# List of University of Florida Levin College of Law graduates

This list of University of Florida Levin College of Law graduates includes notable recipients of one or more academic law degrees (LL.B., J.D., LL.M.) from the Levin College of Law, the law school of the University of Florida, located in Gainesville, Florida. (For a list of notable alumni of the University of Florida's other academic divisions, see List of University of Florida alumni.)

## Government
### United States Senators

| Alumni | Notability |
| Charles O. Andrews | U.S. Senator (1936–46) |
| Lawton Chiles | U.S. Senator (1971–89) |
| Spessard Holland | U.S. Senator (1946–71) |
| George Smathers | U.S. Senator (1951–69) |

### United States Representatives

| Alumni | Notability |
| Charles Edward Bennett | U.S. Representative (1949–93) |
| Michael Bilirakis | U.S. Representative (1983–2007) |
| Bill Chappell | U.S. Representative (1969–89) |
| Ander Crenshaw | U.S. Representative (2001–2017) |
| Jim Davis | U.S. Representative (1997–2007) |
| Sam Gibbons | U.S. Representative (1963–97) |
| Syd Herlong | U.S. Representative (1967–69) |
| Marjorie Holt | U.S. Representative (1973–87) |
| Harry Johnston | U.S. Representative (1989–97) |
| Bill Lantaff | U.S. Representative (1951–55) |
| Buddy MacKay | U.S. Representative (1983–89) |
| Chester B. McMullen | U.S. Representative (1951–53) |
| J. Hardin Peterson | U.S. Representative (1933–51) |
| Paul Rogers | U.S. Representative (1955–79) |
| Joe Scarborough | U.S. Representative (1995–2001); Host of Morning Joe (2007–present); former host of Scarborough Country (2003–07) |

### Governors

| Alumni | Notability |
| Reubin O'Donovan Askew | Governor of Florida (1971–79) |
| Lawton Chiles | Governor of Florida (1991–98) |
| Spessard Holland | Governor of Florida (1941–45) |
| Buddy MacKay | Governor of Florida (1998–99) |

## Judiciary
### United States Court of Appeals judges

| Alumni | Notability |
| Rosemary Barkett | United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1994–2013) |
| Susan H. Black | United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1992–2011, Senior judge 2011–present) |
| Peter T. Fay | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1976–81), United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1981–94, Senior judge 1994–2021) |
| Robert J. Luck | United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2019–present) |
| S. Jay Plager | United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1989–2000, Senior judge 2000–present) |
| John M. Bryan Simpson | United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1966–1975, Senior judge 1975–1981), United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Senior judge 1981–1987) |
* 1 2 Originally covered by the Fifth Circuit (responsible for six contiguous states from Texas to Florida), the Eleventh Circuit was formed on October 1, 1981, taking over responsibility for the three easternmost of the Fifth Circuit states (Alabama, Florida and Georgia).

### United States District Court judges

| Alumni | District | Years of service | Prior position |
| Winston Arnow | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 1967–94 (presided over the Gainesville Eight trial) | Private practice |
| Sidney Aronovitz | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1976–97 | Miami city commissioner |
| C. Clyde Atkins | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1966–99 | Private practice |
| John L. Badalamenti | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2020–present | DCA judge |
| William J. Barker | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1966–99 | Circuit court judge |
| William J. Castagna | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1979–92 | Private practice |
| Anne C. Conway | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1991–present | Private practice |
| Roy B. Dalton Jr. | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2011–present | Private practice |
| Brian J. Davis | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2013–present | Circuit court judge |
| Edward B. Davis | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1979–2000 | Private practice |
| William Dimitrouleas | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1998–present | Public Defender, State Attorney |
| Joe Oscar Eaton | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1982–2008 | Circuit court judge |
| Patricia C. Fawsett | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1986–present | Private practice |
| Jose A. Gonzalez, Jr. | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1978–96 | Circuit court judge |
| William Terrell Hodges | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1971–present | Private practice |
| Charlene Honeywell | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2009–present | Circuit court judge |
| Marcia Morales Howard | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2007–present | Private practice |
| Paul Huck | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 2000–present | Private practice |
| James W. Kehoe | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1979–98 | Circuit court judge |
| James Lawrence King | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1970–present | Circuit court judge |
| Ben Krentzman | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1967–98 | Private practice |
| Richard A. Lazzara | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1997–present | DCA judge |
| William McRae | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1962–73 | Private practice |
| William O. Mehrtens | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1965–75 | Private practice |
| Howell W. Melton | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1977–2015 | Circuit court judge |
| Steven D. Merryday | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1992–present | Private practice |
| Stephan P. Mickle | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 1998–present | Circuit court judge |
| David L. Middlebrooks | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 1969–74 | Private practice |
| Donald M. Middlebrooks | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1997–present | General Counsel to Florida Governor Reubin O'Donovan Askew |
| Kathryn Kimball Mizelle | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 2020–present | Private practice |
| James S. Moody, Jr. | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2000–present | Circuit court judge |
| Ralph Wilson Nimmons, Jr. | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1991–2003 | Circuit court judge |
| Maurice M. Paul | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 1982–2016 | Circuit court judge |
| Gregory A. Presnell | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 2000–present | Private practice |
| John Richard Smoak, Jr. | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 2005–present | Private practice |
| Eugene P. Spellman | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1979–91 | State attorney, private practice |
| Ursula Mancusi Ungaro-Benages | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1992–present | Circuit court judge |
| George Whitehurst | United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida | 1950–61 | Circuit court judge |
| George C. Young | United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | 1962–2015 | Private practice |
| Mark E. Walker | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 2012–present | Circuit court judge |
| Allen C. Winsor | United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida | 2019–present | DCA judge |

