• Source: List of Yale Law School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, the law school of the American Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. (For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see the list of Yale University people.) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni.
All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.
Yale Law's three–year J.D. (LL.B., prior to 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.




Law and government






= United States government

=



Executive branch




= U.S. presidents
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Gerald Ford (1941), 38th President of the United States, 1974–1977
Bill Clinton (1973), 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001



= U.S. vice presidents
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JD Vance (2013), 50th Vice President-elect of the United States



= U.S. attorneys general
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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
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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
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Clifford Alexander Jr. (1958), 13th Secretary of the Army, 1977–1981
Alex Azar (1991), 24th Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2018–2021
John R. Bolton (1974), 25th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2005–2006
John Bryson (1969), 37th Secretary of Commerce, 2011–2012
Hillary Clinton (1973), 67th Secretary of State, 2009–2013
Greg Craig (1972), 33rd White House Counsel, 2009–2010
Lloyd Cutler (1939), 25th White House Counsel, 1994
John Danforth (1963), 24th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2004–2005
Richard Danzig (1971), 71st Secretary of the Navy, 1998–2001
Henry H. Fowler (1932), 58th Secretary of the Treasury, 1965–1968
Gordon Gray (1933), 2nd Secretary of the Army, 1949–1950
Carla Anderson Hills (1958), 5th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1975–1977
John King Jr., Secretary of Education, 2015–2017
Victor H. Metcalf (1876), 2nd Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1904–1906; 38th Secretary of the Navy, 1906–1908
Gina Raimondo (1998), 40th Secretary of Commerce, 2021–present
Robert Reich (1973), 22nd Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997
Stanley Rogers Resor (1942), 9th Secretary of the Army, 1965–1971
Robert Rubin (1964), 70th Secretary of the Treasury, 1995–1999
Gene Sperling (1985), Director of the National Economic Council, 1996–2000, 2011–2014
Alphonso Taft (1838), 31st Secretary of War, 1876
Cyrus Vance (1942), 57th Secretary of State, 1977–1980
Christopher A. Wray (1992), 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2017–present
Eugene M. Zuckert (1936), 7th Secretary of the Air Force, 1961–1965
Jake Sullivan (2003), 28th National Security Advisor, 2021-present



Legislative branch (U.S. Congress)




= Senators
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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
Josh Hawley (2006), U.S. Senator (R-Missouri), 2019–present
Estes Kefauver (1927), U.S. Senator (D-Tennessee), 1949–1963
Alfred B. Kittredge, U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota), 1901–1909
Joseph Lieberman (1967), U.S. Senator (D/I-Connecticut), 1989–2012
Augustine Lonergan (1902), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1933–1939
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
JD Vance (2013), U.S. Senator (R-Ohio), 2023–present
Harris Wofford (1954), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1991–1995



= Representatives
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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
Thomas C. Coffin, U.S. Representative (D-ID), 1933-1934
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), 2013–2018
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
Ro Khanna (2001), U.S. Representative (D-California), 2017–present
Kevin Kiley (2012), U.S. Representative (R-California), 2023–present
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), 1859–1863
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
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Samuel Alito (1975), Associate Justice, 2006–present
Henry Billings Brown (did not graduate), Associate Justice, 1891–1906
David Davis (1835), Associate Justice, 1862–1877
Abe Fortas (1933), Associate Justice, 1963–1969
Brett Kavanaugh (1990), Associate Justice, 2018–present
Sherman Minton (1916), (also graduated from Indiana University Maurer School of Law), Associate Justice, 1949–1956
George Shiras Jr. (1853), Associate Justice, 1892–1903
Sonia Sotomayor (1979), Associate Justice, 2009–present
Potter Stewart (1941), Associate Justice, 1958–1981
Clarence Thomas (1974), Associate Justice, 1991–present
Byron White (1946), Associate Justice, 1962–1993



= Federal Court judges
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Federal courts of appeals


Robert P. Anderson (1929), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1964–1978
Herschel W. Arant (1915), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1939–1941
Edward R. Becker (1957), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1998–2003; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1998–2003
Duane Benton (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2004–present
Stephanos Bibas (1994), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2017–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. (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1995–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2014–2021
Steven 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
Arianna J. Freeman (2007), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2022-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, 1987–2021
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, 1999–2020
Carolyn Dineen King (1962), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1979–2013
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, 1979–1997
Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1969), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2001–2009
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, 1980–2018
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, 1981–2020




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
Roy Altman (2007), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2019–present
Cecilia Altonaga (1986), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2003–present
Harold Baer Jr. (1957), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1994–2014
David Barlow, Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2020–present
James E. Boasberg (1990), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2011–present
Paul D. Borman (LL.M. 1964), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1994–present
Howard C. Bratton (1947), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, 1964–1987; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, 1978–1987
Philip A. Brimmer (1985), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, 2008–present
Ellen Bree Burns (1923), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1978–1992; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1988–1992
Edward N. Cahn (1958), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974–1998
Charles Hardy Carr (1926), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1962–1966; Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966–1973
Paul Charlton, Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, 1911–1913
Frank C. Damrell Jr. (1964), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1997–2008
Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. (1966), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 1992–2007; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 1992–1997
Jan DuBois (1957), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1988–2002
Warren William Eginton (1951), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1979–1992
David A. Faber (1967), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, 1991–2008
Eldon E. Fallon (LL.M. 1963), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1995–present
A. Joe Fish (1968), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 1983–2007; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2002–2007
Dabney L. Friedrich (1992), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2017–present
Jesse Furman (1998), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2012–present
Nina Gershon (1965), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1996–2008
Nancy Gertner (1971), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1994–2011
Gerhard Gesell (1935), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1967–1993
James Tyrone Giles (1967), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1979–2008
Charles Haight (1955), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1976–1995
Jean Constance Hamilton (LL.M. 1982), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1990–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1990–present, 1995–2002
A. Andrew Hauk (1942), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1966; Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966–1982; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1980–1982
Truman McGill Hobbs (1948), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1980–1991; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1984–1991
Marvin Katz (1954), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1983–2010
Bruce William Kauffman (1959), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1997–2009
Samuel Pailthorpe King (1940), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, 1972–1984
John A. Kronstadt (1976), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2011–present
Morris E. Lasker (1941), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1968–1983
Victor Marrero (1968), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1999–2010
Frank Hampton McFadden (1955), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 1969–1982
Richard Wellington McLaren (1942), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1972–1976
Louis F. Oberdorfer (1946), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1977–present
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor (1909), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1940–1949
J. Paul Oetken (1991), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2011–present
Jill Parrish (1985), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2015–present
James Perry Platt (1875), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1902–1913
Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (1950), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1974–2001
Louis H. Pollak (1948), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1978–1991
Michael Ponsor (1975), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1994–2011
Michael Shea (1993), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 2012–present
Oliver Perry Shiras (1856), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, 1882–1903
Dominic J. Squatrito (1965), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1994–2004
Leonard P. Stark (1996), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 2010–present
Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr. (1931), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1958–1969
Sidney Stein (1969), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1995–2010
Richard J. Sullivan (1990), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2007–2019;
Robert Sweet (1948), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1978–1991
Robert Taylor (1924), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1950–1984; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1961–1969
Charles Henry Tenney (1936), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1963–1979
Edwin Stark Thomas (1895), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1913–1939
Alvin Thompson (1978), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1994–present
Myron H. Thompson (1972), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1980–1998; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1991–1998
Stefan R. Underhill (1982), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1999–present
William H. Walls (1957), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1994–2005
Henry Travillion Wingate (1972), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 1985–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2003–present
Caleb Merrill Wright (1933), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1955–1973; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–1973
William H. Yohn Jr. (1960), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1969–1980
Robert Carmine Zampano (1954), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1964–1994




Other courts


Gary S. Katzmann (1979), Judge for the United States Court of International Trade, 2016–present
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
Lyman E. Munson (1851), Justice of the Territorial Montana Supreme Court
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, 2011–2019
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, 2015–2021, United States Secretary of Commerce 2021–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
Rob Bonta (1998), Attorney General of California, 2021–present
James M. Brown (1967), Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1981
Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1824), Connecticut State Senator, 1838–1840, Connecticut State Representative, 1834–1838
John A. Busterud (1949), member of the California State Assembly, 1956–1962
Kimberly B. Cheney (1964), Attorney General of Vermont, 1973–1975
Robert E. Cooper Jr. (1983), Attorney General of Tennessee, 2006–2014
Robert Del Tufo (1958), Attorney General of New Jersey, 1990–1993
Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), member of the New York State Assembly from the 68th district, 1997–2001
Matthew Denn (1991), lieutenant governor of Delaware, 2009–present
Tilton E. Doolittle (1846), Speaker of the House of the Connecticut House of Representatives, and US Attorney for the district of Connecticut
John R. Dunne (1954), member of the New York Senate from the 6th district, 1966–1989
Daniel C. Esty (1986), commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, 2011–2014
Shirley Adele Field, member of the Oregon House of Representatives, 1956–1960, 1962–1966
Tom Foley, Secretary of Labor and Industry of Pennsylvania, 1991–1994
Ammi Giddings, member of the Connecticut Senate, 1858–1864
Harrison Goldin (1960), member of the New York Senate, 1966–1973
Cyrus Habib, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington, former State Senator from Washington state, 2014–2016, former member of the Washington House of Representatives, 2012–2014
L. W. Housel (1900), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1900–1902
Michael Johnston, member of the Colorado Senate from the 33rd district, 2009–present
Daniel Kagan, member of the Colorado House of Representatives, 2009–present
Jeff King, member of the Kansas Senate from the 15th district, 2011–present
Kris Kobach (1995), 31st Secretary State of Kansas, 2001–present
John Latta (1859), 1st Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1875–1879
Frederick Lippitt (1946), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1961–1983
J. Edward Meyer (1961), member of the Connecticut Senate, 2005–present
Robert W. Naylor (1969), member of the California State Assembly for the 20th district, 1978–1986; chair of the California Republican Party, 1987–1989
Charles R. Nesbitt (1947), 9th Attorney General of Oklahoma, 1963–1967; Secretary of Energy of Oklahoma, 1991–1995
Larry Obhof, President of the Ohio Senate from 2017 to 2020, State Senator for the 22nd district, 2011–2020
Edwin Archer Randolph, the first African-American to graduate from the law school, Randolph served in both houses of the Virginia Legislature
James Paull, president of the West Virginia Senate, 1943–1945
Jamie Pedersen, member of the Washington House of Representatives from the 43rd district, 2007–present
Charles B. Perry, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1929
Stephen Sachs, Attorney General of Maryland, 1979–1987
Shirley Adelson Siegel (1941), Solicitor General of New York, 1979–1982
Bryan Townsend, member of the Delaware Senate, 2012–present
Francis W. Treadway (1892), 30th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1909–1911
Ralph E. Van Norstrand (1961), minority leader of the Connecticut General Assembly, 1979–1985; Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1985—1987
Anthony Van Wyck (1844), member of the Wisconsin State Senate 1864–1865, 1868–1869
John Wesley Wescott, Attorney General of New Jersey, 1914–1919
Portia Wu (1998), secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor



= State judges
=
William B. Chandler III, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1985–1996
John M. Comley (1920), Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, 1963–1965
Rick Haselton, Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals, 2012–present; Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals, 1994–2012
Ernest A. Inglis, Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1953–1957; Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1950–1953
Jeffrey W. Johnson (1985), Judge, California Court of Appeal, 2009–present
Leondra Kruger (2001), Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 2015–present
Hans A. Linde (1966), Justice, Oregon Supreme Court, 1977–1990; correspondent for CBS Evening News
Goodwin Liu (1998), Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 2011–present
William M. Maltbie (1905), Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1930–1950; Judge, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1925–1930
Monica Márquez (1997), Associate Justice, Colorado Supreme Court, 2010–present
Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1999–2010 (first woman to hold this position); Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1996–1999
Marshall F. McComb (1919), Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1955–1977
Walter Myers Jr. (1938), Associate Justice, Indiana Supreme Court, 1963-1967
George W. Wheeler (1883), Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1920–1930
J. Craig Wright (1954), Associate Justice, Ohio Supreme Court, 1985–1996



City government

Jane Bolin (1931), judge for the New York City Domestic Relations Court, 1939–1979; also the first African–American woman to serve as a judge in the United States
Luke Bronin (2006), 67th mayor of Hartford, Connecticut
Chesa Boudin (2011), 34th District Attorney of San Francisco (2020–22)
Richard Buery (1997), former deputy mayor of New York City
George Williamson Crawford (1903), second black graduate of the Law School and Corporation Counsel of the City of New Haven
David Hansell (1983), commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children's Services
Bruce Harris, mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey, 2012–present
Robert J. Harris, mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969–1973
John Lindsay (1948), 103rd mayor of New York City, New York, 1966–1973
Robert M. Morgenthau (1948), New York County District Attorney, 1975–2009
Charles Phelps Taft II (1921), mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1955–1957
Caroline Van Zile (2012), 3rd solicitor general of Washington, D.C., 2022–present



U.S. diplomatic figures

Winthrop G. Brown (1930), 16th U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1964–1967
William Smith Culbertson (1910), president of the United States Tariff Commission, 1922–1925
Richard N. Gardner (1951), U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1993–1997; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1977–1981
Ulric Haynes (1956), 6th U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, 1977–1981
David Huebner (1986), 17th U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 2009–present
Eugene M. Locke (1940), 9th U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1966–1967
Robert McCallum Jr. (1973), 23rd U.S. Ambassador to Australia, 2006–2009
John O'Leary (1969), 48th U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1998–2001
Sargent Shriver (1941), 44th U.S. Ambassador to France, 1968–1970; also the driving force behind the Peace Corps
Gerard C. Smith (1938), Chief Delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, 1969–1972
R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (1946), 22nd U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1984–1989
Peter Tufo, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 1997–2001



Other U.S. political figures

Mark D. Agrast (1985), Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs of the United States Department of Justice, 2009–present
Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1957–1959
Dillon Anderson (1929), 2nd National Security Advisor, 1955–1956
Joe Andrew (1985), chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1999–2001
Michael Barr (1992), Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Rubén Berríos (1961), Puerto Rico senator at large, 1972–1976, 1984–1988, 1993–1996
Matthew Berry, Republican primary challenger in Virginia's 8th congressional district election, 2010
Alan Bersin (born 1946), President Obama's "Border Czar," US Attorney for the Southern District of California, California Secretary of Education, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, US Department of Homeland Security Secretary for International Affairs, and INTERPOL vice president
Boris Bershteyn (2004), Associate White House Counsel, 2010–present
William L. Borden (1947), executive director of United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 1949–1953
Beth Brinkmann (1985), Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, 1993–2001
Antonia Handler Chayes (did not graduate), 14th Under Secretary of the Air Force, 1979–1981
William Thaddeus Coleman III, 17th General Counsel of the Army, 1994–1999
Mathea Falco (1968), 1st Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 1979–1981
Roswell Gilpatric (1931), Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961–1964
Fred T. Goldberg Jr. (1973), Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1989–1992
Stephen Hadley (1972), 21st National Security Advisor, 2005–2009
Coleman Hicks (1968), General Counsel of the Navy, 1979–1981
Steven S. Honigman (1973), General Counsel of the Navy, 1993–1998
Jerry MacArthur Hultin (1972), 27th Under Secretary of the Navy, 1997–2000
Reed Hundt (1974), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 1993–1997
Rashad Hussain (2005), 2nd Special Envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, 2010–present
Harrison Loesch (1939), Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 1969–1972
Malcolm A. MacIntyre, 5th Under Secretary of the Air Force, 1957–1959
Burke Marshall (1951), Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, 1961–1964
Joe Miller (1995), Republican Senate candidate from Alaska, 2010
Roderic L. O'Connor (1947), 2nd Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs, 1957–1958
Stephen A. Oxman, 19th Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993–1994
Troy A. Paredes, commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 2008–2013
Michael Pertschuk (1959), chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, 1977–1981
Randal Quarles (1984), 15th Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, 2005–2006
Vivek Ramaswamy (2013), candidate for president of the United States in 2024
Eugene Rostow (1937), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1966–1969
Usha Vance (2013), Second Lady-designate of the United States
Kevin K. Washburn (1993), 12th Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior, 2012–2015
Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, 2009–present
R. James Woolsey Jr. (1968), 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1993–1995
Adam Yarmolinsky, political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations
David Yassky, member of the New York City Council from the 33rd District, 2002–2009




= Non-United States government

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Non-United States political figures




= Heads of state or heads of government
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Karl Carstens (LL.M. 1949), 5th President of Germany, 1979–1984
Jose P. Laurel (J.S.D. 1920), 3rd President of the Philippines, 1943–1945
Salvador Laurel (J.S.D. 1960), 10th Vice President of the Philippines, 1986–1992; 5th Prime Minister of the Philippines, 1986
Peter Mutharika (LL.M., J.S.D.), President of the Republic of Malawi, 2014–present; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malawi, 2011–2012



= Other political figures
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Ron Atkey (LL.M. 1966), member of the House of Commons of Canada, 1972–1974, 1979–1980
Kwesi Botchwey (LL.M.), Minister of Finance of Ghana, 1982–1995
Irwin Cotler (LL.M. 1966), Minister of Justice of Canada, 2003–2006
Wan Exiang (LL.M. 1987), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, 2013–present
Francisco Afan Delgado (LL.M. 1909), Senator of the Philippines, 1951–1957
Philip S. Deloria, founder and 1st Secretary-General of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
Eoghan Fitzsimons (LL.M. 1966), Attorney General of Ireland, 11 November to 15 December 1994
David Howarth (LL.M. 1983), Member of Parliament for Cambridge, 2005–2010
S. Jayakumar (LL.M. 1966), Senior Minister of Singapore, 2009–2011
Antonio La Viña, Undersecretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines
Stavros Lambrinidis (1988), Member of the European Parliament, 2004–2009; Vice President of the European Parliament, 2009–2011; 23rd Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, 2011; European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, 2012–2019; European Union Ambassador to the United States, 2019–present
Jovito Salonga (J.S.D. 1949), 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines, 1987–1992
Lebbeus R. Wilfley (1892), 1st Attorney General of the Philippines, 1901–1906
Michael Yaki, commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 2005–2016



Non-United States judicial figures




= International court judges
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Rosalyn Higgins (J.S.D. 1962), English judge, 1995–2009, and president, 2006–2009, of the International Court of Justice
Philip Jessup (1924), American judge for the International Court of Justice, 1961–1970
Shigeru Oda (J.S.D. 1953), Japanese judge for the International Court of Justice, 1976–2003
Ksenija Turkoviç, Croatian judge at the European Court of Human Rights 2015–present



= National court judges
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Luís Roberto Barroso (LL.M. 1989), Judge for the Supreme Court of Brazil, 2013–present
Leo Barry (LL.M. 1968), Justice for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2007–present
Daryl Dawson (LL.M. 1956), Justice of the High Court of Australia, 1982–1997
Todd Ducharme (LL.M. 1991), Judge for the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Enrique Fernando (1948), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Stephan Harbarth (LL.M. 2000), President of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, 2020–present
Gérard La Forest (LL.M. 1965), Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1985–1997
Johnnie Lewis (LL.M. 1971), 18th Chief Justice of Liberia, 2006–present
Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (LL.M. 1954), first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines




= International organization figures

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Stavros Lambrinidis (J.D. 1988), European Union Special Representative for Human Rights (since 2012)
Johan C. Verbeke (LL.M. 1978), head of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG)
Josefina Phodaca-Ambrosio (LL.M. 1957), first Asian and only Filipino to become President of Federacion Internacional de Abogadas




= Notable attorneys

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Floyd Abrams (1960), attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel who has had a substantial influence on constitutional law in the United States through the argument of important cases
Douglas Arant (1923), attorney in Birmingham, Alabama
Michael F. Armstrong, attorney
Francis N. Bangs (1847), founding partner of Bangs & Stetson, a precursor to the modern firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell
Thomas D. Barr (1931–2008), prominent lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Bouvier Beale, attorney and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
Dana Berliner, public interest attorney at the Institute for Justice
Hunter Biden, founding partner of Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP; son of President Joe Biden
David Boies (1966), chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Ralph Cavanagh, environmental attorney and co–director of the Air/Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
William Coblentz (1947), attorney and power broker who played an important role in California politics in the years after World War II
Julien Davies Cornell, attorney noted for his defense of Ezra Pound following Pound's indictment for treason
J. Richardson Dilworth (1942), attorney for the Rockefeller family
Tali Farhadian (born 1974 or 1975), former US federal prosecutor
Peter E. Fleming Jr. (1958), criminal defense attorney
Bob Giuffra (1987), partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Charles Halpern (1964), co-founder of the Center for Law and Social Policy, the first public interest law firm in the United States
James Hamilton (1969), assistant chief counsel for the United States Senate Watergate Committee
Whitfield Jack (1932), attorney in his native Shreveport, Louisiana; United States Army colonel in World War II under General Matthew Ridgway, and United States Army Reserve major general
David Kendall (1971), attorney who advised President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and Clinton's subsequent impeachment proceedings
George Kern (1952), partner of Sullivan & Cromwell
Ernest Knaebel (1896, LL.M. 1897), 11th Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1916–1944
Arthur Kramer, founding partner of Kramer Levin
Dawn Johnsen (1986), attorney twice nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Office of Legal Counsel
Mark I. Levy (1975), appellate attorney who argued 16 cases before the Supreme Court
Arthur Mag, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
Bessie Margolin (1933), labor attorney who argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court
Arvo Mikkanen (1986), attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
Ann Olivarius (1986), Chair of McAllister Olivarius, plaintiff in Alexander v. Yale, and notable sexual harassment lawyer
Jesselyn Radack (1995), ethics adviser to the Department of Justice who disclosed that the FBI committed an ethics violation in their interrogation of John Walker Lindh. Now represents prominent national security whistleblowers.
Robert Raymar (1972), attorney nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Stephen Shulman (1958), attorney most notable for representing Egil Krogh during the Watergate scandal
John Thomas Smith (1901), first general counsel and a director of General Motors, 1910 – 1947
Paul M. Smith (1979), attorney at Jenner & Block who argued many notable cases including Lawrence v. Texas
Leonard Weinglass (1958), notable criminal defense attorney and constitutional law advocate
Andrea R. Wood (1998), senior counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Gregory Howard Woods (1995), general counsel of the United States Department of Energy. Now judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Arnold M. Zack (1956), notable arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes




= Public policy leaders

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Deborah Archer (1996), President of the American Civil Liberties Union and Professor at NYU School of Law, Archer is the first African-American to lead the ACLU.
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
Krish O'Mara Vignaraja, President and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, former Senior Policy Director to Michelle Obama




Academia






= University presidents and other administrators

=
Michelle Anderson (born 1967), President of Brooklyn College, and a scholar on rape law
Nancy Y. Bekavac (1973), president of Scripps College, 1990–2007
Alfred Benjamin Butts (1930), chancellor of the University of Mississippi, 1935–1946
Gerhard Casper (LL.M. 1962), president of Stanford University, 1992–2000
Hiram Chodosh (1990), president of Claremont McKenna College, 2013–present
Ronald J. Daniels (1988), president of Johns Hopkins University, 2009–present
JoAnne A. Epps (1976), provost Temple University, 2016-2021
William R. Greiner, president of the University at Buffalo, 1991–2004
Robert S. Harrison, chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees
Ira Michael Heyman (1956), chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, 1980–1990
Robert Hutchins (1925), president of the University of Chicago, 1929–1945; chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1945–1951
Joseph S. Iseman (1941), acting president of Bennington College, 1976
Thomas H. Jackson (1975), president of University of Rochester, 1994–2005
Marvin Krislov (1988), president of Oberlin College, 2007–present
Ted Landsmark (1973), president of the Boston Architectural College, present
Frederick M. Lawrence (1980), president of Brandeis University, 2011–present
Edward H. Levi (1938), president of the University of Chicago, 1968–1975
Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, College Park, 2010–present
Linda Lorimer, vice president of Yale University; president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1986–1993
Cyrus Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota, 1884–1911
Russell K. Osgood (1974), president of Grinnell College, 1998–2010, and dean of Washington University School of Law, 2021-24
Louis H. Pollak (1943), federal judge and dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Ariel Porat (1990), president of Tel Aviv University
Robert Prichard (LL.M. 1976), president of the University of Toronto, 1990–2000
L. Song Richardson (1966/67), President of Colorado College, 2021 - PRESENT
Michael H. Schill (1984), president of the University of Oregon, 2015–
Clayton Spencer (1985), president of Bates College, 2012–present
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1962), president of George Washington University, 1988–2007
Louis Vogel (LL.M. 1982), president of Panthéon-Assas University, 2006–2012
Nora Demleitner (1992), president of St. John's College - Annapolis, 2022–present




= Legal academia

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Law school deans

T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1977), dean of Georgetown University Law Center, 2004–2009
Mark Alexander, dean of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, 2016-present
Nicholas Allard (1979), Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
Michelle Anderson (1994), dean of City University of New York Law School, 2006–2016
Evan Caminker (1986), dean of the University of Michigan Law School, 2003–2013
Nora Demleitner (1992), dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2012–2015
John Hart Ely (1963), dean of Stanford Law School, 1982–1987
JoAnne A. Epps (1976) dean of Temple Law School, 2008- 2016
Sarah Harding, dean of Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, 2023–present
Robert Klonoff (1979), dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, 2007–2014
Anthony T. Kronman (1975), dean of Yale Law School, 1994–2004
Saul Levmore (1980), dean of the University of Chicago Law School, 2001–2009
Paul Mahoney (1984), dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, 2008–2016
Earl F. Martin (LL.M. 1996), dean of Gonzaga University School of Law, 2005–2010
Michael Meltsner (JD 1960), dean of Northeastern University School of Law, 1979–1984
Martha Minow (1979), dean of Harvard Law School, 2009–present
Jennifer Mnookin (1995), dean of UCLA Law School, 2015—present
Russell D. Niles (LL.M. 1931), dean of New York University School of Law, 1948–1963
Robert Post (1977), dean of Yale Law School, 2009–2017
Wendell Pritchett, Chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden, Interim Dean and Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Provost of the University of Pennsylvania
Norman Redlich (1950), dean of New York University School of Law, 1974–1988
Richard Revesz (1983), dean of New York University School of Law, 2002–2013
Michael H. Schill (1984), dean of UCLA Law School (2004–2009) and University of Chicago Law School (2010–2015)
David Schizer (1993), dean of Columbia Law School, 2004–2014
Aviam Soifer (1972), dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law, 2003–present
William Treanor (1985), dean of Georgetown University Law Center, 2010–present
Frans Vanistendael (LL.M.), dean of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999–2005
Kevin K. Washburn (1993), dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, 2009–2012
Joan Wexler, Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
Thomas C. Athur, Dean of Emory Law School, 2002-2005



