University of Iowa College of Law - Alumni

Alumni

• James H. Andreasen (1958), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1987–1998)
• John J. Bouma (1960), Managing Partner, Snell & Wilmer in Phoenix, Arizona
• Bruce Braley (1983), U.S. Representative (D-IA)
• James H. Carter (1960), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1982–2006)
• Alexander Clark (1884), U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, and successfully litigated Iowa state desegregation case nearly ninety years before Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Alexander Clark, Jr. (1879), first African American to graduate from Iowa Law School, and possibly the first African American in the country to earn a law degree
• Norm Coleman (1976), former U.S. Senator (R-MN)
• Lester J. Dickinson (1899), U.S. Representative (1919–1931), and U.S. Senator (1931–1937)
• James D. Erickson (1962), former CEO of Northwestern Mutual
• Phyllis Propp Fowle (1933), First female JAG officer in U.S. Army, and helped launch the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in World War II
• Rita B. Garman (1968), Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court
• Theodore G. Garfield (1917), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1941–1969), Chief Justice (1961–1969)
• K. David Harris (1951), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1972–1999)
• Mary Humphrey Haddock (1875), first woman in the country admitted to practice in the U.S. District and Circuit Courts
• John Hammill (1897), served three terms as the 24th Governor of Iowa from 1925 to 1931
• Virgil M. Hancher (1924), 13th President of the University of Iowa (1940–1964)
• Robert B. Hanson (1981), Iowa district court judge, and trial judge presiding over the landmark same-sex marriage case Varnum v. Brien (Iowa, 2009)
• William Cook Hanson (1935), Senior federal district judge (1962–1995)
• Paul P. Harris, founder of Rotary International, the world's largest service organization
• Bourke B. Hickenlooper (1922), former Iowa governor (1943–1945), and U.S. Senator (1945–1969)
• Leo A. Hoegh (1932), former Iowa governor (1955–1957), Director of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization, and member of National Security Council
• Brian H. Hook (1999), former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush, and senior advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2006–08
• William S. Kenyon (1890), U.S. Senator (1911–1922), and circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1922–1933)
• Nile Kinnick (1940, attended), 1939 Heisman Trophy winner, 1939 Maxwell Award winner, consensus All-American, WWII veteran, inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, and 1939 AP Male Athlete of the Year. Left school to serve in WWII, and was killed in a training flight.
• Jerry L. Larson (1960), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1978–2008)
• Donald P. Lay (1951), circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1966–2007), Chief Justice (1980–1992)
• Richard S. Levitt (1954), chairman and CEO of Dial Corporation, and Vice President of the Board of Directors for Wells Fargo & Company
• Ronald E. Longstaff (1965), Senior federal district court judge (1991–present)
• Carol Havemann Lynch (1972), General Upstream Tax Counsel for ExxonMobil
• Patrick Madigan (1998), Assistant Iowa Attorney General, and played a key role in the nationwide mortgage settlement of 2012
• Thomas E. Martin (1927), U.S. Representative (1939–1955), and U.S. Senator (1955–1961)
• Arthur McGiverin (1956), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1978–2000), Chief Justice (1987–2000)
• Edward J. McManus (1942), Senior federal district court judge (1962–present)
• Michael J. Melloy (1974), Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
• Ronald Moon (1965), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hawaii (1993–2010)
• Carroll J. Reasoner (1976), first woman and youngest president of the Iowa State Bar Association
• W. Ward Reynoldson (1948), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1971–1987), Chief Justice (1978–1987)
• Tom Riley (1952), Iowa politician and successful trial attorney
• Coleen Rowley (1980), Retired FBI Special Agent and Time Magazine 2002 Woman of the Year
• Bruce M. Snell, Jr. (1956), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1987–2001)
• Daniel F. Steck (1906), U.S. Senator (1926–1931)
• Roy L. Stephenson (1940), Chief federal district court judge, Southern District of Iowa (1960–1971), and circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1971–1982)
• William C. Stuart (1942), Senior federal district court judge (1971–2010)
• Philip W. Tone (1948), Federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Harold Vietor (1958), Senior federal district court judge (1979–present)
• Thomas D. Waterman (1984), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (2011–present)
• Mary B. Hickey Wilkinson (1873), first woman to graduate from Iowa Law School, and possibly the first woman in the country to earn a law degree
• George A. Wilson (1907), Governor of Iowa (1939–42), and U.S. Senator (1943–1949)
• Charles R. Wolle (1961), Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1983–1987) and senior federal district judge (1987–present)

The College has approximately 10,000 alumni. While 40 percent of the alumni practice in the state of Iowa, other top states for the alumni include: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Wisconsin, and Virginia.

The alumni have an international presence with almost 200 alumni located outside the United States in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and Vietnam.