- 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.
- Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. Abramoff pled guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials.
- Barbara Olson
Barbara Olson (December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001) was a conservative American television commentator who worked for Fox News Channel, CNN and several other outlets. She was a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Olson was born Barbara Kay Bracher in Houston, Texas.
- Tom Goldstein
Thomas C. Goldstein (Tom Goldstein) was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation. He is also on the faculty of Stanford and Harvard Law Schools where he teaches courses on Supreme Court litigation.
- Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is the junior Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, …
- Michael Powell
Michael Kevin Powell (born March 23, 1963) is an American Republican politician. He was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Bill Clinton on 3 November 1997. President George W. Bush designated him chairman of the commission on January 22, 2001. Powell is the son of former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Alma Powell.
- Kenneth Feinberg
Kenneth Feinberg is a Washington, D.C. attorney specializing in mediation and alternative dispute resolution who was appointed Special Master of the U.S. Government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund. Originally from Brockton, Massachusetts, he worked for five years as an administrative assistant and chief of staff for U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, and as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney General. Before founding his own firm, The Feinberg Group, in 1993, …
- Brendan Sullivan
Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr., JD (born March 11, 1942, Providence, Rhode Island) is a Washington, D.C. based criminal defense attorney and a senior partner of the law firm Williams & Connolly. Sullivan is probably best-known for the role he served, in the late 1980s, as defense counsel for United States Marines Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver North in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal. He also represented former Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Henry Cisneros, …
- Kenneth Starr
Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. He later submitted to Congress the Starr Report, which led to Clinton's impeachment on charges arising from the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
- Nicole Seligman
Nicole Seligman (born 1957) is an American attorney. She is currently Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Sony Corporation, and has received national attention in the United States for her representation of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra hearings and of President Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial.
- Paul Clement
Paul Drew Clement (born June, 1966) is the current Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 14, 2005, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 8, 2005, and took the oath of office on June 13, 2005. Clement replaced Theodore Olson, who resigned as Solicitor General in July, 2004, and is now a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
- Ken Mehlman
Kenneth Brian Mehlman (born August 21, 1966, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American attorney who was chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2007. He served as the campaign manager for George W. Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. In a June 2007 press release by the White House website, Mehlman was nominated by President George W. Bush to be a board member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial committee.
- Robert S. Bennett
Robert S. Bennett (born 1939) is an American attorney best known for representing President Bill Clinton during the Monica Lewinsky investigation. Bennett is also famous for representing Judith Miller in the Valerie Plame case, Caspar Weinberger of Iran Contra fame, Clark Clifford in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, and Paul Wolfowitz in the World Bank Scandal. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he graduated from Brooklyn Prep in 1957.
- Abe Fortas
Abraham Fortas was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure.
- Anita Hill
Anita F. Hill (born July 30, 1956) is a professor of social policy, law, and women's studies at Brandeis University at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management and a former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She is best known for accusing Thomas of sexual harassment during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearing.
- Laurence H. Silberman
Judge Laurence Hirsch Silberman (born October 12, 1935) was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in October 1985 by Ronald Reagan, and took senior status on November 1, 2000. Silberman graduated from Dartmouth College in 1957 and Harvard Law School in 1961. He served in the United States Army from 1957 to 1958. He has been a partner in law firms in Honolulu and Washington, D.C., …
- Edward Bennett Williams
Edward Bennett Williams (May 31 1920 - August 13 1988) was a Washington, D.C. trial attorney who founded the law firm of Williams & Connolly and owned several professional sports teams. He represented many high profile clients including Frank Sinatra, financier Robert Vesco, Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner, spy Igor Melekh, Jimmy Hoffa, organized crime figure Frank Costello, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Michael Milken, …
- Thurman Arnold
Thurman Arnold was an iconoclastic Washington, D.C. lawyer. He was best known for his trust-busting campaign as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Department of Justice. Arnold launched numerous studies to support the Anti-trust efforts. Roosevelt later de-emphasized Anti-trust, so corporations could concentrate on winning the war. Before coming to Washington in 1938, Arnold was a professor at Yale Law School, …
- Lloyd Cutler
Lloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917-May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. Cutler graduated from Yale University in 1936 at the age of 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. Three years later, he graduated magna cum laude from Yale Law School.
