# List of Tulane University Law School alumni

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

## Academia

* Winston Chang, 1992–1996 former President of Soochow University (Taiwan); former chairman, Soochow University College of Law
* Twinette Johnson, dean of the David A. Clarke School of Law
* Judith Kelleher Schafer (1942–2014), historian

## Business

* Dean Lombardi, JD, President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings, specialized in labor law
* Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
* Peter Schloss, JD-1985, CEO of Broadwebasia
* Mike Tannenbaum, JD-1995, 47-year-old General Manager of the New York Jets, graduated with Tulane's Sports Law certificate

## Government and diplomacy

* Donald Ensenat, 1973, former Chief of Protocol of the United States
* Stephen Douglas Johnson, J.D., 1988; chief counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, 1995–1997; Bush White House Senior Advisor, office of Federal Housing Oversight, 2001–2003; Washington, D.C. whistle blower
* Clint Williamson, 1986, US Ambassador, United Nations envoy, and international war crimes prosecutor

## Judiciary

* Peter Beer, 1952, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
* Nannette Jolivette Brown, 1963, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
* Patricia E. Campbell-Smith, 1992, United States Court of Federal Claims
* Edith Brown Clement, JD-1972, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)
* W. Eugene Davis, 1936, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
* Jimmy Dimos, JD-1963, Judge of 4th Judicial District of Louisiana, 1999–2006, former member and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives (D)
* John Allen Dixon Jr. (LL.B., 1947), Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
* Dee D. Drell, 1947, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
* John M. Duhé Jr., 1957, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)
* Eldon E. Fallon, 1939, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
* Martin Feldman, 1957, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
* George M. Foote, 1947, city judge in Alexandria, 1955–1985
* Rufus Edward Foster, LL.B.-1895, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; also served as 11th dean of the Tulane Law School
* Madeline Haikala, 1964, United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
* George W. Jack, 1898; Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana 1917–1924, based in Shreveport (D)
* Douglas I. Johnstone, J.D., 1966; Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
* Yvette Kane, 1953, United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
* F. A. Little Jr., J.D., 1961; retired judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (R)
* Ángel Martín, 1953, former Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
* Tucker L. Melancon, 1946, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
* Patricia Head Minaldi, 1959, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
* Harold A. Moise, 1902, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1948–1958
* Andrew G. T. Moore II, Delaware Supreme Court and founded the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
* Walter Nixon, 1951, impeached federal judge, subject of Nixon v. United States
* William Wiley Norris, III (1936–2016), city, district, and circuit court judge from West Monroe
* William H. Pryor Jr., JD-1987, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; former Attorney General of Alabama
* L. Felipe Restrepo, 1959, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
* Wynne Grey Rogers, Louisiana Supreme Court
* Eleni M. Roumel, 2000, United States Court of Federal Claims
* James D. Simon, 1918, Louisiana Supreme Court
* Sarah S. Vance, 1950, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
* Jeffrey P. Victory, 1971, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
* Elizabeth Weaver, 1965, Michigan Supreme Court
* Edward Douglass White, 1868, Chief Justice of the United States
* Jacques L. Wiener Jr., 1961, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
* John Minor Wisdom, 1929, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993

## Law

* Jim Garrison, 1949, New Orleans District Attorney (D), played by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone film JFK
* Bolivar Edwards Kemp Jr., 1897, Louisiana state attorney general 1948–1952
* Philip H. Mecom, J.D. former United States Attorney for the district of western Louisiana
* Percy Saint, Louisiana Attorney General (1924–1932) and 23rd District Court Judge (1920–1924)
* Jefferson B. Snyder, district attorney in Madison Parish (D)

## Literature

* Jan Crull Jr., J.D., 1990, filmmaker, Native American rights advocate, attorney, and investment banker
* Whitney Gaskell née Kelly, 1997, novelist
* Robert Harling, movie screenwriter, producer and director
* Jonathan Hensleigh, JD-1985, writer of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Jumanji (1995), and Armageddon (1998)

## Military

* Whitfield Jack, attended 1930; Shreveport lawyer and officer of the United States Army in World War II and United States Army Reserve, 1946–1966 (D)

## Politics
### Governors

* Newton C. Blanchard, 1870, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* Murphy J. Foster, 1871, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* Alvin Olin King, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* Huey Long, 1915, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* Francis T. Nicholls, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* Jared Y. Sanders Sr., 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* Oramel H. Simpson, 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)
* David C. Treen, 1950, Governor of Louisiana (R)
* Bob Wise, 1975, Governor of West Virginia (D)

