List of Order of the Coif members explained

The Order of the Coif is an honor society for law school graduates. It was founded at the University of Illinois College of Law in 1902. Following are some of its notable members.

Academia

Presidents and chancellors

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Sandy D'Alemberte	University of Florida Levin College of Law	president of Florida State University	^[1]
Pamela Gann	Duke University School of Law	president of Claremont McKenna College and dean of Duke University School of Law	^[2]
Randall W. Hanna	Florida State University College of Law	chief executive officer and dean of Florida State University Panama City	^[3]
Robert J. Harris	Yale Law School	chancellor of the Florida College System and mayor of the city of Ann Arbor	^[4]
Ruth Austin Knox	University of Georgia School of Law	president of Wesleyan College	^[5]
Larry Kramer	University of Chicago Law School	president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and dean emeritus of Stanford Law School	^[6]
Gene Nichol	University of Texas School of Law	president of the College of William & Mary	^[7]
Harvey Perlman	University of Nebraska College of Law	chancellor of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln	^[8]
L. Timothy Perrin	Texas Tech University School of Law	president of Lubbock Christian University and senior vice president of Pepperdine University
Kent Syverud		chancellor and president of Syracuse University
William D. Underwood	University of Illinois College of Law	president of Mercer University	^[9]

Deans

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Henry Moore Bates	Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law	dean of the University of Michigan Law School for 29 years
George F. Curtis		founding dean of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law.	^[10]
Jefferson B. Fordham	Yale Law School	dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	^[11]
Leon Green	University of Texas School of Law	dean of Northwestern University School of Law	^[12]
Lisa A. Kloppenberg	USC Gould School of Law	provost and interim president of Santa Clara University and dean of the Santa Clara University School of Law	^[13]
Jane B. Korn	University of Colorado Law School	dean of the Gonzaga University School of Law
Larry Kramer	University of Chicago Law School	dean of Stanford Law School and president of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation	^[14]
David F. Levi	Stanford Law School	dean of the Duke University School of Law and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California	^[15]
Troy A. McKenzie	New York University School of Law	dean and professor of law at the New York University School of Law	^[16]
Justin Miller		dean of the USC Gould School of Law and Duke University School of Law andU.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia	^[17]
Robert K. Rasmussen	University of Chicago Law School	dean and chair at the USC Gould School of Law	^[18]
Lauren Robel	Indiana University Maurer School of Law	dean of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law	^[19]
Don W. Sears	Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	dean and professor emeritus of law at the University of Colorado Law School	^[20]
Paul L. Selby	Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	dean and a professor emeritus at the West Virginia University College of Law
Symeon C. Symeonides	Harvard Law School	Alex L. Parks Distinguished professor of law and dean emeritus at Willamette University College of Law	^[21]

Professors

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Thomas E. Baker		professor of law and founding member of the Florida International University College of Law
Bernard Bell		professor of law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Jack Bogdanski		professor at the Lewis & Clark Law School
Carolyn Bratt		emeritus law professor at the University of Kentucky
James Cavalliaro		professor at Wesleyan University and Yale Law School and the co-founder and executive director of the University Network for Human Rights
Myanna Dellinger		professor of Law at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law.
John Hart Ely		professor at Yale Law School
Heidi Li Feldman		professor at Georgetown University Law Center
		professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law
Robert L. Fischman
Jeffrey L. Fisher		associate professor at Stanford Law School,.co-director of the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
Michael R. Fontham		adjunct professor of law at the Tulane University Law School and the Louisiana State University Schools of Law
John Paul Frank		professor at Yale Law School and Indiana University, Bloomington School of Law
Richard D. Freer		professor of law at Emory University School of Law
William Willard Gibson Jr.		professor at the University of Texas School of Law
Robert A. Gorman		professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Roger Groot		professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law
Maura R. Grossman		research professor and director of Women in Computer Science at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo
Gerald Gunther		professor at Stanford Law School
Richard L. Hasen		professor at Loyola Law School
Gail Heriot		professor at the University of San Diego School of Law
Joseph L. Hoffmann		scholar of criminal procedure and the death penalty, and professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law
William H. J. Hubbard		professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
M. Todd Henderson		professor at the University of Chicago Law School
Alston Johnson		professor at the Louisiana State University Law Center
Leo Katz		professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Mark Lemley		professor at Stanford Law School and director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science & Technology
A. Leo Levin		professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
Wesley Liebeler		professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law and Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation
Jerry Markham		professor at the Florida International University College of Law
Jerry L. Mashaw		Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University
Andrew McClurg		professor at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law,
Celestine McConville		professor at the Chapman University School of Law
William Robert Ming		professor at University of Chicago Law School and Howard University School of Law
Ralph James Mooney		professor emeritus at the University of Oregon School of Law.
Edward R. Morrison		professor at Columbia Law School
Donna M. Nagy		professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Christopher Peterson		professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Ronald J. Rychlak		professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law
		senior fellow at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University
Richard H. Stern		lecturer at George Washington University Law School
Michael Tigar		emeritus professor of the Duke Law School, American University, and Washington College of Law
David B. Wilkins		professor and faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School
William J. Winslade		professor of the philosophy of medicine at the Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch and distinguished visiting professor at the University of Houston Law Center,

