University of Illinois College of Law alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Illinois College of Law.

Academia

• William Bennett Bizzell 1912 – president of the University of Oklahoma and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University)
• Ralph L. Brill – Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law and legal writing innovator
• John E. Cribbet 1947 – dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and chancellor of the University of Illinois
• Daniel Farber 1975 – Sho Sato Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law
• Nekima Levy-Pounds 2001 – activist, former president of Minneapolis NAACP and former professor at University of St. Thomas School of Law
• Philip J. McConnaughay 1978 – dean of Peking University School of Transnational Law and dean of Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law
• Clyde Summers 1942 – labor lawyer and law professor at the Yale Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School, subject of In re Summers
• William D. Underwood – eighteenth president of Mercer University

Entertainment

• Paul M. Lisnek 1983 – author, television and radio talk show host and interviewer
• Michael Masser – composer and producer of popular music

Judges

Federal

• Wayne Andersen 1970 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Harold Baker 1956 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• Charles Guy Briggle 1904 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
• Colin S. Bruce 1989 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
• Owen McIntosh Burns 1929 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• James L. Foreman 1952 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
• James F. Holderman 1971 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• George Evan Howell 1930 – United States federal judge on the United States Court of Claims
• William F. Jung 1983 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
• Frederick J. Kapala 1976 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Alfred Younges Kirkland, Sr. 1943 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• David Laro 1967 – senior judge on the United States Tax Court
• Walter C. Lindley 1910 – United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• George Michael Marovich 1954 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Prentice Henry Marshall 1967 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Frederick Olen Mercer 1924 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
• William A. Moorman 1970 – judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
• Philip Godfrey Reinhard 1964 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Stanley Julian Roszkowski 1954 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Fred Louis Wham 1909 – United States federal judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois
• Harlington Wood, Jr. 1948 – United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

State

• Thomas R. Chiola 1977 – judge of the Illinois Circuit Court of Cook County, first openly gay elected official in Illinois
• Arno H. Denecke 1939 – Chief Justice Oregon Supreme Court
• Byron O. House 1926 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[1]
• Lloyd A. Karmeier 1964 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[2]
• Ray Klingbiel 1924 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[3]
• Howard C. Ryan – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[4]
• Roy Solfisburg 1940 (LL.B) – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[5]
• Robert C. Underwood 1939 – Chief Justice Supreme Court of Illinois ^[6]

Other

• Antonio Herman de Vasconcellos e Benjamin (LL.M) – judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Brazil
• R. Grant Hammond (LL.M) – judge of the New Zealand Court of Appeal

Law

• Albert E. Jenner, Jr. 1930 (LL.B.) – one of the name partners at the law firm of Jenner & Block
• Jerome W. Van Gorkom 1941 – CEO of TransUnion, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Management 1982–83, best known as the named party in the landmark corporate law case of Smith v. Van Gorkom , 488 A.2d 858 (Del. 1985).

Literature and journalism

• Leonard V. Finder – newspaper editor and publisher
• Michael Fumento – journalist and author

Military

• Reginald C. Harmon 1927 – First United States Air Force Judge Advocate General
• Thomas R. Lamont 1972 – United States Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

Politics

• Al Salvi 1985 – Illinois House, US Senate candidate, Managing Partner of Salvi & Maher, LLP
• John Bayard Anderson 1946 – United States House of Representatives and presidential candidate
• William W. Arnold 1901 – United States House of Representatives
• Jason Barickman 2006 – Illinois State Senate
• Terry Lee Bruce 1969 –United States House of Representatives
• John Porter East 1959 – U.S. Senator
• Tom Fink 1952 – Speaker of the Alaska House of Representatives; Mayor of Anchorage
• Otis Ferguson Glenn 1910 – U.S. Senator
• William J. Graham 1893 – United States House of Representatives
• William Perry Holaday 1905 – United States House of Representatives
• George Evan Howell 1930 – United States House of Representatives
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. 1993 – United States House of Representatives
• Tim Johnson 1972 – United States House of Representatives
• Annette Lu 1971 – 8th Vice President of the Republic of China
• B. J. Pak – United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
• Samuel H. Shapiro – Governor of Illinois
• James C. Soper 1931 – Illinois Senate
• William L. Springer 1935 – United States House of Representatives
• Michael Strautmanis 1994 – Chief Counsel and the Director of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs on the Barack Obama presidential transition team
• Sheadrick Turner – Illinois House of Representatives
• Harold H. Velde 1937 – United States House of Representatives
• Samuel H. Young 1947 – United States House of Representatives

Sports

• Josh Whitman, 2008 – Athletic director at the University of Illinois, former NFL player ^[7]

References

1. "Byron O. House – Previous Illinois Supreme Court Justice". illinoiscourts.gov.
2. "Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier". State.il.us.
3. "Ray I. Klingbiel – Previous Illinois Supreme Court Justice". State.il.us.
4. "Howard C. Ryan – Previous Illinois Supreme Court Justice". State.il.us.
5. "Roy J. Solfisburg, Jr. – Previous Illinois Supreme Court Justice". State.il.us.
6. "Robert C. Underwood – Previous Illinois Supreme Court Justice". State.il.us.
7. "Illinois Athletics – Josh Whitman" . Retrieved May 4, 2018.