# List of University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni

The University of Cincinnati College of Law in Cincinnati, Ohio was established at the Cincinnati Law School in 1833. Following are some of its notable alumni.

## Academia

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Gaius Glenn Atkins | 1891 | Congregational minister and professor of homiletics at Auburn Theological Seminary |
| James Hartley Beal | 1886 | Ohio House of Representatives, acting president of Scio College, and professor of pharmacy at Pittsburg College of Pharmacy |
| Howard Landis Bevis | 1910 | president of Ohio State University and Ohio Supreme Court |
| Leonard Case Jr. | 1844 | Founder and endower of Case School of Applied Science |
| Kenneth Lawson | 1989 | Faculty specialist at the William S. Richardson School of Law |
| Harold G. Maier | 1963 | International Law Scholar; former Counselor on International Law with the U.S. Department of State |
| David M. Smolin | 1986 | Professor and director of Cumberland School of Law Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics |

## Business

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Ian Bruce Eichner | 1969 | Real estate developer |
| Charles DeLano Hine | 1893 | Civil engineer, lawyer, railway official, and US Army colonel |
| William Pitt Trimble | | Businessman and attorney |
| John P. Williams Jr. | 1966 | President of the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and attorney |

## Judiciary

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Coleman W. Avery | 1905 | Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice |
| William M. Barker | 1967 | Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court |
| Michael R. Barrett | 1977 | United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio district judge |
| Sandra Beckwith | 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 |
| Howard Landis Bevis | 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 |
| Joe Deters | 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 |
| John David Holschuh | 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 |
| Sharon L. Kennedy | 1991 | Supreme Court of Ohio Justice |
| Joseph P. Kinneary | 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 |
| Stephen Markman | 1974 | Justice, Michigan Supreme Court |
| Carrington T. Marshall | 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 |
| Hugh L. Nichols | 1886 | Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court 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 |
| Emmett N. Parker | 1882 | Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court |
| 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 |
| William S. Richardson | 1943 | Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court |
| Thomas M. Rose | 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 |
| Thomas Adiel Sherwood | 1857 | Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court fr |
| 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 |
| Willis Van Devanter | 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 |
| Benjamin Willoughby | 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 |
| Marilyn Zayas | 1997 | Ohio First District Court of Appeals judge |

## Law

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Thomas C. Campbell | 1870 | Prosecuting attorney in Cincinnati |
| Stanley M. Chesley | 1960 | Attorney with Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., L.P.A |
| Charles Keating | 1948 | Founding partner of Keating, Muething & Klekamp |
| Billy Martin | 1976 | Defense attorney of Washington D.C. |
| Lawrence Maxwell Jr. | 1875 | United States Solicitor General |
| James Morris | | North Dakota Attorney General and North Dakota Supreme Court justice |
| Neil Chatterjee | | Former Chairman and commissioner of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |

## Military

| Name | Class | Notability |
| John D. Altenburg | 1973 | United States Army major general |
| Thomas M. Anderson | 1858 | United States Army general |
| Joseph Scott Fullerton | 1858 | Chairman of the Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park and Civil War brevet brigadier general |
| Gates P. Thruston | | Judge-advocate general and brigadier general of the Army of the Cumberland, author |

## Organizations

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Theodore S. Parvin | 1837 | Organizer of the State Historical Society of Iowa and a founder of the Masonic Order of Iowa |
| Michael Clarkson Ryan | 1842 | Founder of Beta Theta Pi |
| Russell Wilson | | Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio and founder of Sigma Sigma |

