List of George Washington University Law School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School located in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Notable alumni

Academia

• Ernest L. Wilkinson (1926), former President of Brigham Young University^[1]

Business

• Mark Britton (1992), founder and CEO of Avvo (now Martindale-Avvo), and former Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Expedia, Inc.
• Warren Brown (1998), founder of Cake Love and host of Sugar Rush on the Food Network^[2]
• Dan Glickman (1969), former Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, former United States Secretary of Agriculture, and former U.S. Congressman from Kansas^[2]
• Charles James (1979), former General Counsel of Chevron-Texaco, former Assistant Attorney General^[3]
• Michael W. Rice, Chairman and CEO of Utz Quality Foods
• D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Intel^[4]

Sports

• David Falk (1975), agent for Michael Jordan^[2]
• Ted Lerner (1950), owner of the Washington Nationals^[2]
• Larry MacPhail (1910), Hall of Fame baseball executive for Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees^[5]

Government and politics

U.S. Congress members

• E. Ross Adair, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1951–1971) and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (1971–1974)
• Garry E. Brown (1954), former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
• Gordon Canfield (1926), former U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
• Bennett Champ Clark, former United States Senator
• William Henry Coleman, former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Governor of Puerto Rico and former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico
• Félix Córdova Dávila, former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from Puerto Rico
• John Blaisdell Corliss (1875), former United States Congressman
• Ewin L. Davis (1899), former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
• John James Duncan Jr. (1973), United States Congressman for the Second District of Tennessee
• John James Flynt Jr. (1940), United States Congressman from Georgia
• J. William Fulbright (1934), former United States Senator, creator of the Fulbright Fellowships
• Ralph A. Gamble (1911), former U.S. Congressman from New York
• Stephen Warfield Gambrill (1896), former United States Congressman
• Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
• Daniel Inouye (1953), former United States Senator, (D-HI)
• Orval H. Hansen (1954) (LLM 1973), former U.S. Congressman from Idaho
• Frank Moss (1937), former United States Senator, (D-UT)
• Francis G. Newlands (1869), congressman and drafter of the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaiʻi
• Jim Ramstad (1973), congressman whose work led to ending discrimination against those suffering from mental health and addiction problems.
• Harry Reid (1964), United States Senator, former Senate Minority Leader, (D-NV)
• James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General
• Susan Wild, U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania
• Robert Wexler (1985), congressman, (D-FL)
• Earle D. Willey, former U.S. Congressman from Delaware

Other federal officials

• William Barr (1977), former United States Attorney General
• David Bernhardt (1994), former United States Secretary of the Interior
• Russell Vought, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation
• Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Kellyanne Conway (1992), Political strategist and pollster, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Counselor to the President
• George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration
• Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General
• Mary DeRosa (1984), former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration
• Allen Dulles (1926), longest serving (1953–61) director of the CIA
• John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
• W. Mark Felt (1940), former associate director of the FBI and Watergate scandal informant also known as "Deep Throat"
• Stanley Finch (1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
• Gregory G. Garre (1991), former Solicitor General of the United States
• L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
• Will A. Gunn, was sworn in as the General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs on May 26, 2009
• Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980)
• Patricia Roberts Harris (1960), First African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Jimmy Carter administration
• John D. Holum, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under Bill Clinton.^[6]
• J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Edward F. Howrey (1927), chair of the Federal Trade Commission,^[7] later founded the law firm of Howrey LLP
• Leon Jaworski (1926), special prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal.
• David M. Kennedy, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Bruce M. Lawlor, retired United States Army major general and former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security
• Wilma B. Liebman (1974) Chair, National Labor Relations Board
• Eric O'Neill (2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
• Walter North, U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (2012–present).
• Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Mary Schapiro, (1980), Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. First woman to chair the SEC.
• John W. Snow (1967), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
• James A. Wetmore (1896), acting Supervising Architect of the Office of the Supervising Architect

State and local government

• Rocky Anderson (1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City
• James P. Coleman (1939), former Governor of Mississippi and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Lee E. Emerson, Governor of Vermont, 1951-1955
• Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
• John W. Hardwicke, Maryland delegate and lawyer^[8]
• Harry R. Hughes (1952), former governor of the state of Maryland
• Rod Johnston, former Wisconsin State Senator
• Alex Knopp (1981), former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
• Edward S. Northrop (1937), Majority Leader of Maryland State Senate (1958–1961), Chair of the Finance Committee (1958), nominated by President Kennedy in 1961 for a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Elevated to Chief Judge and held that position until 1981.
• Carmen Ortiz (1981), first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
• Arnold C. Otto, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• Edward Blackmon Jr. (1973) Mississippi House of Representatives
• Jeffrey Piccola (1973) Pennsylvania State Representative, 1977-1995, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1995-2012
• Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada
• Deanne Mazzochi, Illinois House of Representatives

International

• Hsu Mo (1922), former International Court of Justice Judge
• Árpád Bogsch (1956), former director general (1973–1997) of the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
• Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Karnataka
• Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran
• Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia
• Anja Seibert-Fohr (2000,2004), judge at the European Court of Human Rights^[9]

Judiciary

Federal

• Craig S. Atkins (1925), judge of the United States Tax Court^[10]
• James C. Cacheris (1960), judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Joyce Hens Green, (1951), senior judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Harold H. Greene (1954), former judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over lawsuit which broke up AT&T's vertical monopoly
• Kelly Higashi, associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Sarah T. Hughes (1922), first female federal judge seated in Texas, and only woman to administer the oath of office to the President of the United States
• Edwin F. Hunter (1938), longest sitting U.S. District Court judge in the nation
• Daniel T. K. Hurley (1968), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Darrin P. Gayles (1993), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Barbara Milano Keenan (1974), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Carlos F. Lucero (1964), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Burnita Shelton Matthews (1920), first woman to serve as a US district judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Suzanne Mitchell, United States magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
• Sharon Prost (LLM 1984), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Randall Ray Rader (1978), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Kenneth Francis Ripple (1972), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• James Robertson (1965), judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
• William K. Sessions III (1972), chief judge U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission
• Scott W. Stucky (LLM 1983), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• Bolon B. Turner (LLM 1924), judge United States Tax Court^[11][12]

State

• Albert T. Blackwell Jr., Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals^[13]
• Carmen E. Espinosa (1976), First Hispanic judge for the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court
• R. C. McDonough (1949), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court^[14]
• George B. Nelson (1902), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Gregory K. Orme (1978), Judge Utah Court of Appeals
• Barbara Pariente (1973), current Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• Leslie Perkins Snow (1891), Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court^[15][16]
• Joshua Soule Zimmerman, West Virginia House Delegate

Lawyers

• Michael Avenatti (1999), lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 "hush" agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump
• Ian C. Ballon (1986), Internet lawyer and author of several law books, including a 4-volume legal treatise on e-commerce law
• Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist
• Charles Colson, leader in the Christian right movement, former Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, and jailed for conspiring during the Watergate scandal
• Roy Den Hollander, men's rights lawyer who became the main suspect in the fatal attack on Judge Esther Salas' family^[17]
• Denise Tourover Ezekiel (1924), lawyer who served in various executive positions for Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
• Francis La Flesche, first professional Native American (Omaha) anthropologist
• Prerna Lal, immigration attorney
• Belva Ann Lockwood (1872), first woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court
• Frank Neuhauser (1940), patent attorney and winner of the first National Spelling Bee in 1925^[18]
• Jonathan Schwartz, film producer, entertainment lawyer
• M. Gerald Schwartzbach (1969), California criminal defense attorney
• Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
• Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer

Media

• Margaret Carlson, American journalist and currently a columnist for Bloomberg News
• Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
• David Eisenhower (1976), author and grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
• Matt Medved, American journalist and currently editor-in-chief of Spin

Military

• Earl E. Anderson, Ret. General United States Marine Corps
• Richard A. Appelbaum, Ret. U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral
• Vaughn Ary - Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps^[19]
• Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Portus Baxter and Surgeon General of the United States Army
• Murdock A. Campbell (1919), United States Army Major General and Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard
• John Fugh (1960), former Judge Advocate General
• Wilfred A. Hearn, former Judge Advocate General^[20]
• James F. Lawrence Jr. (1953), first Marine lawyer to be promoted to brigadier general, Navy Cross recipient
• Sidney A. Wallace, retired United States Coast Guard Rear Admiral

Religion

• Charles Colson (1959), former White House Counsel, born-again Christian, and founder of Prison Fellowship
• Matthew Cowley (1925), former Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Brooks Hays (1922), United States Congressman (D-AR) and President of the Southern Baptist Convention

References

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