University of Texas School of Law - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

See also: List of University of Texas at Austin alumni

• Linda L. Addison—Partner-in-Charge, New York, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
• Robert B Anderson—United States Secretary of Treasury
• William R. Archer—United States Representative from Texas (1971–2001) Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee
• James Baker—former Secretary of State; former United States Secretary of Treasury; former White House Chief of Staff
• Jack Balagia—General Counsel of Exxon
• Ben Barnes—former Lieutenant Governor of Texas; Prominent National Democratic Lobbyist
• Michael Barrera—CEO of United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
• Paul Begala—political consultant, commentator and former advisor to President Bill Clinton
• Lloyd Bentsen—former Secretary of the Treasury and United States Senator; former Chair of US Senate Committee on Finance; former candidate for US Vice President.
• Samuel T. Bledsoe—President of Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 1933–1939
• Robert Lee Bobbitt—Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927–1929), Attorney General of Texas (1929–1930), state court judge (1935–1937), chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937–1943)
• C. C. Bridgewater – Judge of the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II
• Jack Brooks – U.S. Member of Congress; Chair of U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
• J. E. "Buster" Brown (Class of 1972) – Texas Senator, District 17 from 1981 to 2002
• William C. Bryson—United States Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• George P. Bush—son of Florida Governor Jeb Bush, nephew of President George W. Bush
• Orville Bullington (1882–1956, Class of 1906)—Wichita Falls lawyer; Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1932
• James Caldwell CEO of Omni Hotels
• Kent Caperton—lawyer, lobbyist in Austin and former state senator from Bryan
• Waggoner Carr—Attorney General of Texas
• James Cicconi—worldwide head of government relations for AT&T
• Tom C. Clark—former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and United States Attorney General
• John B. Connally, Jr.—former Governor of Texas, former Secretary of the Navy, former Secretary of the Treasury
• Tom Connally—former United States Senator from Texas
• William C. Conner (1920–2009)—federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Henry Cuellar United States Representative from Texas; member of House Democratic leadership
• Dick DeGuerin—prominent criminal defense attorney based in Houston
• Adam Dell—prominent Venture Capitalist; brother of Michael Dell; dated Padma Lakshmi
• Lloyd Doggett—member, U.S. Congress
• David Frederick—successful appellate attorney; has argued over 21 cases before the United States Supreme Court
• Kathryn S. Fuller—Chair of the Ford Foundation and former President of the World Wildlife Fund
• Gustavo C. Garcia, Carlos Cadena, James DeAnda - Attorneys for landmark 1950's civil rights case Hernandez v. Texas which determined that Hispanics have Equal Protection under the 14th Amendment
• Orlando Luis Garcia—United States District Judge, Western District of Texas
• Bryan Garner—editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of numerous books and articles on language and writing, including "A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage"
• Pete Geren—Former Member of Congress; Secretary of the Army; Secretary of the Air Force
• Mike Godwin—first attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and current general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation
• Leon A. Green—long-time dean at Northwestern University School of Law and professor at UT and at Yale Law School; authored pioneering works in tort law
• Rick Green—former state representative, District 45; motivational speaker
• Thomas Watt Gregory Attorney General of the United States
• Timothy Hall – current President of Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, former law professor at The University of Mississippi
• Kent Hance – Chancellor of Texas Tech University System; Former Member of Congress who defeated George W Bush in his first Congressional race.
• Mark Harris – CEO and founder of Axiom Legal
• Will Ford Hartnett - lawyer and member of the Texas House from Dallas County
• Grady Hazlewood—district attorney from Potter County and state senator from District 31 in Amarillo (1941–1971)
• Hayden W. Head, Jr.—Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• Jeb Hensarling— Member of US Congress, Chair of House Republican Conference; Chair of US Debt "Supercommittee"
• John Hill— Attorney General of Texas
• Robert Scott Horton—prominent Human Rights attorney, columnist for Harper's, and adjunct professor at Columbia Law School
• Herbert Hovenkamp—Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law; prolific author and expert in Antitrust law; member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Kay Bailey Hutchison—senior United States Senator from Texas
• Joe Jamail—billionaire litigator and philanthropist
• Joe Jaworski—Mayor of Galveston
• Andrew L. Jefferson, Jr.—noted Houston lawyer, former Harris County judge, former federal prosecutor and former federal judicial nominee
• Wallace Jefferson—First African American Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court
• Edith Jones—Chief Justice of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
• William Wayne Justice—Senior United States District Judge, Western District of Texas, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Texas, storied civil rights judge
• George P. Kazen—Senior United States District Judge, Southern District of Texas;
• W. Page Keeton—1931 graduate and Dean from 1949 to 1974; expert in Torts
• Joe M. Kilgore - 1946 graduate; U.S. representative from Texas's 15th congressional district from 1955 to 1965.
