- John Roberts
John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27 1955) is the seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States. Before joining the Supreme Court on September 29, 2005, Roberts was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Previously, he spent 14 years in private law practice and held positions in Republican administrations in the U.S. Department of Justice and Office of the White House Counsel.
- Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is a lawyer and activist. He worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, which included service as the 66th United States Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson. He has been known for his continuing advocacy on behalf of civil and human rights political causes. He is also known for his role as defense attorney in the trials of controversial figures, such as defense attorney for Saddam Hussein.
- Peter Keisler
Peter D. Keisler (born October 13, 1960 in Hempstead, New York) is an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice and a current nominee for a position as a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He was first nominated for the position on June 29, 2006 by President George W. Bush to fill a seat vacated by John Roberts, whom Bush elevated to Chief Justice of the United States.
- 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.
- Charles J. Cooper
Charles J. Cooper is an appellate attorney and litigator in Washington, D.C. and a founding member and chairman of the law firm Cooper & Kirk, PLLC. He was named by The National Law Journal as one of the 10 best civil litigators in Washington, he has over 25 years of legal experience in government and private practice, with numerous cases in trial and appellate court as well as several appearances before the United States Supreme Court.
- Hans A. von Spakovsky
Hans A. von Spakovsky (born March 11, 1959), a Commissioner of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). He was nominated to the FEC by President George W. Bush on December 15, 2005 and was appointed by recess appointment on January 4, 2006.
- Leonie Brinkema
Leonie M. Brinkema (born 1944, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a United States District Court judge, in the Eastern District of Virginia. From Dutch descent, judge Brinkema received her B.A. from Douglass College in 1966 and undertook graduate studies in philosophy at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1966) and New York University (1967-1969). She earned her M.L.S. at Rutgers University in 1970 and her J.D. at Cornell University in 1976.
- Hew Raymond Griffiths
Hew Raymond Griffiths (born 8th November 1962 in the UK) has been accused by the United States of being a ring leader of DrinkOrDie or DOD, an underground software piracy network. Griffiths was living in Berkeley Vale in the Central Coast Region of NSW, Australia before he was placed on remand at Silverwater Detention Centre. After fighting extradition for almost 3 years, Griffiths was finally extradited from Australia to the United States and on February 20, 2007, …
- Jesselyn Radack
Jesselyn Radack is a former U.S. Department of Justice ethics adviser who argued that John Walker Lindh (the "American Taliban") could not be interrogated without his lawyer present since he was represented by a lawyer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation later questioned Lindh without giving him access to his lawyer. In the course of Lindh's criminal prosecution, the court ordered all documents associated with his interrogation to be turned over.
- Daniel W. Sutherland
Daniel W. Sutherland is the current Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He was appointed to the position on April 16, 2003 by George W. Bush. He has served fourteen years with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and nearly two years with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, where he was Chief of Staff.
- Peter Edelman
Peter B. Edelman is a lawyer, policy maker, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of poverty, welfare, juvenile justice, and constitutional law. He received his A.B. and LL.B. from Harvard University. He has taught at Georgetown since 1982, and took a leave of absence during President Clinton's first term to serve as Counselor to HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and then as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.
- Tracy A. Henke
Tracy A. Henke, a native of Moscow Hills, Missouri, was a government official holding held high-level positions in the United States Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security -- both tenures which had some controversy. After earning a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Henke joined the Justice Department on June 25, 2001, as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General (PDAAG) of the Office of Justice Programs, …
- Richard J. Leon
Richard J. Leon (1949-) is a judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia from 2002 to the present. Leon was born in 1949 in South Natick, Massachusetts and graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1971 and Suffolk University Law School in 1974 and Harvard Law School in 1981. Leon served as a law clerk to the chief justice and associate justices of the Superior Court of Massachusetts from 1974 to 1975.
- William van Alstyne
William Warner Van Alstyne is an American lawyer, law professor, and constitutional law scholar. He currently holds the named position of Lee Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law. Van Alstyne recieved his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy "magna cum laude" from the University of Southern California. He recieved his Juris Doctor law degree from Stanford Law School, …
- 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.
