List of University of Virginia School of Law alumni

This is an incomplete list of notable alumni of the University of Virginia School of Law.

Academia

 * Stephen Bainbridge (1985) – William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
 * Richard Bonnie (1969) – Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, University of Virginia Law School
 * Hardy Cross Dillard (1927) – dean, UVA Law School; judge, International Court of Justice
 * Charles M. Elson (1985) – Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, Professor of Finance, University of Delaware
 * Jerry Falwell Jr. (1987) – chancellor, Liberty University
 * Patrick Finnegan (1979) – 12th academic dean of U.S. Military Academy and 25th president of Longwood University
 * Gary Francione (1981) – Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers Law School
 * Elizabeth Garrett (1988) – 13th president of Cornell University
 * A.E. Dick Howard (1961) – White Burkett Miller Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia Law School
 * John Jeffries (1973) – 12th dean and David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
 * Andrew Leipold (1985) – Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
 * M. Elizabeth Magill (1995) – provost of the University of Virginia, 13th dean of Stanford Law School
 * Michael McCann (2002) – founding director of the UNH Law Sports and Entertainment Law Institute, University of New Hampshire School of Law
 * William Ephraim Mikell (1894) – dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * Blake Morant (1978) – dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor, George Washington University Law School
 * James Pfander (1982) – Owen L. Coon Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
 * W. Taylor Reveley, III (1968) – president, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School
 * W. Taylor Reveley IV (2002) – 26th president of Longwood University
 * Jacob Rooksby (2007) – dean of Gonzaga University School of Law
 * James E. Ryan (1992) – president of the University of Virginia
 * Micah Schwartzman (2005) – Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
 * David Skeel (1987) – S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
 * Paul B. Stephan (1977) – John C. Jeffries Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
 * Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1877) – president of the College of William & Mary
 * Joyce Vance (1985) – distinguished professor of the practice of law, University of Alabama School of Law
 * Paul R. Verkuil (1967) – former president of College of William & Mary and former dean of Cardozo Law School; chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States

Business

 * Donald Dell (1964) – founder of ProServ
 * Eppa Hunton Jr. (1877) – founder of Hunton & Williams, president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
 * Eppa Hunton IV (1927) – senior partner, chairman of the executive committee of Hunton & Williams
 * Bruce Karsh (1980) – Investor, founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, Executive Board Member of Golden State Warriors
 * Peter S. Kaufman (1978) – investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
 * Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) – vice president and general counsel, Procter & Gamble
 * Ted Mathas (1992) – chairman, president, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
 * Alexander F. Mathews. (1856) – president and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte
 * Thomas M. Moriarty (1989) – executive vice president, chief policy and external affairs officer, and general counsel, CVS Health
 * John E. Osborn (1983) – former executive vice president and general counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
 * R. Hewitt Pate (1987) – general counsel, Chevron
 * Craig Silliman (1994) – executive vice president global services, Verizon

Civil rights and nonprofit

 * J. Richard Cohen (1979) – former president and legal director of Southern Poverty Law Center
 * Kim Keenan (1987) – general counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
 * Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1984) – manager of the nonprofit organization Citizens Energy; son of Robert F. Kennedy
 * Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1979) – chairman of Children's Health Defense; son of Robert F. Kennedy
 * John N. Raudabaugh (1977) – staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; Member, National Labor Relations Board 1990–1993

Entertainment

 * Lee Habeeb (1991) – conservative talk radio producer
 * Laura Ingraham (1991) – radio talk–show host
 * Andrew Scheinman (1973) – movie producer
 * Will Shortz (1977) – crossword editor, The New York Times
 * Bob Wright (1968) – former chairman and CEO of NBC

