List of George Washington University alumni

Last updated December 19, 2024

This list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including a recent U.S. Attorney General, four current heads of state or government, CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates, MacArthur fellows, Olympic athletes, Academy Award and Golden Globe winners, royalty, and Time 100 notables.

Academia

Clinton E. Adams, president of Rocky Vista University
Myron Augsburger, president of Eastern Mennonite University
Bill Baroni, Republican State Senator of New Jersey, former Assemblyman, Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
George F. Baughman, president of the New College of Florida
Derek Curtis Bok, president of Harvard University
Sissela Bok, former professor of philosophy at Brandeis University, currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health
Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, University of Denver, and University of Northern Colorado
Walter M. Bortz III, president of Hampden–Sydney College
Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University
Curley Byrd, president of University of Maryland, College Park
Preston Cloud, eminent earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist whose work led to the development of the concept "Cambrian explosion," for which he coined the phrase "eruptive evolution"
Lotus Coffman, president of the University of Minnesota
Bettye Collier-Thomas, founder of Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History, award-winning Professor of History at Temple University
Scott Cowen, president of Tulane University
William Carey Crane, president of Baylor University
Jack Edmonds, computer scientist, recipient of the John von Neumann Theory Prize, best known for being one of the most important contributors to the field of combinatorial optimization
William Greenleaf Eliot, founder of Washington University in St. Louis
John T. Fey, president of the University of Vermont and the University of Wyoming
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, American Historian
H. Edward Flentje, president of Emporia State University
Glenda Glover, president of Tennessee State University
William Halal, aerospace engineer, air force officer, academic, author
Mildred Harnack, literary historian, translator, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany who was beheaded by the Gestapo
Andrew Hartman, Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University
Todd B. Hawley, founder of the International Space University
Brooks Hays, professor at Rutgers University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and institute director at Wake Forest University
Ricardo Jaar, president of the University of San Pedro Sula
Michael Kammen, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian at Cornell University
Ellyn Kaschak, 1968, emeritus professor of psychology, Ohio State University
Mark Kennedy, president of University of North Dakota
Joseph E. B. Lumbard, Islamic scholar and professor at The American University of Sharjah; author and general editor of The Study Quran
Gustavo A. Mellander, president, Passaic College, Mission College, Chancellor, Inter American University, Chancellor West Valley and Mission College District; graduate Dean Emeritus, George Mason University
Gail Mellow, president of LaGuardia Community College
Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W. K. Kellogg Foundation; daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
Maurice F. Neufeld, professor emeritus, Cornell University
Martha Lucas Pate, president of Sweet Briar College
Roger Pilon, vice president of the Cato Institute
Carolynn Reid-Wallace, president of Fisk University; assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education
Charles P. Roland, historian of the American Civil War and the American South, studied at George Washington in 1947 before transferring to Louisiana State University to obtain his PhD^[1]
John R. Ryan, chancellor of the State University of New York and superintendent of United States Naval Academy
Robert Ryland, president of the University of Richmond
Peter Schweizer, president of Government Accountability Institute
Portia Holmes Shields, president of Albany State University, interim president of Tennessee State University
Gary Sick, Middle East analyst and academic at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs
Morris G. Steen Jr., president of North Florida Community College
Thomas B. Symons, president of University of Maryland, College Park
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, African American historian^[2]
Henry Holcombe Tucker, president of the University of Georgia
Alexander Wetmore, 6th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Ernest L. Wilkinson, president of Brigham Young University
Arthur Cutts Willard, president of the University of Illinois system
Gregory H. Williams, president of the University of Cincinnati and the City College of New York
John T. Wilson, president of the University of Chicago
William Lyne Wilson, president of Washington and Lee University
Meyrav Wurmser, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute
Irvin D. Yalom, existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University
Michael K. Young, president of Texas A&M University, the University of Washington, and the University of Utah
Raul Yzaguirre, activist, lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, former president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, Professor at Arizona State University, one of the first Hispanic fellows of the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Melinda Zook, Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History at Purdue University

Business

Afnan Al-Shuaiby, Secretary General of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce
Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics
Michael Beckerman, CEO of the Internet Association
Henry Cisneros, President of Univision
Nancy Davis, founder and CIO of Quadratic Capital Management
Mindy Grossman, CEO of Weight Watchers Intl.
Donna Hrinak, President of Boeing Latin America
Kenneth Lay, CEO and Chairman of Enron
Lee Kun-Hee, Chairman of Samsung Group
Elaine Wynn, co-founder of Mirage Resorts and Wynn Resorts
Ellen Malcolm, founder and President of EMILY's List and IBM heiress
Van Toffler, President of Viacom Media Networks
Ed Liddy, Chairman of Allstate and AIG

Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines
Gerardo I. Lopez, CEO of Extended Stay America and AMC Theatres
Nate Morris, Entrepreneur
Amina Al Rustamani, CEO of the TECOM Group
William Owens, CEO of Nortel
Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Holdings, S.A.
Clayton M. Jones, Chairman of Rockwell Collins
Anousheh Ansari, CEO of the X Prize Foundation
Dennis R. Wraase, CEO of Pepco Holdings
Lawrence R. Goldfarb, CEO of LRG Capital Group
Christopher J. Wiernicki, CEO of the American Bureau of Shipping
Joe Rospars, CEO of Blue State Digital
Douglas Steenland, President & CEO of Northwest Airlines
Donald Nyrop, President & CEO of Northwest Airlines
Dina Merrill, billionaire co-founder of RKO Pictures
J. R. Claeys, CEO of the National Association of Government Contractors
Mugo Kibati, CEO of Telkom Kenya
Sim Shagaya, CEO of Konga.com
Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director of Goldman Sachs
Michael Punke, Vice President of Amazon Web Services
Yasseen Mansour, Egyptian billionaire
Ron Baron, billionaire founder of Baron Capital; paid a record $103 million for an East Hampton, New York property
Bill Studeman, former vice president and Deputy general manager of Mission Systems at Northrop Grumman
James C. Boland, former vice chairman of Ernst & Young; board member of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, Sherwin-Williams, Invacare and DDR Corp.
Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist, former board member at Revlon
General John T. Chain, Jr., director at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and ConAgra Foods, Inc.
L. Stanley Crane,^[3] Member of National Academy of Engineering; railroad executive; CEO of Southern Railway and Consolidated Rail Corporation
Linda Fisher, former deputy administratpr of the Environmental Protection Agency; former vice president of Monsanto Company; vice president of DuPont
Guilford Glazer, real estate developer
Alvan Macauley, president of Packard
Stephen G. Haines, organizational theorist and management consultant
Patricia Roberts Harris, former director at IBM
David Kellermann, acting CFO of Freddie Mac in early 2009
Gwendolyn King, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration; board member at Lockheed-Martin, Countrywide Financial, Pharmacia, and Monsanto Company
Lester del Rey, founder of Del Rey Books
Mustafa Koç, President of Koç Holding
General Charles C. Krulak, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps; board member at ConocoPhillips, Phelps Dodge, Union Pacific; former executive at MBNA
Theodore Lerner, billionaire real estate developer
J. Phillip ("Jack") London, author, executive chairman and chairman of the board of CACI International Inc.
Cynthia H. Milligan, dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, director of Wells Fargo & Company, Gallup Organization, Calvert investment funds, and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin
Darla Moore (MBA), partner of the private investment firm, Rainwater, Inc.; founder of Palmetto Institute; married to the self-made Texan billionaire Richard Rainwater
Robert Nichols, president and COO of the Financial Services Forum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
Roy Nouhra, founder and CEO of ASIS boats
Neil Portnow, president of The Recording Academy
Kaushik Basu, 11th Chief Economist of the World Bank
Admiral Joseph Prueher (1973), former ambassador to China, former Commander-in-Chief of the United States Pacific Command, former Vice Chief of Naval Operations; a director of Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc., the New York Life Insurance Company, Dyncorp International, Inc. and Fluor Corporation
John F. W. Rogers, chief of staff and partner at Goldman Sachs
Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines
Bruce Sewell, former general counsel and senior vice president at Apple
Sim Shagaya, founder and CEO of Konga.com
George Uribe, founder and CEO of Guestbooker.com
Kathy J. Warden, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman
Jared Marcus, Director of Laboratory Operations at Hamilton Healthcare System

