List of Yale Law School alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, the law school of the American Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. (For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see the list of Yale University people.) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni.

All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.

Yale Law's three–year J.D. (LL.B., prior to 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.

Law and government

President Gerald Ford '41
President Bill Clinton '73
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton '73
Senator Gary Hart '64
Senator Chris Coons '92
Senator Arlen Specter '56
Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart '41
Supreme Court Justice Byron White '46
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas '74
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito '75
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor '79
Governor of California Jerry Brown '64
Ambassador Sargent Shriver '41
Ambassador John R. Bolton '74
President of Germany Karl Carstens '49
President of the Philippines José P. Laurel '20
Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow '79
Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz '62
Legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon '77
Legal scholar Lawrence Lessig '89
Senator Cory Booker '97
Attorney David Boies '66
Actor Ben Stein '70
U.S. Presidents
  • Bill Clinton (1973), 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001
  • Gerald Ford (1941), 38th President of the United States, 1974–1977
U.S. Attorneys General
U.S. Solicitors General
Other cabinet and cabinet-level officials
Senators
Representatives
Supreme Court justices
Federal courts of appeals
  • Robert P. Anderson (1929), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1964–1978[78]
  • Herschel Arant (1915), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1939–1941[79]
  • Edward Roy Becker (1957), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1998–2003; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1998–2003[80]
  • William Duane Benton (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2004–present[81]
  • Stephanos Bibas (1994), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2017–present[82]
  • Wilbur F. Booth (1888), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1925–1932[83]
  • José A. Cabranes (1965), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–present[84]
  • Guido Calabresi (1958), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–2009[85]
  • Charles Edward Clark (1913), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1939–1963[86]
  • Eric L. Clay (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1997–present[87]
  • Richard Clifton, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2002–present[88]
  • R. Guy Cole Jr. (1978), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1995–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2014–present[89]
  • Steven Colloton (1988), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2003–present[90]
  • Richard Cudahy (1955), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1979–1994[91]
  • Conrad K. Cyr (1956), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1989–1997[92]
  • William A. Fletcher (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present
  • Susan P. Graber (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present
  • Morton Ira Greenberg (1957), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1987–present[93]
  • Pamela Harris (1990), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2014–present[94]
  • David Hamilton (1983), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2009–present[95]
  • A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1952), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1977–1993
  • Stephen A. Higginson (1987), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2011–present[96]
  • Carroll C. Hincks, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1954–1964[97]
  • Andrew D. Hurwitz (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2012–present[98]
  • Robert Katzmann (1980), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1999–present[99]
  • Carolyn Dineen King (1962), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1979–present[100]
  • Kermit Lipez (1967), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1998–2011[101]
  • Scott Matheson Jr. (1980), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2010–present[102]
  • William Ernest Miller (1933), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1970–1976[103]
  • Jon O. Newman (1956), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979–present[104]
  • Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1969), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2001–2009[105]
  • Cornelia (Nina) T.L. Pillard (1983), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2013–present
  • Jill A. Pryor (1988), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2012–present
  • Stephen Reinhardt (1954), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1980–2018
  • Roger Robb (1931), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1969–1982[106]
  • Oliver Seth (1940), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1962–1984; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1977–1984[107]
  • Richard G. Taranto (1981), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2013–present
  • Albert Tate Jr. (1947), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1979–1986[108]
  • William H. Timbers, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1971–1981
  • William Kneeland Townsend, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1902–1907
  • Patricia Wald (1951), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979–1999; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1986–1991
  • George Thomas Washington (1932), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1949–1965[109]
  • Ralph Winter (1960), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1981–2020[110][111]
Federal district courts
Other courts
Governors
State politicians
State judges

City government

U.S. diplomatic figures

Other U.S. political figures

Heads of state or heads of government
Other political figures
International court judges
National court judges

International organization figures

Notable attorneys

Public policy leaders

Academia

University presidents and other administrators

Law school deans

Constitutional law
Criminal law
Civil and human rights law
Intellectual property
International law
Jurisprudence

Other scholars

Activism

Business

Film, theater, and television

Writers

Media and journalism

Commentators

Journalists

Military

Sports

Other

Non-graduates

These students attended Yale Law but, for various reasons, did not graduate.

