This is a list of notable alumni of The George Washington University Law School located in Washington, D.C., U.S.
Notable alumni
Academia Ernest L. Wilkinson (1926), former President of Brigham Young University Virág Blazsek, associate professor at the University of Leeds School of Law Bilguun Adiya, Lecturer in Law at the School of Law of the University of Finance and Economics (Mongolia)
Business Mark Britton (1992), founder and CEO of Avvo (now Martindale-Avvo), and former Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Expedia, Inc. Warren Brown (1998), founder of Cake Love and host of Sugar Rush on the Food Network Dan Glickman (1969), former chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, former United States Secretary of Agriculture, and former U.S. Congressman from Kansas Charles James (1979), former General Counsel of Chevron-Texaco, former Assistant Attorney General Michael W. Rice, chairman and CEO of Utz Quality Foods D. Bruce Sewell (1986), Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple, Inc. and former vice president and Deputy General Counsel at Intel Brainard Warner (1869), Washington, D.C., businessman and developer
Sports David Falk (1975), agent for Michael Jordan Ted Lerner (1950), owner of the Washington Nationals Larry MacPhail (1910), Hall of Fame baseball executive for Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees
Government and politics
U.S. Congress members E. Ross Adair, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1951–1971) and U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (1971–1974) Garry E. Brown (1954), former U.S. Congressman from Michigan Gordon Canfield (1926), former U.S. Congressman from New Jersey Bennett Champ Clark, former United States Senator William Henry Coleman, former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania John Blaisdell Corliss (1875), former United States Congressman Félix Córdova Dávila, former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico from Puerto Rico Ewin L. Davis (1899), former U.S. Congressman from Tennessee John James Duncan Jr. (1973), United States Congressman for the Second District of Tennessee John James Flynt Jr. (1940), United States Congressman from Georgia J. William Fulbright (1934), former United States Senator, creator of the Fulbright Fellowships Ralph A. Gamble (1911), former U.S. Congressman from New York Stephen Warfield Gambrill (1896), former United States Congressman Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former Governor of Vermont, U.S. Senator, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont Orval H. Hansen (1954) (LLM 1973), former U.S. Congressman from Idaho Daniel Inouye (1953), former United States Senator (D-HI) Frank Moss (1937), former United States Senator (D-UT) Francis G. Newlands (1869), congressman and drafter of the Newlands Resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii Pedro Pierluisi (1984), current Governor of Puerto Rico and former Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico of Puerto Rico Jim Ramstad (1973), congressman whose work led to ending discrimination against those suffering from mental health and addiction problems Harry Reid (1964), United States Senator, former Senate Minority Leader (D-NV) James Shannon, former U.S. Congressman and Massachusetts Attorney General Robert Wexler (1985), congressman (D-FL) Susan Wild, U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania Earle D. Willey, former U.S. Congressman from Delaware
Other federal officials William Barr (1977), former United States Attorney General David Bernhardt (1994), former United States Secretary of the Interior A. Bruce Bielaski (1904), second director of the Bureau of Investigation Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kellyanne Conway (1992), Political strategist and pollster, Campaign Manager for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Counselor to the President George B. Cortelyou, cabinet member in the Theodore Roosevelt administration Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General Mary DeRosa (1984), former Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs in the Obama Administration Allen Dulles (1926), longest serving (1953–61) director of the CIA John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration W. Mark Felt (1940), former associate director of the FBI and Watergate scandal informant also known as "Deep Throat" Stanley Finch (1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation Gregory G. Garre (1991), former Solicitor General of the United States L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal Will A. Gunn, sworn in as the General Counsel for the Department of Veterans Affairs on May 26, 2009 Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives (1972–1980) Patricia Roberts Harris (1960), first African American woman to serve in the United States Cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, in the Jimmy Carter administration John D. Holum, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security under Bill Clinton J. Edgar Hoover (1917), longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Edward F. Howrey (1927), chair of the Federal Trade Commission,U.S. Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, "Nomination of Edward F. Howrey to Federal Trade Commission" (March 18, 1953), p. 1-2. later founded the law firm of Howrey LLP Leon Jaworski (1926), special prosecutor during the Watergate scandal David M. Kennedy, former United States Secretary of the Treasury Bruce M. Lawlor, retired United States Army major general and former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security Wilma B. Liebman (1974), Chair, National Labor Relations Board Darryl Nirenberg (1981), U.S. ambassador to Romania Walter North, U.S. ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu Eric O'Neill (2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights Mary Schapiro (1980), Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission; first woman to chair the SEC John W. Snow (1967), former United States Secretary of the Treasury Russell Vought, current Director of the Office of Management and Budget James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA James A. Wetmore (1896), acting Supervising Architect of the Office of the Supervising Architect
