Case Western Reserve University School of Law alumni explained

Following is a list of notable alumni of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Academia

• Kenneth B. Davis, former dean of University of Wisconsin Law School^[1]
• Lee Fisher, dean of Cleveland–Marshall College of Law as of 2016, former Attorney General of Ohio, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
• Amos N. Guiora, professor, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah^[2]
• Kevin G. Nealer, professor, Georgetown School of Business, Fulbright Professor of trade law and policy in the People's Republic of China^[3]
• Ted Gup, professor of journalism, Emerson College
• Lee Fisher, dean, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
• Suzanne Elise Walsh, 19th president of Bennett College^[4]
• Andrew Zashin, American Family Law attorney, legal writer and commentator. Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Business and industry

• Elizabeth M. Boyer, lawyer, writer/publisher, and feminist founder of Women's Equity Action League
• Barry Meyer, former chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Robert L. Stark (born 1951), American real estate developer and CEO of Stark Enterprises
• Mark Weinberger, former chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young and former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy

Government

• • William Daroff, appointee to US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad and chief lobbyist for Jewish Federations of North America Martin J. Gruenberg, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Donald L. Korb, former Internal Revenue Service Chief Counsel^[5]
• Capricia Marshall, former Chief of Protocol of the United States
• Nicole Nason, former administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Kevin G. Nealer, member of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
• John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction^[6]
• Charles Z. Wick, director of the United States Information Agency (existed from 1953 to 1999) under President Ronald Reagan

Judicial

• Susan G. Braden, chief judge, United States Court of Federal Claims^[7]
• Rebecca Dallet, justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court^[8]
• Emerich B. Freed, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio^[9]
• Ben Charles Green, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio^[10]
• Lynn B. Griffith, justice, Supreme Court of Ohio (1962–1964)^[11]
• Thomas J. Herbert, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, Attorney General of Ohio, former Governor of Ohio, and
• Jeffrey Hjelm, justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court^[12]
• Alvin Krenzler, judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio^[13]
• Blanche Krupansky, justice, Supreme Court of Ohio (1981–1983)^[14]
• Robert B. Krupansky, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[15]
• John James McConnell Jr., judge for the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island^[16]
• Kathleen M. O'Malley, circuit judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit^[17]
• Edmund A. Sargus Jr., judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio^[18]
• Leslie Crocker Snyder, judge, New York State Supreme Court (New York's trial court), and former candidate for Manhattan District Attorney^{[19] [20]}
• Joseph F. Spaniol Jr., 18th Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States^[21]
• Don John Young, former judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

Law

Attorney

• Nan Aron, public interest lawyer, civil rights advocate, and president of the Alliance for Justice
• Fred Gray, attorney to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks^[22]
• Mike Lebowitz, attorney, a legal pioneer in military expression, military law^[23]
• Jeff Herman, church sex abuse attorney, Catholic Church sexual abuse cases
• C.B. King, civil rights attorney in the South during the civil rights movement^[24]
• Andrew Zashin, American Family Law attorney, legal writer and commentator. Adjunct Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Attorney general

• Marc Dann, former Attorney General of Ohio
• Lee Fisher, former Attorney General of Ohio, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and dean of Cleveland–Marshall College of Law as of 2016
• Thomas J. Herbert, Attorney General of Ohio, former Governor of Ohio, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
• Jim Petro, former Attorney General of Ohio

District attorney

• Lee Fisher, former Attorney General of Ohio, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, and dean of Cleveland–Marshall College of Law as of 2016
• Ray Gricar, former District Attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania

Politics

• Ann Womer Benjamin, director of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education, former director of the Ohio Department of Insurance^[25]
• Justin Bibb, 58th and current Mayor of Cleveland
• Oliver P. Bolton, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Thomas A. Burke, former U.S. Senator and Mayor of Cleveland
• Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Secretary-General, African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States
  • William Daroff, chief lobbyist for Jewish Federations of North America and appointee to US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad Lincoln Díaz-Balart, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Lee Fisher, former Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, former Attorney General of Ohio, and dean of Cleveland–Marshall College of Law as of 2016
• Herman Goldner, mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, 1961–1967, 1971–1973^[26]
• Tim Grendell, Ohio State Senator
• Thomas J. Herbert, former Governor of Ohio, Attorney General of Ohio, and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio
• Martin Hoke, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Ron Klein, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Claire Levy, executive director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy and former member of the Colorado House of Representatives
• Josh Mandel, Ohio State Treasurer
• Roscoe C. McCulloch, former U.S. Senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Charles W. Stage, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives
• Michael Turner, member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Charles Vanik, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
• Wayne Wheeler, prominent prohibition leader and lobbyist/general counsel to the Anti-Saloon League
• Stephen M. Young, former U.S. Senator^[27]
• François-Philippe Champagne, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs^[28]

