- Jacob Burns
Jacob Burns was a prominent New York attorney specializing in corporate law and estates and trusts. He was a philanthropist, a painter, and a corporate leader. He was a founder and, for several years, chairman of the board of U.S. Vitamin and Pharmaceutical Corp., a public company that merged with Revlon in 1966. Mr. Burns was a member of the Revlon board of directors from 1966 to 1985.
- Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is a professor of law at The George Washington University Law School where he holds the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law. He frequently appears in the national media as a commentator on a multitude of subjects ranging from the 2000 Presidential Election Controversy to the Terri Schiavo case in 2005.
- Orin Kerr
Orin S. Kerr is an associate professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a leading scholar in the subjects of computer crime law and internet surveillance. He is currently visiting as an associate professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is one of the contributors to the weblog (blog), The Volokh Conspiracy. In March 2006, he began his own legal blog, OrinKerr.com. He suspended posting to his blog in September 2006.
- Michael K. Young
Michael K. Young is President of the University of Utah. President Young began his tenure as the 14th president of the University of Utah in August 2004. Prior to his appointment at the University of Utah, he was Dean and Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at The George Washington University Law School (1998-2004).
- John F. Duffy
John Fitzgerald Duffy is currently Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. He is a Legal Commentator and Author who has written numerous articles and co-authored a scholarly book on Patent Law (listed at his GWU Webpage below). He previously served as law clerk to The Honorable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, The Honorable Stephen F. Williams, …
- Marybeth Peters
Marybeth Peters has served as the 11th United States Register of Copyrights since August 7, 1994. Peters has held the positions of Policy Planning Adviser to the Register, Acting General Counsel of the Copyright Office and as chief of both the Examining Division and the Information and Reference Divisions. In addition to over 40 years of service to the Copyright Office, Peters served as a consultant on copyright law to the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, …
- Steve Charnovitz
Steve Charnovitz (born 1953) is a scholar of public international law, living in the United States. He teaches at The George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, and is best known for his writings on the linkages between trade and environment and trade and labor rights.
- John F. Banzhaf III
John Banzhaf is a Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. As a driving force behind fast food and tobacco litigation he has been called "the man who wants to sue America" and a "Legal Terrorist". Banzhaf has also done some work in weighted voting systems. He is the inventor of the Banzhaf power index, which analyzes weighted voting systems according to their members' abilities to force quorums. *Prof. Banzhaf's Personal Website
- Dan Glickman
Daniel Robert "Dan" Glickman (born November 24, 1944) is an American politician. He served as the United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001, prior to which he represented the Fourth Congressional District of Kansas as a Democrat in Congress for 18 years. He is currently the president of the Motion Picture Association of America; he is the first non-Christian to hold the post. He also serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
- Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area. She received her undergraduate degree at Barnard College, Columbia University, with honors. Ms. Charen also holds a degree in law from George Washington University. Ms. Charen began her career at National Review magazine, where she served as editorial assistant.
- James Robertson
James Robertson (born 1938) is a judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. James Robertson was appointed a United States District Judge by President Bill Clinton in 1994. Chief Justice William Rehnquist later placed him on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. On December 20, 2005, Judge Robertson resigned his Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court position. After graduating from Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, Ohio, …
- Harold H. Greene
Harold H. Greene was a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. He presided over the antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T vertical market monopoly on the telecommunications industry in the United States. The case, one of Greene’s first after being named to the bench, resulted in the 1982 consent decree between AT&T and the Federal Trade Commission.
- Warren Brown
Warren Brown is the host of the Food Network show, Sugar Rush. He was a lawyer until he decided to become a pastry chef, and is the founder and owner of bakery CakeLove and Love Café in Washington, DC and attended Brown University and The George Washington University Law School.
- William Barr
William Pelham Barr (born May 23, 1950 in New York City) is an American attorney who served as the 77th Attorney General of the United States. He received his bachelor's degree in government and a master's degree in government and Chinese studies, in 1971 and 1973 respectively, from Columbia University. He received his J.D. with highest honors in 1977 from The George Washington University Law School. From 1973 to 1977, he was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency.