Government

 * John Bridgeland (1987) – director, USA Freedom Corps
 * Mortimer Caplin (1940) – former commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
 * Doug Gansler (1989) – Attorney General of Maryland
 * Lee E. Goodman (1990) – chairman, Federal Election Commission
 * Todd Graves (1991) – U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri
 * Tim Heaphy (1991) – U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia
 * Toby J. Heytens (2000) – Solicitor General of Virginia
 * Pete Holmes (1984) – Seattle City Attorney
 * Brendan Johnson (2001) – U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
 * Max Kennedy (1992) – board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
 * Edwin Kneedler (1975) – Deputy United States Solicitor General
 * Zane David Memeger (1991) – U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2010–2016)
 * Robert Mueller (1973) – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
 * Trevor Potter (1982) – chairman of Federal Election Commission
 * John N. Raudabaugh (1977) – staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; member, National Labor Relations Board 1990–1993
 * William B. Schultz (1974) – general counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services
 * Joyce White Vance (1985) – United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
 * Peter S. Vincent (1995) – principal legal advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; acting director of ICE’s Office of International Affairs, Homeland Security Investigations
 * Andy Vollmer (1978) – acting general counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
 * James B. Whitfield (1886) – state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
 * Michael C. Wholley (1977) – general counsel, NASA
 * Frank Wisner (1934) – head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s

Judiciary

 * G. Steven Agee (1977) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * Carol Amon (1971) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
 * John Antoon (2001, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
 * Lewis Babcock (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
 * Alice M. Batchelder (1988) – chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Peter Beer (1986, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
 * Robert Beezer (1956) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 * Carol A. Beier (2004, LL.M) – judge, Kansas Supreme Court
 * Robert Benham (1990, LL.M) – judge, Georgia Supreme Court
 * Duane Benton (1995, LL.M) – judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
 * Susan H. Black (1984) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
 * Pasco Bowman II (1979, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
 * John White Brockenbrough – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
 * Mary Beck Briscoe (1990, LL.M) – chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
 * John T. Broderick Jr. (1972) – chief justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
 * Janice Rogers Brown (2004, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
 * James O. Browning (1981) – judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
 * Albert Vickers Bryan (1921) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * John D. Butzner Jr. (1941, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * Consuelo María Callahan (2004, LL.M) – judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 * Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (1973) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
 * Ronald D. Castille (1971) – chief justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
 * Robert J. Conrad (1983) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
 * Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1988, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
 * James L. Dennis (1984) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
 * Hardy Cross Dillard (1927) – judge, International Court of Justice; dean, UVA Law School
 * Robert D. Durham (1998, LL.M) – justice, Oregon Supreme Court
 * James Larry Edmondson (1990, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
 * Richard Alan Enslen (1986, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
 * Orinda D. Evans (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
 * John A. Field Jr. (1935) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * Louise W. Flanagan (1988) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
 * Paul C. Gartzke (1992) – presiding judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Julia Smith Gibbons (1975) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * John A. Gibney Jr. (1976) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
 * John Gleeson (1980) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
 * George H. Goodrich (1952) – judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
 * Thomas B. Griffith (1985) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
 * Asher Grunis (1972, LL.M) – President, Supreme Court of Israel
 * Michael Daly Hawkins (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 * Sven Erik Holmes (1980) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
 * Virginia Hopkins (1977) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
 * Lynn Nettleton Hughes (1992, LL.M) – judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
 * Willis Hunt (1990, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
 * Raymond Alvin Jackson (1973) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
 * Denise R. Johnson (LL.M., 1995) – first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court
 * James Parker Jones (1965) – Chief judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
 * Daniel Porter Jordan III (1993) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
 * Barbara Milano Keenan (1992, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * James Kinkeade (1998, LL.M.) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
 * Cynthia D. Kinser (1977) – chief justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
 * Jeannette Knoll (Master of Laws, 1996) – associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
 * Benson Everett Legg (1973) – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
 * Peter K. Leisure (1958) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
 * Donald Lemons (1976) – chief justice Supreme Court of Virginia
 * Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
 * Kermit Lipez (1990, LL.M.) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
 * J. Michael Luttig (1981) – former judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co.
 * Blanche M. Manning (1992, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Boyce F. Martin Jr. (1963, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Mark D. Martin (1998) – judge North Carolina Supreme Court
 * James Clark McReynolds (1884) – former justice, United States Supreme Court
 * Amit Priyavadan Mehta (1997) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
 * Lawrence E. Meyers (1998, LL.M) – judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth
 * Paul Redmond Michel (1966) – Chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 * Donald M. Middlebrooks (2004, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
 * Michael P. Mills (2001, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
 * Richard Henry Mills (1982, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
 * Norman K. Moon (1988, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
 * William Theodore Moore Jr. (2001, LL.M) – judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
 * John T. Morton (1994) – assistant secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
 * Diana Gribbon Motz (1968) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * J. Frederick Motz (1967) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
 * Glenn Murdock (1981) – justice, Supreme Court of Alabama
 * Alan Eugene Norris (1986) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Donal O'Donnell (1983, LL.M) – chief justice of Ireland, Supreme Court of Ireland
 * Diarmuid O'Scannlain (1992, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
 * John Pelander (1998, LL.M) justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
 * Cleo E. Powell (1982) – justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
 * William R. Quinlan (1989, LL.M) – justice, Illinois Appellate Court, Corporation Counsel to the City of Chicago
 * Stanley Forman Reed (1908) – former justice, United States Supreme Court
 * Carlton W. Reeves (1989) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
 * Kenneth Francis Ripple (1968) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
 * Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (1988, LL.M) judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
 * John Roll (1990, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona
 * Robert D. Rucker (1998, LL.M) – judge, Indiana Supreme Court
 * Thomas G. Saylor (2004, LL.M) – judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
 * Michael H. Schneider Sr. (2001, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
 * Arthur J. Schwab (1972) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
 * Murray Merle Schwartz (1982, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
 * Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) – chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court
 * G. Kendall Sharp (1963) – judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
 * Robert J. Shelby (1988) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
 * Randall Terry Shepard (1995 LL.M) – chief justice, Indiana Supreme Court
 * Eugene E. Siler Jr. (1963) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Edward Samuel Smith (1947) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 * William Lloyd Standish (1956) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
 * Louis L. Stanton (1955) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
 * Walter King Stapleton (1984, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
 * Myron T. Steele (1970) – chief justice, Delaware Supreme Court
 * Chester J. Straub (1961) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 * Richard F. Suhrheinrich (1990, LL.M) – Senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Richard Barclay Surrick (1982, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 * Eric C. Taylor (1988) – presiding judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court
 * Debra Todd (2004, LL.M) – judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
 * Juan R. Torruella (1984, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
 * James B. Whitfield (1886) – state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
 * Michael J. Wilkins (2001, LL.M) – Associate chief justice, Utah Supreme Court
 * J. Harvie Wilkinson (1972) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
 * Glen Morgan Williams (1948) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
 * Victor J. Wolski (1991) – judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
 * James Andrew Wynn (1995, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Literature and journalism

 * Louis Auchincloss (1941) – novelist
 * David Baldacci (1986) – novelist
 * Linda Fairstein (1972) – novelist
 * Emily Giffin (1997) – novelist
 * Philip K. Howard (1974) – writer
 * Evan Thomas (1977) – editor, Newsweek

Politics

 * Charles C. Adams Jr. (1973) – United States Ambassador to Finland
 * George Allen (1977) – U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and Governor of Virginia
 * J. Lindsay Almond (1923) – governor of Virginia; judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 * Nathan L. Bachman (1903) – U.S. Senator from Tennessee
 * Alben W. Barkley (1900) – U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States
 * Robert Bauer (1976) – White House Counsel, general counsel of the Obama Campaign
 * Evan Bayh (1981) – U.S. Senator and governor of Indiana
 * Andy Beshear (2003) – governor of Kentucky (2019–present), Attorney General of Kentucky (2015 –2019)
 * Kit Bond (1963) – U.S. Senator and governor of Missouri
 * Rick Boucher (1971) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * Debra Bowen (1979) – Secretary of State of California
 * Alan Stephenson Boyd (1948) – U.S. Secretary of Transportation
 * Harry F. Byrd Jr. (1936) – U.S. Senator from Virginia
 * Bryan Callaghan Jr. (1874) – mayor of San Antonio, Texas for 16 years
 * Millard F. Caldwell (1924) – U.S. Congressman and governor of Florida
 * Edward M. Carmouche (1948) – chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana
 * Robin Carnahan (1986) – Missouri Secretary of State
 * James Paul Clarke (1878) – U.S. Senator and governor of Arkansas
 * John Cornyn (1995) – U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas
 * Tom Davis (1975) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * Frank M. Dixon (1943) – governor of Alabama
 * Tom Donilon (1985) – U.S. National Security Advisor
 * Paul Erickson (1988) – conservative political operative, subject to federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
 * Fred Fielding (1964) – White House Counsel
 * William Meade Fishback (1855) – governor of Arkansas
 * Randy Forbes (1977) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * Luis G. Fortuño (1985) – governor of Puerto Rico
 * Grenville Gaines (1876) – mayor of Warrenton, Virginia
 * Jim Gilmore (1977) – governor of Virginia
 * Virgil Goode (1973) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * William J. Howell (1967) – Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
 * Bob Inglis (1984) – U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
 * John Neely Kennedy (1977) – U.S. Senator from Louisiana
 * Ted Kennedy (1959) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic presidential candidate
 * Robert F. Kennedy (1951) – Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic presidential candidate
 * Angus King (1969) – U.S. Senator and former governor of Maine
 * Sheila Jackson-Lee (1975) – U.S. Congresswoman from Texas
 * Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) – chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
 * Sean Patrick Maloney (1992) – U.S. Congressman from New York
 * Thurgood Marshall Jr. (1981) – Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton
 * Jennifer McClellan (1997) – U.S. Congresswoman from Virginia, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegates
 * Donald McEachin (1986) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * George McMillan (1979) – lieutenant governor of Alabama, Alabama Senate, Alabama House of Representatives
 * Janet Napolitano (1983) – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, governor of Arizona, president of the University of California
 * Bill Nelson (1968) – U.S. Senator from Florida
 * Kirstjen Nielsen (1999) – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
 * Chris Obenshain (2006)- Virginia State Delegate from the 41st district
 * Walter Tansill Oliver (1873–1932) –, state delegate and state senator from Virginia; mayor of Fairfax, Virginia
 * Henry A. Osborn Jr. (1884–1918) – politician
 * Ken Paxton (1991) – Attorney General of Texas
 * W. Robert Pearson (1968) – U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
 * Matthew S. Petersen (1999) – commissioner and former chairman, Federal Election Commission
 * H. Foster Pettit – Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky
 * Heather Podesta (1997) – American lobbyist
 * Charles Robb (1973) – U.S. Senator and governor of Virginia
 * Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (1940) – U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Hugh D. Scott (1922) – U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate
 * Faryar Shirzad – advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
 * Howard Worth Smith (1903) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
 * John C. Stennis (1927) – U.S. Senator from Mississippi
 * Harry F. Stimpson Jr. – Ambassador to Paraguay
 * John V. Tunney (1959) – U.S. Senator from California
 * John Warner (1953) – U.S. Senator from Virginia
 * Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (1958) – U.S. Senator and governor of Connecticut
 * Sheldon Whitehouse (1982) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
 * Woodrow Wilson (attended 1879) – President of the United States

Science

 * Susan Kolb (dropped out) – medical doctor and author

Sports

 * Griff Aldrich (1999) – head men's basketball coach, Longwood University
 * Tim Finchem (1973) – commissioner and CEO, PGA TOUR
 * Bowie Kuhn (1950) – former Major League Baseball commissioner
 * Michael Slive (1965) – former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and formerly the first commissioner of both Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
 * DeMaurice Smith (1989) – executive director, National Football League Players' Association
 * Don Yee (1987) – NFL sports agent