The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law or UVA Law) was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his "academical village," the University of Virginia. Virginia Law is the fourth-oldest active law school in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating law school. The law school offers the J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees in law and hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers.
Virginia Law is perennially regarded as one of the 10 most prestigious law schools in the United States. U.S. News & World Report currently ranks Virginia Law as tied for eighth in the nation with Michigan, in 2018, and in 2011, ranked Virginia Law as sixth among major law firm recruiters. In the 2010 Super Lawyers Law School Rankings, Virginia Law ranks fourth in the nation. In the 2015 Above the Law rankings, Virginia Law ranked sixth in the nation. A 2013 Above the Law report also notes that Virginia is second in the number of graduates leading the nation's top 100 firms.
A study published in the Journal of Legal Education ranked Virginia Law fourth in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms. Virginia Law also places high in clerkships, recently ranking behind only Harvard Law School and Yale Law School.
The Princeton Review ranked Virginia Law as first in "Best Quality of Life" among the nation's law schools, along with second in "Best Professors," third in "Best Classroom Experience," fifth in "Career Prospects," and seventh in "Toughest to Get Into."
The 2016 QS World University Rankings for law school, places Virginia Law in the range of 51–100 worldwide and the 13th-best law school in U.S.
The Law School has 19,984 alumni in all 50 states, more than 60 foreign countries and several U.S. protectorates, and the Law School's alumni giving rate of more than 50 percent for the past 11 years is among the highest of the nation's law schools. Virginia Law recently completed an eight-year capital campaign, raising $173.9 million to enhance the student experience.
The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School operated by the United States Army is located next to UVA.
Virginia Law is among the most selective law schools in the nation. For the class entering in the fall of 2016, 297 out of 4,811 J.D. applicants matriculated. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2016 entering class were 164 and 170, respectively, with a median of 169. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.48 and 3.94, respectively, with a median of 3.86.
The Class of 2019 come from 39 states, the District of Columbia, and 138 undergraduate institutions. The age range was 20 to 37. 55% of the class was male, 45% female, and 24% identified themselves as people of color (including non-citizens). 59% of the class had work experience after college.
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) for first-year law students at Virginia Law for the 2016-2017 academic year is $78,002 for Virginia residents and $81,002 for nonresidents. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years, based on data from the 2015-2016 academic year, is $287,175 for residents; the estimated cost for non-residents is $293,211.
In 1995-1997, the Law School used entirely donated funds to renovate and expand its buildings on the University's North Grounds to include the former facilities of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration which built a new campus several hundred yards away.
The Arthur J. Morris Law Library holds more than 820,000 volumes, including substantial collections of federal, state, and international documents, manuscripts, archives, and online research databases.
The Law School maintains an extensive roster of student organizations, including chapters of the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society and the St. Thomas More Society.
The Virginia Law Weekly, the Law School's student-run weekly newspaper, has been published since 1948. The paper has been cited in several court cases including the U.S. Supreme Court case Patterson v. New York. In addition to its news content, the VLW also contains student-submitted content which often includes humorous and creative pieces. The Law Weekly has won the American Bar Association's previous three "Best Newspaper Awards," in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Each spring over a hundred students write, direct and perform in The Libel Show, a comedy and musical theatre production that was first organized in 1904. Its performers roast Law School professors, student stereotypes and life in Charlottesville throughout each of its three nightly showings. Professors write and sing their response to the students' jokes at the penultimate performance.
The Law School is host to 10 academic journals, including the Virginia Law Review, one of the most cited law journals in the country:
Virginia Journal of International Law, the oldest student edited international law journal in the country
Virginia Environmental Law Journal
Virginia Journal of Law & Technology
Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law
Virginia Law & Business Review
Virginia Law Review
Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
Virginia Tax Review Association
Virginia Journal of Criminal Law
Journal of Law and Politics
The Law School's curricular programs include the programs in Law & Business and Law and Public Service, as well as programs in international law, legal and constitutional history, criminal law, human rights, race and law, environmental and land use law, immigration law, intellectual property, public policy and regulation, health law, law and humanities, and animal law.
The Law School also has programs that help students build skills, such as the legal writing program, courses in professional ethics, trial advocacy and public speaking, and other practical-skills courses.
