List of Columbia University people in politics, military

and law

This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University. This
partial list does not include all of the numerous Columbia alumni and faculty who have served as
the heads of foreign governments, in the U.S. Presidential Cabinet, the U.S. Executive branch of
government, the Federal Courts, or as U.S. Senators, U.S. Congresspersons, Governors, diplomats,
mayors (or other notable local officials), or as prominent members of the legal profession or the
military.

Presidents

Dwight D. Eisenhower (President of Columbia University 1948–1953) – 34th President of the

United States (1953–1961)

Barack Obama (B.A. 1983) – 44th President of the United States (2009–2017), U.S. Senator from
Illinois (2005–2008)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Law 1904–1907; posthumous J.D., class of 1907) – 32nd President of
the United States (1933–1945)

Theodore Roosevelt (Law 1880–1881; posthumous J.D., class of 1882) – 26th President of the
United States (1901–1909) 25th Vice-President of the United States (1901)

Cabinet Secretaries

Madeleine Albright – (Ph.D. 1976, LL.D. (hons.) 1995) Presidential Medal of Freedom (2012); 64th
United States Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton (1997–2001), the first female
Secretary of State[1]

Michael Armacost – (Ph.D.) Acting United States Secretary of State (1989); U.S. Ambassador to
Japan (1989–1993); U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines (1982–1984)

Antony Blinken (J.D. 1988) – United States Deputy National Security Advisor (2013–2015); 71st
United States Secretary of State (2021–2025)

Harold Brown – (B.A. 1945, M.A. 1946, Ph.D. 1949), 14th United States Secretary of Defense
(1977–81)
Elaine Chao – (graduate study) 24th United States Secretary of Labor (2001–2009); Deputy
Secretary of Labor; former director, Peace Corps

Bainbridge Colby – (J.D. 1891) 43rd United States Secretary of State; founder, 1912 Progressive
Party

Jacob M. Dickinson – (Law, attended) 44th United States Secretary of War (1909–1911)

Hamilton Fish – (B.A. 1827), 26th United States Secretary of State (1869–1877)

Charles Forbes – first director (secretary) of the U.S. Veterans' Bureau (predecessor of the United
States Department of Veterans Affairs) (1921–1923)

James Rudolph Garfield – (J.D. 1888) 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (1907–09),
United States Civil Service Commission (1902–1903)

George Graham – (B.A. 1790) United States Secretary of War ad interim (1816–1817) under
Presidents James Madison and James Monroe

John Graham – (B.A. 1790) Acting United States Secretary of State (1817)

Alexander Haig – (CBS 1955) 59th United States Secretary of State in Ronald Reagan's
administration

Alexander Hamilton – (1774 matriculated, studies interrupted by Revolutionary War) First United
States Secretary of Treasury (1789–1795); co-author of The Federalist Papers

James Alexander Hamilton – (B.A.) Acting United States Secretary of State to President Andrew
Jackson

Charles Evans Hughes – (J.D. 1884), 44th United States Secretary of State (1921–1925),
Associate and Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

John Jay – (B.A. 1764) Acting United States Secretary of State (1789–90); Sixth President of the
Continental Congress (1778–1779); Second United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1784–89);
Acting United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1789); co-author of The Federalist Papers

Jeh Johnson – (J.D.) United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2013–2017)

Robert R. Livingston – (B.A. 1765) First United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1781–1783)

Franklin MacVeagh – (J.D. 1864) 45th United States Secretary of the Treasury (1909–13)

F. David Mathews – (Ph.D. 1975) 11th Secretary of United States Department of Health, Education
and Welfare under Gerald Ford (1975–1977); president, University of Alabama
 Rogers Morton – (VP&S, attended) Special Counselor to President Gerald Ford (with Cabinet
rank); 39th United States Secretary of the Interior (1971–1975); 22nd United States Secretary of
Commerce (1975–1976); chairman of the Republican National Committee

Jim Nicholson – (M.A.) 5th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2005–2007) under
George W. Bush

David Pekoske – (M.I.A.) Acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2021)

Frances Perkins – (M.A. 1910), 4th United States Secretary of Labor (1933–1945), first female
cabinet member; United States Civil Service Commission (1946–1953)

Frank Polk – (LL.B. 1897) Acting United States Secretary of State (1920); Under Secretary of State
(1919–1920); headed American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1919)

Maurice H. Stans – (1928–30) 19th United States Secretary of Commerce (1969–72); Director,
Office of Management and Budget (Cabinet rank) (1958–1961)

Walter Stoessel – (graduate study) Acting United States Secretary of State; 7th United States
Deputy Secretary of State (February 11, 1982 – September 22, 1982)

Oscar S. Straus – (B.A. 1871, J.D.1873) 3rd United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor
(1906–09), the first Jewish Presidential Cabinet Secretary

William H. Woodin – (B.A. 1890) 51st United States Secretary of the Treasury under Franklin
Roosevelt; directed Administration's declaration and enforcement of a "Bank Holiday" and taking
U.S. off international gold standard

Attorneys General

William Barr

William Pelham Barr – (B.A. 1971, M.A. 1973) 77th and 85th United States Attorney General;
(1991–1993; 2019–2020); 24th United States Deputy Attorney General (1990–1991)
 Eric Holder – (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976) 82nd United States Attorney General (2009–2015); first
African-American Attorney General; former Acting U.S. Attorney General in Clinton Administration
(2001); 28th U.S. Deputy Attorney General (1997–2001); first AG held in criminal and civil
contempt of Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious investigation (2012)

Joseph McKenna – (before taking seat on U.S. Supreme Court, studied at Columbia Law while
AG) 42nd Attorney General of the United States (1897–1898)

Michael Mukasey – (B.A. 1963) 81st United States Attorney General (2007–2009), former U.S.
District Judge and Chief Judge

Harlan Fiske Stone – (LL.B. 1898) 52nd United States Attorney General (1924–1925); Associate
and Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court

Harold R. Tyler Jr. – (J.D. 1949) 14th United States Deputy Attorney General (2nd ranking official
in the U.S. Department of Justice) (1975–1977)

Lawrence Edward Walsh – (A.B. 1932, LL.B. 1935) 4th United States Deputy Attorney General
(1957–1960)

Cabinet-level officers

Madeleine Albright

Alan Greenspan
Madeleine Albright – (Certificate in Russian language, M.A., Ph.D.) United States Ambassador to
the United Nations (Cabinet rank) (1997–2001); Presidential Medal of Freedom

Jared Bernstein (Ph.D. 1994) – Chairman (2023–), member (2021–), Council of Economic
Advisers

Erskine Bowles – (M.B.A.) former White House Chief of Staff (Cabinet rank); Administrator of the
Small Business Administration (Cabinet rank); co-chair, President Barack Obama's National
Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Alan K. Simpson

Arthur Frank Burns – (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1934) Austrian-born U.S. economist; Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers (Cabinet rank) (1953–56)

Alan Greenspan (studied for a Ph.D. in economics) – Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers
(1974–1977); Presidential Medal of Freedom

Alexander Haig – (M.B.A. 1955) twice White House Chief of Staff (Cabinet rank) under Presidents
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford

Avril Haines – 7th Director of National Intelligence, research scholar and deputy director for the
Columbia World Projects[2]

Fred Hochberg – (M.B.A.) Administrator of the Small Business Administration (Cabinet rank)
(2009–)

Leon Keyserling – (A.B. 1928) Chairman (1950–1953), Acting Chairman (1949), Council of
Economic Advisers under President Harry S. Truman; helped draft major New Deal legislation,
including National Industrial Recovery Act, Social Security Act, and the National Labor Relations
Act

Jeane Kirkpatrick – (Ph.D. 1968, political science) United States Ambassador to the United
Nations under Reagan (1981–1985); Presidential Medal of Freedom

James F. Leonard – (1963–64) United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1977–1979)

Arthur M. Okun – (B.A., Ph.D.) Chairman (1968–69), member (1964–69), Council of Economic
Advisers

William K. Reilly – (M.S. 1971) 7th Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) (Cabinet rank) (1989–93)

Raymond J. Saulnier – (Ph.D. 1938) Chairman (1956–1961), member (1955–1956), Council of

Economic Advisers

Daniel D. Tompkins – (B.A. 1795) 6th Vice-President of the United States

 Russell E. Train – (J.D. 1948) 2nd Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) (1973–77); Chairman, newly formed President's Council on Environmental Quality (1970–
73); Under Secretary, United States Department of the Interior (1967–1970); Presidential Medal of
Freedom

Murray Weidenbaum – (M.A.) Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers (1981–1982)

Directors of Central Intelligence

William J. Donovan

George Tenet – (M.I.A.) 18th Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency (1997–
2004)

William Colby – (LL.B. 1947) 10th Director of Central Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency
(1973–76)

William J. Donovan – (B.A. 1905, J.D. 1908) known as Father of the Central Intelligence Agency;
founder and first director of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA

White House Counsel

Samuel Rosenman

Lanny A. Breuer (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1985) – Special White House Counsel (1997–99); Head, Criminal
Division, Department of Justice (2009–)

Harry McPherson (1949–1950) – White House Counsel & Special Counsel under President
Lyndon Johnson (1963–69)
 Bernard Nussbaum (B.A.) – White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton

David B. Rivkin (J.D.) – Legal Advisor to White House Counsel of then President Reagan; Deputy
Director, White House Office of Policy Development (OPD)

Samuel Rosenman (J.D. 1919) – first White House Counsel (1943–46)

Charles F.C. Ruff (J.D. 1963) – White House Counsel under Bill Clinton; in Watergate scandal,
Special Prosecutor who investigated President Richard Nixon; represented Anita Hill (vs. Clarence
Thomas) and Bill Clinton (impeachment)

Bernard M. Shanley (B.A.) – Special Counsel, White House (1953–55); White House Deputy Chief
of Staff (1955–57)

Robert Delahunty (B.A.) – Deputy General Counsel, White House Office of Homeland Security
(2002–03)

Joel Klein (B.A.) – Deputy White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton

Donald B. Verrilli Jr. (J.D.) – Deputy White House Counsel under President Barack Obama

Members of the Federal Reserve System

Arthur F. Burns

Arthur F. Burns – (B.A. 1925, M.A. 1925, Ph.D. 1934), 10th Chair of the Federal Reserve (1970–
1978)

Richard Clarida – (professor of Economics and International Affairs), 21st Vice Chair of the
Federal Reserve (2018–2022)

Alan Greenspan – (studied for a Ph.D. in economics), 13th Chair of the Federal Reserve (1987–
2006)

William McChesney Martin – (grad. study in economics 1931–37), 9th Chair of the Federal
Reserve (1951–1970)

Randal Quarles – (B.A. 1981), 1st Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve for Supervision (2017–2021)
Other presidential advisors

Pat Buchanan

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ulysses S. Grant Jr.

 George Stephanopoulos

Isidor Isaac Rabi

Pat Buchanan (M.A. Journalism) – White House Communications Director (1985 – 1987); coined
the phrase "Silent Majority"; speechwriter for President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew;
senior advisor, three U.S. presidents, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan

Zbigniew Brzezinski – 10th National Security Advisor, professor at Columbia University (1960 –
72)

James E. Connor (B.A. 1961), White House Cabinet Secretary and Staff secretary to President
Gerald Ford

Jonathan W. Daniels (failed out, CLS) – White House Press Secretary under Presidents Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman

Stephen J. Flanagan (B.A. 1973) – senior director for Central and Eastern Europe on the National
Security Council (1997–99)

Stephen Friedman (J.D. 1962) – Director, United States National Economic Council (2002–05);
chairman, U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2005–09)

Alexander Haig (M.B.A. 1955) – Deputy National Security Advisor (1973–75); Vice Chief of Staff
of the Army, the second-highest ranking officer in the Army (1973)
Fred Hochberg (M.B.A.) – Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States (2009–)

Benjamin Huberman (B.A. 1959) – acting Science Advisor to the President in 1981 and acting
director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Carl Kaysen (graduate study, 1940–46) – Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–63)

Michael E. Leiter (B.A. 1991) – Director of the United States National Counterterrorism Center
(2007–2011)

Harold F. Linder (B.A., Ph.D.) – Chairman, Export-Import Bank of the United States (1961–1968),
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs (1952–53)

Kathleen McGinty (J.D. 1988) – Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality (1995–1998);
founding Director, White House Office on Environmental Policy

William Eldridge Odom – (M.S. 1962, Ph.D. 1970) former director of the National Security Agency
(NSA) under President Ronald Reagan

Frank Press (M.A. 1946, Ph.D. 1949) – Science Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and Director,
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1976–1980)

Isidor Isaac Rabi (Ph.D.) – Science Advisor to President Eisenhower and Director, White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy (1956–1957)

Brent Scowcroft (M.A., Ph.D.) – 9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor (1975–77;
1989–93); chairman, U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2001–05); Deputy
National Security Advisor (1970–75)

George Stephanopoulos (B.A., salutatorian, 1982) – initially de facto White House Press Secretary,
later Senior Advisor to the President Bill Clinton

Harold E. Varmus (M.D.) – one of three co-chairs, President's Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology (2009–)

Samuel V. Wilson (attended) – former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; coined the
term "counterinsurgency"

Kenneth J. Arrow (M.A., Ph.D.) – Richard Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers

Daniel Fried (M.I.A. 1977) – Special Envoy to Guantanamo (2009–); Special Assistant to the
President and member, United States National Security Council (2001–2005)

Toby Gati (M.A. 1970, M.I.A. 1972) – Special Assistant to the President and member, United
States National Security Council (1993)
M.R.C. Greenwood (postdoctoral study) – Associate Director for Science, White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy during the Clinton Administration

Matt Latimer (M.S.) – Special Assistant to the President for Speechwriting during the
administration of President George W. Bush

Kenneth Lieberthal (M.A., Ph.D. 1972) – Special Assistant to the President and senior director,
U.S. National Security Council during the Clinton Administration

Michel Oksenberg (M.A. 1963, Ph.D. 1969) – member, United States National Security Council;
closely involved in normalization of U.S.-China relations undertaken during the administration of
President Jimmy Carter

Paul Seabury (Ph.D.) – U.S. President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; 1964 Bancroft Prize

Gary Sick (Ph.D. 1973) – U.S. National Security Council under Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan;
principal White House aide for Persian Gulf affairs (1976–1981) (including Iranian revolution and
the hostage crisis)

Robert Suettinger – (M.A.) President Bill Clinton's national intelligence officer for East Asia at the
National Intelligence Council (1997–1998)

Paul Weinstein (M.A.) – Special Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff, White House
Domestic Policy Council during the Clinton Administration

Marina von Neumann Whitman (M.A. 1959, Ph.D. 1962) – member, Richard Nixon's Council of
Economic Advisers (1973–74)

Mark Barnes (LL.M. 1991) – member, National Health Care Reform Task Force under President
Bill Clinton

Jared Bernstein (M.A., Ph.D. 1994) – member, Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry;
executive director, White House Middle Class Working Families Task Force; Chief Economist and
Economic Policy Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden in the administration of President
Barack Obama (2009–11)

Ursula Burns (M.S. 1981) – Vice-Chairman, Obama Administration's Export Council (2010–)

Mark Gallogly (M.B.A. 1986) – Barack Obama's President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board

Ulysses S. Grant Jr. (LL.B. 1876) – personal secretary, President Ulysses S. Grant

Ken Khachigian (J.D. 1969) – speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, Chief speechwriter for
President Ronald Reagan
 Charles Edward Merriam (M.A. 1897, Ph.D., political science, 1900) – advisor to several
presidents, including Franklin D. Roosevelt

Raymond Moley (Ph.D. 1918) – Presidential Medal of Freedom (1970); senior adviser, Franklin D.
Roosevelt; a leading New Dealer; leading member of first Brain Trust; recruited its members from
Columbia faculty; later became sharp critic of New Deal

Dick Morris (B.A. 1967) – Chief political advisor to President Bill Clinton in his first term; first use
of term triangulation

Lynn Forester de Rothschild (J.D. 1980) – United States Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under
President Bill Clinton

Ben Stein (B.A. 1966) – speechwriter and lawyer for President Richard Nixon and later for
President Gerald Ford

Steven Simon (B.A. 1974) – senionr director for the Middle East and North Africa on the National
Security Council (1997–99)

Rexford Tugwell (Ph.D.) – part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust", and was one of the
chief intellectual contributors to his New Deal

Michael Waldman (B.A. 1982) – Director of Speechwriting for President Clinton (1995–99),
member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

Harry Dexter White (attended 1922) – senior Treasury official for Franklin D. Roosevelt, helped
found World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF); alleged in Venona list to be Soviet spy

Tim Wu – Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy, Professor at
Columbia University (2006 – )

Commissioners and agency heads, sub-cabinet members

Sharon Block (B.A. 1987) – Acting Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (2021–), member of the National Labor Relations Board (2012–13)

Amit Bose (B.A. 1994) – Acting Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration

Harold Brown – (B.A. 1945, M.A. 1946, Ph.D. 1949), 8th United States Secretary of the Air Force
(1965–69)

L. Francis Cissna (M.I.A. 1990) – director of the United States Citizenship and Immigration
Services (2017–19)
Julie Chung (M.I.A. 1996) – Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
(2021–), United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives nominee

Alan D. Cohn (B.A. 1993) – Assistant Secretary for Strategy, Plans, Analysis and Risk, U.S.
Department of Homeland Security

John Collier (B.A. 1906) – United States Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1933–1945),
implemented reform of federal Indian policy

Monica Crowley (Ph.D.) – Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs of the U.S. Department of the
Treasury (2019–21)

William O. Douglas (LL.B. 1925) – third Chairman, United States Securities and Exchange
Commission (1936–39)

Nathan Feinsinger (Law, post-graduate study) – former Chairman, United States Wage
Stabilization Board

Joseph F. Finnegan (B.A. 1928) – fourth Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
(1955–1961)[3]

Thibaut de Saint Phalle (B.A. 1939) – director of the Export–Import Bank of the United States
(1977–1981)

William Dudley Foulke (B.A. 1869, LL.B. 1871) – Commissioner, United States Civil Service
Commission

Tom Frieden (M.D., M.P.H.) – Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2009–
2017); Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (2009–2017)

Charles Frankel (B.A. 1937) – Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
(1965–67)

Robert A. Frosch (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) – Fifth Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) (1977–81), Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research and Development)

Harvey Goldschmid (B.A. 1965) – Commissioner (2002–05), and previously general counsel,
special adviser to chairman, United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Julius Genachowski (B.A. 1985) – Chairman, United States Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) (2009–13)

Henry Clay Hall (LL.B. 1883) – twice Chairman (1917–1918, 1924), Commissioner (1914–1928),
Interstate Commerce Commission
Robert O. Harris (B.A. 1951) – twice Chairman of the National Mediation Board (1979–80, 1982–
83)

John D. Hawke Jr. (J.D. 1960) – United States Comptroller of the Currency (1998–2004); Under
Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance (1995–1998)

Joseph Hendrie (Ph.D. 1957) – former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Edward Hidalgo (J.D. 1936) – Secretary of the Air Force (1979–1981); Assistant Secretary of the
Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) (1977–1979)

John H. Hilldring (attended 1914-1916) – Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas (1946–
47)

Colin Kahl (Ph.D. 2000) – Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2021–), National Security
Advisor to the Vice President (2014–17)

Robert Karem (B.A. 2000) – Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2017) Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs (2017–2018)

Lina Khan – Chairwoman (2021–), Federal Trade Commission; professor at Columbia Law School

William Kovacic (J.D. 1978) – Chairman (2008–2009), Commissioner (2006–2009), Federal Trade
Commission

Craig E. Leen (J.D. 2000) – Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U.S.
Department of Labor (2018–21)[4]

Michael E. Leiter (B.A. 1991) – Director, United States National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC),
during capture of Osama bin Laden (2007–)

Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby (J.D. 1975) – Chief of Staff, Vice President Dick Cheney (2001–05);
convicted on obstruction of justice charges for his role in Plame affair (2007)

Nancy McEldowney (M.I.A. 1986) – National Security Advisor to the Vice President (2021–)

Allan I. Mendelowitz (B.A. 1966) – Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board (2000–01)

Charles E. F. Millard (J.D. 1985) – Director, United States Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
(2007–09)

John Bassett Moore – United States Assistant Secretary of State (1898), Columbia professor
(1891–1924)

Richard M. Moose (M.A. 1954) – Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1977–81),
Under Secretary of State for Management (1992–96)
Geoff Morrell (M.S. 1992) – Press Secretary for the US Department of Defense (2007–11)

Michael Mundaca (B.A. 1986) – Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy in the U.S. Department of the
Treasury (2010–11)

Brian Murphy (M.A. 2006) – Acting Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and
Analysis (2018–20)

Annette Nazareth (J.D. 1981) – Commissioner, United States Securities and Exchange
Commission (2005–08)

Myrna Pérez (J.D. 2003) – nominee, commissioner, Election Assistance Commission (2011–)[5]

Robert Pitofsky (LL.B. 1954) – Chairman (1995–2001), Commissioner (1978–81), Federal Trade
Commission

Donald A. Quarles (graduate studies) – Secretary of the Air Force; Deputy Secretary of Defense
(2nd ranking official in the Department of Defense)

Thomasina V. Rogers (J.D. 1976) – Chairman (2009–; 1999–02), Commissioner (2009–; 03–09;
1998–03) U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission; first woman designated
chairman; only African American to serve on the Commission.[6][7]

David Rothkopf (B.A. 1977) – Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade (1995–
96)

Louis M. Rousselot (B.A. 1923) – Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs (1970–71)

William E. Simkin (graduate studies) – fifth Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service,
longest-serving Director (1961–1969)

Mozelle Thompson (B.A. 1976, J.D. 1981) – Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (1997–
2004)[8][9]

Harold Varmus (M.D.) – Director, National Cancer Institute (2010–) – Director, National Institutes
of Health (1993–99); Nobel Laureate

Mary Jo White (J.D. 1974), Chairman (2013–), Commissioner (2013–) – United States Securities
and Exchange Commission

Karan K. Bhatia (J.D. 1993) – Deputy United States Trade Representative (2nd ranking official in
the U.S. Office of Trade Representative) (2005–)[10][11]

Frank Blake (J.D. 1976) – Deputy United States Secretary of Energy (2nd ranking official in the
U.S. Department of Energy)
Reuben Clark (LL.B. 1906) – Under Secretary of State (from 1919 to 1972, 2nd ranking official in
the U.S. Department of State)

Carol A. DiBattiste (LL.M. 1986) – former United States Under Secretary of the Air Force (2nd
highest civilian official in the U.S. Department of the Air Force) (1999–2001)

Eric Hargan (J.D.) – Acting Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human
Services under President George W. Bush

John C. Inglis (M.S. Mech. Eng. 1977) – former Deputy Director, National Security Agency (2006–
2014)

Robert Joseph (Ph.D. 1978) – Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International
Security (2005–2007)

Madeleine Kunin (M.A.) – United States Deputy Secretary of Education (2nd ranking official in the
U.S. Department of Education) (1993–1997)

James T. O'Connell (B.A. 1928) – United States Deputy Secretary of Labor (1957–1962)

Randal Quarles (B.A. 1981) – Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance (2005–2006),
Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve (2017–)

Karthik Ramanathan (B.A. 1994) – Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Markets
(2008–2010)

Steven Reich (B.A. 1983) – Associate Deputy Attorney General (2011–2013)

Philippe Reines (B.A. 2000) – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Communications in the
United States Department of State

James J. Reynolds (B.A. 1928) – United States Deputy Secretary of Labor (1967–1969)

George Lockhart Rives (B.A. 1868, LL.B.1873) – United States Assistant Secretary of State
(1853–1913, 2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of State) (1887–89)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Law 1904–1907; posthumous J.D., class of 1907)[12] – U.S. Assistant
Secretary of the Navy (from 1861 to 1954, second highest civilian office in Department of the
Navy – reporting to U.S. Secretary of the Navy who until 1947 was a member of the President's
Cabinet)

Theodore Roosevelt (Law 1880–1881; posthumous J.D., class of 1882)[12] – U.S. Assistant
Secretary of the Navy

James P. Rubin (B.A. 1982, M.A. 1984) – Chief Spokesperson for the State Department,
considered Secretary Albright's right-hand man in Clinton Administration; United States Assistant
 Secretary of State for Public Affairs (1997–2000)

William Cary Sanger (LL.B. 1878) – United States Assistant Secretary of War (1901–03)

Andrew J. Shapiro (J.D. 1994) – Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (2009–
2013)

William H. Shaw (B.A. 1930) – Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs (1966–68)

Justin Shubow (B.A. 1999) – Chairman (2021) and member (2018–21) of the United States
Commission of Fine Arts

Eve Slater (M.D. 1971) – United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services
(2002–2003)

Joan E. Spero (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1973) – Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy,
and the Environment (1993–97)

John J. Sullivan (J.D. 1985) – United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce (2008–2009), United
States Deputy Secretary of State (2017–19)

Gardiner L. Tucker (B.A. 1947) – Assistant Secretary for Systems Analysis (1970–73), Assistant
Secretary General of NATO for Defense Support (1973–76)

J. Mayhew Wainwright (B.A. 1884, J.D. 1886) – U.S. Assistant Secretary of War (2nd ranking
official in the U.S. Department of War until 1940) (1921–23)

Ronald Weich (B.A. 1980) – United States Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative
Affairs

Felix Wormser (B.S. 1916) – Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources (1954–57)

Arturo Valenzuela (Ph.D. 1971) – Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
(2009–11)

Tracy Voorhees (J.D. 1915) – Under Secretary of the United States Army (2nd ranking official in
the U.S. Army) (1949–50)

Dov Zakheim – (B.A. 1970) – Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (2001–04), signatory to
manifesto Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) of the Project for the New American Century

Solicitors general

Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (J.D.) – United States Solicitor General (1909–1910)

 Charles Fried (J.D.) – United States Solicitor General (1985–1989); Acting Solicitor General;
Deputy Solicitor General

Daniel M. Friedman (A.B., J.D.) – Acting United States Solicitor General (1977); First Deputy
Solicitor General

Stanley Foreman Reed (J.D.) – United States Solicitor General (1935–1938)

Donald Verrilli Jr. (J.D.) – United States Solicitor General (2011–2016); United States Deputy
Attorney General; Deputy Counsel to the President

R. Kent Greenawalt (J.D.) – Deputy United States Solicitor General (1971–1972)

Judges

Benjamin N. Cardozo

William O. Douglas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Neil Gorsuch

Charles Evans Hughes

John Jay
Joseph McKenna

Harlan F. Stone

Egbert Benson

José A. Cabranes
 Julius Marshuetz Mayer

Constance Baker Motley

Edmund Louis Palmieri

Supreme Court Justices

Samuel Blatchford – (B.A. 1837), associate justice[13]

Benjamin Cardozo – (B.A. 1889, M.A. 1890), associate justice[13]

William O. Douglas – (LL.B. 1925), associate justice[13]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg – (LL.B. 1959), associate justice[13]

Neil Gorsuch – (B.A. 1988), associate justice[13]

Charles Evans Hughes – (LL.B. 1884), associate and chief justice[13]

 John Jay – (B.A. 1764, M.A. 1767), chief justice[13]

Joseph McKenna – (attended law school), associate justice[14]

Stanley Forman Reed – (attended law school), associate justice[13]

Harlan Fiske Stone – (LL.B. 1898), associate and chief justice[13]

U.S. federal judges

Nancy Abudu – (B.A. 1996), judge, U.S. Court Joseph F. Bianco – (J.D. 1991), judge, U.S.
of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[13] District Court for the Eastern District of New
York[13]
Lynn Adelman – (LL.B. 1965), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Stephanos Bibas – (B.A. 1989), judge, U.S.
[13]
Wisconsin Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[13]

Ann Aldrich – (B.A. 1948), judge, U.S. District Samuel Blatchford – (B.A. 1837), judge, U.S.
Court for the Northern District of Ohio[13] District Court for the Southern District of New
York; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Roy Altman – (B.A. 2004), judge, U.S. District
Second Circuit; associate justice of the
Court for the Southern District of Florida[13]
Supreme Court of the United States[13]
Harry B. Anderson – (LL.B. 1904), judge, U.S.
Victor Allen Bolden – (B.A. 1986), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Western District of
District Court for the District of Connecticut[13]
Tennessee[13]
William Bondy – (B.A. 1890, M.A. 1891, Ph.D.
Harold Baker – (attended college), judge, U.S.
1892, LL.B. 1893), chief judge, U.S. District
District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois;
Court for the Southern District of New York[13]
chief judge, U.S. District Court for the Central
District of Illinois; judge, Foreign Intelligence Richard F. Boulware – (J.D. 2002), judge, U.S.
Surveillance Court; judge, Alien Terrorist District Court for the District of Nevada[13]
Removal Court[13]
Hugh H. Bownes – (B.A. 1941, LL.B. 1948),
Maryanne Trump Barry – (M.A. 1962), judge, judge, U.S. District Court for the District of
U.S. District Court for the District of New New Hampshire; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
Jersey; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the for the First Circuit[13]
Third Circuit[13]
Vincent L. Briccetti – (B.A. 1976), judge, U.S.
Benjamin Beaton – (J.D. 2009), judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
District Court for the Western District of York[13]
Kentucky[13]
Charles L. Brieant – (B.A. 1947, LL.B. 1949),
Egbert Benson – (B.A. 1765), chief judge, U.S. judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern
[13]
Circuit Court for the Second Circuit District of New York[13]
Anita B. Brody – (J.D. 1958), judge, U.S. U. W. Clemon – (J.D. 1968), judge, U.S. District
District Court for the Eastern District of Court for the Northern District of Alabama[13]
Pennsylvania[13]
LeBaron Bradford Colt – (LL.B. 1870), judge,
Gary R. Brown – (B.A. 1985), judge, U.S. U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode
District Court for the Eastern District of New Island; judge, U.S. Circuit Courts for the First
[13]
York Circuit; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
First Circuit[13]
Frederick van Pelt Bryan – (B.A. 1925, LL.B.
1928), judge, U.S. District Court for the Kenneth Conboy – (M.A. 1980), judge, U.S.
Southern District of New York[13] District Court for the Southern District of New
York[13]
Naomi Reice Buchwald – (LL.B. 1968), judge,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Denise Cote – (M.A. 1969, J.D. 1975), judge,
New York[13] U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
New York[13]
Mortimer W. Byers – (LL.B. 1898), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of New Joseph Cross – (attended law school), judge,
York[13] U.S. District Court for the District of New
Jersey[13]
José A. Cabranes – (B.A. 1961), judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Connecticut; Oscar Hirsh Davis – (LL.B. 1937), judge, Court
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second of Claims; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
[13]
Circuit Federal Circuit[13]

Robert L. Carter – (LL.M. 1941), judge, U.S. Archie Owen Dawson – (B.A. 1921, LL.B.
District Court for the Southern District of New 1923), judge, U.S. District Court for the
York[13] Southern District of New York[13]

Claire C. Cecchi – (B.A. 1986), judge, U.S. Dickinson R. Debevoise – (LL.B. 1951), judge,
District Court for the District of New Jersey[13] U.S. District Court for the District of New
Jersey[13]
Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum – (B.A. 1950,
LL.B. 1953), judge, U.S. District Court for the Paul S. Diamond – (B.A. 1974), judge, U.S.
[13]
Southern District of New York District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania[13]
Thomas Chatfield – (LL.B. 1896), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of New James Edward Doyle – (LL.B. 1940), judge,
York[13] U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Wisconsin[13]
John H. Chun – (B.A. 1991), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Western District of Kyle Duncan – (LL.M. 2004), judge, U.S. Court
Washington[13] of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[13]
Samantha D. Elliott – (J.D. 2006), judge, U.S. Ruth Bader Ginsburg – (LL.B. 1959), judge,
District Court for the District of New U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Hampshire[13] Columbia Circuit; associate justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States[13]
James Alger Fee – (LL.B. 1914), judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Oregon; judge, Gerard Louis Goettel – (J.D. 1955), judge, U.S.
[13]
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit District Court for the Southern District of New
York[13]
Wilfred Feinberg – (B.A. 1940, LL.B. 1946),
judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern Neil Gorsuch – (B.A. 1988), judge, U.S. Court
District of New York; judge, U.S. Court of of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; associate
Appeals for the Second Circuit[13] justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States[13]
Marvin E. Frankel – (LL.B. 1948), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New Nathaniel M. Gorton – (LL.B. 1966), judge, U.S.
York[13] District Court for the District of
Massachusetts[13]
Daniel Mortimer Friedman – (B.A. 1937, LL.B.
1940), chief judge, Court of Claims; judge, U.S. Joseph A. Greenaway Jr. – (B.A. 1978), judge,
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[13] U.S. District Court for the District of New
Jersey; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Lee Parsons Gagliardi – (LL.B. 1947), judge,
Third Circuit[13]
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
New York[13] Jennifer Choe-Groves – (LL.M. 1998), judge,
U.S. Court of International Trade[13]
Nicholas Garaufis – (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1974),
judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern Diane Gujarati – (B.A. 1990), judge, U.S.
District of New York[13] District Court for the Eastern District of New
York[13]
Paul G. Gardephe – (J.D. 1982), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New Murray Gurfein – (B.A. 1926), judge, U.S.
York[13] District Court for the Southern District of New
York; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Leonard I. Garth – (B.A. 1942), judge, U.S.
Second Circuit[13]
District Court for the District of New Jersey;
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third John Patrick Hartigan – (M.A. 1913, LL.B.
[13]
Circuit 1913), judge, U.S. District Court for the District
of Rhode Island; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals
Nancy Gertner – (B.A. 1967), judge, U.S.
for the First Circuit[13]
District Court for the District of
Massachusetts[13] Richard Hartshorne – (LL.B. 1912), judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of New Jersey[13]
Alexander Harvey II – (LL.B. 1950), judge, U.S. Denis Reagan Hurley – (M.B.A. 1962), judge,
District Court for the District of Maryland[13] U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
New York[13]
Paul R. Hays – (B.A. 1924, M.A. 1927, LL.B.
1933), judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sandra Segal Ikuta – (M.S. 1978), judge, U.S.
Second Circuit[13] Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[13]

Alvin Hellerstein – (B.A. 1954, J.D. 1956), Dora Irizarry – (J.D. 1979), judge, U.S. District
judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern Court for the Eastern District of New York[13]
District of New York[13]
Kenneth M. Karas – (J.D. 1991), judge, U.S.
William Bernard Herlands – (LL.B. 1928), District Court for the Southern District of New
judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern York[13]
District of New York[13]
Lawrence K. Karlton – (J.D. 1958), judge, U.S.
Ogden Hoffman Jr. – (B.A. 1840), judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
District Court for the Northern District of California[13]
California; judge, U.S. District Court for the
Gary Stephen Katzmann – (B.A. 1973), judge,
Southern District of California; judge, U.S.
U.S. Court of International Trade[13]
District Court for the District of California;
judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern Robert Katzmann – (B.A. 1973), judge, U.S.

District of California[13] Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[13]

George Chandler Holt – (LL.B. 1869), judge, Claire R. Kelly – (B.A. 1987), judge, U.S. Court
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of of International Trade[13]

New York[13] Emile Henry Lacombe – (B.A. 1863, LL.B.

Alexander Holtzoff – (B.A. 1908, M.A. 1909, 1865), judge, U.S. Circuit Courts for the

LL.B. 1911), associate justice, District Court of Second Circuit; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals

the U.S. for the District of Columbia[13] for the Second Circuit[13]

Richard J. Holwell – (J.D. 1970), judge, U.S. Barbara Lagoa – (J.D. 1992), judge, U.S. Court

District Court for the Southern District of New of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[13]

York[13] Peter K. Leisure – (attended law school),

Denise Page Hood – (J.D. 1977), judge, U.S. judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern

District Court for the Eastern District of District of New York[13]

Michigan[13] F. Dickinson Letts – (attended), associate

Beryl A. Howell – (J.D. 1983), judge, U.S. justice, Supreme Court of the District of

District Court for the District of Columbia[13] Columbia[13]

Ira Lloyd Letts – (LL.B. 1917), judge, U.S. Carl E. McGowan – (LL.B. 1936), judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Rhode Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Island[13] Circuit[13]

Harold Leventhal – (B.A. 1934, LL.B. 1936), Joseph McKenna – (attended law school),
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth
[13]
Columbia Circuit Circuit; associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States[14]
Mary Johnson Lowe – (LL.M. 1955), judge,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Lawrence M. McKenna – (LL.B. 1959), judge,
New York[13] U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
New York[13]
Gerard E. Lynch – (B.A. 1972, J.D. 1975),
judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern Charles F. McLaughlin – (LL.B. 1910), judge,
District of New York; judge, U.S. Court of U.S. District Court for the District of
Appeals for the Second Circuit[13] Columbia[13]

Frank J. Magill – (M.A. 1953), judge, U.S. Hugh Dean McLellan – (LL.B. 1901), judge,
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit[13] U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts[13]
J. Daniel Mahoney – (LL.B. 1955), judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[13] Harold Medina – (LL.B. 1912), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New
Nancy L. Maldonado – (J.D. 2001), judge, U.S.
York; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District Court for the Northern District of
Second Circuit[13]
Illinois[13]
Charles Miller Metzner – (B.A. 1931, LL.B.
Martin Thomas Manton – (LL.B. 1901), judge,
1933), judge, U.S. District Court for the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
Southern District of New York; judge,
New York[13]
Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals[13]
John S. Martin Jr. – (LL.B. 1961), judge, U.S.
Jack Miller – (J.D. 1946), associate judge, U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New
Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; judge,
York[13]
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[13]
Howard Matz – (B.A. 1965), judge, U.S. District
Alfred Egidio Modarelli – (B.A. 1920, M.A.
Court for the Central District of California[13]
1922, LL.M. 1922), judge, U.S. District Court
Julius Marshuetz Mayer – (LL.B. 1886), judge, for the District of New Jersey[13]
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
Leonard P. Moore – (LL.B. 1922), judge, U.S.
New York; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[13]
Second Circuit[13]
Constance Baker Motley – (LL.B. 1946), judge, Milton Pollack – (B.A. 1927, J.D. 1929), judge,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of
New York[13] New York[13]

Michael Mukasey – (B.A. 1963), judge, U.S. Timothy M. Reif – (J.D. 1985), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Southern District of New Court of International Trade[13]
York[13]
Walter Herbert Rice – (J.D. 1962, M.B.A.
William Daniel Murray – (attended), judge, U.S. 1962), judge, U.S. District Court for the
District Court for the District of Montana[13] Southern District of Ohio[13]

Pauline Newman – (M.A. 1948), judge, U.S. Giles Rich – (LL.B. 1929), associate judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[13] Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; judge,
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[13]
Eugene Nickerson – (LL.B. 1943), judge, U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of New Simon H. Rifkind – (LL.B. 1925), judge, U.S.
York[13] District Court for the Southern District of New
York[13]
Maryellen Noreika – (M.A. 1990), judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Delaware[13] Richard W. Roberts – (J.D. 1978), judge, U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia[13]
Ambrose O'Connell – (LL.B. 1910), associate
judge, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent George Rosling – (B.A. 1920), judge, U.S.
Appeals[13] District Court for the Eastern District of New
York[13]
James Carriger Paine – (B.S. 1947), judge,
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Veronica S. Rossman – (B.A. 1993), judge,
Florida[13] U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit[13]

Edmund Louis Palmieri – (B.A. 1926, LL.B. Robert D. Sack – (LL.B. 1963), judge, U.S.
1929), judge, U.S. District Court for the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit[13]
Southern District of New York[13]
Shira Scheindlin – (M.A. 1969), judge, U.S.
Robert P. Patterson Jr. – (LL.B. 1950), judge, District Court for the Southern District of New
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of York; magistrate, U.S. District Court for the
[13]
New York Eastern District of New York[13]

Myrna Pérez – (J.D. 2003), judge, U.S. Court of Richard Seeborg – (J.D. 1981), judge, U.S.
Appeals for the Second Circuit[13] District Court for the Northern District of
California[13]
S. Jay Plager – (LL.M. 1961), judge, U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit[13] Charles Proctor Sifton – (LL.B. 1961), judge,
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
New York[13]
William Francis Smith – (Ph.G. 1922), judge, Richard Wilde Walker – (attended law school),
U.S. District Court for the District of New judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Jersey; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Circuit[13]
Third Circuit[13]
Lawrence Walsh – (B.A. 1932, LL.B. 1935),
Leo T. Sorokin – (J.D. 1991), judge, U.S. judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern
District Court for the District of District of New York[13]
Massachusetts[13]
Jack B. Weinstein – (LL.B. 1948), chief judge,
James Marshall Sprouse – (LL.B. 1949), U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth New York[13]
Circuit[13]
George Emery Weller – (LL.B. 1889), associate
John Foster Symes – (LL.B. 1903), judge, U.S. justice, U.S. Customs Court; member, Board of
District Court for the District of Colorado[13] General Appraisers[13]

Anna Diggs Taylor – (B.A. 1954), judge, U.S. Lawrence Aloysius Whipple – (B.S. 1933),
District Court for the Eastern District of judge, U.S. District Court for the District of
Michigan[13] New Jersey[13]

Analisa Torres – (J.D. 1984), judge, U.S. Helene White – (B.A. 1975), judge, U.S. Court
District Court for the Southern District of New of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[13]
York[13]
Jerre Stockton Williams – (J.D. 1941), judge,
David G. Trager – (B.A. 1959), judge, U.S. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[13]
District Court for the Eastern District of New
Karen J. Williams – (B.A. 1972), judge, U.S.
York[13]
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit[13]
Robert Troup – (B.A. 1774), judge, U.S. District
Francis A. Winslow – (LL.B. 1889), judge, U.S.
Court for the District of New York[13]
District Court for the Southern District of New
Harold R. Tyler Jr. – (LL.B. 1949), judge, U.S. York[13]
District Court for the Southern District of New
Peter Woodbury – (attended law school),
York[13]
judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First
William P. Van Ness – (B.A. 1797), judge, U.S. Circuit[13]
District Court for the District of New York;
John M. Woolsey – (LL.B. 1901), judge, U.S.
judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern
District Court for the Southern District of New
District of New York[13]
York[13]
Van Vechten Veeder – judge, U.S. District
Reynier Jacob Wortendyke Jr. – (LL.B. 1922),
Court for the Eastern District of New York[13]
judge, U.S. District Court for the District of
New Jersey[13]
 Joseph Carmine Zavatt – (B.A. 1922, LL.B.
1924), judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of New York[13]

U.S. non-federal judges

Edgar M. Cullen

Robert R. Livingston

Sheila Abdus-Salaam – (J.D. 1977), associate judge, New York Court of Appeals

Rolando Acosta – (B.A., J.D.), presiding justice of the First Judicial Department

Willard Bartlett – (B.A.), Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals (1914–1916)

Edgar M. Cullen – (B.A. 1860), Chief Judge, New York Court of Appeals (1904–1913)

John J. "Jack" Farley, III – (M.B.A. 1966), former judge, United States Court of Appeals for
Veterans Claims

Jaime Fuster – (LL.M. 1966), associate justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico

Eric Holder – (B.A. 1973, J.D. 1976), judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia, U.S.
Attorney for the District of Columbia, Deputy U.S. Attorney General

Samuel Jones – (1790), Fifth Chancellor of New York; ex officio member, New York Court of
Appeals
 Robert R. Livingston – First Chancellor of New York, administered oath of office to President
George Washington, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase

Deborah Poritz – (graduate study), Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court (1996–06); Attorney
General of New Jersey (1994–96); first woman to serve in each position

Eric T. Washington – (J.D. 1979), Chief Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the highest
appellate court for the District of Columbia

Augustus B. Woodward – (B.A. 1793), first Chief Justice, Michigan Territory; appointed by
President Thomas Jefferson; with the governor and two associate justices possessed all the
legislative power in the Territory from 1805 until 1824; co-founded the University of Michigan

Lawrence Collins, Baron

Collins of Mapesbury

Xue Hanqin

Foreign judges

Joaquim Barbosa – (visiting scholar, CLS, 1999, 2000), Chief Justice of Brazil (2012–); only black
Supreme Federal Court justice minister in Brazil

Karin Maria Bruzelius – (LL.M. 1969), justice of the Supreme Court of Norway (1997–2011)

Lawrence Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury – (LL.M.), former Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United Kingdom (2009–2011);[15] Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (2009); Lord Justice of Appeal
(2007–09); Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (see the Privy Council) (February 2007–);
judge, High Court of England and Wales (2000)

Susan Denham – (LL.M.), 11th Chief Justice (2011–), Associate Justice (1992–2011), Supreme
Court of Ireland, first female Chief Justice

Philip Jessup – (Ph.D.), Judge, International Court of Justice (1961–1970)

V.K. Wellington Koo – (B.A., Ph.D.), Judge, International Court of Justice (1957–1967), former
President of the Republic of China, Premier of the Republic of China and Chinese ambassador to
the United States

Marvic Mario Victor F. Leonen – (LL.M.), Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the
Philippines(2012–)[16]

Liana Fiol Matta – (LL.M., S.J.D.), second woman in Puerto Rican history to serve as Associate
Justice, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (as of 2011)

John T. McDonough – (LL.B. 1861), appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as Associate

Justice, Supreme Court of the Philippines

George Moe – (LL.M.), Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Belize (1982–85); Justice, Eastern
Caribbean Supreme Court (1985–1991)

Sean Murphy (J.D. 1985), member, U.N. International Law Commission (2011–)[17][18]

Shi Jiuyong – (LL.M. 1951), former president, U.N. International Court of Justice (2003–2010);
former chairman, International Law Commission

Francis M. Ssekandi – (LL.M.), former Justice, Supreme Court of Uganda (the highest court in the
country of Uganda); Judge, World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2007–)

Hironobu Takesaki – (LL.M. 1971), 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan (the highest
court in the country of Japan) (2008–)

Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh – (LL.M.), Chief Justice (2008–), Associate Justice (2002–2008),
Supreme Court of Sierra Leone

Smokin Wanjala – (LL.M.), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kenya (2012–)[19]

Xue Hanqin – (LL.M. 1983, J.S.D. 1995), Judge, U.N. International Court of Justice (2010–);
Chinese diplomat and international law expert[20][21]

Richard Whitehead Young – (LL.B. 1884), appointed by President William McKinley as Associate
Justice, Supreme Court of the Philippines; also a U.S. Army Brigadier General
U.S. Senators

Hamilton Fish

Mike Gravel

Claiborne Pell

Alva B. Adams – (1899), senator from Clifford P. Case – (LL.B. 1928), congressman
Colorado (1923–24, 1933–41)[22] (1945–53) and senator (1955–79) from New
Jersey[22]
Johnson N. Camden Jr. – senator from
Kentucky (1914–15)[22] LeBaron B. Colt – (1870), senator from Rhode
Island (1913–1924)[22]
DeWitt Clinton – senator from New York[22]
Paul Douglas – (M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1921),
senator from Illinois (1949–1967)[22]
Hamilton Fish – (B.A. 1827), congressman Frank Lautenberg – (B.S. 1949), senator from
(1843–45) and senator (1851–57) from New New Jersey (1982–2001, 2003–2013)[22]
York[22]
Luke Lea – (1903), senator from Tennessee
Slade Gorton – (J.D. 1953), senator from (1911–17)[22]
Washington (1981–1987, 1989–2001)[22]
Joshua B. Lee – (1924), congressman (1935–
Frank Porter Graham – (1916), senator from 37) and senator (1937–43) from Oklahoma[22]
North Carolina (1949–51)[22]
Oren E. Long – (1922), senator from Hawaii
Mike Gravel – (B.S. 1956), senator from (1959–63)[22]
Alaska (1969–1981), candidate for the 2008
Thomas E. Martin – (LL.M. 1928),
and 2020 U.S. presidential elections[22]
congressman (1939–55) and senator (1955–
Judd Gregg – (B.A. 1969), congressman 61) from Iowa[22]
(1981–89) and senator (1993–2011) from
Jack Miller – (1946), senator from Iowa
New Hampshire[22]
(1961–1973)[22]
Frederick Hale – (1896–97), senator from
Gouverneur Morris – (B.A. 1768, M.A. 1771),
Maine (1917–1941)[22]
senator from New York (1800–03)[22]
Lister Hill – (left 1915), congressman (1923–
Dwight Morrow – senator from New Jersey
38) and senator (1938–69) from Alabama[22]
(1930–31)[22]
Richard C. Hunter – (1911), senator from
Wayne Morse – (S.J.D. 1932), senator from
Nebraska (1934–35)[22]
Oregon (1945–69)[22]
Jacob Javits – congressman (1947–54) and
Karl Earl Mundt – (M.A. 1927), congressman
senator (1957–1981) from New York[22]
(1939–1948) and senator (1948–1973) from
Daniel T. Jewett – (B.A. 1830), senator from South Dakota[22]
Missouri (1870–71)[22]
Barack Obama – (B.A. 1983), senator from
Bob Kasten – (M.B.A. 1966), congressman Illinois (2005–2008)[22]
(1975–79) and senator (1981–93) from
Joseph C. O'Mahoney – (B.A.), senator from
Wisconsin[22]
Wyoming (1934–53, 1954–61)[22]
John Kean – (1875), congressman (1883–85,
Frank C. Partridge – (1864), senator from
1887–89) and senator (1899–1911) from New
Vermont (1930–31)[22]
[22]
Jersey
Claiborne Pell – (M.A. 1946), senator from
William Langer – senator from North Dakota
Rhode Island (1961–1997)[22]
[22]
(1941–59)
 John Patton Jr. – (1877), senator from Richard Stone – (1954), senator from Florida
Michigan (1894–95)[22] (1975–80)[22]

John Randolph of Roanoke – (attended), Arthur Vivian Watkins – (1912), senator from
congressman (1799–1813, 1815–17, 1819– Utah (1947–59)[22]
25, 1827–29, 1833) and senator (1825–27)
George P. Wetmore – (1869), senator from
from Virginia[22]
Rhode Island (1895–1907, 1908–13)[22]
John Slidell – (B.A. 1810), congressman
Harrison A. Williams – (1948), congressman
(1843–45) and senator (1853–61) from
(1953–57) and senator (1959–82) from New
Louisiana[22]
Jersey[22]
Howard Alexander Smith – (1908), senator
from New Jersey (1944–59)[22]

U.S. Representatives

Shirley Chisholm

John Delaney
Hamilton Fish II

Judd Gregg

Abram Hewitt

George R. Lunn
Peter Meijer

Beto O'Rourke

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

John Randolph of
Roanoke
 Henry Jarvis Raymond

James I. Roosevelt

J. Mayhew Wainwright

Bella Abzug – (LL.B. 1945), congressman John Bancker Aycrigg – (1818), congressman
from New York (1971–77)[22][23] from New Jersey (1836–39, 1841–43)[22]

John J. Adams – congressman from New Lyman E. Barnes – congressman from

York (1883–85, 1885–87)[22] Wisconsin (1893–95)[22]

Victor Anfuso – congressman from New York Franklin Bartlett – (1873), congressman from
(1951–53, 1955–63)[22] New York (1893–97)[22]

Homer D. Angell – (1903), congressman from Edward Basset – (1886), congressman from
[22]
Oregon (1939–55) New York (1903–05)[22]

Martin C. Ansorge – (1906), congressman Perry Belmont – (1876), congressman from

from New York (1921–23)[22] New York (1880–88)[22]
Augustus W. Bennet – (LL.B. 1921), John F. Carew – (B.A. 1893, LL.M. 1896),
congressman from New York (1945–47)[22] congressman from New York (1913–29)[22]

Egbert Benson – (B.A. 1765), congressman Clifford P. Case – (LL.B. 1928), congressman
from New York (1789–93, 1813)[22] (1945–53) and senator (1955–79) from New
Jersey[22]
Fred Biermann – (B.A. 1905), congressman
from Iowa (1933–39)[22] Emanuel Celler – (1912), congressman from
New York (1923–73)[22]
Loring Black – congressman from New York
(1923–35)[22] John Winthrop Chanler – (B.A. 1847),
congressman from New York (1863–69)[22]
Robert William Bonynge – (LL.B. 1885),
congressman from Colorado (1904–09)[22] Shirley Chisholm – (M.Ed. 1951),
congressman from New York (1969–83); first
William Samuel Booze – (M.D. 1882),
Black woman elected to congress[22]
congressman from the Maryland (1897–
99)[22] Marguerite S. Church – (M.A. 1917),
congressman from Illinois (1951–63)[22]
Frank T. Bow – congressman from Ohio
(1951–72)[22] James Cochran – (B.A. 1788), congressman
from New York (1797–99)[22]
John M. Bowers – congressman from New
York (1813)[22] Alexander Gilmore Cochran – congressman
from Pennsylvania (1875–77)[22]
Lloyd Bryce – congressman from New York
(1887–89)[22] Frederic René Coudert Jr. – (B.A. 1918; J.D.
1922), congressman from New York (1947–
Charles Waldron Buckley – (Union Theological
59)[22]
Seminary 1863), congressman from Alabama
(1868–73)[22] William Cowger – (Navy Midshipmen's
School), congressman from Kentucky (1967–
Rudolph Bunner – (B.A. 1798), congressman
71)[22]
from New York (1827–29)[22]
Robert Crosser – (transferred), congressman
Robert Grey Bushong – (LL.B. 1906),
from Ohio (1913–19, 1923–55)[22]
congressman from Pennsylvania (1927–
29)[22] Robert Daniel Jr. – (M.B.A.), congressman
from Virginia (1972–83)[22]
Daniel E. Button – (M.A. 1939), congressman
from New York (1967–71)[22] Colgate Darden – (1923), congressman from
Virginia (1933–37, 1939–41)[22]
Eric Cantor – (M.S. 1989), congressman from
Virginia (2001–14)[22] Frederick Morgan Davenport – (1905),
congressman from New York (1925–1933)[22]
John Delaney – (B.S. 1985), congressman Ashbel P. Fitch – congressman from New York
from Maryland (2013–2019)[24] (1887–93)[22]

Isaac C. Delaplaine – (B.A. 1734), Frank T. Fitzgerald – (1876), congressman

congressman from New York (1861–63)[22] from New York (1889)[22]

Rosa DeLauro – (M.A. 1966), congressman De Witt C. Flanagan – (c. 1892), congressman
[22]
from Connecticut (1991–present) from New Jersey (1902–03)[22]

James G. Donovan – (LL.B. 1924), James Florio – (graduate study),

congressman from New York (1951–57)[22] congressman from New Jersey (1975–90)[22]

Helen Gahagan Douglas – (Barnard College), Wallace T. Foote Jr. – congressman from New
congressman from California (1945–51)[22] York (1895–1899)[22]

John G. Dow – (M.A. 1937), congressman Aime Forand – congressman from Rhode
from New York (1965–69, 1971–73)[22] Island (1937–39, 1941–61)[22]

William Duer – (B.A. 1824), congressman from George E. Foss – (attended), congressman
[22]
New York (1947–51) from Illinois (1895–1913, 1915–19)[22]

P. Henry Dugro – (B.A. 1876, law school 1878), Samuel Fowler – congressman from New
congressman from New York (1881–83)[22] Jersey (1889–93)[22]

Charles T. Dunwell – (1874), congressman Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. – (graduate study),

from New York (1903–08)[22] congressman from New Jersey (1953–75)[22]

Millicent Fenwick – (B.A.), congresswoman Jaime Fuster – (LL.M. 1966), resident

from New Jersey (1975–1983)[22] commissioner of Puerto Rico (1985–1992)[22]

John Fine – (B.A. 1809), congressman from Ralph A. Gamble – (1912), congressman from
[22]
New York (1839–1841) New York (1937–45, 1945–53, 1953–57)[22]

Sidney A. Fine – (LL.B. 1926), congressman Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer – (B.A. 1858),
[22]
from New York (1951–56) congressman from New Jersey (1889–95)[22]

Hamilton Fish – (B.A. 1827), congressman Fred Benjamin Gernerd – (1924),

(1843–45) and senator (1851–57) from New congressman from Pennsylvania (1921–
York[22] 23)[22]

Hamilton Fish II – (B.A. 1869, law school Ernest Greenwood – congressman from New
1873), congressman from New York (1909– York (1951–53)[22]
11)[22]
Judd Gregg – (B.A. 1969), congressman Ogden Hoffman – (B.A. 1927), congressman
(1981–89) and senator (1993–2011) from from New York (1837–41)[22]
New Hampshire[22]
William Hogan – (B.A. 1811), congressman
Percy W. Griffiths – (M.A. 1930), congressman from New York (1831–33)[22]
from Ohio (1943–1949)[22]
William H. Hudnut III – (B.D. 1957),
James R. Grover Jr. – (1949), congressman congressman from Indiana (1973–75)[22]
from New York (1963–75)[22]
Theodore Gaillard Hunt – (LL.B.),
Frank Joseph Guarini – (Navy Midshipmen's congressman from Louisiana (1853–55)[22]
School), congressman from New Jersey
Andy Ireland – (graduate studies),
(1979–93)[22]
congressman from Florida (1981–93)[22]
Ralph W. Gwinn – (LL.M. 1908), congressman
Sara Jacobs – (B.A. 2011, M.I.A. 2012),
from New York (1945–1959)[22]
congressman from California (2021–
Seymour Halpern – (1932–1934), present)[25]
congressman from New York (1953–1973)[22]
Meyer Jacobstein – (1904), congressman
George Sydney Hawkins – (B.A.), from New York (1923–29)[22]
congressman from Florida (1857–1861)[22]
Jacob Javits – congressman (1947–54) and
John Henry Hobart Haws – (B.A. 1827), senator (1957–1981) from New York[22]
congressman from New York (1851–53)[22]
Hamilton C. Jones – (1907), congressman
Ken Hechler – (M.A. 1936, Ph.D. 1940), from North Carolina (1947–53)[22]
congressman from West Virginia (1959–
Bob Kasten – (M.B.A. 1966), congressman
77)[22]
(1975–79) and senator (1981–93) from
Thomas Hedge – (LL.B. 1869), congressman Wisconsin[22]
from Iowa (1899–1907)[22]
John Kean – (1875), congressman (1883–85,
Lewis Henry – (LL.B. 1911), congressman 1887–89) and senator (1899–1911) from New
[22]
from New York (1922–1923) Jersey[22]

Abram Stevens Hewitt – (B.A. 1842), Gouverneur Kemble – (B.A. 1803),

congressman from New York (1875–79, congressman from New York (1837–41)[22]
1881–87)[22]
Martin John Kennedy – (1909), congressman
Lister Hill – (left 1915), congressman (1923– from New York (1930–45)[22]
38) and senator (1938–69) from Alabama[22]
Cyrus King – (B.A. 1794), congressman from
Hal Holmes – (B.A. 1927), congressman from Massachusetts (1813–17)[22]
Washington (1943–59)[22]
Karl C. King – congressman from Dan Maffei – (M.S. 1991), congressman from
Pennsylvania (1951–57)[22] New York (2009–11)[22]

Charles Landon Knight – (1890), congressman Thomas F. Magner – (B.A. 1882),

from Ohio (1921–23)[22] congressman from New York (1889–95)[22]

Peter H. Kostmayer – (B.A. 1971), Thomas E. Martin – (LL.M. 1928),

congressman from Pennsylvania (1977– congressman (1939–55) and senator (1955–
93)[22] 61) from Iowa[22]

Frank Kowalski – representative from Mitchell May – (1892), congressman from

Connecticut (1959–63)[22] New York (1899–1901)[22]

Theodore R. Kupferman – (LL.B.), Ben McAdams – (J.D. 2003), congressman

congressman from New York (1966–69)[22] from Utah (2019–2021)[26]

James J. Lanzetta – (1917), congressman Washington J. McCormick – (1910),

from New York (1933–35, 1937–39)[22] congressman from Montana (1921–23)[22]

George P. Lawrence – congressman from Thomas McEwan Jr. – congressman from

[22]
Massachusetts (1898–1913) New Jersey (1895–99)[22]

Joshua B. Lee – (1924), congressman (1935– Joseph McKenna – congressman from

37) and senator (1937–43) from Oklahoma[22] California (1885–92)[14]

John J. Lentz – (1883), congressman from John McKeon – (1828), congressman from
Ohio (1897–1901)[22] New York (1835–37, 1841–43)[22]

Montague Lessler – (1889), congressman Charles F. McLaughlin – (1910), congressman

from New York (1902–03)[22] from Nebraska (1935–43)[22]

Sander Levin – (M.A. 1954), congressman Roy H. McVicker – (1950), congressman from
from Michigan (1983–2019)[22] Colorado (1965–67)[22]

Marcus C. Lisle – congressman from Peter Meijer – (B.A. 2012), congressman from
Kentucky (1893–94)[22] Michigan (2021–present)[27]

Henry Carl Luckey – (graduate study), Schuyler Merritt – (1876), congressman from
congressman from Nebraska (1935–39)[22] Connecticut (1917–31,1933–37)[22]

George R. Lunn – (Union Theological Seminary Chester Earl Merrow – (Teachers College
1901), congressman from New York (1917– 1937), congressman from New Hampshire
19)[22] (1943–63)[22]
Brad Miller – (J.D. 1979), congressman from Beto O'Rourke – (B.A.), congressman from
North Carolina (2003–13)[22] Texas (2013–19)[22]

Arthur W. Mitchell – (attended), congressman George F. O'Shaunessy – (1889),

from Illinois (1935–43)[22] congressman from Rhode Island (1911–
19)[22]
Donald J. Mitchell – (B.S. 1949, M.A. 1950),
congressman from New York (1973–83)[22] Camilo Osías – (1910), resident commissioner
of the Philippines (1929–35)[22]
E. A. Mitchell – congressman from Indiana
(1947–49)[22] Donald Lawrence O'Toole – (graduate study),
congressman from New York (1937–53)[22]
John M. Mitchell – (B.A. 1877, law school
1879), congressman from New York (1896– William Claiborne Owens – (1872),
99)[22] congressman from Kentucky (1895–97)[22]

James W. Mott – (B.A. 1909), congressman James Parker – (B.A. 1793), congressman
from Oregon (1933–45)[22] from New Jersey (1833–37)[22]

Karl Earl Mundt – (M.A. 1927), congressman Richard W. Parker – (1869), congressman
(1939–48) and senator (1948–73) from South from New Jersey (1895–1903, 1903–11,
Dakota[22] 1914–19, 1921–23)[22]

Henry C. Murphy – (B.A. 1830), congressman Thomas G. Patten – (B.A. 1879, law school
from New York (1843–45, 1847–49)[22] 1882), congressman from New York (1911–
17)[22]
Jerry Nadler – (B.A. 1969), congressman from
New York (1992–present)[22] Herbert Pell – congressman from New York
(1919–21)[22]
Henry Nicoll – (B.A. 1830), congressman from
New York (1847–49)[22] Nathanael G. Pendleton – (B.A. 1813),
congressman from Ohio (1841–43)[22]
Mary Rose Oakar – congressman from Ohio
(1977–93)[22] William Walter Phelps – (1863), congressman
from New Jersey (1873–75, 1883–89)[22]
Benjamin Odell – congressman from New
York (1895–99)[22] Philip J. Philbin – (1929), congressman from
Massachusetts (1943–76)[22]
David A. Ogden – (B.A.), congressman from
New York (1817–19)[22] Otis G. Pike – (1948), congressman from New
York (1961–79)[22]
J. Van Vechten Olcott – (1877), congressman
from New York (1905–11)[22] Jotham Post Jr. – (B.A. 1792), congressman
from New York (1813–15)[22]
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. – (M.A. 1932), Robert T. Secrest – (1943), congressman from
congressman from New York (1945–71)[22] Ohio (1933–42, 1949–54, 1963–66)[22]

Henry Jarvis Raymond – (LL.B. 1871), John F. Seiberling – (1949), congressman

congressman from New York (1865–67); from Ohio (1971–87)[22]
founder of The New York Times[22]
Eugene Siler – (attended), congressman from
William Emanuel Richardson – (1913), Kentucky (1955–63, 1963–65)[22]
congressman from Pennsylvania (1933–
William I. Sirovich – (M.D. 1906),
37)[22]
congressman from New York (1927–39)[22]
Edward Everett Robbins – (1884),
John Slidell – (B.A. 1810), congressman
congressman from Pennsylvania (1897–99,
(1843–45) and senator (1853–61) from
1917–19)[22]
Louisiana[22]
James I. Roosevelt – (B.A. 1815),
Elissa Slotkin – (M.A. 2003), congressman
congressman from New York (1841–43)[22]
from Michigan (2019–present)[28]
Henry H. Ross – (1808), congressman from
Stephen J. Solarz – (M.A. 1967), congressman
New York (1825–27)[22]
from New York (1975–93)[22]
Joseph Rowan – (1891), congressman from
Edward J. Stack – (M.A. 1938), congressman
New York (1919–21)[22]
from Florida (1979–81)[22]
William Fitts Ryan – (1949), congressman
Robert H. Steele – (M.A. 1963), congressman
from New York (1961–72)[22]
from Connecticut (1970–75)[22]
John C. Sanborn – (1912), congressman from
Percy Hamilton Stewart – (1893),
Idaho (1947–51)[22]
congressman from New Jersey (1931–33)[22]
Alfred E. Santangelo – (LL.B. 1938),
William Sulzer – congressman from New York
congressman from New York (1957–63)[22]
(1895–1912)[22]
James Scheuer – (LL.B. 1948), congressman
Jessie Sumner – (studied at the law school),
from New York (1965–93)[22]
congressman from Illinois (1939–1947)[22]
James P. Scoblick – (graduate study),
Edward Swann – (1886), congressman from
congressman from Pennsylvania (1946–
New York (1902–03)[22]
[22]
49)
Guy J. Swope – congressman from
Townsend Scudder – (1888), congressman
Pennsylvania (1937–39)[22]
[22]
from New York (1899–1901, 1903–05)
James W. Symington – (1954), congressman
Richard C. Shannon – (1885), congressman
from Missouri (1969–77)[22]
[22]
from New York (1895–99)
 Charles Phelps Taft – (1864), congressman J. Mayhew Wainwright – (B.A. 1884, law
from Ohio (1895–97)[22] school 1886), congressman from New York
(1923–31)[22]
Benjamin I. Taylor – (1899), congressman
from New York (1913–15)[22] William C. Wallace – (1876), congressman
from New York (1889–91)[22]
John A. Thayer – congressman from
Massachusetts (1911–13)[22] George M. Wallhauser – congressman from
New Jersey (1959–65)[22]
John R. Thurman – (B.A. 1835), congressman
from New York (1849–51)[22] James J. Walsh – (1879), congressman from
New York (1895–96)[22]
Norton Strange Townshend – (M.D. 1840),
congressman from Ohio (1851–53)[22] William L. Ward – (B.S. 1878), congressman
from New York (1897–99)[22]
Charles Henry Turner – congressman from
New York (1889–91)[22] Charles Weltner – (1950), congressman from
Georgia (1963–67)[22]
Al Ullman – (M.A. 1939), congressman from
Oregon (1957–81)[22] Rensselaer Westerlo – (B.A. 1795),
congressman from New York (1817–19)[22]
Ralph E. Updike – congressman from Indiana
(1925–29)[22] William H. Wiley – congressman from New
Jersey (1903–1907, 1909 1911)[22]
John Peter Van Ness – congressman from
New York (1801–03)[22] Harrison A. Williams – (1948), congressman
(1953–57) and senator (1959–82) from New
Daniel C. Verplanck – (B.A. 1788),
Jersey[22]
congressman from New York (1803–09)[22]
Francis H. Wilson – (1875), congressman
Gulian C. Verplanck – (B.A. 1801),
from New York (1895–97)[22]
congressman from New York (1825–33)[22]
Stewart Lyndon Woodford – (B.A. 1854),
Peter Dumont Vroom – (B.A. 1808),
congressman from New York (1973–74)[22]
congressman from New Jersey (1839–41)[22]
Herbert Zelenko – (1928), congressman from
New York (1955–63)

Governors

Victor Attah – (M.A.) Governor of Akwa Ibom Willie Blount – Governor of Tennessee (1809–
State in Nigeria ( 1999–2007) 1815)[29]
Steve Bullock – (J.D.) Governor of Montana Hamilton Fish – (1827) Governor of New York,
(2013–2021) U.S. Senator

Doyle E. Carlton – (LL.B. 1912) Governor of Horace F. Graham (J.D.), 56th Governor of
Florida Vermont (1917–1919)

DeWitt Clinton – (1786) twice Governor of Judd Gregg – (B.A. 1969) Governor of New
New York (1817–22; 1825–28), U.S. Senator, Hampshire (1989–93), Republican U.S.
Mayor of New York City, main proponent of the Senator from New Hampshire (1993–2012),
Erie Canal U.S. Congressman (1981–81)

Lawrence William Cramer – (M.A.) second Wilford Bacon Hoggatt – Governor of Alaska
civilian Governor of the United States Virgin (Territorial)
Islands (1935–1940)
Charles Evans Hughes – (Law 1884) Governor
Arthur G. Crane – (Ph.D. 1920) acting of New York
Governor of Wyoming (1949–1951)
John Jay – Governor of New York
Colgate Darden – Governor of Virginia,
Thomas Kean – Governor of New Jersey
president of the University of Virginia,
(1982–1990), President of Drew University,
Chancellor of the College of William and Mary,
Chairman of 9/11 Commission
Democratic Congressman from Virginia,
namesake of Darden Graduate School of Stephen W. Kearney – military Governor of

Business Administration California (Territorial)

Gray Davis – (Law) Governor of California John W. King – Governor of Rhode Island and

(1999–2003), Lieutenant Governor of jurist

California (1995–1999), California State Madeleine M. Kunin – Governor of Vermont,

Controller (1987–1995) Deputy Secretary of Education in Clinton

Howard Dean – (GS, Pre-med) former administration, U.S. Ambassador to

Governor of Vermont; Chairman Democratic Switzerland, U.S. Ambassador to

National Committee Liechtenstein

Thomas E. Dewey – (Law 1925) Governor of Ruby Laffoon – Governor of Kentucky

New York (1943–1955); New York prosecutor William Langer – 17th and 21st Governor of
and District Attorney of New York; Republican North Dakota, U.S. Senator, Attorney General
candidate for President of the United States in of North Dakota
1944 (against Roosevelt) and in 1948 (against
William Beach Lawrence – acting Governor of
Truman)
Rhode Island, Lieutenant Governor of Rhode
Island
 Oren E. Long – tenth Territorial Governor of L. Bradford Prince – Governor of New Mexico
Hawaii (1951–1053) Territory

James L. McConaughy – Governor of Franklin Delano Roosevelt – Governor of New

Connecticut, President of Wesleyan University, York
Knox College
Theodore Roosevelt – Governor of New York
James McGreevey – (B.A. 1978) Governor of
Charles Wilbert Snow – (M.A. 1910) Governor
New Jersey (2002–2004).[30]
of Connecticut (1946–1947)
Robert B. Meyner – Governor of New Jersey
William Sulzer – Governor of New York, U.S.
Wayne Mixson – (attended) 39th Governor of Congressman (1895–1912)
Florida, 12th Lieutenant Governor of Florida
Guy J. Swope – (SIPA) acting Governor of
Alejandro Murat Hinojosa – (LL.M.) Governor Puerto Rico
of Oaxaca
Daniel D. Tompkins – (B.A. 1795) Governor of
Evelyn Murphy – (M.A.) 67th Lieutenant New York; 6th Vice President of the United
Governor of Massachusetts; first woman in States
history of state to hold a constitutional office
Rexford Tugwell – (Ph.D.) served as the last
(1987–1991)
appointed American Governor of Puerto Rico
George Pataki – (Law 1970) Governor of New (1941–1946)
York (1995–2006)
Peter Vroom – (1808) Governor of New Jersey
David Paterson – (B.A. 1977) first African (1829–32; 1833–36)
American Governor of New York; former
George P. Wetmore – (LL.B. 1869) Governor of
Lieutenant Governor of New York
Rhode Island
John Dyneley Prince – (M.A. 1898) acting
Horace White – Governor of New York,
Governor of New Jersey when Governor
Lieutenant Governor of New York, Trustee of
Woodrow Wilson was out of the state
Cornell University

U.S. Diplomats

G. Norman Anderson – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Sudan (1986-1989)

Michael Armacost – (Ph.D.) United States Ambassador to Japan (1989–1993); U.S. Ambassador
to the Philippines (1982–1984)

Robert L. Barry – (M.A. 1962) United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1992–1995); also United
States Ambassador to Bulgaria
Vincent Martin Battle – (M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1974) United States Ambassador to Lebanon (2001–
2004)

Richard E. Benedick – (B.A.) former diplomat; chief United States negotiator, Montreal Protocol

Avis Bohlen – (M.A. 1965) diplomat, United States Ambassador to Bulgaria (1996–99)

Arthur Frank Burns – (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) United States Ambassador to West Germany (1981–
1985)

Raymond Burghardt – (B.A.) director (1999-2001), and chairman (2006-2016) of the American
Institute in Taiwan and U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam (2002-2004)

Patricia A. Butenis – (M.A.) United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka (2009–); United States
Ambassador to the Maldives (2009–); United States Ambassador to Bangladesh

Reuben Clark – (J.D.) United States Ambassador to Mexico (1930–1933)

William Clark Jr. – (M.A.) United States Ambassador to India (1989–1992)

Richard T. Davies – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Poland (1973-1978)

Jonathan Dean – (B.A.) United States Representative for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions
negotiations from 1979 to 1981

Christopher Dell – (B.A. 1978) United States Ambassador, Republic of Kosovo (2009–); U.S.
Ambassador to Angola (2001–04); U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe (2004–07)

William Joseph Donovan – (B.A. 1905, J.D.) United States Ambassador to Thailand (1953–1954)

Millicent Fenwick – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food
and Agriculture (1983–1987)

Daniel Fried – (M.A.) U.S. Special Envoy, Guantanamo, rank of Ambassador (2009–); top U.S.
diplomat in Europe (2005–09); United States Ambassador to Poland (1997–00)

David M. Friedman – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Israel (2017-2021)

Daniel Lewis Foote – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Zambia (2017-2020)

James W. Gerard – (B.A. 1890) United States Ambassador to Germany (1913–1917)

Henry F. Grady – (Ph.D. 1984) first U.S. Ambassador to India (1947–1948); concurrently
U.S.Ambassador to Nepal (1948); U.S. Ambassador to Greece (1948–1950); U.S. Ambassador to
Iran (1950–1951)

Gordon Gray III – (M.A. 1982) United States Ambassador to Tunisia (September 2009 – 2012)
Howard Gutman – (B.A. 1977) United States Ambassador to Belgium (2009–2013)

Suzanne K. Hale – (B.A.) former United States Ambassador to Federated States of Micronesia
(2004–2007)

Martin J. Hillenbrand – (M.A. 1938, Ph.D. 1948) U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of
Germany (1972–1976); United States Ambassador to Hungary (1967–1969)

John L. Hirsch – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone (1995-1998)

Eric M. Javits – (B.A.) Ambassador and Permanent U.S. Representative to the Conference on
Disarmament in Geneva (2001-2003); United States Permanent Representative to the
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2003-2009)

Robert G. Joseph – (Ph.D. 1978) former United States Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation
(rank of Ambassador); also Under Secretary of State for Arms Control

Ismail Khalidi – (Ph.D. 1955) the senior political affairs officer in the department of political and
security council affairs for the United Nations

Madeleine M. Kunin – (CSJ) United States Ambassador to Switzerland (1996–1999), United

States Ambassador to Liechtenstein (1996–1999)

Denis Lamb – (B.S.) United States Ambassador to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (1987-1990)

Luis J. Lauredo – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (2001-
2003)

James R. Lilley – U.S. Ambassador to China at time of Tiananmen Square (1989–91); U.S.
Ambassador to Korea (1986–89); Director, American Institute in Taiwan (1981–84)

Harold F. Linder – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Canada (1968–1969); president, Export-
Import Bank of the United States (1961–1968)

William H. Luers – (M.A.) United States Ambassador to Venezuela (1978–82) and United States
Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983–86)

David E. Mark – (B.A., LL.M.) U.S. Ambassador to Burundi (1974–77); career Minister, U.S. Foreign
Service, Germany, Moscow; helped Georgians write their Constitution

Jack Matlock – (M.A. 1952) United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987–1991); United
States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1981–1983)

Brett H. McGurk (J.D. 1999), nominee, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq (2012);[31] Special
Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
(2015-2018)

Mark C. Minton – (B.A.) U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia (2006-2009)

Hector Morales – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States (2008-
2009)

Jim Nicholson – (M.A.) United States Ambassador to the Holy See (2001–2005)

B. Lynn Pascoe – (M.A.) United States Ambassador to Indonesia (2004–07) and Malaysia (1999–
01); Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs (2007–)

Robert E. Patterson – (M.A., M.Phil) United States Ambassador to Turkmenistan under President
Barack Obama (2011–)[32][33]

Mark Pekala – (M.I.A. 1983, M.Phil. 1988) U.S. Ambassador to Latvia under President Barack
Obama (2012–)[34]

John Dyneley Prince – (M.A. 1898) U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (1921–1926); U.S. Ambassador
to Yugoslavia (1926–1937)

Michael A. Raynor – (M.A.) former United States Ambassador to Benin (2012–2015)[35] and
nominee to become United States Ambassador to Ethiopia

Mitchell Reiss – (J.D.) United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (rank of Ambassador)
(stepped down in 2007); former Chief negotiator for the United States in the Korean Peninsula
Energy Development Organization

Julissa Reynoso (J.D. 2001), United States Ambassador to Uruguay (2012–)[36][37]

Herbert Salzman, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development

William E. Schaufele Jr. – (M.A. 1950) U.S. Ambassador to Upper Volta (1969–71); U.S.
representative, United Nations Security Council (rank of ambassador) (1971–75); U.S.
Ambassador to Poland (1978–80)

Eugene Schuyler – (LL.M. 1863), first American diplomat to visit Central Asia, first U.S. Minister to
Romania and Serbia, also U.S. Minister to Greece

Elliott P. Skinner – (M.A. 1952, Ph.D. 1955) anthropologist; United States Ambassador to Republic
of Upper Volta (1966–1969)

Sichan Siv – (M.A.) diplomat and former U.S. representative to the United Nations Economic and
Social Council (rank of Ambassador) (2001–06)
 Monteagle Stearns – (B.A.) United States Ambassador to Ivory Coast (1976-1979); United States
Ambassador to Greece (1981-1985)

Laurence A. Steinhardt – (B.A., M.A., LL.B. 1915) U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1939–
1941); U.S. Ambassador to Turkey (1942–1945); U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1945–
1948); U.S. Ambassador to Sweden (1933–1937); U.S. Ambassador to Peru (1937–1939); U.S.
Ambassador to Canada (1948–1950)

Walter Stoessel – (graduate study) U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1968–72); U.S. Ambassador to
the Soviet Union (1974–76); U.S. Ambassador to West Germany (1976–80)

Oscar S. Straus – (B.A. 1871, LL.B. 1873) thrice United States Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire
(1887–1889, 1898–1899, 1910–1912)

James Daniel Theberge – (B.A. 1952) United States Ambassador to Nicaragua (1975–1977);
United States Ambassador to Chile (1982–1985)

Harry K. Thomas Jr. – (graduate study) Director General, United States Foreign Service (2007–
2009); United States Ambassador to the Philippines (2010–); United States Ambassador to
Bangladesh (2003–2005)

Alexander Vershbow – (M.A. 1976) United States Ambassador to South Korea (2005–2008);
United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2001–2005); United States Ambassador to
NATO (1998–2001)

Ross Wilson (ambassador) – (M.A. 1979) United States Ambassador to Turkey (2005–2008); U.S.
Ambassador to the Republic of Azerbaijan (2000–2003)

Donald Yamamoto – (B.A., graduate study) U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia (2006–09); U.S.
Ambassador to Djibouti (2000–03); U.S. Ambassadorto Eritrea ad interim (1997–98)

J. Owen Zurhellen Jr. – (B.A.) first United States Ambassador to Suriname (1976-1978)

Non-U.S. Attorneys General

Salahuddin Ahmad – (LL.M. 1970) Attorney General of Bangladesh (2008–2009)

Obed Asamoah – (M.A.), longest serving foreign minister and Attorney General of Ghana under
President Jerry Rawlings (1981–1997)

Jerome Choquette – (CBS) Attorney General of Canada, also Canadian Minister of Justice (1970–
1975), Minister of Education (1975), Minister of Financial Institutions (1970)
 Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz – (Fulbright scholar, research, 1980 through 1981) Public Prosecutor
General and Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland (1993–95)

Mark MacGuigan – (LL.M., J.S.D.) Attorney General of Canada, also Canadian Minister of Justice
(1982–1984); Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs (1980–1982)

Githu Muigai – (LL.M. 1986) current Attorney General of Kenya (August

2011–)[38][39][40][41][42][43][44]

Mikhail Saakashvili – (LL.M. 1994) former Minister of Justice of Georgia

Abdul Satar Sirat – (B.A.) former Minister of Justice of Afghanistan

Non-U.S. Ministers, diplomats and prominent political figures

Madina Abilqasymova – (M.I.A. 2003) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst – (M.A.) Dutch Deputy
Minister of Labour and Social Protection of Prime Minister (2005–06); Dutch Minister of
the Population of Kazakhstan (2018–2019) Economic Affairs (2003–06); Dutch Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973–77)
Emin Amrullayev – (M.P.A. 2012) Minister of
Education of the Republic of Azerbaijan Chough Pyung-ok – (Ph.D. 1925) South
(2020–) Korean politician, independence activist

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai – (M.A., Ph.D.) former Nikiforos Diamandouros – (M.A., M. Phil.,
President of Afghanistan (2014–2021) Ph.D.) Ombudsman of the European Union
(2003–); National Ombudsman of Greece
B. R. Ambedkar – (M.A. 1915, Ph.D. 1928,
(1998–2003)
LL.D. 1952) 1st Minister of Law and Justice of
India, the architect of the Indian constitution; Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy – UK Politician;
honoured with the Bharat Ratna president, NATO Assembly in the 1980s;
Minister of the Navy in the 1970s
Robert Badinter – (M.A. 1949) Minister of
Justice of France (1981–1986) Mark Eyskens – (M.A. 1957) Belgian Prime
Minister (1981); Belgian Minister of Foreign
Hans Blix – (student and research graduate)
Affairs (1989—1992); Belgian Minister of
Swedish diplomat, First Executive Chairman,
Finance (1985—1988, 1980—1981)
United Nations Monitoring, Verification and
Inspection Commission (2000–03); Director Boutros Boutros-Ghali – (Fulbright Research
General, International Atomic Energy Agency Scholar, 1954–1955) Secretary-General of the
(1981–97); Minister of Foreign Affairs United Nations (1992–1997); Egypt's Minister
(Sweden) (1976–78) of State for Foreign Affairs (1977–1991);
Egypt's Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs
Philip Gunawardena – (post-graduate work) Olubanke King Akerele – (M.A.) Liberian
national hero in Sri Lanka; twice Cabinet Minister of Foreign Affairs (Secretary of State)
Minister in government of Sri Lanka in the cabinet of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (2007–
2010)
Johan Jørgen Holst – (B.A. 1960)
instrumental in Oslo Accord; Minister of Gonzalo Aróstegui – (B.A.) key architect,
Foreign Affairs of Norway (1993–94); twice Cuba's Independence Movement; Cuban
Minister of Defense of Norway (1986–89, Minister (Ambass.) to Germany and the United
1990–93) States (the former, 1912–15)

Eyo Ita – Nigerian politician; one of the Reuben Baetz – Canadian politician, four time
prominent founding fathers of Nigeria cabinet Minister in the governments of Bill
Davis and Frank Miller
Michael O'Leary – Deputy Prime Minister of
Ireland; Irish Minister of Labour, Minister of Deniz Baykal – Turkish politician; Turkish
Energy Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996)

Carlos P. Romulo – (M.A. 1921) President of Mohamed Benaissa – Minister of Foreign

the United Nations General Assembly (1949– Affairs of Morocco (1999–2007); Minister of
1950); served eight Philippine presidents from Culture of Morocco (1985–1992); Moroccan
Manuel L. Quezon to Ferdinand Marcos as a Ambassador to the United States (1993–
cabinet member and as the country's 1999)
representative to the U.S. or to the United
Karin Maria Bruzelius – (LL.M. 1969) Swedish
Nations
Under Secretary of State (1989–97) (first
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville – women to hold position), Swedish Deputy
(M.B.A.) British politician; Life peer (1997–); Under Secretary of State (1979–83)
House of Lords (Labour Party) (as of 2013);
Vincent P. Burke – (M.A., Ph.D.) Newfoundland
Minister for Science (1998–2006)
Secretary of Education in government of Sir
Alexander Vershbow – (M.A. 1976 and Richard Squires (1927–1935); also, member
Certificate of the Russian Institute) Deputy of the Senate of Canada
Secretary General of NATO (2012–); Special
Alfonso López Caballero – (M.A.) Colombian
Assistant to the President and senior director,
Minister of the Interior (1998); Colombian
U.S. National Security Council (1994–1997)
Minister of Agriculture (1991–93); held several
Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev – Number 2 in Ambassadorships
Mikhail Gorbachev Administration; also Soviet
Roberto de Oliveira Campos – (postgraduate
Ambassador to Canada (1973–1983)
study) Brazilian Minister of Planning for the
government of Castelo Branco (1964–67);
Brazilian Ambassador to the U.S. and U.K.
Simón Alberto Consalvi – (M.A.) Venezuelan Joseph Rudolph Grimes – (M.A.) second
politician, twice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1960–
Venezuela (1977–1979, 1985–1988); Minister 1971) (longest serving in history of Liberia)
of Interior and Justice of Venezuela (1988–
Kasım Gülek – (Ph.D., economics) Turkish
1989); Secretary of the Presidency (1988);
statesman; Turkish Minister of Public Works,
held several Ambassadorships
Minister of Communications, Transport
Ernest Eastman – Liberian Minister of Foreign Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister
Affairs (1983–1986); Minister of State for
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (B.A. 1975) former
Presidential Affairs
President of Estonia
Ingrid Eide – (1957–1960) in Bratteli's Second
Radu Irimescu – (engineering degree 1920)
Cabinet, appointed State Secretary in
Romanian Minister of War; Minister of the Air
Norwegian Ministry of Church Affairs and
Forces
Education (1973–76); United Nations official
Saeb N. Jaroudi – (Ph.D.) former Minister of
Bassel Fleihan – (Ph.D., Economics, 1990)
National Economy, Industry, and Tourism in
Lebanese legislator; Minister of Economy and
Lebanon
Commerce (2000–2003)
Kim Hyun-jong – (B.A. 1981, M.A. 1982, J.D.
Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, Minister of Foreign
1985), former South Korean Minister of Trade
Affairs of Nigeria and U.N. Under-Secretary-
(2004–2007; 2017–2019) and Special Advisor
General for Political Affairs
to President Moon Jae-in (2021–)
Bernardo J. Gastélum – (postgraduate studies
Ugnė Karvelis – (student of Economics and
in Medicine) Mexican physician, politician;
History, 1957 through 1958) Permanent
Mexican Secretary of Public Education (1923)
Lithuanian Ambassador to UNESCO (1993–
Dore Gold – (B.A. 1975, M.A. 1976, Ph.D. 1997)
1984) U.S.-born Israeli diplomat, Israel
Georgina Kessel – (Ph.D.) Mexican economist;
Ambassador to the United Nations (1997–
Mexican Secretary of Energy in cabinet of
1999)
Felipe Calderón (2006–)
Emre Gönensay – (M.A.) Turkish politician;
Emilio Lozoya – (M.B.A.) Mexican economist
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1996
and politician, Mexican Secretary of Energy
Ronald Green – (pre-doctoral level studies) under President Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Dominican politician; Minister of Education, (1993–1994)
Sports and Youth Affairs (1995–2000)
Gunnar Lund – (M.A. 1972) Minister in the Michael Oren – (B.A. 1977, M.A. 1978 ) Israeli
Swedish cabinet (2002–2004); Swedish Ambassador to the United States (2009–)
Ambassador to France (2007–); Swedish
James Peterson – (Masters of Laws) retired
Ambassador to the United States (2004–
Canadian politician; former Minister of
2007)
International Trade
Carlos Tello Macias – (M.A., Economics,
Mario Laserna Pinzón – (B.A. 1948)
1959) Mexican economist, academician;
Columbian Ambassador to France (1976–
former Secretary of Budget and Planning in
1979) and Austria (1987–1990); founder,
the cabinet of José López Portillo; former
Universidad de los Andes
Mexican Ambassador to Cuba, Portugal, and
Russia Kyllikki Pohjala – (B.S. 1927) Finland Minister
of Social Affairs (1963)
Ahmed El Maghrabi – (M.B.A.) Minister of
Housing in Egypt (2005–2010); former Eduardo Verano de la Rosa – (M.B.A. 1981)

