List of Penn Law School alumni

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

Contents 1 Law and Government 1.1 U.S. Government 1.1.1 Executive Branch 1.1.2 Judicial Branch 1.1.3 Legislative Branch 1.1.4 Diplomatic Figures 1.2 State Government 1.2.1 Executive 1.2.2 Judicial 1.2.3 Other 1.3 City Government 1.4 Non-United States Government 1.4.1 Political Figures 1.4.2 Judicial Figures 1.4.3 International Law Figures 1.4.4 Diplomatic Figures 2 Academia 2.1 University Presidents 2.2 Legal Academics 3 Activism 4 Arts and Entertainment 5 Business 6 Media and Journalism 7 Sports 8 Other 9 Attended but did not graduate 10 Notes

Law and Government

U.S. Government

Executive Branch

• Josiah E. DuBois, Jr, U.S. State Department official, instrumental in Holocaust rescue
• Marshall Jordan Breger, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; U.S. Solicitor of Labor
• Philip Werner Amram, Asst. Attorney General of the United States, 1939–42
• Thomas K. Finletter, U.S Secretary of the Air Force, 1950–1953; Ambassador to NATO, 1961–1965
• Lindley Miller Garrison, U.S. Secretary of War, 1913–16
• Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44
• George Washington Woodruff, Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt
• George W. Wickersham, Attorney General of the United States, 1909–1913; Instrumental in the breakup of Standard Oil; President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933–36)
• William M. Meredith, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1849–50
• Robert J. Walker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1840–45
• Jonathan Z. Cannon, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Deputy Administrator, 2009-
• William H. Brown, III, Chairman, EEOC

Judicial Branch

• John Warren Davis, Former judge for both the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• James Halpern Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1990–2005
• James Russell Leech Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1932–52
• Abdul Kallon, Judge U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Al.
• Jerome B. Simandle Judge, U.S. Dist. Court N.J.
• Murray Merle Schwartz Chief Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E,, 1974-
• Paul Conway Leahy, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1942–66
• Caleb Rodney Layton III Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1957–88
• Sue Lewis Robinson Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E.
• Roderick R. McKelvie Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1991–2002
• Gerald Joseph Weber Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa.
• Barron Patterson McCune, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa.
• A. Richard Caputo Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa.
• John C. Knox Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y., 1948–55
• Allen G. Schwartz Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y., 1993–2003
• Ralph Francis Scalera, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa.
• James Focht McClure, Jr. Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa.
• Thomas Newman O'Neill, Jr. Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.,
• Gene E. K. Pratter Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Michael M. Baylson Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Raymond J. Broderick, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Norma Levy Shapiro Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Guy K. Bard, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Juan Ramon Sanchez, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Paul S. Diamond Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Mary A. McLaughlin, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Harvey Bartle III Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• John William Ditter Jr. Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Stewart Dalzell Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.
• Ralph C. Body Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1965–73
• Herbert Allan Fogel Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1973–78
• Donald West VanArtsdalen Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1970–85
• James Harry Covington Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C.; Co-founder of Covington & Burling
• Scott Wilson (judge) Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1929–42
• Henry Galbraith Ward Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1907–1921
• George M. Dallas Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1892–1909
• John Bayard McPherson Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912-1919 (Read)
• Joseph Whitaker Thompson Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1931–1946
• Harry Ellis Kalodner Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977
• Arlin M. Adams Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1969–1987
• Max Rosenn Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006
• James Hunter III Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989
• John Warren Davis, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Helene White Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Dolores Sloviter Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Phyllis A. Kravitch Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Arthur Raymond Randolph Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
• James Wilson, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (Hon. LL.D); founder of the Law School; signer of the Declaration of Independence

