List of University of Michigan Law and Government Alumni - Military

Military

• John Biddle (MDNG) was career United States Army officer who attained the rank of Major General and who became superintendent of the United States Military Academy.
• Peter J. Boylan (MS 1970) - United States Army major general; President of Georgia Military College
• Margaret A. Brewer (BA 1953) - United States Marine Corps Brigadier general, Director of Women Marines (1973–1977); first woman to be promoted to a general officer rank in the Marine Corps
• Wilber Marion Brucker (BA 1916) - Secretary of the Army under President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• Arleigh Burke (COE: MSE) - United States Navy admiral; World War II hero; Chief of Naval Operations (1955–1961)
• James B. Currie (1958) - United States Air Force major general
• Terrance T. Etnyre (BA 1970) - United States Navy vice admiral; Commander, Naval Surface Forces
• Elon Farnsworth (1858) - Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War; cavalry commander; killed at Gettysburg.
• Alfred B. Fitt (1923-1992) was a United States lawyer who served as General Counsel of the Army from 1964 to 1967
• Charles H. Jacoby, Jr., (MA) United States Army General who is currently serving as the fifth Commander, United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and the 22nd Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
• Paul J. Kern (master's degrees in mechanical and civil engineering 1973) - former United States Army general; Commanding General of the United States Army Materiel Command (2001–2004)
• Ali S. Khan (University of Michigan Health System residency in internal medicine and pediatrics) - Rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• William James Mayo, M.D., F.A.C.S. (June 29, 1861 – July 28, 1939) was a physician and surgeon in the United States and one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic. Promoted to Brigadier General, 1918.
• Frank Millard (LAW: 1916) In March 1955, he was appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower as the General Counsel of the U.S. Army
• William M. Morrow He enlisted in the United States Army in 1888 where he served for more than 40 years until his retirement in 1930. He was decorated for his service in World War I and achieved the rank of Brigadier General.
• David G. Perkins (C.O.E. MSME) (born c. 1958) is a United States Army Lieutenant General and current Commander of the United States Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
• Benjamin D. Pritchard, (LAW: JD 1860) the Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis. Served two terms of office as the State Treasurer of Michigan from 1880 to 1884. In 1870, Pritchard organized the First National Bank of Allegan and served as its president until 1905. He then relinquished his shares in that bank and founded the First State Bank, which was the first bank in the county to be designated as a state depository. It was also the first savings bank, offering 4% interest to depositors; and the first bank to install safety deposit boxes.
• Eric B. Schoomaker (COM: MD, Ph.D.) was the 42nd Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commanding General, United States Army Medical Command, and a practicing hematologist.
• Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr. (M.S. in mechanical engineering) - United States Army lieutenant general; Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers (2007—2011)