List of University of Texas School of Law alumni

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See also: List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of University of Texas School of Law, the law school of the University of Texas, located in Austin, Texas. The University of Texas School of Law has 23,500 living alumni.[1]

Politics[]

Law[]

  • Linda L. Addison – Managing Partner, New York, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.[29]
  • Micaela Alvarez  – Federal Judge Southern District of Texas
  • Harriet Mitchell Murphy – first African-American woman appointed to regular judgeship in Texas.[30]
  • Lisa Blatt – Holds the record for most cases argued by a woman in front of the Supreme Court (40 as of 2020); Partner at Williams & Connolly[31]
  •  – General Counsel of the New York Times[32]
  • David Briones  – Federal Judge Western District of Texas
  • William C. Bryson – United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit;[33] former Solicitor General of the United States
  • Greg Coleman  – First Solicitor General of Texas; Founder of appellate firm Yetter Coleman LLP.
  • William C. Conner (1920–2009) – federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[34]
  • Elizabeth Ann Copeland  – Judge of the US Tax Court
  • Gregg Costa  – Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Former Assistant US Attorney who lead prosecution of famous Ponzi schemer Allen Stanford
  • James DeAnda  – Chief Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas; Co-Founded Texas RioGrande Legal Aid; Plaintiff's attorney in US Supreme Court case of Hernandez v Texas
  • Dick DeGuerin – criminal defense attorney based in Houston; Clients include David Koresh and Tom DeLay[35]
  • James A. Elkins  – Founder of international energy law firm Vinson & Elkins.
  • William Royal Furgeson Jr. – United States District Court Judge for the Western District of Texas. Founding Dean of University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law
  • Joseph Jefferson Fisher – United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas [36]
  • David Frederick – appellate attorney; has argued 37 cases before the United States Supreme Court;[37] Name partner in elite Washington DC litigation boutique Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick
  • Gustavo C. Garcia, Carlos Cadena, James DeAnda[38] – Attorneys for 1950s civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas which determined that Hispanics have Equal Protection under the 14th Amendment
  • Orlando Luis Garcia – United States District Judge, Western District of Texas[39]
  • Bryan Garner – editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of numerous books and articles on language and writing, including "A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage"[citation needed]
  • Emilio M. Garza – Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Reynaldo Guerra Garza – Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; First Hispanic American appointed to a judgeship on any United States Court of Appeals
  • Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers – Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Mike Godwin – first attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and current general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation[40]
  • Joe R. Greenhill – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
  • Richard Gump – co-founder of international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
  • Hayden W. Head, Jr. – Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas[41]
  • Robert Scott Horton – Human Rights attorney, columnist for Harper's, and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School[citation needed]
  • Joseph Chappell Hutcheson Jr.  – Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Joe Jamail – Billionaire Trial Lawyer Known as the "King of Torts"; Won $11 billion verdict representing Pennzoil against Texaco in oral contract case.
  • Edith Jones – Chief Justice of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
  • William Wayne Justice – Senior United States District Judge, Western District of Texas, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Texas, storied civil rights judge
  • George P. Kazen – Senior United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas;
  •  – Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1999[42]
  • Ed Knight  – General Counsel of NASDAQ;[43] Former General Counsel of United States Department of Treasury
  • Royce C. Lamberth – Chief Judge United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  • Debra Lehrmann – former 360th District Court Judge in Fort Worth; Texas Supreme Court Justice (2011– )
  • Mike McKool  – trial lawyer; Founder of litigation firm McKool Smith; Has won over $1 billion in judgments and verdicts; Represented Quincy Jones in his lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson over royalties for Off the Wall & Thriller
  • Thomas M. Melsheimer – Dallas Managing Principal for Fish & Richardson; 1986 magna cum laude graduate
  • Jose Rolando Olvera Jr.  – Federal Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • James Aubrey Parker  – Federal Judge United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
  • , Texas state court judge since 1981; based in San Antonio[44]
  • Robert L. Pitman  – United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Former United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas; First openly LBGT US Attorney and Federal Judge in Texas
  • Jack Pope (1913-) – Lawyer, judge, and Supreme Court of Texas Chief Justice 1982-1985
  • Edward C. Prado  – United States Ambassador to Argentina; Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Nelva Ramos  – Federal Judge Southern District of Texas
  • Eddie Rodriguez – member of the Texas House of Representatives
  • Xavier Rodriguez  – Federal Judge United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Former Member of Texas Supreme Court
  • Diana Saldana  – Federal Judge Southern District of Texas
  • Barefoot Sanders  – Chief Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas; U.S.Assistant Attorney General;United States Attorney; Democratic Nominee for United States Senate in 1972
  • Jorge Antonio Solis  – Chief Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • Leslie H. Southwick  – Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Sam Sparks – Federal Judge Western District of Texas
  • Joseph Tyree Sneed III  – U.S. Deputy Attorney General; Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Dean of Duke University School of Law; Father of Carly Fiorina
  • Robert Schwarz Strauss – former United States Ambassador to Russia; former United States Trade Representative; United States Special Envoy for the Middle East; Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee; Founder of international law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Namesake of Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin; Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • Stephen Susman (J.D. 1965)  – plaintiffs attorney and founding partner of Susman Godfrey
  • R. Ewing Thomason  – Former Federal Judge United States District Court for the Western District of Texas; Member of Congress; Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives;Mayor of El Paso
  • Henry Wade  – Served as Dallas County District Attorney for 30 years. Handled the criminal investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald. Was defendant in the seminal case of Roe vs Wade
  • Mikal Watts  – Texas trial lawyer who has won over $3 billion in settlements for his clients.
  • Sarah Weddington – represented Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade
  • Harry Whittington – Texas attorney famous for getting shot by Dick Cheney in a hunting incident; professionally known for eminent domain cases
  • (J.D., 1975) – Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1997-2015; resides in Georgetown in Williamson County
  • Diane Pamela Wood – Chief Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, considered potential candidate for a seat on the Supreme Court during the Obama administration
  • John Wood  – Federal District Judge who was assassinated by mob hitman Charles Harrelson, father of actor Woody Harrelson

Academia[]

  • Leon A. Green – long-time dean at Northwestern University School of Law and professor at UT and at Yale Law School; authored pioneering works in tort law[citation needed]
  • Frank Shelby Groner (1877-1943) – President of the College of Marshall.
  • Kent Hance – Chancellor Emeritus of Texas Tech University System; Former Member of Congress who defeated George W Bush in his first Congressional race.[18]
  • Herbert Hovenkamp – Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law; prolific author and expert in Antitrust law; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[citation needed]
  • W. Page Keeton – 1931 graduate and Dean from 1949 to 1974; expert in Torts; Grandfather of White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan
  • Thomas Mengler – President of Saint Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas; previously, dean of the law school at University of St. Thomas; former dean at the University of Illinois College of Law
  • John T. Montford (Class of 1968) – former Chancellor of Texas Tech University System, 1996-2001; member of the Texas State Senate, 1983-1996; businessman in San Antonio, since 2001
  • Gene Nichol – law professor at the University of North Carolina; former professor and President of the College of William and Mary; former dean of the law schools at North Carolina and Colorado
  • Jack W. Nowlin  – Dean of Texas Tech University School of Law[45]
  • Covey T. Oliver  – Former Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; Former United States Ambassador to Colombia; Former Dean of University of Pennsylvania School of Law
  • Joseph Tyree Sneed III  – U.S. Deputy Attorney General; Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Dean of Duke University School of Law; Father of Carly Fiorina

Business[]

  • Samuel T. Bledsoe – President of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1933–1939[46]
  • Kimberly S. Bowers – Former CEO and Chairman of the Board of CST Brands; Listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful women in business.
  • William Frank Buckley Sr.  – Powerful Lawyer and Oil Speculator in Mexico and Venezuela. Father of William F. Buckley Jr., Senator James L. Buckley, Grandfather of Christopher Buckley
  • Adam Dell – Partner at Goldman Sachs; Head of Goldman Sachs personal app Marcus;[47] Former partner in leading Venture Capital firm Austin Ventures; brother of Michael Dell
  • Belinda Johnson  – Chief Operating Officer of Airbnb
  • Michael R. Levy – Founder and Publisher of Texas Monthly magazine
  • J. Hugh Liedtke and Bill Liedtke – brothers who cofounded Zapata Petroleum Corporation with President George HW Bush; acquired South Penn Oil Company which they renamed Pennzoil[48]
  • Oliver Luck – former NFL player; former executive with NFL Europa and the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer; current CEO and Commissioner of the XFL (2020)
  • Hugh "Skip" McGee III  – Former Global Head of Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers and Barclays
  • Robert McGehee  – Former CEO of Progress Energy
  • James C. Musselman  – Founder of Kosmos Energy that discovered the one billion barrel Jubilee Oil Field off the coast of Ghana. Subject of critically acclaimed documentary Big Men regarding the oil industry in Africa.[citation needed]
  • Clay Sell  – CEO of X-energy; Former President of Hunt Energy Horizons; Former United States Deputy Secretary of Energy

Non-Profit[]

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