Cumberland School of Law - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• James Allred (D) - 2 term Governor of Texas
• Roger Bedford, Jr. (D) - seven term Alabama Senator
• Karon O. Bowdre - federal judge
• Beverly Briley (D) - mayor of Nashville, Tennessee
• Gordon Browning (D) - Governor of Tennessee, U.S. Representative from Tennessee
• John L. Carroll - former federal judge and dean of Cumberland School of Law, Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Robert L. Caruthers - Governor of Tennessee, Tennessee Attorney General
• Sidney J. Catts (P) - Governor of Florida (22nd), Prohibition party candidate
• Harry E. Claiborne - notorious federal judge
• Max O. Cogburn, Jr. - federal magistrate judge and nominee to the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
• James I. Cohn - federal judge
• LeRoy Collins (D) - Governor of Florida
• John F. Cosgrove (D) - Florida legislator and first mayor of Cutler Bay, Florida
• Charlie Crist (R) - Governor of Florida, Former Florida Attorney General
• Ryan DeGraffenried (D) - Alabama State Senator, President Pro Tempore of state Senate, Acting Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
• Joel Fredrick Dubina - Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, former federal Magistrate Judge and District Judge.
• Edward H. East (W) - Secretary of State for Tennessee and Acting Governor of Tennessee in 1865
• Charles Graddick (R)- Former Attorney General of Alabama, candidate for Governor during the famous 1986 race
• Grafton Green - associate justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, presided over the appeal of John T. Scopes
• Ralph Haben (D) - Former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
• Carl Hatch (D) - U.S. Senator from New Mexico, author of the Hatch Act of 1939
• Van Hilleary (R) - Tennessee politician and lobbyist
• William J. Holloway (D) - Governor of Oklahoma
• Joe Hilley - New York Times Best Selling author, born in Birmingham, Alabama. Hilley wrote Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader (Zondervan/HarperCollins), which reached The New York Times Best Seller list during the final two weeks of the 2008 Presidential Election campaign.
• James Edwin Horton - Judge who presided over the retrial of the Scottsboro Boys who set aside the jury's conviction and sentence of death and was them removed by the Alabama Supreme Court. He is remembered by a plaque on the courthouse.
• Jeff Hoover (R) - Kentucky House of Representatives
• Carolyn Hugley (D) - Minority Whip, Georgia House of Representatives
• Cordell Hull (D) - United States Secretary of State under Franklin D. Roosevelt, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 11 terms as U.S. Representative, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, co-initiated the United Nations
• Douglas S. Jackson (D) - State Senator from Tennessee, executive director of the Renaissance Center
• George Doherty Johnson - Confederate brigadier general, United States Civil Service Commissioner, superintendent of The Citadel (military college)
• William F. Kirby (D) - U.S. Senator from Arkansas, associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, Attorney General for Arkansas, author of Kirby’s Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas
• Joshua B. Lee (D) - U.S. Senator and Representative from Oklahoma
• Zeb Little (D) - Majority Leader and Floor Leader of the Alabama Senate
• Horace Harmon Lurton (D) - United States Supreme Court Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court, justice U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, dean of Vanderbilt University law department
• Crawford Martin (D) - Texas State Senator, Texas Secretary of State, Attorney General of Texas, and mayor of Hillsboro, Texas
• Joe McInnes Director of Ala Dept of Transportation, Exec VP of Blount Inc
• Bert H. Miller (D) - U.S. Senator from Idaho and Idaho Attorney General
• Charles H. O'Brien (D) - Tennessee State Senator, Tennessee State Supreme Court
• Mike Papantonio - head of mass tort department at Levin, Papantonio in Pensacola, Florida, one of America's 15 most successful plaintiff's firms; host of the radio show Ring of Fire (radio program); a Methodist and featured on the documentary Jesus Camp.
• DuBose Porter (D) - Minority Leader, Georgia House of Representatives
• Paine Page Prim - chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, first graduate of Cumberland Law School
• Mike Stewart - American writer
• Tom Stewart (D) - U.S. Senator from Tennessee, chief prosecutor during the Scopes Trial
• John Strohm - entertainment lawyer and former member of the Blake Babies and Lemonheads
• Mauricio J. Tamargo - 14th Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
• Ben West - mayor of Nashville, Tennessee