Jonathan Edwards College - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Murray Gell-Mann, 1948, 1969 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Nicholas F. Brady, 1952, United States Senator from New Jersey (1982), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1988–1993)
• Wilbur Ross, 1959, financier, member of the Forbes 400
• John Kerry, 1966, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1983–85) United States Senator from Massachusetts (1985–Present), unsuccessful U.S. Presidential Candidate (2004)
• Fred Smith, 1966, founder and president of FedEx
• Roland W. Betts, 1968, investor, film producer, lead owner in George W. Bush’s Texas Rangers partnership (1989–1998), and developer and owner of Chelsea Piers.
• Ron Rosenbaum, 1968, writer, columnist for the New York Observer, author of Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil and the The Shakespeare Wars
• Gary Locke, 1972, Governor of Washington (1997–2005), United States Secretary of Commerce, and United States Ambassador to China
• Gary Lucas, 1974, guitarist, Grammy-nominated songwriter, recording artist and soundtrack composer
• Christopher Buckley, 1975, author of Thank You for Smoking and son of William F. Buckley
• Donna Dubinsky, 1977, CEO of Palm, Inc., co-founder of Handspring, member of the Forbes 400
• Amy Klobuchar, 1982, United States Senator from Minnesota.
• Ellen Bork, 1983, lawyer, deputy director of the Project for the New American Century and daughter of failed U.S. Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork
• Tom Perrotta, 1983, novelist, author of Little Children, Election and The Abstinence Teacher
• Andrew Solomon, 1985, writer, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
• Jane Mendelsohn, 1986, novelist, author of I was Amelia Earhart
• David Leonhardt, 1994, writer for The New York Times
• Theo Epstein, 1995, president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs.