Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

Academia

 * Diane Marie Amann, chair in International Law and faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law
 * Raoul Berger, senior fellow in American Legal History at Harvard University
 * George Burditt, adjunct member of the faculty
 * G. Marcus Cole, professor of law and associate dean for curriculum at Stanford Law School
 * Steven Drizin, lawyer and law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
 * Thomas F. Geraghty, associate dean for clinical education, professor of law, and director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University School of Law
 * Kristin E. Hickman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School
 * Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., professor at Suffolk University Law School
 * James Nabrit Jr., president of Howard University and pioneering civil rights law academic and attorney
 * Kate A. Shaw, law professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and ABC News Supreme Court contributor
 * Jonathan Turley, Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School

Advocacy and nonprofits

 * Albert Goldman (J.D. 1925), socialist lawyer and political activist, personal lawyer of Leon Trotsky during his stay in Mexico City
 * Florence Kelley (1894), social reformer, early advocate for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights; first general secretary of the National Consumers League; helped to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
 * Ada Kepley, advocate for women's suffrage and temperance, first American woman to obtain a law degree

Business

 * Matt Ferguson, president and CEO of Careerbuilder.com
 * Elbert Henry Gary, co-founder, president, and chairman of United States Steel Corporation; namesake of Gary, Indiana
 * Michael Goodkin, quantitative finance entrepreneur and founder of Arbitrage Management Company
 * Randy Kaplan, founder of Akamai Technologies
 * Marc J. Lane, founder of The Marc J. Lane Wealth Group
 * Morgan E. O'Brien, co-founder and former chairman of Nextel
 * Jay A. Pritzker, co-founder of Hyatt Hotels Corporation
 * Frank C. Rathje, founder of the Mutual National Bank of Chicago and president of the American Bankers Association
 * Howard A. Tullman, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist

Entertainment

 * Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati, television talk show host

Government

 * Richard E. Wiley, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

Judiciary

 * Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Hawaii Supreme Court Justice
 * Mary Bartelme, influential pioneer in juvenile justice, the first woman elected judge in Illinois
 * Dalveer Bhandari, Judge at the International Court of Justice, 2012–present
 * Michael B. Brennan, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
 * Rubén Castillo, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Edmond E. Chang, U.S. District judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Joel Flaum, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
 * Arthur Goldberg, former United States Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Secretary of Labor, and Ambassador to the United Nations
 * Jim Jones, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
 * Carole Kamin, first woman to become president of a state bar in the United States; Cook County Circuit Court Judge
 * Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball and U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota
 * Joan Larsen, U.S. Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Joan Lefkow, U.S. District Judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * José Abad Santos, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
 * Michael Y. Scudder, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
 * John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court Justice
 * Richard Tallman, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Senior Judge
 * Horace Ward, challenged racial discrimination at the University of Georgia and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

Law

 * Ferdinand L. Barnett, Civil Rights activist and first African-American Assistant State's Attorney in Illinois, husband of Ida B. Wells
 * Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office Watergate Task Force
 * Salem J. Chalabi, first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal to try Saddam Hussein
 * Richard Devine, Cook County Former State's Attorney
 * W. Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel under President Barack Obama
 * T. Markus Funk, law professor and attorney at Perkins Coie
 * Graham T. Perry, second African-American elected for assistant attorney general for the State of Illinois
 * Richard Terrin, legal advisor to Governor-General of the Philippines, Dwight F. Davis
 * Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, first African American admitted to the bar in Illinois

Literature and journalism

 * Ferdinand Lee Barnett, founder of The Chicago Conservator
 * Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and co-founder of law firm Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick (later Kirkland & Ellis) 

Politics

 * George Wildman Ball (1933), former U.S. Undersecretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
 * Judy Biggert (J.D. 1963), U.S. House of Representatives
 * William Jennings Bryan, former U.S. Secretary of State and three-time Democratic nominee for President
 * Dale Bumpers, former Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator
 * Alfred Cilella, Illinois state legislator
 * Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota
 * William Dawson, first African American to chair a Congressional Committee, beginning in 1949
 * Edward Dunne, former Governor of Illinois and former Mayor of Chicago
 * Carl R. Feld, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Robert Todd Lincoln (1866), U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1889–1893); 35th United States Secretary of War (1881–1885)
 * Wendy E. Long, Republican nominee for United States Senate from New York in 2012 and 2016
 * Frank Orren Lowden, Governor of Illinois
 * J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Albert E. Mead, former Governor of Washington
 * Newton Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
 * Dawn Clark Netsch, first woman to be elected to a statewide constitutional office in Illinois
 * J. B. Pritzker, Managing Partner of Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and current Governor of Illinois
 * Pat Quinn, former Governor of Illinois
 * Tom Railsback, U.S. House of Representatives
 * Henry T. Rainey, 40th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * Jerry Springer, former Mayor of Cincinnati and television talk show host
 * Seymour Stedman, Socialist Party of America nominee for vice-president of the United States (and for Mayor of Chicago)
 * Halvor Steenerson, former U.S. Representative
 * Adlai Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, two-time Democratic Nominee for President, and Ambassador to the United Nations
 * Jim Thompson, former Governor of Illinois
 * Charles M. Thomson, former U.S. House of Representatives
 * Daniel Walker, former Governor of Illinois
 * Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago and U.S. House of Representatives
 * Paul Ziffren, Democratic National Committee chair

Sports

 * Eddie Einhorn, owner of the Chicago White Sox
 * Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball, for U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
 * Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls
 * Mark Walter, founder and CEO of Guggenheim Partners and Chairman of Los Angeles Dodgers