Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni

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

Academia

• Diane Marie Amann, chair in International Law and faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law ^[1]
• Raoul Berger, senior fellow in American Legal History at Harvard University ^[2]
• George Burditt, adjunct member of the faculty ^[3]
• G. Marcus Cole, professor of law and associate dean for curriculum at Stanford Law School ^[4]
• Steven Drizin, lawyer and law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
• Thomas F. Geraghty, associate dean for clinical education, professor of law, and director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University School of Law ^[5]
• Kristin E. Hickman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School ^[6]
• Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., professor at Suffolk University Law School ^[7]
• James Nabrit Jr., president of Howard University and pioneering civil rights law academic and attorney ^[8]
• Kate A. Shaw, law professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and ABC News Supreme Court contributor
• Jonathan Turley, Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School ^[9]

Advocacy and nonprofits

• Albert Goldman (J.D. 1925), socialist lawyer and political activist, personal lawyer of Leon Trotsky during his stay in Mexico City ^[10]
• Florence Kelley (1894), social reformer, early advocate for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights; first general secretary of the National Consumers League; helped to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Ada Kepley, advocate for women's suffrage and temperance, first American woman to obtain a law degree ^[8]

Business

• Matt Ferguson, president and CEO of Careerbuilder.com ^[11]
• Elbert Henry Gary, co-founder, president, and chairman of United States Steel Corporation; namesake of Gary, Indiana ^[12]
• Michael Goodkin, quantitative finance entrepreneur and founder of Arbitrage Management Company ^[13]
• Randy Kaplan, founder of Akamai Technologies ^[14]
• Marc J. Lane, founder of The Marc J. Lane Wealth Group
• Morgan E. O'Brien, co-founder and former chairman of Nextel ^[15]
• Jay A. Pritzker, co-founder of Hyatt Hotels Corporation ^[16]
• Frank C. Rathje, founder of the Mutual National Bank of Chicago and president of the American Bankers Association ^[17]
• Howard A. Tullman, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist

Entertainment

• Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati, television talk show host ^[18]

Government

• Richard E. Wiley, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission ^[19]

Judiciary

• Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Hawaii Supreme Court Justice ^[20]
• Mary Bartelme, influential pioneer in juvenile justice, the first woman elected judge in Illinois ^[21]
• Dalveer Bhandari, Judge at the International Court of Justice, 2012–present ^[22]
• Michael B. Brennan, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
• Rubén Castillo, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[23]
• Edmond E. Chang, U.S. District judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[24]
• Joel Flaum, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge ^[25]
• Arthur Goldberg, former United States Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Secretary of Labor, and Ambassador to the United Nations ^[26]
• Jim Jones, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court ^[27]
• Carole Kamin, first woman to become president of a state bar in the United States; Cook County Circuit Court Judge ^[8]
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball and U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[28]
• Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota ^[29]
• Joan Larsen, U.S. Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ^[30]
• Joan Lefkow, U.S. District Judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[31]
• José Abad Santos, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines ^[32]
• Michael Y. Scudder, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
• John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court Justice ^[33]
• Richard Tallman, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Senior Judge ^[34]
• Horace Ward, challenged racial discrimination at the University of Georgia and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ^[8]

Law

• Ferdinand L. Barnett, Civil Rights activist and first African-American Assistant State's Attorney in Illinois, husband of Ida B. Wells ^[35]
• Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office Watergate Task Force ^[36]
• Salem J. Chalabi, first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal to try Saddam Hussein ^[37]
• Richard Devine, Cook County Former State's Attorney ^[38]
• W. Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel under President Barack Obama ^[39]
• T. Markus Funk, law professor and attorney at Perkins Coie ^[40]
• Graham T. Perry, second African-American elected for assistant attorney general for the State of Illinois ^[8]
• Richard Terrin, legal advisor to Governor-General of the Philippines, Dwight F. Davis
• Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, first African American admitted to the bar in Illinois ^[41]

Literature and journalism

• Ferdinand Lee Barnett, founder of The Chicago Conservator
• Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and co-founder of law firm Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick (later Kirkland & Ellis) ^{[42] [43]}

Politics

• George Wildman Ball (1933), former U.S. Undersecretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ^[44]
• Judy Biggert (J.D. 1963), U.S. House of Representatives ^[45]
• William Jennings Bryan, former U.S. Secretary of State and three-time Democratic nominee for President ^[46]
• Dale Bumpers, former Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator ^[47]
• Alfred Cilella, Illinois state legislator ^[48]
• Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota ^[49]
• William Dawson, first African American to chair a Congressional Committee, beginning in 1949 ^[50]
• Edward Dunne, former Governor of Illinois and former Mayor of Chicago ^[51]
• Carl R. Feld, Wisconsin State Assembly ^[52]
• Robert Todd Lincoln (1866), ^[53] U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1889–1893); 35th United States Secretary of War (1881–1885)
• Wendy E. Long, Republican nominee for United States Senate from New York in 2012 and 2016
• Frank Orren Lowden, Governor of Illinois ^[54]
• J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Assembly ^[55]
• Albert E. Mead, former governor of Washington ^[56]
• Newton Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission ^[57]
• Dawn Clark Netsch, first woman to be elected to a statewide constitutional office in Illinois ^[58]
• J. B. Pritzker, Managing Partner of Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and current Governor of Illinois ^[59]
• Pat Quinn, former Governor of Illinois ^[60]
• Tom Railsback, U.S. House of Representatives ^[61]
• Henry T. Rainey, 40th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives ^[62]
• Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati and television talk show host ^[18]
• Seymour Stedman, Socialist Party of America nominee for vice-president of the United States (and for Mayor of Chicago) ^[63]
• Halvor Steenerson, former U.S. Representative ^[64]
• Adlai Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, two-time Democratic Nominee for President, and Ambassador to the United Nations ^[65]
• Jim Thompson, former Governor of Illinois ^[66]
• Charles M. Thomson, former U.S. House of Representatives ^[67]
• Daniel Walker, former Governor of Illinois ^[68]
• Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago and U.S. House of Representatives ^[69]
• Paul Ziffren, Democratic National Committee chair

Sports

• Eddie Einhorn, owner of the Chicago White Sox ^[70]
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball, for U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ^[28]
• Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls ^[71]
• Mark Walter, founder and CEO of Guggenheim Partners and Chairman of Los Angeles Dodgers ^[72]

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