List of University of Virginia School of Law alumni

The University of Virginia School of Law is a public law school in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is an incomplete list of its notable alumni.

Academia

• Stephen Bainbridge (1985) – William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• Richard Bonnie (1969) – Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, University of Virginia Law School
• Hardy Cross Dillard (1927) – dean, UVA Law School; judge, International Court of Justice ^{[1] [2]}
• Charles M. Elson (1985) – Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, Professor of Finance, University of Delaware
• Jerry Falwell Jr. (1987) – President, Liberty University ^[3]
• Patrick Finnegan (1979) – 12th academic dean of U.S. Military Academy and 25th president of Longwood University
• Gary Francione (1981) – Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers Law School
• Elizabeth Garrett (1988) – 13th president of Cornell University
• A.E. Dick Howard (1961) – White Burkett Miller Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia Law School
• John Jeffries (1973) – 12th dean and David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
• Andrew Leipold (1985) – Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
• M. Elizabeth Magill (1995) – provost of the University of Virginia, 13th dean of Stanford Law School
• Dayna Bowen Matthew – 20th dean of the George Washington University Law School ^[4]
• Michael McCann (2002) – founding director of the UNH Law Sports and Entertainment Law Institute, University of New Hampshire School of Law
• William Ephraim Mikell (1894) – dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Blake Morant (1978) – dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor, George Washington University Law School
• James Pfander (1982) – Owen L. Coon Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
• W. Taylor Reveley, III (1968) – president, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School ^[5]
• W. Taylor Reveley IV (2002) – 26th president of Longwood University
• Jacob Rooksby (2007) – dean of Gonzaga University School of Law
• James E. Ryan (1992) – president of the University of Virginia
• Micah Schwartzman (2005) – Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
• David Skeel (1987) – S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Paul B. Stephan (1977) – John C. Jeffries Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School ^[6]
• Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1877) – president of the College of William & Mary
• Joyce Vance (1985) – distinguished professor of the practice of law, University of Alabama School of Law
• Paul R. Verkuil (1967) – former president of College of William & Mary and former dean of Cardozo Law School; chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States ^[7]

Business

• Donald Dell (1964) – founder of ProServ
• Eppa Hunton Jr. (1877) – founder of Hunton & Williams, president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
• Eppa Hunton IV (1927) – senior partner, chairman of the executive committee of Hunton & Williams
• Bruce Karsh (1980) – Investor, founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, ^[8] Executive Board Member of Golden State Warriors ^[9]
• Peter S. Kaufman (1978) – investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
• Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) – vice president and general counsel, Procter & Gamble
• Ted Mathas (1992) – chairman, president, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
• Alexander F. Mathews. (1856) – president and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte ^[10]
• Thomas M. Moriarty (1989) – executive vice president, chief policy and external affairs officer, and general counsel, CVS Health ^[11]
• John E. Osborn (1983) – former executive vice president and general counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• R. Hewitt Pate (1987) – general counsel, Chevron ^{[12] [13]}
• Craig Silliman (1994) – executive vice president global services, Verizon ^[14]

Civil rights and nonprofit

• J. Richard Cohen (1979) – former president and legal director of Southern Poverty Law Center
• Kim Keenan (1987) – general counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ^[15]
• Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1984) – manager of the nonprofit organization Citizens Energy; son of Robert F. Kennedy
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (1979) – chairman of Children's Health Defense; son of Robert F. Kennedy ^[16]
• John N. Raudabaugh (1977) – staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; Member, National Labor Relations Board 1990–1993 ^[17]

Entertainment

• Lee Habeeb (1991) – conservative talk radio producer
• Laura Ingraham (1991) – radio talk–show host
• Andrew Scheinman (1973) – movie producer
• Will Shortz (1977) – crossword editor, The New York Times
• Bob Wright (1968) – former chairman and CEO of NBC

Government

• John Bridgeland (1987) – director, USA Freedom Corps ^[18]
• Mortimer Caplin (1940) – former commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
• Doug Gansler (1989) – Attorney General of Maryland ^[19]
• Lee E. Goodman (1990) – chairman, Federal Election Commission
• Todd Graves (1991) – U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri
• Tim Heaphy (1991) – U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia ^[20]
• Toby J. Heytens (2000) – Solicitor General of Virginia
• Pete Holmes (1984) – Seattle City Attorney ^[21]
• Brendan Johnson (2001) – U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota ^{[22] [23]}
• Max Kennedy (1992) – board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
• Edwin Kneedler (1975) – Deputy United States Solicitor General ^[24]
• Zane David Memeger (1991) – U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2010–2016) ^[25]
• Robert Mueller (1973) – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ^[26]
• Trevor Potter (1982) – chairman of Federal Election Commission ^[27]
• John N. Raudabaugh (1977) – staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; member, National Labor Relations Board 1990–1993 ^[17]
• William B. Schultz (1974) – general counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services ^[28]
• Joyce White Vance (1985) – United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama ^[29]
• Peter S. Vincent (1995) – principal legal advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; acting director of ICE’s Office of International Affairs, Homeland Security Investigations ^[30]
• Andy Vollmer (1978) – acting general counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
• James B. Whitfield (1886) – state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
• Michael C. Wholley (1977) – general counsel, NASA
• Frank Wisner (1934) – head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s ^[31]

Judiciary

• G. Steven Agee (1977) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[32]
• Carol Amon (1971) – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ^[33]
• John Antoon (2001, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida ^[34]
• Lewis Babcock (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado ^[35]
• Shepard Barclay (1869) - justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri ^[36]
• Alice M. Batchelder (1988) – chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[37]
• Peter Beer (1986, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
• Robert Beezer (1956) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ^[38]
• Carol A. Beier (2004, LL.M) – judge, Kansas Supreme Court ^[39]
• Robert Benham (1990, LL.M) – judge, Georgia Supreme Court ^[40]
• Duane Benton (1995, LL.M) – judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ^[41]
• Susan H. Black (1984) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ^[42]
• Pasco Bowman II (1979, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ^[43]
• John White Brockenbrough – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Mary Beck Briscoe (1990, LL.M) – chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ^[44]
• John T. Broderick Jr. (1972) – chief justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court ^[45]
• Janice Rogers Brown (2004, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[46]
• James O. Browning (1981) – judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico ^[47]
• Albert Vickers Bryan (1921) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[48]
• John D. Butzner Jr. (1941, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[49]
• Consuelo María Callahan (2004, LL.M) – judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (1973) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ^[50]
• Ronald D. Castille (1971) – chief justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court ^[51]
• Robert J. Conrad (1983) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina ^[52]
• Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1988, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• James L. Dennis (1984) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ^[53]
• Hardy Cross Dillard (1927) – judge, International Court of Justice; dean, UVA Law School ^{[1] [2]}
• Robert D. Durham (1998, LL.M) – justice, Oregon Supreme Court ^[54]
• James Larry Edmondson (1990, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ^[55]
• Richard Alan Enslen (1986, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
• Orinda D. Evans (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• John A. Field Jr. (1935) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[56]
• Louise W. Flanagan (1988) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ^[57]
• Paul C. Gartzke (1992) – presiding judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals ^[58]
• Julia Smith Gibbons (1975) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[59]
• John A. Gibney Jr. (1976) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ^[60]
• John Gleeson (1980) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York ^[61]
• George H. Goodrich (1952) – judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Thomas B. Griffith (1985) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[62]
• Asher Grunis (1972, LL.M) – President, Supreme Court of Israel
• Michael Daly Hawkins (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ^[63]
• Sven Erik Holmes (1980) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma ^[64]
• Virginia Hopkins (1977) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ^[65]
• Lynn Nettleton Hughes (1992, LL.M) – judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ^[66]
• Willis Hunt (1990, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ^[67]
• Raymond Alvin Jackson (1973) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ^[68]
• Denise R. Johnson (LL.M., 1995) – first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court ^[69]
• James Parker Jones (1965) – Chief judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia ^[70]
• Daniel Porter Jordan III (1993) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ^[71]
• Barbara Milano Keenan (1992, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[72]
• James Kinkeade (1998, LL.M.) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ^[73]
• Cynthia D. Kinser (1977) – chief justice, Supreme Court of Virginia ^[74]
• Jeannette Knoll (Master of Laws, 1996) – associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court ^[75]
• Benson Everett Legg (1973) – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland ^[76]
• Peter K. Leisure (1958) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ^[77]
• Donald Lemons (1976) – chief justice Supreme Court of Virginia
• Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. (1998, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri ^[78]
• Kermit Lipez (1990, LL.M.) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ^[79]
• J. Michael Luttig (1981) – former judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co. ^[80]
• Blanche M. Manning (1992, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[81]
• Boyce F. Martin Jr. (1963, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[82]
• Mark D. Martin (1998) – judge North Carolina Supreme Court
• James Clark McReynolds (1884) – former justice, United States Supreme Court ^[83]
• Amit Priyavadan Mehta (1997) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• Lawrence E. Meyers (1998, LL.M) – judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth ^[84]
• Paul Redmond Michel (1966) – Chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ^[85]
• Donald M. Middlebrooks (2004, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Michael P. Mills (2001, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
• Richard Henry Mills (1982, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois ^[86]
• Norman K. Moon (1988, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia ^[87]
• William Theodore Moore Jr. (2001, LL.M) – judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
• John T. Morton (1994) – assistant secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• Diana Gribbon Motz (1968) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[88]
• J. Frederick Motz (1967) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland ^[89]
• Glenn Murdock (1981) – justice, Supreme Court of Alabama ^[90]
• Alan Eugene Norris (1986) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[91]
• Donal O'Donnell (1983, LL.M) – chief justice of Ireland, Supreme Court of Ireland ^{[92] [93]}
• Diarmuid O'Scannlain (1992, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ^[94]
• John Pelander (1998, LL.M) justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
• Cleo E. Powell (1982) – justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
• William R. Quinlan (1989, LL.M) – justice, Illinois Appellate Court, Corporation Counsel to the City of Chicago ^{[95] [96] [97] [98]}
• Stanley Forman Reed (1908) – former justice, United States Supreme Court ^[99]
• Carlton W. Reeves (1989) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ^[100]
• Kenneth Francis Ripple (1968) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ^[101]
• Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (1988, LL.M) judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ^[102]
• John Roll (1990, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona ^[103]
• Robert D. Rucker (1998, LL.M) – judge, Indiana Supreme Court ^[104]
• Thomas G. Saylor (2004, LL.M) – judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Michael H. Schneider Sr. (2001, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ^[105]
• Arthur J. Schwab (1972) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ^[106]
• Murray Merle Schwartz (1982, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware ^[107]
• Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) – chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court ^[108]
• G. Kendall Sharp (1963) – judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida ^[109]
• Robert J. Shelby (1988) – judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
• Randall Terry Shepard (1995 LL.M) – chief justice, Indiana Supreme Court ^[110]
• Eugene E. Siler Jr. (1963) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[111]
• Edward Samuel Smith (1947) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ^[112]
• William Lloyd Standish (1956) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania ^[113]
• Louis L. Stanton (1955) – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ^[114]
• Walter King Stapleton (1984, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ^[115]
• Myron T. Steele (1970) – chief justice, Delaware Supreme Court
• Chester J. Straub (1961) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ^[116]
• Richard F. Suhrheinrich (1990, LL.M) – Senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[117]
• Richard Barclay Surrick (1982, LL.M) – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ^[118]
• Eric C. Taylor (1988) – presiding judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court ^[119]
• Debra Todd (2004, LL.M) – judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Juan R. Torruella (1984, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ^[120]
• James B. Whitfield (1886) – state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
• Michael J. Wilkins (2001, LL.M) – Associate chief justice, Utah Supreme Court ^[121]
• J. Harvie Wilkinson (1972) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[122]
• Glen Morgan Williams (1948) – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia ^[123]
• Victor J. Wolski (1991) – judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
• James Andrew Wynn (1995, LL.M) – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ^[124]

Literature and journalism

• Louis Auchincloss (1941) – novelist
• David Baldacci (1986) – novelist
• Linda Fairstein (1972) – novelist
• Emily Giffin (1997) – novelist
• Philip K. Howard (1974) – writer
• Lucien D. Starke Jr. (1899) – president and publisher of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot ^{[125] [126]}
• Evan Thomas (1977) – editor, Newsweek

Politics

• Charles C. Adams Jr. (1973) – United States Ambassador to Finland ^[127]
• George Allen (1977) – U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and Governor of Virginia ^[128]
• J. Lindsay Almond (1923) – governor of Virginia; judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ^[129]
• Nathan L. Bachman (1903) – U.S. Senator from Tennessee
• Alben W. Barkley (1900) – U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States ^[130]
• Robert Bauer (1976) – White House Counsel, general counsel of the Obama Campaign ^[131]
• Evan Bayh (1981) – U.S. Senator and governor of Indiana ^[132]
• Andy Beshear (2003) – governor of Kentucky (2019–present), Attorney General of Kentucky (2015 –2019)
• Kit Bond (1963) – U.S. Senator and governor of Missouri ^[133]
• Rick Boucher (1971) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia ^[134]
• Debra Bowen (1979) – Secretary of State of California ^[135]
• Alan Stephenson Boyd (1948) – U.S. Secretary of Transportation ^[136]
• Harry F. Byrd Jr. (1936) – U.S. Senator from Virginia
• Bryan Callaghan Jr. (1874) – mayor of San Antonio, Texas for 16 years
• Millard F. Caldwell (1924) – U.S. Congressman and governor of Florida
• Edward M. Carmouche (1948) – chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana ^[137]
• Robin Carnahan (1986) – Missouri Secretary of State ^[138]
• James Paul Clarke (1878) – U.S. Senator and governor of Arkansas
• John Cornyn (1995) – U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas ^[139]
• Tom Davis (1975) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia ^[140]
• Frank M. Dixon (1943) – governor of Alabama ^[141]
• Tom Donilon (1985) – U.S. National Security Advisor ^[142]
• Paul Erickson (1988) – conservative political operative, subject to federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
• Fred Fielding (1964) – White House Counsel ^[143]
• William Meade Fishback (1855) – governor of Arkansas
• Randy Forbes (1977) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia ^[144]
• Luis G. Fortuño (1985) – governor of Puerto Rico ^[145]
• Grenville Gaines (1876) – mayor of Warrenton, Virginia ^[146]
• Jim Gilmore (1977) – governor of Virginia ^[147]
• Virgil Goode (1973) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia ^[148]
• William J. Howell (1967) – Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
• Bob Inglis (1984) – U.S. Congressman from South Carolina ^[149]
• John Neely Kennedy (1977) – U.S. Senator from Louisiana
• Ted Kennedy (1959) – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic presidential candidate ^[150]
• Robert F. Kennedy (1951) – Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic presidential candidate ^[151]
• Angus King (1969) – U.S. Senator and former governor of Maine ^[152]
• Sheila Jackson-Lee (1975) – U.S. Congresswoman from Texas ^[153]
• Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) – chairman of the Federal Trade Commission ^[154]
• Sean Patrick Maloney (1992) – U.S. Congressman from New York ^[155]
• Thurgood Marshall Jr. (1981) – Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton ^[156]
• Jennifer McClellan (1997) – U.S. Congresswoman from Virginia, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegates ^[157]
• Donald McEachin (1986) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia ^[158]
• George McMillan (1979) – lieutenant governor of Alabama, Alabama Senate, Alabama House of Representatives
• Janet Napolitano (1983) – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, governor of Arizona, president of the University of California ^[159]
• Bill Nelson (1968) – U.S. Senator from Florida ^[160]
• Kirstjen Nielsen (1999) – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
• Chris Obenshain (2006)- Virginia State Delegate from the 41st district
• Walter Tansill Oliver (1873–1932) –, state delegate and state senator from Virginia; mayor of Fairfax, Virginia ^[161]
• Henry A. Osborn Jr. (1884–1918) – politician ^[162]
• Ken Paxton (1991) – Attorney General of Texas ^[163]
• W. Robert Pearson (1968) – U.S. Ambassador to Turkey ^[164]
• Matthew S. Petersen (1999) – commissioner and former chairman, Federal Election Commission ^[165]
• H. Foster Pettit – Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky ^[166]
• Heather Podesta (1997) – American lobbyist ^[167]
• Charles Robb (1973) – U.S. Senator and governor of Virginia ^[168]
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (1940) – U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Hugh D. Scott (1922) – U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate ^[169]
• Faryar Shirzad – advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
• Howard Worth Smith (1903) – U.S. Congressman from Virginia ^[170]
• John C. Stennis (1927) – U.S. Senator from Mississippi ^[171]
• Harry F. Stimpson Jr. – Ambassador to Paraguay
• John V. Tunney (1959) – U.S. Senator from California ^[172]
• John Warner (1953) – U.S. Senator from Virginia ^[173]
• Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (1958) – U.S. Senator and governor of Connecticut ^[174]
• Sheldon Whitehouse (1982) – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island ^[175]
• Woodrow Wilson (attended 1879) – President of the United States ^[176]

Science

• Susan Kolb (dropped out) – medical doctor and author

Sports

• Griff Aldrich (1999) – head men's basketball coach, Longwood University
• Tim Finchem (1973) – commissioner and CEO, PGA TOUR
• Bowie Kuhn (1950) – former Major League Baseball commissioner
• Michael Slive (1965) – former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and formerly the first commissioner of both Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
• DeMaurice Smith (1989) – executive director, National Football League Players' Association
• Don Yee (1987) – NFL sports agent

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