Notable Alumni
- Greg Abbott - Texas Attorney General
- Bill Alexander- United States Representative from Arkansas (1969–1993)
- Bruce Bennett (Class of 1949) - Attorney general of Arkansas (1957-1960 and 1963-1966)
- Lucius E. Burch, Jr. - Conservationist, Explorer, Civil Rights Activist, and Attorney for Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martha Craig Daughtrey - Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Karl Dean - Mayor of Nashville
- Al Gore - Vice President of the United States; winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Gore attended Vanderbilt Law School, but left in 1976 during his 2L year without attaining a degree to run for his father's seat in Congress.
- Pauline LaFon Gore - Mother of former Vice President Al Gore. She met her future husband, Albert Gore, Sr., while working her way through Vanderbilt Law School, from which she graduated in 1936.
- Dorsey B. Hardeman - former member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature, former mayor of San Angelo
- Ric Keller - former United States Representative from Florida
- Leonard Lance - United States Representative from New Jersey
- Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. - Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Luke Messer - United States Representative-elect from Indiana
- Bill Purcell - Former Mayor of Nashville; served two terms from 1999 to 2007.
- Ronald J. Rychlak - Noted author, attorney and professor of law at University of Mississippi
- Ben Quayle - U.S. Representative from Arizona
- Fred Thompson - Former Republican presidential candidate; former United States Senator (R-TN), and actor on the television drama Law & Order
- Aleta Trauger - Judge, U.S. District Court of Appeals for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville
- Clay Travis - American sports journalist, writer and the author of the column ClayNation on Fanhouse
- Justin P. Wilson - Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury
- Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr. - Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
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