List of Georgetown University Law Center alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Georgetown University Law Center, the law school of the American Georgetown University, located in Washington, DC. (For a list of notable Georgetown University graduates, see the list of Georgetown University alumni.)

Academia

• Ian C. Ballon, LL.M. '88, Professor of Law at Stanford University
• Robert J. Cottrol, '84, Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School
• Nora Demleitner, LL.M. '94, former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Noura Erakat, LL.M. 2012, Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law
• Allison Garrett, LL.M '91, former Walmart Vice President/Legal Counsel; current president at Emporia State University
• E. Joshua Rosenkranz, '86, Founding President of the Brennan Center for Justice (1995 - 2003)

Business

• Chris Sacca, billionaire venture capitalist
• Kary Antholis, '89, President of HBO Miniseries and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
• Denise Bode, LL.M., CEO of the American Wind Energy Association
• David G. Bradley, '83, founder of the Advisory Board Company and owner of the Atlantic Media Company
• Joe Garagiola, Jr., '75, Senior Vice President for Standards and On-Field Operations for Major League Baseball (2011 – present), Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks (1997 – 2005)
• Scott Ginsburg, '78, Founding Owner of Boardwalk Auto Group, radio broadcasting mogul
• Thomas E. Leavey, 1923, co-founder of Farmers Insurance, co-founder of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
• Douglas Leeds, '96, CEO of Ask.com (2010 – present)
• Mark Murphy, '88, President and CEO of the Green Bay Packers (2007 – present); former Pro Bowl safety, two-time Super Bowl champion, Washington Redskins
• Carmen Policy, '66, President and CEO of the San Francisco 49ers (1991 - 1999), President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns (1999 - 2004)
• Thomas Schlafly, '77, President and co-founder of the Saint Louis Brewery
• Michael Slive, LL.M. '66, Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference
• Van P. Smith, '55, Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Automobile Association
• Mark Weinberger, LL.M., Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young LLP 2013 – present, former Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the U.S. Treasury

Government and politics

Federal officials

• Horace M. Albright, 1916, Director of the National Park Service (1929 - 1933)
• Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, '87, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994 - 1997)
• Robert C. Bonner, '66, Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection (2001 - 2005), Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (1990 - 1993), Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1989), U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California (1984 - 1989)
• Bradford P. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of Labor (2007 - 2009)
• George Cortelyou, 1895, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1907–1909), U.S. Postmaster General (1905 – 1907), U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1903 – 1904)
• Darse E. Crandall Jr., '92, Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (2015 - present)
• John Dean, '65, White House Counsel (1970 - 1973), convicted of involvement in the Watergate Scandal
• Charles H. Fahy, 1914, U.S. Solicitor General (1941 - 1945), Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1950 - 1979)
• Lee A. Feinstein, U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2009 - 2012), Principal Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State (1995 - 2001)
• Douglas Feith, '78, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2001 - 2005)
• Laurie S. Fulton, '89, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (2009 - 2013)
• Mark Gitenstein, '72, U.S. Ambassador to Romania (2009 - 2012), former Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
• Avril Haines, '01, Deputy National Security Advisor, (2014 - present), former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Stephen Hedger, '09, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs (2015 - present)
• Mickey Kantor, '68, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1996 – 1997)
• Jacob Lew, '83, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2013 – present), White House Chief of Staff (2012 - 2013), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2010 - 2012)
• Shavit Matias, LL.M. ‘91 Deputy Attorney General of Israel (2004 - 2013); Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2013 – Present)
• Gerald S. McGowan, '74, United States Ambassador to Portugal (1997 - 2001)
• Beth Nolan, '80, White House Counsel (1999 - 2001), Senior Vice President and General Counsel at George Washington University (2007 – present)
• John Podesta, '76, White House Chief of Staff (1998 - 2001), President of Center for American Progress (2001 - 2013)
• Michael Powell, '93, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (2001 - 2005)
• Jack Quinn, '75, White House Counsel (1995 - 1997)
• Francis Rooney, '78, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See (2005 – 2008)
• Kathryn Ruemmler, '96, White House Counsel (2011 - 2014)
• Barbara D. Underwood, '69, acting United States Solicitor General (2001), New York Solicitor General (2007 – present)
• Christine A. Varney, former U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division for the Obama Administration and Federal Trade Commissioner for the Clinton Administration

Members of U.S. Congress

• Bob Barr, '87, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1995 – 2003), United States Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate (2008)
• George A. Bartlett, 1894, U.S. Representative from Nevada (1907 - 1911)
• Herbert H. Bateman, '56, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1983 - 2000)
• Robert Bauman, '64, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1973 - 1981)
• Alan Bible, '34, U.S. Senator from Nevada (1954 - 1974)
• Coleman Livingston Blease, 1889, U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1925 - 1931), Governor of South Carolina (1911 - 1915)
• J. Caleb Boggs, '37, U.S. Senator from Delaware (1961 – 1973); Governor of Delaware (1953 – 1960); U.S. Representative from Delaware (1947 – 1953)
• Bruce Faulkner Caputo, '71, U.S. Representative from New York (1977 - 1979)
• Dennis Chavez, '20, U.S. Senator from New Mexico (1935 – 1962)
• David Cicilline, '86, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (2011 – present), first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capitol (Providence)
• Hansen Clarke, '87, U.S. Representative from Michigan (2011–2013)
• Charles R. Clason, 1914, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1937 - 1949)
• L. Gary Clemente, '31, U.S. Representative from New York (1949 - 1953)
• Charles F. Curry, Jr., 1912, U.S. Representative from California (1931 - 1933)
• John Delaney, U.S. Representative from Maryland (2013 – present)
• John Dingell, '52, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1955 – present)
• John J. Douglass, 1896, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1925 - 1933)
• Robert Drinan, '50, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1971 - 1973)
• Richard Durbin, '69, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1997 – present), Senate Democratic Whip (2005 – present)
• John A. Durkin, '65, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1975 - 1980)
• Clarence D. Van Duzer, 1893, U.S. Representative from Nevada (1903 - 1907)
• Lane Evans, '78, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1983 – 2007)
• Martin Frost, '70, U.S. Representative from Texas (1979 - 2005)
• Mazie Hirono, '78, U.S. Senator from Hawaii (2013 – present), U.S. Representative from Hawaii (2007 - 2013), Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1994 - 2003)
• Steny Hoyer, '66, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1981 – present, House Majority Leader (2007 – 2011), House Democratic Whip (2011 - present)
• Michael L. Igoe, 1908, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1935), U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1935 - 1939), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1939 - 1965)
• James Robert Jones, '64, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma (1983 - 1987), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1993 - 1997)
• Bill Jefferson, LL.M. '95, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (1991 - 2009)
• Mark Kirk, '92, U.S. Senator from Illinois (2010 – present)
• Anne McLane Kuster, '84, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (2013–present)
• John W. Langley, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1907 - 1926)
• Edward L. Leahy, 1908, U.S. Senator (1949 - 1950), Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1951 - 1953)
• Patrick Leahy, '64, U.S. Senator from Vermont (1975 – present), President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate (2012 – present), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2007 – present)
• George Swinton Legare, 1893, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1903 - 1913)
• Dan Lungren, '71, U.S. Representative from California (2005 - 2013)
• George Mitchell, '61, U.S. Senator from Maine (1980 - 1995), Senate Majority Leader (1989 – 1995), United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995 - 2001), Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company (2004 - 2006), U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009 - 2011), author of the Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001) and Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball (2007)
• Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, '97, U.S. Representative from South Dakota (2004 - 2010)
• Chris Van Hollen, '90, U.S. Representative from Maryland (2003 – present)
• Pete Visclosky, LL.M. '82, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1985 – present)
• James H. Webb, '75, U.S. Senator from Virginia (2007 - 2013), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1987 - 1988), author
• Rick White, '80, U.S. Representative from Washington (1995 - 1999)
• Frank Wolf, '65, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1981 – 2015)
• Albert Wynn, '77, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1993 - 2008)