## Politics

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Alfred G. Allen | 1890 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Helen Elsie Austin | 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 |
| John Berry | 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 | U.S. House of Representatives, lieutenant governor of Ohio, mayor of Cincinnati, and judge of the court of common pleas |
| Joseph Gurney Cannon | Non-degreed | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives |
| Willis Carto | Non-degreed | American far-right political activist |
| Samuel Fenton Cary | 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 |
| Norton Parker Chipman | 1859 | Secretary of the District of Columbia, U.S. congressman, first presiding justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal |
| Donald D. Clancy | 1948 | U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati |
| Champ Clark | 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 |
| Charles G. Dawes | 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 |
| James W. Denver | 1844 | Governor of the Kansas Territory, secretary of state of California, and namesake of Denver, Colorado |
| Joe Deters | 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 the Idaho 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 |
| Richard P. Ernst | 1880 | U.S. senator from Kentucky |
| 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 |
| David Fowler | 1983 | Tennessee Senate |
| 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 |
| John J. Gilligan | 1947 | Governor of Ohio |
| 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 |
| Judson Harmon | 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 |
| James M. Hinds | 1856 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Greg J. Holbrock | 1932 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Charles John Howard | | President of the Ohio Senate |
| John Wesley Hoyt | 1849, attended | Governor of the Wyoming Territory |
| David P. Hull | 1840 | Wisconsin State Assembly |
| Henry Thomas Hunt | 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 |
| James Joyce | 1892 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Charles Cyrus Kearns | 1894 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| William J. Keating | 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 |
| Nicholas Longworth | 1894 | U.S. House of Representatives and speaker of the House |
| David P. Lowe | 1851 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Charlie Luken | 1976 | U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Thomas Henry McConica | 1883 | House of Commons of Canada |
| Edwin P. Morrow | 1902 | Governor of Kentucky |
| Grant E. Mouser | 1890 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Paula Boggs Muething | 2003 | Cincinnati's first Asian-American city manager |
| Hugh L. Nichols | 1886 | Chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and lieutenant governor of Ohio |
| Carl L. Nippert | | Lieutenant governor of Ohio and Ohio Senate |
| Edward Follansbee Noyes | 1858 | Governor of Ohio |
| William Parham | | first African American in the Ohio House of Representatives |
| John M. Pattison | 1872 | Governor of Ohio |
| William G. Pickrel | 1912 | Lieutenant governor of Ohio |
| Connie Pillich | | Ohio House of Representatives |
| Lois Pines | 1963 | Massachusetts Senate |
| Atlee Pomerene | 1886 | Lieutenant governor of Ohio and United States senator |
| 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 |
| Charles W. Sawyer | 1911 | United States Secretary of Commerce |
| 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 |
| Bellamy Storer | 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 |
| Bob Taft | 1976 | Governor of Ohio |
| 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 |
| Charles Townsend | 1866 | Ohio House of Representatives, Ohio Senate, and Ohio secretary of state |
| H. Clay Van Voorhis | | U.S. House of Representatives |
| John L. Vance | 1861 | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Robert Ward | 1978 | Minority leader of the Connecticut House of Representatives |
| Leroy Welsh | 1871 | Ohio State Treasurer |
| Charles Preston Wickham | | U.S. House of Representatives |
| Russell Wilson | | Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, and founder of Sigma Sigma |
| Thomas L. Young | 1865 | Governor of Ohio and U.S. House of Representatives |

## Sports

| Name | Class | Notability |
| Larry Barbiere | | Competition swimmer and Olympic athlete |
| Katie Blackburn | | Executive vice president of the Cincinnati Bengals |
| Robert Burch | | Head football coach at the University of Cincinnati and Superior Court of San Diego judge |
| Cris Collinsworth | 1991 | Professional football player with the Cincinnati Bengals and television sportscaster for NBC Sunday Night Football |
| Amos Foster | | Head football coach at the University of Cincinnati, the University of Nebraska, and Miami University |
| John Holifield | 1996 | Professional football player with the Cincinnati Bengals |
| Miller Huggins | 1902 | Manager of the New York Yankees, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame |
| C. J. McDiarmid | | Principal owner of the Cincinnati Reds |
| Dudley Sutphin | 1900 | Amateur tennis player, attorney, and judge |