List of George Washington University Law School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School, the law school of the American George Washington University, located in Washington, DC. (For a list of notable George Washington University graduates, see the list of George Washington University people.)

Notable alumni

Class of 1891

Academia

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

Business

• 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
• Ron Ricks (1976), Executive Vice President, Chief Legal & Regulatory Officer of Southwest Airlines^[4]
• D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Intel^[5]
• Scott C. Taylor (1992), Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Symantec^[6]

Sports

• Edwin M. Durso (1978), Executive Vice President, Administration for ESPN^[7]
• David Falk (1975), agent for Michael Jordan^[2]
• Gary Gertzog (1983), former Senior Vice President, Business Affairs and General Counsel for the National Football League^[8]
• Ted Lerner (1950), owner of the Washington Nationals^[2]
• Larry MacPhail (1910), Hall of Fame baseball executive for Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees^[9]

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
• Félix Córdova Dávila, former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from Puerto Rico
• John Blaisdell Corliss (1875), former United States Congressman
• 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
• Daniel Inouye (1953), 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
• 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, current Senate Minority Leader, (D-NV)
• James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General
• Robert Wexler (1985), congressman, (D-FL)
• Earle D. Willey, former U.S. Congressman from Delaware

Other federal officials

• William Barr (1977), former United States Attorney General
• A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation
• Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration
• 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, was 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.^[10]
• J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 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
• Eric O'Neill (2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
• Walter North, U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (2012–present).
• 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
• James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA

State and local government

• Rocky Anderson (1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City
• James P. Coleman (1939), former Governor of Mississippi and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Patricia Ann Curran (1974), former Commissioner of the Public Utility Commission of Texas
• Lee E. Emerson, Governor of Vermont, 1951-1955
• 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
• 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

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
• Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister of India
• Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran
• Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the United States Congress
• Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia

Other politics

• Kellyanne Conway (1992), Political strategist and pollster, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign

Judiciary

Federal

• James C. Cacheris (1960), judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

State

• Carmen E. Espinosa (1976), First Hispanic judge for the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court
• George B. Nelson (1902), former 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
• Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada
• Joshua Soule Zimmerman, West Virginia House Delegate

Lawyers

• 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
• Adam Trashbut Johnson, attorney at the National Labor Relations Board
• Francis La Flesche, first professional Native American (Omaha) anthropologist
• 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^[11]
• 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, American journalist and currently a 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

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^[12]
• 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 L. Fugh (1960), former Judge Advocate General
• Sidney A. Wallace, retired United States Coast Guard Rear Admiral

Non-profits

• Kyle Zimmer, founder of First Book

Religion

• Matthew Cowley, former Apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

References

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2. "Prominent Alumni by School: Law School". The George Washington University. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
3. "Morris Lecture on Feb. 19 will feature attorney Charles James". Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
4. "Ron Ricks". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
5. "Bruce Sewell". Apple. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
6. "Symantec's Legal Firewall". The Recorder. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
7. "Edwin M. Durso". ESPN Media Zone. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
8. "NFL Senior Vice President Gary Gertzog Joins Sports E-Commerce Leader Fanatics As EVP, Business Affairs". Fanatics Inc. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
9. McKelvey, G. Richard (2000). The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p. 2. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
10. Biography at the University of Chicago
11. Brown, Emma (2011-03-21). "Frank Neuhauser, winner of first national spelling bee, dies at 97". Washington Post. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
12. "Major General Vaughn A. Ary". Headquarters, United States Marine Corps. Retrieved 14 Oct 2013.