List of Tulane University Law School alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of the Tulane University Law School.

Academia

• Winston Chang, 1992–1996 former President of Soochow University (Taiwan); former chairman, Soochow University College of Law
• Twinette Johnson, dean of the David A. Clarke School of Law
• Judith Kelleher Schafer (1942–2014), historian

Business

• Dean Lombardi, JD, President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings, specialized in labor law
• Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
• Peter Schloss, JD-1985, CEO of Broadwebasia
• Mike Tannenbaum, JD-1995, 47-year-old General Manager of the New York Jets, graduated with Tulane's Sports Law certificate

Government and diplomacy

• Donald Ensenat, 1973, former Chief of Protocol of the United States
• Stephen Douglas Johnson, J.D., 1988; chief counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, 1995–1997; Bush White House Senior Advisor, office of Federal Housing Oversight, 2001–2003; Washington, D.C. whistle blower
• Clint Williamson, 1986, US Ambassador, United Nations envoy, and international war crimes prosecutor

Edward Douglass White, former Chief Justice of the United States

Judiciary

• Nancy Abudu, 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Peter Beer, 1952, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
• Nannette Jolivette Brown, 1963, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
• Patricia E. Campbell-Smith, 1992, United States Court of Federal Claims
• Edith Brown Clement, JD-1972, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)^{[ citation needed ]}
• W. Eugene Davis, 1936, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• Jimmy Dimos, JD-1963, Judge of 4th Judicial District of Louisiana, 1999–2006, former member and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives (D)
• John Allen Dixon Jr. (LL.B., 1947), Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court ^[1]
• Dee D. Drell, 1947, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
• John M. Duhé Jr., 1957, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R) ^[2]
• Eldon E. Fallon, 1939, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
• Martin Feldman, 1957, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
• George M. Foote, 1947, city judge in Alexandria, 1955–1985 ^[3]
• Rufus Edward Foster, LL.B.-1895, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; also served as 11th dean of the Tulane Law School ^[4]
• Madeline Haikala, 1964, United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
• George W. Jack, 1898; Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana 1917–1924, based in Shreveport (D)
• Douglas I. Johnstone, J.D., 1966; Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
• Yvette Kane, 1953, United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
• F. A. Little Jr., J.D., 1961; retired judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (R)
• Ángel Martín, 1953, former Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court^{[ citation needed ]}
• Tucker L. Melancon, 1946, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
• Patricia Head Minaldi, 1959, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
• Harold A. Moise, 1902, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1948–1958
• Andrew G. T. Moore II, Delaware Supreme Court and founded the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
• Walter Nixon, 1951, impeached federal judge, subject of Nixon v. United States
• William Wiley Norris, III (1936–2016), city, district, and circuit court judge from West Monroe
• William H. Pryor Jr., JD-1987, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; former Attorney General of Alabama ^[5]
• L. Felipe Restrepo, 1959, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ^[6]
• Wynne Grey Rogers, Louisiana Supreme Court ^[7]
• Eleni M. Roumel, 2000, United States Court of Federal Claims ^[8]
• James D. Simon, 1918, Louisiana Supreme Court
• Sarah S. Vance, 1950, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
• Jeffrey P. Victory, 1971, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court ^[9]
• Elizabeth Weaver, 1965, Michigan Supreme Court ^[10]
• Edward Douglass White, 1868, Chief Justice of the United States ^[11]
• Jacques L. Wiener Jr., 1961, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• John Minor Wisdom, 1929, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993

Law

• Jim Garrison, 1949, New Orleans District Attorney (D), played by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone film JFK
• Bolivar Edwards Kemp Jr., 1897, Louisiana state attorney general 1948–1952 ^[12]
• Philip H. Mecom, J.D. former United States Attorney for the district of western Louisiana ^[13]
• Percy Saint, Louisiana Attorney General (1924–1932) and 23rd District Court Judge (1920–1924) ^[14]
• Jefferson B. Snyder, district attorney in Madison Parish (D) ^[15]
• Brett R. Gallaway J.D., 2011, American trial lawyer and the Chair of McLaughlin and Stern’s Litigation, Class Action, Hospitality, and Art Law Practices. ^[16]
• Emily Bolton, J.D, founder and director of Innocence Project New Orleans, and then APPEAL in the UK. She was lawyer for Andrew Malkinson, who was exonerated in 2023 after serving more than 17 years in prison. ^[17]

Literature

• Jan Crull Jr., J.D., 1990, filmmaker, Native American rights advocate, attorney, and investment banker
• Whitney Gaskell née Kelly, 1997, novelist
• Robert Harling, movie screenwriter, producer and director ^[18]
• Jonathan Hensleigh, JD-1985, writer of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Jumanji (1995), and Armageddon (1998) ^{[19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]}

Military

• Whitfield Jack, attended 1930; Shreveport lawyer and officer of the United States Army in World War II and United States Army Reserve, 1946–1966 (D)