Fictitious alumni

References

  1. "Herbert Brownell, Jr". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  2. "Homer Stille Cummings". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  3. "Nicholas Katzenbach". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  4. "Peter D. Keisler". Soylent Communications. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  5. "Edward H. Levi". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  6. "Wayne MacVeagh". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  7. "Michael B. Mukasey". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  8. "Alphonso Taft". Soylent Communications. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  9. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/10/02/us/ap-us-new-education-secretary.html
  10. "New FBI Director". Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  11. "Raymond E. Baldwin". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  12. "Thomas F. Bayard, Jr". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  13. "Michael Bennet". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  14. "Richard Blumenthal". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  15. "James L. Buckley". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  16. "Hillary Clinton". The National First Ladies' Library. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  17. "Chris Coons". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  18. "John Danforth". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  19. "Thomas J. Dodd". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  20. "Peter H. Dominick". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  21. "Charles Goodell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  22. "Gary Hart". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  23. "Alfred B. Kittredge". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  24. "Joseph Lieberman". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  25. "Augustine Lonergan". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  26. "Trusten Polk". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  27. "Julius Rockwell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  28. "Arlen Specter". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  29. "Paul Tsongas". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  30. "Harris Wofford". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  31. "Lewis Beach". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  32. "Carroll L. Beedy". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  33. "Jackson Edward Betts". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  34. "Jonathan Brewster Bingham". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  35. "Clay Stone Briggs". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  36. "C. Pope Caldwell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  37. "Charles T. Canady". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  38. "James Colgate Cleveland". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  39. "Sam Coppersmith". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  40. "Albert W. Cretella". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  41. "Peter Deutsch". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  42. "Allen E. Ertel". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  43. "Elizabeth Esty". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved September 7, 2013.
  44. "Richard P. Freeman". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  45. "Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  46. "Foster Furcolo". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  47. "Edwin W. Higgins". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  48. "Peter Hoagland". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  49. "Colin M. Ingersoll". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  50. "Donald J. Irwin". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  51. "Stephen Wright Kellogg". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  52. "Franklin F. Korell". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  53. "John Lindsay". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  54. "Dwight Loomis". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  55. "Allard K. Lowenstein". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  56. "John Miller". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  57. "Bruce Morrison". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  58. "Eleanor Holmes Norton". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  59. "Miner G. Norton". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  60. "George M. O'Brien". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  61. "Diane Pappas: Candidate profile". Daily Herald. October 12, 2018.
  62. "Tom Perriello". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  63. "Aaron F. Perry". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  64. "William Scranton". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  65. "David Skaggs". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  66. "J. Joseph Smith". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  67. "Wint Smith". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  68. "John M. Spratt, Jr". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  69. "Joseph E. Talbot". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  70. "Frank Tejeda". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  71. "TILSON, John Quillin (1866 – 1958)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  72. "illiam H. Upson". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  73. "Stuyvesant Wainwright". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  74. "Mel Watt". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 2, 2012.
  75. "Washington F. Willcox". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  76. "David Wu". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  77. "Dick Zimmer". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  78. "Robert P. Anderson". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  79. "Herschel Whitfield Arant". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  80. "Edward Roy Becker". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  81. "William Duane Benton". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  82. "Stephanos Bibas". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved August 13, 2018.
  83. "Wilbur F. Booth". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  84. "José A. Cabranes". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  85. "Guido Calabresi". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  86. "Charles Edward Clark". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  87. "Eric L. Clay". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  88. "Richard Clifton". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  89. "R. Guy Cole". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved October 3, 2014.
  90. "Steven M. Colloton". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  91. "Richard Dickson Cudahy". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  92. "Conrad K. Cyr". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  93. "Morton Ira Greenberg". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  94. "Pamela Harris". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved January 29, 2016.
  95. "David Hamilton". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  96. "Stephen A. Higginson". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  97. "Carroll C. Hincks". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  98. "Andrew D. Hurwitz". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  99. "Robert Katzmann". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  100. "Carolyn Dineen King". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  101. "Kermit Lipez". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  102. "Scott Matheson, Jr". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  103. "William Ernest Miller". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  104. "Jon O. Newman". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  105. "Barrington Daniels Parker, Jr". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  106. "Roger Robb". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  107. "Oliver Seth". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  108. "Albert Tate, Jr". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  109. "George Thomas Washington". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved July 11, 2013.
  110. "Ralph K. Winter, Jr". Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
  111. Hagerty, James R. (December 16, 2020). "U.S. Appeals Court Judge Made Mark on Business Law". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  112. "Jerry Brown". National Governors Association. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  113. "Foster Furcolo". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  114. "Bibb Graves". National Governors Association. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  115. "William Warner Hoppin". National Governors Association. Retrieved April 20, 2015.
  116. "The Governor". State of Rhode Island. Retrieved May 23, 2015.
  117. "Raymond P. Shafer". Allegheny College. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved December 1, 2012.
  118. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 1, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  119. "Brett Kavanaugh's fellow alumni at Yale Law School call him 'morally bankrupt' in scathing open letter". Other98. July 26, 2018. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
  120. Database (undated). "Avi Soifer". William S. Richardson School of Law. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  121. Database (undated). "Mark Osler" Archived April 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine. University of St. Thomas School of Law. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  122. Osler, Mark (April 1, 2016). "Opinion - Obama's Clemency Problem" via NYTimes.com.
  123. "Prof. Rivka Weill - IDC Herzliya Faculty". www.idc.ac.il. Retrieved December 27, 2020.
  124. "Neal H. Pilson | Columbia University School of Professional Studies". sps.columbia.edu. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  125. "The Seoul Times". theseoultimes.com.
  126. "La Carmina". Business Insider.
  127. "La Carmina - HuffPost". www.huffpost.com.
  128. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1846–7. New Haven: Yale College. 1846. p. 10 via Internet Archive.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.