State and local administration

• Jerry Abramson, '71, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (2011 – present), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1986 - 2011)
• Sam Arora, '10, Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2011 - 2014)
• Jesus Borja, '74, Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (1994 – 1998)
• Michael N. Castle, '64, Governor of Delaware (1985 - 1992), U.S. Representative from Delaware (1993 – 2011)
• David Catania, '94, Member of the D.C. City Council (1997–present)
• John Chiang, California State Treasurer (2015–present), California State Controller (2007 – 2015)
• Sean Coffey, '87, Candidate for New York State Attorney General in 2010
• Peter Tali Coleman, '51, Governor of American Samoa (1956 – 1961, 1978 – 1985, 1989 – 1993)
• Barbara Comstock, Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2010–present), Candidate for Virginia's 10th congressional district in 2014
• Mitch Daniels, '79, Governor of Indiana (2005 - 2013), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001 - 2003), President of Purdue University (2013 – present)
• Christopher Del Sesto, Governor of Rhode Island (1959 - 1961), Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1966 - 1973)
• Michael Delaney, '94, New Hampshire Attorney General (2009 - 2013)
• Ken Duncan, Master of Laws 1973, Louisiana state treasurer, 1996 to 2000
• John J. Easton, Jr., '70, Vermont Attorney General (1981-1985)
• Jim Graham, LL.M., Member of the D.C. City Council (1999–present)
• David Grosso, '01, Member of the D.C. City Council (2013–present)
• Derek Hodge, '71, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987 – 1995)
• Brad Hutto, '81, Member of the South Carolina Senate, Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014
• Jeff Johnson, '92, Candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2014, Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (2001 - 2007)
• John Lynch, '84, Governor of New Hampshire (2005 - 2013)
• Terry McAuliffe, '84, Governor of Virginia (2014 – present), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2001 - 2005)
• Jim McGreevey, '81, Governor of New Jersey (2002 - 2004)
• Vincent Orange, LL.M. '88, Member of the D.C. City Council (1988–present)
• Clay Pell, '08, Candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 2014
• James Patrick Rossiter, 1916, Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania (1932 – 1936)
• Josh Shapiro, '02, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2005 - 2012)
• Don Siegelman, '72, Governor of Alabama (1999 - 2003)
• Sheila Simon, '87, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (2011 – present)
• John D. Spellman, '53, Governor of Washington (1981 - 1985)
• Daniel S. Sullivan, '93, Alaska Attorney General (2009 - 2010)
• Cyrus Vance, Jr., '82, New York County District Attorney (2010 – present)
• Robert Zirkin, '98, Member of the Maryland State Senate (2007–present)

Other politics

• Jack Abramoff, '86, Lobbyist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals
• Gary Bauer, '73, President of the Family Research Council (1988 - 1999) and conservative activist
• Tim Canova. '88, Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University Law School, Challenger to Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Florida's 23rd congressional district
• Brian Concannon, '89, Founding Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
• Stephanie Cutter, '97, Political consultant and Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign
• Sandra Fluke, '12, Women's rights activist
• John E. Jackson, 1916, Louisiana Republican Party state chairman, 1929-1934 and national committeeman, 1934-1952; New Orleans lawyer
• Paul Manafort, '74, Chief strategist for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016, lobbyist known for representing prominent dictators
• John Sears, '63, Campaign manager for Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980
• Michael Steele, '91, Chairman of the Republican National Committee (2009 - 2011), Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003 - 2007)
• Caren Z. Turner, '85, Co-chairwoman of the super PAC Ready for Hillary
• Jeff Weaver (politician), '96, Campaign Manager for Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016

Judiciary

Federal court

• Jesse Corcoran Adkins, LL.B. 1899, LL.M. 1900, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1930 – 1955)
• Thomas L. Ambro, '75, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2000 – present)
• Michael M. Anello, '68, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2008 – present)
• Robert Armen, '73, Judge on the United States Tax Court
• William G. Bassler, '63, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1991 - 2006)
• Walter Bastian, 1913, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1954 - 1975)
• Terrence G. Berg, '86, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2012 – present)
• Francisco Besosa, '79, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (2006 – present)
• James K. Bredar, '82, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2010 – present)
• Lynn J. Bush, '76, Judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims (1998–present)
• Richard C. Casey, '58, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1997 - 2007)
• Thomas Clary, 1924, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1950 - 1977)
• Robert N. Chatigny, '78, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2004 – present)
• David Chávez, 1922, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1947 – 1950), Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1960 - 1968)
• Pamela K. Chen, '86, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2013 – present)
• Carolyn Chiechi, JD '69, LL.M. '71, Judge on the United States Tax Court (1992 - 2007)
• Charles N. Clevert, Jr., '72, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1996 – present)
• John David Clifford, Jr., 1913, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine (1947 – 1956), U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine (1933 - 1947)
• John O. Colvin, LL.M. '78, Judge on the United States Tax Court (1998–present, Chief Judge 2006 - present)
• Patrick Anthony Conmy, '59, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota (1985 – present, Chief Judge 1985 - 1992)
• Julian Abele Cook, Jr., '57, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1979 – present, Chief Judge 1989 - 1996)
• Virginia M. Hernandez Covington, '80, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2004 – present)
• Ronald Davies, '30, Judge for U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota (1955 - 1985) who while on temporary assignment in Little Rock, Arkansas presided over the Little Rock Integration Crisis in 1957
• Robert N. Davis, '78, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (2004 – present)
• John T. Elfvin, '47, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (1974 - 2009), U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York (1972 - 1975)
• Walter Heen, '55, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1981), U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii
• John M. Facciola, '69, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1997 – present)
• D. Michael Fisher, '69, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2003 – present), Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1997 - 2003)
• Arthur J. Gajarsa, '67, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1997 - 2012)
• Marvin J. Garbis, LL.M. '62, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1989–present)
• Ashley Mulgrave Gould, 1884, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1902 - 1921), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1901 - 1902)
• Thomas Hardiman, '90, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2007 – present)
• George J. Hazel, '99, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2014 – present)
• Judith C. Herrera, '79, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico (2003 – present)
• William Hitz, 1900, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1931 - 1935)
• Michael Robert Hogan, '71, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (1991 - 2012, Chief Judge 1995 - 2002)
• Thomas F. Hogan, '66, Judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (2009 – present), Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1982 – present, Chief Judge 2001 - 2008)
• Ellen Lipton Hollander, '74, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2010 – present)
• Jerome A. Holmes, '88, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2006 – present)
• Jeffrey R. Howard, '81, Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2002 – present)
• Brian Anthony Jackson, LL.M. '00, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (2010 – present)
• Kent A. Jordan, '84, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2006 – present)
• Norma Johnson, '62, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1980 - 2003, Chief Judge 1997 - 2001), first African-American woman to serve as Chief Judge of a U.S. District Court
• Elaine D. Kaplan, '79, Judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2013 – present), acting Director of the U.S Office of Personnel Management (2013)
• Richmond Keech, LL.B. 1922, LL.M. 1923, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1947 - 1986, Chief Judge 1966)
• Charles B. Kornmann, '62, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota, (1995 – present)
• Bruce E. Kasold, LL.M. '82, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (2003 – present)
• Paul Kilday, 1922, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1961 – 1968)
• Mark R. Kravitz, '75, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2003 - 2012)
• Joseph Normand Laplante, '90, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (2007–present)
• Bolitha James Laws, LL.B. 1913, LL.M. 1914, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1938 - 1958, Chief Judge 1945 - 1958)
• Joseph Patrick Lieb, 1924, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1962 - 1971, Chief Judge 1966 - 1971)
• Richard Linn, '69, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2000 – present)
• Frank J. Magill, '55, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1986 - 2013), father of Stanford Law School Dean M. Elizabeth Magill
• Kiyo A. Matsumoto, '81, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2008 – present)
• Roslynn R. Mauskopf, '82, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2007 – present), U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (2002 - 2007), Inspector General of the State of New York (1995 - 2002)
• Steven J. McAuliffe, '73, Judge on U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (1992 – present), widower of astronaut Christa McAuliffe
• Joseph McGarraghy, 1921, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1965 - 1975)
• M. Margaret McKeown, '75, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1998–present), first female partner at Perkins Coie
• Sean J. McLaughlin, '80, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1994 - 2013, Chief Judge 2013), General Counsel and Vice President of the Erie Insurance Group (2013 – present)
• Mildred Methvin, '76, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Lafayette, 1983 to 2009
• Kimberly Ann Moore, '94, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2006 – present)
• Frank Jerome Murray, 1929, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1967 - 1995)
• Frank Herbert Norcross, 1894, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (1928 - 1952), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada (1904 - 1916)
• Daniel William O'Donoghue, LL.B. 1899, LL.M. 1900, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1932 - 1948)
• Fred I. Parker, '65, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1994 - 2003)
• Jaime Pieras, Jr., '48, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1982 - 2011)
• David Andrew Pine, 1913, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1940 - 1970, Chief Judge 1959 - 1961), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1938 - 1940)
• E. Barrett Prettyman, 1915, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1945 - 1971, Chief Judge 1958 - 1960)
• Robert Renner, '49, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1980 - 2005), U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota (1969 - 1977)
• James L. Robart, '73, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (2004 – present)
• K. Gary Sebelius, '74, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (2003 – present), husband of former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and Governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebellius
• Patricia Seitz, '73, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1998–present)
• Thomas Michael Shanahan, '59, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska (1993 - 2004), Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1983 - 1993)
• Edward F. Shea, '70, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1997 – present)
• Eugene Edward Siler, Jr., LL.M. '64, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1991–present)
• John Sirica, 1926, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1957 - 1974, Chief Judge 1971 - 1974), presided over the Watergate trials and named TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1973
• John Lewis Smith, Jr., LL.B. '38, LL.M. '39, Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1966 - 1992, Chief Judge 1981 - 1982)
• William E. Smith, '87, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, Chief Judge (2013 – present)
• Timothy C. Stanceu, '79, Judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade (2003 – present)
• George Clinton Sweeney, 1922, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1935 - 1966, Chief Judge 1948 - 1965)
• Edward Allen Tamm, '30, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1965 - 1985)
• Robert Timlin, '59, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1994 – present)
• Roger W. Titus, '66, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2003 – present)
• Ricardo M. Urbina, '70, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1994 – 2012)
• James A. Walsh, 1928, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1952 - 1991, Chief Judge 1961 - 1972)
• David C. Westenhaver, 1886, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1917 - 1928)
• Ashton Hilliard Williams, 1915, Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina (1952 - 1962)
• Douglas P. Woodlock, '75, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, (1986 – present)
• Jennifer Guerin Zipps, '90, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (2011 – present)

