James Harvie Wilkinson III is an American jurist who serves as a United States circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. His name has been raised at several junctures in the past as a possible nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. was an American attorney and judge. Coleman was the fourth United States Secretary of Transportation,from March 7,1975,to January 20,1977,and the second African American to serve in the United States Cabinet. As an attorney,Coleman played a major role in significant civil rights cases. At the time of his death,Coleman was the oldest living former Cabinet member.
Kenneth Francis Ripple is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Patrick F. Philbin is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Counsel to the President and Deputy Assistant to the President in the Office of White House Counsel in the Donald J. Trump administration. He previously served in the Department of Justice during the George W. Bush administration.
Alan Gura is an American litigator practicing in the areas of civil litigation,appellate litigation,and civil rights law at Gura P.L.L.C. Gura successfully argued two landmark constitutional cases before the United States Supreme Court involving firearms,District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago.
John A. Payton was an African-American civil rights attorney. In 2008,he was appointed the sixth president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund serving in that post until his death. Prior to this,he was a partner at the law firm WilmerHale for 20 years.
Virginia Anne Seitz is an American attorney who specializes in constitutional law,labor law,employment law and administrative law. She served as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice from 2011 until stepping down in December 2013. Seitz was confirmed to the post by the Senate in a voice vote on June 28,2011.
Thomas Todd was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia,he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky,where he served as a clerk,judge,and justice. He was married twice and had a total of eight children. Todd joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1807 and his handful of legal opinions there mostly concerned land claims. He was labeled the most insignificant U.S. Supreme Court justice by Frank H. Easterbrook in The Most Insignificant Justice:Further Evidence,50 U. Chi. L. Rev. 481 (1983).
David Jeremiah Barron is an American lawyer who serves as the Chief United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and former S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. He previously served as the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel at the United States Department of Justice.
Pamela Ann Harris is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Prior to joining the federal bench,she was an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,and visiting professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and executive director of its Supreme Court Institute.
Elijah Barrett Prettyman Jr. was an American lawyer.
Noel John Francisco is an American lawyer who served as Solicitor General of the United States from 2017 to 2020. He was the first Asian American confirmed by the United States Senate to hold the position. Francisco is a now a partner at the law firm Jones Day.
Carlos Genaro Muñiz is the chief justice on the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed by Governor Ron DeSantis on January 22,2019. Previously,he was General Counsel of the United States Department of Education.
Gregory George Katsas is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Jennifer Gillian Newstead is an American attorney who currently serves as the Chief Legal Officer at Meta,previously Facebook,overseeing all global legal and corporate governance matters on behalf of the company.
Andrew Stephen Oldham is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and former General Counsel to Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Dana Ann Remus is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel for U.S. President Joe Biden from January 2021 to July 2022. Prior to her appointment as White House counsel,Remus was general counsel for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Earlier in her career,she was deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel for ethics during the presidency of Barack Obama,was general counsel for the Obama Foundation from 2017 to 2019,and was counsel to Michelle Obama.