Economics

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Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank
Lin Jianhai, Secretary General of the International Monetary Fund
David Klein (PhD '71), Governor of the Bank of Israel
José Julián Sidaoui, deputy-governor of the Bank of Mexico
Rafael Corpus, Chairman of the Philippine National Bank
Sandra Pianalto, 10th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Julia Montgomery Walsh, director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, first woman to be registered with the American Stock Exchange
Dan Berger, president and CEO of the National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions
James A. Runde, Vice-chairman of Morgan Stanley
Rob Nichols, President & CEO of the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Forum
Marc Tucker, founder and President of the National Center on Education and the Economy

Politics

United States

U.S. Representatives

Julia Brownley, U.S. Representative from California (2013–present)
Darren Soto, U.S. Representative from Florida (2017–present)
Neal Dunn, U.S. Representative from Florida (2017–present)
Susan Wild, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (2018–present)
William Timmons, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (2019–present)
E. Ross Adair, Republican from Indiana, 1951–1971, later ambassador to Ethiopia
Jason Altmire (1998), Democrat from Pennsylvania, 2007–2013
Henry Moore Baker, Republican from New Hampshire, former state representative, 1893–1897, later a state representative
Michael D. Barnes, Democrat from Maryland
Bob Barr (1972), former Republican from Georgia, 1995–2003,
Henry W. Barry, Republican from Mississippi, former state senator, 1870–1875
James F. Battin, Republican from Montana,
Helen Delich Bentley, Republican from Maryland, 1985–1995
Michael Bilirakis (1960), Republican from Florida, 1983–2007
Vincente T. Blaz, Republican from Guam, Brigadier General, 1985–1993
Charles Harrison Brown, Democrat from Missouri, 1957–1961
Garry E. Brown, Republican from Michigan, 1967–1979
Hank Brown, Republican from Colorado, former state senator, 1981–1991, later US senator
Joel Broyhill, Republican from Virginia, chairman of the Rules Committee, 1953–1974
Sherman Everett Burroughs, Republican from New Hampshire, former state representative, 1917–1923
Laurence J. Burton, Republican from Utah, 1963–1971, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
Robert Byrd (attended), Democrat from West Virginia, former state delegate and senator, 1953–1959, US senator
Goodloe Byron, Democrat from Maryland, former State Delegate and senator, 1971–1978
John L. Cable, Republican from Ohio, 1921–1925 and 1929–1933
Gordon Canfield (1926), Republican from New Jersey, 1941–1961
Eric Cantor (1985), Republican from Virginia, former Chief Deputy Whip, Minority Whip, 2001–2010, House Majority Leader, 2011–2014
Lewis C. Carpenter, Republican from South Carolina, 1874–1875
Donna Christian-Christensen, Democrat from the United States Virgin Islands, non-voting delegate, 1997–2015
Gil Cisneros, Republican from California, 2019–2021
William Henry Coleman, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1915–1917
Frank Coombs, Republican from California, former state assemblyman and speaker, 1901–1903
John Blaisdell Corliss, Republican from Michigan, 1895–1903
Norris Cotton, Republican from New Hampshire, 1947–1954, later US senator
William R. Coyle, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1925–1927 and 1929–1933
Larry Craig, Republican from Idaho, 1981–1991, US senator, 1991–2009
Josiah Crudup, Republican from North Carolina, 1821–1823
Charles F. Curry, Jr., Republican from California, 1931–1933
Ewin L. Davis, Democrat from Tennessee 1919–1933
Martin Dies, Jr., Democrat from Texas; co-founder and chairman of the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, 1931–1945 and 1953–1959
Donald C. Dobbins, Democrat from Illinois, 1933–1937
John James Duncan, Jr., Republican from Tennessee, 1988 to 2019
Clyde T. Ellis, Democrat from Arkansas, former state representative and senator, 1939–1943
John James Flynt, Jr., Democrat from Georgia, 1954–1979
John H. Foster, Republican from Indiana, 1905–1909
J. William Fulbright, Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1945, later US senator
Ralph A. Gamble, Republican from New York, 1937–1957
Stephen Warfield Gambrill, Democrat from Maryland, 1924–1938
Dan Glickman (JD 1969), Democrat from Kansas, former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, 1977–1995, former United States Secretary of Agriculture
Gilbert Gude, Republican from Maryland, former state delegate and senator, 1967–1977
Orval H. Hansen, Republican from Idaho, former state representative and senator, 1969–1975
William A. Harris, Populist from Kansas, 1893–1895, later a state senator and then US senator, 1897–1903, unsuccessful candidate for governor
Franck R. Havenner, Progressive and then Democrat from California, 1937–1941 and 1945–1953
Brooks Hays, Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1959
George Huddleston, Jr., Democrat from Alabama, 1963–1965
Merlin Hull, Republican from Wisconsin, former member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, former Speaker, former Wisconsin Secretary of State, 1929–1931 and 1935–1953
Henry S. Reuss, Democratic from Wisconsin
William Y. Humphreys, Democrat from Mississippi, 1923–1925
Daniel Inouye (JD 1952), Democrat from Hawaii 1959–1963, former US senator
Steve Israel (1985), Democrat from New York, 2001–2017
Sam Johnson, Republican from Texas, 1991 to 2019
Frank M. Karsten, Democrat from Missouri, 1947–1969
Tom Kindness, Republican from Ohio
Amy Kuhn, state representative in Maine^[7]
Robert W. Levering, Democrat of Ohio
Albert F. Dawson, Republican from Iowa
Tim Mahoney (1983), Democrat from Florida, 2007–2009
Henry May, Democrat from Maryland, 1853–1855 and 1861–1863
Donald H. McLean, Republican from New Jersey, 1933–1945
Herbert Alton Meyer, Republican from Kansas, 1947–1950
Earl C. Michener, Republican from Michigan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1919–1933 and 1935–1951
Edward Tylor Miller, Republican from Maryland, 1947–1959, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
Francis G. Newlands (JD 1869), Democrat from Nevada, 1893–1903, later US senator
William H. Parker, Republican from South Dakota, 1907–1908
Stanford E. Parris, Republican from Virginia, former State Delegate, 1973–1975 and 1981–1991
James T. Patterson, Republican from Connecticut, 1947–1959
Pedro Pierluisi, Democratic Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the House, 2009–2017
Nick Rahall, Democrat from West Virginia, 1977–2015
Jim Ramstad (1973), Republican from Minnesota, 1991–2009
Harry Reid (JD 1964), Democrat from Nevada, former lieutenant governor, 1983–1987, former US senator
John Merriman Reynolds, Republican from Pennsylvania, 1905–1911; later Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
John M. Robsion, Jr., Republican from Kentucky, 1953–1959, unsuccessful candidate for governor
Paul Rogers, Democrat from Florida, 1955–1979
Alvah Sabin, from Vermont, former state representative and senator, as well as state secretary of state, 1853–1857
William L. Scott, Republican from Virginia, 1967–1973, later US senator
James Shannon, Democrat from Massachusetts, 1979–1985, later Massachusetts Attorney General
Joe Skubitz, Republican from Kansas, 1963–1978
Gladys Noon Spellman, Democrat from Maryland, 1975–1981
Frederick Perry Stanton, Democrat from Tennessee, chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1845–1855, later Governor of Kansas
Cliff Stearns (1963), Republican from Florida, 1989–2013
Howard Sutherland, Republican from West Virginia, former state senator, 1913–1917
Thomas Swann, Democrat from Maryland, former governor and mayor of Baltimore, elected to the US Senate but did not serve, 1869–1879
E. S. Johnny Walker, Democrat from New Mexico, former state representative, 1965–1969
Francis E. Walter, Democrat of Pennsylvania, chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1933–63
Elton Watkins, Democrat from Oregon, 1923–1925, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate and Mayor of Portland
Guilford Wiley Wells, Independent Republican from Mississippi, former US Attorney, 1875–1877
Robert Wexler (1985), former state senator, Democrat from Florida, 1997–2010
Compton I. White, Jr., Democrat of Idaho, 1963–1967
Earle D. Willey, former Delaware Secretary of State, Republican from Delaware, 1943–1945
William Lyne Wilson, Democrat from West Virginia, chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, 1883–1895, later United States Postmaster General
Jared Moskowitz, Democrat from Florida
Jill Tokuda, Democrat from Hawaii
Erin Houchin, Republican from Indiana

U.S. mayors

David Holt, current mayor of Oklahoma City
Vincent C. Gray, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
Walter Nathan Tobriner, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
Henry B. F. MacFarland, former mayor of Washington, D.C.
W. M. Holland, former mayor of Dallas
Nick Udall, former mayor of Phoenix
Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio
Harold L. George, former mayor of Beverly Hills
George W. Guthrie, former mayor of Pittsburgh
Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake City
William S. Fitzgerald, former mayor of Cleveland
Frank E. Mann, former mayor of Alexandria
Leroy S. Bendheim, former mayor of Alexandria
Franklin P. Backus, former mayor of Alexandria
Thomas Swann, former mayor of Baltimore
James Taylor Ellyson, former mayor of Richmond
Steven L. Abrams, former mayor of Boca Raton
Dorothy Wilken, former mayor of Boca Raton
Frank Willey Clancy, former mayor of Albuquerque
John H. Logie, former mayor of Grand Rapids
Alex Knopp, former mayor of Norwalk
Tom Rust, former mayor of Herndon, Virginia
John Garland Pollard, former Williamsburg, Virginia
George B. Fitch, former mayor of Warrenton, Virginia
William Henry Coleman, former mayor of McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Hector De La Torre, former mayor of South Gate, California
Skip Priest, former mayor of Federal Way, Washington
Scott Slifka, former mayor of West Hartford, Connecticut
Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Elizabeth C. Hoffman, former mayor of North Tonawanda, New York
Tom Van Horn Moorehead, former mayor of Zanesville, Ohio
Tom Kindness, former mayor of Hamilton, Ohio
Gretchen Driskell, former mayor of Saline, Michigan
Richard Wallach, Mayor of D.C.
Susan W. Kluttz, former mayor of Salisbury, North Carolina
Kenneth S. Wherry, former mayor of Pawnee City, Nebraska
Compton I. White Jr., former mayor of Clark Fork, Idaho
Robert K. Goodwin, former mayor of Redfield, Iowa
James L. Wilmeth, former mayor of Takoma Park, Maryland
William V. Bouic, former mayor of Rockville, Maryland
Mike Enzi, former mayor of Gillette, Wyoming
Keith Sebelius, former mayor of Norton, Kansas
Richard Wallach, former mayor of Washington, D.C.

Other U.S. officials

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Bill McGinley, White House Cabinet Secretary
Floretta Dukes McKenzie, Superintendent of District of Columbia Public Schools
Mercedes Schlapp, White House Director of Strategic Communications
Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Lauren Vaughan, Secretary of the District of Columbia
Tony Sayegh, United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Carlos Del Toro, current United States Secretary of the Navy
Aaron D. Ford, current attorney general of Nevada
Dennis Herrera, current City Attorney of San Francisco
Corey Johnson, current Speaker of New York City Council
Atif Qarni, current Virginia Secretary of Education
Dan Maffei, current Commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission
Eddie Farnsworth, current president pro tempore of the Arizona Senate
José R. Rodríguez, current Minority Leader of Texas Senate
Ram Villivalam, current member of the Illinois Senate
Caroline Simmons, current member of the Connecticut Senate
Karl Rhoads, current member of the Hawaii Senate
Marise James, member of the Legislature of the Virgin Islands
Rob Wagner, current member of the Oregon State Senate
Julie Raque Adams, current member of the Kentucky Senate
Mari Manoogian, current member of the Michigan House of Representatives
JB McCuskey, current State Auditor of West Virginia
Charles Manatt, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee
William B. Black Jr., 16th Deputy Director of the National Security Agency
Gwendolyn King, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
Frank Harris Hitchcock, former chairman of the Republican National Committee
Lewis Deschler, first Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
Dionel M. Aviles, Under Secretary of the Navy, former Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Victoria Clarke, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Kathleen Troia McFarland, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
B. J. Penn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (2005–2009)
John P. Roth, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense
Robert O. Work, 32nd United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
David O. Cooke, "mayor of the Pentagon"
Rosel H. Hyde, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Tom Bossert, United States Homeland Security Advisor for President Donald Trump
Charles Colson, White House Counsel for President Richard Nixon
Gregory G. Garre, United States Solicitor General
Jack Conway, Attorney General of Kentucky
Kevin J. O'Connor, former United States Associate Attorney General
Diana Josephson, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
Charles James, assistant attorney general and general counsel of Chevron-Texaco
Catherine M. Russell, chief of staff to Jill Biden, wife of Joseph Biden, former associate deputy attorney general
Bradley Schlozman, former head of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and current US Attorney for the Western District of Missouri
Alexander Butterfield, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Erin Houchin, member of the Indiana Senate
Katie Walsh, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Donna Lynne, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
Kenneth W. Starr (1968), United States Solicitor General, and Independent Counsel during the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals
Ross "Rocky" Anderson (JD 1978), former mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah
Willie Bailey, Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
Gary J. Barczak, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Bill Baroni, Republican State Senator of New Jersey, former Assemblyman, Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law
Edward Blackmon Jr., Democratic member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
Winston Bryant, former attorney general of Arkansas
Charlie Collins, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for the 84th district^[8]
Roger Cressey, member of the United States National Security Council
Tim Morrison, member of the United States National Security Council
M. Jerome Diamond, Vermont Attorney General, 1975–1981^[9]
Randall Edwards (MBA 1990), Oregon State Treasurer
Harland E. Everson, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Sean Flaherty, Democratic member of the Maine House of Representatives
Richard A. Flintrop, former Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Hillman Terome Frazier, Democratic state senator of Mississippi, former state representative
Vivian V. Simpson, first female Secretary of State of Maryland
Robert J. Garagiola, Democratic member of the Maryland State Senate
James W. Gilchrist, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Bill Guffey, former Democratic member of the Wyoming House of Representatives
Ana Sol Gutierrez, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Murray D. Levy, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Christopher B. Shank, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Karen S. Montgomery, Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Tom Greenwell, first Republican judge of the 319th District Court in Corpus Christi ^[10]
Paul Clinton Harris, Republican former member of the Virginia House of Delegates
David Holt, current mayor of Oklahoma City, OK
Raymond Johnson, Republican former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
Rod Johnston, Republican former member of the Wisconsin State Senate
Alex Knopp, eight-term member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1987–2001) and two-term mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut (2001–2005); clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School (since 2006)
Jared Moskowitz, former member of the Florida House of Representatives
Gretchen Driskell, former member of the Michigan House of Representatives
Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, current deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Frank E. Mann, former Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Jesse Martineau, Democratic member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
Kenneth E. Melson, former director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Bill Mims, former Republican State Delegate and former member of the Senate of Virginia, current attorney general of Virginia
Daniel J. O'Donnell, Democratic member of the New York State Assembly
Leslie Osterman (1991), Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives
John Overington, Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
Jeffrey Piccola, Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
Paul G. Pinsky, former Democratic Delegate and current member of the Maryland State Senate
John Merriman Reynolds, US representative from Pennsylvania and then Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Thomas Davis Rust, Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
James Shannon, former US representative and Massachusetts Attorney General
James Skoufis, Democratic member of New York State Assembly elected to State Senate in 2018
Harry A. Slattery, US Under Secretary of the Interior, 1938–39; the Slattery Report
Darren Soto, Democrat, Florida House of Representatives
Ben Stevens, former president of the Alaska State Senate, son of United States Senator Ted Stevens
Nick Udall, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona, 1948–52, member of the Udall family
Colin Van Ostern, New Hampshire Executive Council member and New Hampshire Gubernatorial candidate
Leo Wardrup, former Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
Mary Margaret Whipple, former Democratic State Delegate and current member of the Senate of Virginia
Charles W. Colson, chief counsel for US president Richard Nixon, spent time in prison for his part in the Watergate scandal
Harry S. Dent, Sr. (JD, 1957), Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon; General Counsel to the Republican National Committee; father of economist Harry Dent
Elizabeth B. Drewry (BA, MA), archivist, National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Lori Garver, Deputy NASA Administrator
Steven M. Goldman, New Jersey State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator
Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
Heather Higginbottom, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the administration of Barack Obama
Leon Jaworski (1926), Special Prosecutor for the Watergate hearings
Gwendolyn King, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration; board member at Lockheed-Martin, Countrywide Financial, Pharmacia, and Monsanto Company
Susan Bass Levin, former mayor of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, current deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Dominic J. Monetta, former deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) at the U.S. Department of Defense, 1991–1993; former director, Office of New Production Reactors, at the United States Department of Energy, 1989–1991
Kenneth P. Moritsugu (M.D. 1971), Surgeon General of the United States (August 2006–present)^[11]
Robert Nichols, President and COO of the Financial Services Forum, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
Patrick P. O'Carroll, Jr, Inspector General of the Social Security Administration
Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S. Register of Copyrights
Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
Margaret Milner Richardson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (or IRS Commissioner), head of the Internal Revenue Service, former partner at Ernst & Young
Daniel Shagoury (M.A. 1987), member of the Maine House of Representatives ^[12]
Mary Schapiro, former chairwoman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, former CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, former chairman and CEO of the National Association of Securities Dealers, former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, former commissioner on the Securities and Exchange Commission, currently a director of Kraft Foods Inc, and Duke Energy Corporation
James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of NASA
William Lyne Wilson, 37th United States Postmaster General, former Ways and Means chairman in the US House of Representatives
Aldrich Ames, Soviet spy working in the CIA as a counter-intelligence officer
Allen Dulles (1920), director of the CIA
James W. McCord, Jr., former CIA officer, involved in the Watergate scandal
John A. Rizzo, Acting General Counsel of the CIA
Bill Studeman, former Admiral of the United States Navy, former deputy director of the CIA, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the National Security Agency, and former director of Naval Intelligence
A. Bruce Bielaski, director of the Bureau of Investigation, predecessor to the FBI
Floyd I. Clarke, former director of the FBI
Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
W. Mark Felt (1940), associate director, FBI; "Deep Throat" informant
Stanley Finch (JD 1908), first director of the Bureau of Investigation
L. Patrick Gray, former acting director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal
J. Edgar Hoover (1916, 1917, 1935), director, FBI
Eric O'Neill (JD 2003), FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of Robert Hanssen
John P. O'Neill, former top anti-terrorism expert; former assistant director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation; head of security at the World Trade Center; died in the September 11, 2001 attacks
Clyde Tolson, associate director of the FBI, protégé of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
Harold Brown Jr., a CIA Officer and U.S. Army Reserve Major who was killed during the Camp Chapman attack

International

Heads of state and government

Juan Guaidó (MPA '09), disputed President of Venezuela (2019–present)
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (F.S. '03), former President of Croatia (2015–2020)
Faure Gnassingbé (MBA '97), current President of Togo (2005–present)^[13]
Edward David Burt (BA '01, MS '03), current Premier of Bermuda (2017–present)
Michael Dunkley (MS '80), 12th Premier of Bermuda (2014–2017)
Tshering Wangchuk (LLM '03), interim prime minister of Bhutan (2018)
Chimediin Saikhanbileg (LLM '02), Prime Minister of Mongolia (2014–2016)
Syngman Rhee (BA 1907), 1st President of South Korea (1948–1960)
Lee Myung-bak (V.S. '99), 17th President of South Korea (2008–2013)
Chang Dae-whan (MA '76), Prime Minister of South Korea (2002)
Song Yo Chan (BA '40), Prime Minister of South Korea (1961–1962)
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (MEA '83), 21st prime minister of Pakistan (2017–2018)^[14]
Mandé Sidibé (MBA '74), 8th prime minister of Mali (2000–2002)
Mikhail Saakashvili (LLM '94), 3rd President of Georgia (2004–2007, 2008–2013)
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (MA '85), President of Iraq (2004–2005)
Mahmud Suleiman Maghribi (PhD '73), Prime Minister of Libya (1969–1970)

Cabinet ministers

Mohammad Nahavandian, current vice president of Iran
Hessa Al Jaber, former Minister of Information of Qatar
John Deng, current Minister without Portfolio of Taiwan
Omar Ayub Khan, current Energy Minister of Pakistan (grandson of President Muhammad Ayub Khan)
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, current Minister of Maritime Affairs of Indonesia
Slim Feriani, Former Minister of Industry, Energy, Mining, Renewable Energy and SMEs, Republic of Tunisia
Alexander Zaveryukha, former deputy prime minister of Russia
Nematullah Shahrani, former vice president of Afghanistan
S. M. Krishna, former Foreign Minister of India
Ashtar Ausaf Ali, former Attorney-General for Pakistan
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Minister of Petroleum & Natural Resources of Pakistan
Lee Beom Seok, former Foreign Minister of South Korea
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, former Minister for Internet Safety & Security of the United Kingdom
Jorge Alberto Uribe, former Defense Minister of Colombia
Pedro Sánchez Gamarra, former Energy Minister of Peru
Sérgio Paulo Rouanet, former Minister of Culture of Brazil
Roberto Campos, former Minister of Planning of Brazil
Marcin Święcicki, former Minister of Economic Relations of Poland
Ali bin Abdulla Al Kaabi, former Labour Minister of the United Arab Emirates
Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud, former Minister of Municipal Affairs of Saudi Arabia
Raya Haffar al-Hassan, former Finance Minister of Lebanon
Hedayat Amin Arsala, former Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
Géza Teleki, former Education Minister of Hungary
Aleksandre Jejelava, former Science & Education Minister of Georgia
Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, former Minister of Corrections of Georgia
Yahya Kisbi, former Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing.
Mihnea Motoc, former Defense Minister of Romania
Sudirman Said, former Energy Minister of Indonesia
Farouq Qasrawi, former Foreign Minister of Jordan
Alaa Batayneh, former Energy Minister of Jordan
Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar, former Minister of Economy & Trade of Syria
Mohammad Mustafa, former deputy prime minister of Palestine
Kao Su-po, former Minister of Mongolian & Tibetan Affairs of Taiwan
Kivutha Kibwana, former Defense Minister of Kenya
Zhivargo Laing, former Culture Minister of the Bahamas
Htay Aung, former Tourism Minister of Myanmar
Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia, former Vice Governor of Jakarta, Indonesia
Rex Gatchalian, current Philippines Secretary of Social Welfare and Development, former Member Philippine House of Representatives from Valenzuela, former mayor of Valenzuela

Other figures

İbrahim Kalın, current Director of the National Intelligence Organization of the Republic of Türkiye
Tshering Wangchuk, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan
Anwar Gargash, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
Mauricio Vila Dosal, current governor of Yucatán, former Mayor of Mérida
Najmiddin Karim, current governor of Kirkuk
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields, current Member of the House of Lords
Andrew Hastie, current member of the Parliament of Australia
George Maior, current Romanian ambassador to the United States
Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr., current Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
Hsu Mo, founding judge of the International Court of Justice
José Abad Santos (1909), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Philip Jaisohn, a founding father of the Korean Independence Movement
Chung Mong-joon, Chairman of the Liberty Korea Party
HH Prince Talal Arslan, Druze leader and current Head of the House of Arslan; founder and President of the Lebanese Democratic Party
Joe Hung (PhD history, 1981), Taiwanese journalist (Central News Agency) and diplomat, Representative of Taiwan to Italy (1993–2000)^[15]
Kazuyuki Hamada, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Anwar Gargash, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
Henrique Valle, Deputy Ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
José Julián Sidaoui, Deputy Minister of Finance of Mexico
Andrew Marshall, Director of the Office of Net Assessment
Sarah Adwoa Safo, member of the Parliament of Ghana
Abdul Kady Karim, 2007 candidate for President of Sierra Leone
Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representatives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
Vidar Bjørnstad, Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Marcin Święcicki, Mayor of Warsaw, Poland
Dianne Haskett, Mayor of London, Canada
Donald Stone Macdonald, Mayor of Gwangju, South Korea
Jonathan Martin, Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, Canada^[16]
Johnny Wright Sol, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador representing San Salvador

