Samuel Knox Skinner is an American politician,lawyer,and businessman. Skinner served as U.S. Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. Prior to the Bush administration,Skinner served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois under President Gerald R. Ford from 1975-1977,succeeding James R. Thompson.
Douglas Howard Ginsburg is an American lawyer,jurist,and academic who serves as a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was appointed to that court in October 1986 by President Ronald Reagan,and served as its chief judge from 2001 until 2008. In October 1987,Reagan announced his intention to nominate Ginsburg as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. But Ginsburg withdrew his name from consideration before being formally nominated,after news reports that he had smoked marijuana in the past created controversy.
Edward Hirsch Levi was an American legal scholar and academic. He served as dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1950 to 1962,president of the University of Chicago from 1968 to 1975,and then as United States Attorney General in the Ford Administration. Levi is regularly cited as the "model of a modern attorney general",the "greatest lawyer of his time",and is credited with restoring order after Watergate. He is considered,along with Yale's Whitney Griswold,the greatest of postwar American university presidents.
Bruce Robert Jacob is a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Florida during the early 1960s. He represented Louie L. Wainwright,the Director of the Florida Division of Corrections,in the Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright,decided in March 1963,regarding the right to counsel of indigent defendants in non-capital felony cases in state courts. The attorney representing the Petitioner,Clarence Gideon,was Abe Fortas,a Washington,D.C. lawyer who later became a Justice of the Supreme Court. The previous 1942 Supreme Court case of Betts v. Brady required the appointment of counsel for an indigent defendant at state expense if there was a “special circumstance”present in the case which made it necessary for counsel to be provided for the defendant to receive a fair trial. For example,if the defendant was indigent and was extremely young,or lacked education or experience,was unfamiliar with court procedures,or if the charges against him were complex,the trial court was required under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to appoint counsel. Jacob argued against any extension of the defendant's right to counsel. The Court in Gideon overruled Betts and required state courts to appoint attorneys for defendants in all felony prosecutions.
James Gray Carr is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
DePaul University College of Law is the professional graduate law school of DePaul University in Chicago,Illinois. It employs more than 125 full- and part-time faculty members and enrolls more than 500 students in its Juris Doctor program. The school is recognized for its health law and intellectual property law programs,its experiential learning opportunities,and for its multiple joint degree programs offered in conjunction with other DePaul University colleges and schools.
Saint Louis University School of Law,also known as SLU Law,is the law school affiliated with Saint Louis University,a private Jesuit research university in Saint Louis,Missouri. The school has been American Bar Association approved since 1924 and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.
Harlington Wood Jr. was an American lawyer,jurist,political figure and an amateur actor. He served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1976 until his death in 2008,after earlier serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. He was considered one of the country's leading legal historians on the life and legacy of former lawyer and United States President Abraham Lincoln,but is perhaps best known for his involvement as an Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice in two separate Native American armed protests:the first being the occupation at Alcatraz Island,in San Francisco Bay,from 1969 through the summer of 1971,and the second being the Wounded Knee incident in 1973 at Wounded Knee,South Dakota. His accomplishments and impact as both jurist and statesman included participation in many recent events around the world,which he circled three times,including Russia,Outer Mongolia,Europe,Cambodia,Greenland,China,Japan and South America.
Terry J. Hatter Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Philip Peter Simon is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.
Roger Warren Titus was an American jurist and lawyer who served as a federal judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland from 2003 until his death in 2019.
Henry Travillion Wingate is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.
Christopher Henry Schroeder is an American attorney and law professor who served as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Biden Administration from 2021 to 2023. He served as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy in the United States Department of Justice during the presidency of Barack Obama,serving from April 2010 until December 2012. Before and after his time as Assistant Attorney General,he was the Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University School of Law. He is now Professor Emeritus of the same institution.
Rosanna Malouf Peterson is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington and a former professor at Gonzaga University School of Law. She is the first female judge to serve in the Eastern District.
Sheila J. Simon is an American politician who served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois,from 2011 to 2015. In 2014,she was the Democratic nominee for Illinois State Comptroller,losing to Republican incumbent Judy Baar Topinka. Simon is the daughter of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon,who had previously served as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (1969–1973),and his first wife,former Illinois State Representative Jeanne Hurley Simon.
Agyenim N. Boateng is a Ghanaian American lawyer and judge. He is a dual citizen of the United States and Ghana currently residing in Lexington,Kentucky in the United States. He is a former Administrative Law Judge for the Transportation Cabinet of Kentucky and a former Deputy Attorney General for the State of Kentucky. He is also active in the United States wing of the New Patriotic Party of Ghana.
Terrence George Berg is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
John C. Milhiser is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois from 2018 to 2021. Prior to becoming a U.S. Attorney,Milhiser was the Sangamon County State's Attorney. In January 2022,Milhiser announced he would seek the Republican nomination for Illinois Secretary of State in the 2022 election.
Solomon Curtis Osborne is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from the 32nd district. He assumed office on March 18,2019.
