List of George Washington University Law School alumni
This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School, the law school of the American George Washington University, located in Washington, DC. (For a list of notable George Washington University graduates, see the list of George Washington University people.)
Notable alumni
Class of 1891
Academia
- Ernest L. Wilkinson (1926), former President of Brigham Young University[1]
Business
- 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
- Ron Ricks (1976), Executive Vice President, Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer of Southwest Airlines[4]
- D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Intel[5]
- Scott C. Taylor (1992), Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Symantec[6]
Sports
- Edwin M. Durso (1978), Executive Vice President, Administration for ESPN[7]
- David Falk (1975), agent for Michael Jordan[2]
- Gary Gertzog (1983), former Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel for the National Football League[8]
- 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[9]
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
- 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), United States Senator, (D-HI)
- 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, current Senate Minority Leader, (D-NV)
- James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General
- 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
- A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation
- Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration
- 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.[10]
- J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- 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
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
- Patricia Ann Curran (1974), former Commissioner of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
- Lee E. Emerson, Governor of Vermont, 1951-1955
- 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
International
- 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
- Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran
- Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States Congress
- Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia
Other politics
- Kellyanne Conway (1992), Political strategist and pollster, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign
Judiciary
Federal
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
State
- Carmen E. Espinosa (1976), First Hispanic judge for the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court
- George B. Nelson (1902), former 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
- Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada
- Joshua Soule Zimmerman, West Virginia House Delegate
Lawyers
- 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
- Denise Tourover Ezekiel (1924), lawyer who served in various executive positions for Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
- Adam Trashbut Johnson, attorney at the National Labor Relations Board
- Francis La Flesche, first professional Native American (Omaha) anthropologist
- 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[11]
- 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
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[12]
- 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 L. Fugh (1960), former Judge Advocate General
- Sidney A. Wallace, retired United States Coast Guard Rear Admiral
Non-profits
- Kyle Zimmer, founder of First Book
Religion
References
- ↑ "Honoring a Legacy of Excellence". GW Law. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 "Prominent Alumni by School: Law School". The George Washington University. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "Morris Lecture on Feb. 19 will feature attorney Charles James". Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "Ron Ricks". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "Bruce Sewell". Apple. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "Symantec's Legal Firewall". The Recorder. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "Edwin M. Durso". ESPN Media Zone. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ "NFL Senior Vice President Gary Gertzog Joins Sports E-Commerce Leader Fanatics As EVP, Business Affairs". Fanatics Inc. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ McKelvey, G. Richard (2000). The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 2. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ↑ Biography at the University of Chicago
- ↑ Brown, Emma (2011-03-21). "Frank Neuhauser, winner of first national spelling bee, dies at 97". Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
- ↑ "Major General Vaughn A. Ary". Headquarters, United States Marine Corps. Retrieved 14 Oct 2013.
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