rory Gilmore, character on the TV series Gilmore Girls