American Parliamentary Debate Association - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • David Frum, Yale Debate Association '82, Conservative commentator and speechwriter to President George W. Bush
  • Chris Coons, Amherst Debate Society '85, United States Senator
  • David Foster Wallace, Amherst '85, Writer and MacArthur Fellow
  • Michael C. Dorf, Harvard '86, American law professor and a noted U.S. constitutional law scholar
  • Paul Clement, Georgetown '88, Solicitor General of the United States under President George W. Bush, defended the Defense of Marriage Act and opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Kris Kobach, Harvard '88, Secretary of State of Kansas.
  • Austan Goolsbee, Yale Debate Association '91, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago and member of President Obama’s Counsel of Economic Advisors
  • Ted Cruz, Princeton Debate Panel '92, United States Senator

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