Sports

• William J. Laub, mayor of Akron, Ohio, professional football player, professional football coach

Notes and References

1. Web site: UW Law Faculty Profile for Dean Davis . July 6, 2019 . University of Wisconsin.
2. Web site: February 22, 2008 . Amos N. Guiora . https://web.archive.org/web/20080222122257/http://www.law.utah.edu/profiles/default.asp?PersonID=6581 . February 22, 2008 . SJ Quinney College of Law.
3. Web site: October 1, 2014 . President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts . whitehouse.gov.
4. Web site: Hawkins . B. Denise . 2019-08-08 . New Bennett President Suzanne Walsh Optimistic Amid Crisis . 2023-11-25 . Diverse: Issues In Higher Education . en-us.
5. Web site: Donald L. Korb . May 7, 2020 . www.sullcrom.com.
6. Web site: SIGAR Leadership . 2021-08-17 . www.sigar.mil.
7. Joint Committee on Printing, Official Congressional Directory, 2007-2008: 110th Congress, p. 860.
8. News: Beck . Molly . March 25, 2018 . Get to know Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Rebecca Dallet and Michael Screnock . Wisconsin State Journal . April 3, 2018.
9. Book: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio History and Biography . The Historical Publishing Company . 1921 . Neff . William B . Cleveland . 399–400.
10. Web site: History of the Sixth Circuit: Ben Charles Green . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090512162117/http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/Courts/district%20court/OH/NDOH/judges/bcg-bio.html . May 12, 2009 . June 28, 2019 . U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
11. Book: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio History and Biography . The Historical Publishing Company . 1921 . Neff . William B . Cleveland . 425.
12. Web site: Cousins, Christopher . May 7, 2014 . LePage nominates Hjelm to Maine's high court, Stokes to Superior Court . July 19, 2016 . Bangor Daily News.
13. Web site: Krenzler, Alvin I. - Federal Judicial Center . June 29, 2019 . www.fjc.gov.
14. Web site: The Supreme Court of Ohio and The Ohio Judicial System - Blanche Ethel Krupansky . June 29, 2019 . Ohio Supreme Court.
15. Web site: Krupansky, Robert B. - Federal Judicial Center . June 29, 2019 . www.fjc.gov.
16. Web site: McConnell, John James Jr. – Federal Judicial Center . www.fjc.gov.
17. Web site: O'Malley, Kathleen McDonald - Federal Judicial Center . www.fjc.gov.
18. Web site: Gray, Kathy Lynn . 12 January 2015 . Sargus takes reins as new chief judge in federal court . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150122060836/http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/01/12/new-chief-judge-takes-reins-in-district.html . 22 January 2015 . 21 January 2015 . The Columbus Dispatch.
19. Web site: Eaton . Phoebe . May 16, 2005 . The Sixtysomething Upstart . New York.
20. News: Hanna . Julia . June 1, 2003 . Ruling from the Bench: Leslie Crocker Snyder . Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin . 3 November 2015.
21. Web site: Joseph F. Spaniol, Jr. . July 5, 2019 . American Law Institute.
22. Web site: Key . Barclay . 15 April 2008 . Fred Gray . 30 July 2017 . Encyclopedia of Alabama.
23. Stephen Koff, "Marines Muzzle Protester", Honolulu Star-Bulletin (June 1, 2007), Section C, p. 9.
24. Web site: C.B. King . June 26, 2019 . Georgia Encyclopedia.
25. Web site: Ann Womer Benjamin — The Ohio Statehouse . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170429134731/http://www.ohiostatehouse.org/museum/ladies-gallery/female-legislators/ann-womer-benjamin . April 29, 2017 . June 27, 2019 . www.ohiostatehouse.org.
26. Web site: Andrew Meacham, "Mayor packed ideas, pipe tobacco in rich public life," September 15, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140605052841/http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/mayor-packed-ideas-pipe-tobacco-in-rich-public-life/1121765 . June 5, 2014 . June 1, 2014 . Tampa Bay Times.
27. http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi2293.xml;chunk.id=bioghist_1;brand=default Biography of Stephen M. Young
28. Web site: CWRU Law Alumnus Appointed Canada's New Minister of Foreign Affairs School of Law Case Western Reserve University . 2019-11-20 . case.edu.