Baylor Law School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Roy Bass - Waco native and mayor of Lubbock from 1974-1978
• Beau Boulter - lobbyist; former U.S. representatives from Texas' 13th congressional district
• Tim Curry - District attorney of Tarrant County from 1972 to 2009
• Bryan Hughes (1995) - Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Wood County
• Colonel Leon Jaworski (1924) - Watergate Special Prosecutor; Senior Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski Houston, Texas; Served on the Warren Commission; President, American Bar Association (1971–1972); Chief of War Crimes detachment of the JAG Corps of the US Army (1944–1946); Treasurer and co-founder, Democrats for Reagan.
• Marion Price Daniel (1932) - United States Senator (1953—1957); Governor of Texas (1957—1963); Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1943–1945); Justice, Texas Supreme Court (1971–1978).
• Jack English Hightower (1951) - U.S. House of Representatives, (1975–1985)
• Tryon D. Lewis, J.D. - Member of the Texas House of Representatives from Odessa; former 161st State Judicial District judge
• Priscilla Owen, J.D. (1977) - Judge, U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (2005–Present); Former Texas Supreme Court Justice (1994–2005).
• Justice Rebecca Simmons- Justice, Fourth Court of Appeals, Texas
• Robert R. (Bob) Poage (1924) – U.S. House of Representatives, (1937–1978)
• Charles Wallace Barrow- Former Justice, Texas Supreme Court
• Phillip Benjamin Baldwin- Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Mark Wells White- Governor of Texas (1983–1987)
• Kirk Watson- Former mayor of Austin and current state senator
• James B. Adams- Texas legislator, and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1978–79)
• William Sessions- Director of the FBI (1987–1993)
• Max Sandlin- Judge, U.S. Congressman (1997–2005)
• Louie Gohmert- U.S. Congressman (2005–present)
• Beau Boulter- U.S. Congressman (1985–1989)
• Jack M. Fields- U.S. Congressman (1981–1997)
• Thomas C. Mann- U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador (1955–1957) and US Ambassador to Mexico (1961–1963)
• Sam Blakely Hall Jr. – U.S. Congressman (1975–1985) and U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Texas
• Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. – U.S. Congressman (1962–1973)
• Frank Wilson – U.S. Congressman (1947–1955)
• Sam R. Cummings –Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (1987–present)
• Sidney A. Fitzwater – Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (1986–present)
• Andrew S. Hanen - Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (2002–present)
• Joe Kendall – Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (1992–2002)
• Ed Kinkeade – Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (2002–present)
• Walter Smith – Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (1984–present)
• Leonard Davis - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas(2002–present)
• Chad Everingham - Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas (2006–present)
• Bob Bullock - Texas' 38th Lieutenant Governor and considered one of the most outstanding Texas political leaders of the 20th century.
• T. John Ward - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas(1999–present)
• John Lee Hancock - Screenplay writer and director of The Rookie, The Alamo, and The Blind Side.
• Morris Harrell - Former President of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas.
• Abner McCall - Former Justice, Texas Supreme Court
• Byron Tunnell - Former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
• Abelardo Valdez - Former U.S. Ambassador and Chief of Protocol for the White House
• Walter Umphrey - Counsel, Billion Dollar Tobacco Settlement (the building housing the law school is named for he and his wife, the primary donors for its construction)
• Ed Blizzard - Pharmaceutical injury attorney
• Kevin Reynolds - Former Texas lawyer and director of Fandango, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and Waterworld.
• J.T. Rutherford - Representative from Texas' 16th congressional district from 1955 to 1963; attended Baylor Law School from 1948 to 1950.
• Jean A. Stuntz - Historian