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 (D)
 * 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 (R)

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)

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