- Martin Jenkins
Judge Martin J. Jenkins (born 1954) is a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Judge Jenkins was appointed by President Clinton in 1997. Judge Jenkins attended the University of San Francisco School of Law. Prior to joining the bench, Judge Jenkins was a judge in the California state court system. Previously, Judge Jenkins worked as a prosecutor in Alameda County, California, …
- Ronald Noble
Ronald Kenneth Noble (born 1957) is an American law enforcement officer. Since 1999 he has been the the secretary general of Interpol, the international crime-fighting organization. From 1994 until 1996 he was the Undersecretary for Enforcement of the United States Department of the Treasury in which he was responsible for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He served as the chief of staff of the Criminal Division, …
- John Wolff
John Wolff (1906-2005) served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center for 44 years until his death on December 7, 2005. In addition to teaching, he worked for the government and was a consultant on Foreign and International Law in Washington, D.C. and published articles in numerous American and German legal publications.
- Anna Escobedo Cabral
Anna Escobedo Cabral (born 1959 in San Bernardino, California) is the 42nd Treasurer of the United States, succeeding Rosario Marin. Cabral, a second-generation Mexican-American, was confirmed and sworn in to the position on December 13, 2004, joining a cadre of high ranking Hispanics that serve in George W. Bush's Administration. Immediately prior to taking this office, Ms. Cabral served as Director of the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Latino Initiatives, …
- Kathryn S. Fuller
Kathryn S. Fuller is chair of the Ford Foundation Board of Trustees. She serves as chair of the board's Executive and Membership committees, and is also a member of four other committees: Investment; Management and Governance; Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom; and Proxy. Ms. Fuller was president and chief executive of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) from 1989 to 2005.
- Steve Bickerstaff
Steve Bickerstaff (born April 15, 1946) is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin, Texas. In February, 2003, the University of Texas Press published his book "Lines in the Sand". The book covers the history of the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting and its aftermath. In 2005, Bickerstaff wrote a letter praising Alberto Gonzales for the United States Attorney General confirmation hearings.
- Michael Wines
Stephen Michael Wines (born June 3, 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American journalist who is the South Africa bureau chief for "The New York Times", based in Johannesburg. Previously, he had been the "Times" 's Moscow bureau chief beginning in 2002. Wines is a 1973 graduate of the University of Kentucky. He received his M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1974, …
- Carla Anderson Hills
Carla Anderson Hills (born January 3, 1934) is an American lawyer and public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative. She was the third woman to serve as a Cabinet officer in a U.S. Presidential Administration. Born in Los Angeles, she received her B.A. degree from Stanford University, after studying at Oxford University.
- Ronald Powell
Ronald Powell is a United States special agent for the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General. One notable concern of his is the investigation of former U.S. Department of Justice ethics advisor Jesselyn Radack. Radack argued that the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh had the right to a lawyer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation questioned Lindh alone, and Radack quit.
- Vicki Miles-Lagrange
Vicki Miles-LaGrange is a U.S. District Judge in the Western district of Oklahoma. She was the first African American woman to be sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African American female elected to the Oklahoma Senate. Judge Miles-LaGrange, a native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma graduated cum laude from Vassar College in 1974. She received a certificate from the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, West Africa.
- Michael Gottesman
Michael H. Gottesman is a lawyer and is a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, specializing in the fields of labor law, constitutional law, and civil rights. He practiced and became a partner with the Washington, D.C., firm Bredhoff and Kaiser from 1961-88. After attending the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, Gottesman worked as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Anti-Trust Division.
- Zeev Rosenstein
Zeev Rosenstein (born 1954) is an infamous Israeli mafia boss. He was charged with distributing massive amounts of Ecstasy in the United States, after 700,000 tablets were seized in a Manhattan apartment. He was arrested in November 2004 in a joint effort by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Israeli Ministry of Justice. After exhausting his legal options in Israel, according to a highly significant precidential decision by the Supreme Court of Israel, …
- Sergei Duvanov
Sergei Duvanov (born 1953) is a prominent Kazakhstani journalist who in 2002 wrote articles that showed President Nursultan Nazarbayev and several other Kazakh politicians had illicit Swiss bank accounts containing millions of U.S.' dollars. The scandal was labeled "Kazakhgate." In 2001 the U.S. Department of Justice investigated Kazakhgate. Duvanov was arrested in October 2002 at his datcha outside Almaty, accused of raping a 14-year old girl, …
- Joan Azrack
Joan M. Azrack is Chief United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York. At the time of her appointment to the bench in 1990 she was an Assistant United States Attorney in that District. She became Chief Magistrate Judge in 2000. Judge Azrack earned her B.S. degree from Rutgers University in 1974, and her J.D. degree from New York Law School in 1979.