### U.S. Senators

* Edwin S. Broussard, 1901, U.S. Senator (D)
* Robert F. Broussard, 1889, U.S. Senator (D)
* Allen J. Ellender, 1913, U.S. Senator (D)
* Randall Lee Gibson, U.S. Senator (D), whom Gibson Hall is named after
* John H. Overton, 1897, U.S. Senator (D)
* Luther Strange, 1979, U.S. Senator (R)
* David Vitter, 1988, U.S. Senator (R)

### U.S. Representatives

* Hale Boggs, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946–1972 (D)
* James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, 1931, U.S. Representative (D)
* Bob Livingston, 1968, U.S. Representative, 1977–1999 (R)
* Lewis L. Morgan, 1899, U.S. Representative, 1912–1917 (D)
* James H. Morrison, 1934, U.S. Representative, 1943–1967 (D)
* John Rarick, 1949, U.S. Representative, 1967–1975 (D)
* Cedric Richmond, JD-1998, U.S. Representative, 2011–2021 (D)
* Jared Y. Sanders Jr., 1914, U.S. Representative, 1934–1937, 1941–1943 (D)

### State

* James H. "Jim" Brown, 1966, former Secretary of State of Louisiana (D)
* Buddy Caldwell, 1973, Attorney General of Louisiana (R)
* Tom Capella, 1993, state representative and Jefferson Parish Council member; lawyer in his native New Orleans
* Edward M. Carmouche, Master of Civil Law 1940, chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party 1966–1968; attorney in Lake Charles
* Philip Ciaccio, state representative, New Orleans City Council member, state circuit judge 1982–1998
* William Tharp Cunningham, Law, judge of the 11th Judicial District in Natchitoches and Red River parishes, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1908–1912
* Grey Ferris, Mississippi state senator (D)
* Harvey Fields, state senator for Union and Morehouse parishes 1916–1920, former law partner and political ally of Huey Pierce Long Jr. (D)
* Alexi Giannoulias, 2003, former Illinois State Treasurer (D)
* Philip H. Gilbert, district attorney, state district court judge, state senator, lieutenant governor from Assumption Parish (D)
* John Grenier, 1953, Alabama Republican Party figure (R)
* William Pike Hall Sr., attended c. 1920, Louisiana state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, 1924–1932, Shreveport attorney (D)
* Lloyd Hendrick, state senator for Caddo and Desoto parishes 1940–1948
* Samuel Lawrason, LL.D., 1874, state senator from St. Francisville who authored Lawrason Act of 1898 (D)
* Sam A. LeBlanc III, J.D. 1963; state legislator, temporary federal appeals court judge; lawyer in New Orleans; retired to St. Francisville (D)
* Samuel A. LeBlanc I, Law 1908; state legislator, state district and appeals court judge, justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1949–1954 (D)
* Walt Leger III, Law 2003; state legislator, 2008–2020; Speaker Pro Tempore, Louisiana House of Representstives, 2012–2020, New Orleans, Louisiana
* Jean-Paul Morrell, 2004, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature
* George T. Oubre, member of the Louisiana State Senate from St. James Parish, 1968–1972; lost runoff election to William J. Guste in 1971 for state attorney general
* Jansen Tosh Owen, 2019, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
* Keith M. Pyburn, 1936, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish 1948–1952 (D)
* Todd Schuler, Maryland State Delegate (D)
* Jasper K. Smith (non-degreed), Louisiana state representative from Caddo Parish 1944–1948 and 1952–1964
* E. L. Stewart, 1897, state representative for Webster Parish 1904–1908
* James Sutterfield, 1981, New Orleans attorney and state legislator, 1970–1972 (R)
* Roy R. Theriot, 1939, Louisiana Comptroller, 1960–1973 (D)
* Jeff R. Thompson, 1995, member of the Louisiana House from Bossier Parish and incoming 9th Judicial District Court judge (R)
* Frank Voelker Jr., chairman of the former Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission
* Arthur C. Watson, 1933, State representative from Natchitoches Parish; chairman of Louisiana Democratic Party 1968–1976 (D)

### Local

* Shaun Abreu, 2018, New York City Council
* Ravinder Bhalla, Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey (2017–)
* Paul Capdevielle, 1868, Mayor of New Orleans, 1900–1904
* Robert Poydasheff, Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2003–2007) (R)
* T. Semmes Walmsley, 1912, Mayor of New Orleans, 1929–1936 (D)

### Other offices

* Kenneth McClintock, J.D., 1980, 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate, current Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico