List of University of California, Los Angeles School of Law alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

Academia

 * Drucilla Cornell – professor in political science, comparative literature, and women's studies at Rutgers University; professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; and Rutgers School of Law–Newark
 * Dorothy Wright Nelson – dean of the University of Southern California School of Law and senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
 * Joshua Dressler – professor at the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
 * Richard D. Freer – professor at Emory University School of Law
 * Eric Goldman – professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law
 * Richard L. Hasen – professor at the UCLA School of Law and University of California, Irvine School of Law
 * George David Kieffer – president of the Board of Governors, California Community Colleges and chair, Regents of the University of California
 * Laurie L. Levenson – professor of the Loyola Law School; TV legal commentator, gained fame during Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials
 * Dorothy Wright Nelson – dean of the University of Southern California School of Law and senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
 * Susan Westerberg Prager – president of Occidental College, dean of the UCLA School of Law and Southwestern Law School, provost of Dartmouth College
 * Dean Spade – associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law
 * Eugene Volokh – UCLA Law professor

Business

 * Ann Baskins – general counsel of Hewlett-Packard (2000–2006)
 * Lowell Milken – co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation
 * Antonia Hernández – president and CEO of the California Community Foundation, former president and general counsel, MALDEF
 * Brian Lee – founder of LegalZoom and The Honest Company
 * Abraham M. Lurie, developer of Marina del Rey
 * Stewart Resnick – president and CEO of The Wonderful Company
 * Michael Rich – president and CEO, RAND Corporation
 * Nelson Rising – real estate development executive, former CEO of Catellus Development Corporation
 * Martine Rothblatt – co-founder of PanAmSat and Sirius Satellite Radio, founder of United Therapeutics
 * David P. Steiner – CEO of Waste Management, Inc

Government

 * Stewart Baker – Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
 * John Howard – director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
 * Janet Dhillon – member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
 * Rachel Goslins – executive director, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
 * Andrei Iancu – Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
 * Susan Liebeler – commissioner and chairman of the United States International Trade Commission
 * James E. Rogan – director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and U.S. House of Representatives
 * Joshua D. Wright – commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission

Entertainment

 * Sondra E. Berchin – executive vice president for MCA Universal
 * Thomas Bliss – motion picture producer with credits on over 30 films, including The Hurricane and Air Force One
 * Joe Brown – star of court show Judge Joe Brown
 * Amy Bruckner – child actor best known for Phil of the Future
 * Jeff Cohen – child actor in The Goonies (1985)
 * Blye Pagon Faust –- Academy Award-winning film producer best known for Spotlight (2015)
 * Robert Fitzpatrick – entertainment attorney, film producer, and music executive; president of Allied Artists International
 * Cynthia Gouw – television show host, news anchor, reporter, actress, and model
 * Chip Johannessen – writer and producer for several popular television shows
 * William B. Keene – presiding judge on the court show Divorce Court.
 * John Kerr – Tony Award-winning actor best known for Tea and Sympathy
 * Kalyanee Mam – director and producer of the award-winning documentary A River Changes Course
 * George Mastras – Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of Breaking Bad
 * Stephan Pastis – creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
 * Kelly Perdew – winner of Season 2 of The Apprentice
 * Stacey Snider – former co-chair or chair of three film studios: 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, and Universal
 * Howard K. Stern – entertainment lawyer who was the former domestic partner, attorney, and agent of model and actress Anna Nicole Smith
 * Lauren Woodland – Emmy Award-nominated actress
 * Ken Ziffren – entertainment attorney, L.A. film czar

Judiciary

 * Percy Anderson – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * John Arguelles – associate justice, Supreme Court of California
 * Stanley Blumenfeld – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Kevin Brazile – judge, Superior Court of Los Angeles County; first African American man to serve as presiding judge of the same court
 * Janice Rogers Brown – former judge, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals; former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
 * David O. Carter – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Audrey B. Collins – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District and judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Dale A. Drozd – judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and Chief United States Magistrate Judge of the same court
 * Dolly M. Gee – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Andrew Guilford – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Philip S. Gutierrez – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Sandra Ikuta – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
 * Robert Clive Jones – chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
 * William Duffy Keller – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Alex Kozinski – chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
 * Jeffrey T. Miller – senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
 * Salvador Mendoza Jr. – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
 * Dorothy Wright Nelson – senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and dean of the University of Southern California School of Law
 * Jacqueline Nguyen – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Central District of California
 * Fred W. Slaughter – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
 * Kim McLane Wardlaw – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
 * Paul J. Watford – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Government

 * Gil Garcetti – Los Angeles County District Attorney (1992–2000)
 * Casey Gwinn – San Diego City Attorney, (1996–2004)
 * Alicia Limtiaco – United States Attorney of Guam

Nonprofit

 * Stewart Kwoh – founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center
 * Karen I. Tse – international human rights attorney, activist and director on global nonprofit

Private practice

 * Leslie Abramson – criminal defense attorney who defended Lyle and Erik Menéndez and Phil Spector
 * Harland Braun – criminal defense attorney who defended John Landis and George Folsey Jr. against manslaughter charges in the Twilight Zone: The Movie case
 * Leo Terrell – civil rights attorney, talk radio host and television personality
 * John Branca – entertainment lawyer who specializes in representing rock and roll acts, as well as independent investors, music publishing catalogs, and independent music labels

Literature and journalism

 * Vincent Bugliosi – author of non-fiction works as Helter Skelter
 * Robert Rotstein – novelist

Fine Arts

 * Ragen Moss – artist

Politics

 * Howard Berman – U.S. House of Representatives from California
 * Peter Carlisle – Mayor of Honolulu and Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu
 * Anna Caballero – California State Assembly and Secretary of the California State and Consumer Services Agency
 * Lou Correa – California State Assembly, California State Senator, and U.S. House of Representatives from California
 * David Dawson – Iowa House of Representatives
 * Roger Dickinson – California State Assembly
 * Mike Eng – California State Assembly
 * Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher - California State Assembly
 * Kirsten Gillibrand – United States Senator from New York
 * José Huizar – Los Angeles City Council who was arrested and indicted on June 23, 2020, on federal corruption charges.
 * Jerry M. Patterson – U.S. House of Representatives from California
 * James E. Rogan – U.S. House of Representatives from California, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
 * Linda Sánchez – U.S. House of Representatives from California
 * Henry A. Waxman – U.S. House of Representatives from California
 * Jack Weiss – Los Angeles City Council

Sports

 * Val Ackerman – former basketball player, first female president of USA Basketball, and president of the WNBA
 * Cara Dunne-Yates – blind Paralympic athlete
 * Julie Heldman – tennis player
 * Larry Nagler – tennis player