- Derek Bok
Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954),... - Michelle Lavaughn Obama
With the ascent of her husband as a prominent nationwide politician, she has become a half of pop culture. In May 2006, Essence magazine listed her amongst "25 of the World's Most Inspiring Women." [24] In July 2007, Vanity Fair magazine listed her surrounded by "10 of the World's Best Dressed People." In September 2007, 02138 magazine listed her 58th of "The Harvard 100," a listing of the prior year's many influential Harvard alumni. Her husband was ranked fourth. [25] - Elena Kagan
Kagan, the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law, is currently the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Kagan first came to Harvard Law School as a visiting professor in 1999 and became Professor of Law in 2001. She has taught administrative law, constitutional law, civil procedure, and seminars on issues involving the separation of powers. She was appointed Dean of the Law School in 2003. - Jane Harman
Jane Lakes Harman (born June 28 1945), is a seven-term Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the 36th District of California (map). She attended Los Angeles public schools, Smith College, and Harvard Law School. On November 7, 2006, she was reelected to the 110th Congress, defeating Republican challenger Brian Gibson. Harman is both a Blue Dog Democrat and a member of the New Democrat Coalition. - Laurence Tribe
Laurence Henry Tribe (born October 10, 1941) is a professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor. He also serves as a consultant for the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Tribe is generally recognized as one of the foremost constitutional law experts and Supreme Court practitioners in the United States. He is the author of "American Constitutional Law" (1978), the most frequently cited treatise in that field, … - Russ Feingold
Russell Dana "Russ" Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate and the junior Senator from Wisconsin since 1993. A recipient of the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, Feingold is best known for his maverick voting and cosponsorship of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act ("McCain-Feingold Bill"), a major piece of campaign finance reform legislation, … - Barney Frank
Mr. FRANK. Mr. Chairman, could I have one last question? Mr. Leonard, would the remedy that Professor Kahn suggested and Professor Dempsey said we had the legal authority and Mr. Karaganis said we could leverage it, if they were told that if in anticipation of competition they increased capacity, they would have to maintain that increased capacity for, say, two years, do you think that would be helpful? - Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936) is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidential administrations, and currently serves as a United States senator representing the state of North Carolina. The first woman to represent North Carolina in the Senate, she was elected to the Senate in 2002 for a term ending in 2009. - Ted Stevens
Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens (born November 18 1923) is the senior United States Senator from Alaska. As the longest serving Republican in the Senate, Stevens served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate from January 3, 2003, to January 3, 2007. Stevens has had a six-decade career of government service, beginning with his service in World War II. In the 1950s, he held senior positions in the Eisenhower Interior department. - Bob Graham
Daniel Robert Graham (born November 9, 1936) is an American politician. He was a United States Senator from Florida from 1987 to 2005 and the governor of that state from 1979 to 1987. Following a failed bid for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2004 presidential race, Graham was considered a possible running mate for John Kerry. - Mike Crapo
Michael Dean "Mike" Crapo (pronounced "Cray-poe") (born May 20, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from Idaho. He is a member of the Republican Party. - Adam Schiff
Adam B. Schiff (born June 20 1960) is an American politician. He first served in the California State Senate. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing California's 29th congressional district (map) and in 2007, he became a member of the House Appropriations Committee. The district includes Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena. - Chuck Schumer
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., will continue as the chairman of the party's campaign fundraising committee. Schumer also will add vice chairman to his title, making him No. 3 in the leadership and a chief strategist. - Jack Reed
John Francis "Jack" Reed (born November 12, 1949) is a Democrat and the senior United States senator from Rhode Island. - Carl Levin
Carl Milton Levin (born June 28, 1934) is a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan and is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He has been in the Senate since 1979 and Michigan's senior senator since 1995. He is the longest ... - Jamie Gorelick
Jamie S. Gorelick is an American attorney and judicial officer who was Deputy Attorney General of the United States during the Clinton administration. She was also appointed by Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. - Francis Biddle
Francis Beverley Biddle was an American lawyer and judge who is most famous as the primary American judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II. Biddle was one of four sons of Algernon Biddle, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also the great-great-grandson of Edmund Randolph, and a half second cousin four times removed of James Madison. He was born in Paris, while his family was living abroad. - Franklin Raines
Franklin Delano Raines (born January 14, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. The son of a Seattle janitors, Raines graduated from Harvard University, Harvard Law School; and Magdalen College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. - Jim Cooper
James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooper (born July 19, 1954) is a politician from the U.S. state of Tennessee, currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the state's, based in Nashville. He is a Democrat, and previously represented the neighboring from 1983 to 1995. He belongs to the Blue Dog Coalition. - Tom Petri
Thomas Evert Petri (born May 28 1940), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1979, representing (map). Born as Thomas Evert in Marinette, Wisconsin, his father was killed during World War II and he adopted the name Petri after his mother remarried when he was still a young child. He graduated from Goodrich High School in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. - David Hackett Souter
Previous Occupation: He was an associate at Orr and Reno in Concord, New Hampshire from 1966 to 1968, when he became an Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire. In 1971, he became Deputy Attorney General and in 1976, Attorney General of New Hampshire. - Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board . - Sumner Redstone
Sumner Murray Redstone (born Sumner Murray Rothstein on May 27 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts) is majority owner and Chairman of the Board of the National Amusements theater chain. Through National Amusements, he is majority owner of Midway Games, Viacom and CBS Corporation. - Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte was a grandson of Jérôme Bonaparte (the youngest brother of the French emperor Napoleon I), and a member of the United States Cabinet. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of Jérôme Napoleon Bonaparte (1805-1870) and Susan May Williams (1812-1881), from whom the American line of the Bonaparte family descended. After graduating from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, where he would later be appointed a university overseer, … - Brad Sherman
Bradley J. "Brad" Sherman (born October 24 1954) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing. He was born in Los Angeles, California, was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles and Harvard Law School, and was a lawyer and accountant before entering the House. He also served two terms on the California State Board of Equalization. - Hill Harper
Hill Harper (born Francis Harper on May 17 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor. - Patricia Schroeder
Patricia Nell Scott Schroeder, popularly known as Pat Schroeder (born July 30, 1940), American politician, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado, serving from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to congress from Colorado. - John Lowell
Hon. John Lowell (June 17, 1743-May 6, 1802), born in Newburyport, Massachusetts; the son of Rev. John Lowell and Sarah Champney. John Lowell was a respected lawyer, selectman, jurist, delegate to Congress, and federal judge. Known within his family as "The Old Judge", distinguishing him from the proliferation of John's, John Lowell is considered to be the patriarch of the Boston Lowells. - Zechariah Chafee
Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7 1885 - February 8 1957) was an American lawyer, academic and civil libertarian. An advocate for free speech, he was described by Sen. Joe McCarthy as "dangerous" to the United States. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he graduated from Brown University, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, in 1907. Later, he received a law degree from Harvard University, completing his LL.B. in 1913. - Richard Kleindienst
Richard Gordon Kleindienst was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Winslow, Arizona, he served in the United States Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946, attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School, graduating from the latter in 1950. From 1953 to 1954 he served in the Arizona House of Representatives and then went into private practice, which he continued until 1969. In 1964, he was the Republican candidate for Governor of Arizona, but lost to Sam Goddard, 53%-47%. - Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Abbott Lawrence Lowell (January 1, 1856-January 6, 1943) was a U.S. educator, historian, and President of Harvard University (1909-33). Abbott's siblings included poet Amy Lowell, astronomer Percival Lowell (Harvard 1876), and early activist for prenatal care Elizabeth Lowell Putnam. They were the great-grandchildren of John Lowell (Harvard 1760) and, on their mother's side, the grandchildren of Abbott Lawrence. - Artur Davis
Artur Genestre Davis (b. October 9 1967), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing, a district created under the Voting Rights Act to be black-majority, and which includes the rural black belt. It encompasses the counties of Choctaw, Sumter, Greene, Perry, Hale, Dallas, Wilcox, and Marengo. It also includes parts of Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Pickens and Clarke Counties. - Francis Parkman
Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life" and his monumental seven volume "France and England in North America." These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism. - Morton Horwitz
Morton J. Horwitz (born 1938) is a legal historian and law professor at Harvard Law School. The current dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan, relates that during her time at law school, students often nicknamed him as "Mort the Tort" since he taught the first-year subject Torts. Horwitz obtained a A.B. from the City College of New York (1959), an A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard University (1962 and 1964), and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School (1967). - Richard Lederer
Richard Lederer (born 1938) is an American author and teacher best known for his books on word play and the English language, and his use of oxymorons. His column, "Looking at Language", is syndicated in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. In 1998, he founded a weekly radio show, "A Way with Words", broadcast by KPBS, San Diego Public Radio, and heard world-wide via streaming internet and podcast. In an announcement posted on October 19, 2006, … - William Shea
William Alfred "Bill" Shea (June 21, 1907 - October 2, 1991) was a lawyer who is best known for his part in the return of National League professional baseball to New York City after the departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants after the 1957 season, and for the stadium that bears his name. He was also hired by Nassau County to persuade the NHL to grant a team to the then new Nassau Coliseum, resulting in the New York Islanders, who began play in 1972. - Preeta D. Bansal
Preeta D. Bansal is a leading United States lawyer whose career has spanned government service and private practice. A partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, she is a member and past chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and former Solicitor General of the State of New York during Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's first Term. Bansal was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska as a child. - Moorfield Storey
Moorfield Storey (March 19, 1845 - October 24, 1929) was a U.S. lawyer, publicist, and civil rights leader. He was born at Roxbury, Mass., graduated at Harvard in 1866, studied at Harvard Law School, and in 1869 was admitted to the bar. In 1867-69 he was private secretary to Senator Charles Sumner. He began the practice of his profession in Boston, and was a well-known person in the "Mugwump" movement of 1884. According to Storey's biographer, William B. Hixson, Jr., … - Amanda Goad
Amanda Goad (born March 13, 1979) was the winner of the 1992 Scripps National Spelling Bee, where she represented "The Richmond News Leader". Her winning word was lyceum, which is defined as either "a public hall designed for lectures or concerts" or "a school at a stage between elementary school and college". In 1996, Goad was a contestant in the "Jeopardy!" Teen Tournament. - Anthony A. Williams
Anthony Allen "Tony" Williams (born July 28 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is an American politician who served as the fifth elected mayor of the District of Columbia from 1999 to 2007. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for the United States Department of Agriculture and held a variety of executive posts in cities around the country prior to his service in the D.C. government.
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