Dickinson School of Law - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Christopher F. Burne, U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
  • William W. Caldwell, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • Christopher Conner, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • Pedro Cortés, former Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
  • Andrew Curtin, Civil War Governor of Pennsylvania (1861–1867)
  • J. Steward Davis, Baltimore trial lawyer and first Afro-American valedictorian at Dickinson
  • J. Michael Eakin, Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
  • John Sydney Fine, former Pennsylvania Governor (1951–1955)
  • Mike Fitzpatrick, United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Jim Gerlach, United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Kim Gibson, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  • Milton W. Glenn (1903–1967), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1957–1965
  • Rick Gray, current mayor of Lancaster, PA
  • T. Millet Hand (1902–1956), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1945–1957
  • Arthur Horace James, former Pennsylvania Governor (1939–1943)
  • John E. Jones III, U.S. District Judge for United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, who presided over the ruling in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District which states that the teaching of Intelligent design in public classrooms violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution
  • Paul E. Kanjorski, former United States Congressman from Pennsylvania
  • Lewis Katz, former owner of the New Jersey Nets Basketball Team
  • Jack Keeney, career U.S. Department of Justice attorney
  • Tom Marino, United States Congressman representing Pennsylvania's Tenth Congressional District and former United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • Sylvia H. Rambo, first woman to serve as Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania Governor (1995–2001), former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security (2001–2003), first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2003–2005)
  • Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (1995–2007)
  • Lansdale Sasscer, 1914, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District
  • Ronald A. Sell, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
  • D. Brooks Smith, class of 1976, Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Donald William Snyder (LLM, Commerce and Taxation), Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1981-2000 and Majority Whip
  • Thomas I. Vanaskie, class of 1978, former chief judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and current judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals

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