# List of George Washington University Law School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School located in Washington, D.C., U.S.

## Notable alumni
### Academia

* Ernest L. Wilkinson (1926), former President of Brigham Young University

### Business

* Mark Britton (1992), founder and CEO of Avvo (now Martindale-Avvo), and former Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Expedia, Inc.
* Warren Brown (1998), founder of Cake Love and host of Sugar Rush on the Food Network
* Dan Glickman (1969), former chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, former United States Secretary of Agriculture, and former U.S. Congressman from Kansas
* Charles James (1979), former General Counsel of Chevron-Texaco, former Assistant Attorney General
* Michael W. Rice, chairman and CEO of Utz Quality Foods
* D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former vice president and Deputy General Counsel at Intel

#### Sports

* David Falk (1975), agent for Michael Jordan
* Ted Lerner (1950), owner of the Washington Nationals
* Larry MacPhail (1910), Hall of Fame baseball executive for Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees

### Government and politics
#### U.S. Congress members

* E. Ross Adair, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1951–1971) and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (1971–1974)
* Garry E. Brown (1954), former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
* Gordon Canfield (1926), former U.S. Congressman from New Jersey
* Bennett Champ Clark, former United States Senator
* William Henry Coleman, former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
* John Blaisdell Corliss (1875), former United States Congressman
* Félix Córdova Dávila, former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from Puerto Rico
* Ewin L. Davis (1899), former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
* John James Duncan Jr. (1973), United States Congressman for the Second District of Tennessee
* John James Flynt Jr. (1940), United States Congressman from Georgia
* J. William Fulbright (1934), former United States Senator, creator of the Fulbright Fellowships
* Ralph A. Gamble (1911), former U.S. Congressman from New York
* Stephen Warfield Gambrill (1896), former United States Congressman
* Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
* Orval H. Hansen (1954) (LLM 1973), former U.S. Congressman from Idaho
* Daniel Inouye (1953), former United States Senator (D-HI)
* Frank Moss (1937), former United States Senator (D-UT)
* Francis G. Newlands (1869), congressman and drafter of the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaiʻi
* Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Governor of Puerto Rico and former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico
* Jim Ramstad (1973), congressman whose work led to ending discrimination against those suffering from mental health and addiction problems
* Harry Reid (1964), United States Senator, former Senate Minority Leader (D-NV)
* James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General
* Robert Wexler (1985), congressman (D-FL)
* Susan Wild, U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania
* Earle D. Willey, former U.S. Congressman from Delaware

#### Other federal officials

* William Barr (1977), former United States Attorney General
* David Bernhardt (1994), former United States Secretary of the Interior
* A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation
* Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
* Kellyanne Conway (1992), Political strategist and pollster, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Counselor to the President
* George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration
* Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General
* Mary DeRosa (1984), former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration
* Allen Dulles (1926), longest serving (1953–61) director of the CIA
* John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration
* W. Mark Felt (1940), former associate director of the FBI and Watergate scandal informant also known as "Deep Throat"
* Stanley Finch (1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
* Gregory G. Garre (1991), former Solicitor General of the United States
* L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
* Will A. Gunn, sworn in as the General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs on May 26, 2009
* Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980)
* Patricia Roberts Harris (1960), first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the Jimmy Carter administration
* John D. Holum, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under Bill Clinton
* J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
* Edward F. Howrey (1927), chair of the Federal Trade Commission, later founded the law firm of Howrey LLP
* Leon Jaworski (1926), special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
* David M. Kennedy, former United States Secretary of the Treasury
* Bruce M. Lawlor, retired United States Army major general and former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security
* Wilma B. Liebman (1974), Chair, National Labor Relations Board
* Walter North, U.S. Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu (2012–present)
* Eric O'Neill (2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
* Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
* Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
* Mary Schapiro (1980), Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission; first woman to chair the SEC
* John W. Snow (1967), former United States Secretary of the Treasury
* Russell Vought, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget
* James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
* James A. Wetmore (1896), acting Supervising Architect of the Office of the Supervising Architect

#### State and local government

* Rocky Anderson (1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City
* Edward Blackmon Jr. (1973), Mississippi House of Representatives
* James P. Coleman (1939), former Governor of Mississippi and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
* Lee E. Emerson, Governor of Vermont, 1951–1955
* Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
* John W. Hardwicke, Maryland delegate and lawyer
* Harry R. Hughes (1952), former governor of the state of Maryland
* Rod Johnston, former Wisconsin State Senator
* Alex Knopp (1981), former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
* Deanne Mazzochi, Illinois House of Representatives
* Edward S. Northrop (1937), Majority Leader of Maryland State Senate (1958–1961), Chair of the Finance Committee (1958), nominated by President Kennedy in 1961 for a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, elevated to Chief Judge and held that position until 1981
* Carmen Ortiz (1981), first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
* Arnold C. Otto, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman
* Jeffrey Piccola (1973), Pennsylvania State Representative, 1977–1995, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1995–2012
* Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada

#### International

* Árpád Bogsch (1956), former director general (1973–1997) of the World Intellectual Property Organization
* Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
* Hsu Mo (1922), former International Court of Justice judge
* Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Karnataka
* Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran
* Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia
* Anja Seibert-Fohr (2000,2004), judge at the European Court of Human Rights

### Judiciary
#### Federal

* Craig S. Atkins (1925), judge of the United States Tax Court
* James C. Cacheris (1960), judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
* Darrin P. Gayles (1993), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
* Joyce Hens Green (1951), senior judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Harold H. Greene (1954), former judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over lawsuit which broke up AT&T's vertical monopoly
* Kelly Higashi, associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia
* Sarah T. Hughes (1922), first female federal judge seated in Texas, and only woman to administer the oath of office to the President of the United States
* Edwin F. Hunter (1938), longest sitting U.S. District Court judge in the nation
* Daniel T. K. Hurley (1968), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
* Barbara Milano Keenan (1974), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
* Carlos F. Lucero (1964), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
* Burnita Shelton Matthews (1920), first woman to serve as a US district judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
* Suzanne Mitchell, United States magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
* Sharon Prost (LLM 1984), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Randall Ray Rader (1978), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
* Kenneth Francis Ripple (1972), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
* James Robertson (1965), judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
* William K. Sessions III (1972), chief judge U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission
* Scott W. Stucky (LLM 1983), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
* Bolon B. Turner (LLM 1924), judge United States Tax Court

#### State

* Joseph F. Baca (1964), Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
* Albert T. Blackwell Jr., Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
* Carmen E. Espinosa (1976), First Hispanic judge for the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court
* R. C. McDonough (1949), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court
* George B. Nelson (1902), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Gregory K. Orme (1978), Judge Utah Court of Appeals
* Barbara Pariente (1973), current Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
* Leslie Perkins Snow (1891), Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court
* Joshua Soule Zimmerman, West Virginia House Delegate

### Lawyers

* Michael Avenatti (1999), lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 "hush" agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump
* Ian C. Ballon (1986), Internet lawyer and author of several law books, including a 4-volume legal treatise on e-commerce law
* Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist
* Charles Colson, leader in the Christian right movement, former Special Counsel to Richard Nixon, and jailed for conspiring during the Watergate scandal
* Denise Tourover Ezekiel (1924), lawyer who served in various executive positions for Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America
* Roy Den Hollander, men's rights lawyer who became the main suspect in the fatal attack on Judge Esther Salas' family
* Francis La Flesche, first professional Native American (Omaha) anthropologist
* Prerna Lal, immigration attorney
* Belva Ann Lockwood (1872), first woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court
* Frank Neuhauser (1940), patent attorney and winner of the first National Spelling Bee in 1925
* Vipal J. Patel, acting Attorney of the Southern District of Ohio
* Jonathan Schwartz, film producer, entertainment lawyer
* M. Gerald Schwartzbach (1969), California criminal defense attorney
* Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
* Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer

### Media

* Margaret Carlson, journalist; columnist for Bloomberg News
* Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
* David Eisenhower (1976), author and grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower
* Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
* Matt Medved, journalist; editor-in-chief of Spin

### Military

* Earl E. Anderson, Ret. general, United States Marine Corps
* Richard A. Appelbaum, Ret. U.S. Coast Guard rear admiral
* Vaughn Ary, Staff Judge Advocate to the Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
* Jedediah Hyde Baxter, son of Portus Baxter and Surgeon General of the United States Army
* Murdock A. Campbell (1919), United States Army major general and adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard
* John Fugh (1960), former Judge Advocate General
* Wilfred A. Hearn, former Judge Advocate General
* James F. Lawrence Jr. (1953), first Marine lawyer to be promoted to brigadier general, Navy Cross recipient
* Sidney A. Wallace, retired United States Coast Guard rear admiral

### Religion

* Charles Colson (1959), former White House Counsel, born-again Christian, and founder of Prison Fellowship
* Matthew Cowley (1925), former Apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* Brooks Hays (1922), United States Congressman (D-AR) and President of the Southern Baptist Convention