List of University of Michigan law and government alumni

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Academic unit key Symbol Academic unit ARCH Taubman College BUS Ross School of Business COE College of Engineering DENT School of Dentistry GFSPP Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy HHRS Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies LAW Law School LSA College of LS&A MED Medical School SMTD School of Music, Theatre and Dance PHARM School of Pharmacy SED School of Education SNRE School of Natural Resources SOAD The Stamps School of Art & Design SOI School of Information SON School of Nursing SOK School of Kinesiology SOSW School of Social Work SPH School of Public Health MDNG Matriculated, did not graduate

This is a partial list of notable alumni in law, government and public policy from the University of Michigan. Please refer also to the below list:

Legislators

Estefania Aldaba-Lim (Ph.D.), first female Filipino cabinet secretary; social services and development secretary 1971–1977; first Filipino clinical psychologist; president of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines; first woman to become special ambassador to the United Nations (1979); UN Peace Medal Award Justin Amash (B.A. 2002, J.D. 2005), lawyer, politician; U.S. Representative from Michigan's 3rd congressional district; libertarian-oriented maverick Andrea Barthwell (M.D. 1980), Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy (Drug Czar); resigned in July 2004 with an interest in running for United States Senate from Illinois Alvin Morell Bentley (B.A. 1940, M.A. 1963), U.S. Representative from Michigan's 8th congressional district (1953–1961); wounded in the 1954 Capitol shooting incident; member of the Foreign Service William J. "Bill" Bogaard (J.D. 1965), mayor of Pasadena, California (1984–1986; 1999–present); longest-serving mayor in city history Lyman James Briggs (M.A. in Physics, 1895), civil servant for the U.S. Government for 49 years; headed the Briggs Advisory Committee on Uranium; namesake of Lyman Briggs College at MSU Arleigh Burke (MSE 1931), United States Navy admiral; World War II naval hero; served an unprecedented three terms as Chief of Naval Operations (1955–1961) Anson Burlingame (1838–1841), congressional representative from Massachusetts; attended Detroit branch of the University of Michigan; served in the state senate in 1852; elected as a candidate of the American Party to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (1855–1861) Charles W. Burson (B.A. in political science, 1966), senior professor of Practice at the Washington University School of Law; executive vice president, general counsel and secretary at Monsanto Company (2001–2006); Tennessee attorney general (1988–1997); chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore (1997–2001) Harry M. Daugherty (LL.B. 1881), United States attorney general; campaign manager and close advisor to Warren G. Harding Donald McDonald Dickinson (J.D. 1867), United States Postmaster General under Grover Cleveland Gerrit John Diekema (LAW: JD 1883), congressional representative from Michigan; member of the State house of representatives 1885–1891, serving as speaker in 1889; mayor of Holland in 1895; chairman of the Michigan Republican State central committee 1900–1910; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1896 Gerald R. Ford (B.A. 1935, HLLD 1974), 38th president of the United States (1974–1977); 40th vice president of the United States (1973–1974); minority leader of the United States House of Representatives (1965–1973); U.S. representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district (1949–1973) Harold Ford Jr. (J.D. 1996), U.S. representative from the Memphis-based Tennessee's 9th congressional district (1997–2007) Richard A. "Dick" Gephardt (J.D. 1965), president and CEO of the Gephardt Group lobbying firm; House minority leader (1995–2003); House majority leader (1989–1995); U.S. representative from Missouri's 3rd congressional district (1977–2005); St. Louis city alderman (1971–1976); unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president in 1988 and 2004 Stephen Goldsmith (J.D.), professor of Practice at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; chair of the Corporation for National and Community Service; Deputy Mayor of New York City (2010–11); mayor of Indianapolis (1992–1999); district attorney for Marion County, Indiana (1979–1990) Henry Thomas Hazard (LLD 1868), mayor of Los Angeles (1889–1892) Alexander W. Joel (J.D. 1987), Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Philip Lader (M.A. History 1967), U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom (1997–2001); administrator of the Small Business Administration (1994–1997); House deputy chief of staff and deputy director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (1993–1994) Robert Meeropol (1969, M.A. 1970), attorney; founder and executive director of the Rosenberg Fund for Children (1990–present); son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Julius Sterling Morton (A.B. 1854), United States secretary of agriculture under President Cleveland; created Arbor Day Edward Charles Pierce (BA 1955; MED: MD 1959), politician and physician; member of Michigan State Senate from the state's eighteenth district 1978–1982 Lloyd Welch Pogue (LAW: JD 1926), "the nation's leading authority on civil aviation"; named assistant general counsel of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, then its general counsel and chief lawyer; in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt named Welch to the Civil Aeronautics Board (now the FAA) and reappointed him chairman for four successive years. Harvey S. Rosen (A.B. 1970), chair of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers; deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis in the Department of the Treasury under President George H.W. Bush 1989–1991 Joe Schwarz (B.A. History 1959), Republican U.S. congressman, MI-7th (2005–2007); Michigan state senator (1987–2002) George Sutherland (LAW: 1883), associate justice of the Supreme Court Lauren Underwood (BS, Nursing 2008), Democratic U.S. congresswoman, IL-14 (Naperville/Chicago suburbs) Fred Upton (BA 1975), Republican U.S. congressman, MI-6th (southwest Michigan) Kapila Vatsyayan (MA), scholar of Indian classical dance; member of the Rajya Sabha in the Parliament of India (2006, 2007–present) James Franklin Ware (LAW: 1873), Wisconsin state assemblyman and senator

Governors and lieutenant governors As of 2021, Michigan has matriculated 63 governors and lieutenant governors.

