List of George Washington University Law School alumni

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

Notable alumni[]

Class of 1891

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[]

International[]

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
  • 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[9][10]

State[]

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[15]
  • 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[16]
  • 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[]

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[]

  1. ^ "Honoring a Legacy of Excellence". GW Law. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  2. ^ a b c d "Prominent Alumni by School: Law School". The George Washington University. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Morris Lecture on Feb. 19 will feature attorney Charles James". Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  4. ^ "Bruce Sewell". Apple. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  5. ^ McKelvey, G. Richard (2000). The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 2. ISBN 9780786406395. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  6. ^ "Biography at the University of Chicago". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
  7. ^ U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, "Nomination of Edward F. Howrey to Federal Trade Commission" (March 18, 1953), p. 1-2.
  8. ^ "Alumna Elected Judge of European Court of Human Rights". www.law.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
  9. ^ Official Congressional Directory (1961), p. 615.
  10. ^ "Bolon Turner, 90, Tax Court Judge, Dies". The Washington Post. November 25, 1987.
  11. ^ "Schaefer Names Blackwell, 2 Others to Md. Judgeships", The Washington Post (June 27, 1987).
  12. ^ "Biographies and Histories of Montana's Justices, Judges, and Courts, 1865-2020" (PDF). State Law Library of Montana. 2020. p. 63.
  13. ^ "Judge Leslie P. Snow", The Portsmouth Herald (March 17, 1934), p. 4.
  14. ^ "Prominent New Hampshire Jurist Dies of Heart Attack", The Brattleboro Reformer (March 16, 1934), p. 8.
  15. ^ NJ.com, Noah Cohen | NJ Advance Media for (July 21, 2020). "Who is Roy Den Hollander? Suspect in deadly attack at judge's N.J. home posted racist, sexist views online". nj.
  16. ^ Brown, Emma (2011-03-21). "Frank Neuhauser, winner of first national spelling bee, dies at 97". Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
  17. ^ "Major General Vaughn A. Ary". Headquarters, United States Marine Corps. Archived from the original on 2013-08-02. Retrieved 14 Oct 2013.
  18. ^ "Admiral Hearn Named Navy TJAG". The Judge Advocate General Corps. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
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