# List of Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni

The following is a list of notable alumni of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio:

## Academia

* Linda L. Ammons (1987), Dean of Widener University School of Law
* David N. Diner (1983), Dean of Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School
* John W. Garland (1974), President of Central State University
* RonNell Andersen Jones (2000), Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
* Joan Krauskopf (1957), Professor Emeritus of Law at the Moritz College of Law
* Arthur T. Martin (1929), Dean of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
* LeRoy Pernell (1974), Dean of Florida A&M University College of Law and Northern Illinois University College of Law
* L. Orin Slagle (1957), Dean of the Florida State University College of Law and Moritz College of Law
* Don W. Sears (1948), Dean and Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Colorado Law School; Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient
* Paul L. Selby (1947), Dean and Professor Emeritus of Law at the West Virginia University College of Law; member of 1942 National Championship Ohio State Buckeyes football team
* Gregory J. Vincent (1987), President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges

## Business

* John W. Creighton Jr. (1957), president and CEO of Weyerhaeuser Company
* Bruce Downey (1973), chairman and CEO of Barr Pharmaceuticals (now Teva Pharmaceuticals)
* Nicholas R. Emrick (1982), chief operating officer of LexisNexis
* John Lowe (1998), CEO of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams
* Nick Mileti (1956), founder and owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and owner of the Cleveland Indians
* Thomas F. Patton (1926), president, chairman and CEO of Republic Steel (now Mittal Steel Company)
* Donald Clinton Power (1926), chairman and CEO of GTE Corporation (now Verizon Communications)
* Henry Schuck (2009), founder and CEO of ZoomInfo

## Government
### Federal

* Thomas J. Fiscus (1975), United States Air Force Judge Advocate General
* Linda Fisher (1982), Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency
* William Isaac (1969), Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
* William Saxbe (1948), 70th United States Attorney General and United States Senator from Ohio
* Carmi Thompson (1895), 23rd Treasurer of the United States

### State and local

* John W. Bricker (1920), 54th Governor of Ohio and United States Senator from Ohio
* Aaron D. Ford (2001), 34th Attorney General of Nevada
* Paul M. Herbert (1917), 47th, 49th and 52nd Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* George Sidney Marshall, 38th Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
* James H. McGee (1948), first African-American Mayor of Dayton, Ohio
* C. William O'Neill (1942), 59th Governor of Ohio and former Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Buck Rinehart (1973), 50th Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
* Mike Sanders (1994), Jackson County, Missouri executive
* Brian Sandoval (1989), 29th Governor of Nevada and former United States District Judge for the District of Nevada
* Russell Suzuki, 15th Attorney General of Hawaii
* Edward C. Turner (1901), 26th and 30th Ohio Attorney General and Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* George Voinovich (1961), 65th Governor of Ohio and United States Senator from Ohio

## Journalists

* Bob Fitrakis (1982), editor-in-chief of the Columbus Free Press
* Chris Geidner (2005), award-winning journalist and legal editor for BuzzFeed
* Madison Gesiotto (2017), columnist for the Washington Times and Miss Ohio USA 2014
* Erin Moriarty (1977), Emmy Award-winning journalist for CBS News and 48 Hours

## Judges
### Federal

* Jessica G. L. Clarke (2008), United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York
* William Miller Drennen (1938), Chief Judge of the United States Tax Court
* Ann Donnelly (1984), United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York
* Robert Duncan (1952), first African-American United States District Judge for Ohio and Ohio Supreme Court Justice
* Wallace Samuel Gourley (1929), United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania
* Donald L. Graham (1974), United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida
* James L. Graham (1962), United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
* George Philip Hahn (1905), United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* Kenneth Harkins (1943), United States Court of Federal Claims Judge
* Charles Sherrod Hatfield (1907), United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals Judge
* Jeffrey J. Helmick (1988), United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* Benson W. Hough (1899), United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
* David A. Katz (1957), United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* Sara Elizabeth Lioi (1987), United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* Rupa Ranga Puttagunta (2007) Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
* David A. Ruiz (2000) United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* George Curtis Smith (1959), United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* Jeffrey Sutton (1990), United States Court of Appeals Judge for the Sixth Circuit
* William Kernahan Thomas (1935), United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio
* Herman Jacob Weber (1952), United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio

### State and local

* James F. Bell (1939), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Brent D. Benjamin (1984), Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
* Lloyd O. Brown (1955), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Paul W. Brown (1939), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Howard E. Faught (1935), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Judith L. French (1988), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* W. F. Garver (1893), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Thomas M. Herbert (1955), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Wade L. Hopping (1955), Florida Supreme Court Justice
* Robert E. Leach (1935), Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Yvette McGee Brown (1985), first African-American female Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* John M. Matthias (1928), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Henry A. Middleton (1911), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Thomas J. Moyer (1964), Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Paul Pfeifer (1966), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* James E. Robinson (1893), Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Evelyn Lundberg Stratton (1979), Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
* Beth Walker (1990), Justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
* Elizabeth M. Welch (1995), Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

## Legislators
### Federal

* Pete Abele (1953), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Walter H. Albaugh (1914), United States Congressman from Ohio
* John M. Ashbrook (1955), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Thomas W. L. Ashley (1951), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Charles G. Bond (1899), United States Congressman from New York
* Daniel S. Earhart (1928), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Israel Moore Foster (1898), United States Congressman from Ohio; proposed Child Labor Amendment to U.S. Constitution
* David L. Hobson (1963), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Robert E. Holmes (1949), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Lawrence E. Imhoff (1930), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Harry P. Jeffrey (1926), United States Congressman from Ohio; author of G.I. Bill
* Thomas A. Jenkins (1907), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Mary Jo Kilroy (1980), United States Congresswoman from Ohio
* Frank Le Blond Kloeb (1907), United States Congressman from Ohio
* William Moore McCulloch (1925), United States Congressman from Ohio; key backer of Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Howard Metzenbaum (1941), United States Senator from Ohio; introduced WARN Act
* C. Ellis Moore (1910), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Grant E. Mouser Jr. (1917), United States Congressman from Ohio
* William Huston Natcher (1933), longest-serving United States Congressman from Kentucky; Presidential Citizens Medal recipient
* Michael G. Oxley (1969), United States Congressman from Ohio; introduced Sarbanes–Oxley Act
* Zack Space (1986), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Robert M. Switzer (1892), United States Congressman from Ohio
* Mell G. Underwood (1915), United States Congressman from Ohio and United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
* John Martin Vorys (1923), United States Congressman from Ohio

### State and local

* William G. Batchelder (1967), 101st Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
* Rupert R. Beetham, Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
* John W. Bowen (1953), Ohio State Senator
* Harold Brazil, Council Member of the District of Columbia
* John Patrick Carney (2001), Ohio State Representative
* Kathleen Clyde (2008), Ohio State Representative
* Keith Faber (1991), 98th President of the Ohio Senate
* Patrick O. Jefferson, Louisiana State Representative
* Charles Kurfess (1957), 94th Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives
* James A. Lantz (1947), Ohio State Representative
* Jason Petrie (1998), Kentucky State Representative
* Amy Salerno (1982), Ohio State Representative
* Charles R. Saxbe (1975), Ohio State Representative
* Robert Shaw (1929), Ohio State Senator
* Michael Stinziano (2007), Ohio State Representative
* Peter Stautberg, Ohio State Representative and Judge of the Ohio First District Court of Appeals
* Mark Wagoner (1997), Ohio State Senator

## Other

* Brendan Healy (2009), three time All-American and professional lacrosse player
* Brandon Mitchell (2013), former National Football League player
* Rich Nathan (1980), pastor and author
* James Robenalt (1981), lawyer and noted political non-fiction author
* Bobby Samini (1995), nationally renowned celebrity attorney
* Michael Shane (1953), lawyer and actor
* Stuart A. Summit (1959), Executive Secretary of the New York City Mayor's Committee on the Judiciary