Legal scholars




= Constitutional law
=
Bruce Ackerman (1967), professor at Yale Law School and author of Social Justice in the Liberal State, 1987–present; regarded as one of the most frequently cited legal academics in the United States
Akhil Amar (1984), professor at Yale Law School
Vikram Amar (1988), professor at the University of California Davis School of Law
C. Edwin Baker, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1981–present; considered one of the country's foremost authorities on the First Amendment
Charles Black, professor at Yale Law School, 1956–1987
Philip Bobbitt (1975), professor at Columbia Law School and author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, 2007–present
William Eskridge (1978), professor at Yale Law School, 1998–present
Noah Feldman (1997), professor at Harvard Law School, 2007–present; scholar on Islamic law and the intersection of religion and politics
Paul W. Kahn (1980), professor at Yale Law School
Charles A. Reich (1952), professor at Yale Law School
Kermit Roosevelt III (1997), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2002–present
Reva Siegel (1986), professor at Yale Law School, 1994–present
Carol M. Swain (M.S.L. Law), Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University
Charles Alan Wright (1949), professor at University of Texas School of Law, 1995–2000; considered to be one of the foremost authorities in the United States on constitutional law
Kenji Yoshino (1996), professor at New York University School of Law, 2006–present; focused on anti-discrimination law, civil and human rights law, and law and literature
Johannes Reich (Rechtswissenschafter) (1975), Professor at the University of Zurich, 2018-present; scholar on constitutional law, energy law and environmental law



= 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
Ryan Abbott, professor at the University of Surrey School of Law



= International law
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Harold J. Berman (1947), professor at Harvard Law School, 1948–1985; professor at Emory Law School, 1985–2007
George Bermann (1971), professor at Columbia Law School, 1975–present
Rosa Brooks (1996), professor at Georgetown University Law Center, 2011–present
Steve Charnovitz (1998), professor at George Washington University Law School, 2004–present
Jerome Cohen (1955), professor at New York University School of Law, 1990–present
Jack Goldsmith (1989), professor at Harvard Law School; also head of the Office of Legal Counsel 2003–2004
David O'Keeffe (LL.M. 1978), Professor of European Law at University of Durham, 1990–1993; professor of European Law at University College London 1993–2005;, emeritus professor of European Law at University of London 2005–present; part-time European administrative law judge
John Yoo (1992), professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1993–present; primarily known for authoring the Torture Memos



= Jurisprudence
=
Peter Berkowitz, professor at George Mason University School of Law, 1999–2007; senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, 2007–present
Jules Coleman (1976), professor at Yale Law School
Arthur Corbin (1899), professor at Yale Law School and one of the progenitors of legal realism
Jan Deutsch (1962), professor at Yale Law School
Richard Epstein (1968), professor at New York University Law School, 2010–present; considered one of the most influential legal thinkers in the United States
Duncan Kennedy (1970), professor at Harvard Law, 1976–present; founder of the critical legal studies movement
Karl Llewellyn, professor at Columbia Law School, 1925–1951; professor at the University of Chicago Law School, 1951–1962; leading proponent of legal realism



= Other legal scholars
=
Matthew Adler (1991), law professor at Duke Law School
Ian Ayres (1986), professor at Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management, 1994–present
David C. Baldus (1964, LL.M. 1969), professor at the University of Iowa College of Law
Boris Bittker (1941), professor at Yale Law School, 1946–2005
Peter A. Bradford (1964), professor at Vermont Law School and former member of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, professor at Harvard Law School
Stephen Carter, professor at Yale Law School, 1982–present
John C. Coffee (1969), professor at Columbia Law School
Arthur Linton Corbin (1899), professor at Yale Law School, 1903–1943
Omar Dajani, professor at McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific
Harlon L. Dalton, professor at Yale Law School
Stuart L. Deutsch (1969), professor at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, 1999–2009
Bill Dodge (1991), professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Elizabeth Emens (2002), professor at Columbia Law School, 2005–present
Cynthia Estlund (1983), professor at New York University School of Law
Bill Felstiner (1958), professor at Cardiff University, 1995–2005; specializes in law and sociology
Claire Finkelstein (1993), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Nicole Garnett (1995), professor at Notre Dame Law School, 1999–present
Richard Garnett (1995), professor at Notre Dame Law School, 1999–present
Michael Gottesman, professor at Georgetown University Law Center
Daniel Halberstam, professor at the University of Michigan Law School
Clarence Halbert (1897), co–founder of William Mitchell College of Law
Kermit L. Hall, legal historian and member of the Assassination Records Review Board
Philip Hamburger (1982), professor at Columbia Law School
Samuel Issacharoff (1983), professor at New York University School of Law
Brian Kalt (1997), professor at Michigan State University College of Law
Michael I. Krauss (LL.M. 1978), professor at George Mason University School of Law, 1987–present
Ethan Leib (2003), professor at Fordham Law School
Louis Loss (1937), professor at Harvard Law School, considered the intellectual father of modern securities law
Jonathan R. Macey (1982), professor at Yale Law School
Robert T. Miller (1997), professor at the University of Iowa College of Law
Eric L. Muller (1987), professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law
H. Jefferson Powell (1982), professor at George Washington University School of Law, 2010–present
Jedediah Purdy (2001), professor at Duke University Law School
Charles A. Reich (1952), professor at Yale Law School and author of The Greening of America
Glenn Reynolds, professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law
Deborah Rhode (1977), professor at Stanford Law School
Daniel Richman (1984), Paul J. Kellner Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Fred Rodell, professor at Yale Law School
Joel Rogers, professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School
Chris William Sanchirico (1994), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Brett Scharffs (1992), professor at the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University, 1997–present
Wesley Alba Sturges (1923), professor at Yale Law School
Eleanor Swift, professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law
Donald F. Turner (1950), professor at Harvard Law School
Mark Tushnet, professor at Harvard Law School
Steven Walt (1988), professor at the University of Virginia School of Law
Matthew Waxman, professor at Columbia Law School
Rivka Weill, professor at Harry Radzyner Law School, Interdisciplinary Center
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

