# Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

## Academia

* Diane Marie Amann, chair in International Law and faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law
* Raoul Berger, senior fellow in American Legal History at Harvard University
* George Burditt, adjunct member of the faculty
* G. Marcus Cole, professor of law and associate dean for curriculum at Stanford Law School
* Steven Drizin, lawyer and law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
* Thomas F. Geraghty, associate dean for clinical education, professor of law, and director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University School of Law
* Kristin E. Hickman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School
* Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., professor at Suffolk University Law School
* James Nabrit Jr., president of Howard University and pioneering civil rights law academic and attorney
* Kate A. Shaw, law professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and ABC News Supreme Court contributor
* Jonathan Turley, Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School

## Advocacy and nonprofits

* Albert Goldman (J.D. 1925), socialist lawyer and political activist, personal lawyer of Leon Trotsky during his stay in Mexico City
* Florence Kelley (1894), social reformer, early advocate for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights; first general secretary of the National Consumers League; helped to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
* Ada Kepley, advocate for women's suffrage and temperance, first American woman to obtain a law degree

## Business

* Matt Ferguson, president and CEO of Careerbuilder.com
* Elbert Henry Gary, co-founder, president, and chairman of United States Steel Corporation; namesake of Gary, Indiana
* Michael Goodkin, quantitative finance entrepreneur and founder of Arbitrage Management Company
* Randy Kaplan, founder of Akamai Technologies
* Marc J. Lane, founder of The Marc J. Lane Wealth Group
* Morgan E. O'Brien, co-founder and former chairman of Nextel
* Jay A. Pritzker, co-founder of Hyatt Hotels Corporation
* Frank C. Rathje, founder of the Mutual National Bank of Chicago and president of the American Bankers Association
* Howard A. Tullman, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist

## Entertainment

* Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati, television talk show host

## Government

* Richard E. Wiley, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

## Judiciary

* Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Hawaii Supreme Court Justice
* Mary Bartelme, influential pioneer in juvenile justice, the first woman elected judge in Illinois
* Dalveer Bhandari, Judge at the International Court of Justice, 2012–present
* Michael B. Brennan, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
* Rubén Castillo, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Edmond E. Chang, U.S. District judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Joel Flaum, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
* Arthur Goldberg, former United States Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Secretary of Labor, and Ambassador to the United Nations
* Jim Jones, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
* Carole Kamin, first woman to become president of a state bar in the United States; Cook County Circuit Court Judge
* Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball and U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota
* Joan Larsen, U.S. Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
* Joan Lefkow, U.S. District Judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* José Abad Santos, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
* Michael Y. Scudder, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
* John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court Justice
* Suhas Subramanyam, Member of the United States House of Representatives
* Richard Tallman, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Senior Judge
* Horace Ward, challenged racial discrimination at the University of Georgia and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

## Law

* Ferdinand L. Barnett, Civil Rights activist and first African-American Assistant State's Attorney in Illinois, husband of Ida B. Wells
* Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office Watergate Task Force
* Salem J. Chalabi, first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal to try Saddam Hussein
* Richard Devine, Cook County Former State's Attorney
* W. Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel under President Barack Obama
* T. Markus Funk, law professor and attorney at Perkins Coie
* Graham T. Perry, second African-American elected for assistant attorney general for the State of Illinois
* Richard Terrin, legal advisor to Governor-General of the Philippines, Dwight F. Davis
* Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, first African American admitted to the bar in Illinois

## Literature and journalism

* Ferdinand Lee Barnett, founder of The Chicago Conservator
* Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and co-founder of law firm Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick (later Kirkland & Ellis)

## Politics

* George Wildman Ball (1933), former U.S. Undersecretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
* Judy Biggert (J.D. 1963), U.S. House of Representatives
* William Jennings Bryan, former U.S. Secretary of State and three-time Democratic nominee for President
* Dale Bumpers, former Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator
* Alfred Cilella, Illinois state legislator
* Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota
* William Dawson, first African American to chair a Congressional Committee, beginning in 1949
* Edward Dunne, former Governor of Illinois and former Mayor of Chicago
* Carl R. Feld, Wisconsin State Assembly
* Robert Todd Lincoln (1866), U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1889–1893); 35th United States Secretary of War (1881–1885)
* Wendy E. Long, Republican nominee for United States Senate from New York in 2012 and 2016
* Frank Orren Lowden, Governor of Illinois
* J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Assembly
* Albert E. Mead, former governor of Washington
* Newton Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
* Dawn Clark Netsch, first woman to be elected to a statewide constitutional office in Illinois
* J. B. Pritzker, Managing Partner of Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and current Governor of Illinois
* Pat Quinn, former Governor of Illinois
* Tom Railsback, U.S. House of Representatives
* Henry T. Rainey, 40th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati and television talk show host
* Seymour Stedman, Socialist Party of America nominee for vice-president of the United States (and for Mayor of Chicago)
* Halvor Steenerson, former U.S. Representative
* Adlai Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, two-time Democratic Nominee for President, and Ambassador to the United Nations
* Jim Thompson, former Governor of Illinois
* Charles M. Thomson, former U.S. House of Representatives
* Daniel Walker, former Governor of Illinois
* Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago and U.S. House of Representatives
* Paul Ziffren, Democratic National Committee chair

## Sports

* Eddie Einhorn, owner of the Chicago White Sox
* Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball, for U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
* Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls
* Mark Walter, founder and CEO of Guggenheim Partners and Chairman of Los Angeles Dodgers