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

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