- Carlos F. Lucero
Carlos Lucero, the first Hispanic president of the Colorado Bar Association, in 1995 became the first Hispanic judge to sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He received his bachelor's degree from Adams State College in 1961 and his law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1964
- David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower II (born 1948) is the grandson of the supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. His father is the former U.S. ambassador to Belgium, John Eisenhower. After assuming the presidency in 1953, his grandfather named the presidential mountain retreat Camp David after him. On December 22, 1968, he married Julie Nixon, …
- Sarah T. Hughes
Sarah Tilghman Hughes (August 2, 1896 - April 23, 1985) was the United States District Court judge who swore Lyndon Johnson into the office of President on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination, becoming the first - and to date the only - woman in U.S. history to swear in a U.S. President (a task usually executed by the Chief Justice of the United States).
- James P. Coleman
James Plemon "J.P." Coleman (January 9, 1914 - September 28, 1991) was a politician from the state of Mississippi. Coleman was born in Ackerman, Mississippi. He obtained a law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1939. As a young man, he served upon the staff of Mississippi Congressman A. L. Ford. In Washington, D.C., he made a name for himself by challenging and defeating another young southern congressional staffer and future president, …
- Francis G. Newlands
Francis Griffith Newlands was born in Natchez, Mississippi on August 28 1848. He studied at Yale University and the Columbian College Law School (now The George Washington University Law School), Washington, D.C. and was admitted to the bar in 1869. He moved to San Francisco, California in 1870 and came to work for William Sharon, one of the discoverers of the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, who was also Newlands's father-in-law.
- James C. Cacheris
James C. Cacheris (born 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is currently serving as judge on the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia. Cacheris was educated at University of Pennsylvania where he earned a B.S. in 1955. He earned a J.D. in 1960 from The George Washington University Law School. Cacheris served as assistant corporation counsel from 1960 to 1962, in Washington, D.C., before entering private practice in 1962.
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill
Stephen Warfield Gambrill (October 2, 1873 - December 19, 1938) was an American politician. Born near Savage, Maryland, Gambrill attended the common schools and Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland, College Park. He graduated from the law department of Columbian College (now The George Washington University Law School), Washington, D.C., in 1896, was admitted to the bar in 1897, and practiced in Baltimore, Maryland.
- Randall Ray Rader
Judge Randall R. Rader is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He obtained a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University in 1974 and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School in 1978. President Ronald Reagan appointed him to the United States Claims Court in 1988. President George H. W. Bush then elevated him to the Federal Circuit in 1990.
- Stanley Finch
Stanley Wellington Finch (July 20 1872 - 1951) was the first director of the Bureau of Investigation, which would eventually become the FBI. Finch was born in Monticello, New York. In 1893 he became a clerk in the United States Department of Justice, where he worked off and on for almost 50 years. Finch rose from the position of clerk to that of Chief Examiner between 1893 and 1908. It was only while working in the Justice Department, …
- Ernest W. Gibson Jr.
Ernest William Gibson, Jr. (1901-1969) was a Governor of Vermont, a United States Senator and a U.S. federal judge. He was the son of Vermont Senator Ernest W. Gibson. Gibson graduated from Norwich University in 1923, where he had been a member of the Alpha chapter of Theta Chi International Fraternity and served on the faculty of New York Military Academy from 1923 to 1924. He obtained his law degree from The George Washington University Law School, …
- Steven M. Goldman
Steven M. Goldman is the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance of New Jersey. He was nominated to the position in February 2006 by Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine. Commissioner Goldman is an attorney who specialized in banking and insurance law, prior to his appointment as commissioner. Goldman was sworn into office on March 20, 2006, replacing Donald Bryan. Goldman came to the Department of Banking and Insurance after a 22-year career at Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross PC, …
- Garry Brown
Garry Eldridge Brown (August 12, 1923-August 27, 1998) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Garry Brown had four daughters, Frances, Mollie, Amelia, and Abigail, whom he loved. His family owned and operated a dairy farm while he was growing up, in Schoolcraft, Michigan. They were one of the first to settle there, and his family still owns the original property that the Browns settled on in the 1830's.
- Morton Brilliant
Morton Brilliant has over a decade of local and statewide experience as a political operative in a variety of roles, including campaign manager, communications director, and a senior gubernatorial staffer.
- Ronald K. L. Collins
Ronald K. L. Collins is a scholar at the Washington, D.C., office of the First Amendment Center. He writes and lectures on freedom of expression and oversees the online library component of the First Amendment Center’s Web site. Before coming to the Center, Collins served as a law clerk to Justice Hans A. Linde on the Oregon Supreme Court and thereafter was a Judicial Fellow under Chief Justice Warren Burger at the United States Supreme Court.
- Kenneth Francis Ripple
Kenneth Francis Ripple (born 1943 in Pittsburgh, PA) is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He received an A.B. degree from Fordham University in 1965, his law degree from University of Virginia School of Law in 1968, and an advanced legal degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1972. Judge Ripple began his career as an officer in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps.
- Grant Sawyer
Frank Grant Sawyer (December 14, 1918 - February 19, 1996) was Governor of Nevada from 1958 to 1967. He was a Democrat. Sawyer was born on December 14, 1918, in Twin Falls, Idaho. He was the son of two osteopaths, Doctors Harry W. and Buela Cameron Sawyer. He was raised in Fallon, Nevada. Sawyer served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He attended Linfield College, the University of Nevada at Reno and The George Washington University Law School.
- A. Bruce Bielaski
Alexander Bruce Bielaski (1884-February, 1964) was an American lawyer and director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the Federal Bureau of Investigation). Bielaski was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. He received a law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 1904 and joined the Department of Justice that same year. Like his predecessor Stanley Finch, Bielaski worked his way up through the Justice Department.
- John James Flynt Jr.
John James Flynt, Jr. (November 8, 1914 - June 24, 2007) was a United States Representative from Georgia. Born in Griffin, Georgia, he attended the public schools and Georgia Military Academy (now the Woodward Academy). He later attended the University of Georgia at Athens where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society and received an A.B. in 1936.
- Nick Udall
John Nicholas Udall usually called Nick Udall (July 23, 1913 - June 15, 2005) was mayor of Phoenix, Arizona from 1948-52. He was a member of the Udall political family and was also a nephew of Spencer W. Kimball, the 12th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Udall was born and raised in Arizona. His parents John Hunt Udall and Ruth Kimball were in the same English literature class at the St.
- James Shannon
James Michael Shannon (born April 4 1952), also known as Jim Shannon, is a Democratic politician from Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and later as the Massachusetts Attorney General. Shannon grew up in Methuen, Massachusetts, received his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned a law degree at The George Washington University Law School.
- John Blaisdell Corliss
John Blaisdell Corliss (June 7, 1851-December 24, 1929) was a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan.
- Matthew Cowley
Matthew Cowley was an American missionary. He was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1945 until his death. He was affectionately known as the "Polynesian Apostle" because of his intimate knowledge of the Polynesian culture and the Māori language. Matthew Cowley was the son of Matthias F. Cowley and Abbie Hyde, born August 2, 1897.
- Bennett Champ Clark
Joel Bennett Clark, better known as Bennett Champ Clark, was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1932 until 1945. The son of Champ Clark, a prominent Democratic Party leader of the early 20th century, Bennett Clark was born in Bowling Green, Missouri. After graduating the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1912, he earned his law degree at George Washington University.
- Paul Rogers
Paul Grant Rogers (born June 4, 1921) is an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of Florida. A Democrat, Rogers served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the member from Florida's 11th congressional district. Rogers was born in Ocilla, Georgia, on June 4, 1921. He attended the University of Florida, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942, and after graduating joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1942 to 1946.
- Stephen Swift
Stephen J. Swift (born Utah, 1943) is a judge of the United States Tax Court. Menlo Atherton High School, Atherton, CA, 1961; B.S., Brigham Young University, Political Science, 1967; J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 1970. Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, 1970-74; Assistant U.S. Attorney, Tax Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, San Francisco, CA, 1974-77; Vice President and Senior Tax Counsel, Tax Department, Bank of America N.T. and S.A., …
- Bernard Bell
Bernard Bell is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Faculty Professor of Law and Herbert Hannoch Scholar at Rutgers School of Law-Newark. Bell received a B.A. cum laude from Harvard and a J.D. from Stanford, where he was notes editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.