page_title: List of Washington University alumni
section_title: Politics, law, and government
hierarchical_section_title: List of Washington University alumni / Politics, law, and government
context_page_description: The following persons are notable alumni, living and deceased, of Washington University in St. Louis.
context_section_description: Glendy B. Arnold, St. Louis judge
  Carl J. Artman (JD): Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 2007–08
  John C. Bates (BA 1863): served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army in 1906.
  Ben Cannon (AB 1999): State Representative to the Oregon House of Representatives, 2007–2011, and Rhodes Scholar
  Henry S. Caulfield (JD 1895): Governor of Missouri, 1929–1933
  Michael Cherry (JD 1969): justice, Supreme Court of Nevada, 2006–present
  Clark M. Clifford (LLB 1928): U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1968–69; former presidential advisor
  Earl Thomas Coleman (JD 1969): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1977–1993
  Phoebe Couzins (LLB 1871): first female U.S. Marshal; feminist; leader in the Women's Suffrage Movement
  Edward Coke Crow (LLB 1879): 23rd Attorney General of Missouri from 1897–1905, advisor to Missouri Governor Lloyd Crow Stark (1937–1941)
  Hal Daub (BS 1963): U.S. congressman from Nebraska, 1981–1989; mayor of Omaha, 1995–2001
  Dwight F. Davis (LLB): founder of Davis Cup, and 49th U.S. Secretary of War
  Alan J. Dixon (LLB 1949): U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1981–93
  Alexander Monroe Dockery (MD 1865): Governor of Missouri, 1901–1905
  Leonidas C. Dyer (JD 1893): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1915–1933
  Edward Cranch Eliot (AB 1878, LLB 1880, AM 1881): former president of the American Bar Association
  Rocky Fitzsimmons: member of the West Virginia Senate
  Sam Fox (AB 1951): former United States Ambassador to Belgium
  David R. Francis (AB 1870): mayor of St. Louis, 1885–89; Governor of Missouri, 1889–93; U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1896–97; U.S. Ambassador to Russia
  Raymond W. Gruender (JD/MBA 1987): current judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  Jean Constance Hamilton (JD 1971): current judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
  Harry B. Hawes (JD 1896): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1926–1933
  John Hayden Jr. : Police Commissioner of the St.Louis Police Department
  Chic Hecht (BS 1949): U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1983–89
  Thomas C. Hennings, Jr. (JD 1926): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1951–1960
  William L. Igoe (JD 1902): U.S. congressman from Missouri, 1913–1921
  Alphonso Jackson (JD 1972): U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 2004–2008
  Chris Koster (MBA 2002): Attorney General of Missouri
  Jasna Matić (MBA 2001): Minister of Telecommunications and Information Society of Serbia
  Siniša Mali (MBA 1999): Minister of Finance of Serbia
  Andrew McCabe (JD 1993): Deputy Director of the FBI
  Abner Mikva (BA 1948): Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979-1994; U.S. Representative for Illinois's 10th congressional district, 1975-1979; U.S. Representative for Illinois's 2nd congressional district, 1969-1973
  Victor J. Miller (JD): mayor of St. Louis, 1925 to 1933
  Quinton Lucas (BA): mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 2019 to 2023
  John Francis Nangle (JD 1948): former chief judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1983–1990
  Roscoe C. Patterson (JD 1897): U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1929–1935
  Catherine D. Perry (JD 1981): current judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
  Phil Radford (BA 1998): environmental, clean energy and democracy leader; Executive Director, Greenpeace
  Cecilia Razovsky: social worker and leader in Jewish immigration efforts during World War II as part of the National Refugee Service, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
  Tony Ribaudo (1962): majority leader of the Missouri House of Representatives, 1977–1997
  Kenneth J. Rothman (AB, JD): Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, 1981–1985
  Steven Rothman (JD 1977): U.S. Congressmen from New Jersey, 1997–2013
  David Rubenstein (BA 1981): advocate, founding executive director of Save Darfur Coalition
  Phyllis Schlafly (AB 1944, JD 1978): author, lawyer, conservative and antifeminist activist
  Adam Shapiro (AB 1993): co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement
  Mike Simpson (DMD 1977): U.S. congress
caption: Judge William H. Webster, 6th Director of the FBI and 14th Director of the CIA
exif: {}