List of Yale Law School alumni

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This is a list of the graduates of Yale Law School. For a list of graduates of Yale University as a whole, see List of Yale University people.

Contents 1 U.S. Government 1.1 Executive branch 1.1.1 U. S. Presidents 1.1.2 Cabinet members 1.1.3 Attorneys General 1.2 Judicial branch 1.2.1 Supreme Court justices 1.2.2 Other judges 1.3 Legislative branch 1.4 U. S. Diplomats 1.5 State government 1.6 City government 1.7 Other U.S. political figures 2 Non-U.S. Government 3 Academia 3.1 University presidents 3.2 Legal academics 3.3 Other academics 4 Activists and Human Rights figures 5 Journalism 6 Literature 7 Other 8 Attended but did not graduate 9 Fictitious alumni

[edit] U.S. Government

[edit] Executive branch

[edit] U. S. Presidents

• Bill Clinton (J.D. 1973), 42nd U.S. President (1993-2001)
• Gerald Ford (LL.B. 1941), 38th U.S. President (1974-1976)

[edit] Cabinet members

• Stephen Hadley (J.D. 1972), current National Security Advisor (United States)
• Robert Reich (J.D., 1973), Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton
• Robert Rubin (LL.B. 1964) Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton
• Cyrus Vance (1942), United States Secretary of State (1977-1980)

[edit] Attorneys General

• Nicholas deB. Katzenbach (LL.B 1947), U.S. Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson
• Peter Keisler (J.D. 1985), acting Attorney General as of September 2007
• Michael B. Mukasey (LL.B 1967), nominated by President George W. Bush (2007)

[edit] Judicial branch

[edit] Supreme Court justices

• Samuel Alito (J.D. 1975), 110th U.S. Supreme Court Justice (2006-present)
• Abe Fortas (LL.B. 1933), Supreme Court Justice (1963-1969)
• Potter Stewart (LL.B. 1941), Supreme Court Justice (1958-1981)
• Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), 107th U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1991-present)
• Byron White (LL.B. 1946), Supreme Court Justice (1962-1993) and NFL football player

[edit] Other judges

• Jane Bolin, (LL.B. 1931) First African-American woman to graduate from Yale and the first African-American woman to become a judge (1939)
• Guido Calabresi, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and former dean of Yale Law School
• Robert Katzmann, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Brett Kavanaugh (J.D. 1990), judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Michael Ponsor, judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Stephen Reinhardt (LL.B. 1954), judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Richard Sullivan (J.D. 1990), judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

[edit] Legislative branch

• Hillary Rodham Clinton (J.D. 1973), U.S. Senator (D-New York) and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate
• Joseph Lieberman (J.D. 1967), U.S. Senator (D/I-Connecticut) and 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (LL.B. 1964), nonvoting Congressional representative of Washington, DC
• Arlen Specter (LL.B. 1956), U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member (R-Pennsylvania)
• Mel Watt (J.D.), Congressmen from North Carolina Chairmen of the Congressional Black Caucus

[edit] U. S. Diplomats

• John R. Bolton (J.D. 1974), former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Sargent Shriver (LL.B. 1941), United States Ambassador to France (1968-1970), driving force behind the Peace Corps

[edit] State government

• Jerry Brown (J.D. 1964), Governor of California (1975-1983), currently California Attorney General
• Foster Furcolo (LL.B. 1936), Governor of Massachusetts (1957-1961)

[edit] City government

• Cory Booker (J.D. 1997), mayor of Newark, New Jersey
• Robert M. Morgenthau (LL.B. 1948), district attorney for New York County

[edit] Other U.S. political figures

• Rubén Berríos, leader in the Puerto Rico independence movement
• R. James Woolsey, Jr., director of the CIA (1993-1995)
• Beth Brinkmann, former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S. (1993-2001) and current partner at Morrison & Foerster

[edit] Non-U.S. Government

• Karl Carstens (LL.M. 1949), 5th president of the Federal Republic of Germany (1979-1984)
• Shunmugam Jayakumar (LL.M.), deputy prime minister and former foreign minister of Singapore

[edit] Academia

[edit] University presidents

• Nancy Y. Bekavac (J.D. 1973), president of Scripps College
• Robert Hutchins (LL.B. 1925), president of the University of Chicago
• Russell K. Osgood (J.D. 1974), president of Grinnell College
• Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University

[edit] Legal academics

• Bruce Ackerman (LL.B. 1967), constitutional law expert and Sterling Professor at Yale Law
• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (J.D. 1977), immigration law specialist and Dean of Georgetown Law
• Ian Ayres (J.D. 1986), professor of law and management at Yale
• Peter Berkowitz, law and political science professor at George Mason University
• George Bermann (J.D. 1971), European law scholar at Columbia Law
• Philip Bobbitt (J.D. 1975), scholar of constitutional law and military strategy
• Rosa Brooks, foreign policy and national security scholar at Georgetown Law; columnist for the Los Angeles Times
• Stephen L. Carter, Yale Law professor and novelist
• Arthur Linton Corbin (J.D. 1899), Yale law professor and contracts scholar
• Alan Dershowitz (J.D. 1962), Harvard Law criminal law professor and author
• Jan Deutsch, professor of law and philosophy at Yale
• Elizabeth F. Emens (J.D. 2002), professor at Columbia Law
• Richard Epstein (LL.B. 1968), libertarian law professor at the University of Chicago
• Noah Feldman (J.D. 1997), scholar of Islamic law, international constitutional law, and the intersection of law and religion
• Nicole S. Garnett (J.D.), professor of law at the University of Notre Dame
• Richard W. Garnett (J.D.), professor of law at the University of Notre Dame
• Jack Goldsmith (J.D. 1989), professor at Harvard Law and former Assistant Attorney General
• Lani Guinier, first tenured black female professor at Harvard Law
• Paul W. Kahn (J.D. 1980), professor of law and humanities at Yale
• Duncan Kennedy (LL.B. 1970), Critical Legal Studies scholar at Harvard Law
• Randall Kennedy, professor of race and law at Harvard Law
• Kris Kobach (J.D. 1995), professor of law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and chairman of the Kansas Republican Party
• Andrew Koppelman, professor of law and political science at Northwestern University
• Anthony T. Kronman (J.D. 1975), Sterling Professor of law at Yale and former dean of Yale Law
• Ethan Leib, professor of law at UC Hastings
• Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford University
• Saul Levmore (J.D. 1980), professor at the University of Chicago Law School
• Karl N. Llewellyn, scholar of legal realism
• Catharine MacKinnon (J.D. 1977), feminist activist and professor at Michigan Law
• Martha Minow (J.D. 1979), Harvard Law professor
• Eben Moglen, professor of legal history at Columbia Law and software freedom activist
• Thomas Morawetz (J.D. 1968), professor of law and ethics at UConn Law
• Wesley Oliver (LL.M.), Widener University School of Law professor
• [Mark W. Osler] (J.D. 1990), professor of law at Baylor Law School
• H. Jefferson Powell, joint law and divinity professor at Duke University
• Jedediah Purdy, professor of law at Duke University
• Charles A. Reich (LL.B. 1952), author of the pro-counterculture tract The Greening of America
• Richard Revesz, dean of NYU Law
• Deborah Rhode, professor, Stanford University Law School
• Fred Rodell, critic of the legal profession and legal academia
• Joel Rogers, professor of law, political science, and sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Kermit Roosevelt III (J.D. 1997), constitutional law expert at Penn Law, descendant of Theodore Roosevelt
• Reva Siegel (J.D. 1986), constitutional law and anti-discrimination law expert, Yale Law School
• Mark S. Weiner, professor of law at Rutgers
• Charles Alan Wright (LL.B. 1949), professor at University of Texas; expert on Federal Courts and Federal Procedure; represented Richard Nixon
• John Yoo (J.D. 1992), legal scholar at Boalt Hall
• Kenji Yoshino (J.D. 1996), Yale Law professor and dean of intellectual life

[edit] Other academics

• Scott Boorman, mathematical sociologist
• Austin Sarat (J.D. 1988), political scientist at Amherst College
• Ian Shapiro (J.D. 1987), political scientist

[edit] Activists and Human Rights figures

• Lisa Bloom, feminist and children's rights lawyer; Court TV host
• Marian Wright Edelman (J.D.), founder of Children's Defense Fund
• Henry A. Freedman (J.D.), social justice advocate
• Robert Gnaizda, public interest advocate
• Michael Harrington, socialist writer and activist
• Neal Katyal (J.D. 1995), lead counsel in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
• Henry T. King, Jr., (LL.B 1943), Nuremberg prosecutor 1946-1947
• James Speth (1969), environmental lawyer and activist
• Gregory Stanton, founded Genocide Watch
• Hernando Valencia Villa (LL.M. 1981, J.S.D. 1986), Colombian human rights activist, scholar and co-founder of the Colombian Commision of Jurists
• Alfred Webre (J.D. 1967), advocate against weapons in space

[edit] Journalism

• Michael Barone (J.D. 1969), political analyst
• Jeff Greenfield (LL.B. 1967), television political analyst
• Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times
• Adam Liptak, national legal correspondent for the New York Times
• Victor Navasky (LL.B. 1959), editor of The Nation and The New York Times Magazine, professor at Columbia Journalism School
• Charlie Savage (2003), Boston Globe reporter
• Emily Bazelon (J.D. 2000), senior editor of Slate Magazine

[edit] Literature

• Renata Adler, writer and journalist
• Stephen L. Carter, novelist and Yale Law professor
• Adam Haslett (J.D. 2003), short story writer
• Julie Hilden (J.D. 1992), author
• Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club
• Gretchen Rubin (J.D. 1995), author
• Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation and former music critic for The New Yorker

[edit] Other

• T. Bill Andrews, abstract impressionist painter
• Jeff Ballabon, Orthodox Jewish lobbyist and founder of Coordinating Council on Jerusalem
• Kathleen Neal Cleaver, figure in the Black Panther Party
• Frederick Iseman, founder of Caxton-Iseman Capital, LLC
• Ben Kerschberg (J.D. 1998), memoirist
• Charlie Korsmo (J.D. 2006), former child actor
• Yul Kwon, winner of Survivor: Cook Islands
• Arthur Frommer, publisher of the Frommer's budget travel guide series
• Walter Lord, freelance historian
• Jesselyn Radack (J.D. 1995), American Taliban whistleblower
• Ed Redlich, television writer and producer
• Pat Robertson (LL.B. 1955), televangelist and founder of Regent University
• Brad Snyder (J.D. 1999), author of books on baseball
• Ben Stein (J.D. 1970), actor and speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, graduated as class valedictorian
• Ken Stern, CEO of National Public Radio
• Alfred Terry, Union army general in the American Civil War and military commander of the Dakota Territory
• Fay Vincent (LL.B. 1963), commissioner of Major League Baseball
• Tim and Nina Zagat, founders of the Zagat Surveys

[edit] Attended but did not graduate

• Henry Louis Gates (dropped out), Afro-American studies scholar
• Michael Medved, author, film critic, and radio talk show host
• David Milch (expelled), television writer and producer
• Robert B. Silvers (dropped out), co-founder and editor of The New York Review of Books

[edit] Fictitious alumni

• Josh Lyman, character on the TV series The West Wing
• Jordan McDeere, character on the TV series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
• Montgomery Burns, character on the TV series The Simpsons