Attorney General

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Herbert Brownell Jr.	Yale Law School	United States Attorney General and New York State Assembly	^[22]
Robert Young Button	University of Virginia School of Law	Attorney General of Virginia and Virginia Senate	^[23]
Clarence A. Davis		Nebraska Attorney General
Toby J. Heytens	University of Virginia School of Law	Attorney General of Virginia and U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Gordon J. MacDonald	Cornell Law School	Attorney General of New Hampshire and 37th Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court	^[24]
Gregory A, Phillips	University of Wyoming College of Law	Wyoming Attorney General and U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit	^[25]
William Bradford Reynolds		U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division	^[26]
	Cornell Law School	United States Attorney General and United States Secretary of State	^[27]
Vernon W. Thomson	University of Wisconsin Law School	Attorney General of Wisconsin, Governor of Wisconsin, and United States House of Representatives
Phil Weiser	New York University School of Law	Attorney General of Colorado

Attorney, government

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
A. Lee Bentley III	University of Virginia School of Law	U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida	^[28]
Robert K. Hur	Stanford Law School	U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland and Special Counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice	^[29]
Michelle M. Pettit	Vanderbilt University Law School	Assistant U.S. Attorney from California	^[30]
Mimi Rocah	New York University Law School	district attorney for Westchester County, New York and legal analyst at NBC News and MSNB	^[31]
Hilbert Philip Zarky	University of Wisconsin Law School	tax attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice

Attorney, private practice

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Douglas Arant		attorney
Jordan Beck	University of Nebraska College of Law	attorney at Husch Blackwell LLP
Robert L. Bridges		attorney who specialized in construction and corporate law
Jacob Burns		attorney specializing in corporate law and estates and trusts
Evan Chesler		attorney and a partner of Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Tom Cryer		attorney
William E. Grauer		partner in the law firm of Cooley LLP chair of the Standing Committee on Discipline for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
Mona Salyer Lambird		attorney and first woman president of the Oklahoma Bar Association
Gerald Ratner		attorney
Russell M. Robinson II,		attorney
Evan L. Schwab		attorney and law clerk to justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court of the U.S.
Hannah Clayson Smith		attorney with the firm Schaerr Jaffe and senior fellow at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University
Stuart A. Summit		attorney
Larry E. Temple		attorney who served as the White House Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson
Herbert Wachtell		,co-founder of the law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Michael Wallace		attorney
Christopher Wolf		attorney known for his career in Internet and privacy law
Esther Wunnicke		attorney known as the "Land Lady" of Alaska for her defense of human rights and land rights
Norma Zarky		attorney active in the fight for abortion rights and other civil rights.

Business

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Louis W. Dawson	Cornell University School of Law,	president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Mathias J. DeVito	University of Maryland School of Law	president and chief executive officer of The Rouse Company	^[32]
Bruce Downey	Ohio State University Moritz College of Law	chairman and chief executive officer of Barr Pharmaceuticals	^[33]
John B. Frank	University of Michigan Law School	vice chairman of Oaktree Capital Management	^[34]
Bruce Friedrich	Georgetown University Law Center	co-founder and president of The Good Food Institute	^[35]
Bruce Karsh	University of Virginia School of Law	chairman and chief executive officer of Oaktree Capital Management	^[36]
Happy R. Perkins	Duke Law School of Law	vice-president of the General Electric Company and GE Energy
Andrew M. Rosenfield	University of Chicago Law School	president of Guggenheim Partners	^[37]
John Rowe		chairman and chief executive officer of the energy corporation Exelon Corporation	^[38]
Travis Tygart	Southern Methodist University School of Law	chief executive officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency	^[39]

Entertainment

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Alafair Burke	Stanford Law School	crime novelist and professor of law at Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law	^[40]
Savannah Guthrie	Georgetown University Law Center	broadcast journalist and main co-anchor of the NBC News morning show Today	^[41]
Mimi Rocah	New York University Law School	legal analyst at NBC News and MSNB and district attorney for Westchester County, New York
Bruce Spizer	Tulane University Law School	expert and author on the Beatles

