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.

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

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 Hawaii
 * 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

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
 * 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