Politics

Francis T. Nicholls

Newton Crain Blanchard

Governors

• Newton C. Blanchard, 1870, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[25]
• Murphy J. Foster, 1871, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[26]
• Alvin Olin King, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[27]
• Huey Long, 1915, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[28]
• Francis T. Nicholls, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[29]
• Jared Y. Sanders Sr., 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[30]
• Oramel H. Simpson, 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D) ^[31]
• David C. Treen, 1950, Governor of Louisiana (R) ^[32]
• Bob Wise, 1975, Governor of West Virginia (D) ^[33]

U.S. Senators

• Edwin S. Broussard, 1901, U.S. Senator (D) ^[34]
• Robert F. Broussard, 1889, U.S. Senator (D) ^[35]
• Allen J. Ellender, 1913, U.S. Senator (D) ^[36]
• Randall Lee Gibson, U.S. Senator (D), whom Gibson Hall is named after ^[37]
• John H. Overton, 1897, U.S. Senator (D) ^{[38] [12]}
• Luther Strange, 1979, U.S. Senator (R) ^[39]
• David Vitter, 1988, U.S. Senator (R) ^[40]

U.S. Representatives

Hale Boggs

• Hale Boggs, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946–1972 (D) ^[41]
• James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, 1931, U.S. Representative (D) ^[42]
• Bob Livingston, 1968, U.S. Representative, 1977–1999 (R) ^[43]
• Lewis L. Morgan, 1899, U.S. Representative, 1912–1917 (D) ^[44]
• James H. Morrison, 1934, U.S. Representative, 1943–1967 (D) ^[45]
• John Rarick, 1949, U.S. Representative, 1967–1975 (D) ^[46]
• Cedric Richmond, JD-1998, U.S. Representative, 2011–2021 (D) ^[47]
• Jared Y. Sanders Jr., 1914, U.S. Representative, 1934–1937, 1941–1943 (D) ^[48]

State

• James H. "Jim" Brown, 1966, former Secretary of State of Louisiana (D)
• Buddy Caldwell, 1973, Attorney General of Louisiana (R)
• Tom Capella, 1993, state representative and Jefferson Parish Council member; lawyer in his native New Orleans ^[49]
• Edward M. Carmouche, Master of Civil Law 1940, chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party 1966–1968; attorney in Lake Charles ^[50]
• Philip Ciaccio, state representative, New Orleans City Council member, state circuit judge 1982–1998 ^[51]
• W. T. Cunningham, Law, judge of the 11th Judicial District in Natchitoches and Red River parishes, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1908–1912 ^[52]
• Grey Ferris, Mississippi state senator (D)
• Harvey Fields, state senator for Union and Morehouse parishes 1916–1920, former law partner and political ally of Huey Pierce Long Jr. (D)
• Alexi Giannoulias, 2003, former Illinois State Treasurer (D)
• Philip H. Gilbert, district attorney, state district court judge, state senator, lieutenant governor from Assumption Parish (D)
• John Grenier, 1953, Alabama Republican Party figure (R)
• William Pike Hall Sr., Louisiana state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, 1924–1932, Shreveport attorney (D) ^[53]
• Lloyd Hendrick, state senator for Caddo and Desoto parishes 1940–1948 ^[54]
• Samuel Lawrason, LL.D., 1874, state senator from St. Francisville who authored Lawrason Act of 1898 (D) ^[55]
• Sam A. LeBlanc III, J.D. 1963; state legislator, temporary federal appeals court judge; lawyer in New Orleans; retired to St. Francisville (D) ^[56]
• Samuel A. LeBlanc I, Law 1908; state legislator, state district and appeals court judge, justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1949–1954 (D) ^[57]
• Walt Leger III, Law 2003; state legislator, 2008–2020; Speaker Pro Tempore, Louisiana House of Representstives, 2012–2020, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Jean-Paul Morrell, 2004, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature ^[58]
• George T. Oubre, member of the Louisiana State Senate from St. James Parish, 1968–1972; lost runoff election to William J. Guste in 1971 for state attorney general ^[59]
• Jansen Tosh Owen, 2019, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives ^[60]
• Keith M. Pyburn, 1936, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish 1948–1952 (D) ^[61]
• Todd Schuler, Maryland State Delegate (D)
• Jasper K. Smith (non-degreed), Louisiana state representative from Caddo Parish 1944–1948 and 1952–1964
• E. L. Stewart, 1897, state representative for Webster Parish 1904–1908 ^[12]
• James Sutterfield, 1981, New Orleans attorney and state legislator, 1970–1972 (R)
• Roy R. Theriot, 1939, Louisiana Comptroller, 1960–1973 (D)
• Jeff R. Thompson, 1995, member of the Louisiana House from Bossier Parish and incoming 9th Judicial District Court judge (R)
• Frank Voelker Jr., chairman of the former Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission ^[62]
• Arthur C. Watson, 1933, State representative from Natchitoches Parish; chairman of Louisiana Democratic Party 1968–1976 (D)

Local

• Shaun Abreu, 2018, New York City Council ^[60]
• Ravinder Bhalla, Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey (2017–)
• Paul Capdevielle, 1868, Mayor of New Orleans, 1900–1904
• Robert Poydasheff, Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2003–2007) (R)
• T. Semmes Walmsley, 1912, Mayor of New Orleans, 1929–1936 (D)

Other offices

• Kenneth McClintock, J.D., 1980, 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate, current Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico

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