List of Notable Alumni In Yale Law University

This a rundown of outstanding graduated class of Yale Law School. For a rundown of remarkable Yale University graduates, see Yale University individuals. All degrees recorded underneath are LL.B. (the essential expert degree in law gave by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the essential expert degree in law gave since 1971), unless noted generally. Yale Law's three–year J.D. (LL.B., preceding 1971) system selects an approaching class of roughly 200 understudies, one of the littlest approaching class sizes of all top law schools.

 Law and Government

Executive branch

 U.S. Presidents
  1. Gerald Ford (1941), 38th President of the United States, 1974–1977
  2. Bill Clinton (1973), 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
U.S. Attorneys General
  1. Herbert Brownell, Jr.(1927), 62nd U.S. Attorney General, 1953–1957
  2. Homer Stille Cummings (1893), 55th U.S. Attorney General, 1933–1939
  3. Nicholas Katzenbach (1947), 65th U.S. Attorney General, 1965–1966
  4. Peter Keisler (1985), acting U.S. Attorney General, 2007
  5. Edward H. Levi (1938), 71st U.S. Attorney General, 1975–1977
  6. Wayne MacVeagh (1856), 36th U.S. Attorney General, 1881
  7. Michael B. Mukasey (1967), 81st U.S. Attorney General, 2007–2009
  8. Alphonso Taft (1838), 34th U.S. Attorney General, 1876–1877
  9. Edwards Pierrepont (1840), 33rd U.S. Attorney General, 1875–1876
U.S. Solicitors General
  1. Drew S. Days, III (1966), 40th U.S. Solicitor General, 1993–1996
  2. Walter E. Dellinger III (1966), Acting Solicitor General, 1996–1997
  3. Neal Katyal (1995), Acting Solicitor General, 2010–2011
  4. Thomas D. Thacher (did not graduate), 21st U.S. Solicitor General, 1930–1933
  5. Seth P. Waxman (1977), 41st U.S. Solicitor General, 1997–2001
Other cabinet and cabinet-level officials
  1. Clifford Alexander, Jr. (1958), 13th Secretary of the Army, 1977–1981
  2. John R. Bolton (1974), 25th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2005–2006
  3. John Bryson (1969), 37th Secretary of Commerce, 2011–2012
  4. Hillary Clinton (1973), 67th Secretary of State, 2009–2013
  5. Greg Craig (1972), 33rd White House Counsel, 2009–2010
  6. Lloyd Cutler (1939), 25th White House Counsel, 1994
  7. John Danforth (1963), 24th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2004–2005
  8. Richard Danzig (1971), 71st Secretary of the Navy, 1998–2001
  9. Henry H. Fowler (1932), 58th Secretary of the Treasury, 1965–1968
  10. Gordon Gray (1933), 2nd Secretary of the Army, 1949–1950
  11. Carla Anderson Hills (1958), 5th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1975–1977
  12. Victor H. Metcalf (1876), 2nd Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1904–1906; 38th Secretary of the Navy, 1906–1908
  13. Robert Reich (1973), 22nd Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997
  14. Stanley Rogers Resor (1942), 9th Secretary of the Army, 1965–1971
  15. Robert Rubin (1964), 70th Secretary of the Treasury, 1995–1999
  16. Gene Sperling (1985), Director of the National Economic Council, 1996–2000, 2011
  17. Alphonso Taft (1838), 31st Secretary of War, 1876
  18. Cyrus Vance (1942), 57th Secretary of State, 1977–1980
  19. Eugene M. Zuckert (1936), 7th Secretary of the Air Force, 1961–1965
Legislative branch (U.S. Congress)

