Notable Faculty
- John White Brockenbrough - Federal Judge, founder, and former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Martin P. Burks - Former Dean and justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
- Judy Clarke - Noted criminal defense attorney for Ted Kaczynski, Zacarias Moussaoui, Susan Smith, Eric Rudolph, Jared Lee Loughner, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
- John W. Davis 1895, 1892 - 1924 Democratic nominee for U.S. President; United States Solicitor General; and American Bar Association President
- Creigh Deeds - Democratic nominee for Governor of Virginia in 2009 and Virginia State Senator
- Nora Demleitner - Current Dean and former Dean of Hofstra University School of Law
- John DiPippa 1978 — former Dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law
- Charles A. Graves 1872 - Professor at W&L Law and at the University of Virginia School of Law
- Homer A. Holt 1918, 1923 - Governor of West Virginia from 1937 to 1941
- Robert Huntley 1950, 1957 - Former Dean of W&L Law, former President of Washington and Lee University, former President, Chairman, and CEO of Best Products
- Donald W. Lemons - Justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia
- Jeffrey P. Minear - Counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
- Blake Morant - Current Dean of the Wake Forest University School of Law
- David F. Partlett - Former Dean of W&L Law and of Emory University School of Law
- Rodney A. Smolla - Former Dean, First Amendment scholar, and President of Furman University
- Abram Penn Staples 1908 - Attorney General of Virginia and justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
- Waller Redd Staples - Member of the Confederate House of Representatives and justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
- Barry Sullivan - Former Dean and currently professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Henry St. George Tucker III 1876 - Former Dean, Congressman from Virginia, and former President of the American Bar Association
- John Randolph Tucker - Virginia Attorney General, former Dean, and former President of the American Bar Association
- William R. Vance 1869 - Professor at Yale Law School, and Dean of W&L Law, George Washington University Law School, and the University of Minnesota Law School
- H. Emory Widener, Jr. 1953 - Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
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