Among the more than 250 courses and seminars offered each year by the Law School, Virginia has 18 clinics:
Appellate Litigation
Child Advocacy
Criminal Defense
Employment Law
Entrepreneurial Law
Environmental and Regulatory Law
Family Alternative Dispute Resolution
First Amendment Law
Health Law
Immigration Law
Innocence Project
International Human Rights
Litigation and Housing Law
Nonprofit Clinic
Patent and Licensing I
Patent and Licensing II
Prosecution
Supreme Court Litigation
Students may participate in eight international exchange programs:
Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany
Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain
Melbourne Law School in Australia
Seoul National University in South Korea
University of Auckland in New Zealand
University of Sydney in Australia
Tel Aviv University Law School in Israel
Waseda University in Tokyo
In addition, the Law School offers rising third-year students the opportunity to obtain a dual degree from Sciences Po in Paris. Students who successfully complete this program earn a French law diploma (entitling them to sit for the French bar exam) and a J.D. degree from Virginia.
Students also may spend one semester abroad through the student-initiated study abroad program or as an external studies project. Each year one-credit courses are offered in Paris and Tel Aviv through the January Term.
Institutes and centers
The Law School includes several internationally known special programs directed by faculty members who are respected in their fields and often called upon by private and governmental organizations worldwide for their expertise.
Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
Center for National Security Law
Center for Oceans Law and Policy
Center for Children, Families, and the Law
Center for the Study of Race and Law
According to Virginia Law's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 84.8% of the Class of 2014 obtained non-school funded full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation.
Virginia Law is fourth in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms, and a survey by the NLJ found that the law school ranked third in the number of associates promoted to partner among the NLJ's top 250 firms in 2015. Additionally, Virginia Law is second only to Harvard in the number of alumni serving as chief legal counsel at Fortune 500 companies. Alumni from Virginia Law are also employed at 100 of the American Lawyer top 100 law firms (as of May 2016). In a 2010 study by Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Virginia ranked fifth in the number of lawyers at the top 300 U.S. law firms.
From 2005 to 2016, Virginia Law had the fourth-highest placement of law clerks on the United States Supreme Court, surpassed only by Yale, Harvard and Stanford. In 2016 UVA Law alumni set a school record for obtaining the most appellate court clerkships in a term.
Virginia Law maintains a list of prominent alumni.
Charles C. Adams, Jr., international arbitration lawyer, political and civic activist
George Allen (1977) - U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and Governor of Virginia
James Lindsay Almond, Jr. (1923) - Governor of Virginia; Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Nathan L. Bachman (1903) - U.S. Senator from Tennessee
Alben W. Barkley (1900) - U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States
Evan Bayh (1981) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Indiana
Robert Bauer (1976) - White House Counsel, General Counsel of the Obama Campaign.
Andy Beshear (2003) - Attorney General of Kentucky
Kit Bond (1963) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri
Rick Boucher (1971) - U.S Congressman from Virginia
Debra Bowen (1979) - Secretary of State of California
Alan Stephenson Boyd (1948) - U.S. Secretary of Transportation
John Bridgeland (1987) - Director, USA Freedom Corps
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1936) - U.S. Senator from Virginia
Millard F. Caldwell (1924) - U.S. Congressman and Governor of Florida
Mortimer Caplin (1940) - former Commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
Edward M. Carmouche (1948) - chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Robin Carnahan (1986) - Missouri Secretary of State
James Paul Clarke (1878) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Arkansas
John Cornyn (1995) - U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas
Tom Davis (1975) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
Frank M. Dixon (1943) - Governor of Alabama
Luis G. Fortuño (1985) - Governor of Puerto Rico
Tom Donilon (1985) - U.S. National Security Advisor
Fred Fielding (1964) - White House Counsel
William Meade Fishback (1855) - Governor of Arkansas
Randy Forbes (1977) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
Doug Gansler (1989) - Attorney General of Maryland
Jim Gilmore (1977) - Governor of Virginia
Virgil Goode (1973) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
Lee E. Goodman (1990) - Chairman, Federal Election Commission
Pete Holmes (1984) - Seattle City Attorney
William J. Howell (1967) - Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
Bob Inglis (1984) - U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
Kim Keenan (1987) - General Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
John Neely Kennedy (1977) - U.S. Senator from Louisiana.
