Notable Members
Notable members of the Society have included:
- United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (who served as the original faculty advisor to the organization)
- Supreme Court Chief Justice John Glover Roberts, Jr.
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
- United States Circuit Court Judge Priscilla Owen
- United States Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Griffith
- United States Court of Appeals Judge Edith Clement
- formerUnited States Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler, a co-founder of the Federalist Society
- former United States Court of Appeals Judge Robert Bork
- former United States Attorney General Edwin Meese
- former United States Solicitor General Theodore Olson
- Senator Orrin Hatch
- President of Baylor University and former independent counsel Kenneth Starr
- Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham
- Congressman Dan Lungren
The Society also has many prominent libertarians who are members and frequent speakers at Society events, such as:
- Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School
- Professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown University Law Center
- Bradley A. Smith, a professor at Capital University Law School who formerly served as Chairman of the Federal Election Commission
- Roger Pilon, Director of Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute
Other members include:
- United States Ambassador to the European Union C. Boyden Gray
- Columbia Law School Dean David Schizer
- Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff
- University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo, who received a Bator Award from the Society for "excellence in legal scholarship and teaching"
- former United States Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton
- Antonin's son Eugene Scalia
- former general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget and of the Department of Homeland Security Philip Perry
While not necessarily members, several figures in the public eye have written for Federalist Society publications:
- Shawn Mitchell, a Republican member of the Colorado state senate
- Hans A. von Spakovsky, a commissioner of the Federal Election Commission
- Shannen W. Coffin, general counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts was reported to have been a member of the Society, but Roberts's membership status was never definitively established. Deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino said Roberts "has no recollection of ever being a member." The Washington Post later located the Federalist Society Lawyers' Division Leadership Directory, 1997-1998, which listed Roberts as a member of the Washington chapter steering committee. Membership in the Society is not a necessary condition for being listed in the leadership directory.
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