Diplomacy

U.S. ambassadors

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Michael Ratney, current U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Rebecca Gonzales, former U.S. Ambassador to Lesotho
Robin Bernstein, former U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
Christine A. Elder, former U.S. Ambassador to Liberia
Joseph Prueher, former U.S. Ambassador to China
Nelson T. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to China and Australia
Patrick J. Hurley, former U.S. Ambassador to China and New Zealand
James R. Lilley, former U.S. Ambassador to China and South Korea
Stephen W. Bosworth, former U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, Philippines, and South Korea
John J. Muccio, former U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala, Iceland, South Korea
Michael Punke, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization
Kurt Volker, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
David M. Kennedy, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
William Tapley Bennett Jr., U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Catherine M. Russell, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Patricia Roberts Harris, former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
Wiley T. Buchanan Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg and Austria
John Cloud, former U.S. Ambassador to Lithuania and Germany
Thomas A. Loftus, former U.S. Ambassador to Norway
Edward W. Gnehm, former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Kuwait and Australia
George W. Guthrie, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Robert Daniel Murphy, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Belgium
Carol Z. Perez, former U.S. Ambassador to Chile
William Miller Collier, former U.S. Ambassador to Chile and Spain
Alexander W. Weddell, former U.S. Ambassador to Argentina and Spain
John H. Wheeler, former U.S. Ambassador to Nicaragua
Cresencio S. Arcos Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras
Charles A. Ford, former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras
Frank Almaguer, former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras
Morris D. Busby, former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia
William Braucher Wood, former U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and Afghanistan
Charles Taylor Manatt, former U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic
Raul Yzaguirre, former U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic
Donna Hrinak, former U.S. Ambassador to Dominican Republic, Bolivia, and Venezuela
George W. Landau former U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Chile, and Venezuela
James M. Derham, former U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala
Frank V. Ortiz, former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay, Guatemala, Barbados, Peru, and Argentina
Richard C. Brown, former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay
Lyle Franklin Lane, former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay and Costa Rica
Robert M. Sayre, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Panama, and Uruguay
Irving Bedell Dudley, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and Peru
Charles Page Bryan, former U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Japan, Belgium, and Portugal
Everett E. Briggs, former U.S. Ambassador to Portugal
Robert J. McCloskey, former U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Cyprus, and Netherlands
John Peurifoy, former U.S. Ambassador to Greece, Guatemala, and Thailand
Richard Boucher, former U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus
Theodore Brentano, former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary
William Dale Montgomery, U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, Serbia and Montenegro, and Croatia
E. Ross Adair, former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia
Tibor P. Nagy, former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia
David H. Shinn, former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and Burkina Faso
Julius Waring Walker Jr., former U.S. Ambassador to Burkina Faso
Smith Hempstone, former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya
Gerald Eustis Thomas, former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya and Guyana
David C. Halsted, former U.S. Ambassador to Chad and Uganda
Tom McDonald, former U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe
Bernadette M. Allen, former U.S. Ambassador to Niger
Robert Brendon Keating, former U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar
George Moose, former U.S. Ambassador to Benin and Senegal
Robert P. Jackson, former U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Cameroon
Donald C. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to Cabo Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and Mongolia
Francis Terry McNamara, former U.S. Ambassador to Cabo Verde, Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe
Aubrey Hooks, former U.S. Ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, and Republic of Congo
Clare H. Timberlake, former U.S. Ambassador to Democratic Republic of the Congo
Harmon Elwood Kirby, former U.S. Ambassador to Togo
Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania
Daniel A. Johnson, former U.S. Ambassador to Suriname
Walter Nathan Tobriner, former U.S. Ambassador to Jamaica
Walter E. North, former U.S. Ambassador to Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea
William A. Heidt, former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia
Carol Laise, former U.S. Ambassador to Nepal
Edward E. Masters, former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia
Ralph L. Boyce, former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia and Thailand
Sheila Gwaltney, former U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan
Marisa Lino, former U.S. Ambassador to Albania
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, former U.S. Ambassador to Malta
Richard L. Baltimore, former U.S. Ambassador to Oman
Ross Wilson, former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

State Department officials

Other diplomats

Nestor Mendez, current Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States
Kazuyuki Hamada, former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr., current State Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat credited with saving over 62,000 Jews, the largest rescue operation of Jews of World War II
George Maior, current Romanian ambassador to the United States
Henrique Valle, Deputy Ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
Joe Hung, Taiwanese Ambassador to Italy
Elliott Charng, Taiwanese Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, and India
Camillo Gonsalves, Permanent Representatives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
Moncrieff J. Spear, former U.S. Consul-General to the Bahamas
Richard Paul Momsen, former U.S. Consul-General to Rio de Janeiro
Guilford Wiley Wells, former U.S. Consul-General to Shanghai
Thomas Sammons, former U.S. Consul-General to Shanghai
Frank Lockhart, former U.S. Consul-General to Shanghai
Archer Blood, former U.S. Consul-General to Dhaka, East Pakistan, issued the Blood Telegram during the Bangladesh Liberation War
An Le, current U.S. Consul to Ho Chi Minh City
Mao Ning, current spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China

Law

U.S. Circuit judges

Sharon Prost, current Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Richard Linn, current Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Clyde H. Hamilton, current Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Kenneth Francis Ripple, current Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
David R. Hansen, current Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Barbara Milano Keenan, current Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Carlos F. Lucero, current Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Glenn L. Archer Jr., former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Randall Ray Rader, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
James P. Coleman, former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Richard Dickson Cudahy, former Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
William Edward Doyle, former Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Bennett Champ Clark, former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Albert Tate Jr., former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Robert Smith Vance, former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. District judges

John Michael Seabright, current Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
Joyce Hens Green, current Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Daniel T. K. Hurley, current Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Cameron McGowan Currie, current Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Roger L. Hunt, current Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
William K. Sessions III, current Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Gordon Jay Quist, current Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Suzanne Mitchell, current magistrate judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Tanya S. Chutkan, current Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Stephen Victor Wilson, current Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Darrin P. Gayles, current Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Florida
Jorge Luis Alonso, current Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Catherine Eagles, current Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Linda Vivienne Parker, current Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Alfred Adams Wheat, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Gerald Ellis Rosen, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Ernest W. Gibson Jr., former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
James C. Cacheris, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Edward Skottowe Northrop, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Edwin F. Hunter, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Ronald Edward Meredith, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
James F. Battin, former Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
Harold H. Greene, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Henry Albert Schweinhaut, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
James Robertson, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Burnita Shelton Matthews, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Sarah T. Hughes, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Oren Ritter Lewis, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
John Milton Killits, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Albert Morris Sames, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
Albert Sherman Christensen, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
G. Ross Anderson, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Paul Benson, former Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
Frederick Lincoln Siddons, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Adolph A. Hoehling Jr., former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Andrew Coyle Bradley, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
William Matthews Merrick, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
James Robert Kirkland, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
William Edward Doyle, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Arthur Marshall Davis, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
Benjamin Franklin Keller, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
David R. Hansen, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Clyde H. Hamilton, former Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

U.S. State Supreme Courts

Michael Kruse, current Chief Justice of the American Samoa High Court
Bill Mims, current Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
D. Frank Wilkins, current Justice of the Utah Supreme Court
Harry L. Carrico, 23rd Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court
Barbara Milano Keenan, Justice on the Virginia Supreme Court
Barbara Pariente, 51st Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Clifford Taylor, 66th Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
Mary S. Coleman, 57th Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court
A. Lee Chandler, 28th Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Taylor Hudnall Stukes, 20th Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court
Russell A. Anderson, 20th Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court
Horace W. Wilkie, 19th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Kathryn Werdegar, former Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Albert Tate Jr., former Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
Rankin Gibson, former Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
Adolph Grant Wolf, former Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
Félix Córdova Dávila, former Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court

Attorneys General

William Barr, U.S. Attorney General
William Barr, 77th and 85th United States Attorney General
Mohan Peiris, 41st attorney general of Sri Lanka
Aaron D. Ford, current attorney general of Nevada
Frankie Sue Del Papa, 29th attorney general of Nevada
Bill Mims, 45th attorney general of Virginia
John Garland Pollard, 21st attorney general of Virginia
Robert Y. Thornton, 8th attorney general of Oregon
Rufus L. Edmisten, 46th attorney general of North Carolina
Vernon B. Romney, 14th attorney general of Utah
Frank Willey Clancy, 1st attorney general of New Mexico
Jeffrey B. Pine, 70th attorney general of Rhode Island
M. Jerome Diamond, 22nd attorney general of Vermont
Joseph Foster, 29th attorney general of New Hampshire
Grace Berg Schaible, 20th attorney general of Alaska
Jack Conway, 49th attorney general of Kentucky
Paul Benson, 22nd attorney general of North Dakota
Robert E. Smylie, 21st attorney general of Idaho
Winston Bryant, 52nd attorney general of Arkansas
James P. Coleman, 33rd attorney general of Mississippi
John A. Carver Jr., interim attorney general of American Samoa
William C. Wantland, former attorney general of the Seminole Nation