 Senators
  1. Raymond E. Baldwin (1921), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut), 1946–1949
  2. Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1893), U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), 1922–1929
  3. Michael Bennet (1993), U.S. Senator (D-Colorado), 2009–present
  4. Richard Blumenthal (1973), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 2011
  5. James L. Buckley (1950), U.S. Senator (R-New York), 1971–1977
  6. Hillary Clinton (1973), U.S. Senator (D-New York), 2001–2009
  7. Chris Coons (1992), U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), 2010–present
  8. John A. Danaher (1922), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut), 1939–1945
  9. John Danforth (1961), U.S. Senator (R-Missouri), 1976–1995
  10. David Davis (1835), U.S. Senator (R-Illinois), 1877–1883
  11. Peter H. Dominick (1940), U.S. Senator (R-Colorado), 1963–1975
  12. Thomas J. Dodd (1933), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1959–1971
  13. Charles Goodell (1951), U.S. Senator (R-New York), 1968–1971
  14. Gary Hart (1964), U.S. Senator (D-Colorado), 1975–1987
  15. Joseph Lieberman (1967), U.S. Senator (D/I-Connecticut), 1989–2012
  16. Augustine Lonergan, U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1933–1939
  17. Estes Kefauver, U.S. Senator (D-Tennessee), 1949–1963
  18. Alfred B. Kittredge, U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota), 1901–1909
  19. Brien McMahon (1927), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1945–1952
  20. Trusten Polk (1831), U.S. Senator (D-Missouri), 1857–1862
  21. Julius Rockwell (1826), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts), 1854–1855
  22. Arlen Specter (1956), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1981–2011
  23. Paul Tsongas (1967), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts), 1979–1985
  24. Harris Wofford (1954), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1991–1995
  25. Cory Booker (1997), U.S. Senator (D-New Jersey), 2013–present, 36th mayor of Newark, New Jersey, 2006–2013
Representatives
  1. Lewis Beach (1856), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1881–1886
  2. Carroll L. Beedy (1906), U.S. Representative (R-Maine), 1921–1935
  3. Jackson Edward Betts (1929), U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1951–1973
  4. Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1939), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1965–1983
  5. Clay Stone Briggs (1899), U.S. Representative (D-Texas), 1919–1933
  6. C. Pope Caldwell (1899), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1915–1921
  7. Charles T. Canady (1979), U.S. Representative (R-Florida), 1993–2001
  8. James Colgate Cleveland (1948), U.S. Representative (R-New Hampshire), 1963–1981
  9. Sam Coppersmith (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Arizona, 1993–1995
  10. Albert W. Cretella (1921), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut, 1953–1959
  11. Peter Deutsch (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Florida), 1993–2005
  12. Allen Ertel (1965), U.S. Representative (D-Pennsylvania), 1977–1983
  13. Elizabeth Esty (1985), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 2013–present
  14. Richard P. Freeman (1894), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1915–1933
  15. Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr. (1941), U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey), 1953–1975
  16. Foster Furcolo (1936), U.S. Representative (D-Massachusetts), 1949–1952
  17. Edwin W. Higgins (1897), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1905–1913
  18. Peter Hoagland (1968), U.S. Representative (D-Nebraska), 1989–1995
  19. Colin M. Ingersoll, U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1851–1855
  20. Donald J. Irwin (1954), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1959–1961
  21. Stephen Wright Kellogg (1848), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1869–1875
  22. Franklin F. Korell (did not graduate), U.S. Representative (R-Oregon), 1927–1931
  23. William Lemke, U.S. Representative (R-North Dakota), 1932–1936
  24. John Lindsay (1948), U.S. Representative (R-New York), 1959–1965
  25. Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1959–1963
  26. Allard K. Lowenstein (1954), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1969–1971
  27. John Miller (1964), U.S. Representative (R-Washington), 1985–1993
  28. Bruce Morrison (1973), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1983–1991
  29. Eleanor Holmes Norton (1964), Congressional delegate (D-Washington, D.C.), 1991
  30. Miner G. Norton (1880), U.S. Representative (D-Ohio), 1921–1923
  31. George M. O'Brien (1947), U.S. Representative (R-Illinois), 1973–1986
  32. Tom Perriello (2001), U.S. Representative (D-Virginia), 2009–2011
  33. Aaron F. Perry, U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1871–1872
  34. William Scranton, U.S. Representative (D-Pennsylvania), 1961–1963
  35. David Skaggs (1967), U.S. Representative (D-Colorado), 1987–1999
  36. J. Joseph Smith (1927), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1935–1941[63]
  37. Wint Smith (1922), U.S. Representative (R-Kansas), 1947–1961[64]
  38. John M. Spratt, Jr. (1969), U.S. Representative (D-South Carolina), 1983–2011
  39. Joseph E. Talbot (1925), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1942–1947
  40. Frank Tejeda (LL.M. 1989), U.S. Representative (D-Texas), 1993–1997
  41. John Q. Tilson (1893), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1909–1913, 1915–1932
  42. William H. Upson (1845), U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1869–1873
  43. Stuyvesant Wainwright (1947), U.S. Representative (R-New York), 1953–1961
  44. Mel Watt (1970), U.S. Representative (D-North Carolina), 1993
  45. Washington F. Willcox (1862), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1889–1893
  46. David Wu (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Oregon), 1999–2011
  47. Dick Zimmer (1969), U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey), 1991–1997
Judicial branch

Supreme Court justices
  1. Samuel Alito (1975), Associate Justice, 2006–present
  2. Henry Billings Brown (did not graduate), Associate Justice, 1891–1906
  3. David Davis (1835), Associate Justice, 1862–1877
  4. Abe Fortas (1933), Associate Justice, 1963–1969
  5. Sherman Minton (1916), Associate Justice, 1949–1956
  6. George Shiras, Jr. (1853), Associate Justice, 1892–1903
  7. Sonia Sotomayor (1979), Associate Justice, 2009–present
  8. Potter Stewart (1941), Associate Justice, 1958–1981
  9. Clarence Thomas (1974), Associate Justice, 1991–present
  10. Byron White (1946), Associate Justice, 1962–1993
Other courts
  1. J. Rich Leonard (1976), U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, 1992
  2. Albert Levitt (1923), Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 1935–1968
  3. William Josiah Tilson (1896, LL.M. 1897), Judge for the United States Court of International Trade
State government

 Governors
  1. Jerry Brown (1964), 34th and 39th Governor of California, 1975–1983, 2011–present
  2. Foster Furcolo (1936), 60th Governor of Massachusetts, 1957–1961
  3. Bibb Graves (1896), 38th Governor of Alabama, 1927–1931
  4. Henry Baldwin Harrison, 52nd Governor of Connecticut, 1885–1887
  5. William W. Hoppin, 24th Governor of Rhode Island, 1854–1857
  6. William J. Mills (1877), 19th Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1910–1912
  7. Raymond P. Shafer (1941), 39th Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967–1971
    8. State politicians
  8. Peter H. Behr (1940), member of the California State Senate, 1970–1978
  9. 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
  10. James M. Brown (1967), Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1981
  11. Kimberly B. Cheney (1964), Attorney General of Vermont, 1973–1975
  12. Robert E. Cooper, Jr. (1983), Attorney General of Tennessee, 2006–2014
  13. Robert Del Tufo (1958), Attorney General of New Jersey, 1990–1993
  14. Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), member of the New York State Assembly from the 68th district, 1997–2001
  15. John R. Dunne (1954), member of the New York Senate from the 6th district, 1966–1989
  16. Daniel C. Esty (1986), commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, 2011
  17. Shirley Adele Field, member of the Oregon House of Representatives, 1956–1960, 1962–1966
  18. Tom Foley, Secretary of Labor and Industry of Pennsylvania, 1991–1994
  19. Ammi Giddings, member of the Connecticut Senate, 1858–1864
  20. Harrison Goldin (1960), member of the New York Senate, 1966–1973
  21. L. W. Housel (1900), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1900–1902
  22. Cyrus Habib, State Senator from Washington State, 2014-present, former member of the Washington House of Representatives, 2012-2014
  23. Michael Johnston, member of the Colorado Senate from the 33rd district, 2009
  24. Daniel Kagan, member of the Colorado House of Representatives, 2009
  25. Jeff King, member of the Kansas Senate from the 15th district, 2011
  26. Kris Kobach (1995), 31st Secretary State of Kansas, 2001
  27. Frederick Lippitt (1946), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1961–1983
  28. Edward Meyer (1961), member of the Connecticut Senate, 2005–present
  29. Robert W. Naylor (1969), member of the California State Assembly for the 20th district, 1978–1986; chair of the California Republican Party, 1987–1989
  30. Charles R. Nesbitt (1947), 9th Attorney General of Oklahoma, 1963–1967; Secretary of Energy of Oklahoma, 1991–1995
  31. Larry Obhof, member of the Ohio Senate from the 22nd district, 2011
  32. James Paull, president of the West Virginia Senate, 1943–1945
  33. Jamie Pedersen, member of the Washington House of Representatives from the 43rd district, 2007
  34. Charles B. Perry, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1929
  35. Stephen Sachs, Attorney General of Maryland, 1979–1987
  36. Francis W. Treadway (1892), 30th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1909–1911
  37. John Wesley Wescott, Attorney General of New Jersey of New Jersey, 1914–1919
  38. Bryan Townsend, member of the Delaware Senate, 2012
State judges
  1. William B. Chandler, III, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1985–1996
  2. Rick Haselton, Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals, 2012–present; Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals, 1994–2012
  3. Ernest A. Inglis, Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1953–1957; Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1950–1953
  4. Goodwin Liu (1998), Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 2011
  5. Jeffrey W. Johnson (1985), Judge, California Court of Appeal, 2009
  6. William M. Maltbie (1905), Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1930–1950; Judge, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1925–1930
  7. Monica Márquez (1997), Associate Justice, Colorado Supreme Court, 2010
  8. Margaret H. Marshall, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1999–2010 (first female to hold this position); Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1996–1999
  9. Marshall F. McComb (1919), Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1955–1977
  10. George W. Wheeler (1883), Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1920–1930
  11. J. Craig Wright (1954), Associate Justice, Ohio Supreme Court, 1985–1996
City government
  1. 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
  2. George Williamson Crawford (1903), second black graduate of the Law School and Corporation Counsel of the City of New Haven
  3. Bruce Harris, mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey, 2012–present
  4. Robert J. Harris, mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1969–1973
  5. John Lindsay (1948), 103rd mayor of New York City, New York, 1966–1973
  6. Robert M. Morgenthau (1948), New York County District Attorney, 1975–2009
  7. Charles Phelps Taft II (1921), mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1955–1957
U.S. diplomatic figures
  1. Winthrop G. Brown (1930), 16th U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, 1964–1967
  2. William Smith Culbertson (1910), president of the United States Tariff Commission, 1922–1925
  3. Richard N. Gardner (1951), U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1993–1997; U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1977–1981
  4. Ulric Haynes (1956), 6th U.S. Ambassador to Algeria, 1977–1981
  5. David Huebner (1986), 17th U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand, 2009–present
  6. Eugene M. Locke (1940), 9th U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, 1966–1967
  7. Robert McCallum, Jr. (1973), 23rd U.S. Ambassador to Australia, 2006–2009
  8. John O'Leary (1969), 48th U.S. Ambassador to Chile, 1998–2001
  9. Sargent Shriver (1941), 44th U.S. Ambassador to France, 1968–1970; also the driving force behind the Peace Corps
  10. R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (1946), 22nd U.S. Ambassador to Norway, 1984–1989
  11. Peter Tufo, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary, 1997–2001
Other U.S. political figures
  1. Mark D. Agrast (1985), Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs of the United States Department of Justice, 2009
  2. Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1957–1959
  3. Dillon Anderson (1929), 2nd National Security Advisor, 1955–1956
  4. Joe Andrew, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, 1999–2001
  5. Alex Azar, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services
  6. David B. Barlow, U.S. Attorney for the district of Utah, 2011
  7. Michael Barr (1992), Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
  8. Rubén Berríos (1961), Puerto Rico senator at large, 1972–1976, 1984–1988, 1993–1996
  9. Matthew Berry, Republican primary challenger in Virginia's 8th congressional district election, 2010
  10. Boris Bershteyn (2004), Associate White House Counsel, 2010
  11. Beth Brinkmann (1985), Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, 1993–2001
  12. Antonia Handler Chayes (did not graduate), 14th Under Secretary of the Air Force, 1979–1981
  13. William Thaddeus Coleman III, 17th General Counsel of the Army, 1994–1999
  14. Mathea Falco (1968), 1st Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, 1979–1981
  15. Roswell Gilpatric (1931), Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961–1964
  16. Fred T. Goldberg, Jr. (1973), Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1989–1992
  17. Stephen Hadley (1972), 21st National Security Advisor, 2005–2009
  18. Coleman Hicks (1968), General Counsel of the Navy, 1979–1981
  19. Steven S. Honigman (1973), General Counsel of the Navy, 1993–1998
  20. Reed Hundt (1974), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 1993–1997
  21. Rashad Hussain (2005), 2nd Special Envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, 2010
  22. Ro Khanna (2001), Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce
  23. Harrison Loesch (1939), Assistant Secretary of the Interior, 1969–1972
  24. Jerry MacArthur Hultin (1972), 27th Under Secretary of the Navy, 1997–2000
  25. Malcolm A. MacIntyre, 5th Under Secretary of the Air Force, 1957–1959
  26. Burke Marshall (1951), Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, 1961–1964
  27. Joe Miller (1995), Republican Senate candidate from Alaska, 2010
  28. Roderic L. O'Connor (1947), 2nd Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs, 1957–1958
  29. Stephen A. Oxman, 19th Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1993–1994
  30. Troy A. Paredes, commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, 2008
  31. Michael Pertschuk (1959), chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, 1977–1981
  32. Randal Quarles (1984), 15th Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, 2005–2006
  33. Eugene Rostow (1937), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 1966–1969
  34. Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, 2009–present
  35. R. James Woolsey, Jr. (1968), 16th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 1993–1995
  36. Adam Yarmolinsky, political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations
  37. David Yassky, member of the New York City Council from the 33rd District, 2002–2009
Other political figures
  1. Ron Atkey (LL.M. 1966), member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1972–1974, 1979–1980
  2. Kwesi Botchwey (LL.M.), Minister of Finance of Ghana, 1982–1995
  3. Francisco Afan Delgado (LL.M. 1909), Senator of the Philippines, 1951–1957
  4. Irwin Cotler (LL.M. 1966), Minister of Justice of Canada, 2003–2006
  5. Philip S. Deloria, founder and 1st Secretary–General of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples
  6. David Howarth (LL.M. 1983), Member of Parliament for Cambridge, 2005–2010
  7. H. H. Kung (LL.M. 1907), Premier of the Republic of China, 1938–1939
  8. Antonio La Viña, Undersecretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines
  9. Stavros Lambrinidis (1988), Member of the European Parliament, 2004–2009; Vice President of the European Parliament, 2009–2011; 23rd Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece, 2011; European Union Special Representative for Human Rights, 2012-present
  10. Shunmugam Jayakumar (LL.M. 1966), Senior Minister of Singapore, 2009–2011
  11. Peter Mutharika (LL.M., J.S.D.), President of the Republic of Malawi 2014. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malawi, 2011–2012
  12. Jovito Salonga (J.S.D. 1949), 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines, 1987–1992
  13. Lebbeus R. Wilfley (1892), 1st Attorney General of the Philippines, 1901–1906
  14. Michael Yaki, commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, 2005–2016
Non-United States judicial figures

 International court judges
  1. Shigeru Oda (J.S.D. 1953), Japanese judge for the International Court of Justice, 1976–2003
  2. Philip Jessup (1924), American judge for the International Court of Justice, 1961–1970
National court judges
  1. Leo Barry (LL.M. 1968), Justice for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2007
  2. Daryl Dawson (LL.M. 1956), Justice of the High Court of Australia, 1982–1997
  3. Todd Ducharme (LL.M. 1991), Judge for the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
  4. Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (LL.M. 1954), first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines
  5. Enrique Fernando (1948), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
  6. Gérard La Forest (LL.M. 1965), Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, 1985–1997
  7. Johnnie Lewis (LL.M. 1971), 18th Chief Justice of Liberia, 2006–present
  8. Wan Exiang (LL.M. 1987), Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China, 1998–2003
  9. Luís Roberto Barroso (LL.M. 1989), Judge for the Supreme Court of Brazil, 2013
International organization figures
  1. Rosalyn Higgins (J.S.D. 1962), president of the International Court of Justice, 2006–2009
  2. Johan C. Verbeke (LL.M. 1978), head of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG)
  3. Stavros Lambrinidis (J.D. 1988), European Union Special Representative for Human Rights (since Sept. 2012)
Notable attorneys
  1. 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
  2. Douglas Arant (1923), attorney in Birmingham, Alabama
  3. Francis N. Bangs (1847), founding partner of Bangs & Stetson, a precursor to the modern firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell
  4. Bouvier Beale, attorney and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
  5. Dana Berliner, public interest attorney at the Institute for Justice
  6. Hunter Biden, founding partner of Oldaker, Biden & Belair, LLP and son of Vice President Joe Biden
  7. David Boies (1966), chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner
  8. Ralph Cavanagh, environmental attorney and co–director of the Air/Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
  9. William Coblentz (1947), attorney and power broker who played an important role in California politics in the years after World War II
  10. Julien Davies Cornell, attorney noted for his defense of Ezra Pound following Pound's indictment for treason
  11. J. Richardson Dilworth (1942), attorney for the Rockefeller family
  12. Peter E. Fleming Jr. (1958), criminal defense attorney
  13. Charles Halpern (1964), co–founder of the Center for Law and Social Policy, the first public interest law firm in the United States
  14. David Kendall (1971), attorney who advised President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and Clinton's subsequent impeachment proceedings
  15. George Kern (1952), partner of Sullivan & Cromwell
  16. Ernest Knaebel (1896, LL.M. 1897), 11th Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1916–1944
  17. Arthur Kramer, founding partner of Kramer Levin
  18. Dawn Johnsen (1986), attorney twice nominated by President Barack Obama to head the Office of Legal Counsel
  19. Mark I. Levy (1975), appellate attorney who argued 16 cases before the Supreme Court
  20. Arthur Mag, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
  21. Bessie Margolin (1933), labor attorney who argued numerous cased before the Supreme Court
  22. Arvo Mikkanen (1986), attorney nominated by President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
  23. 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
  24. Robert Raymar (1972), attorney nominated by President Bill Clinton to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  25. Stephen Shulman (1958), attorney most notable for representing Egil Krogh during the Watergate scandal
  26. Paul M. Smith (1979), attorney at Jenner & Block who argued many notable cases including Lawrence v. Texas
  27. Leonard Weinglass (1958), notable criminal defense attorney and constitutional law advocate
  28. Andrea R. Wood (1998), senior counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
  29. Gregory Howard Woods (1995), general counsel of the United States Department of Energy
  30. Arnold M. Zack (1956), notable arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes
Public policy leaders
  1. Bruce J. Katz (1985), vice president of the Brookings Institution
  2. Bayless Manning (1949), 1st president of the Council on Foreign Relations
  3. Carla Anderson Hills, 5th chairwoman of the Council on Foreign Relations
  4. John P. Hannah, senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Academia

University presidents and other administrators
  1. Nancy Y. Bekavac (1973), president of Scripps College, 1990–2007
  2. Alfred Benjamin Butts (1930), chancellor of the University of Mississippi, 1935–1946
  3. Gerhard Casper (LL.M. 1962), president of Stanford University, 1992–2000
  4. Ronald J. Daniels (1988), president of Johns Hopkins University, 2009–present
  5. William R. Greiner, president of the University at Buffalo, 1991-2004
  6. Ira Michael Heyman (1956), chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, 1980–1990
  7. Robert Hutchins (1925), president of the University of Chicago, 1929–1945; chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1945–1951
  8. Joseph S. Iseman (1941), acting president of Bennington College, 1976
  9. Thomas H. Jackson (1975), president of University of Rochester, 1994–2005
  10. Marvin Krislov (1988), president of Oberlin College, 2007–present
  11. Ted Landsmark (1973), president of the Boston Architectural College, present
  12. Frederick M. Lawrence (1980), president of Brandeis University, 2011–present
  13. Edward H. Levi (1938), president of the University of Chicago, 1968–1975
  14. Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, College Park, 2010–present
  15. Linda Lorimer, vice president of Yale University; president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 1986–1993
  16. Cyrus Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota, 1884–1911
  17. Russell K. Osgood (1974), president of Grinnell College, 1998–2010
  18. Robert Prichard (LL.M. 1976), president of the University of Toronto, 1990–2000
  19. Clayton Spencer (1985), president of Bates College, 2011–2012
  20. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1962), president of George Washington University, 1988–2007
  21. Louis Vogel (LL.M. 1982), president of Panthéon-Assas University, 2006–2012
Legal academia

Law school deans
  1. T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1977), dean of Georgetown University Law Center, 2004–2009
  2. Michelle Anderson (1994), dean of City University of New York Law School, 2006–present
  3. Evan Caminker (1986), dean of the University of Michigan Law School, 2003–present
  4. Daniel Coquillette (1973), dean of the Boston College Law School, 1985-1993[111]
  5. Nora Demleitner (1992), dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2012–present
  6. John Hart Ely (1963), dean of Stanford Law School, 1982–1987
  7. Robert Klonoff (1979), dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, 2007–present
  8. Anthony T. Kronman (1975), dean of Yale Law School, 1994–2004
  9. Saul Levmore (1980), dean of the University of Chicago Law School, 2001–2009
  10. Paul Mahoney (1984), dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, 2008–present
  11. Earl F. Martin (LL.M. 1996), dean of Gonzaga University School of Law, 2005-2010
  12. Martha Minow (1979), dean of Harvard Law School, 2009–present
  13. Russell D. Niles (LL.M. 1931), dean of New York University School of Law, 1948–1963
  14. Eduardo Penalver (1999), dean of Cornell Law School, 2014-present
  15. Robert Post (1977), dean of Yale Law School, 2009–present
  16. Norman Redlich (1950), dean of New York University School of Law, 1974–1988
  17. Richard Revesz (1983), dean of New York University School of Law, 2002–present
  18. Robert Schapiro (1990) dean of Emory University School of Law, 2012–present
  19. David Schizer (1993), dean of Columbia Law School, 2004–present
  20. William Treanor (1985), dean of Georgetown University Law Center, 2010–present
  21. Kevin K. Washburn (1993), dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, 2009–2012
  22. Matt Vega (1993), dean of the Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, 2014-present
  23. Frans Vanistendael (LL.M.), dean of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1999–2005
Legal scholars

Constitutional law
  1. 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
  2. Akhil Amar (1984), professor at Yale Law School
  3. Vikram Amar (1988), professor at the University of California Davis School of Law
  4. 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
  5. Charles Black, professor at Yale Law School, 1956–1987
  6. Philip Bobbitt (1975), professor at Columbia Law School and author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, 2007–present
  7. Noah Feldman (1997), professor at Harvard Law School, 2007–present; scholar on Islamic law and the intersection of religion and politics
  8. Paul W. Kahn (1980), professor at Yale Law School
  9. Kermit Roosevelt III (1997), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2002–present
  10. Reva Siegel (1986), professor at Yale Law School, 1994–present
  11. 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
  12. Kenji Yoshino (1996), professor at New York University School of Law, 2006–present; focused on anti-discrimination law, civil and human rights law, and law and literature
Criminal law
  1. Barbara Babcock (1963), professor at Stanford Law School, 1972–present
  2. 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
  3. Don Kates, professor at Saint Louis University School of Law and author of numerous books on gun control
  4. Mark Osler (1990), professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Huffington Post contributor, and critic of capital punishment
Civil and human rights law
  1. David D. Cole, professor at Georgetown University Law Center
  2. 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
  3. Christof Heyns (LL.M.), professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa at the University of Pretoria
  4. Randall Kennedy (1982), professor at Harvard Law School
  5. Andrew Koppelman (1989), professor at Northwestern University, 2007–present
  6. Catharine MacKinnon (1977), professor at the University of Michigan Law School, 1989–present; feminist scholar focused on sexual harassment and pornography
  7. 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

  1. Lori Andrews, professor at Chicago–Kent College of Law
  2. Susan P. Crawford, professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
  3. 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
  4. Eben Moglen (1985), professor at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center

International law

  1. Harold J. Berman (1947), professor at Harvard Law School, 1948–1985; professor at Emory Law School, 1985–2007
  2. George Bermann (1971), professor at Columbia Law School, 1975
  3. Rosa Brooks (1996), professor at Georgetown University Law Center, 2011
  4. Steve Charnovitz (1998), professor at George Washington University Law School, 2004
  5. Jerome Cohen (1955), professor at New York University School of Law, 1990–present
  6. Jack Goldsmith (1989), professor at Harvard Law School; also head of the Office of Legal Counsel 2003–2004
  7. 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
  8. John Yoo (1992), professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, 1993–present; primarily known for authoring the Torture Memos


