University of Wisconsin Law School alumni

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

Academics

 * Daniel D. Blinka – Marquette University Law School professor
 * George Bunn – Dean of William Mitchell College of Law and justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
 * Kimberlé Crenshaw – professor of law at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School
 * Richard Danner – professor of law, Duke University
 * Robben Wright Fleming – president of University of Michigan
 * Spencer L. Kimball – dean of law, University of Wisconsin–Madison and former professor of law, University of Chicago
 * James E. Krier – professor of law at the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Oxford University, Stanford University, and UCLA
 * Stacy Leeds – dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law
 * Daniel R. Mandelker – professor of law, Washington University in St. Louis
 * John E. Murray Jr. – Chancellor and professor of law at Duquesne University
 * Mark Nordenberg – Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh
 * Frank J. Remington – professor of law, University of Wisconsin–Madison
 * Lori Ringhand – interim director of Dean Rusk International Law Center and J. Alton Hosch Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law
 * Ediberto Roman – professor of law at Florida International University College of Law
 * David Sturtevant Ruder – Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former dean of law, Northwestern University
 * Nicholas S. Zeppos – Chancellor of Vanderbilt University

Business

 * Alfred S. Regnery – president of Regnery Publishing
 * John Rowe – CEO of Exelon
 * David Sturtevant Ruder – chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and former dean of law, Northwestern University
 * Elmer Winter – founder of Manpower Inc.

Government

 * John E. Lange – U.S. State Department official
 * Stewart Simonson – Assistant Secretary of Public Health Emergency Preparedness

Judiciary

 * Shirley Abrahamson – former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Daniel P. Anderson – presiding judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Martha Bablitch – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * William A. Bablitch – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Charles V. Bardeen – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Elmer E. Barlow – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * John Barnes – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Robert McKee Bashford – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Bruce F. Beilfuss – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Nils Boe – 23rd Governor of South Dakota and served as a judge for the United States Customs Court
 * Ann Walsh Bradley – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Susan Brnovich - judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
 * Grover L. Broadfoot – chief justice of Wisconsin
 * Richard S. Brown – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Andrew A. Bruce – justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
 * George Bunn – justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and Dean of William Mitchell College of Law
 * Louis B. Butler – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * William G. Callow – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * William M. Conley – judge for the U. S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
 * Barbara Crabb – judge of the U. S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin
 * Charles H. Crownhart – former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * George R. Currie – chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Roland B. Day – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * John A. Decker – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * David G. Deininger – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Christian Doerfler – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * W. Patrick Donlin – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals and Supreme Advocate of the Knights of Columbus
 * F. Ryan Duffy – judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals and former United States Senator
 * Charles P. Dykman – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * William Eich – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Evan Alfred Evans – judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
 * Thomas E. Fairchild – Senior judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
 * Chester A. Fowler – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Edward J. Gehl – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Rachel A. Graham - judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Kenneth P. Grubb – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
 * David W. Hagen – judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
 * Oscar Hallam – justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
 * Connor Hansen – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Nathan Heffernan – chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Paul B. Higginbotham – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Geraldine Hines – justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court
 * Michael W. Hoover – presiding judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * James C. Kerwin – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Claude Luse – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
 * Louis Wescott Myers – chief justice of the California Supreme Court
 * Kenneth J. O'Connell – chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
 * Tawia Modibo Ocran – justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
 * Walter C. Owen – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Gregory A. Peterson – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * David Prosser Jr. – Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
 * Rudolph T. Randa – federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
 * James Ward Rector – Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
 * Lowell A. Reed – federal judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
 * Paul F. Reilly – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Patience D. Roggensack – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Arthur L. Sanborn – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
 * Charles B. Schudson – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Edgar W. Schwellenbach – chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court
 * Robert G. Siebecker – chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Albert Morris Sames – judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
 * Burton A. Scott – chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Donald W. Steinmetz – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * E. Ray Stevens – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Margaret J. Vergeront – judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
 * Aad J. Vinje – chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * John D. Wickhem – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * Jon P. Wilcox – justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
 * John B. Winslow – chief justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court

Law

 * Timothy T. Cronin – U.S. Attorney
 * Nneka Egbujiobi – lawyer and founder of Hello Africa
 * Stephen S. Gregory – lawyer and president of the American Bar Association
 * Belle Case La Follette – first woman to graduate from UW Law School (1885); women's suffrage activist, and wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
 * Peg Lautenschlager – Attorney General of Wisconsin
 * Judith L. Lichtman – attorney specializing in women's rights and civil rights
 * David W. Márquez – Alaska Attorney General
 * J.B. Van Hollen – Attorney General of Wisconsin
 * Hilbert Philip Zarky – tax attorney with the United States Department of Justice and in private practice
 * Norma Zarky – attorney

Military

 * Robyn J. Blader – U.S. National Guard general
 * Robert Bruce McCoy – U.S. National Guard Major General

Politics

 * Thomas Ryum Amlie – U.S. Representative
 * Gerald K. Anderson – Wisconsin State Assemblyman
 * Norman C. Anderson – Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 * James N. Azim Jr. – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Tammy Baldwin – first woman to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives and the United States Senate
 * Levi H. Bancroft – Attorney General of Wisconsin, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Lloyd Barbee – Wisconsin legislator and civil rights activist
 * Tom Barrett – U.S. Representative
 * Peter D. Bear – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Theodore Benfey – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Claire B. Bird – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Nils Boe – 23rd Governor of South Dakota and served as a judge for the United States Customs Court
 * Theodore W. Brazeau – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Angie Brooks – President, United Nations General Assembly
 * Edward E. Browne – U.S. Representative
 * Michael E. Burke – U.S. Representative
 * Howard W. Cameron – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Fred J. Carpenter – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Milton Robert Carr – U.S. Representative from Michigan
 * Richard Cates – Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
 * Moses E. Clapp – United States Senator
 * David G. Classon – U.S. Representative
 * Clarence Clinton Coe – Wisconsin State Representative
 * John Cudahy – U.S. diplomat
 * Joseph E. Davies – U.S. diplomat
 * Glenn Robert Davis – U.S. Representative
 * John M. Detling – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Benjamin W. Diederich – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Davis A. Donnelly – Wisconsin State Senator
 * L. J. Fellenz – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Harold V. Froehlich – U.S. Representative
 * Edward R. Garvey – labor activist and politician
 * Hiram Gill – Mayor of Seattle, Washington
 * Ansley Gray – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Mark Andrew Green – U.S. diplomat
 * Kenneth L. Greenquist – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Frank H. Hanson – Wisconsin State Senator and Representative
 * George P. Harrington – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Everis A. Hayes – United States Representative
 * Knute Hill – United States Representative
 * George Hudnall – Wisconsin State Senator from the 11th District.
 * Paul O. Husting – U.S. Senator
 * Lester Johnson – U.S. Representative
 * Burr W. Jones – U.S. Representative
 * William Carey Jones – U.S. Representative
 * Fred F. Kaftan – Wisconsin State Senator
 * John C. Karel – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Robert Kastenmeier – U.S. Representative
 * David Keene – chairman of the American Conservative Union
 * Ernest Keppler – Wisconsin Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Warren P. Knowles – Governor of Wisconsin
 * Arthur W. Kopp – U.S. Representative
 * Andrew L. Kreutzer – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Philip La Follette – Governor of Wisconsin
 * Robert M. La Follette, Sr. – Wisconsin governor, senator and Progressive Party candidate for U.S. president in 1924;
 * Robert Watson Landry – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Elmer O. Leatherwood – U.S. Representative from Utah
 * Olin B. Lewis – Minnesota State politician
 * James Manahan – U.S. Representative
 * Herbert H. Manson – chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
 * Archie McComb – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Dale McKenna – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Arthur William McLeod – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Carroll Metzner – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Arthur O. Mockrud – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Thomas Morris – Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin
 * Elmer A. Morse – U.S. Representative
 * Gaylord Nelson – Governor of Wisconsin – U.S. Senator and founder of Earth Day
 * John M. Nelson – U.S. Representative
 * Ivan A. Nestingen – Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
 * John Oestreicher – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Patrick H. O'Rourk, Wisconsin State Senator
 * Juan Perez – mayor of Sheboygan, Wisconsin
 * Charles B. Perry – Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Richard F. Pettigrew – United States Senator
 * Vel Phillips – Wisconsin Secretary of State
 * William Edmunds Plummer – Wisconsin State Representative, United States Senate
 * Clifford E. Randall – U.S. Representative
 * Henry R. Rathbone – U.S. Representative
 * Michael Reilly – U.S. Representative
 * Paul Samuel Reinsch – U.S. diplomat
 * John W. Reynolds – Governor of Wisconsin
 * Alan S. Robertson – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Harry Sauthoff – U.S. Representative
 * Rudolph Schlabach – Wisconsin legislator and lawyer
 * Henry O. Schowalter – Wisconsin State Representative
 * James Sensenbrenner – U.S. Representative and former Chair of the House Judiciary Committee
 * Roy C. Smelker – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Edward H. Sprague – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Paul Soglin – Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin
 * James A. Tawney – U.S. Representative
 * Howard Teasdale – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Donald Edgar Tewes – U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
 * William Te Winkle – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Lewis D. Thill – U.S. Representative
 * Carl W. Thompson – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Tommy Thompson – Governor of Wisconsin and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
 * Vernon W. Thomson – Governor of Wisconsin
 * Eugene A. Toepel – Wisconsin State Assembly
 * Phillip James Tuczynski – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Fran Ulmer – Lieutenant Governor of Alaska
 * Edward Voigt – U.S. Representative
 * Michael J. Wallrich – Wisconsin State Representative
 * Thomas J. Walsh – U.S. Senator from Montana
 * Kenneth S. White – Wisconsin State Senator
 * Alexander Wiley – U.S. Senator
 * Herman C. Wipperman – Wisconsin State Representative, 1895–1907
 * Richard J. Zaborski – Wisconsin State Senator