List of University of Missouri Alumni - Government and Law

Government and Law

• Mike Cherry (BA 1966, AEΠ), Chief Justice of Nevada Supreme Court
• John Bauer (MBA 1986, ΒΓΣ), Chief Architect at the Library of Congress
• Emily Newell Blair, was an American writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, a founder of the League of Women Voters and feminist.
• Russ Carnahan (BS 1979, JD 1983, KA), U.S. Congressman
• Paul Coverdell (ΦΚΨ), former U.S. Senator (GA); died 2000
• William S. Cowherd 1881 (ΒΘΠ), former Democratic mayor of Kansas City, Missouri in 1892–1893 and U.S. Congressman from Missouri in 1897–1905
• William B. Cravens 1893 (ΒΘΠ), former U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Thomas T. Crittenden, Jr. 1882 (ΒΘΠ), former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1908–1909
• Elgin English Crull 1930 (Kappa Sigma), longest serving city manager of Dallas,Texas to date (1952–1966); was city manager when John F. Kennedy was assassinated
• Randy "Duke" Cunningham, former U.S. Congressman from California who resigned in 2005 amid a massive bribery scandal
• Gen. Donald Dawson 1932 (ΒΘΠ), former aide to President Truman, Curator of the Truman Presidential Library
• Martin Frost (BJ 1964, ZBT), former U.S. Congressman
• Hon. John R. Gibson (BA 1949, JD 1952, TKE, QEBH, ΟΔΚ, ΦΒΚ), Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Jack Goodman (BA 1995, JD 1998) State Senator, practicing attorney in Mount Vernon, MO.
• Sam Graves (BS 1986, AΓΣ), U.S. Congressman
• Jason Grill - Missouri House of Representatives (2006–2010)
• Chuck Gross (BA 1981, MPA 1982), Missouri State Senator.
• Bob F. Griffin (JD 1958), Speaker of Missouri House of Representatives for 15 years
• Hon. Harsha de Silva (MA & PhD, 1993) – Sri Lankan Member of Parliament
• Kate Hanley, née Keith (BA 1965, BS 1965, ΦΒΚ), Virginia politician
• Martin Heinrich (BS 1995), current U.S. Congressman from New Mexico
• Jay Houghton, Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives
• Kenny Hulshof (BA 1980, Farmhouse), former U.S. Congressman
• James P. Kem 1910 (ΒΘΠ), United States Senate from Missouri, 1947 to 1953
• Jason Klumb (JD 1993), Regional Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration
• Lloyd E. Lenard, (MS, advertising and merchandising), Caddo Parish (Louisiana) commissioner; businessman; author
• Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. 1951 (ΒΘΠ), U.S. Federal District Court Judge and former president of the Missouri Bar Assoc.
• Claire McCaskill (AB 1975, JD 1978), former Missouri State Auditor and current senior U.S. Senator from Missouri
• Walter McCormick (BJ 1976; JD 1979; ATΩ, OΔK, Mystical 7) President & CEO, United States Telecom Association; former general counsel, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
• Bruce B. Melchert (1961, TKE), former Chairman, Indiana Republican Party, and former Deputy Mayor, City of Indianapolis
• James B. Potter, Jr. (born 1931), Los Angeles City Council member, 1963–71
• Thomas L. Rubey 1885 (ΒΘΠ), former U.S. Representative from Missouri
• Sally Shelton-Colby, Ambassador to Grenada and Barbados from 1979 to 1981.
• Tom Shively, Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives
• Ike Skelton (AB 1953, JD 1956, ΣΧ, ΦΒΚ), former U.S. Congressman and past Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
• Kimbrough Stone 1895 (ΒΘΠ), judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit