This is a list of notable alumni who have attended or graduated The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School. The JAG School is generally considered the most exclusive graduate service academy within the U.S. Federal Government. It is considered "highly selective" with an acceptance rate ranging between 4 and 7%. In 2017, the Army JAG Corps and subsequent JAG School only accepted 200 of 4,000 applicants. The JAG School has a long history of supplying attorneys into the military and federal government roles, particularly the federal judiciary.
The JAG School is often considered "the U.S. Army’s graduate school equivalent of its United States Military Academy."
Law and politics
United States government
Executive branch
Executive council members J. Reuben Clark, Under Secretary of State Fred Dutton, Assistant Secretary of State Judd H. Lyons, Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert C. O'Brien, 28th U.S. National Security Advisor
U.S. attorneys John L. Brownlee, United States Attorney for Western District of Virginia Frank DeArmon Whitney, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Maria Chapa Lopez, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida David C. Joseph, United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Kenneth John Gonzales, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico Ira K. Wells, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico Bobby Christine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Duane Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas Grant C. Jaquith, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York Kasey Warner, United States Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia
U.S. diplomatic figures John Bingham, United States Ambassador to Japan Ralph Elihu Becker, United States Ambassador to Honduras Scott Brown, United States Ambassador to New Zealand & Samoa J. Reuben Clark, United States Ambassador to Mexico Russell F. Freeman, United States Ambassador to Belize
Legislative branch (U.S. Congress)
House William Vollie Alexander Jr., U.S. Representative from Arkansas Syd Herlong, U.S. Representative from Florida Greg Steube, U.S. Representative from Florida John A. T. Hull, U.S. Representative from Iowa Steve Buyer, U.S. Representative from Indiana Goodloe Byron, U.S. Representative from Maryland Anthony Brown, U.S. Representative from Maryland Elmer Ryan, U.S. Representative from Minnesota Webb Franklin, U.S. Representative from Mississippi Mark Amodei, U.S. Representative from Nevada John Laurance, U.S. Representative from New York Martin B. McKneally, U.S. Representative from New York Lee Zeldin, U.S. Representative from New York Alexander Pirnie, U.S. Representative from New York Gregory W. Carman, U.S. Representative from New York John H. Ray, U.S. Representative from New York George H. Wilson, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma Patrick Murphy, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania Joe L. Evins, U.S. Representative from Tennessee Louie Gohmert, U.S. Representative from Texas
Senate J. Bennett Johnston, U.S. Senator from Louisiana Dennis DeConcini, U.S. Senator from Arizona Frank Moss, U.S. Senator from Utah George B. Martin, U.S. Senator from Kentucky Scott Brown, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
Judicial branch
Federal appellate judges G. Steven Agee, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Roger Miner, Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Leslie H. Southwick, Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Carl E. Stewart, Chief Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit William Lockhart Garwood, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit John Weld Peck II, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Pasco Bowman II, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit David R. Hansen, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Evan Wallach, Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Herbert Choy, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Gregory W. Carman, Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
Federal district court judges Liles C. Burke, Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama L. Scott Coogler, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Douglas L. Rayes, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Morrison C. England Jr., Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California James M. Ideman, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California Gary L. Taylor, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California Royce Lamberth, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia Donald L. Graham, Judge of United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Winston Arnow Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida Howell W. Melton, Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida J. P. Boulee, Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Charles A. Pannell Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Derrick Watson, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii Dee D. Drell, Chief Judge of United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana David C. Joseph, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Frederic N. Smalkin, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland Edward L. Leahy Judge of United States District Court for the New Hampshire Steven J. McAuliffe, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire John Laurance, Judge of United States District Court for the District of New York Kenneth John Gonzales, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Frank DeArmon Whitney, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina David Dudley Dowd Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio William Huntington Kirkpatrick, Judge United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Edmund V. Ludwig, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Kim R. Gibson, Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Jose Victor Toledo, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico Ira K. Wells, Judge of United States District Court for the District Puerto Rico Andrew Wendell Bogue, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Lawrence L. Piersol, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota Robert J. O'Conor Jr., Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas Sim Lake, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas James R. Spencer, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Zahid Quraishi, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
State government Marc Racicot Governor of Montana Blanton Winship, Governor of Puerto Rico Mike Stack, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania Bob McDonnell, Governor of Virginia Anthony Brown, Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida
Attorneys general Marc Racicot, Attorney General of Montana Carl Danberg, Attorney General of Delaware Beau Biden, Attorney General of Delaware and son of President Joe Biden. Bob McDonnell, Attorney General of Virginia Grenville Beardsley, Attorney General of Illinois Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona Tim Griffin, Attorney General of Arkansas Alan Wilson, Attorney General of South Carolina
State judiciary Arno H. Denecke, Chief Justice of Oregon Supreme Court John A. Hull, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines J. Philip Johnson, Associate Justice North Dakota Supreme Court Price Daniel, Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court N. Patrick Crooks, Associate Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court Robert E. Davis, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court Herbert R. Brown, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court A. William Sweeney, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court Charles B. Zimmerman, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court Josephine L. Hart, Associate Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court Joseph T. Walsh, Associate Justice of Delaware Supreme Court N. Patrick Crooks, Associate Justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court Paul A. Chase, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Rudolph J. Daley, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court William C. Hill, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Ernest W. Gibson III, Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Jerod E. Tufte, Associate Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court
Non U.S. political figures Richard Reeve Baxter, Judge of the International Court of Justice Amnon Straschnov, Military Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces
Other military figures Robyn J. Blader, U.S. National Guard general Dana K. Chipman, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army Caroline A. Crenshaw, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Flora D. Darpino, first woman Judge Advocate General of the United States Army Moe Davis, Air Force colonel Andrew S. Effron, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces David Jonas, United States government official, nominee for General Counsel of the United States Department of Energy James E. McPherson, Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy, executive director of the National Association of Attorneys General Grier Martin, State Representative (D-North Carolina) Mark S. Martins, chief prosecutor in the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed Hubert Miller, Olympic bobsledder Haldane Robert Mayer, United States federal appellate judge (Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) Lisa M. Schenck, professor, George Washington University Law School William K. Suter, 19th Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States
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