Tourism Minister Colombian Minister of Environment (1997–

1998)
Jiang Menglin – (Ph.D.) Chinese educator,
writer, politician; Ministry of Education K.L.Shrimali – India parliamentarian and

(Republic of China) (1928–1930) educationist; Minister of Education in the

Union Council of Ministers (1955–1963)
Claude Morin – (M.S.W.) Canadian Minister of
Intergovernmental Affairs in cabinet of René Mikheil Saakashvili – (LL.M. 1994) Minister of
Lévesque (1976–1982) Justice, Republic of Georgia (2000–2001)

Eleni Myrivili, United Nations Human Abdul Satar Sirat – (undergraduate course

Settlements Programme's chief heat officer work in law) Afghanistan's Justice Minister

(2022–) (1969–1973)

Walter Ofonagoro - (M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1972) Hong Soon-young – retired South Korean
Nigerian scholar, politician, businessman; diplomat; Foreign Minister of South Korea

former Minister of Information and Culture, (1998–00); Unification Minister of South Korea

Federal Republic of Nigeria (1995-1998) (2001–02); held several Ambassadorships

during presidential period of Sani Abacha Lorrin A. Thurston – (LL.B.) Kingdom of

Ken Ofori-Atta (B.A. 1984) 17th Ghanaian Hawaii Minister of Interior (1887–1890)
Minister for Finance and Economic Planning Héctor Timerman – (M.A. 1981) Argentine
(2017–) Minister of Foreign Relations (2010–);

Geoffrey Onyeama (B.A. 1977) Nigerian Argentine Ambassador to the United States

Minister of Foreign Affairs (2015–) (2007–2010)

 Sheila Tlou – (M.A.) Botswana specialist in Nugroho Wisnumurti – (J.D. 1973)
HIV/AIDS, women's health; Botswana Minister Ambassador/Permanent Representative of
of Health (2004–2008) the Republic of Indonesia to the United
Nations (1992–1997); Indonesia's Permanent
Andrés Velasco – (Ph.D.) Finance Minister of
Representative to the United Nations and
Chile (2006–2010), during complete
Other Organizations in Geneva (2000–2004)
presidential period of Michelle Bachelet
Salomé Zourabichvili – (graduate studies for
Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of
M.A.) Georgian politician; Minister of Foreign
Crosby – (graduate study) British politician
Affairs of Georgia (2004–2005)
and academic; Secretary of State for
Education (1976–1979), Paymaster General Bùi Thanh Sơn – (Master of International
(1976–1979), Secretary of State for Prices Relations) Vietnamese politician; Ministry of
and Consumer Protection (1974–1976); Foreign Affairs (Vietnam) (1991~1993)
shadow Home Secretary (1971–1973)

Military

William Joseph Donovan (Wild Bill) – (LL.B.) Franklin Van Valkenburgh – Medal of Honor,
World War I, World War II hero; only person to awarded posthumously; the last captain of the
receive Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service USS Arizona (BB-39) during World War II
Cross, Distinguished Service Medal (3), and
John C. Acton – retired United States Coast
National Security Medal; also recipient of
Guard rear admiral; Director, Operations
Silver Star, Purple Heart (2), and IRC's
Coordination, DHS;[45] served as Director, DHS
Freedom Award
Presidential Transition Team[46][47]
Daniel R. Edwards – (CSJ) Medal of Honor,
Shlomo Arel – (M.B.A.) retired major general
soldier serving in the U.S. Army during World
in the IDF; the seventh Commander, Israeli
War I
Navy; member, Likud party
Theodore Roosevelt – Medal of Honor,
Samuel Auchmuty – (1775) British lieutenant
awarded posthumously to Colonel Roosevelt
general, loyalist during American
(in 2001) for gallantry shown during dual
Revolutionary War, Commander-in-Chief,
charges up Kettle Hill and San Juan Hill on
Ireland (1882); member, Privy Council of
July 1, 1898 during the Spanish–American
Ireland
War; TR organized the First U.S. Volunteer
Cavalry Regiment, dubbed the Rough Riders by Sidney Bryan Berry – (graduate degree, 1951–

news reporters 1953) retired United States Army lieutenant

general; former superintendent of West Point
(1974–1977)
Reid K. Beveridge – retired National Guard of Francis H. Griswold – was a United States Air
the United States brigadier general; Force lieutenant general; commandant,
commander, 261st Signal Command National War College and vice commander in
chief, Strategic Air Command
Roger A. Brady – (E.M.B.A. 1994) former
United States Air Force four-star general; last Alexander Haig Jr. – (M.B.A. 1955) was a
served as the 33rd Commander, U.S. Air United States Army four-star general; served
Forces in Europe as Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (the
second-highest-ranking officer in the Army),
Kevin P. Chilton – (1977) retired U.S. Air Force
and as the 7th Supreme Allied Commander
four-star general; engineer; former
Europe, commanding all U.S. and NATO forces
commander, U.S. Strategic Command (2007–
in Europe
11); former NASA astronaut
Alexander Hamilton – major general during
Ralph Clem – (M.A. 1972; Ph.D. 1976)
American Revolutionary War; aide-de-camp
decorated USAF major general (retired);
and confidant to General George Washington;
Russian specialist; geographer and author
led three battalions at the Siege of Yorktown;
Henry Eugene Davies – major general, Union Battle of White Plains, Battle of Trenton, Battle
Army, American Civil War of Princeton, Battle of Monmouth
Ira C. Eaker – (studied Law) four-star general, Thomas F. Healy – (graduate degree) was a
United States Army Air Forces during World U.S. Army lieutenant general and former
War II; architect, strategic bombing force; commandant of the Army War College
Congressional Gold Medal
Hazel Johnson-Brown – (M.A.) In 1979
Robert J. Elder Jr. – (E.M.B.A. 1997) former became 1st black female general, United
lieutenant general, U.S. Air Force; Commander, States Army; also the 1st black Chief, U.S.
8th Air Force Army Nurse Corps
Hamilton Fish II – (B.A.) sergeant, Rough David Kay – (M.S., Ph.D.) United Nations chief
Riders in Spanish–American War; first weapons inspector, head of Iraq Survey Group
American killed in Battle of Las Guasimas
Philip Kearny – (Law 1833), brigadier general,
Francis "Gabby" Gabreski – (B.A. 1949) top U.S. Army; notable for his leadership in the
American fighter ace in Europe during World Mexican–American War and Civil War
War II and a jet fighter ace in Korea
Stephen W. Kearney – United States Army,
Ulysses S. Grant III – (attended until 1898, brevet major general; conqueror of California
transferred to West Point) major general, in the Mexican–American War; military
United States Army governor of California (Territory)
Béla Király – (Ph.D. 1962) Hungarian Hyman G. Rickover – U.S. Navy four-star
resistance fighter during World War II; major admiral; father, U.S. nuclear submarine fleet,
general in the Hungarian army as well as a Enrico Fermi Award, Presidential Medal of
military historian, author, and politician Freedom, (2) Congressional Medal of Freedom

Alfred Thayer Mahan – (1858), president, U.S. Frederick F. Russell – (M.D. 1893), brigadier
Naval War College, and author of The Influence general; U.S. Army physician who developed
of Sea Power Upon History first successful typhoid vaccine in 1909;
Public Welfare Medal
Mark Milley – (M.A. 1992) 20th chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 39th chief of staff of Henry Rutgers – (1766) American
the Army Revolutionary War hero; philanthropist;
primary supporter of Rutgers College, his
Harold M. McClelland – (attended) United
namesake (which, in 1924, became Rutgers
States Air Force major general, considered the
University)
father of Air Force communications
Brent Scowcroft – (M.A. 1953, Ph.D.
C. D. Moore – (M.S. 1981) United States Air
international relations 1967), lieutenant
Force major general; deputy director, Joint
general, United States Air Force; United States
Strike Fighter Program
National Security Advisor
Otto L. Nelson Jr. – (M.A. 1932) was a United
Anthony T. Shtogren – (M.B.A. 1948) former
States Army major general during World War II
major general in the United States Air Force
Yuval Neria – professor of medical
William S. Stone – (M.A.) U.S. Air Force major
psychology CUMC Medal of Valor (Israel)
general; third superintendent, U.S. Air Force
William Eldridge Odom – (M.S. 1962, Ph.D. Academy; air deputy, U.S. Supreme Allied
1970) retired U.S. Army lieutenant general; Commander Europe
former director of the NSA under President
Albert Stubblebine – (M.S.) retired major
Ronald Reagan
general, U.S. Army; former commanding
John Watts de Peyster – (studied law at the general, United States Army Intelligence and
law school, M.A.), major general during the Security Command
American Civil War; author on the art of war,
Robert Troup – Lieutenant colonel in American
one of the first military critics
Revolutionary War, aide-de-camp, General
Rudolph Douglas Raiford – (J.D.) decorated Horatio Gates; participated in surrender of
African-American World War II combat officer General Burgoyne at Battle of Saratoga
who trained and commanded the Infantry
Buffalo Division in Italy
 John W. Vogt – (M.A.) four-star general; Samuel V. Wilson – lieutenant general, U.S.
Purple Heart; commander in chief, U.S. Air Army; Director of the Defense Intelligence
Forces in Europe; Commander, Allied Air Agency; coined term "counterinsurgency"
Forces Central Europe
Richard Whitehead Young – (LL.B. 1884)
Charles Wilkes – United States Navy admiral, brigadier general; in Spanish–American War
noted for his 1838–1842 Pacific expedition as led Utah Light Artillery in Philippines; in World
well as his role in the Trent Affair during the War I led a U.S. artillery brigade in France
Civil War

Attorneys

Mark Barnes – (LL.M. 1991) advocate, public Felix Cohen – (1928) advocate, Native
healthcare law at the state and national levels; American rights, fundamentally shaped
co-founded the first AIDS law clinic federal Native American law and policy

David M. Becker, two-time General Counsel of Roy Cohn – (1947) conservative lawyer,
the SEC. became famous during investigations of
Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged
Richard Ben-Veniste – (J.D. 1967), federal
Communists in U.S. government
prosecutor (1968–73); Chief, Watergate Task
Force, Special Prosecutor's Office (1973–75); Robert Cover – (1968) civil rights and
member, 9/11 Commission (2002–04) international anti-violence advocate; professor
at Yale Law School
Moe Berg – (J.D. 1930) spy, Office of Strategic
Services (OSS), spoke 12 languages; light- Paul Drennan Cravath – (J.D. 1886) name
hitting catcher, Brooklyn Robins (1923), partner, New York law firm Cravath, Swaine &
Chicago White Sox (1926–30), Cleveland Moore
Indians (1931, 1934), Washington Senators
William Nelson Cromwell – (J.D. 1878)
(1932–34), Boston Red Sox (1935–39);
founder, New York law firm Sullivan &
according to Casey Stengel, "the strangest
Cromwell
man ever to play Major League Baseball"
William Joseph Donovan (Wild Bill) – United
Preet Bharara – (J.D. 1993), United States
States Attorney for the Western District of
Attorney for the Southern District of New York
New York
in the administration of President Barack
Obama (2009–2017) William O. Douglas – third Chairman, United
States Securities and Exchange Commission;
Naomi Biden – (J.D. 2020) lawyer, associate
professor, Columbia Law School and Yale Law
at Arnold & Porter, granddaughter of U.S.
School
President Joe Biden
Julius Genachowski (B.A.) – chairman, United William Kunstler – (1948) civil rights and
States Federal Communications Commission human rights advocate; director, American
(FCC) in the Obama Administration, former Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (1964–1972); co-
General Counsel, FCC founded, Center for Constitutional Rights in
1969; self-described radical lawyer; defended
Harvey Goldschmid – commissioner, general
numerous controversial clients, including
counsel, special adviser to the chairman,
Chicago Seven, American Indian Movement; a
United States Securities and Exchange
popular author
Commission; professor, Columbia Law
Benjamin M. Lawsky – (B.A., J.D.) first
Jack Greenberg – (B.A. 1945, LL.B. 1948)
superintendent, New York State Department of
litigator of Brown v. Board of Education; argued
Financial Services (2011–); investigated
40 civil rights cases before U.S. Supreme
Standard Chartered
Court; professor, Columbia Law
Howard Lesnick (A.B. 1952) Jefferson B.
Slade Gorton – (J.D. 1953) member, 9/11
Fordham Professor of Law, University of
Commission
Pennsylvania Law School
George Sydney Hawkins – (B.A.), United
Harvey R. Miller – (J.D. 1959) New York Times
States District Attorney for the Apalachicola
called him "the most prominent bankruptcy
District (1841–46); Associate Justice,
lawyer in the nation". (March 9, 2007)
Supreme Court of Florida (1846–50)
Dorothy Miner – (J.D. 1961, M.S.U.P. 1972)
Arthur Garfield Hays – (1905) civil liberties
chief counsel of the New York City Landmarks
advocate; general counsel, ACLU; notable
Preservation Commission
trials included Scopes Trial, trial of Sacco and
Vanzetti, Scottsboro case Leonard P. Moore – United States Attorney for
the Eastern District of New York (1953–1957)
Joel I. Klein – (B.A. 1967) United States
Assistant Attorney General under Bill Clinton; Annette Nazareth – commissioner, United
won U.S. v. Microsoft; counsel to Bertelsmann States Securities and Exchange Commission

William Kovacic – (J.D. 1978) chairman Jim Nicholson – former chairman, Republican
(2008–), commissioner (2006–), United States National Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Marshall Perlin – (1942) civil liberties
advocate; defended Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg

Robert Pitofsky – chairman (1995–2001),

Commissioner (1978–81), United States
Federal Trade Commission
 Frank Polk – name partner, New York law firm Thomas Thacher – (1873) one of founders,
Davis Polk & Wardwell Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett

Simon H. Rifkind – name partner, New York David G. Trager – (1959) United States
law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Attorney for the Eastern District of New York
Garrison (1974–1978); judge, United States District
Court for the Eastern District of New York
Benito Romano – (J.D. 1976) first Puerto
(1993)
Rican to serve as United States Attorney for
the Southern District of New York (on an Charles H. Tuttle – (B.A. 1899, LL.B. 1902)
interim basis) U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New
York (1927–30)
James I. Roosevelt – (1815), United States
Attorney for the Southern District of New York Lawrence E. Walsh – independent prosecutor
(1860–1861) for the Iran-Contra Affair

Charles Ruff – (J.D. 1963) United States Charles Weltner – (1950) advocate, racial
Attorney for the District of Columbia; in equality; second individual to receive the John
Watergate scandal, fourth and final Watergate F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award
Special Prosecutor
Edward Baldwin Whitney – United States
Whitney North Seymour – (1923) president of Assistant Attorney General
the ABA; chairman, New York law firm
Mary Jo White – (J.D. 1974) first female U.S.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Attorney for the Southern District of New York
John W. Simpson – (1873) one of founders, (1993–02); Acting U.S. Attorney for the
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Eastern District of New York

