List of Stanford Law School alumni

The following is an incomplete list of alumni of Stanford Law School.

Executive branch
• David L. Anderson (1990), United States Attorney for the Northern District of California

• William Baer (1975), Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice

• Xavier Becerra (1984), 25th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2021–present), Attorney General of California (2017–2021) U.S. Congressman (1993–2017)

• Geoffrey Berman (1984), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

• Joshua B. Bolten (1980), White House Chief of Staff (2006–2009)

• Brooksley Born (1964), former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

• Warren Christopher (1949), 63rd U.S. Secretary of State

• Nelson Cunningham, Cofounder of Kissinger Associates, former Special Advisor to the President for Western Hemisphere affairs

• Fred Dutton (1949), Special Assistant to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, managed Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign

• John Ehrlichman (1951), infamous figure in the Watergate scandal

• Ivan K. Fong (1987), General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security

• David J. Hayes (1978), Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior

• Roderick M. Hills (1955), former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1975–1977) and Cofounder of Munger, Tolles & Olson

• Shirley Hufstedler (1949), first U.S. Secretary of Education (1979–1981) and Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1968–1979)

• Robert K. Hur (2001), United States Attorney for the District of Maryland

• Peter Koski (2005), United States Department of Justice trial attorney

• Reuben Jeffery III, Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and former Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission

• Carol Lam (1985), former United States Attorney for the Southern District of California

• Michelle Kwok Lee (1992), Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Cheryl Mills (1990), Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

• Wendy J. Olson (1990), United States Attorney for the District of Idaho

• Robert S. Rivkin, 21st General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation

• John Roos (1980), United States Ambassador to Japan (2009–2013)

• Tony West (1992), Associate Attorney General of the United States

Legislative branch
• Max Baucus (1967), U.S. Senator (1978–2014) and former U.S. Ambassador to China

• Jeff Bingaman (1968), U.S. Senator (1983–2013)

• Frank Church (1950), U.S. Senator (1957–1981)

• William Donlon Edwards (1939), U.S. Congressman (1963–1995)

• Ernest McFarland (1922), U.S. Senator (1941–1953)

• Charles M. Teague (1934), U.S. Congressman (1955–1974)

Supreme Court

 * Sandra Day O'Connor (1952), first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006)
 * William Rehnquist (1952), 16th Chief Justice of the United States (1986–2005), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1972–1986)

Courts of Appeals
• Carlos Bea (1958), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Richard Harvey Chambers (1932), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Daniel P. Collins (1988), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Benjamin Cushing Duniway (1931), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Raymond C. Fisher (1966), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Michelle Friedland (2000), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Britt Grant (2007), Judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals

• Cynthia Holcomb Hall (1954), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Procter R. Hug, Jr. (1958), Judge and former Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Gilbert H. Jertberg (1922), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Cheryl Ann Krause (1993), Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals

• Steven Menashi (2008), Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals

• Justin Miller (1914), Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

• William Albert Norris (1954), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• John B. Owens (1996), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Florence Y. Pan (1993), Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

• Peter J. Phipps (1998), Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals

• Pamela Ann Rymer (1964), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

• Sri Srinivasan (1995), Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

District Courts
• Wayne Alley (1957), Judge of the Western District of Oklahoma

• D. Brook Bartlett (1962), Judge of the Western District of Missouri

• Jesus Bernal (1989), Judge of the Central District of California

• Rudi M. Brewster (1960), Judge of the Southern District of California

• Paul G. Cassell (1984), Judge of the District of Utah

• Deborah K. Chasanow (1974), Judge of the District of Maryland

• Samuel Conti (1948), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Christopher Reid Cooper (1993), Judge of the District of Columbia

• Walter Early Craig (1934), Judge of the District of Arizona

• James Donato (1988), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Gary Feinerman (1991), Judge of the Northern District of Illinois

• Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr. (1994), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Joan B. Gottschall (1973), Judge of the Northern District of Illinois

• Thomas Poole Griesa (1958), Judge of the Southern District of New York

• Harry Lindley Hupp (1955), Judge of the Central District of California

• Susan Yvonne Illston (1973), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Rachel Kovner (2006), Judge of the Eastern District of New York

• Fred Kunzel (1927), Judge of the Southern District of California

• Charles A. Legge (1954), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Lawrence Tupper Lydick (1942), Judge of the Central District of California

• Brian Morris (1992), Judge of the District of Montana

• Kimberly J. Mueller (1995), Judge of the Eastern District of California

• S. James Otero (1976), Judge of the Central District of California

• Halil Suleyman Ozerden (1998), Judge of the Southern District of Mississippi

• Robert Francis Peckham (1945), Judge of the Northern District of California

• John Rolly Ross (1926), Judge of the District of Nevada

• James V. Selna (1970), Judge of the Central District of California

• Fern M. Smith (1975), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Christina A. Snyder (1972), Judge of the Central District of California

• Gus Jerome Solomon (1929), Judge of the District of Oregon

• Sunshine Sykes (2001), Judge of the Central District of California

• Bruce Rutherford Thompson (1936), Judge of the District of Nevada

• Vaughn R. Walker (1970), Judge of the Northern District of California

• James Ware (1972), Judge of the Northern District of California

• Stanley Alexander Weigel (1928), Judge of the Northern District of California

• David Keith Winder (1958), Judge of the District of Utah

State judiciary
• Barbara Durham (1968), Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court (1995–1998)

• Ronald M. George (1964), Chief Justice of California (1996–2011)

• Patricia Guerrero (1997), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (2022–present)

• Elizabeth A. Grimes, Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight

• Rhoda V. Lewis (1929), Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court and first woman to serve on the Court (1959–1967)

• Carlos R. Moreno (1975), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (2001–2011)

• Frank K. Richardson (1938), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1974–1983)

• Homer R. Spence  (1915), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1945–1960)

• Delbert E. Wong (1949), first Chinese-American judge in the continental United States

Non-United States government

 * Chen Show Mao (1992), Member of Parliament, Singapore
 * Sian Elias (JSM 1972), Chief Justice of New Zealand
 * Ronald Kenneth Noble (1982), Secretary General of Interpol and law professor

Other government
• Edward C. DuMont (1986), Solicitor General of California

• Dana K. Chipman (1986), Judge Advocate General of the United States Army

• Matt Gonzalez (1990), Ralph Nader's 2008 vice presidential running mate, former president of San Francisco Board of Supervisors

• Charles F. Lettow (1968), Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims

• Dick Murphy, 33rd Mayor of San Diego, California

• Chuck Reed (1978), Mayor of San Jose, California

• Gordon Rosenmeier (1932), former Minnesota State Senator

• William A. Sutherland (1898), former California State Assemblyman

• John Van de Kamp (1959), 28th Attorney General of California

• Jenifer Rajkumar (2008), current District Leader in Lower Manhattan and candidate for the New York State Assembly's 65th District

Academia
• Kerry Abrams (1998), Dean of Duke University Law School

• Michelle Alexander (1992), associate professor of law at Ohio State University and author of The New Jim Crow

• H. Verlan Andersen (1946), former professor of law and business at Brigham Young University

• Douglas G. Baird, professor of law and former Dean at the University of Chicago Law School

• Bernard Bell, professor of law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark

• Stuart Banner, legal historian and professor of law at the UCLA School of Law

• Lillian BeVier, constitutional law scholar and professor emerita at the University of Virginia Law School

• Brian W. Casey, president of DePauw University and former associate dean for academic affairs at Harvard University

• Cara H. Drinan, professor of law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law

• Aaron Edlin, scholar of law and economics; professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley

• Lia Epperson, civil rights lawyer; professor of law at American University Washington College of Law

• Robin Feldman, legal scholar and professor of law at UC Hastings College of Law

• Laura E. Gomez, former president of the Law and Society Association and law professor at the UCLA School of Law

• Joseph Grundfest, scholar of corporate law, corporate governance, securities regulation, and professor at Stanford Law School

• Chris Guthrie (1994), Dean of Vanderbilt University Law School

• Gillian K. Hadfield, professor of law and economics at the University of Southern California

• Michael Heller, real estate law scholar and professor of law at Columbia Law School

• C. Scott Hemphill, antitrust and intellectual property scholar and professor of law at New York University Law School

• Daniel P. Kessler (1993), health law scholar and professor at Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School

• Michael Klarman (1983), constitutional law scholar and Harvard Law School professor

• Gillian Lester (1998), Dean of Columbia Law School

• David F. Levi (1980), former Dean of Duke University Law School and former Judge of the Eastern District of California

• Sanford Levinson, constitutional law scholar and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law

• Bernadette Meyler, constitutional law scholar and professor of law at Stanford Law School

• Naomi Mezey, civil procedure scholar and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center

• Antony Page (1997), Dean of the Florida International University College of Law

• Nathaniel Persily, election law and constitutional law scholar and professor at Stanford Law School

• Gary R. Roberts, professor of law and former Dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

• Catherine Sandoval (1990), professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and first Hispanic commissioner in the California Public Utilities Commission

• Gregory Shaffer, international trade law scholar and law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law

• Norman Spaulding, civil procedure scholar and professor of law at Stanford Law School

• Richard Harold Steinberg, international law scholar and professor of law at the UCLA School of Law

• Allen S. Weiner, international legal scholar and co-director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation at Stanford Law School

• Robert Weisberg, criminal law scholar and professor of law at Stanford Law School

• Paul R. Williams, president of the Public International Law & Policy Group and law professor at the American University Washington College of Law

• Kimberly Yuracko (1998), professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and former Dean

• Graham J. Zellick CBE QC, Ford Foundation Fellow (1970–71), Vice Chancellor of the University of London (1997-2003)

Activism
• Maya Harris (1992), Vice President for Peace and Social Justice at the Ford Foundation

• Denis Hayes (1985), Founder, Earth Day Network

• Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

• Edward Michael Keating (1950), newspaper publisher, journalist, author; founder and publisher of Ramparts (magazine) and activist within the New Left movement

• Rebecca Love Kourlis (1976), Executive Director at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

• Anthony Romero (1990), Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (2001–present)

• Marc Rotenberg, President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center

• John D. Trasviña (1983), President of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)

Business
• Chuck Armstrong (1967), president of the Seattle Mariners

• Michael Arrington (1995), Internet journalist and entrepreneur

• Riley Bechtel (1977), billionaire, Chairman and CEO, Bechtel Corporation

• Orlando Bravo (1997), billionaire, co-founder and managing partner of private equity firm Thoma Bravo

• James Crown (1980), President of Henry Crown and Company

• David C. Drummond (1985), Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google

• Bill Franke (1961), Chairman of Wizz Air and Frontier Airlines

• Joel Greenblatt (1981, dropped out), hedge fund manager and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Gotham Asset Management

• Larry Irving, former Vice President of Global Government Affairs for the Hewlett-Packard Company and President and CEO of the Irving Information Group

• Richard Jencks, television executive and counsel, former President of CBS Broadcast Group

• Fred von Lohmann, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google

• Alex Karp (1992), billionaire and co-founder of Palantir Technologies

• Daniel Lubetzky(1993), billionaire and co-founder of Kind

• William Neukom (1967), first General Counsel at Microsoft, president of the American Bar Association

• Daniel Ninivaggi (1991), CEO of Lordstown Motors and Chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Icahn Enterprises

• Mark Oldman, Cofounder of Vault.com and wine critic

• Penny Pritzker (1984), billionaire and CEO of Pritzker Realty

• Peter Thiel (1992), founder of PayPal

• Kent Walker (1987), Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google

• Dennis Woodside (1995), COO of Dropbox (service)

Media and journalism
• Raymond Bonner (1967), investigative reporter for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune

• Amanda Brown, author of Legally Blonde

• Ailsa Chang, journalist for NPR and a host on "All Things Considered"

• Robert Cochran (1974), creator of the television shows 24 and La Femme Nikita

• Jami Floyd (1996), broadcast journalist and legal analyst, hosting "All Things Considered," for WNYC New York Public Radio

• Christy Haubegger (1992), founder of Latina magazine and film producer

• Dahlia Lithwick (1995), Senior Editor at Slate

• David Margolick, Contributing Editor at Condé Nast Portfolio, former Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair

• Twist Phelan, author

• Carlos Watson (1995), television host and journalist

• Katharine Weymouth (1992), Publisher of The Washington Post

• Michael G. Wilson (1966), Producer of James Bond films

Other
• H. Verlan Andersen (1946), former member of the Utah State Legislature and former member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)

• Quentin L. Cook (1966), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)

• Harry Usher, General Manager of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee

• Bill Walton (never graduated), former NBA basketball player

• W. Richard West, Jr. (1971), Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

• Lance B. Wickman (1972), General Counsel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)