Jurisprudence

  1. Peter Berkowitz, professor at George Mason University School of Law, 1999–2007; senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, 2007–present
  2. Jules Coleman (1976), professor at Yale Law School
  3. Arthur Corbin (1899), professor at Yale Law School and one of the progenitors of legal realism
  4. Jan Deutsch (1962), professor at Yale Law School
  5. Richard Epstein (1968), professor at New York University Law School, 2010–present; considered one of the most influential legal thinkers in the United States
  6. Duncan Kennedy (1970), professor at Harvard Law, 1976–present; founder of the critical legal studies movement
  7. 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 scholars
  1. Peter Berkowitz, professor of political science at Harvard University, 1990–1999
  2. Scott Boorman (1978), professor of sociology at Yale University
  3. Lawrence Douglas (1989), professor at Amherst College
  4. Austin Sarat (1988), professor of political science at Amherst College
  5. Ian Shapiro (1987), professor of political science at Yale University
  6. Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
  7. Michael Woodford, professor of economics at Columbia University
  8. Kyu Ho Youm (M.S.L.), professor of journalism at the University of Oregon
Activism
  1. Jasper Alston Atkins (1922), civil rights activist and the first black editor of the Yale Law Journal
  2. D'Army Bailey (1967), civil rights activist and founder of the National Civil Rights Museum
  3. Mark Barnes (1984), attorney and AIDS activist
  4. Craig Becker, labor attorney and a member of the National Labor Relations Board, 2010–2011
  5. Kathleen Neal Cleaver, prominent member of the Black Panther Party
  6. Bill Drayton (1970), founder of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, a global social entrepreneurship organization
  7. Marian Wright Edelman (1963), president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund
  8. Robert Gnaizda, co-founder of the Greenlining Institute
  9. Seth Green, founder of Americans for Informed Democracy
  10. Michael Harrington, chairman of Democratic Socialists of America, 1982–1989
  11. Kenneth Hecht, public interest attorney and advocate for improved access to affordable, nutritious food
  12. Louis Clayton Jones, civil rights activist and founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers
  13. Van Jones (1993), environmental activist, civil rights activist, and attorney; founder of Green For All
  14. Gay McDougall, civil rights activist and executive director of Global Rights, 1994–2006
  15. Creighton Miller, founder of the National Football League Players Association labor union
  16. Henry T. King (1943), prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, 1946–1947
  17. Lisa Richette, child welfare activist
  18. Catherine Roraback (1948), civil rights attorney best known for representing the plaintiffs in the landmark 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut
  19. Kenneth Roth (1980), executive director of Human Rights Watch, 1993–present
  20. Linda Rottenberg, founder of Endeavor
  21. Andrew Shapiro, founder of GreenOrder, an environmental sustainability consulting firm
  22. James Speth (1969), attorney and environmental activist
  23. Gregory Stanton, founder and president of Genocide Watch, 1999–present
  24. 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
  25. Neera Tanden (1996), president of the Center for American Progress, 2011–present
  26. Maxim Thorne, senior vice president of the NAACP
  27. William Taylor (1954), civil rights activist
  28. Alfred Webre (1967), peace and environmental activist
Business
  1. Lon Babby (1976), President of the Phoenix Suns
  2. Jeff Ballabon, senior vice president of CBS News; also an Orthodox Jewish lobbyist and the founder of Coordinating Council on Jerusalem
  3. Alfred Wellington Carter (1893), prominent landowner in Hawaii
  4. Dick Cass (1971), president of the Baltimore Ravens
  5. Sam Cohn (1956), co-founder of International Creative Management and talent agent to Paul Newman, Woody Allen, and Meryl Streep, among others
  6. E. Virgil Conway (1956), chairman and CEO of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority
  7. 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
  8. Charles E. Fraser, real estate developer
  9. Arthur Frommer (1953), publisher of Frommer's travel guidebook series
  10. Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters and Reuters
  11. Najeeb Halaby (1940), businessman and father of Queen Noor of Jordan
  12. Joel Hyatt, co-founder of Current TV with Al Gore
  13. William M. Jennings, executive in the National Hockey League and president of the New York Rangers
  14. John Koskinen, non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac, 2008–2011
  15. Michael E. Levine (1965), airline executive
  16. Larry Lucchino (1971), president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox
  17. Eli Jacobs (1964), financier and owner of the Baltimore Orioles, 1989–1993
  18. Victor S. Johnson, Jr., president of Aladdin Industries
  19. J. Howard Marshall (1931), oil magnate, known for his marriage to Anna Nicole Smith
  20. Mark McCormack, founder of IMG, an international sports and media company
  21. Robert Pozen (1972, J.S.D. 1973), vice chairman and president of Fidelity Investments
  22. Ken Stern, CEO of National Public Radio
  23. Brooks Thomas, CEO of Harper & Row
  24. Raymond S. Troubh, independent financial consultant who served as a general partner at Lazard, 1961–1974; interim chairman of Enron, 2002–2004
  25. Hubertus van der Vaart, Dutch businessman and co-founder and chairman of SEAF
  26. Fay Vincent (1963), 8th Commissioner of Major League Baseball, 1989–1992
  27. John P. Wheeler III (1975), chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
  28. Tim and Nina Zagat (1966), co-founders and publishers of Zagat
  29. John E. Zuccotti (1963), real estate developer and namesake of Zuccotti Park
Film, theater, and television
  1. Lisa Bloom (1985), anchor of Lisa Bloom: Open Court on Court TV
  2. La Carmina (did not graduate), Canadian fashion blogger, author, journalist, and host on CNNGo
  3. Jeff Greenfield (1967), senior political correspondent for CBS Evening News
  4. Hans A. Linde (1966), correspondent for CBS Evening News
  5. Yul Kwon (2000), host of American Revealed on PBS and winner of Survivor: Cook Islands
  6. D. G. Martin, host of "North Carolina Bookwatch" on UNC-TV
  7. Ben Stein (1970), actor and host of Win Ben Stein's Money
  8. Gene Sperling (1985), writer on The West Wing
  9. Charlie Korsmo (2006), former child actor, appeared in Dick Tracy
Writers
  1. Renata Adler, novelist, essayist, and critic
  2. Joseph Amiel (1962), attorney and writer of popular fiction
  3. Aditi Banerjee, co-author and editor of Invading the Sacred
  4. Chesa Boudin (2011), progressive writer
  5. Lan Cao, author of the 1997 novel Monkey Bridge
  6. Stephen Carter, novelist
  7. Ken Chen, poet
  8. Heidi W. Durrow (1995), novelist
  9. Robin Goldstein (2002), food and wine critic
  10. Adam Haslett (2003), short story writer
  11. Julie Hilden (1992), novelist
  12. Laura Chapman Hruska, novelist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of Soho Press
  13. Edward Lazarus (1987), author of the 1998 non-fiction book Closed Chambers
  14. Aldo Leopold, author of "A Sand County Almanac"
  15. He Li (2003), Chinese-language poet
  16. Walter Lord (1948), author of the 1995 book A Night to Remember, considered a definitive account of the Titanic disaster
  17. David Orr (1999), poet
  18. Daniyal Mueenuddin (1996), short story writer
  19. Matthew Pearl, novelist
  20. Daniel Pink, author
  21. Gretchen Rubin (1995), author of the 2009 book The Happiness Project
  22. David Stewart (1978), non-fiction writer
  23. Alina Tugend (M.S.L.), columnist for the New York Times
  24. Clement Wood, poet
  25. Elizabeth Wurtzel (2008), author of the 1994 memoir Prozac Nation
  26. Monica Youn, poet
Media and journalism Commentators
  1. Michael Barone (1969), conservative political analyst, pundit, and journalist; principal author of The Almanac of American Politics
  2. Lanny Davis (1970), political commentator and author of Scandal: How "Gotcha" Politics Is Destroying America
  3. Mark Levine, progressive political pundit and radio host
  4. Jonathan Kay (1997), columnist for the National Post
Journalists
  1. Emily Bazelon (2000), senior editor of Slate, an online magazine
  2. Bob Cohn, executive editor of Wired, 2001–2008
  3. Nelson Antonio Denis, journalist and former member of the New York State Assembly
  4. Craig Forman, foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal
  5. Jack Fuller, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and president of the Tribune Company
  6. Linda Greenhouse (M.S.L. 1978), Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times
  7. David Lat (1999), founder and managing editor of Above the Law, a blog about the legal profession
  8. Adam Liptak (1988), Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times
  9. Victor Navasky (1959), editor of The Nation, 1978–1995; publisher of The Nation, 1995–2005; chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review, 2005–present
  10. Viveca Novak (M.S.L.), political correspondent for Time
  11. Charlie Savage (2003), reporter for the New York Times
  12. Luiza Savage, Washington bureau chief, Maclean's Magazine
Military
  1. Alfred Terry, general of the Union Army during the American Civil War
  2. Norman Dike, lieutenant colonel of the United States Army during World War II
Sports
  1. Rodney Aller, masters skier
  2. Al Hessberg (1941), college football player
  3. Fay Moulton, Olympic sprinter and college football player
  4. William G. Norton, college football coach
  5. Ted St. Germaine (1914), professional football player in the National Football League
Other
  1. T. Bill Andrews, abstract impressionist painter, author, federal ALJ
  2. Dyke Brown (1941), founder of The Athenian School
  3. Richard Green (1987), psychiatrist specializing in homosexuality and transsexualism
  4. Daniel Greer, rabbi and founder of the Yeshiva of New Haven
  5. Pat Robertson (1955), televangelist and founder of Regent University
  6. Vanessa Selbst (2012), professional poker player
  7. Sherman Day Thacher (1886), founder of The Thacher School
  8. Iwan Tirta (1964), fashion designer
Non-graduates
  1. These students attended Yale Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.

  3. Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of State of the Confederate States; U.S. Senator from Louisiana
  4. Henry Billings Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1890–1906
  5. Henry Louis Gates, professor of history at Harvard University
  6. Michael Medved, author, film critic, and radio talk show host
  7. David Milch (expelled), television writer and producer
  8. Robert B. Silvers, co-founder and editor of The New York Review of Books
Fictitious alumni
  1. Amanda Bonner, character in the movie Adam's Rib
  2. Arthur Branch, character on the TV series Law & Order
  3. Alexis Davis, character on the TV series General Hospital
  4. Greg Foster, character on the TV series The Young and the Restless
  5. Amy Gardner, character on the TV series The West Wing
  6. Judge Chamberlain Haller, character in the movie My Cousin Vinnie
  7. Josh Lyman, character on the TV series The West Wing
  8. Jordan McDeere, character on the TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
  9. Wayne Palmer, character on the TV series 24
  10. Bruce Wayne, alter ego of Batman, as disclosed in Detective Comics 439
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