# University of Wisconsin Law School alumni

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

## Athletics

* Ken Bowman – Green Bay Packers lineman and member of the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
* Pat Richter – Former NFL player and Athletic Director for the University of Wisconsin

## Academics

* Daniel D. Blinka – Marquette University Law School professor
* George Bunn – Dean of William Mitchell College of Law and justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
* Kimberlé Crenshaw – professor of law at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School
* Richard Danner – professor of law, Duke University
* Robben Wright Fleming – president of University of Michigan
* Spencer L. Kimball – dean of law, University of Wisconsin–Madison and former professor of law, University of Chicago
* James E. Krier – professor of law at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UCLA
* Stacy Leeds – dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law
* Daniel R. Mandelker – professor of law, Washington University in St. Louis
* John E. Murray Jr. – Chancellor and professor of law at Duquesne University
* Mark Nordenberg – Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh
* Frank J. Remington – professor of law, University of Wisconsin–Madison
* Lori Ringhand – interim director of Dean Rusk International Law Center and J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law
* Ediberto Roman – professor of law at Florida International University College of Law
* David Sturtevant Ruder – Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former dean of law, Northwestern University
* Nicholas S. Zeppos – Chancellor of Vanderbilt University

## Business

* Alfred S. Regnery – president of Regnery Publishing
* John Rowe – CEO of Exelon
* David Sturtevant Ruder – chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former dean of law, Northwestern University
* Elmer Winter – founder of Manpower Inc.

## Government

* John E. Lange – U.S. State Department official
* Stewart Simonson – Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness

## Judiciary

* Shirley Abrahamson – former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Daniel P. Anderson – presiding judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Martha Bablitch – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* William A. Bablitch – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Charles V. Bardeen – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Elmer E. Barlow – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* John Barnes – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Robert McKee Bashford – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Bruce F. Beilfuss – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Nils Boe – 23rd Governor of South Dakota and served as a judge for the United States Customs Court
* Ann Walsh Bradley – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Susan Brnovich - judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
* Grover L. Broadfoot – chief justice of Wisconsin
* Richard S. Brown – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Andrew A. Bruce – justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
* George Bunn – justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Dean of William Mitchell College of Law
* Louis B. Butler – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* William G. Callow – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* William M. Conley – judge for the U. S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
* Barbara Crabb – judge of the U. S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
* Charles H. Crownhart – former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* George R. Currie – chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Roland B. Day – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* John A. Decker – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* David G. Deininger – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Christian Doerfler – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* W. Patrick Donlin – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus
* F. Ryan Duffy – judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and former United States Senator
* Charles P. Dykman – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* William Eich – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Evan Alfred Evans – judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
* Thomas E. Fairchild – Senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
* Chester A. Fowler – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Edward J. Gehl – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Rachel A. Graham - judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Kenneth P. Grubb – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
* David W. Hagen – judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
* Oscar Hallam – justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
* Connor Hansen – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Nathan Heffernan – chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Paul B. Higginbotham – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Geraldine Hines – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court
* Michael W. Hoover – presiding judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* James C. Kerwin – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Claude Luse – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
* Louis Wescott Myers – chief justice of the California Supreme Court
* Kenneth J. O'Connell – chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
* Tawia Modibo Ocran – justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
* Walter C. Owen – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Gregory A. Peterson – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* David Prosser Jr. – Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
* Rudolph T. Randa – federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
* James Ward Rector – Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
* Lowell A. Reed – federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
* Paul F. Reilly – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Patience D. Roggensack – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Arthur L. Sanborn – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
* Charles B. Schudson – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Edgar W. Schwellenbach – chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court
* Robert G. Siebecker – chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Albert Morris Sames – judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
* Burton A. Scott – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Donald W. Steinmetz – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* E. Ray Stevens – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Margaret J. Vergeront – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
* Aad J. Vinje – chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* John D. Wickhem – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* Jon P. Wilcox – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
* John B. Winslow – chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court

## Law

* Timothy T. Cronin – U.S. Attorney
* Nneka Egbujiobi – lawyer and founder of Hello Africa
* Stephen S. Gregory – lawyer and president of the American Bar Association
* Belle Case La Follette – first woman to graduate from UW Law School (1885); women's suffrage activist, and wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
* Peg Lautenschlager – Attorney General of Wisconsin
* Judith L. Lichtman – attorney specializing in women's rights and civil rights
* David W. Márquez – Alaska Attorney General
* J.B. Van Hollen – Attorney General of Wisconsin
* Hilbert Philip Zarky – tax attorney with the United States Department of Justice and in private practice
* Norma Zarky – attorney

## Military

* Robyn J. Blader – U.S. National Guard general
* Robert Bruce McCoy – U.S. National Guard Major General

