• Source: List of USC Gould School of Law alumni

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law (USC Gould), located in Los Angeles, California, is a law school within the University of Southern California. The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States, USC Law had its beginnings in 1896, and was officially established as a school of the university in 1900.




U.S. federal Court of Appeals judges


Arthur Alarcón (1951) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1992)
James Marshall Carter (1927) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1967–1971); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1949–1967)
Walter Raleigh Ely, Jr. (LL.M. 1949) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1964–1979)
Warren J. Ferguson (1949) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1986); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1979)
Ferdinand Francis Fernandez (1962) – Senior Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2002–present) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1989–2002); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985–1989)
Dorothy Wright Nelson (LL.M. 1956) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1995)
David R. Thompson (1955) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1985–1998)
Charles E. Wiggins (1956) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1984–1996)




U.S. federal District Court for the Central District of California judges


William Matthew Byrne, Jr. (1956) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1971–1998)
Thurmond Clarke (1927) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1970); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1955–1966)
Elisha Avery Crary (1929) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1975); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1962–1966)
Richard Arthur Gadbois, Jr. (1960) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1982–1996)
Peirson Mitchell Hall – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1968); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1942–1966)
James M. Ideman (1963) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–1998)
David Vreeland Kenyon (1957) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1980–1995)
George H. King (1974) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1995–present)
Stephen G. Larson (1989) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2006–2009)
Nora Margaret Manella (1975) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1998–2006)
Edward Rafeedie (1959) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1982–1996)
Albert Lee Stephens, Jr. (1938) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1979); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1961–1966)
Alicemarie Huber Stotler (1967) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–2009)
Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (1959) – first Japanese American federal judge; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1976–1996)
Dickran Tevrizian (1965) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985–2005)
Laughlin Edward Waters, Sr. (1947) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1976–1986)
David W. Williams (1937) – first African American federal judge west of the Mississippi River; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1969–1981)




Other U.S. federal court judges


Mary Ann Cohen (1967) – Judge of the United States Tax Court (1982–present)
J. Lawrence Irving (1963) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1982–1990)
David W. Ling (1913) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1936–1964)
Leland Chris Nielsen (1946) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1971–1985)
Howard Boyd Turrentine (1939) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1970–1984)
Ronald M. Whyte (1967) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1992–2009)




California Supreme Court justices


David Eagleson (1950) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1991)
Douglas L. Edmonds (1910) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1936–1955)
Frederick W. Houser (1900) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1937–1942)
Marcus Kaufman (1956) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1990)
Joyce L. Kennard (1974) – first Asian-American to serve as an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1989–2014)
Malcolm M. Lucas (1953) – 26th Chief Justice of California (1987–1996); Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1984–1987); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1971–1984); all four appointments by Republican governor George Deukmejian




Business


Larry Flax (1967) – co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen
Louis Galen (1951) – former CEO of Golden West Financial, philanthropist
Stanley Gold (1967) – president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings
Brian Grazer (left in 1975) – Oscar-winning co-founder of Imagine Entertainment
Bruce Karatz (1970) – CEO of KB Home
Sol Price (1957) – founder of Fed Mart and Price Club (Costco Wholesale Corp.)
Charles Prince (1975) – former chairman & CEO of Citigroup
James E. Rogers (1963) – CEO and owner, Sunbelt Communications
Richard Rosenblatt (1994) – founder, CEO, Intermix & Demand Media; former chairman, MySpace; founder and former CEO, iMALL
Jeff Smulyan (1972) – founder and CEO of Emmis Communications
C. Bertrand Thompson (1900) – first African-American graduate of USC Law School at age 18, early scholar of scientific management
Richard Ziman (1967) – CEO, Arden Realty




Other


Greg Bautzer (1936) – celebrity divorce attorney
Tiffiny Blacknell (2002) – Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County and community activist
Steve Cooley (1973) – 41st Los Angeles County District Attorney
Gordon Dean (1930) – former USC Law School professor; chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
Charles Gessler (1961) – deputy public defender and capital defense lawyer
David Getches (1967) – former Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law
James P. Gray (1971) – presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County; former Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate and for vice president of the United States
Jack Carl Greenburg (1933) – former Chief Clerk of the California State Assembly
George Hedges (1978) – senior partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP and attorney to celebrity clients
You Chung Hong (1924) – first Chinese American admitted to practice in California
Frederick N. Howser (1930) – 22nd attorney general of California
Douglas Kmiec (1976) – former U.S. Ambassador to Malta, Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University, former dean and St. Thomas More Professor at The Catholic University of America, former director of Law & Government Center, University of Notre Dame
Jackie Lacey (1982) – first woman and first African American to serve as District Attorney of Los Angeles County
Charles Older (1952) – California Superior Court judge presiding over trial of Charles Manson; also one of the Flying Tigers pilots of World War II
Aulana L. Peters (1973) – first African American and third woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Margaret Radin (1976) – law professor at Stanford Law School; former USC Law School professor
E. Randol Schoenberg (1991) – attorney specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks; one of the central figures of the 2015 film Woman in Gold, which depicted the case he brought against the Austrian government
Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1916) – Assistant U.S. Attorney General (1921–1929)




Politics



Arthur Alber (1918) – Los Angeles City Council member (1927–29)
Nanette Barragan (2005) – current United States representative (California)
Fletcher Bowron (1911) – former mayor of Los Angeles
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1956) – Los Angeles County supervisor, former member of the United States House of Representatives
J. Curtis Counts (1941) – director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Charles K. Djou (1996) – former United States representative (Hawaii)
Doug Emhoff (1990) – lawyer, Second Gentleman of the United States
Robert Finch (1951) – former lieutenant governor of California, former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Buron Fitts (1916) – former lieutenant governor of California
Bertrand W. Gearhart (1910) – lawyer and former member of the United States House of Representatives
Fred Hall (1941) – former governor of Kansas
John Heilman (1982) – mayor of West Hollywood, lecturer at USC Gould
Craig Hosmer (1940) – former United States representative
Thomas Kuchel (1935) – former United States senator
James Stuart McKnight (1908) – Los Angeles City Council member (1931–33)
Carlos Moorhead (1949) – former United States representative
William A. Munnell (1948) – former Majority Floor Leader of the California State Assembly from California's 51st State Assembly district, 1959–1961; also a judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, 1961–1985
Pat Nolan (1975) – Member of the California State Assembly, 1978–1994; Republican Assembly Leader, 1984–1988; one of eight members of U. S. Prison Rape Commission, 2005–2009, appointed by Speaker of the House of Representatives
James B. Utt (1946) – former United States representative
Michael L. Williams (1979) – senior commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Commissioner of Education




Sports and media


Terry Baker (1968) – played quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos while earning a J.D. at USC
Ronald Barak (1968) – Olympic gymnast
Lillian Copeland (1932) – Olympic discus champion; set world records in discus, javelin, and shot put
Philip N. Krasne (1929) – producer of the later Charlie Chan films and the Cisco Kid television series
Carey McWilliams (1927) – editor of The Nation for 20 years
Rick Neuheisel (1990) – former head football coach at UCLA and former UCLA quarterback
Amy Trask (1985) – former CEO of the Oakland Raiders
Joseph Wapner (1948) – judge of The People's Court; former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge
Wally Wolf (1930–1997) – swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion




References

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• List of USC Gould School of Law alumni
• USC Gould School of Law
• List of Stanford University alumni
• List of University of Chicago Law School alumni
• Howard Weitzman
• University of Southern California
• List of UC Berkeley School of Law alumni
• List of Wharton School alumni
• List of Punahou School alumni
• Dorothy Wright Nelson