# List of Cleveland State University College of Law alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Cleveland State University College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. This list includes graduates of Cleveland Law School and John Marshall School of Law, which merged in 1946 to form Cleveland–Marshall, which was renamed the CSU College of Law in 2022.

## List

| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
| Richard J. Ambrose | 1987 | Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge; former Cleveland Browns football player | |
| John J. Babka | 1908 (Cleveland Law School) | U.S. Representative from Ohio | |
| Matt Barrett | | Ohio State Representative | |
| Jim Betts | | former member of the Ohio House of Representatives | |
| Edward J. Blythin | graduated Cleveland Law School | mayor of Cleveland, previously its law director; candidate for U.S. Senate | |
| Elizabeth M. Boyer | | lawyer, writer/publisher, and feminist founder of WEAL | |
| Christopher A. Boyko | 1979 | United States federal judge | |
| Eric Brown | 1979 | former Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| Anthony O. Calabrese Jr. | 1961 | Ohio Court of Appeals judge and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge | |
| Jamie Callender | | attorney, college professor, former member of the Ohio General Assembly | |
| James H. Cassidy | graduated Cleveland Law School | U.S. Representative from Ohio | |
| Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr. | 1974 | Ohio state senator, Ohio secretary of state and Ohio attorney general; candidate for Ohio governor | |
| Frank D. Celebrezze Jr. | 1983 | Ohio Court of Appeals judge and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge | |
| Angelin Chang | | Grammy Award-winning classical pianist and attorney | |
| Genevieve R. Cline | 1921 (Cleveland Law School) | first woman to serve as a United States federal judge | |
| Bill Coley | | member of the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives | |
| James C. Connell | 1918 (John Marshall School of Law) | United States federal judge | |
| Arthur H. Day | 1916 (Cleveland Law School) | Ohio State Senator and served a six-year term as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. | |
| Jeffrey L. Dean | 1980 | Ohio House of Representatives 114th General Assembly; member of the State Board of Education of Ohio; Judge, Bedford Municipal Court | |
| Mary DeGenaro | 1986 | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio | |
| Kathleen Donovan | | Bergen County, New Jersey Executive; former Bergen County Clerk; represented New Jersey's 36th Legislative District in the New Jersey State Assembly ; former Chairwoman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee; former Commissioner and first Chairwoman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey | |
| Dennis E. Eckart | | Democratic Congressman | |
| Ed Feighan | 1978 | member of the Ohio House of Representatives; U.S. Representative from 1983 to 1993 of Ohio's 19th congressional district | |
| Ed FitzGerald | 1993 | first County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Mayor of Lakewood, Ohio; Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 2014 | |
| George L. Forbes | 1961 | Cleveland City Council President, Cleveland NAACP President | |
| Alan Fried | | NCAA champion wrestler and 4-time Junior National Freestyle Champion, and author | |
| Avery Friedman | 1972 | Civil Rights attorney, chief council of the Fair Housing Council, CNN, weekly legal correspondent | |
| Marcia L. Fudge | 1983 | 18th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, former Democratic congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives | |
| Mary Belle Grossman | graduated Cleveland Law School | one of first women ABA members, Ohio's first female Municipal Court judge (Cleveland, 1923) | |
| Paul Hackett | 1980 | lawyer, politician, veteran of the Iraq War | |
| Jim Michael Hansen | 1980 | author, attorney | |
| Bill Hughes | 1998 | Chief Deputy- Yavapai County Attorney's Office and 2012 Arizona Felony Prosecutor of the Year and 2020 recipient of the Arizona State Bar Association's annual Michael C. Cudahy Criminal Justice Award | |
| Jane Edna Hunter | 1925 (Cleveland Law School) | founder of the Phyllis Wheatley Center for the poor in Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Frank G. Jackson | | Mayor of Cleveland, formerly City Council president | |
| Peter Kirsanow | 1979 | attorney, writer and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights | |
| Thomas Demetrios Lambros | 1952 | former United States federal judge | |
| Steven C. LaTourette | 1980 | U.S. Representative from Ohio 1995-2013 | |
| Frank J. Lausche | graduated John Marshall Law School | U.S. Senator, Ohio governor, mayor of Cleveland | |
| Nancy Lerner | | philanthropist | |
| John M. Manos | | former judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| William D. Mason | 1986 | Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio | |
| Charles Joseph McNamee | 1917 (Cleveland Law School) | United States federal judge | |
| Robert M. Murray | graduated Cleveland Law School | attorney, banker, businessman and Democratic Congressman | |
| Donald C. Nugent | | United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio | |
| Maureen O'Connor | 1980 | Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | |
| Terrence O'Donnell | 1971 | Ohio Supreme Court Justice | |
| William O'Neill | 1980 | Justice on the Supreme Court of Ohio | |
| Benita Y. Pearson | 1995 | District judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio; former federal magistrate judge | |
| Tim Russert | 1976 | journalist, writer and longtime television broadcaster | |
| Michael J. Skindell | 1987 | Ohio state Senator, former member of Ohio House of Representatives | |
| Carl B. Stokes | | first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city (Cleveland) | |
| Louis Stokes | 1953 | 15-term Democratic Congressman | |
| Francis E. Sweeney Sr. | 1963 | Ohio Supreme Court Justice | |
| Martin L. Sweeney | 1914 (Cleveland Law School) | U.S. Representative from Ohio (and father of Robert E. Sweeney) | |
| Robert E. Sweeney | | U.S. Representative from Ohio (son of Martin L. Sweeney) | |
| James A. Thomas | 1963 | former chief executive officer and principal owner of the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team and the ARCO Arena from 1992 to 1999 | [30] [31] |
| Stanley Tolliver | 1951 (John Marshall School of Law) | attorney, school board president, civil rights activist, and radio talk show host | |
| Cheryl L. Waite | 1985 | Ohio Court of Appeals judge | |
| Lesley B. Wells | | former United States District Court Judge | |
| Uncas A. Whitaker | graduated Cleveland Law School | engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist | |
| George Washington White | 1955 | former United States federal judge | |
| Bert Wolstein | 1953 | real estate developer; owner of indoor soccer franchise; philanthropist | |