### Florida Supreme Court

| Alumni | Notability |
| Alto L. Adams | Florida Supreme Court (1940–51), chief justice (1949–51) |
| James C. Adkins | Florida Supreme Court (1969–87), chief justice (1974–76) |
| Harry Lee Anstead | Florida Supreme Court (1994–2009), chief justice (2002–04) |
| Raymond Ehrlich | Florida Supreme Court (1981–90), chief justice (1988–90) |
| Richard Ervin | Florida Supreme Court (1964–75), chief justice (1969–71) |
| Stephen H. Grimes | Florida Supreme Court (1987–96), chief justice (1994–96) |
| Jorge Labarga | Florida Supreme Court (2009–present), chief justice (2014–present) |
| Parker Lee McDonald | Florida Supreme Court (1979–94), chief justice (1986–88) |
| Stephen C. O'Connell | Florida Supreme Court (1955–67), chief justice (1967) |
| Ben F. Overton | Florida Supreme Court (1974–99), chief justice (1976–78) |
| Harold Sebring | Florida Supreme Court (1943–55), chief justice (1951–53) |
| B. Campbell Thornal | Florida Supreme Court (1955–70), chief justice (1965–67) |
| Charles T. Wells | Florida Supreme Court (1994–2009), chief justice (2000–02) |

## Political figures

| Alumni | Notability |
| Reubin O'Donovan Askew | United States Trade Representative (1979–81), candidate for President of the United States during the 1984 election |
| DuBose Ausley | Chairman of the Florida Board of Regents (1981–83) |
| Ed Austin | Mayor of Jacksonville (1991–95) |
| Lucius D. Battle | U.S. Ambassador to Egypt (1964–67) |
| Carol Browner | EPA Administrator (1993–2001); director of White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy (2009–present) |
| Ferrin C. Campbell | Florida House of Representatives (1951–1955), Florida Senate (1963–1965) |
| Skip Campbell | Florida Senate (1998–2006) |
| Jim Davis | Candidate for Governor of Florida (2006) |
| John Delaney | Mayor of Jacksonville (1995–2003) |
| Paul Rand Dixon | Chairman of Federal Trade Commission (1961–69) |
| Buddy Dyer | Mayor of Orlando (2003–present) |
| Richard Ervin | Florida Attorney General (1949–64) |
| Mark S. Fowler | Chairman of Federal Communications Commission (1981–87) |
| Dan Gelber | Florida Senate (2008–present) |
| Baya M. Harrison Jr. | Desegregated the State University System of Florida |
| Mallory Horne | President of Florida Senate (1973–74) |
| Jeff Kottkamp | Lieutenant Governor of Florida (2007–11) |
| James W. Kynes | Florida Attorney General (1964–65) |
| Buddy Mackay | Lieutenant Governor of Florida (1991–98) |
| Bill McBride | Candidate for Governor of Florida (2002) |
| Bill McCollum | Florida Attorney General (2007–11) |
| Jose Rodriguez Jr. | Director of the National Clandestine Service (2004–07) |
| Frederick H. Schultz | Vice chairman of Federal Reserve System (1979–82) |
| Bruce Smathers | Florida Secretary of State (1975–78) |
| Rod Smith | Florida Senate (2000–06), candidate for Governor of Florida (2006) |
| Francis Suarez | Mayor of Miami (2017–present) |
| Donald L. Tucker | Special U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic |
| Marc Warren | Deputy Chief Counsel for the Federal Aviation Administration (2010–12, later served a second time) |
| Craig Waters | Spokesman for Florida Supreme Court during 2000 presidential election controversy |
* J. Dudley Goodlette (born 1948), politician and lawyer

