List of University of Michigan Law School alumni
The list of University of Michigan Law School alumni includes notable alumni of University of Michigan Law School.
Alphabetized list
A-D
- Ralph W. Aigler (J.D. 1907), expert on property; member of U-M faculty, 1910–1954; inducted into the University of Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor
- Ronald J. Allen (J.D. 1973), Northwestern University John Henry Wigmore Professor of Law, one of only four Americans to be designated as a Yangtze River Scholar (China's highest academic award, formerly only for Nobel Laureates) in 2007; the first law professor to receive the award, which usually goes to scientists or economists
- Edgardo Angara (LLM 1964), former President of the University of the Philippines; Senate President of the Philippines
- George Ariyoshi (J.D. 1952), third Governor of Hawaii (1974–1986)[1]
- Susanne Baer (LLM 1993), elected to the German Federal Constitutional Court in February 2011
- Melody Barnes (J.D. 1989), Director of the President's Domestic Policy Council
- Mary Frances Berry (J.D. 1970), former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; current professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania
- Lester Bird (LLB 1959), Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda
- Henry Bodenstab (LL.B. 1898), Wisconsin State Senator
- Heidi Bond (J.D.), bestselling author of historical romance novels under the pseudonym Courtney Milan[2]
- Willard Lee Boyd (LAW: LL.M. 1952; S.J.D. 1962), President Emeritus of The University of Iowa, and its 15th President; Chairman of the Association of American Universities, 1979-1980
- Steven G. Bradbury (J.D. 1988), former Acting Assistant Attorney General (Office of Legal Counsel)
- William J. Bulow (LL.B. 1893), U.S. Senator from and Governor of South Dakota
- Nicole (Niki) Burnham (J.D. 1994), author, RITA award winner
- David Francis Cargo (LLB 1957), Governor of New Mexico, 1967-71; New Mexico State House of Representatives Albuquerque (1963–67)[3]
- Roger Carter (LL.M., 1968), Dean of University of Saskatchewan College of Law; recipient of Order of Canada.[4]
- Avern Cohn (J.D. 1949), Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- William W. Cook (JD 1882), heavily published and cited author of textbooks on corporate law; donor of the quadrangle to Michigan
- Ann Coulter (J.D. 1988), political personality, author
- Mike Cox (J.D. 1989), Michigan Attorney General, 2003–2010
- George Crockett Jr. (LAW: 1934), civil rights activist; helped found the National Lawyers Guild; first African American lawyer hired by the Department of Labor; Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit, Michigan, 1966–74; U.S. House of Representatives (D-Mich.), 1991[5]
- Byron Mac Cutcheon (LL.B. 1866), American Civil War officer; Medal of Honor recipient; politician from Michigan[6]
- Clarence Darrow (attended), trial lawyer; defense counsel in the Scopes Monkey Trial and Leopold and Loeb
- Harry M. Daugherty (LL.B. 1880), United States Attorney General, 1921–24, Republican Party boss, member of the "Ohio Gang".
- William R. Day (LL.B. 1870), United States Secretary of State, 1898; United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1903–1922
- Donald McDonald Dickinson (LL.B. 1867), in 1887 appointed by Grover Cleveland as United States Postmaster General; served from January 6, 1888 until the end of Cleveland's first term in 1889
- Gershwin A. Drain (J.D.), District Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan[7]
E-G
- David M. Ebel (J.D. 1965), Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit[8]
- Harry T. Edwards (J.D. 1965), former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[9]
- Larry Elder (J.D. 1977), syndicated radio and television talk show host
- John Feikens (J.D.), politician and judge from Michigan; Senior Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1986–present); was nominated to the same district court by three presidents[10]
- Jeffrey L. Fisher (J.D. 1997), Stanford Law School professor; prevailing counsel in Crawford v. Washington and Blakely v. Washington
- Harold Ford, Jr. (J.D. 1996), former U.S. Representative from Tennessee; Democratic Leadership Council chair[11]
- Ralph M. Freeman (LL.B. 1926), Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- John J. Gardner (attended 1866-1867), U.S. Representative from New Jersey; mayor of Atlantic City[12]
- Ralph F. Gates (J.D. 1917), 37th governor of Indiana[13]
- Richard Gephardt (J.D. 1965), U.S. Representative from Missouri (1977–2005); House Majority Leader, 1989-1995; Minority Leader, 1995-2003[14]
- Jay Gorney (LL.B. 1919), Tin Pan Alley songwriter who co-wrote "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?;" blacklisted during McCarthy era
- Ronald M. Gould (J.D. 1973), Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[15]