Max Kennedy (1992) - Political activist and author; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1984) - Political and social activist; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
Ted Kennedy (1959) - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic Presidential Candidate
Robert F. Kennedy (1951) - Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic Presidential Candidate
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (1979) - Environmental activist; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
Angus King (1969) - U.S. Senator and Former Governor of Maine
Sheila Jackson-Lee (1975) - U.S. Congresswoman from Texas
Sean Patrick Maloney (1992) - U.S. Congressman from New York
Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (1981) - Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton
Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) - Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
Robert Mueller (1973) - Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
Janet Napolitano (1983) - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of Arizona, President of the University of California
Bill Nelson (1968) - U.S. Senator from Florida
Ken Paxton (1991) - Attorney General of Texas
Matthew S. Peterson (1999) - Commissioner and former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
W. Robert Pearson (1968) - U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
H. Foster Pettit - Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1965 to 1970; mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, 1972 to 1978; practiced law in Lexington
Heather Podesta (1997) - American lobbyist
Trevor Potter (1982) - Chairman of Federal Election Commission
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1940) - U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Hugh D. Scott (1922) - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate
William B. Schultz (1990) - General Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services
Charles Robb (1973) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia
Faryar Shirzad - advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
Howard Worth Smith (1903) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
John C. Stennis (1927) - U.S. Senator from Mississippi
John V. Tunney (1959) - U.S. Senator from California
John Warner (1953) - U.S. Senator from Virginia
Lowell P. Weicker (1958) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut
Sheldon Whitehouse (1982) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
Woodrow Wilson (attended 1879) - President of the United States
Frank Wisner - Head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s
Peter S. Vincent (1995) - Principal Legal Advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Andy Vollmer (1978) - Acting General Counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
G. Steven Agee (1977) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Carol Bagley Amon (1971) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
John Antoon II (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Alice M. Batchelder (1988) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Lewis Thornton Babcock (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Peter Hill Beer (1986, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Carol A. Beier (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Kansas Supreme Court
Robert Benham (1990, LL.M) - Judge, Georgia Supreme Court
William Duane Benton (1995, LL.M) - Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Robert R. Beezer (1956) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Susan H. Black (1984) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
John White Brockenbrough - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
Mary Beck Briscoe (1990, LL.M) - Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
John T. Broderick, Jr. (1972) - Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
James O. Browning (1981) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
Pasco Bowman II (1979, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Janice Rogers Brown (2004, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Albert Vickers Bryan (1921) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
John D. Butzner, Jr. (1941, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Consuelo María Callahan (2004, LL.M) - Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (1973) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Ronald D. Castille (1971) - Chief Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Robert J. Conrad (1983) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1988, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
James L. Dennis (1984) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Hardy Cross Dillard - Dean, UVa Law School; Judge, International Court of Justice
Donal O'Donnell (1983, LL.M) - Justice, Supreme Court of Ireland
Robert D. Durham (1998, LL.M) - Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
James Larry Edmondson (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Richard Alan Enslen (1986, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Orinda D. Evans (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Jerry Falwell Jr. (1987) - Chancellor, Liberty University
John A. Field Jr. (1935) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Louise W. Flanagan (1988) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Paul C. Gartzke (1992) - Presiding Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
Julia Smith Gibbons (1975) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
John A. Gibney, Jr. (1976) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
John Gleeson (1980) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Thomas B. Griffith (1985) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Asher Grunis (1972, LL.M) - President, Supreme Court of Israel
Michael Daly Hawkins (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Tim Heaphy (1991) - U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia
Virginia Hopkins (1977) - Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Lynn Nettleton Hughes (1992, LL.M) - Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Willis Hunt (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Raymond Alvin Jackson (1973) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Brendan Johnson - U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
Denise R. Johnson (LL.M., 1995) - first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court
James Parker Jones (1965) - Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Daniel Porter Jordan III (1993) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Barbara Milano Keenan (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
James Kinkeade (1998, LL.M.) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Cynthia D. Kinser (1977) - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
Edwin Kneedler (1975) - Deputy United States Solicitor General
Jeannette Knoll (Master of Laws, 1996) - Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
Benson Everett Legg (1973) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Peter K. Leisure (1958) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Donald Lemons (1976) - Chief Justice Supreme Court of Virginia
Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
Kermit Lipez (1990, LL.M.) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
J. Michael Luttig (1981) - former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co.
James Clark McReynolds (1884) - former Justice, United States Supreme Court
Blanche M. Manning (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Boyce F. Martin, Jr. (1963, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Mark D. Martin (1998) - Judge North Carolina Supreme Court
Amit Priyavadan Mehta (1997) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Lawrence E. Meyers (1998, LL.M) - Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth
Donald M. Middlebrooks (2004, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Michael P. Mills (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
Richard Henry Mills (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Paul Redmond Michel (1966) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Norman K. Moon (1988, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
John T. Morton (1994) - Assistant Secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Diana Gribbon Motz (1968) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
J. Frederick Motz (1967) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
William Theodore Moore Jr. (2001, LL.M)- Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
Glenn Murdock (1981) - Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama
Alan Eugene Norris (1986) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Diarmuid O'Scannlain (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
John Pelander (1998, LL.M) Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
Cleo E. Powell (1982) - Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
William R. Quinlan(1989, LL.M)- Justice, Illinois Appellate Court, Corporation Counsel to the City of Chicago
Stanley Forman Reed (1908) - former Justice, United States Supreme Court
Carlton W. Reeves (1989) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
Kenneth Francis Ripple (1968) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (1988, LL.M) Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
John Roll (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona
Robert D. Rucker (1998, LL.M) - Judge, Indiana Supreme Court
Thomas G. Saylor (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Michael H. Schneider, Sr. (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Arthur J. Schwab (1972) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) - Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
G. Kendall Sharp (1963) - Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Robert J. Shelby (1988) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
Randall Terry Shepard (1995 LL.M) - Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
Walter King Stapleton (1984, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
W. Taylor Reveley, III (1968) - President, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School
Arthur J. Schwab (1972) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Edward Samuel Smith (1947) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
William Lloyd Standish (1956) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Murray Merle Schwartz (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Randall Terry Shepard (1995, LL.M) - Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
Louis L. Stanton (1955) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Myron T. Steele (1970) - Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
Chester J. Straub (1961) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Richard F. Suhrheinrich (1990, LL.M) - Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Richard Barclay Surrick (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Debra Todd (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Juan R. Torruella (1984, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Joyce White Vance (1985) - United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
Paul R. Verkuil (1967) - Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; former President of College of William & Mary and former Dean of Cardozo Law School
James B. Whitfield (1886) - State Attorney General, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
Michael J. Wilkins (1901, LL.M) - Associate Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court
J. Harvie Wilkinson (1972) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Glen Morgan Williams (1948) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Victor J. Wolski (1991) - Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
James Andrew Wynn (1995, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Eugene E. Siler, Jr. (1963) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Elizabeth Garrett (1988) - President, Cornell University
M. Elizabeth Magill (1995) - Dean, Stanford Law School
Paul B. Stephan (1977) - University of Virginia Law School
Michael V. Hernandez - Dean, Regent University School of Law
Louis Auchincloss (1941) - Novelist
David Baldacci (1986) - Novelist
Linda Fairstein (1972) - Novelist
Emily Giffin (1997) - Novelist
Lee Habeeb (1991) - Conservative talk radio producer
Laura Ingraham (1991) - Radio talk-show host
N. Scott Momaday (1959) - Novelist and Pulitzer Prize recipient
Andrew Scheinman (1973) - Movie producer
Will Shortz (1977) - Crossword Editor, New York Times
Evan Thomas (1977) - Editor, Newsweek
Donald Dell (1964) - Founder of ProServ
Tim Finchem (1973) - Commissioner and CEO, PGA TOUR
Peter S. Kaufman (1978) - Investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
Bowie Kuhn (1950) - Former Major League Baseball Commissioner
Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) - Vice President and General Counsel, Procter & Gamble
Ted Mathas (1992) - Chairman, President, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
Alexander F. Mathews, M.A. 1856 - President and Founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte
John E. Osborn (1983) - Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
Michael Slive (1965) - Current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and formerly the first commissioner of both Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
DeMaurice Smith (1989) - Executive Director, National Football League Players' Association
Michael C. Wholley (1977) - General Counsel, NASA
Bob Wright (1968) - Former Chairman and CEO of NBC
Don Yee (1987) - NFL sports agent