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Peter Berkowitz, professor of political science at Harvard University, 1990–1999
Scott Boorman (1978), professor of sociology at Yale University
Lawrence Douglas (1989), professor at Amherst College
Murray Gerstenhaber (1948), mathematician and lawyer, professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Austin Sarat (1988), professor of political science at Amherst College
Ian Shapiro (1987), professor of political science at Yale University
Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
Michael Woodford, professor of economics at Columbia University
Kyu Ho Youm (M.S.L.), professor of journalism at the University of Oregon




Activism


Jasper Alston Atkins (1922), civil rights activist and the first black editor of the Yale Law Journal
D'Army Bailey (1967), civil rights activist and founder of the National Civil Rights Museum
Mark Barnes (1984), attorney and AIDS activist
Craig Becker, labor attorney and a member of the National Labor Relations Board, 2010–2011
Cornell William Brooks, civil rights activist, attorney, and former President & CEO, NAACP
Kathleen Neal Cleaver, prominent member of the Black Panther Party
Bill Drayton (1970), founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a global social entrepreneurship organization
Marian Wright Edelman (1963), president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund
Robert Gnaizda, co-founder of the Greenlining Institute
Seth Green, founder of Americans for Informed Democracy
Michael Harrington, chairman of Democratic Socialists of America, 1982–1989
Kenneth Hecht, public interest attorney and advocate for improved access to affordable, nutritious food
Louis Clayton Jones, civil rights activist and founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers
Van Jones (1993), environmental activist, civil rights activist, and attorney; founder of Green For All
Henry T. King (1943), prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, 1946–1947
Gay McDougall, civil rights activist and executive director of Global Rights, 1994–2006
Michael Meltsner, civil rights litigator First Asst.Counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 1961–1970
Creighton Miller, founder of the National Football League Players Association labor union
Lisa Richette, child welfare activist
Catherine Roraback (1948), civil rights attorney best known for representing the plaintiffs in the landmark 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut
Kenneth Roth (1980), executive director of Human Rights Watch, 1993–present
Linda Rottenberg, founder of Endeavor
Andrew Shapiro, founder of GreenOrder, an environmental sustainability consulting firm
James Speth (1969), attorney and environmental activist
Gregory Stanton, founder and president of Genocide Watch, 1999–present
R. Douglas Stuart Jr. (1946), founder of the America First Committee, the foremost non-interventionist pressure group against the American entry into World War II, while a student at Yale Law
Neera Tanden (1996), president of the Center for American Progress, 2011–present
William Taylor (1954), civil rights activist
Jesselyn Radack (1995), human rights lawyer, founder of Whistleblower & Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts.org




Business


Lon Babby (1976), President of the Phoenix Suns
Jeff Ballabon, senior vice president of CBS News; also an Orthodox Jewish lobbyist and the founder of Coordinating Council on Jerusalem
Alfred Wellington Carter (1893), prominent landowner in Hawaii
Dick Cass (1971), president of the Baltimore Ravens from 2004 to 2022
Sam Cohn (1956), co-founder of International Creative Management and talent agent to Paul Newman, Woody Allen, and Meryl Streep, among others
E. Virgil Conway (1956), chairman and CEO of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Michael R. Eisenson (1981), co-founder, managing director, and CEO of Charlesbank Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm based in Boston and New York City
Charles E. Fraser, real estate developer
Arthur Frommer (1953), publisher of Frommer's travel guidebook series
Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters
Najeeb Halaby (1940), businessman and father of Queen Noor of Jordan
Joel Hyatt, co-founder of Current TV with Al Gore
Eli Jacobs (1964), financier and owner of the Baltimore Orioles, 1989–1993
William M. Jennings, executive in the National Hockey League and president of the New York Rangers
Victor S. Johnson, Jr., president of Aladdin Industries
John Koskinen, non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac, 2008–2011
Michael E. Levine (1965), airline executive
Larry Lucchino (1971), president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox
J. Howard Marshall (1931), oil magnate, known for his marriage to Anna Nicole Smith
Mark McCormack, founder of IMG, an international sports and media company
Nicolas D. Muzin (1975), Politico and founder of Stonington Global.
Neal Pilson (1963), former president of CBS Sports
Robert Pozen (1972, J.S.D. 1973), vice chairman and president of Fidelity Investments
Ken Stern, CEO of National Public Radio
John Butler Talcott (1846), industrialist and founder of the New Britain Museum of American Art
Brooks Thomas, CEO of Harper & Row
Raymond S. Troubh, independent financial consultant who served as a general partner at Lazard, 1961–1974; interim chairman of Enron, 2002–2004
Fay Vincent (1963), 8th Commissioner of Major League Baseball, 1989–1992
John P. Wheeler III (1975), chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Tim and Nina Zagat (1966), co-founders and publishers of Zagat
John E. Zuccotti (1963), real estate developer and namesake of Zuccotti Park
C. Montgomery Burns