## Academic administrators
### College and university presidents

| Alumni | Notability |
| Edythe M. Abdullah | Essex County College (2010–present) |
| George F. Baughman | New College of Florida (1960–65) |
| Marshall Criser | University of Florida (1984–89) |
| Harold Crosby | University of West Florida (1964–74); Florida International University (1976–79) |
| Sandy D'Alemberte | Florida State University (1994–2003) |
| John Delaney | University of North Florida (2003–present); Chancellor of the State University System of Florida |
| Ray F. Ferrero Jr. | Nova Southeastern University (1997–2009) |
| Robert Lindgren | Randolph-Macon College (2006–present) |
| Stephen C. O'Connell | University of Florida (1967–73) |
| Rev. Kevin O’Brien, S.J. | President-Designate, Santa Clara University (2019) |
| W. Reece Smith, Jr. | University of South Florida (1976–77) |

## American Bar Association

| Alumni | Notability |
| Martha Barnett | President of the American Bar Association (2000–01) |
| Sandy D'Alemberte | President of the American Bar Association (1991–92) |
| Chesterfield Smith | President of the American Bar Association (1973–74) |
| W. Reece Smith, Jr. | President of the American Bar Association (1980–81) |
| Stephen N. Zack | President of the American Bar Association (2010–11) |

## Attorneys

| Alumni | Notability |
| James Bopp | Conservative lawyer |
| Fredric G. Levin | Namesake of the Levin College of Law; prominent figure in tobacco litigation; co-founded (1955) Levin Papantonio Law Firm |
| Howell W. Melton Jr. | Current managing partner of Holland & Knight |
| John Morgan | Current attorney and founder of Morgan & Morgan personal injury firm |
| Dorothy Clay Sims | Successfully defended Casey Anthony; expert cross-examiner |
| Rod Smith | Successfully prosecuted Danny Rolling; former candidate for Governor of Florida |
| Clifford A. Wolff | Litigator and television commentator |

## Miscellaneous

| Alumni | Notability |
| Philip Agee | Operative for the Central Intelligence Agency (1960–1968), author Inside the Company: CIA Diary |
| John F. Bolt | United States Marine Corps pilot (1941–1962), awarded the Navy Cross; after USMC, enrolled (with his son) and graduated Florida College of Law |
| Dana Bullen | Director of the Press Freedom Committee (1981–96), foreign editor of The Washington Star |
| John J. Considine | Senior minister for the Unity Church (1998–present); member of Florida House of Representatives |
| Brad Culpepper | NFL football player (1992–2000) with the Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Chicago Bears |
| J. J. Daniel | Publisher of The Florida Times-Union (1976–82) |
| Charles W. Dorman | Marine Corps brigadier general (1974–2006); chief judge for the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals |
| Michael George Dupee | Winner of the 1996 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions |
| Richard Grayson | Writer, political activist, and performance artist |
| George Greer | Florida Sixth Circuit Court Judge (1992–2010) who presided over the Terri Schiavo case; County commissioner for Pinellas County (1984–1992) |
| James Grippando | Lawyer and writer, including legal/scholarly (1989–2008) and fiction (1994–present) |
| Edgar C. Jones | University of Florida athletic director (1930–36), Florida Gators football player (1923–25) |
| Lewis Landes | United States Army colonel (action in WWI and WWII) and lawyer |
| Maud Newton | Writer, blogger and book reviewer (born 1971) |
| John L. Parker, Jr. | Florida Gators track and field runner (1966–1972), author including Once a Runner (1978) |
| Howard Roffman | President of Lucas Licensing, a subsidiary of Lucasfilm (1999–2012, senior advisor thereafter) |
| Harold Sebring | Head coach of Florida Gators football team (1925–27), judge at Nuremberg Trials (1946–47), dean of Stetson University College of Law (1955–68) |
| Leland C. Shepard Jr. | United States Air Force Brigadier general, served in World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War |
| Frank Shorter | Chairman of United States Anti-Doping Agency, Olympic marathon gold medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics |
| Terry Smiljanich | Counsel for the United States Senate in 1987 Iran–Contra Hearings, co-founder (1983) of James, Hoyer, Newcomer & Smiljanich, P.A. |
| Mac Stipanovich | Republican lobbyist who had a large role in the 2000 Florida Recount |