- Shirley Abrahamson, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Thomas Ryum Amlie, U.S. Representative
- Daniel P. Anderson, Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Gerald K. Anderson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Norman C. Anderson, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- James N. Azim, Jr., Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Martha Bablitch, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- William A. Bablitch, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Rep. Tammy Baldwin, First woman to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives; first openly lesbian member of the House
- Lloyd Barbee, Wisconsin legislator and civil rights activist
- Charles V. Bardeen, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Elmer E. Barlow, former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
- John Barnes (judge), former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Tom Barrett, U.S. Representative
- Robert McKee Bashford, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Peter D. Bear, Wisconsin State Senator
- Bruce F. Beilfuss, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Claire B. Bird, Wisconsin State Senator
- Daniel D. Blinka, evidence and criminal law scholar, voted "Best Law Professor" in Wisconsin in 2009 and 2010
- Nils Boe, 23rd Governor of South Dakota and served as a Judge for the United States Customs Court
- Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Theodore W. Brazeau, Wisconsin State Senator
- Grover L. Broadfoot, former Chief Justice of Wisconsin
- Angie Brooks, former President, United Nations General Assembly
- Richard S. Brown, Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Edward E. Browne, former United States Representative
- Andrew A. Bruce, former Justice, North Dakota Supreme Court
- Michael E. Burke, former United States Representative
- George Bunn, former Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Dean of William Mitchell College of Law
- Louis B. Butler, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- William G. Callow, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Howard W. Cameron, Wisconsin State Senator
- Fred J. Carpenter, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Milton Robert Carr, U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Richard Cates, Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
- Moses E. Clapp, former United States Senator
- David G. Classon, U.S. Representative
- William M. Conley, federal judge
- Barbara Crabb: Judge, U. S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School
- Charles H. Crownhart, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- John Cudahy, U.S. diplomat
- George R. Currie, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Richard Danner, Professor of Law, Duke University
- Joseph E. Davies: U.S. diplomat
- Glenn Robert Davis, U.S. Representative
- Roland B. Day, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- John A. Decker, Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Christian Doerfler, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- W. Patrick Donlin, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus
- Davis A. Donnelly, Wisconsin State Senator
- F. Ryan Duffy, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and former United States Senator
- Charles P. Dykman, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- William Eich, Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Evan Alfred Evans, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
- Thomas E. Fairchild, Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals
- Robben Wright Fleming, former President, University of Michigan
- Chester A. Fowler, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Harold V. Froehlich: U.S. Representative
- Edward R. Garvey: Noted lawyer, labor activist and politician
- Edward J. Gehl, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Hiram Gill, Mayor of Seattle, Washington
- Mark Andrew Green, U.S. diplomat
- Stephen S. Gregory, former President, American Bar Association
- Kenneth P. Grubb, former federal judge
- David W. Hagen, former federal judge
- Oscar Hallam, former Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court
- Connor Hansen, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Everis A. Hayes, former United State Representative
- Nathan Heffernan, former Chief Justice of Wisconsin
- Paul B. Higginbotham, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Knute Hill, former United State Representative
- Michael W. Hoover, Presiding Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Paul O. Husting, U.S. Senator
- Lester Johnson, U.S. Representative
- Burr W. Jones, former United States Representative
- William Carey Jones, former United States Representative
- Fred F. Kaftan, Wisconsin State Senate
- John C. Karel, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Robert Kastenmeier, U.S. Representative
- David Keene, Chairman of the American Conservative Union
- Ernest Keppler, politician and jurist
- James C. Kerwin, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Warren P. Knowles, Governor of Wisconsin
- Arthur W. Kopp, U.S. Representative
- Andrew L. Kreutzer, Wisconsin State Senator
- James E. Krier, Professor of Law, University of Michigan. Also has taught at Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UCLA
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- Belle Case La Follette: First woman to graduate from UW Law (1885); women's suffrage activist; wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- Philip La Follette, former Governor of Wisconsin
- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.: Wisconsin governor, senator and Progressive Party candidate for U.S. President in 1924; husband of Belle Case La Follette
- John E. Lange, U.S. Avian Influenza and Pandemic Ambassador
- John David Larson, U.S. National Guard general
- Elmer O. Leatherwood, U.S. Representative from Utah
- Stacy Leeds, Dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law
- Judith L. Lichtman, attorney specializing in women’s rights and advocate for human and civil rights
- Paul Lundsten, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Claude Luse, former federal judge
- James Manahan, former United States Representative
- Daniel R. Mandelker, Professor of Law, Washington University
- Herbert H. Manson, Chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
- David W. Márquez, Attorney General of Alaska
- Robert Bruce McCoy: U.S. National Guard Major General
- Dale McKenna, Wisconsin Staten Senator
- Carroll Metzner: Wisconsin State Assembly, lawyer
- Elmer A. Morse, former United States Representative
- John E. Murray, Jr.: Chancellor and professor of law at Duquesne University
- Louis Wescott Myers: Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
- Gaylord Nelson: Former Governor of Wisconsin, U.S. Senator and founder of Earth Day
- John M. Nelson, former United States Representative
- Mark Nordenberg: Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh
- Kenneth J. O'Connell, Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
- Tawia Modibo Ocran, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
- John Oestreicher, Wisconsin State Assembly
- Walter C. Owen, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Juan Perez, former mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin
- Gregory A. Peterson, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Richard F. Pettigrew, former United States Senator
- Vel Phillips: First Black woman to graduate from UW Law; later became first woman and non-white to be elected as Secretary of State in Wisconsin and the first Black person to be elected as a member of the Democratic National Committee.
- David Prosser, Jr.: Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
- Rudolph T. Randa, federal judge
- Clifford E. Randall, U.S. Representative
- Henry R. Rathbone, former United States Representative
- James Ward Rector, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
- Lowell A. Reed, federal judge
- Michael Reilly, U.S. Representative
- Paul F. Reilly, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Paul Samuel Reinsch, U.S. diplomat
- Frank J. Remington, former Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- John W. Reynolds, Governor of Wisconsin
- Alan S. Robertson, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Patience D. Roggensack, Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Ediberto Roman, Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law
- John Rowe (CEO) Exelon
- Arthur L. Sanborn, former federal judge
- Harry Sauthoff, former United States Representative
- Rudolph Schlabach, Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
- Charles B. Schudson, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Rep. James Sensenbrenner: U.S. Representative and former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee
- Robert G. Siebecker, former Chief Justice of Wisconsin
- David Sturtevant Ruder, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former Dean of Law, Northwestern University
- Albert Morris Sames, U.S. District Court Judge in Arizona
- Burton A. Scott, Chief Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Stewart Simonson, Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness
- Paul Soglin, Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
- Alan J. Steinberg, Regional Administrator for the United States Environmental Protection Agency
- Donald W. Steinmetz, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- E. Ray Stevens, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Michael T. Sullivan, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Robert D. Sundby, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- James A. Tawney, former United States Representative
- Donald Edgar Tewes, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
- William Te Winkle, Wisconsin State Senator
- Lewis D. Thill, U.S. Representative
- Carl W. Thompson, Wisconsin State Senator
- Tommy Thompson: Former Governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Vernon W. Thomson, former Governor of Wisconsin
- Eugene A. Toepel, legislator and jurist
- Fran Ulmer, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
- J.B. Van Hollen: Attorney General of Wisconsin
- Margaret J. Vergeront, Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Aad J. Vinje, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Edward Voigt, U.S. Representative
- Michael J. Wallrich, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Thomas J. Walsh, U.S. Senator from Montana
- John D. Wickhem, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Jon P. Wilcox, former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Alexander Wiley, U.S. Senator
- John B. Winslow, former Chief Justice of Wisconsin
- Elmer Winter (1912-2009), founder of Manpower Inc.
- Richard J. Zaborski, Wisconsin State Senator
- Hilbert Philip Zarky, noted attorney
- Norma Zarky noted attorney
- Nicholas S. Zeppos, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
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