## Politics

* Thomas Ryum Amlie – U.S. Representative
* Gerald K. Anderson – Wisconsin State Assemblyman
* Norman C. Anderson – Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* James N. Azim Jr. – Wisconsin State Representative
* Tammy Baldwin – first woman to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate
* Levi H. Bancroft – Attorney General of Wisconsin, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Lloyd Barbee – Wisconsin legislator and civil rights activist
* Tom Barrett – U.S. Representative
* Peter D. Bear – Wisconsin State Senator
* Theodore Benfey – Wisconsin State Senator
* Claire B. Bird – Wisconsin State Senator
* Nils Boe – 23rd Governor of South Dakota and served as a judge for the United States Customs Court
* Theodore W. Brazeau – Wisconsin State Senator
* Angie Brooks – President, United Nations General Assembly
* Edward E. Browne – U.S. Representative
* Michael E. Burke – U.S. Representative
* Howard W. Cameron – Wisconsin State Senator
* Fred J. Carpenter – Wisconsin State Representative
* Milton Robert Carr – U.S. Representative from Michigan
* Richard Cates – Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
* Moses E. Clapp – United States Senator
* David G. Classon – U.S. Representative
* Clarence Clinton Coe – Wisconsin State Representative
* John Cudahy – U.S. diplomat
* Joseph E. Davies – U.S. diplomat
* Glenn Robert Davis – U.S. Representative
* John M. Detling – Wisconsin State Representative
* Benjamin W. Diederich – Wisconsin State Representative
* Davis A. Donnelly – Wisconsin State Senator
* L. J. Fellenz – Wisconsin State Senator
* Harold V. Froehlich – U.S. Representative
* Edward R. Garvey – labor activist and politician
* Hiram Gill – Mayor of Seattle, Washington
* Ansley Gray – Wisconsin State Representative
* Mark Andrew Green – U.S. diplomat
* Kenneth L. Greenquist – Wisconsin State Senator
* Frank H. Hanson – Wisconsin State Senator and Representative
* George P. Harrington – Wisconsin State Representative
* Everis A. Hayes – United States Representative
* Knute Hill – United States Representative
* George Hudnall – Wisconsin State Senator from the 11th District.
* Paul O. Husting – U.S. Senator
* Lester Johnson – U.S. Representative
* Burr W. Jones – U.S. Representative
* William Carey Jones – U.S. Representative
* Fred F. Kaftan – Wisconsin State Senator
* John C. Karel – Wisconsin State Representative
* Robert Kastenmeier – U.S. Representative
* David Keene – chairman of the American Conservative Union
* Ernest Keppler – Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly
* Warren P. Knowles – Governor of Wisconsin
* Arthur W. Kopp – U.S. Representative
* Andrew L. Kreutzer – Wisconsin State Senator
* Philip La Follette – Governor of Wisconsin
* Robert M. La Follette, Sr. – Wisconsin governor, senator and Progressive Party candidate for U.S. president in 1924;
* Robert Watson Landry – Wisconsin State Representative
* Elmer O. Leatherwood – U.S. Representative from Utah
* Olin B. Lewis – Minnesota State politician
* James Manahan – U.S. Representative
* Herbert H. Manson – chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
* Archie McComb – Wisconsin State Representative
* Dale McKenna – Wisconsin State Senator
* Arthur William McLeod – Wisconsin State Representative
* Carroll Metzner – Wisconsin State Representative
* Arthur O. Mockrud – Wisconsin State Representative
* Thomas Morris – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
* Elmer A. Morse – U.S. Representative
* Gaylord Nelson – Governor of Wisconsin – U.S. Senator and founder of Earth Day
* John M. Nelson – U.S. Representative
* Ivan A. Nestingen – Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
* John Oestreicher – Wisconsin State Representative
* Patrick H. O'Rourk, Wisconsin State Senator
* Juan Perez – mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin
* Charles B. Perry – Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
* Richard F. Pettigrew – United States Senator
* Vel Phillips – Wisconsin Secretary of State
* William Edmunds Plummer – Wisconsin State Representative, United States Senate
* Clifford E. Randall – U.S. Representative
* Henry R. Rathbone – U.S. Representative
* Michael Reilly – U.S. Representative
* Paul Samuel Reinsch – U.S. diplomat
* John W. Reynolds – Governor of Wisconsin
* Alan S. Robertson – Wisconsin State Representative
* Harry Sauthoff – U.S. Representative
* Rudolph Schlabach – Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
* Henry O. Schowalter – Wisconsin State Representative
* James Sensenbrenner – U.S. Representative and former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee
* Roy C. Smelker – Wisconsin State Representative
* Edward H. Sprague – Wisconsin State Representative
* Paul Soglin – Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
* James A. Tawney – U.S. Representative
* Howard Teasdale – Wisconsin State Senator
* Donald Edgar Tewes – U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
* William Te Winkle – Wisconsin State Senator
* Lewis D. Thill – U.S. Representative
* Carl W. Thompson – Wisconsin State Senator
* Tommy Thompson – Governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
* Vernon W. Thomson – Governor of Wisconsin
* Eugene A. Toepel – Wisconsin State Assembly
* Phillip James Tuczynski – Wisconsin State Representative
* Fran Ulmer – Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
* Edward Voigt – U.S. Representative
* Michael J. Wallrich – Wisconsin State Representative
* Thomas J. Walsh – U.S. Senator from Montana
* Kenneth S. White – Wisconsin State Senator
* Alexander Wiley – U.S. Senator
* Herman C. Wipperman – Wisconsin State Representative, 1895–1907
* Richard J. Zaborski – Wisconsin State Senator