International judges

Hsu Mo, founding judge of the International Court of Justice
Tshering Wangchuk, current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan
Mohan Peiris, de facto Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
José Abad Santos, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines

Other legal figures

Andrew P. Bakaj, former Department of Defense and CIA official; lead counsel for the whisteblower during the impeachment inquiry and the subsequent impeachment of President Donald Trump
William D. Cohen, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court ^[17]
Leon Jaworski, Special Prosecutor during the Watergate scandal
Belva Ann Lockwood, first woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court, first female presidential candidate
Ira Sorkin, lead attorney for Bernard Madoff
Joyce Hens Green, Presiding Judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Thomas F. Hogan, Presiding Judge of the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
William Barberie Howell, Chief Judge of the U.S. Customs Court
Wilma B. Liebman, chair of the National Labor Relations Board
Delbert Spurlock, General Counsel of the Army
Makan Delrahim, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division
William K. Sessions III, chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission
Ken Starr, 39th Solicitor General of the United States
Omar Ashmawy, Chief Counsel to the Office of Congressional Ethics
Bradley Schlozman, head of the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Glenn Greenwald, Pulitzer Prize-winning legal author that exposed the United States surveillance of foreign leaders
Flora Warren Seymour, writer, historian, author, first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners
Chester Sipkin, Administrative Law Judge for the United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service
Scott W. Stucky, current Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Military

General John William Vessey, Jr., 10th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Colin Powell, 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral David E. Jeremiah, interim chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General John Shalikashvili, 13th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Peter Pace, 16th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Robert T. Herres, 1st vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral William Owens, 3rd vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral Thad Allen (MPA), Commandant of the Coast Guard 2006–2010
General Earl E. Anderson (J.D.)
Rear Admiral Richard A. Appelbaum
Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr. (M.A.)
Major General Thomas A. Benes
Brigadier General Vincente T. Blaz
Major General Robert D. Bohn
Lieutenant General Arnold W. Braswell, United States Air Force, MBA, 1967
Rear Admiral F. Taylor Brown
Major General George William Casey, Sr.
General John T. Chain, Jr., former Commander of the Strategic Air Command
Rear Admiral Sandy Daniels
Major General Sharon K.G. Dunbar, U.S. Air Force
Captain Frank Freyer, 14th Naval Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the Peruvian Navy
General John Fugh, the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army, former judge advocate general
General Charles A. Gabriel, 11th chief of staff of the United States Air Force
Admiral John B. Hayes (M.A.), Commandant of the Coast Guard (Ret.) 1978–1982
General Robert T. Herres, first vice vhairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral David E. Jeremiah, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and also acting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Charles C. Krulak, former Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
Major General Bruce M. Lawlor (B.S., J.D., D.Sc.), first commander of Joint Task Force-Civil Support and first Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security
Brigadier General Gavin Marks
Brigadier General Michael A. McAuliffe
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney
Lieutenant General John N. McLaughlin, Marine Corps service in three wars and spent three years as a POW
General Merrill A. McPeak, former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and United States Secretary of the Air Force
Major General Billy Mitchell (1919, but received degree as part of "class of 1899", having dropped out to serve in the Spanish–American War), advocate of air power in the military
Lieutenant General Hal Moore, author of We Were Soldiers Once… and Young
Major General Spurgeon Neel, father of Army aviation medicine
Major General Peter George Olenchuk
Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr., Class of 1912, Commander of the 78th Infantry Division during World War II (August 1942 – November 1945)
General Frank E. Petersen, United States Marine Corps, first black Marine general, first black Marine aviator, first black commanding officer of a fighter squadron, an air group, and a major base.
Major General Herman Poggemeyer Jr., United States Marine Corps
Brigadier General Paul D. Phillips, United States Army; former oldest living West Point graduate.^[18]^[19]^[20]
Vice Admiral John R. Ryan, former Superintendent of United States Naval Academy, Chancellor of the State University of New York
Major General Michael P. Ryan, United States Marine Corps, Co-founded Marine Corps Marathon
Brigadier General Henry J. Stehling
Major General William W. Stickney, United States Marine Corps, Director of Marine Corps Reserve
Bill Studeman, former Admiral of the United States Navy, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the National Security Agency, and former director of Naval Intelligence
Brigadier General Dennis B. Sullivan
Colonel John Tweedale (LL.B.), Medal of Honor recipient, 1868
Brigadier General James P. Ulm
Major General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr.
Rear Admiral Sidney A. Wallace
General Larry D. Welch, the 12th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, Commander, Strategic Air Command
Major General Don S. Wenger
Major General Charles F. Widdecke (M.A.); recipient of Navy Cross during World War II
Brigadier General Hugh E. Wild
Brigadier General David W. Winn

Journalism

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Reena Ninan, CNN Veteran Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Mainstream Media Outlet Anchor
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired
Dana Bash, CNN White House correspondent
Kate Bolduan, CNN correspondent
Hadas Gold, media and business reporter for CNN and CNN International
Diana B. Henriques, reporter for the New York Times
Kasie Hunt, host of MSNBC's Kasie DC
Jeff Jacoby, columnist for The Boston Globe
Matt Katz, reporter for WNYC and New Jersey Public Radio.
Michael Kinsley, political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's Crossfire
Sally Kohn, CNN and Fox News commentator
Brian Williams, former NBC Nightly News anchor
Doug McKelway, Fox News journalist
Marianne Means, White House correspondent
Nazenin Ansari, Voice of America correspondent
Margaret Carlson, journalist; columnist for Bloomberg News; first woman columnist at Time
Mona Charen, political analyst and best-selling author
Victoria Clarke, CNN analyst, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Bob Considine, journalist with United Press International and author
Geovanny Vicente, political strategist and columnist for CNN
Rowland Evans (1951), news commentator from CNN's Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields
Steve Benen, lead blogger of The Washington Monthly
Bill Gertz reporter and analyst for The Washington Times and Fox News
Glenn Greenwald, former attorney and current political and legal blogger, and columnist at Salon
Kathleen Troia McFarland, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Fox News commentator
Philip Klein, executive editor of the Washington Examiner
Michael Moran, author of The Reckoning; producer of the documentary series Crisis Guides
Glenn R. Simpson, journalist for Wall Street Journal
Lieutenant General Thomas McInerney, Fox News pundit
Mosheh Oinounou, executive producer of CBS News
Mark Olshaker, author who collaborates with FBI agent, John E. Douglas in books regarding criminal and investigative psychology
Michael Punke, writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney best known for writing the novel The Revenant (2002), which was adapted into film as The Revenant (2015)
Josh Rogin, CNN political analyst
Hilary Rosen, on-air contributor for CNN; consultant, political director and Washington editor at large for The Huffington Post ; former CEO of the RIAA
Sydney Sadick, television personality and publisher of Spotlight Magazine
Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor and publisher of Jacobin
Chuck Todd (1991), NBC News political director
Murray Waas, award-winning journalist and author, The New Yorker , The Los Angeles Times , The Nation , The Village Voice , The National Journal , and The Boston Globe
Bob Woodward, editor at The Washington Post , famous for reporting on the Watergate scandal

Pulitzer Prize

Anders Gyllenhaal, Chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board
Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work on U.S. Global surveillance based on disclosures by Edward Snowden
Emily Green, One of the inaugural recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2020 for her work with This American Life concerning the personal impact of the "Remain in Mexico" policy
Glenn Greenwald, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Diana B. Henriques, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Bob Woodward, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Deborah Solomon, winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Ginger Thompson, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Mark Schleifstein, winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting and part of a New Orleans Times-Picayune team that won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
William McPherson, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Michael Kammen, winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for History
George D. Beveridge, winner of the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting

Activism

Henry Berg-Brousseau, transgender rights activist
Roslyn Brock, Chairman of the NAACP
Tom Fitton, current president of Judicial Watch
Alex Pacheco, co-founder and Chairman of PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Jonathan D. Katz (BA '81), founder of Queer Nation
Kati Marton, chairwoman of the International Women's Health Coalition
Paul Shapiro, vice president of the Humane Society of the United States
A. L. Steiner, co-founder of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
Stephanie K. Meeks, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Leah Soibel, executive director of Fuente Latina
Nicholas Eftimiades, founder of the Federation of Galaxy Explorers
Marc Garlasco, senior military expert for Human Rights Watch
Bari Lurie, chief of staff at the Clinton Foundation
Amien Rais, leader of the Indonesian reform movement
Jason Franklin, urban policy activist
Margery E. Goldberg, public arts activist
Nikolas Schiller, cannabis reform activist
Mercedes Schlapp, Tea Party movement activist
Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, political activist
Jeanne Henriquez, women's rights activist
Ida Hinman, suffragette and feminist activist
Arlene Raven, feminist activist
Rita Banerji, gender activist
Watson Davis, science education activist
Richard Cizik, environmental activist
Jane Briggs Hart, anti-war activist
Brittany Lewis, domestic violence activist
Omega Silva, universal health care activist
Ángel Lozada, HIV activist
Kim A. Snyder, chronic fatigue syndrome activist
Peggy Cooper Cafritz, civil rights activist
David A. Clarke, civil rights activist
Kivutha Kibwana, Kenyan human rights activist
Kraisak Choonhavan, Thai human rights activist
Wong Chin Foo, Chinese-American activist
Raul Yzaguirre, president & CEO of the National Council of La Raza

Entertainment

Alec Baldwin, actor (did not graduate)
Casey Affleck, actor (did not graduate)
Courteney Cox (Mt. Vernon alumni), actress
Kerry Washington (1998), actress
David Lynch, director and artist
Rachel Zoe, celebrity fashion stylist
Ina Garten, host of Barefoot Contessa
Dan Glickman (JD 1969), current president of the Motion Picture Association of America
T.J. Miller, actor and stand-up comedian, Silicon Valley
Angela Aki, singer-songwriter ( Final Fantasy XII )
Patricia Altschul, socialite and art collector
William Peter Blatty, writer and filmmaker who wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award
Reem Bassous, visual artist
Irvin Bomb, artist
Warren Brown, TV host on the Food Network
Christopher Pearse Cranch, writer and artist
Merce Cunningham (attended), dancer and choreographer
Manish Dayal, actor, known for 90210
Lester del Rey, author, founded Del Rey Books
Donna Dixon, actress, wife of Dan Aykroyd
Haddaway, Trinidadian singer most famous for "What Is Love" single
Kevin Peter Hall, actor, Predator
Haroon, graduate in Business Administration, Pakistani singer, composer, musician and engineer
Reona Ito, music conductor (alumnus of the Elliott School)
Chris Kilmore, turntablist for the band Incubus
David Lynch, Director

Kerry Washington, Actress
Ross Martin, Television-Film-Radio actor-Most famous for his role on TV in the Wild, Wild West
Rooney Mara (attended), actress, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Dina Merrill, actress and socialite
Isaac Fitzgerald, writer
Naeto C, Nigerian rapper
Lee Phillip, Korean American actor
Adam Richman (attended for one year), indie pop singer-songwriter
Mark Russell, satirist and comedian
Annika Sharma, author
Whitney Sudler-Smith, television personality and socialite
Clay Travis, sports columnist and author
Bill Westenhofer, Academy Award-winning visual effects artist
Nathan Hale Williams, film and television producer, entertainment lawyer
Scott Wolf (1991), actor
Emily Axford, actor
Taylor Hale, winner of Big Brother 24 , Miss Michigan USA 2021
Eliza McLamb, singer-songwriter and podcast host (did not graduate)
Ned Bittinger, portrait painter and illustrator
Adam Friedland, stand-up comedian, talk-show host and podcaster
Andrew Weitz, fashion stylist and former talent agent

First Family and royalty

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, First Lady of the United States
Princess Reema bint Bandar Al Saud of Saudi Arabia
Princess Sonam Dechen Wangchuck of Bhutan
Princess Yasmine Pahlavi of Persia
Elisabeth Delatour Préval, First Lady of Haiti
Susan Ford, daughter of U.S. president Gerald Ford
Margaret Truman, daughter of U.S. president Harry S. Truman
Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of U.S. president Lyndon Johnson
David Eisenhower, grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and son-in-law of President Richard Nixon

Religion

Bernard P. Brockbank, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
J. Reuben Clark, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology
Matthew Cowley, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Frank Joseph Dewane, Roman Catholic Bishop of Venice, Florida
Violet L. Fisher, Bishop of the United Methodist Church
Jonathan Hausman, Rabbi of Ahavath Torah
L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology (did not graduate)
George V. Murry, Roman Catholic Bishop of Youngstown
Gregory V. Palmer, Bishop of the United Methodist Church
Richard G. Scott, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Marc Stanley, Chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council
William C. Wantland, Episcopal Bishop of Eau Claire

Sciences

Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Axelrod01.jpg — Julius Axelrod, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist

Patch Adams, physician and comedian portrayed in a 1998 movie
Yousef Alhorr, environmentalist known for his work in the field of sustainable built environment and climate actions
Ralph Alpher, "father of the Big Bang theory"
Anousheh Ansari (M.S., 1992), chairwoman and co-founder of Prodea Systems; patroness of private space flight; first female space tourist
Paul Antony, Chief Medical Officer of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Serena M. Auñón, American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut.
Julius Axelrod, biochemist who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with Bernard Katz and Ulf von Euler
Neal D. Barnard, physician, author, clinical researcher, founding president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Jessie G. Beach, paleontologist and museum aid.^[22]
Patricia Wilson Berger, president of the American Library Association
Dr. Lisa Bowleg, professor of Applied Social Psychology
L. Ron Hubbard, writer of Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health, a science of the mind.
Jennifer Boykin, president of Newport News Shipbuilding ^[21] and vice president of Huntington Ingalls Industries ^[23]^[24]
James Carroll, president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Peter Caws, president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
Captain Michael Coats (1977), astronaut and Space Shuttle Commander
Charles Critchfield, physicist of the Manhattan Project
Frederick D. Gregory, interim Administrator of NASA
Michael Griffin, 11th Administrator of NASA
Todd B. Hawley, co-founder of the International Space University
Nancy B. Jackson, president of the American Chemical Society
Howard Judd, menopause expert and medical researcher
Albert Freeman Africanus King (MD 1861), personal physician to President Abraham Lincoln
Allenna Leonard, president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
Hans Lineweaver (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1933), physical chemist who developed the Lineweaver–Burk plot
Marcus Ward Lyon Jr., president of the American Society of Mammalogists
James Morhard, 14th Deputy-Administrator of NASA
Constance Tom Noguchi, sickle cell disease researcher, NIDDK
Wanda Peters, Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs at NASA and member of Senior Executive Service
Marcus Boyd Shook, physician, president of the American Society of Internal Medicine
Matthew Stirling, ethnologist and archaeologist who discovered and excavated many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites
James E. Webb, second Administrator of NASA
Ashani Weeraratna, cancer researcher

