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This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School located in
Washington, D.C. , U.S.
Class of 1891
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
[2]
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]
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
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
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]
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
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
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
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