John William Sterling – (1893) founder, New Stewart Lyndon Woodford – (B.A. 1854) U.S.
York law firm Shearman & Sterling; namesake Attorney for the Southern District of New York
of Yale's library and law building (1877–1883); Lieutenant Governor of New
York (1867–1868); U.S. Ambassador to Spain
Francis Lynde Stetson – (1869) early leader,
(1897–1898); brigadier general, Civil War
Davis Polk & Wardwell

City government

Mayors of New York City

DeWitt Clinton – (B.A. 1786), 47th, 49th and 51st Mayor of New York City (1803–07, 1808–10,
1811–15)[48]

Edward Cooper – (H.T. 1842), 83rd Mayor of New York City (1879–90)[49][n 1]
 Bill de Blasio – (M.I.A. 1987), 109th Mayor of New York City (2014–21)[50]

John Ferguson – (B.A. 1795), 52nd Mayor of New York City (1815)[22]

Hugh J. Grant – (LL.B. 1878), 88th Mayor of New York City (1889–92)[51]

William Frederick Havemeyer – (B.A. 1823), 66th, 69th and 80th Mayor of New York City (1873–
74, 1848–49, 1845–46)[52]

Abram Hewitt – (B.A. 1842), 87th Mayor of New York City (1887–88)[53]

Seth Low – (B.A. 1870), 92nd Mayor of New York City (1902–03); 23rd Mayor of Brooklyn (1881–
85)[54]

John Purroy Mitchel – (B.A. 1899), 95th Mayor of New York City (1914–17)[55]

Henry C. Murphy – (B.A. 1830), 5th Mayor of Brooklyn (1842)[22]

Robert Anderson Van Wyck – (B.A. 1872), 91st Mayor of New York City (1898–1901); first mayor
post-consolidation[56]

Other mayors

Horace Carpentier – (B.A.) first Mayor of Sun Fo – (M.A. 1917) appointed Mayor of
Oakland, California; president of the Overland Guangzhou (Canton), Republic of China
Telegraph Company (1920–1922, 1923–1925)

Jun Choi – (M.P.P.A.) Mayor of Edison, New Eric Garcetti – (B.A., M.I.A.) 42nd Mayor of
Jersey (2006–2011) Los Angeles (2013–present), nominee to be
United States Ambassador to India
Jerome Choquette – (CBS) Mayor of
Outremont, Montreal (Canada) Susan Golding – (M.A.) two-term mayor of
San Diego, California (1992–2000)
May Cutler – (M.A.) Canadian, first female
Mayor of Westmount, Quebec (1987– Claudia López Hernández – (M.P.A) 799th
1991).[57] Mayor of Bogota, Senator of Colombia

Karl Dean – (B.A. 1978) sixth Mayor of the Frank S. Katzenbach – former Mayor of
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Trenton, New Jersey
Davidson County, Tennessee (2007–)
George Latimer – (J.D.) Mayor of Saint Paul,
William Sanford Evans – (B.A.) Mayor of Minnesota, the state's capital city, from 1976
Winnipeg, MB (1909–1911); leader of until 1990
Manitoba, Canada's Conservative Party
caucus (1933–1936)
 Joseph McGoldrick (1922 and 1931) – NYC Edward J. Stack – (M.A. 1938) City
Comptroller and NY State Residential Rent Commissioner-Mayor Pompano Beach, Florida
Control Commissioner, lawyer, and professor
Thomas Benton Stoddard – first Mayor of La
Charles Meeker – (J.D. 1975) former mayor of Crosse, Wisconsin, a New York lawyer,
Raleigh, North Carolina (2001–2009) Wisconsin legislator

Maureen Ogden – (M.A. 1963) Mayor of Annette Strauss – (M.A.) former Mayor of
Millburn, New Jersey (1979–1981); Deputy Dallas, Texas; second female Mayor and the
Mayor (1976–197) second Jewish Mayor of Dallas

Henrique Capriles Radonski – (attended) Percy Sutton – (studied law) Manhattan

Venezuelan politician; Mayor of Baruta, borough president (1966–1977); longest
Municipality of Caracas, Venezuela (2000– tenure at that position
2008)
Hsu Tain-tsair – (attended) Taiwanese
Paul Schell – (J.D.) Mayor of Seattle, politician, served as the 15th Mayor of Tainan
Washington (1998–2002) during the infamous City from 2001 to 2010
WTO Meeting of 1999
Raymond Tucker – (B.A.) Mayor of St. Louis,
Henri Simonet – Belgian politician; Mayor of Missouri (1953–1965)
Anderlecht, Belgium (1966–1984); Vice-
Ted Wheeler – (M.B.A. 1989) Mayor of
Chairman of the European Commission
Portland, Oregon (2017– )
(1973–1977)

Commentators

Amotz Asa-El – (M.A. History and Journalism) leading commentator on Israeli, Middle Eastern,
and Jewish affairs

Dan Abrams – (J.D. 1992) media legal commentator

Paul Stuart Appelbaum – (B.A.) psychiatrist, commentator and expert on legal and ethical issues
in medicine and psychiatry

Jedediah Bila – (M.A.) conservative political commentator, columnist, culture critic, and author

Joyce Brothers – (Ph.D.) known as Dr. Joyce Brothers, advice columnist, commentator, and first
media psychologist

Pat Buchanan – (CSJ 1962) conservative columnist, broadcast commentator, author

Dalton Camp – (CSJ) Canadian journalist, political commentator and strategist, central figure in
Red Toryism
Leonard A. Cole – (M.A., Ph.D.) commentator and expert on bioterrorism and terror medicine

Lennard J. Davis – (B.A., M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.) commentator on the intersection of culture,
medicine, disability, and biotechnology

Jim Dunnigan – (B.A.) considered "The Dean of Modern Wargaming", founder of Simulations
Publications, Inc. and the most prolific board wargame designer in history, as well as a being a
renowned military analyst

Lawrence Fertig – (M.A.) libertarian journalist, economic commentator

Mario Gabelli – (CBS) financial commentator

Ralph Gleason – American jazz and popular music critic and commentator

Keli Goff – political commentator and blogger

Ellis Henican – (M.A.) commentator, columnist for Newsday and Fox News Channel

Jim Hightower – liberal political commentator, writer for The Progressive Populist

Molly Ivins – (CSJ) self-described "left-libertarian" political commentator, newspaper columnist,

humorist, bestselling author

Hilton Kramer – U.S. art critic and cultural commentator

Steve Liesman – (CSJ) senior economic commentator on NBC

Edward Luck – (M.I.A., M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D.) media commentator on arms control, defense, foreign
policy and affairs, as well as United Nations reform and peacekeeping

Kenneth McFarland – (M.A.) conservative commentator, public speaker, author, superintendent of

Topeka, Kansas school system during Brown v. Board of Education

John McLaughlin – (Ph.D.) political commentator, host of The McLaughlin Group on PBS

Shireen Mazari – (Ph.D.) commentator on global strategic issues affecting peace and security;
Pakistani political scientist

Julie Menin – (B.A.) television news commentator on politics and the law

Dick Morris – (B.A. 1967) political commentator and author

Norman Podhoretz – (B.A.) Presidential Medal of Freedom; editor of Commentary, a founder of

Neoconservatism connected with the Project for the New American Century

Alvin F. Poussaint – (B.S. 1956) commentator on race and American society; well known
psychiatrist; author
 James Rubin – (B.A. 1982, M.I.A. 1984) Sky News commentator and television journalist

Ralph Schoenstein – (B.A.) former commentator on NPR's All Things Considered

Laura Schlessinger – (Ph.D. 1974) nationally syndicated radio show, The Dr. Laura Program;
conservative commentator

Thomas Sowell – (M.A.) economist, conservative social commentator, author

Ben Stein – (B.A. 1966) conservative economic and political commentator, writer, actor, attorney

George Stephanopoulos – (B.A. 1982) senior adviser to Bill Clinton, television anchor, media
journalist, and political commentator

Ilan Stavans – (Ph.D.) commentator on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures

Samuel A. Tannenbaum – (CSJ) early commentator on Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Cenk Uygur – (J.D.) political commentator, internet and television personality, and political activist

Margaret Hicks Williams, government official, writer, political expert on military intelligence

Candidates

Nicholas Murray Butler – (B.A., M.A., Ph.D.) vice-presidential candidate with President William
Howard Taft in 1912 election (against former President Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson)

D. Leigh Colvin – (Law) Prohibition Party vice-presidential candidate (1920) (lost)

Thomas Dewey – (Law 1925) presidential candidate in 1944 election (against Franklin D.
Roosevelt) and in 1948 (against President Harry S. Truman) in "Dewey Beats Truman" election

Miguel Estrada – (B.A. 1983) nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit

Matt Gonzalez – (B.A. 1987) Ralph Nader 2008 vice-presidential running mate, former president
San Francisco Board of Supervisors

Judd Gregg – (B.A. 1969) Republican Senator from New Hampshire (1993–); nominee for United
States Secretary of Commerce in the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama; the
senator withdrew his name from nomination on February 12, 2009 (because of widening
ideological differences with the administration)

William B. Hornblower – (B.A. 1875) unsuccessfully nominated to the United States Supreme
Court by President Grover Cleveland in 1893
 Charles Evans Hughes – (Law 1884) presidential candidate in 1916 election (against President
Woodrow Wilson)

Franklin Roosevelt – (Law) vice-presidential candidate with James M. Cox in 1920 election
(against Warren Harding)

Theodore Roosevelt – (Law) presidential candidate in 1912 election (against President William
Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson); formed Progressive Party, known as the Bull Moose Party

Wayne Allan Root – (B.A. 1983 – same class as President Barack Obama) journalist, 2008 vice-
presidential candidate for Libertarian Party

Spies (or alleged)

Whittaker Chambers

Elizabeth Bentley – American spy for Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945; in 1945 she defected
from Soviet intelligence and became a key informer for the U.S.

Whittaker Chambers – admitted Soviet spy in the Ware Group; testified against Alger Hiss

Morris Cohen – convicted Soviet spy, subject of Hugh Whitemore's drama for stage and TV "Pack
of Lies"; instrumental in relaying atomic bomb secrets to the Kremlin in the 1940s, eventually
settling in Moscow where for decades he helped train Soviet agents against the West

William Malisoff – (Ph.D.) alleged Soviet spy, purportedly transferred advanced technology to the
USSR

Hercules Mulligan – American Revolutionary War spy; member of the Sons of Liberty[58]

Isaiah Oggins – (B.A.) Soviet spy eventually killed by his Soviet masters; he was the subject of the
book The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Service

William Perl – alleged Soviet spy convicted for lying about his friendship with executed spy Julius
Rosenberg, not convicted of espionage
 Victor Perlo – (B.A. 1931, M.A. 1933, mathematics) alleged Soviet spy involved in Harold Ware
spy ring and Perlo group as shown in Venona list of suspected subversives

Juliet Stuart Poyntz – Communist Party USA founder alleged to have spied for the Soviet OGPU,
mysteriously disappeared and presumed killed

William Remington – (M.A. 1940) alleged Soviet spy killed in prison; convicted of perjury, not
convicted of espionage

Nathaniel Weyl – (B.S. 1931) confessed member of the Ware group of communists who engaged
in espionage for the USSR in Washington, D.C.; after leaving the party, he became a conservative
and avowed anti-communist

Harry Dexter White – alleged Soviet spy who spearheaded the creation of the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund; later revealed allegedly to have been involved with the Silvermaster
and Ware groups of communist spies while he was a senior U.S. Treasury official in the Franklin D.
Roosevelt and Truman administration

Flora Wovschin – alleged Soviet spies as revealed in the Venona project

Other

Chelsea Clinton

Robert Moses
 Pixley ka Isaka Seme

Prince Hussain Aga Khan – (M.I.A. 2004) elder son of Prince Karim Aga Khan IV

Hong Yen Chang – (J.D. 1886), first Chinese American lawyer in the United States. The Colombia
Law School Center for Chinese Legal Studies is named for him.[59]

Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler – (LL.B. 1891) Lieutenant Governor of New York (1907–1908)

John Ray Clemmons (born 1977), member of the Tennessee House of Representatives,
representing the 55th district, in West Nashville.

Chelsea Clinton – (M.A., 2010, University's Mailman School of Public Health)

Henry Cruger – elected to both Parliament of Great Britain (MP, 1774–1780, 1784–1790) and New
York State Senate (1792–1796)

Claudia De la Cruz – (M.S.W. 2007) socialist activist and community organizer

Jesús Galíndez – (Ph.D.) Spanish writer; during his time at Columbia, a lecturer and student
before allegedly being kidnapped and presumably killed by agents of Rafael Trujillo

Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotakis – (M.I.A.), business executive and spouse of the Prime Minister of
Greece

Ian Kagedan – (M.Phil. 1978) Canadian known for his work on inter-religious and inter-ethnic
relations

Abraham Katz (1926–2013), diplomat, United States Ambassador to the OECD

Caroline Kennedy – (J.D. 1988) co-chair, candidate Barack Obama's Vice Presidential Search
Committee; director, Commission on Presidential Debates; adviser, Harvard Institute of Politics;
one of founders, Profiles in Courage Award; attorney, author

John H. Langbein – (B.A. 1964), legal scholar and professor at Yale Law School

Meghan McCain – (B.A.), columnist, author, and blogger

Betsy McCaughey – (Ph.D.), 72nd Lieutenant Governor of New York (1995–1998)

Dianne Morales (born 1967), non-profit executive and political candidate

 Robert Moses – leader of mid-century urban "renewal" that re-shaped New York

Dillon S. Myer, director of War Relocation Authority during World War II and commissioner of
Bureau of Indian Affairs (M.A. 1926)

Charles J. O'Byrne – (B.A. 1981, J.D. 1984) Secretary to the Governor of New York (2008)

Ralph Perlman – (Master's in business), Louisiana state budget director, 1967–1988[60]

Richard Ravitch – (B.A. 1955), 75th Lieutenant Governor of New York (2009–)

Robert Reischauer – (M.I.A., Ph.D.) director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) from 1989
to 1995

Rebecca Rhynhart - (MPA) Philadelphia City Controller 2017–Present

Patricia Robinson – (M.A. 1957), economist and First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago from 1997–
2003[61]

Angus B. Rothwell – (M.A. 1932), Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin

Karenna Gore Schiff – (J.D. 2000) author, journalist, and attorney

Pixley ka Isaka Seme – (B.A.) founder and president of the African National Congress

Pierre Sévigny – Canadian soldier, author, politician, and academic; best known for his
involvement in the Munsinger Affair

Thomas Sowell – African American economist and author

Ray William Johnson – internet celebrity; host of internet series Equals Three (did not graduate)[62]

See also

Columbia College of Columbia University

Columbia University School of General Studies

Columbia Law School

Columbia Business School

Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Columbia University Graduate School of Education (Teachers College)

 Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science

Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Columbia University School of the Arts

School of International and Public Affairs

Notes

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"Literary and Scientific Course", offered from 1837 to 1843; he graduated at the top of his
class. He was later conferred an honorary master's degree by Columbia in 1845.

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