List of George Washington University Law School alumni explained

This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School located in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Notable alumni

Academia

• Ernest L. Wilkinson (1926), former President of Brigham Young University^[1]

Business

• Mark Britton (1992), founder and CEO of Avvo (now Martindale-Avvo), and former Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Expedia, Inc.
• Warren Brown (1998), founder of Cake Love and host of Sugar Rush on the Food Network^[2]
• Dan Glickman (1969), former Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, former United States Secretary of Agriculture, and former U.S. Congressman from Kansas
• Charles James (1979), former General Counsel of Chevron-Texaco, former Assistant Attorney General^[3]
• Michael W. Rice, Chairman and CEO of Utz Quality Foods
• D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Intel^[4]

Sports

• David Falk (1975), agent for Michael Jordan
• Ted Lerner (1950), owner of the Washington Nationals
• Larry MacPhail (1910), Hall of Fame baseball executive for Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees^[5]

Government and politics

U.S. Congress members

• E. Ross Adair, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1951–1971) and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (1971–1974)
• Garry E. Brown (1954), former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
• Gordon Canfield (1926), former U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
• Bennett Champ Clark, former United States Senator
• William Henry Coleman, former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
• John Blaisdell Corliss (1875), former United States Congressman
• Félix Córdova Dávila, former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from Puerto Rico
• Ewin L. Davis (1899), former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
• John James Duncan Jr. (1973), United States Congressman for the Second District of Tennessee
• John James Flynt Jr. (1940), United States Congressman from Georgia
• J. William Fulbright (1934), former United States Senator, creator of the Fulbright Fellowships
• Ralph A. Gamble (1911), former U.S. Congressman from New York
• Stephen Warfield Gambrill (1896), former United States Congressman
• Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
• Orval H. Hansen (1954) (LLM 1973), former U.S. Congressman from Idaho
• Daniel Inouye (1953), former United States Senator (D-HI)
• Frank Moss (1937), former United States Senator (D-UT)
• Francis G. Newlands (1869), congressman and drafter of the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaiʻi
• Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Governor of Puerto Rico and former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico
• Jim Ramstad (1973), congressman whose work led to ending discrimination against those suffering from mental health and addiction problems
• Harry Reid (1964), United States Senator, former Senate Minority Leader (D-NV)
• James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General
• Robert Wexler (1985), congressman (D-FL)
• Susan Wild, U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania
• Earle D. Willey, former U.S. Congressman from Delaware

Other federal officials

• William Barr (1977), former United States Attorney General
• David Bernhardt (1994), former United States Secretary of the Interior
• A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation
• Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Kellyanne Conway (1992), Political strategist and pollster, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Counselor to the President
• George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration
  • Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General Mary DeRosa (1984), former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration
• Allen Dulles (1926), longest serving (1953–61) director of the CIA
• John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
• W. Mark Felt (1940), former associate director of the FBI and Watergate scandal informant also known as "Deep Throat"
• Stanley Finch (1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
• Gregory G. Garre (1991), former Solicitor General of the United States
• L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
• Will A. Gunn, sworn in as the General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs on May 26, 2009
• Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980)
• Patricia Roberts Harris (1960), first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the Jimmy Carter administration
• John D. Holum, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under Bill Clinton^[6]
• J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• Edward F. Howrey (1927), chair of the Federal Trade Commission,^[7] later founded the law firm of Howrey LLP
• Leon Jaworski (1926), special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
• David M. Kennedy, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Bruce M. Lawlor, retired United States Army major general and former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security
• Wilma B. Liebman (1974), Chair, National Labor Relations Board
• Walter North, U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (2012–present)
• Eric O'Neill (2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
• Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
• Mary Schapiro (1980), Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission; first woman to chair the SEC
• John W. Snow (1967), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Russell Vought, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget
• James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
• James A. Wetmore (1896), acting Supervising Architect of the Office of the Supervising Architect

State and local government

• Rocky Anderson (1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City
• Edward Blackmon Jr. (1973), Mississippi House of Representatives
• James P. Coleman (1939), former Governor of Mississippi and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Lee E. Emerson, Governor of Vermont, 1951–1955
• Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
• John W. Hardwicke, Maryland delegate and lawyer^[8]
• Harry R. Hughes (1952), former governor of the state of Maryland
• Rod Johnston, former Wisconsin State Senator
• Alex Knopp (1981), former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
• Deanne Mazzochi, Illinois House of Representatives
• Edward S. Northrop (1937), Majority Leader of Maryland State Senate (1958–1961), Chair of the Finance Committee (1958), nominated by President Kennedy in 1961 for a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, elevated to Chief Judge and held that position until 1981
• Carmen Ortiz (1981), first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
• Arnold C. Otto, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
• Jeffrey Piccola (1973), Pennsylvania State Representative, 1977–1995, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1995–2012
• Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada

International

• Árpád Bogsch (1956), former director general (1973–1997) of the World Intellectual Property Organization
• Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
• Hsu Mo (1922), former International Court of Justice judge
• Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Karnataka
• Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran
• Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia
• Anja Seibert-Fohr (2000,2004), judge at the European Court of Human Rights^[9]