Government

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
		chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission	^[42]
Sean J. Cooksey	University of Chicago Law School	vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission	^[43]
E. William Henry	Vanderbilt University Law School	chair of the Federal Trade Commission
Robert E. Freer	University of Cincinnati College of Law	chair of the Federal Trade Commission
Wesley Liebeler	University of Chicago Law School	director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning and Evaluation and professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law and Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University	^[44]
J. Warren Madden	University of Chicago Law School	first chairman of the National Labor Relations Board and judge of the United States Court of Claims	^[45]
Deborah Platt Majoras		chairman of the Federal Trade Commission	^[46]
Michael Mundaca	UC Berkeley School of Law	assistant secretary for tax policy in the U.S. Department of the Treasury	^[47]
Neal Sher	New York University School of Law
William H. Webster	Washington University School of Law	director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, director of Central Intelligence, and U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri	^[48]

Judiciary

U.S. Supreme Court

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
		Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Sandra Day O'Connor	Stanford Law School	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

State Supeme Court

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
David L. Baker		justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Cameron McVicar Batjer		justice on the Supreme Court of Nevada
Jane Bland		associate justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
		justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
Edward F. Carter		judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court
James H. Carter		justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
William B. Cassel		judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court
Andrew D. Christie		justice of the Delaware Supreme Court
James L. Dennis		associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Pat DeWine		justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
John W. Eggleston		chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and member of the Virginia Senate
John Cannon Few		justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
John F. Fontron		justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
Greg G. Guidry		associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court and U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Diana Hagen		justice on the Utah Supreme Court
E. Summers Hardy		associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
Nathan Heffernan		chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Matthew W. Hill		chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court
		justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Lawrence W. I'Anson		chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Rhoda Valentine Lewis		justice on the Supreme Court of Hawaii
Wiley Manuel		associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
David N. May		associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Christopher McDonald		associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Gordon J. MacDonald	Cornell Law School	Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and Attorney General of New Hampshire
Derek R. Molter		justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
Bill Montgomery		justice of the Arizona Supreme Court
Dana Oxley		associate justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Barbara Pariente		chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Jill Pohlman		justice of the Utah Supreme Court
Robert R. Prentis		chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Frank Richman		justice of the Indiana Supreme Court
John C. Roach		justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court
Harold See		associate justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
Susie Sharp		first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
Robert G. Simmons	University of Nebraska College of Law	chief justice of Nebraska Supreme Court and member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Felix L. Sparks		associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and brigadier general in the Colorado Army National Guard
Harry A. Spencer		judge of the Nebraska Supreme Court
Craig Stowers		chief justice of the Alaska Supreme Court
David Stras		associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Hardy Summers		justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court
K.J. Wall		justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
Martha Lee Wlaters		chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
Thomas D. Waterman		justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
David Wiggins		justice of the Iowa Supreme Court
Willis Whichard		associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, North Carolina Senate, and North Carolina House of Representatives

U.S. Circuit Court

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Stephen H. Anderson		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Robert E. Bacharach		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Elizabeth L. Branch		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Daniel Bress		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
William Canby		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Bennett Champ Clark	George Washington University Law School	U.S. circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. Senator
Raymond C. Clevenger		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
W. Eugene Davis		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
James L. Dennis		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and Louisiana House of Representatives
Frank Easterbrook		judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Harry T. Edwards		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Allison H. Eid		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
Jerome Farris		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Rufus Edward Foster
Michelle Friedland		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
L. Steven Grasz		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Toby J. Heytens	University of Virginia School of Law	Attorney General of Virginia and U.S. circuit judge of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
James C. Ho	University of Chicago Law School,	U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Solicitor General of Texas	^[49]
Frank M. Hull		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Sandra Segal Ikuta		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Harvey M. Johnsen	University of Nebraska College of Law	U.S. circuit judge of the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Carolyn B. McHugh		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Monroe G. McKay		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Theodore McKee		senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Steven Menashi		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Eric D. Miller		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Justin Miller		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and dean of Dean at the USC Gould School of Law and Duke University School of Law
Eric E. Murphy	University of Chicago Law School	U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuitand Solicitor General of Ohio	^[50]
John Nalbandian		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ryan D. Nelson		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
	University of North Carolina School of Law	U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Gregory A, Phillips	University of Wyoming College of Law	U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuitand Wyoming Attorney General
James Dickson Phillips Jr.		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Beth Robinson		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Michael Y. Scudder		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Sri Srinivasan		chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and principal deputy Solicitor General of the U.S.	^[51]
David Stras		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
George Thomas Washington	Yale Law School	U.S circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Acting Solicitor General of the United States
Paul J. Watford		U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Diane Wood		senior circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. District Court