• Ron Kirk—former mayor of Dallas, Texas; United States Trade Representative
• Cyndi Taylor Krier (Class of 1975)—former state senator and county judge from San Antonio
• Bob Lanier—Mayor of the City of Houston
• Debra Lehrmann—former 360th District Court Judge in Fort Worth; Texas Supreme Court Justice (2011– )
• Michael R Levy—Founder and Publisher of Texas Monthly Magazine
• Bill Liedtke & J Hugh Liedtke—brothers who cofounded Zapata Petroleum Corporation with President George HW Bush; acquired South Penn Oil Company which they renamed Pennzoil
• William S. Lott—retired Texas state Judge
• Oliver Luck—former NFL player; former executive with NFL Europa and the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer; current athletic director at West Virginia University
• Earle Bradford Mayfield—former United States Senator from Texas
• Hugh "Skip" McGee—Global Head of Investment Banking Barclays
• Harry McPherson—White House Counsel; Key Advisor to President Lyndon Johnson
• Walter Mengden—1954 graduate; former member of both houses of the Texas Legislature from Harris County
• Thomas Mengler—dean of the law school at University of St. Thomas (Minnesota); former dean at the University of Illinois College of Law
• John Montford—former Chancellor of Texas Tech University System
• Dan Moody—Governor of Texas
• William T. "Bill" Moore—1949 graduate; state senator from Bryan known as the "Bull of the Brazos" and the "father of the modern Texas A&M University"
• Steve Munisteri—retired Houston attorney and chairman since June 12, 2010, of the Republican Party of Texas
• Gene Nichol—law professor at the University of North Carolina; former professor and President of the College of William and Mary; former dean of the law schools at North Carolina and Colorado
• Federico Peña—former Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Energy; former Mayor of Denver
• Colonel Alfred P.C. Petsch (1887–1981)—Lawyer, legislator, civic leader, philanthropist, member of Texas House of Representatives 1925–1941
• Sam Rayburn—longest-serving Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and United States Representative from Texas
• Eddie Rodriguez - Member of the
• Tom Schieffer—former US Ambassador to Japan; former US Ambassador to Australia; President of the Texas Rangers Baseball Team
• A.R. "Babe" Schwartz—former Texas State Senator, helped author the landmark Texas Open Beaches Act
• John Sheppard—former Attorney General of Texas
• Morris Sheppard - U.S. Senator, author of the Eighteenth Amendment
• Barry Smitherman - member of the Texas Railroad Commission
• Robert Schwarz Strauss—former United States Ambassador to Russia; former United States Trade Representative; Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee
• Kristen Silverberg—U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
• Morris Sheppard—former United States Senator from Texas
• Max Sherman (Class of 1960)—former state senator and former president of West Texas A&M University
• Robert Allan Shivers—Governor of Texas
• James Spears—General Counsel of Pharmaceutical and Research Manufacturers Association (PHRMA)
• Russell Sullivan—Staff Director U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
• Mac Thornberry—U.S. representative from Texas' 13th congressional district
• Ray Thornton—former United States Representative from Arkansas and Arkansas Supreme Court justice
• Sarah Weddington—represented Jane Roe in the landmark Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade
• Bill White—former Mayor of the City of Houston
• Harry Whittington—Texas attorney famous for getting shot by Dick Cheney in a hunting incident; professionally known for eminent domain cases
• Diane Pamela Wood—Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, considered potential candidate for a seat on the Supreme Court during the Obama administration
• Ralph Yarborough—former United States Senator from Texas
• John Andrew Young—former United States Representative from Texas
• Frances Tarlton "Sissy" Farenthold—Texas House of Representatives, First woman nominated (nonsymbolically) for Vice President in the 1972 Democratic National Convention.