- Chuck Greenberg (J.D. 1985), owner, CEO of the Texas Rangers
- Wycliffe Grousbeck (J.D. 1986), owner of the Boston Celtics
H-K
- Kirby Hendee (LL.B. 1953), Wisconsin State Senator
- J. Lister Hill (attended), former U.S. Senator from Alabama[16]
- James P. Hoffa (LL.B. 1966), President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- Vice Admiral James W. Houck (J.D. 1985), Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy
- Wilbur E. Hurlbut (LL.B. 1893), Wisconsin State Assemblyman
- Valerie Jarrett (J.D. 1981), Senior Advisor to President Obama
- Robert M. Johnson (J.D. 1971), former publisher of Newsday
- Matthew M. Joyce, United States federal judge[17]
- Amalya Lyle Kearse (J.D. 1962) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[18]
- Paul S. Kemp (J.D. 2000), fantasy author, known for Forgotten Realms novels; defender of shared world fiction; his novel Deceived (2011) was on the New York Times best-seller list
- Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy (J.D. 1947) - Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[19]
- Raymond Kethledge (J.D. 1993) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[20]
L-Q
- Swift Lathers, founder of The Mears Newz newspaper[21]
- Eric Lefkofsky (J.D. 1993), serial entrepreneur; co-founder of and angel investor in Groupon; president of private equity and consulting firm Blue Media, LLC; named to Forbes' 2011 list of billionaires
- Jeffrey Lehman (J.D. 1981), 11th President of Cornell
- Brian Leiter (J.D. 1987), professor, University of Chicago
- Tom Lewand (J.D. 1996), president of the Detroit Lions
- Peter Maassen (J.D.), appointed by Governor Sean Parnell to the Alaska Supreme Court; the 22nd justice appointed to the Court
- E. W. Marland (LL.B., 1893), oilman; U.S. Congressman; Oklahoma governor[22]
- J. Thomas McCarthy (J.D. 1963), author of McCarthy's Treatise on Trademark and Unfair Competition
- Francis McNulty, Jr. (LL.B. 1888), a Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives from 1896-1898
- Charles Edward Merrill (1906–1907), co-founded stock brokerage firm Merrill Lynch with Edmund C. Lynch; worked at Merrill Lynch, 1914-56
- Robert E. Minahan (LL.B. 1894), Mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin
- Jeffrey P. Minear (J.D. 1982), Counselor to Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
- Frank Murphy (LL.B. 1914), United States Attorney General, 1939; United States Supreme Court Associate Justice, 1940–1949[23]
- Gordon Myse (LL.B. 1960), Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Helen W. Nies (L.L.B. 1948), Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1990-1994
- Ronald L. Olson (J.D. 1967), attorney and name partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP
- Rob Pelinka (J.D. 1996), sports agent, known for representing Kobe Bryant
- Lloyd Welch Pogue (J.D.), pioneering aviation attorney; chairman of the now-defunct Civil Aeronautics Board
- John Porter (J.D. 1961), United States Representative from Illinois, 1980–2001
- Rob Portman (J.D. 1984), Director of the Office of Management and Budget; United States Senator from Ohio[24]
R-Z
- Clark T Randt, Jr. (JD 1975), United States ambassador to China (2001–2009)
- Branch Rickey (LL.B. 1911), Major League Baseball executive and Hall of Famer; created the modern minor league system and signed Jackie Robinson to a contract, breaking the sport's 20th-century color line
- Richard Riordan (J.D. 1956), Mayor of Los Angeles, 1993–2001
- John M. Rogers (J.D. 1974), Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[25]
- Marvin B. Rosenberry (J.D. 1893), Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Donald Stuart Russell, U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1965-1966; 107th Governor of South Carolina, 1963-1965[26]
- Ken Salazar (J.D. 1981), former U.S. Senator from Colorado; former United States Secretary of the Interior[27]
- Miriam Defensor Santiago (LL.M. 1975, S.J.D. 1976) - member of the Senate of the Philippines; Judge of the International Criminal Court
- Anthony Joseph Scirica (J.D. 1965), Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Robert E. Scott (S.J.D. 1973), bankruptcy scholar and professor at Columbia Law School
- Theary Seng, Cambodian-American human-rights activist and lawyer
- Ma. Lourdes Aranal Sereno (LL.M. 1993), Filipino jurist, lawyer and law professor; in August 2010, was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines; in 2012 was appointed Chief Justice of the court by President Benigno S. Aquino III
- Cynthia Leitich Smith (J.D. 1994), author
- Rick Snyder (J.D. 1982), former CEO of Gateway; current Governor of Michigan[28]
- George Alexander Spater (J.D. 1933), chairman of American Airlines, 1968-1973
- Robert Stafford, US congressman and senator; 71st Governor of Vermont[29]
- Bert Sugar (J.D. 1961) author of more than 80 books; editor and publisher of The Ring, a magazine devoted to boxing.