Michigan Wilber Marion Brucker (A.B. 1916), 32nd governor of Michigan 1931–1933; United States secretary of the Army 1955–1961 John Cherry (MPA 1984), lt. governor of Michigan; former state senator William Comstock (A.B. 1899), 33rd governor of Michigan Woodbridge N. Ferris (MD 1874), educator and politician; founder and president of the Ferris Industrial School (later Ferris State University); president of the Big Rapids Savings Bank; governor of Michigan (1913–1916); elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1922 and served from 1923 until his death in 1928 Garlin Gilchrist II (born 1982), current lieutenant governor of Michigan Fred W. Green (LAW: 1898), mayor of Ionia, Michigan before he served as the 31st governor of Michigan 1927–1931 Martha Wright Griffiths (LAW: JD 1940), congressional representative; elected to the Michigan state house of representatives 1948–1952; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses (1955–1974); lieutenant governor of Michigan 1982–1991 George Griswold, tenth lieutenant governor of Michigan Alex Groesbeck (LAW: LLB 1893), 30th governor of Michigan Patrick Henry Kelley (LAW: JD 1900), congressional representative from Michigan; member of the state board of education 1901–1905; state superintendent of public instruction 1905–1907; lieutenant governor of Michigan 1907–1911; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses (1913–1923) Dwight May, 18th lieutenant governor of Michigan, trustee of the village of Kalamazoo Joseph R. McLaughlin, entrepreneur and politician from Michigan; lieutenant governor 1895–1897 Kimber Cornellus "Kim" Sigler, 40th governor of Michigan 1947–1949 Rick Snyder (LSA, LAW, BUS), 48th governor of Michigan; former president and COO of Gateway Computers Murray Delos Van Wagoner (COE: BA CE 1921), 38th governor of Michigan 1941–1942 G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams (LAW: JD), six-term Democratic governor of Michigan (1948–1960); Michigan Supreme Court chief justice Edwin B. Winans (LAW), U.S. representative; 22nd governor of Michigan

Outside Michigan Thomas Burton Adams Jr., Democratic Florida politician; served in the Florida Senate (1956–1960), as secretary of state of Florida (1961–1971), and tenth lieutenant governor of Florida (1971–1975) George Ariyoshi (J.D. 1952), third governor of Hawaii (1974–1986) Theodore G. Bilbo, twice served as governor of Mississippi (1916–20, 1928–32); later a U.S. senator (1935–47). William John Bulow (LAW: JD 1893), senator from South Dakota; member of State Senate 1899; mayor of Beresford 1912–1913; county judge of Union County, 1918; governor of South Dakota 1927–1931; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1930; reelected in 1936 and served 1931–1943; chairman of Committee on the Civil Service (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses) David Francis Cargo (BA 1951, MA 1953; LAW: LLB 1957), governor of New Mexico, 1967–71; New Mexico State House of Representatives Albuquerque (1963–67) Fenimore Chatterton, Republican, governor of Wyoming (1903–1905) Chase Addison Clark, Democrat, governor of Idaho (1941–1943) Thomas Cuming (A.B. 1845) military officer; first secretary of Nebraska Territory; twice the territory's acting governor, after the death of Francis Burt and after the resignation of Mark W. Izard Cushman Kellogg Davis (AB 1857), governor of Minnesota (1874–1876); U.S. senator (1887–1900) Thomas E. Dewey (B.A. 1923), governor of New York (1943–1954); unsuccessfully ran as Republican nominee for president in 1944 and 1948 Frank Emerson (B.S. 1904), governor of Wyoming (1927–1931) Ralph F. Gates (BA 1915; LAW: JD 1917), governor of Indiana, 1945–49 John L. Gibbs, Minnesota legislator, two-time speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and the 14th lieutenant governor of Minnesota Joseph B. Gill, lieutenant governor of Illinois (1893–1897) Morley Isaac Griswold, Republican governor of Nevada (1934–1935) Philip Hart, lawyer and politician Paul M. Herbert, Republican, served three separate tenures as the 47th, 49th and 52nd lieutenant governor of Ohio Francis Grant "Frank" Higgins, first native-born person from Montana to become a member of the state's bar and of its legislature; served in the Montana House of Representatives; mayor of Missoula, Montana in 1892; fourth lieutenant governor of Montana, 1901–1905 Lyman Underwood Humphrey, Republican, governor of Kansas (1889–1893) Arthur Mastick Hyde, Republican, governor of Missouri (1921–1925) John N. Irwin, businessman; diplomat; mayor of Keokuk, Iowa; governor of Idaho Territory; governor of Arizona Territory; U.S. minister to Portugal Gideon S. Ives, served as mayor of St. Peter, Minnesota; Minnesota state senator; and 11th lieutenant governor of Minnesota Clement Field Kimball (LAW), lieutenant governor of Iowa 1925–1928 Elbert L. Lampson, 21st lieutenant governor of Ohio; former state senator Washington Ellsworth Lindsey, Republican, governor of New Mexico (1917–1919) Oren Ethelbirt Long (AB 1916), senator from Hawaii; secretary of Territory of Hawaii 1946–1951; appointed governor of Territory of Hawaii 1951–1953; territorial senator, Territory of Hawaii 1956–1959; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on July 28, 1959; upon the admission of Hawaii as a State into the Union on August 21, 1959