Thomas Richard Harkin is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. representative for Iowa's 5th congressional district from 1975 to 1985. He is the longest-serving senator to spend his whole tenure as a state's junior senator.
Edward Clayton Eicher was a United States representative from Iowa, federal securities regulator and Chief Justice of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. He was considered a consummate New Deal liberal.
Steven Michael Colloton is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 2003.
Nicholas Johnson is an American academic and lawyer. He wrote How to Talk Back to Your Television Set and was a Federal Communications Commission commissioner from 1966 to 1973. He is retired from teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law, with an emphasis on communications and Internet law, and since 2006 has posted over 1000 blog essays.
Philip Wayne Johnson, is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, serving from 2005 to 2018.
Matthew Hansen Mead is an Wyoming attorney, businessman, and politician who served as the 32nd Governor of Wyoming from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming from 2001 to 2007.
Julio M. Fuentes is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Fuentes is the first Hispanic judge to serve on the Third Circuit.
Zollie Coffer Steakley, Jr. was a Texas lawyer, politician and judge, serving as Secretary of State of Texas and as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
Thomas Campbell Clark was an American lawyer who served as the 59th United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1949 to 1967.
Michael Joseph Melloy is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Robert W. Pratt is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
Jerre Stockton Williams was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Cathleen Cochran Herasimchuk, was a judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A resident of Austin, Texas, she was initially appointed to the court on September 28, 2001 by Governor Rick Perry and elected by Texas voters in 2002 and 2008. She did not seek re-election to the bench in 2014 and was succeeded in her Place 9 seat by her fellow Republican, David Newell of Houston. She died on February 7, 2021.
Thomas Herman III is an American football coach and head coach of the Florida Atlantic Owls. He was the head football coach for the Texas Longhorns at the University of Texas at Austin from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, he served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 2015 to 2016.
Jeffrey Vincent Brown is a United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and a former associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court. He was appointed to the U.S. district court by President Donald Trump.
Amos Louis Mazzant III is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas and former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
David Christopher Newell is an American judge, who serves on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. A resident of Houston, Newell was elected to the court in 2014 to succeed the retiring Place 9 Judge Cathy Cochran.
Elsa R. Alcala, also known as Elsa Spjut, is a former Republican official who most recently served (2011–2018) as one of the nine judges of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was appointed to the Place 8 on the bench by then Governor Rick Perry, when Charles Holcomb stepped down to run in 2012 for the United States Senate. On July 16, 2019 she announced she was leaving the Republican Party to support Democrats at the state and national level.
Elizabeth Ann Copeland is an American lawyer who serves as a judge of the United States Tax Court.
Adam Gregg is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 47th lieutenant governor of Iowa. He has held this position since 2019. Gregg previously served as Acting Lieutenant Governor from 2017 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Gregg served as Public Defender of Iowa from 2014 to 2017. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Iowa in the November 2014 elections.
