Phi Delta Phi is an international legal honor society and the oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States. Founded in 1869 at the University of Michigan as a professional fraternity, it became an honor society in 2012. Following is a list of some of the notable members of Phi Delta Phi

Academia

Mary P. Easley, faculty at North Carolina Central University and North Carolina State University and First Lady of North Carolina José Gomez Gordoa, rector of the Escuela Libre de Derecho and Mexican ambassador to Spain Leon Green, dean of Northwestern University School of Law for 38 years Alfred Hayes Jr., professor of law at the Cornell Law School and lawyer Peter Hogg, dean and professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto Ben F. Johnson, dean of the Emory University School of Law, dean of the Georgia State University College of Law, and Georgia State Senate, Blewett Harrison Lee, legal scholar and corporate attorney who taught at the Northwestern University Law School and University of Chicago Law School Karl Llewellyn, faculty of Columbia Law School and the University of Chicago Law School John O. Moseley, president of Central State College and the University of Nevada, Reno William Lloyd Prosser, dean of the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley Paul L. Selby, dean and professor emeritus of law at the West Virginia University College of Law

Attorney General

Ashtar Ausaf Ali, Attorney General for Pakistan Pamela Carter, Indiana Attorney General George Couper Gibbs, Florida Attorney General and judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit Court of Florida Edwin Meese, United States Attorney General William French Smith, United States Attorney General Edwin K. Steers, Attorney General of Indiana

Business

Shelby Bryan, telecommunications pioneer, futurist, business executive, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist Orion H. Cheney, banker, New York State Comptroller, and New York Superintendent of Banks Elwood Haynes, inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, and industrialist William H. H. Moore, president of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company Aaron Titlow, attorney, hotelier, and developer of Titlow Beach

Entertainment

Marie Sarantakis, lawyer and cast member of Divorce Court

Government

Raymond Adam Kline, deputy and acting administrator of the General Services Administration and associate administrator of NASA Bob Ricks, agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Oklahoma Secretary of Safety and Security

Judiciary

National Supreme Court Rosalie Abella, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Louise Arbour, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and the Court of Appeal for Ontario W. Ian Binnie, justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Hugo Black, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States William J. Brennan Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Benjamin N. Cardozo, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Genaro David Góngora, president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Mexico) Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (Germany) Charles Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the United States, United States Secretary of State, and Governor of New York Elias Finley Johnson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and Ohio House of Representatives Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada Margarita Beatriz Luna, minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Mexico) Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada Sandra Day O’Connor, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Arizona Senate Alberto Pérez Dayán, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (Mexico) Lewis F. Powell Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States Owen Roberts, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Potter Stewart, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States and Governor of California and Byron White, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and professional football player

Federal court

Rhesa Barksdale, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Ellen Bree Burns, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut Albert J. Engel Jr., Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Joyce Hens Green, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Thomas Penfield Jackson, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia Raymond J. Lynch, Administrative Law Judge for the Federal Trade Commission Gerald McLaughlin, Senior Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Stephen Reinhardt, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Barefoot Sanders, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas Robert Nugen Wilkin, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

State or province supreme court Wilbur M. Alter, Colorado Supreme Court Thomas G. Andrews, Oklahoma Supreme Court Archibald C. Buchanan, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia Charles C. Butler, Chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court Archie Campbell, Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario Dwight Campbell, justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court Walter H. Cleary, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Charles S. Colden, justice of the New York Supreme Court Frederic R. Colie, justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court Charles H. Davis, Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Jules Deschênes, Chief Justice of the Quebec Superior Court John W. Eggleston, chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia and Virginia Senate James G. Exum, Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and North Carolina House of Representatives Alan B. Gold, chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court Stephen H. Grimes, chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court Albert C. Hunt, justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court Lee A. Johnson, Kansas Supreme Court Justice Paul Laek, Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and professor at Osgoode Hall Law School Roy McMurtry, Chief Justice of Ontario, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Attorney General of Ontario and Solicitor General of Ontario Ostis Otto Moore, chief justice of the Colorado Supreme Court Frank Richman, justice of the Indiana Supreme Court Harold Sebring, Justice of the Florida Supreme Court Myra C. Selby, Associate Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court John W. Shenk, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court Felix L. Sparks, Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and brigadier general in the Colorado Army National Guard Claude V. Spratley, justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia Abram Penn Staples, justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia Kennon C. Whittle, Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals

Other courts William Gordon Mathews, referee in bankruptcy and Clerk of the court for Kanawha, West Virginia Frank D. Parent, Los Angeles County municipal court judge Frederick L. Taft, judge on the Ohio Courts of Common Pleas

Law

Douglas Arant, special assistant to the United States Attorney General, chairman of the National Committee for Independent Courts, and president of the Alabama State Bar Raymond Boucher, trial attorney J. Reuben Clark, First Counselor in the First Presidency (LDS Church) Donald R. Colvin, attorney Jack Faust, lawyer with Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt Eppa Hunton IV, corporate attorney with Hunton Andrews Kurth Leon Jaworski, Special Prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice John Milton Killits, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Ray Klingbiel, Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court William H. Lamar, Assistant Attorney-General and Solicitor for the Post-Office Department Richard W. Lozier Jr., lawyer Shain Neumeier, autistic and nonbinary transgender attorney

Literature and publishing

William Raimond Baird, publisher and namesake of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities Gardner Fox, writer for DC Comics Arthur Inkersley, journalist and writer for Scientific American

Military

Reginald C. Harmon, Major General in the United States Air Force and served as its first Judge Advocate General, mayor of Urbana, Illinois William Hayward, commander of the Harlem Hellfighters during World War I, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, chairman of the Nebraska Republican State Committee, and secretary of the Republican National Committee Felix L. Sparks, Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court and brigadier general in the Colorado Army National Guard Oliver Lyman Spaulding, brigadier general in the United States Army

Politics

Presidents and Prime Ministers

Gerald Ford, President of the United States Roman Herzog, President of Germany William McKinley, President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States William Howard Taft, President of the United States John Turner, Prime Minister of Canada

Vice Presidents

Walter Mondale, Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle, Vice President of the United States

Governor

Lawton Chiles, Governor of Florida and United States Senator, Florida Senate, and Florida House of Representatives Spessard Holland, Governor of Florida and United States Senator Charles Evans Hughes, United States Secretary of State, Governor of New York, and chief justice of the United States Adlai Stevenson II, Governor of Illinois and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States William F. Winter, governor of Mississippi, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, Mississippi State Treasurer, and Mississippi House of Representatives.

Lieutenant Governor

John Black Aird, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Senate of Canada Lincoln Alexander, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canadian Minister of Labour, and Member of Parliament

Cabinet

James A. Baker III, White House Chief of Staff, United States Secretary of State, and United States Secretary of the Treasury Owen Cleary, Michigan Secretary of State and chair of the Michigan Republican Party Charles Evans Hughes, United States Secretary of State, Governor of New York, and chief justice of the United States Samuel Pierce, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

National legislatures

Howard Baker, United States Senate, United States Ambassador to Japan, and White House Chief of Staff Birch Bayh, United States Senator and Indiana House of Representatives Robert B. Chiperfield, United States House of Representatives Bennett Champ Clark, United States Senator and Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Robert Crosser, United States House of Representatives and Ohio House of Representatives Forrest C. Donnell, United States House of Representatives and Ohio House of Representatives