Athletics

Brendan Adams (born 2000), professional basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Brendon Ayanbadejo (MBA, 2013), football player, Super Bowl champion, Baltimore Ravens
Mike Brey (1982), current head coach, Notre Dame men's basketball team
Moti Daniel (1987), Israeli, played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League and for the Israel national basketball team
Yinka Dare (attended 1993–1994), basketball player, New Jersey Nets
David Falk (J.D., 1975), sports agent
John Flaherty (1988), former Major League Baseball player
Mike Hall (2006), basketball forward, Washington Wizards and overseas leagues, basketball coach
Ray Hanken (1911–1980), football player
Wayne Hart (1912), member of the All-South Atlantic football team for four years; coached Washington Vigilants and Clemson Agricultural College
Lubomir Kavalek (1975), chess grandmaster
Tuffy Leemans (1936), football running back, Pro Football Hall of Fame, New York Giants
Ivan Leshinsky (born 1947), American-Israeli basketball player
Ricky Lindo (born 2000), American-Panamanian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Larry MacPhail, National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
Pops Mensah-Bonsu (2006), basketball forward, Galatasaray S.K., NBA executive
Ronnie Nunn, former referee for the National Basketball Association
Michael O'Connor (2002), baseball pitcher, Washington Nationals
Sam Perlozzo (1973), former manager, Baltimore Orioles; current third base coach, Seattle Mariners
J. R. Pinnock (2006), basketball guard
Justin Prinstein, inaugural player in the Israel Baseball League
Gregg Ritchie (1987), former MLB hitting coach, Pittsburgh Pirates; head coach George Washington Colonials baseball since 2013
William W. Skinner, head football coach for University of Maryland, College Park and University of Arizona
Mike Sommer (1958), member of college football team, played in the NFL with the Washington Redskins, Baltimore Colts, and the Oakland Raiders
Jim Tennant, former MLB player
Jack Toomay, former Major League Baseball player
Yuta Watanabe, Japanese NBA player
Bernie Wolfe (born 1951), NHL hockey player
Seth Rudolph, professional soccer player
Tom Walter, head baseball coach for Wake Forest University
Jonquel Jones, basketball center for the Connecticut Sun and 2021 WNBA MVP
Theodore N. Lerner (1948), owner of the Washington Nationals
Abe Pollin (1945), owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals
Jerry Reinsdorf (1957), owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls
Randy Levine (B.A., 1977), President of the New York Yankees
Red Auerbach (1940, 1941), President of the Boston Celtics
David Haggerty, current president of the International Tennis Federation
Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker
Chet Simmons, 1st Commissioner of the United States Football League
Joel Segal ('86), sports agent, 2016 "The NFL's 100 Most Important People" and Forbes "World's Most Powerful Sports Agents"

Olympics

Elana Meyers (BS '06, MA '11), bobsledder at the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics
Patricio Garino, basketball player at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Pops Mensah-Bonsu, basketball player at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Alice Schmidt, runner at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics
Aquil Abdullah, rower at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Sameera Al-Bitar, swimmer at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics
Álvaro Fortuny, swimmer at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
Chad Senior, pentathlete at the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2000 Summer Olympics
Ugo Oha, basketball player at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Ben Stevens, President of the 2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games
Dallas Shirley, basketball player at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Josiah Henson, wrestler at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Gerald F. Russell, runner at the 1940 Summer Olympics

Other

Anwar al-Awlaki, terrorist and principal member of al-Qaeda
John Calder Brennan (Law, 1937), historian
Barbara Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), First Lady of the United States
George Herbert Walker Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), President of the United States

Roger Stone, opposition researcher for the Republican National Committee
Robert L. Dale, pilot for the National Science Foundation
Cathryn S. Dippo, statistician
Harrison Howell Dodge (1852–1937), appointed as resident superintendent of Mount Vernon in 1885, serving 52 years in the position until his death^[25]
Alfred McAdams, painter
Gustavo A. Mellander (AB, MA, PhD History 1966), university dean for 15 years; College president for 20 years.
Mona Al Munajjed, United Nations official
Frank Robinson (Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), Baseball Hall of Famer, manager of the Washington Nationals
Jackie Ronne, Antarctic explorer, first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition
Nikolas Schiller, mapmaker
Roger Stone, opposition research consultant for the Republican National Committee
Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882), patent attorney to the Wright Brothers
Geovanny Vicente, CNN columnist and political strategist.
John Appleton Wilson, architect
Patrick O'Connell, three-star Michelin chef at The Inn at Little Washington (the only three-star Michelin restaurant in the region) and National Humanities Medalist

References

↑ Who's Who in America, 1982–1983 (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1982), p. 2844
↑ "The History Makers". Other EducationMakers. The History Makers. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
↑ L. Stanley Crane, was elected in 1978 as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering
↑ "Wyoming Governor Fenimore Chatterton". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
↑ "Missouri Governor Mel Eugene Carnahan". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
↑ "Adam McMullen". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
↑ "Legislator Information". services.statescape.com. Retrieved December 18, 2023.
↑ Arkansas House of Representatives biography: Charlie Collins Archived December 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
↑ Vermont Legislative Directory. Montpelier, VT: Vermont Secretary of State. 1979. p. 198.
↑ "Tom Greenwell". ncrptx.com. Retrieved July 24, 2013.
↑ "Biography of the Acting Surgeon General". United States Department of Health and Human Services. July 1, 2006.
↑ "Maine House of Representatives". legislature.maine.gov. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
↑ "Profile: Faure Gnassingbe". April 2, 2005.
↑ Masood, Salman (August 2017). "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi: What You Need to Know About Pakistan's New Prime Minister". New York Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.
↑ "Late journalist-diplomat Joe Hung remembered as man of erudition and veracity". Eye on Taiwan Media . March 6, 2018. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
↑ "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta".
↑ Jensen, Lori (October 25, 2019). "Speaker Biography, William D. Cohen". VTACDL Fall Continuing Legal Education. Essex Junction, VT: Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
↑ West Point Association of Graduates
↑ At 105, Colorado veteran is West Point’s oldest living graduate
↑ West Point Magazine Spring 2023
1 2 "Profile: Jennifer Boykin, Newport News Shipbuilding president". Daily Press (Virginia) . August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
↑ Hernandez, Lezlie (September 2, 2021). "Spotlight on Jessie G. Beach, Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology Staff Member". Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
↑ "Newport News Shipbuilding president Matt Mulherin to retire". The Virginian-Pilot . May 4, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.
↑ "Jennifer Boykin - Executive Vice President and President, Newport News Shipbuilding". Huntington Ingalls Industries . Retrieved April 8, 2021.
↑ Staff. "COL. HARRISON DODGE, MT. VERNON CUSTODIAN; Superintendent of Washington's Home Since 1885—Made Many Improvements", The New York Times , May 21, 1937. Accessed July 24, 2010.

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[1] Who's Who in America, 1982–1983 (Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1982), p. 2844

[THM-2] "The History Makers". Other EducationMakers. The History Makers. Retrieved December 6, 2015.

[NAE-3] L. Stanley Crane, was elected in 1978 as a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering in Industrial, Manufacturing & Operational Systems Engineering

[4] "Wyoming Governor Fenimore Chatterton". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

[5] "Missouri Governor Mel Eugene Carnahan". National Governors Association. Retrieved October 30, 2012.

[6] "Adam McMullen". National Governors Association. Retrieved September 24, 2012.

[7] "Legislator Information". services.statescape.com. Retrieved December 18, 2023.

[8] Arkansas House of Representatives biography: Charlie Collins Archived December 12, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[9] Vermont Legislative Directory. Montpelier, VT: Vermont Secretary of State. 1979. p. 198.

[10] "Tom Greenwell". ncrptx.com. Retrieved July 24, 2013.

[11] "Biography of the Acting Surgeon General". United States Department of Health and Human Services. July 1, 2006.

[12] "Maine House of Representatives". legislature.maine.gov. Retrieved January 8, 2024.

[13] "Profile: Faure Gnassingbe". April 2, 2005.

[14] Masood, Salman (August 2017). "Shahid Khaqan Abbasi: What You Need to Know About Pakistan's New Prime Minister". New York Times. Retrieved August 2, 2017.

[eyetai-15] "Late journalist-diplomat Joe Hung remembered as man of erudition and veracity". Eye on Taiwan Media . March 6, 2018. Archived from the original on March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.

[16] "Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta".

[17] Jensen, Lori (October 25, 2019). "Speaker Biography, William D. Cohen". VTACDL Fall Continuing Legal Education. Essex Junction, VT: Vermont Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

[18] West Point Association of Graduates

[19] At 105, Colorado veteran is West Point’s oldest living graduate

[20] West Point Magazine Spring 2023

[daily-21] 1 2 "Profile: Jennifer Boykin, Newport News Shipbuilding president". Daily Press (Virginia) . August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[:2-22] Hernandez, Lezlie (September 2, 2021). "Spotlight on Jessie G. Beach, Smithsonian Department of Paleobiology Staff Member". Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

[pilot-23] "Newport News Shipbuilding president Matt Mulherin to retire". The Virginian-Pilot . May 4, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[huntington-24] "Jennifer Boykin - Executive Vice President and President, Newport News Shipbuilding". Huntington Ingalls Industries . Retrieved April 8, 2021.

[25] Staff. "COL. HARRISON DODGE, MT. VERNON CUSTODIAN; Superintendent of Washington's Home Since 1885—Made Many Improvements", The New York Times , May 21, 1937. Accessed July 24, 2010.

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