- John F. Davis
John F. Davis (July 11, 1907 - July 18, 2000) was an American lawyer and law professor whose career included ten years of service as Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States. A native of Maine, Davis attended Bates College, graduating in 1928, and Harvard Law School, from which he obtained his law degree in 1932.
- David Prosser Jr.
David Prosser Jr. is a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. He was appointed to the Court by Governor Tommy G. Thompson in 1998, and elected in 2001. His current term expires July 31, 2011. A Chicago native, Prosser was raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. He received his bachelor’s degree from DePauw University in 1965 and his law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1968. Prosser served as Outagamie County district attorney, and worked in Washington, …
- Steve Novick
Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth).
- Bryant Freeman
Dr. Bryant Freeman is a professor at the University of Kansas. He is primarily known for being the founder and director of the University of Kansas Institute of Haitian Studies, one of the few such institutes in a major university in the United States. Freeman received his Ph.D. in French from Yale University. He has also been an instructor for the United Nations Observers in Haiti, an advisor for U.S. and U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti, …
- Joseph Todaro Jr.
Joseph "Big Joe" Todaro, Jr. is an alleged Buffalo, New York organized crime figure involved in labor racketeering, loansharking, illegal gambling, narcotics, and murder for hire. A longtime business agent for LIUNA Local 210, he resigned in 1990 following investigations on the local's alleged ties to organized crime. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Joe Jr. assumed the day-to-day running of the Buffalo crime family from his father, Joseph Todaro, Sr., in 1999.
- Frank Deluca
Frank DeLuca (April 1, 1898 - May, 1967) was an Italian-American mobster who, along with his brother Joseph, controlled the smuggling and distribution of narcotics in Kansas City, Missouri for almost four decades. Born Francesco DeLuca in Sicily, Deluca immigrated to the United States with his brother Joseph. By the 1920's the two brothers were involved with mobster Joseph DiGiovanni in smuggling and narcotics trafficking in the Midwest.
- Alex Kronemer
Alexander Kronemer the co-executive producer of Unity Productions Foundation. He is also a writer, lecturer and documentary producer focusing on religious diversity, Islam and cross-cultural understanding. He has a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University concentrating in the philosophy of religion and comparative religion.
- Bill Meier
William Carl "Bill" Meier (born 1940) is an attorney and a former member of the Texas State Senate from Hurst in Tarrant County, who holds the world filibuster record in a legislative body. In May 1977, near the close of the regular session, Meier spoke for forty-three hours against a worker's compensation bill that he considered "anti-business" in scope. His activity blocked the bill from being considered in the waning hours of the session.
- Alexander Shulgin
Alexander studied Chemistry at Harvard University and Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of California at Berkeley. He has authored over 200 research papers published in peer reviewed scientific journals, been awarded some 20 patents, has published 20 book chapters, and written four books. Alexander has been studying the chemistry and effects of the psychedelics for over 30 years.
- Nicola Napoli
Nicola Napoli was the President of Artkino Pictures, Inc., the sole distributor of Soviet films in the United States, Canada, Central America and South America in 1930s and 1940s. Napoli passed information from the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) to Soviet intelligence during World War II. Artkino later became Amkino. Napoli was born 16 November 1905 in New York of Italian parentage and was taken to Italy at an early age by his parents.
- Angelo J. Lapietra
Angelo J. "the Hook" LaPietra (1920-1999) was a Chicago mobster and member of the Chicago Outfit, involved in extensive loansharking operations in the city's First Ward during the 1970s and 80s. A high ranking member of the Chicago syndicate, LaPietra had an extensive criminal record stretching back to 1939 and included charges of murder, kidnapping and narcotics. Involved in criminal operations in the suburb of Cicero, as well as in Chicago's First Ward, …