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Barry Ashe		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Patricia D. Barksdale		U.S. magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Stanley Blumenfeld		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Nancy E. Brasel		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
Michael Lawrence Brown		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
James O. Browning		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
Thomas T. Cullen		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
William L. Campbell Jr.		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee
Valerie E. Caproni		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Vince Chhabria		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
William M. Conley		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Finis E. Cowan		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Toby Crouse		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
Theodore Roosevelt Dalton		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
John W. deGravelles		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
Mary K. Dimke		U.S. district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
Daniel D. Domenico		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Martin Leach-Cross Feldman		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Sharon L. Gleason		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska
Ben Charles Green		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Greg G. Guidry		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
Madeline Haikala		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
Marcia Morales Howard		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
David C. Joseph		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida
Steve Kim		U.S. magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Dale A. Kimball		senior U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
Tom Kleeh		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
Rachel Kovner		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Roberto Lange		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota
David F. Levi		Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and Dean of the Duke University School of Law
		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Amit Mehta	University of Virginia School of Law	U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia andjudge on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
Howard C. Nielson Jr.		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
Carl J. Nichols		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Maryellen Noreika		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
Martha M. Pacold		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
James D. Peterson		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
Linda R. Reade		senior U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Stephanie M. Rose		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa
Jeremy B. Rosen		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Rebecca Beach Smith		senior U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Andrew H. Stone		judge in the Third Judicial District Court of the State of Utah
Leonard T. Strand		Chief U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Robert R. Summerhays		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Indira Talwani		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Holly Teeter		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas
Jon S. Tigar		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
John J. Tuchi		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
James Clinton Turk		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia and Virginia Senate
William H. Webster		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and director of Central Intelligence,
T. Kent Wetherell II		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida
Allen Winsor		U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Court of Federal Claims

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
	Stanford Law School	senior judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims	^[52]
J. Warren Madden	University of Chicago Law School
James F. Merow	George Washington University Law School	senior judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims	^[53]
Matthew H. Solomson	University of Maryland School of Law	judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.	^[54]
Harry E. Wood		judge of the U.S. Court of Claims and on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims

U.S. Tax Court

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Renato Beghe	University of Chicago Law School	judge of the U.S. Tax Court	^[55]
Joseph Robert Goeke	University of Kentucky, College of Law	senior judge of the U.S. Tax Court
David Gustafson	Duke University School of Law	senior judge of the U.S. Tax Court
Lapsley W. Hamblen Jr.	University of Virginia School of Law	judge of the U.S. Tax Court	^[56]
Austin Hoyt	University of Virginia School of Law	judge of the U.S. Tax Court
Alina I. Marshall	University of Pennsylvania Law School	judge of the U.S. Tax Court
L. Paige Marvel	University of Maryland School of Law	senior judge of the U.S. Tax Court
John Pajak	Syracuse University College of Law i	special trial judge of the U.S. Tax Court.
Cary Douglas Pugh	University of Virginia School of Law	judge of the U.S. Tax Court
Michael B. Thornton	Duke University School of Law	senior judge of the U.S. Tax Court
Norman O. Tietjens		judge of the U.S. Tax Court
Emin Toro		judge of the U.S. Tax Court

Other federal courts

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Isaac Jack Martin	University of Cincinnati College of Law	associate judge of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Patrick J. McNulty	University of Minnesota Law School	judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Minnesota
Amit Mehta	University of Virginia School of Law	judge on the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.and U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Suzanne Mitchell	George Washington University Law School	U.S. magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma	^[57]
Neomi Rao	University of Chicago Law School	federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit	^[58]
Jonathan R. Steinberg	University of Pennsylvania Law School	judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims	^[59]

Other state courts

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Kristine Cecava	University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law	Cheyenne County, Nebraska district judge
Michael W. Hoover	University of Wisconsin Law School	deputy chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals District III	^[60]
Lisa Neubauer	University of Chicago Law School	chief judge of the e Wisconsin Court of Appeals District III	^[61]
William A. Reppy	University of Southern California Law School	associate justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District	^[62]
Vijay Shanker	University of Virginia School of Law	judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals	^[63]
	Loyola Law School	associate justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Two	^[64]
	West Virginia University College of Law	justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Virginia Senate, and West Virginia House of Delegates	^[65]

Military

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Henry C. Bruton	George Washington University Law School	United States Navy rear admiral	^[66]
Alfred Naifeh	University of Michigan Law School	United States Navy World War II hero
Felix L. Sparks	University of Colorado Law School, Honorary	Colorado Army National Guard brigadier general and associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court	^[67]