Film, theater, and television


Lisa Bloom (1986), anchor of Lisa Bloom: Open Court on Court TV
Katy Chevigny, documentary filmmaker.
La Carmina, Canadian fashion blogger, author, journalist, and host on CNNGo
Jeff Greenfield (1967), senior political correspondent for CBS Evening News
Yul Kwon (2000), host of American Revealed on PBS and winner of Survivor: Cook Islands
D. G. Martin, host of North Carolina Bookwatch on UNC-TV
Gene Sperling (1985), writer on The West Wing
Ben Stein (1970), actor and host of Win Ben Stein's Money




Writers


Renata Adler (1979), novelist, staff writer for The New Yorker, and film critic for The New York Times
Joseph Amiel (1962), attorney and writer of popular fiction
Aditi Banerjee, co-author and editor of Invading the Sacred
Chesa Boudin (2011), progressive writer
Lan Cao, author of the 1997 novel Monkey Bridge and 2014 novel The Lotus and the Storm (Viking)
Stephen Carter (1979), novelist
Ken Chen, poet
Nelson Denis (1980), editorial director of El Diario/La Prensa, author of War Against All Puerto Ricans (Nation Books, 2015)
Heidi W. Durrow (1995), novelist
Robin Goldstein (2002), food and wine critic
Adam Haslett (2003), short story writer
Julie Hilden (1992), novelist
Laura Chapman Hruska, novelist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of Soho Press
Jamil Jivani (2013), author of Why Young Men
Bruce Judson (1984), author of business and public policy books
Edward Lazarus (1987), author of the 1998 non-fiction book Closed Chambers
He Li (2003), Chinese-language poet
Walter Lord (1948), author of the 1955 book A Night to Remember, considered a definitive account of the Titanic disaster
Daniyal Mueenuddin (1996), short story writer
David Orr (1999), poet
Matthew Pearl, novelist
Daniel Pink, author
Gretchen Rubin (1995), author of the 2009 book The Happiness Project
David Stewart (1978), non-fiction writer
Julius Taranto (2016), novelist
Alina Tugend (M.S.L.), columnist for The New York Times
Qian Julie Wang (2012), author of Beautiful Country
Clement Wood, poet
Elizabeth Wurtzel (2008), author of the 1994 memoir Prozac Nation
Monica Youn, poet




Media and journalism






= Commentators

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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

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Emily Bazelon (2000), staff writer, The New York Times Magazine, former senior editor of Slate
Bob Cohn, executive editor of Wired, 2001–2008
Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), editorial director of El Diario/La Prensa, former member of the New York State Assembly
Ronan Farrow (2009), contributor to The New Yorker and Pulitzer Prize winner
Craig Forman, foreign correspondent and bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal
Jack Fuller, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and president of the Tribune Company
Linda Greenhouse (M.S.L. 1978), Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
Patrick Radden Keefe, staff writer for The New Yorker, appointed as a Guggenheim Fellow in 2006
David Lat (1999), founder and managing editor of Above the Law, a blog about the legal profession
Adam Liptak (1988), Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
Victor Navasky (1959), editor of The Nation, 1978–1995; publisher of The Nation, 1995–2005; chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, 2005–present
Viveca Novak (M.S.L.), political correspondent for Time
Charlie Savage (2003), reporter for The New York Times
Luiza Savage, Washington bureau chief, Maclean's magazine




Military


Edward J. Stackpole (1915), newspaper publisher, author, U.S. Army major general
Alfred Terry, general of the Union Army during the American Civil War




Sports


Rodney Aller, masters skier
Al Hessberg (1941), college football player
William G. Norton, college football coach
Fay Moulton, Olympic sprinter and college football player
Jim O'Rourke (1887), Major League Baseball player and manager
Tom Shevlin (1906), four-year track star (broke school record in hammer throw); All-American end and captain; post-grad volunteer coach of football team
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
John Anthony Flood, sociologist, legal academic, consultant, author and a researcher
Richard Green (1987), psychiatrist specializing in homosexuality and transsexualism
Stewart Rhodes (2004), founder of the Oath Keepers, convicted for seditious conspiracy in the January 6 United States Capitol attack
Pat Robertson (1955), televangelist and founder of Regent University
Vanessa Selbst (2012), professional poker player
Sherman Day Thacher (1886), founder of The Thacher School
Iwan Tirta (1964), fashion designer
Louis W. Tompros, academic and lawyer
Yona Reiss (1991), Chief Rabbinical judge of the Chicago Rabbinical Council




Non-graduates


These students attended Yale Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.

Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederate States; U.S. Senator from Louisiana
Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1890–1906
Henry Louis Gates, professor of history at Harvard University
Alexander T. Hawthorn, Confederate States Army general
Michael Medved, author, film critic, and radio talk show host
David Milch (expelled), television writer and producer
Robert B. Silvers, co-founder and editor of The New York Review of Books




Fictitious alumni


Arthur Branch, character on the TV series Law & Order
Alexis Davis, character on the TV series General Hospital
Greg Foster, character on the TV series The Young and the Restless
Amy Gardner, character on the TV series The West Wing
Judge Chamberlain Haller, character in the film My Cousin Vinny
Josh Lyman, character on the TV series The West Wing
Jordan McDeere, character on the TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Selina Meyer, character on the TV series Veep
Wayne Palmer, character on the TV series 24
Bruce Wayne, alter ego of Batman, as disclosed in Detective Comics 439




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