List of USC Gould School of Law alumni

The University of Southern California Gould School of Law (USC Gould), located in Los Angeles, California, is a law school within the University of Southern California. The oldest law school in the Southwestern United States, USC Law had its beginnings in 1896, and was officially established as a school of the university in 1900.

U.S. federal Court of Appeals judges

 * Arthur Alarcón (1951) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1992)
 * James Marshall Carter (1927) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1967–1971); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1949–1967)
 * Walter Raleigh Ely, Jr. (LL.M. 1949) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1964–1979)
 * Ferdinand Francis Fernandez (1962) – Senior Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2002–present) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1989–2002); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985–1989)
 * Warren J. Ferguson (1949) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1986); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1979)
 * Dorothy Wright Nelson (LL.M. 1956) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–1995)
 * David R. Thompson (1955) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1985–1998)
 * Charles E. Wiggins (1956) – Judge of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1984–1996)

U.S. federal District Court for the Central District of California judges

 * William Matthew Byrne, Jr. (1956) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1971–1998)
 * Thurmond Clarke (1927) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1970); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1955–1966)
 * Elisha Avery Crary (1929) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1975); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1962–1966)
 * Richard Arthur Gadbois, Jr. (1960) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1982–1996)
 * Peirson Mitchell Hall – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1968); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1942–1966)
 * James M. Ideman (1963) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–1998)
 * David Vreeland Kenyon (1957) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1980–1995)
 * George H. King (1974) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1995–present)
 * Stephen G. Larson (1989) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2006–2009)
 * Nora Margaret Manella (1975) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1998–2006)
 * Edward Rafeedie (1959) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1982–1996)
 * Albert Lee Stephens, Jr. (1938) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1966–1979); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1961–1966)
 * Alicemarie Huber Stotler (1967) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–2009)
 * Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi (1959) – first Japanese American federal judge; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1976–1996)
 * Dickran Tevrizian (1965) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1985–2005)
 * Laughlin Edward Waters, Sr. (1947) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1976–1986)
 * David W. Williams (1937) – first African American federal judge west of the Mississippi River; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1969–1981)

Other U.S. federal court judges

 * Mary Ann Cohen (1967) – Judge of the United States Tax Court (1982–present)
 * J. Lawrence Irving (1963) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1982–1990)
 * David W. Ling (1913) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1936–1964)
 * Leland Chris Nielsen (1946) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1971–1985)
 * Howard Boyd Turrentine (1939) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1970–1984)
 * Ronald M. Whyte (1967) – Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (1992–2009)

California Supreme Court justices

 * David Eagleson (1950) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1991)
 * Douglas L. Edmonds (1910) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1936–1955)
 * Frederick W. Houser (1900) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1937–1942)
 * Marcus Kaufman (1956) – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1987–1990)
 * Joyce L. Kennard (1974) – first Asian-American to serve as an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1989–2014)
 * Malcolm M. Lucas (1953) – 26th Chief Justice of California (1987–1996); Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court (1984–1987); Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1971–1984) All four were appointed by Republican Governor George Deukmejian.

Business

 * C. Bertrand Thompson (1900) – First African-American graduate of USC Law School at age 18, early scholar of scientific management
 * Louis Galen (1951) – former CEO of Golden West Financial, philanthropist
 * Sol Price (1957) – founder of Fed Mart and Price Club (Costco Wholesale Corp.)
 * James E. Rogers (1963) – CEO & owner, Sunbelt Communications
 * Richard Ziman (1967) – CEO, Arden Realty
 * Stanley Gold (1967) – President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings
 * Bruce Karatz (1970) – CEO of KB Home
 * Jeff Smulyan (1972) – founder and CEO of Emmis Communications
 * Brian Grazer (left in 1975) – Oscar-winning co-founder of Imagine Entertainment
 * Charles Prince (1975) – former chairman & CEO of Citigroup
 * Richard Rosenblatt (1994) – Founder, CEO, Intermix & Demand Media; former Chairman, MySpace; Founder, former CEO, iMALL
 * Larry Flax (1967) – Co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen

Other

 * Greg Bautzer (1936) - celebrity divorce attorney
 * Tiffiny Blacknell (2002) – Deputy District Attorney for the Los Angeles County and community activist
 * Steve Cooley (1973) – 41st Los Angeles County District Attorney
 * Gordon Dean (1930) – former USC Law School professor; chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
 * Charles Gessler (1961) – deputy public defender and capital defense lawyer
 * David Getches (1967) – former Dean and Raphael J. Moses Professor of Natural Resources Law at the University of Colorado School of Law
 * James P. Gray (1971) – presiding judge of the Superior Court of Orange County; former Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate and  for Vice President of the United States
 * Jack Carl Greenburg (1933) – former Chief Clerk of the California State Assembly
 * George Hedges (1978) – senior partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP and attorney to celebrity clients
 * You Chung Hong (1924) – first Chinese American admitted to practice in California
 * Frederick N. Howser (1930) – 22nd Attorney General of California
 * Douglas Kmiec (1976) – former U.S. Ambassador to Malta, Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University, f former Dean and St. Thomas More Professor at The Catholic University of America, former Director of Law & Government Center, University of Notre Dame
 * Jackie Lacey (1982) – first woman and first African American to serve as District Attorney of Los Angeles County
 * Charles Older (1952) – California Superior Court judge presiding over trial of Charles Manson; also one of the Flying Tigers pilots of World War II
 * Aulana L. Peters (1973) – first African American and third woman to serve as commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
 * Margaret Radin (1976) – law professor at Stanford Law School; former USC Law School professor
 * E. Randol Schoenberg (1991) – attorney specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks; one of the central figures of the 2015 film Woman in Gold, which depicted the case he brought against the Austrian government.
 * Mabel Walker Willebrandt (1916) – Assistant U.S. Attorney General (1921–1929)

Politics

 * Arthur Alber–(1918) Los Angeles City Council member (1927–29)
 * Bertrand W. Gearhart (1910) – lawyer and former member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Fletcher Bowron (1911) – former mayor of Los Angeles
 * J. Curtis Counts (1941) – Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
 * Doug Emhoff (1990) – lawyer, Second Gentleman of the United States
 * Buron Fitts (1916) – former Lieutenant Governor of California
 * Thomas Kuchel (1935) – former United States Senator
 * Craig Hosmer (1940) – former United States Representative
 * Fred Hall (1941) – former Governor of Kansas
 * James B. Utt (1946) – former United States Representative
 * Carlos Moorhead (1949) – former United States Representative
 * Robert Finch (1951) – former Lieutenant Governor of California, former United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
 * Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (1956) – Los Angeles County supervisor, former member of the United States House of Representatives
 * Michael L. Williams (1979) – senior commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas, Texas Commissioner of Education
 * John Heilman (1982) – mayor of West Hollywood, lecturer at USC Gould
 * James Stuart McKnight (1908) – Los Angeles City Council member (1931–33)
 * Charles K. Djou (1996) – former United States Representative (Hawaii)
 * Nanette Barragan (2005) – current United States Representative (California)
 * Pat Nolan (1975) – Member of the California State Assembly, 1978-1994; Republican Assembly Leader, 1984-1988; one of eight members of U. S. Prison Rape Commission, 2005-2009, appointed by Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 * William A. Munnell (1948) – former Majority Floor Leader of the California State Assembly from California's 51st State Assembly district, 1959-1961; also a judge for the Los Angeles County Superior Court, 1961-1985

Sports and media

 * Terry Baker (1968) – played quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams and the CFL's Edmonton Eskimos while earning a J.D. at USC
 * Ronald Barak (1968) – Olympic gymnast
 * Lillian Copeland (1932) - Olympic discus champion; set world records in discus, javelin, and shot put
 * Philip N. Krasne (1929) – producer of the later Charlie Chan films and the Cisco Kid television series.
 * Carey McWilliams (1927) – editor of The Nation for 20 years
 * Rick Neuheisel (1990) – Former head football coach at UCLA and former UCLA quarterback.
 * Amy Trask (1985) – Former CEO of the Oakland Raiders
 * Joseph Wapner (1948) – Judge of The People's Court (former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge)
 * Wally Wolf (1930–1997) – swimmer, water polo player, and Olympic champion