State and local government Rocky Anderson (1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City Edward Blackmon Jr. (1973), Mississippi House of Representatives James P. Coleman (1939), former Governor of Mississippi and chief judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Lee E. Emerson, Governor of Vermont, 1951–1955 Philip Ensler, member of the Alabama House of Representatives John W. Hardwicke, Maryland delegate and lawyer Harry R. Hughes (1952), former governor of the state of Maryland Rod Johnston, former Wisconsin State Senator Alex Knopp (1981), former mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut Deanne Mazzochi, Illinois House of Representatives Edward S. Northrop (1937), Majority Leader of Maryland State Senate (1958–1961), Chair of the Finance Committee (1958), nominated by President Kennedy in 1961 for a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, elevated to Chief Judge and held that position until 1981 Carmen Ortiz (1981), first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Arnold C. Otto, former Wisconsin State Assemblyman Jeffrey Piccola (1973), Pennsylvania State Representative, 1977–1995, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1995–2012 Grant Sawyer, former Governor of Nevada Joshua Soule Zimmerman, West Virginia House Delegate
International Árpád Bogsch (1956), former director general (1973–1997) of the World Intellectual Property Organization Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representative of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations Hsu Mo (1922), former International Court of Justice judge Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna, Foreign Minister of India, former Chief Minister of Karnataka Yasmine Pahlavi, Crown Princess of Iran Mikheil Saakashvili (1996), President of Georgia Anja Seibert-Fohr (2000, 2004), judge at the European Court of Human Rights
Judiciary
Federal Craig S. Atkins (1925), judge of the United States Tax CourtOfficial Congressional Directory (1961), p. 617. James C. Cacheris (1960), judge U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Darrin P. Gayles (1993), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Joyce Hens Green (1951), senior judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Harold H. Greene (1954), former judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over lawsuit which broke up AT&T's vertical monopoly Kelly Higashi, associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Christopher De Bono, associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia Sarah T. Hughes (1922), first female federal judge seated in Texas, and only woman to administer the oath of office to the President of the United States Edwin F. Hunter (1938), longest sitting U.S. District Court judge in the nation Daniel T. K. Hurley (1968), judge U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Barbara Milano Keenan (1974), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Carlos F. Lucero (1964), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit Burnita Shelton Matthews (1920), first woman to serve as a US district judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Suzanne Mitchell, United States magistrate judge for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma Sharon Prost (LLM 1984), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Randall Ray Rader (1978), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Kenneth Francis Ripple (1972), judge U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit James Robertson (1965), judge U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld William K. Sessions III (1972), chief judge U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont and Vice Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission Scott W. Stucky (LLM 1983), judge United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Bolon B. Turner (LLM 1924), judge United States Tax CourtOfficial Congressional Directory (1961), p. 615.
State Joseph F. Baca (1964), Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme CourtJudy Giannettino, "Hispanic Justice Honored", Albuquerque Journal (February 15, 1998), p. B1, B5 . Albert T. Blackwell Jr., Justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals"Schaefer Names Blackwell, 2 Others to Md. Judgeships ", The Washington Post (June 27, 1987). Carmen E. Espinosa (1976), First Hispanic judge for the Connecticut Superior Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court R. C. McDonough (1949), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court George B. Nelson (1902), Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Gregory K. Orme (1978), Judge Utah Court of Appeals Barbara Pariente (1973), current Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court Leslie Perkins Snow (1891), Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court"Judge Leslie P. Snow", The Portsmouth Herald (March 17, 1934), p. 4."Prominent New Hampshire Jurist Dies of Heart Attack", The Brattleboro Reformer (March 16, 1934), p. 8.
Lawyers Michael Avenatti (1999), lawyer who filed a lawsuit on behalf of Stormy Daniels seeking to invalidate a 2016 "hush" agreement regarding an alleged affair with Donald Trump