List of University of Illinois Chicago School of Law people

Following is a list of notable alumni and faculty of the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law.

Alumni

• Charles F. Armstrong – Illinois state representative and lawyer
• Donald W. Banner – United States Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks 1978–1979. ^[1]
• Dan Bellino – Major League Baseball Baseball umpire. ^[2]
• Femi Gbaja Biamila – Nigerian Lawyer, Action Congress politician, and Minority Whip of the House of Representatives of Nigeria.
• Joe Birkett – DuPage County State's Attorney and former Republican nominee for Illinois Lieutenant Governor. ^[3]
• Otto Bock – former justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
• Michael J. Burke – Illinois Supreme Court Justice
• Archibald Carey, Jr. – Judge, Chicago alderman and pastor of Quinn Chapel AME Church.
• John W. Cox, Jr. – Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from the 16th District of Illinois from 1991 to 1993.
• William M. Daley – former White House Chief Of Staff under President Barack Obama. Served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1997 to 2000.
• Chauncey Eskridge – lawyer for Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali
• Timothy C. Evans – Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
• Thomas W. Ewing – Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the 15th District of Illinois from 1991 to 2001.
• Thomas R. Fitzgerald – former chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.
• Charles E. Freeman – first African-American justice of the Illinois Supreme Court.
• Michael Hastings – Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 19th District since 2013.
• Michael Holewinski – Illinois state legislator and lawyer
• Iain D. Johnston – United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• William E. King, John Marshall Law School, state legislator
• Darin LaHood – Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from the 18th District of Illinois from 2015 to present.
• LeRoy Lemke – Illinois state legislator and lawyer
• Blanche M. Manning – United States District Court Judge for the Northern District of Illinois. ^[4]
• Howard Thomas Markey – first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and former dean of The John Marshall Law School.
• Adrian Neritani – former permanent representative of Albania to the United Nations.
• Michael Noland – Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 22nd District since 2007.
• Charles Ronald Norgle Sr. – United States district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Anthony J. Peraica – former Cook County commissioner (2 terms, 16th Dist.) and attorney.
• Mark Pedowitz – current president of The CW Television Network.
• Mara Candelaria Reardon – Indiana state representative for the 12th District (2007–2015 and 2017 – present)
• Alexander J. Resa – U.S. representative from Illinois from 1945 to 1947.
• Edith S. Sampson – first Black U.S. delegate appointed to the United Nations.
• Evelyn Sanguinetti – first Latina Lieutenant governor (United States) in U.S. history and lieutenant governor of Illinois (2015 to 2019).
• James E. Shadid – District Court Judge for the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois.
• Ira Silverstein – Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 8th District since 1999.
• John Smietanka – Prosecutor for Berrien County, Michigan from 1974 to 1981, and a United States Attorney in Western Michigan, appointed by Ronald Reagan, from 1981 until 1994.
• Wanda Stopa – Chicago's first woman assistant U.S. district attorney.
• David Ivar Swanson – Illinois state representative for the 11th District (1922–46 and 1948–50).
• Emanuel Chris Welch – Illinois speaker of the house and state representative
• Kenneth Wendt – former member of the Illinois House of Representatives and judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.
• Michael J. Zalewski – Illinois state representative for the 23rd District (2008 to present).

Faculty

• John W. Darrah – United States district judge
• William Meade Fletcher taught at The John Marshall Law School in its first decade before becoming a member of the Virginia Corporation Commission
• Elmer Gertz – lawyer, writer and civil rights activist, best known as the plaintiff in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc.
• Arthur J. Goldberg – taught at The John Marshall Law School in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s before becoming a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice and then the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
• Fred F. Herzog – former dean and the only Jewish judge to serve in Austria between the world wars.
• Matthew Prince – co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
• Ann Claire Williams – United States circuit judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

References

1. "Donald W. Banner, Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award".
2. "Attorney-turned-Umpire Meets President Obama". alumni.jmls.edu. John Marshall Law School . Retrieved August 30, 2011.
3. "Board of Trustees". The John Marshall Law School. Archived from the original on May 9, 2019. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
4. List of University of Illinois Chicago School of Law people at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges , a publication of the Federal Judicial Center .