Notable Professors
- Oscar Adams - the first African-American Alabama Supreme Court justice and the first African American elected to statewide office in Alabama (including the Reconstruction era), taught classes in appellate and trial advocacy.
- Albert Brewer - Governor of Alabama, Distinguished Professor of Law and Government
- John L. Carroll - former federal judge and dean of Cumberland School of Law, Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Robert L. Caruthers - Attorney General for Tennessee, elected Governor of Tennessee
- Henry Cooper (U.S. Senator) (D) - United States Senator from Tennessee.
- William H. Pryor, Jr. - judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, former Alabama Attorney General, adjunct professor
- David M. Smolin - Director of The Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics and human rights activist. Brother of theoretical physicist Lee Smolin
- Janie Shores - Alabama Supreme Court Justice
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