Judiciary

Federal

• Craig S. Atkins (1925), judge of the United States Tax Court^[10]
• James C. Cacheris (1960), judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• Darrin P. Gayles (1993), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Joyce Hens Green (1951), senior judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Harold H. Greene (1954), former judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over lawsuit which broke up AT&T's vertical monopoly
• Kelly Higashi, associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Sarah T. Hughes (1922), first female federal judge seated in Texas, and only woman to administer the oath of office to the President of the United States
• Edwin F. Hunter (1938), longest sitting U.S. District Court judge in the nation
• Daniel T. K. Hurley (1968), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Barbara Milano Keenan (1974), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• Carlos F. Lucero (1964), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
• Burnita Shelton Matthews (1920), first woman to serve as a US district judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Suzanne Mitchell, United States magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
• Sharon Prost (LLM 1984), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Randall Ray Rader (1978), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Kenneth Francis Ripple (1972), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• James Robertson (1965), judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
• William K. Sessions III (1972), chief judge U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission
• Scott W. Stucky (LLM 1983), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• Bolon B. Turner (LLM 1924), judge United States Tax Court^{[11] [12]}

State

• Joseph F. Baca (1964), Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court^[13]
• Albert T. Blackwell Jr., Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals^[14]
• Carmen E. Espinosa (1976), First Hispanic judge for the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court
• R. C. McDonough (1949), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court^[15]
• George B. Nelson (1902), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• Gregory K. Orme (1978), Judge Utah Court of Appeals
• Barbara Pariente (1973), current Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
• Leslie Perkins Snow (1891), Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court^{[16] [17]}
• Joshua Soule Zimmerman, West Virginia House Delegate

Lawyers

• Michael Avenatti (1999), lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 "hush" agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump
• Ian C. Ballon (1986), Internet lawyer and author of several law books, including a 4-volume legal treatise on e-commerce law
• Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist
• Charles Colson, leader in the Christian right movement, former Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, and jailed for conspiring during the Watergate scandal
• Denise Tourover Ezekiel (1924), lawyer who served in various executive positions for Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
• Roy Den Hollander, men's rights lawyer who became the main suspect in the fatal attack on Judge Esther Salas' family^[18]
• Francis La Flesche, first professional Native American (Omaha) anthropologist
• Prerna Lal, immigration attorney
• Belva Ann Lockwood (1872), first woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court
• Frank Neuhauser (1940), patent attorney and winner of the first National Spelling Bee in 1925^[19]
• Jonathan Schwartz, film producer, entertainment lawyer
• M. Gerald Schwartzbach (1969), California criminal defense attorney
• Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
• Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer

Media

• Margaret Carlson, journalist; columnist for Bloomberg News
• Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
• David Eisenhower (1976), author and grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
• Matt Medved, journalist; editor-in-chief of Spin

Military

• Earl E. Anderson, Ret. general, United States Marine Corps
• Richard A. Appelbaum, Ret. U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral
• Vaughn Ary, Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps^[20]
• Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Portus Baxter and Surgeon General of the United States Army
• Murdock A. Campbell (1919), United States Army major general and adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
• John Fugh (1960), former Judge Advocate General
• Wilfred A. Hearn, former Judge Advocate General^[21]
• James F. Lawrence Jr. (1953), first Marine lawyer to be promoted to brigadier general, Navy Cross recipient
• Sidney A. Wallace, retired United States Coast Guard rear admiral

Religion

• Charles Colson (1959), former White House Counsel, born-again Christian, and founder of Prison Fellowship
• Matthew Cowley (1925), former Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Brooks Hays (1922), United States Congressman (D-AR) and President of the Southern Baptist Convention

Notes and References

1. Web site: Honoring a Legacy of Excellence. GW Law. 22 July 2014.
2. Web site: Prominent Alumni by School: Law School. The George Washington University. 22 July 2014.
3. Web site: Morris Lecture on Feb. 19 will feature attorney Charles James. Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. 22 July 2014.
4. Web site: Bruce Sewell. Apple. 22 July 2014.
5. Book: McKelvey. G. Richard. The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office. 2000. McFarland & Company. Jefferson, North Carolina. 2. 9780786406395. 22 July 2014.
6. Web site: Biography at the University of Chicago . 2016-07-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303194917/http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/acda/aboutacd/holum.htm . 2016-03-03 . dead .
7. [U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce]
8. Web site: John W. Hardwicke . Maryland Manual On-Line . . 2009-12-29 . 2023-01-09.
9. Web site: Alumna Elected Judge of European Court of Human Rights. 2020-10-31. www.law.gwu.edu. en.
10. Official Congressional Directory (1961), p. 617.
11. Official Congressional Directory (1961), p. 615.
12. News: Bolon Turner, 90, Tax Court Judge, Dies. The Washington Post. November 25, 1987.
13. Judy Giannettino, "Hispanic Justice Honored", Albuquerque Journal (February 15, 1998), p. B1, B5.
14. "Schaefer Names Blackwell, 2 Others to Md. Judgeships", The Washington Post (June 27, 1987).
15. Web site: Biographies and Histories of Montana's Justices, Judges, and Courts, 1865-2020. State Law Library of Montana. 2020. 63.
16. "Judge Leslie P. Snow", The Portsmouth Herald (March 17, 1934), p. 4.
17. "Prominent New Hampshire Jurist Dies of Heart Attack", The Brattleboro Reformer (March 16, 1934), p. 8.
18. Web site: Who is Roy Den Hollander? Suspect in deadly attack at judge's N.J. home posted racist, sexist views online. Noah Cohen | NJ Advance Media for. NJ.com. July 21, 2020. nj.
19. News: Emma. Brown. Frank Neuhauser, winner of first national spelling bee, dies at 97 . . 2011-03-21 . 2011-04-03.
20. Web site: Major General Vaughn A. Ary . Headquarters, United States Marine Corps . 14 Oct 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130802055923/http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/sja/Leaders/tabid/9643/Article/71108/mgen-vaughn-a-ary.aspx . 2013-08-02 .
21. Admiral Hearn Named Navy TJAG. Judge Advocate Journal. 1964. 37. 35. The Judge Advocate General Corps. 18 May 2018 .