- George Sutherland (attended 1891), United States Supreme Court Justice[30]
- Kent D. Syverud (J.D. 1981), dean of the Washington University School of Law
- Masaaki Tanaka (LL.M), President and Chief Executive Officer of UnionBanCal Corporation and its principal subsidiary, Union Bank of California
- Daniel Tarullo (J.D. 1977), member of Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve Board since January 28, 2009
- Arn Tellem (J.D.), sports agent; former columnist for the New York Times
- Larry Dean Thompson (J.D.), lawyer; deputy Attorney General of the United States under United States President George W. Bush until August 2003[31]
- William Wheeler Thornton (LL.B. 1876), judge; author; Indiana Deputy Attorney General; Indiana State Supreme Ct. Librarian
- John D. Voelker (JD 1928), justice of the Michigan Supreme Court; author of Anatomy of a Murder
- John M. Walker, Jr. (J.D. 1966), former Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[32]
- Happy Walters, sports agent and film and soundtrack producer
- Moses Fleetwood Walker (attended 1881-1882), baseball player and author; first African-American to play major league professional baseball
- James Franklin Ware, Wisconsin State Assemblyman and Senator
- Sarah Killgore Wertman (LAW: LLB 1871), née Sarah Killgore, the first woman to be admitted to the bar of any US state
- David Westin (J.D. 1977), President of ABC News
- James J. White (J.D. 1962), Robert A. Sullivan Professor of Law at Michigan Law; expert on the Uniform Commercial Code
- Ralph Wilson, owner, Buffalo Bills
- Bob Woodruff (J.D. 1987), journalist; ABC News anchor
- Frank Wu, dean of University of California, Hastings College of the Law
- John C.H. Wu (J.D. 1928), principal author of the constitution of the Republic of China
- Sam Zell (LSA B.A. 1963; J.D. 1966), land developer; founder of Equity Office Properties; former National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts chairman; current Chairman and majority owner of the Tribune Company
See also
References
- ↑ "George Ariyoshi". National Governors Association. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "About Courtney". Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ↑ "David Francis Cargo". National Governors Association. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ Uncredited, Profile of Roger Carter; Robertson Stromberg. Retrieved 2016-11-28.
- ↑ "George W. Crockett, Jr.". National Governors Association. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Byron Cutcheon". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Gershwin A. Drain". History of the Federal Judiciary. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "David M. Ebel". History of the Federal Judiciary. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Harry T. Edwards". History of the Federal Judiciary. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "History of the Federal Judiciary". History of the Federal Judiciary. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Harold Ford, Jr.". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "John J. Gardner". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Ralph F. Gates". Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Richard Gephardt". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Gould, Ronald Murray". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Federal Judiciary Center. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
- ↑ "J. Lister Hill". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Pat ThJoyce, Matthew M.omas". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
- ↑ "http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1236&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na". History of the Federal Judiciary. Retrieved 23 October 2012. External link in
|title=(help) - ↑ "Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy". Michigan Lawyers in History. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Raymond Kethledge". History of the Federal Judiciary. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Centennial Celebration". Oceana's Herald-Journal. Jim Young: 3–16. July 17, 2014.
- ↑ Scales, James R. and Danny Goble (1982). "E.W. Marland: The New Deal's Pale Imitation." Oklahoma Politics: A History. University of Oklahoma.
- ↑ "Frank Murphy". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Rob Portman". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "John M. Rogers". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Donald Stuart Russell". National Governors Association. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Ken Salazar". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Rick Snyder". National Governors Association. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Robert Theodore Stafford". NNDB. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
- ↑ "George Sutherland". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "Larry Dean Thompson". Soylent Communications. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
- ↑ "John M. Walker, Jr.". Federal Judicial Center. Retrieved 23 October 2012.
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