De Paul University College of Law - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

The following is a list of notable DePaul College of Law graduates, with degree conferral dates in parentheses:

• William J. Bauer (1952), senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Michael A. Bilandic, former mayor of Chicago and Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
• Robert A. Clifford (1976), prominent Chicago trial attorney
• Mary Dempsey, Head Librarian of the Chicago Public Library
• Richard J. Daley, (1933), former mayor of Chicago
• Richard M. Daley, former mayor of Chicago
• Kirk Dillard, Illinois State Senator
• Judith Gaskell (1980), Head Librarian of the Supreme Court of the United States and former director of DePaul's Rinn library.
• Peter Francis Geraci (1971), bankruptcy attorney, most well known for his "dry-as-a-bone" commercials that appear throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana since the mid-1990s.
• Benjamin L. Hooks (1948), American civil rights leader, executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992
• Gerald D. Hosier (1967), intellectual property attorney and patent litigator
• Perry Wilbon Howard, attorney and Republican civil righs activist from Mississippi
• Lee M. Jackwig, United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Southern District of Iowa
• J. Elmer Lehr, former Wisconsin State Senator
• James Lyons (1971), prominent Denver attorney and former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Dennis Shere (2005), author
• John Stroger (1965), former president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners
• Samuel Skinner, former U.S. Federal Prosecutor Northern District of Illinois and U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chief of Staff under President George H.W. Bush.
• Charles E. Tucker, Jr. (1982), Retired U.S. Air Force Major General
• Jody Weiner, novelist, non-fiction author, film producer and lawyer
• Robert F. Harris, Cook County Public Guardian