Politics

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
E. Almer Ames Jr.		Virginia Senate
Lucius D. Battle	Stanford Law School	U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
Herbert Brownell Jr.	Yale Law School	United States Attorney General and New York State Assembly
Peter S. Brunstetter	University of Virginia School of Law	North Carolina Senate	^[68]
M. Caldwell Butler	University of Virginia School of Law	United States House of Representatives and Virginia House of Delegates
Robert Young Button	University of Virginia School of Law	Virginia Senate and Attorney General of Virginia
Virgil Chapman	University of Kentucky College of Law	United States Senator and United States House of Representatives	^[69]
Warren Christopher	Stanford Law School	United States Secretary of State	^[70]
Bennett Champ Clark	George Washington University Law School	United States Senate and U.S. circuit judge of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Felix Cole	George Washington University Law School.	U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, U.S. Minister to Ethiopia, and U.S. Consul General in Warsaw
James L. Connaughton	Northwestern University School of Law	George W. Bush administration environmental adviser and chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality	^[71]
Tom Davis	University of Maryland School of Law	South Carolina Senate	^[72]
Jennifer Decker	University of Kentucky College of Law	Kentucky House of Representatives	^[73]
James L. Dennis	University of Virginia School of Law	Louisiana House of Representatives, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit	^[74]
John Levering Early		Florida House of Representatives and mayor of Sarasota, Florida
John W. Eggleston	Washington and Lee University School of Law	Virginia Senate and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia	^[75]
Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn	Yale Law School	U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland	^[76]
Harrison J. Goldin	Yale Law School		^[77]
Carte Goodwin	Emory University Law School	United States Senator	^[78]
Josh Hsu	Georgetown University Law Center	political advisor, special assistant to the president, and counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris	^[79]
Mark Hutchison	Brigham Young University Law School	Lieutenant Governor of Nevada	^[80]
Tim Johnson		United States House of Representatives	^[81]
Charles R. Jonas	University of North Carolina School of Law	United States House of Representatives
Russell B. Long		United States Senate
Covey T. Oliver	University of Texas School of Law	U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
Wyc Orr	University of Tennessee College of Law	Georgia House of Representatives	^[82]
Watkins Overton	University of Chicago Law School	Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee	^[83]
David Pressman	New York University School of Law	U.S. Ambassador to Hungary	^[84]
	Cornell Law School	United States Secretary of State and United States Attorney General
Jack Rust	University of Virginia School of Law	Virginia House of Delegates	^[85]
Nathan Sales	Duke University School of Law	Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism andActing Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights	^[86]
Bill Seitz	University of Cincinnati College of Law	Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate	^[87]
	University of Nebraska College of Law	United States House of Representatives and chief justice the Nebraska Supreme Court
Willis Smith		United States Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives
Ted Sorensen	University of Nebraska College of Law	speechwriter and adivsor for President John F. Kennedy
William Spong Jr.	University of Virginia School of Law	United States Senator, Virginia Sentate, and Virginia House of Delegates	^[88]
Vernon W. Thomson	University of Wisconsin Law School	Governor of Wisconsin, United States House of Representatives, and Attorney General of Wisconsin
James Clinton Turk		Virginia Senate and U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Dan Walker	Northwestern University School of Law	Governor of Illinois
Benson K. Whitney	University of Minnesota Law School	U.S. Ambassador to Norway	^[89]
Willis Whichard		North Carolina Senate, North Carolina House of Representatives, and associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court	^[90]
William R. Wooton	West Virginia University College of Law	West Virginia Senate, West Virginia House of Delegates, and justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals	^[91]

Religion

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
H. Verlan Andersen	Stanford Law School	general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Stacy F. Sauls	University of Virginia School of Law	Bishop of Lexington and chief operating officer of the Episcopal Church	^[92]

Solicitor general

Name	Chapter	Notability	References
Gregory G. Garre	George Washington University Law School	44th Solicitor General of the United States and partner in Latham & Watkins	^[93]
James C. Ho	University of Chicago Law School	Solicitor General of Texas and U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Maureen Mahoney	University of Chicago Law School	Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and appellate lawyer with Latham & Watkins	^[94]
Eric E. Murphy	University of Chicago Law School	Solicitor General of Ohio and U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Theodore Olson	UC Berkeley School of Law	42nd Solicitor General of the United States	^[95]
Philip Perlman	University of Maryland School of Law	Solicitor General of the United States and Secretary of State of Maryland
Sri Srinivasan
Ken Starr	Duke University School of Law	Solicitor General of the United States and independent counsel for the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
George Thomas Washington	Yale Law School

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