List of Capital University people

This is a list of notable individuals who currently have or previously had an association with Capital University, located in Bexley, Ohio. Capital University is a private liberal arts university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, founded in 1830. In addition to its undergraduate programs, the university also has graduate programs, as well as a law school. Capital is the oldest university in Central Ohio, and one of the oldest and largest Lutheran-affiliated universities in North America.

Notable alumni

 * Hanif Abdurraqib, poet and music writer
 * Ron Amstutz, Ohio state senator
 * Tim Ayers, former mayor and city commissioner, Springfield, Ohio
 * David F. Bowers, philosopher and Guggenheim Fellow
 * C.C. Finlay, novelist (class of 1990)
 * Robert S. Graetz, Lutheran pastor, openly supported Montgomery Bus Boycotts
 * Jay Hottinger, Ohio state senator (R-31)
 * Arnett Howard, jazz musician
 * Chris Jamison, pop singer who appeared on Season 7 of The Voice
 * Theodore E. Long, former president of Elizabethtown College
 * Louis H. Mackey, philosopher
 * Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Litton-Lodal Music Director of The American Boychoir
 * Eric Norelius, Lutheran minister, church leader and writer
 * Abdul Samad Rabiu, Nigerian industrialist
 * Harold L. Yochum, class of 1923, theologian, district president of the American Lutheran Church, 9th President of Capital University, delegate to the World Council of Churches

Notable faculty

 * Dorothy Gill Barnes, adjunct art instructor, 1966 to 1990
 * Kevin R. Griffith, professor of English, poet
 * Harold J. Grimm, professor of history and an expert on the Protestant Reformation
 * Matthias Loy, elected president of Capital University in 1881
 * William Morton Reynolds, president 1850 to 1853
 * James Swearingen, music educator and composer
 * Harvey Wasserman, liberal, anti-nuclear activist and adjunct professor in the History Department

Notable faculty

 * Jack Guttenberg, legal writer; expert on professional responsibility; co-author of the authoritative source on the Ohio new law of professional conduct for attorneys, Ohio Law of Professional Conduct
 * Bradley A. Smith, former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission 2000–2005

A 2008 survey of faculty scholarship conducted by Roger Williams University School of Law found Capital's faculty to be one of the most productive scholarly faculties in the nation.

Notable alumni

 * Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State (2007–2010)
 * Bruce Edward Johnson, Ohio Lt. Governor (2004–2006)
 * Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative (R-OH, 2007–present)
 * Greg Lashutka, mayor, Columbus, Ohio (1991–1999)
 * Matthew W. McFarland, Ohio 4th District Court of Appeals judge
 * Paul McNulty, United States Deputy Attorney General (2005–2007), United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (2001–2005)
 * Deborah Pryce, U.S. Representative (R-OH, 1993–2008)
 * Michael H. Watson, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio