| Name | Class | Notability | References |
|---|
| Coleman W. Avery | 1905 | Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice | |
| 1967 | Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court | |
| 1977 | United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio district judge | |
| 1968 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio chief judge | |
| William Bertelsman | 1961 | United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky chief judge and senior Judge | |
| 1910 | Ohio Supreme Court and president of Ohio State University | |
| Morris Lyon Buchwalter | 1870 | Judge of the common-pleas court of the first judicial district of Ohio | |
| Robert Burch | | Superior Court of San Diego judge and head football coach at the University of Cincinnati | |
| George H. Clark | 1894 | Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| Robert H. Day | 1891 | Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| 1982 | Ohio Supreme Court associate justice and Ohio State Treasurer | |
| Timothy Sylvester Hogan | 1931 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio chief judge | |
| Howard Clark Hollister | 1880 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio judge | |
| 1951 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio senior judge | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt | 1867 | Ohio Senate, Judge Advocate General Ohio, and a judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati | |
| Tracie Hunter | | Judge in Hamilton County, Ohio and pastor | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt | 1867 | Judge Advocate General Ohio, judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati, and Ohio Senate | |
| James G. Johnson | 1880 | Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and mayor of Springfield, Ohio | |
| 1991 | Supreme Court of Ohio Justice | |
| 1935 | Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio | |
| Laura Liu | 1991 | Illinois Appellate Court judge | |
| Nicholas Longworth II | | Ohio Supreme Court Justice | |
| Robert O. Lukowsky | | Kentucky Supreme Court justice | |
| 1974 | Justice, Michigan Supreme Court | [1] |
| 1892 | Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and Presiding Judge of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
| |
| Isaac Jack Martin | 1932 | US Court of Customs and Patent Appeals associate judge | |
| James Morris | | North Dakota Supreme Court justice and North Dakota Attorney General | |
| 1886 | and Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
| |
| Joseph W. O'Hara | 1884 | Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| Selwyn N. Owen | 1862 | Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| Mark P. Painter | 1973 | Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals | |
| 1882 | Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court | [2] |
| John Weld Peck | 1898 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio judge | |
| John Weld Peck II | 1938 | US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit senior judge | |
| David Stewart Porter | 1934 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio chief judge | |
| 1943 | Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court | |
| 1973 | United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio district judge | |
| Samuel Murray Rosenstein | 1931 | Senior Judge of the US Court of International Trade and US Customs Court | |
| Carl Bernard Rubin | 1944 | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio chief judge | |
| George Read Sage | Non-degreed | US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio judge | |
| Louis J. Schneider Jr. | 1949 | Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio House of Representatives | |
| 1857 | Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court fr | [3] [4] |
| Richard Elihu Sloan | 1882 | Arizona Territorial Supreme Court associate justice,US District Court for the District of Arizona judge, and Governor of Arizona Territory, | |
| Will P. Stephenson | 1895 | Supreme Court of Ohio justice | |
| James Garfield Stewart | 1905 | U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice and Ohio Supreme Court justice | |
| Frederick L. Taft | 1891 | Ohio Courts of Common Pleas judge | |
| William Howard Taft | 1880 | Chief Justice of the United States and 27th President of the United States | |
| 1881 | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court | |
| John Wesley Warrington | 1869 | US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit senior judge | |
| Paul Charles Weick | 1920 | United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit chief judge | |
| 1879 | Indiana Supreme Court justice | |
| Donald C. Wintersheimer | 1960 | Kentucky Supreme Court justice | |
| Daniel Thew Wright | 1887 | Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Associate Justice | |
| 1997 | Ohio First District Court of Appeals judge | [5] | |
| Name | Class | Notability | References |
|---|
| Alfred G. Allen | 1890 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1930 | United States Foreign Service officer | |
| James Hartley Beal | 1886 | Ohio House of Representatives, acting president of Scio College, and professor of pharmacy at Pittsburg College of Pharmacy, | |
| Albert S. Berry | 1858 | U.S. House of Representatives and Kentucky Senate | |
| 1857 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Ted Berry | 1931 | First African-American mayor of Cincinnati and NAACP attorney | |
| Stanley E. Bowdle | 1889 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| John L. Bretz | 1880 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Jacob H. Bromwell | 1870 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Jim Butler | | Member and speaker pro tempore of the Ohio House of Representatives | |
| John A. Caldwell | 1876 | | |
| Non-degreed | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | [6] |
| Willis Carto | Non-degreed | American far-right political activist | |
| 1837 | U.S. House of Representatives and vice presidential candidate | |
| John C. Chaney | 1882 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Neil Chatterjee | | Chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | |
| 1859 | Secretary of the District of Columbia, U.S. congressman, first presiding justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal | |
| 1948 | U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati | |
| 1875 | U.S. House of Representatives and speaker of the House | |
| Alfred M. Cohen | 1880 | Ohio Senate | |
| Robert Crosser | 1901 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| William Cumback | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1886 | 30th vice president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize recipient | |
| Thomas C. Dawson | | US ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Chile, and Panama | |
| 1844 | Governor of the Kansas Territory, secretary of state of California,and namesake of Denver, Colorado | |
| 1982 | Ohio State Treasurer and Ohio Supreme Court associate justice | |
| Henry L. Dickey | 1859 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Robert E. Doan | 1857 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Ozro J. Dodds | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Sidney Edgerton | 1845 | 1st territorial governor of Montana, chief justice of theIdaho Territorial Supreme Court, U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Henry I. Emerson | 1893 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| William H. Enochs | 1866 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1880 | | |
| Gustavus A. Finkelnburg | 1859 | U.S. House of Representatives and US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri judge | |
| Joseph Fischer | | Kentucky House of Representatives | |
| 1983 | | |
| Robert E. Freer | 1917 | Chair of the Federal Trade Commission | |
| Martin K. Gantz | 1883 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Warren Gard | 1894 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1947 | | |
| Thomas J. Godfrey | 1857 | Ohio Senate | |
| Herman P. Goebel | 1872 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| J. Henry Goeke | 1891 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Lewis B. Gunckel | 1851 | U.S. House of Representatives and Ohio Senate | |
| 1870 | U.S. Attorney General and Governor of Ohio | |
| Richard A. Harrison | 1846 | U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio House of Representatives, and Ohio Senate | |
| Victor Heintz | 1899 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| William E. Hess | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1856 | | |
| Greg J. Holbrock | 1932 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Charles John Howard | | | |
| 1849, attended | Governor of the Wyoming Territory | |
| 1840 | Wisconsin State Assembly | |
| 1903 | Mayor of Cincinnati | |
| Samuel Furman Hunt | 1867 | Ohio Senate, judge advocate general Ohio, and a judge of the Superior Court of Cincinnati | |
| Stephanie J. Jones | | Chief opportunities officer, US Federal Government | |
| 1892 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Charles Cyrus Kearns | 1894 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1950 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Henry W. King | 1839 | Ohio Secretary of State | |
| Walter Lanfersiek | | Attorney and executive secretary of the Socialist Party of America | |
| William Lawrence | 1840 | U.S. House of Representatives and first comptroller of the Treasury | |
| David Linton | 1840 | Ohio Senate and a founder of Beta Theta Pi | |
| 1894 | U.S. House of Representatives and speaker of the House | |
| David P. Lowe | 1851 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1976 | | |
| Thomas Henry McConica | 1883 | House of Commons of Canada | |
| 1902 | | |
| Grant E. Mouser | 1890 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Paula Boggs Muething | 2003 | Cincinnati's first Asian-American city manager | |
| 1886 | | |
| Carl L. Nippert | | Lieutenant governor of Ohio and Ohio Senate | |
| 1858 | | |
| William Parham | | | |
| 1872 | | |
| William G. Pickrel | 1912 | Lieutenant governor of Ohio | |
| Connie Pillich | | Ohio House of Representatives | |
| Lois Pines | 1963 | Massachusetts Senate | |
| 1886 | | |
| Christian L. Poorman | 1855 | Ohio secretary of state and Ohio House of Representatives. | |
| Todd Portune | 1983 | Cincinnati City Council and Hamilton County Commissioner | |
| Walter E. Powell | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Aftab Pureva | 2008 | Mayor of Cincinnati | |
| Homer A. Ramey | Non-degreed | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Carl West Rich | 1924 | U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati | |
| James Wallace Robinson | 1851 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1911 | | |
| Milton Sayler | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Louis J. Schneider Jr. | 1949 | Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio House of Representatives | |
| Bill Seitz | 1978 | Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate | |
| Philemon Simpson | 1843 | Wisconsin State Assembly and Wisconsin State Senate | |
| Yvette Simpson | | Cincinnati City Council and former chief executive of Democracy for America | |
| David L. Sleeper | 1880 | Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives | |
| Richard Elihu Sloan | 1882 | Governor of Arizona Territory, Arizona Territorial Supreme Court associate justice, and US District Court for the District of Arizona judge | |
| John S. Snook | 1887 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Jacob B. Snyder | 1892 | Ohio House of Representatives | |
| William R. Stewart | 1886 | Ohio House of Representatives | |
| 1869 | U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. minister or ambassador to Belgium, Spain, and Austria | |
| Charles L. Swain | | Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives | |
| 1976 | | |
| Charles Tatgenhorst Jr. | 1910 | U.S. House of Representatives and Ohio First District Court of Appeals judge | |
| Joseph D. Taylor | 1860 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Samuel McIntire Taylor | 1884 | Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio secretary of state, and U.S. consul to Glasgow, Scotland; Calao, Peru; and Birmingham, England | |
| Claudia Tenney | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| William E. Tou Velle | 1889 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1866 | | |
| H. Clay Van Voorhis | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| John L. Vance | 1861 | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| 1978 | | |
| Leroy Welsh | 1871 | Ohio State Treasurer | |
| Charles Preston Wickham | | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| | Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and founder of Sigma Sigma | |
| Thomas L. Young | 1865 | Governor of Ohio and U.S. House of Representatives | | |