State court

• Richard C. Bosson, '69, Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (2002 – present)
• J. J. P. Corrigan, '25, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1969 - 1976)
• Robert E. Davis, '64, Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1993 – present), Chief Justice (2009 - 2010)
• Henry P. Hughes, 1927, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1948 – 1951)
• Stephen P. Lamb, '75, Delaware Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor
• Bill Mims, LL.M. '86, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (2010 – present), Attorney General of Virginia (2009 - 2010)
• Gene Franchini, '60, Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1990 - 2002, Chief Justice 1997 – 1999)
• Rives Kistler, '81, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (2003–present), first openly gay state Supreme Court justice in the United States
• Vanessa Ruiz, Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1994 - 2011)
• Joseph T. Walsh, '54, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1985- 2005)
• Robert A. Zarnoch, '74, Judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2008 – present)

Private practice

• Robert S. Bennett, '64, Senior Partner at Hogan Lovells who represented Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky hearings
• Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., '65, Chairman of the law firm Patton Boggs
• Stephen L. Braga, '81, lawyer known for his representation of Martin Tankleff and the West Memphis Three
• Alan Gura, '95, lawyer known for successfully arguing District of Columbia v. Heller
• Stephen Halbrook, '78, lawyer known for his litigation on behalf the NRA, including successfully arguing Printz v. United States
• Shon Hopwood, LLM '17, known for filing multiple successful petitions for certiorari with the Supreme Court as a jailhouse lawyer in federal prison before obtaining his law degree, criminal justice advocate
• Brendan Sullivan, '67, Senior Partner at Williams & Connolly who represented Oliver North during the Iran-Contra affair
• Edward Bennett Williams, '44, co-founder of Williams & Connolly; owner and President of the Washington Redskins (1969 - 1979); owner of the Baltimore Orioles (1980 - 1988)

Other

• Joan Biskupic, '93, Editor in Charge, Legal Affairs for Reuters; author of several books on the Supreme Court
• Joyce Chiang, '95, Immigration and Naturalization Service attorney whose murder drew similarities to the murder of Chandra Levy
• James C. Duff, '81, President and CEO of the Newseum and Freedom Forum, Director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (2006 - 2011)
• Savannah Guthrie, '02, co-anchor of The Today Show on NBC (2012 – present)
• Nancy Hogshead-Makar, '97, 1984 Summer Olympics swimming gold medalist and Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law
• Herman "Ed" Hollis, 1927, FBI special agent involved in shootouts with John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson
• John Luessenhop, director of Takers and Texas Chainsaw 3D
• Marilyn Milian, '84, Judge of The People's Court and former Judge on the Miami Circuit Court
• Walter Pincus, '01, Emmy, Pulitzer, and Polk award-winning national security journalist for the Washington Post
• Greta Van Susteren, JD '79, LL.M. '83, Anchor of On the Record on the Fox News Channel

Also attended

• Lyndon B. Johnson, former President of the United States of America, in 1934
• Marjorie Rendell, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997 – present), in 1971
• Ilana Rovner, Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1992 – present), in 1964 and 1965
• Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. Secretary of Defense, in 1957

Fictional attendees

• Olivia Pope, lead character in Scandal
• Charlie Young, lead character in The West Wing
• Alicia Florrick, lead character in The Good Wife
• Will Gardner, supporting character in The Good Wife