Legislative Branch

• Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, (1737-1791)
• Joseph Maull Carey, U. S. Senator from Wyoming, 1890–1895; Governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915; Wyoming delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1885–1890
• Joseph Sill Clark, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957–69
• George Wharton Pepper, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate
• James Henderson Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–57
• Charles A. Wolverton, New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–59
• Thomas C. McGrath, Jr., New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress
• James Harry Covington, Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1909–14
• Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873–75
• Edward J. Stack, Florida representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979–81
• Wilbur L. Adams, Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–35
• William Biddle Shepard, North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1829–37
• Bernard G. Caulfield, Illinois representative to the U.S. Congress, 1874–77
• Ephraim Leister Acker, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1871–93
• William Eckart Lehman, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1860–62
• George F. Brumm, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1929–34
• Cyrus Maffet Palmer, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–29
• E. Wallace Chadwick, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–49
• Joel Cook, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907–11
• Edward de Veaux Morrell, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1900–07
• Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1967–79
• Oliver Walter Frey, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–39
• Willard S. Curtin, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957–67
• Clare G. Fenerty, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37
• Benjamin Golder, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–33
• John Burrwood Daly, Pennsylvania Representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939-35
• George Scott Graham, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1913–31
• Everett Kent, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–25, 1927–29
• William Huntington Kirkpatrick, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921–23
• James Russell Leech, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–32
• Leon Sacks, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–41
• Oliver W. Frey, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–38
• John Thomas Lenahan, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907–09
• James McDevitt Magee, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–27
• Levi Maish, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1875–79 and 1887–91
• John Murphy, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943–46
• Leonard Myers, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863–75
• Robert N.C. Nix, Sr., Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1958–79
• Albert G. Rutherford, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–41
• Hardie Scott, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–53
• Joseph M. McDade, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1963–99
• John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1915–19
• William I. Troutman, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943–45
• William H. Wilson, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37

Diplomatic Figures

• George C. Bruno, U.S. Ambassador to Belize
• Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Sweden
• Martin J. Silverstein, United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 2001 ro 2005.
• Faith Ryan Whittlesey, U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland

State Government

Executive

• Joseph M. Carey, Governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915
• John G. McCullough, Governor of Vermont, 1902–1904
• Charles R. Miller, Governor of Delaware, 1913–17
• Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903–07
• John C. Bell, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1937-37
• James Henderson Duff, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947–51
• Lloyd Lowndes, Governor of Maryland, 1896–1900
• John Morgan Davis, Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1959–63
• Raymond J. Broderick, Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania
• John G. McCullough, Attorney General of California during the American Civil War
• David Samson (New Jersey), Attorney General of New Jersey, 2002–03
• William A. Schnader, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1930–34
• William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, 1974–1978
• Paula Dow, Attorney General of New Jersey, 2010-

Judicial

• Gerald Garson, NY Supreme Court Justice, convicted of bribery
• Randy J. Holland, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1986–present
• Peter B. Krauser, Chief Judge on the Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland and past Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party
• Daniel J. Layton, Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1933–45 and Attorney General of Delaware, 1932–33
• Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix, Jr., Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1984–96; he was the first African-American Chief Justice of any state’s highest court; Justice of the Pa. Supreme Court, 1971–84
• Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1996–2006
• Horace Stern, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1952–56
• James Harry Covington, Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court
• Leo E. Strine, Jr, Judge and Vice-chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery

Other

• David Norcross, Past Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee
• William A. Schnader, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, Drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code

City Government

• Joseph S. Clark, Mayor of Philadelphia, 1952–56
• Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, 1999–2011

Non-United States Government

Political Figures

• John Wallace de Beque Farris, Canadian politician and member of the senate of Canada (1937–1970) and Attorney General of Vancouver (1917–1920)
• Raul Roco, Former presidential candidate and Secretary of Education in the Philippines (Fellow)

Judicial Figures

• Sir Ronald Wilson, Former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation

International Law Figures

• Jasper Yeates Brinton, Former U.S. Legal Advisor to Egypt, architect of the Egyptian court system and Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court

Diplomatic Figures

• Alfredo Toro Hardy, Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Ireland and Singapore.
• Fisseha Yimer, Ethiopian Ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations (LLM 1972)

Academia

University Presidents

• Janice R. Bellace, First president of Singapore Management University
• Peter J. Liacouras, Chancellor of Temple University
• Mark Yudof, President of the University of California System
• Fred Hilmer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales

Legal Academics

• Robert Butkin, Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law; State Treasurer of Oklahoma
• Loftus Becker, Professor of law the University of Connecticut School of Law
• Marci Hamilton, Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and widely regarded constitutional law scholar
• Anthony G. Amsterdam, Professor of Law at NYU Law School
• Jonathan Z. Cannon, Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law; Deputy Administrator of the EPA
• Khaled Abou El Fadl, Professor of law at UCLA School of Law; scholar of Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law
• Jonathan D. Varat Professor of law and former Dean of the UCLA School of Law (1998–2003); author of popular constitutional law casebook
• Bernard Wolfman Fessenden Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School
• Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Professor of Law at the University of Richmond; Founding editor of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy, and founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
• Jesse H. Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley Law School
• Janice R. Bellace, Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the Wharton School of Business
• Debra W. Denno, Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham Law School
• Robert J. Levy, Former William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota
• Jeffrey Witten Kobrick, Lecturer, Stanford Law School
• Beverly I. Moran, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School
• M. Michael Sharlot, Wright C. Morrow Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School
• David G. Owen, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Law School
• Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School
• George M. Cohen, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Virginia School of Law
• Stephen A. Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School

Activism

• Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander: First African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in the United States; first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law; first black woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar; Civil Rights activist, appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman.^[1]
• Carrie Burnham Kilgore: First woman to graduate from Penn with a law degree^[2] (LL.B.) and the first woman to practice law in Pennsylvania; she argued for a woman’s right to vote before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. She was also the first woman in New York to earn a medical degree.
• Stuart F. Feldman (1937–2010), co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America.^[3]

Arts and Entertainment

• Michael Smerconish, American radio and television personality
• Benjamin Glazer, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer
• Moe Jaffe, Songwriter and bandleader
• Pam Jenoff, Novelist
• Henry Chapman Mercer, American archaeologist
• Lisa Scottoline, Popular American author of many legal thrillers; New York Times best-seller list author
• Natalie Wexler, Novelist and American legal scholar
• El McMeen, Guitar Artist
• Tom Rapp, American Songwriter; Pearls Before Swine
• Roger Wolfson, Writer for Saving Grace, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Closer, and Century City

Business

• Sam Hamadeh, Co-founder of Vault.com
• Safra A. Catz, CFO Oracle Corporation; Forbes List of Most Powerful Women
• Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., former Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb
• Gerald Levin, former CEO of AOL Time Warner
• Randall Boe, CGC of AOL
• David N. Feldman, Wall Street Financial Legal Expert; Author of Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO

Media and Journalism

• Adrian Cronauer, former radio disc jockey and Special Assistant to the Director of the POW/MIA Office at the Department of Defense; known for being the inspiration for the film Good Morning Vietnam
• Alberto Ibarguen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald
• Norman Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer of Bloomberg L.P.; former Editor-in-chief of Time Magazine.
• Michael Smerconish, radio host
• Van Toffler, President, MTV Networks
• Lynn Toler, Judge of the television series Divorce Court
• Mark Haines, Host of CNBC's Squawk Box
• Renee Chenault-Fattah, co-anchor of NBC 10 News in Philadelphia.

Sports

• Irving Baxter, winner of two gold medals and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics
• Anita DeFrantz, 1976 women's eight-oared shell bronze medalist, the first woman and the first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee, IOC's first female vice president, and chair of the Commission on Women and Sports.
• Marvin Goldklang, Minority owner of the New York Yankees

Other

• Edward J. Normand, Counsel, Lloyd's of London
• Gigi Sohn, Founder of Public Knowledge
• Daniel Barringer (geologist), First person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on earth, and namesake of the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona
• William Draper Lewis, Founder and first director of the American Law Institute
• George Wharton Pepper, Founder of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a U.S. law firm with more than 500 lawyers
• George W. Wickersham, Co-founder of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Attorney General of the United States; President of the Council on Foreign Relations
• James Harry Covington, Co-founder of Covington & Burling; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
• Bernard Segal, Past President of the American Bar Association
• John G. Johnson, Famous Lawyer (noted by many to be one of the greatest attorneys in U.S. history) who argued 168 cases before the Supreme Court; twice turned down an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court [1]

Attended but did not graduate

• Thomas Clinton, executive at Deutsche Bank and key figure in the formation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
• William Radford Coyle, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–27, 1929–33
• George B. McClellan, U.S. Civil War General; Governor of New Jersey

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