List of Capital University people

This is a list of notable individuals who currently have or previously had an association with Capital University, located in Bexley, Ohio. Capital University is a private liberal arts university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, founded in 1830. In addition to its undergraduate programs, the university also has graduate programs, as well as a law school. ^[1] Capital is the oldest university in Central Ohio, and one of the oldest and largest Lutheran-affiliated universities in North America. ^[2]

Notable alumni

• Hanif Abdurraqib, poet and music writer
• Ron Amstutz, Ohio state senator
• Tim Ayers, former mayor and city commissioner, Springfield, Ohio
• David F. Bowers, philosopher and Guggenheim Fellow
• C.C. Finlay, novelist (class of 1990)
• Robert S. Graetz, Lutheran pastor, openly supported Montgomery Bus Boycotts
• Jay Hottinger, Ohio state senator (R-31)
• Arnett Howard, jazz musician
• Chris Jamison, pop singer who appeared on Season 7 of The Voice
• Theodore E. Long, former president of Elizabethtown College
• Louis H. Mackey, philosopher
• Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Litton-Lodal Music Director of The American Boychoir
• Eric Norelius, Lutheran minister, church leader and writer
• Abdul Samad Rabiu, Nigerian industrialist
• Harold L. Yochum, class of 1923, theologian, district president of the American Lutheran Church, 9th President of Capital University, delegate to the World Council of Churches

Notable faculty

• Dorothy Gill Barnes, adjunct art instructor, 1966 to 1990
• Kevin R. Griffith, professor of English, poet
• Harold J. Grimm, professor of history and an expert on the Protestant Reformation
• Matthias Loy, elected president of Capital University in 1881
• William Morton Reynolds, president 1850 to 1853
• James Swearingen, music educator and composer
• Harvey Wasserman, liberal, anti-nuclear activist and adjunct professor in the History Department

Law School

Notable faculty

• Jack Guttenberg, legal writer; expert on professional responsibility; co-author of the authoritative source on the Ohio new law of professional conduct for attorneys, Ohio Law of Professional Conduct
• Bradley A. Smith, former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission 2000–2005

A 2008 survey of faculty scholarship conducted by Roger Williams University School of Law found Capital's faculty to be one of the most productive scholarly faculties in the nation. ^[3]

Notable alumni

• Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State (2007–2010)
• Bruce Edward Johnson, Ohio Lt. Governor (2004–2006)
• Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative (R-OH, 2007–present)
• Greg Lashutka, mayor, Columbus, Ohio (1991–1999)
• Matthew W. McFarland, Ohio 4th District Court of Appeals judge
• Paul McNulty, United States Deputy Attorney General (2005–2007), United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (2001–2005)
• Deborah Pryce, U.S. Representative (R-OH, 1993–2008)
• Michael H. Watson, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

References

1. "Degrees". Capital University. Archived from the original on June 17, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
2. "About Capital". Capital University. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
3. http://law.capital.edu/uploadedFiles/Law_Multi_Site/About/Publications/08CapLawAnnualR11.pdf Archived 2013-06-06 at the Wayback Machine ^{[ bare URL PDF ]}