George Washington University Law School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

Notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School include:

• E. Ross Adair, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1951–1971) and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (1971–1974)
• Earl E. Anderson, Ret. General United States Marine Corps
• Rocky Anderson (1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City
• Richard A. Appelbaum, Ret. U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral
• Ian C. Ballon (1986), Internet lawyer and author of several law books, including a 4-volume legal treatise on e-commerce law
• William Barr (1977), former United States Attorney General
• A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation
• Árpád Bogsch (1956), former Director General (1973–1997) of the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Garry E. Brown (1954), former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
• Warren Brown (1998), founder and owner of Cake Love, and host of Sugar Rush on the Food Network
• Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist
• James C. Cacheris (1960), judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Gordon Canfield (1926), former U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
• Margaret Carlson, American journalist and currently a columnist for Bloomberg News
• Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
• Bennett Champ Clark, former United States Senator
• Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• James P. Coleman (1939), former Governor of Mississippi and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• William Henry Coleman, former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• Charles Colson, Leader in the Christian right movement, former Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, and jailed for conspiring during the Watergate scandal
• John Blaisdell Corliss (1875), former United States Congressman
• George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration
• Matthew Cowley, former Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Patricia Ann Curran (1974), former Commissioner of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
• Ewin L. Davis (1899), former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
• Allen Dulles (1926), longest serving (1953–61) director of the CIA
• John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
• John James Duncan, Jr. (1973), United States Congressman for the Second District of Tennessee
• David Eisenhower (1976), author and grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• David Falk (1975), agent of Michael Jordan.
• W. Mark Felt (1940), former associate director of the FBI and Watergate scandal informant also known as "Deep Throat"
• Stanley Finch (1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
• John James Flynt, Jr. (1940), United States Congressman from Georgia
• John L. Fugh (1960), former Judge Advocate General
• J. William Fulbright (1934), former United States Senator, creator of the Fulbright Fellowships
• Ralph A. Gamble (1911), former U.S. Congressman from New York
• Stephen Warfield Gambrill (1896), former United States Congressman
• Gregory G. Garre (1991), former Solicitor General of the United States
• Ernest W. Gibson, Jr., former Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
• Dan Glickman (1969), Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America
• Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
• Joyce Hens Green, (1951), senior judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Harold H. Greene (1954), former judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over lawsuit which broke up AT&T's vertical monopoly.
• L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
• Will A. Gunn, was sworn in as the General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs on May 26, 2009
• Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980)
• Patricia Roberts Harris (1960), cabinet member in the Jimmy Carter administration
• John D. Holum, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under Bill Clinton.
• J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Harry R. Hughes (1952), former governor of the state of Maryland
• Sarah T. Hughes (1922), first female federal judge seated in Texas, and only woman to administer the oath of office to the President of the United States
• Edwin F. Hunter (1938), longest sitting U.S. District Court judge in the nation
• Daniel Inouye (1953), United States Senator, (D-HI)
• Charles James (attorney), assistant attorney general and general counsel of Chevron-Texaco
• Leon Jaworski (1926), Special Prosecutor during the Watergate Scandal.
• Rod Johnston, former Wisconsin State Senator
• Barbara Milano Keenan (1974), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• David M. Kennedy, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
• Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister of India
• Bruce M. Lawlor, retired United States Army Major General and former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security
• Francis La Flesche, first professional Native American (Omaha) anthropologist
• Ted Lerner, real estate mogul and owner of the Washington Nationals major-league baseball team.
• Wilma B. Liebman (1974) Chair, National Labor Relations Board
• Belva Ann Lockwood (1872), first woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court
• Carlos F. Lucero (1964), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Larry MacPhail, Hall of Fame baseball executive for Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees; pioneered night baseball in 1935.
• Frank Moss (1937), former United States Senator, (D-UT)
• George B. Nelson (1902), former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Francis G. Newlands (1869), congressman and drafter of the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaiʻi
• Frank Neuhauser (1940), patent attorney and winner of the first National Spelling Bee in 1925
• Edward S. Northrop (1937), Majority Leader of Maryland State Senate (1958–1961), Chair of the Finance Committee (1958), nominated by President Kennedy in 1961 for a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Elevated to Chief Judge and held that position until 1981.
• Eric O'Neill (2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
• Gregory K. Orme (1978), Judge Utah Court of Appeals
• Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran
• Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Barbara Pariente (1973), current Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States Congress.
• Sharon Prost (LLM 1984), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Randall Ray Rader (1978), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Jim Ramstad (1973), congressman whose work led to ending discrimination against those suffering from mental health and addiction problems.
• Harry Reid (1964), United States Senator, current Senate Majority Leader, (D-NV)
• Michael W. Rice, Chairman and CEO of Utz Quality Foods
• Kenneth Francis Ripple (1972), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• James Robertson (1965), judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
• Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia
• Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada
• William K. Sessions III (1972), chief judge U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission
• D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Intel Corporation.
• James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General
• Mary Schapiro, (1980), Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. First woman to chair the SEC.
• M. Gerald Schwartzbach (1969), California criminal defense attorney
• John W. Snow (1967), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Scott C. Taylor (1992), Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Symantec Corporation.
• Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
• James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
• Robert Wexler (1985), congressman, (D-FL)
• Ernest L. Wilkinson (1926), President of Brigham Young University 1951-1971
• Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer
• Earle D. Willey, former U.S. Congressman from Delaware
• Seth M. Zachary (1976), Chairman of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
• Kyle Zimmer, founder of First Book