- Michael S. Steele
Michael S. Steele (born October 19, 1958) is the chairman of GOPAC and a former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, having been elected on the same ticket as Governor Robert L. Ehrlich in 2002. He is the first African American to serve in a Maryland state-wide office and the first Republican lieutenant governor in the state since the position was created in 1970. He was, at the time, the highest-ranking elected African American Republican in the United States.
- Abram Chayes
Abram Chayes (July 18, 1922-April 16, 2000), American scholar of international law closely associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy. Abram Chayes's full name was Abram Joseph Chayes, but he did not use his middle name. He was born in Chicago. Both his parents were lawyers. He graduated "summa cum laude" from Harvard College in 1943 and served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1945 as a field artillery officer in France, Holland, Germany, and Japan, …
- Ben Stein
Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an Emmy Award-winning American lawyer, law professor, actor, comedian, game show host and former White House speechwriter. He is the son of noted economist and writer Herbert Stein. His sister, Rachel, is a writer.
- David Addington
David S. Addington (b. January 22, 1957, Washington, D.C.), is chief of staff and former legal counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was appointed to replace Lewis "Scooter" Libby as Cheney's chief of staff upon Libby's resignation on October 28, 2005. He was described by "U.S. News and World Report" as "the most powerful man you've never heard of".
- Kit Bond
Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (born March 6, 1939) is the former governor and current senior United States Senator of Missouri. He has been in the Senate since 1987 and is a member of the Republican Party.
- Sally Katzen
Sally Katzen was a United States government official during the Clinton Administration. She served as Deputy Director for Management in the Office of Management and Budget from 1999 through 2001, as Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council during 1998 and 1999, and as Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget from 1993 through 1998.
- Jack Reed
John Francis "Jack" Reed (born November 12, 1949) is a Democrat and the senior United States senator from Rhode Island.
- Viet D. Dinh
Viet D. Dinh is founder and principal of Bancroft Associates. He is Professor of Law and Co-Director of Asian Law & Policy Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center. He also serves as a Director and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the News Corporation. Dinh previously served as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003.
- Christopher Wolf
Christopher Wolf (b. Washington, DC 1954) is an American attorney best known for his work in Internet and privacy law. MSNBC called him "a pioneer in Internet law", reflecting his involvement in early precedent-setting cases. He has written and lectured widely on the subject, including as an adjunct professor of law at Washington & lee University School of Law,and as a lecturer at Stanford University, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, …
- Rob Portman
Robert Jones "Rob" Portman (born December 19, 1955) is an American lawyer and a former Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Prior to his current appointment, Portman was the United States Trade Representative, a post carrying the rank of Ambassador. From 1993 to 2005, he was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio, representing that state's 2nd congressional district (map), …
- Maureen Mahoney
Maureen E. Mahoney (born in 1954) is an appellate lawyer at the law firm of Latham & Watkins LLP in Washington, DC who has argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2003, she argued on behalf of the University of Michigan and its affirmative action program in "Grutter v. Bollinger". Justice O'Connor's opinion agreed with the university's position, holding that using race in public universities' admissions decisions was permissible.
- Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During Bush's first term in office, he was appointed the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs.
- Royce C. Lamberth
Royce C. Lamberth is a judge in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Lamberth was born in 1943 in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas and from the University of Texas School of Law, receiving an LL.B. in 1967. He served as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the United States Army from 1968 to 1974, including one year in Vietnam.
- Alice S. Fisher
Alice S. Fisher was appointed by President George W. Bush in a recess appointment August 31, 2005, as Assistant Attorney General to head the Criminal Division in the United States Department of Justice. Fisher was nominated March 29, 2005, and her nomination was sent to the Senate April 4, 2005. Her nomination was stalled over interrogation tactics at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval facility. She was confirmed by the senate on September 19, 2006.
- Philip Perry
Philip J. Perry (born 1964, San Diego County, California) is an American attorney and Bush Administration political appointee. He was Acting Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. Perry is a member of the Federalist Society. He is currently a partner at Latham & Watkins in their litigation department.
- Jack Quinn
Jack Quinn (born August 16, 1949) is an American lawyer and political figure. He served as White House Counsel to U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1996. Quinn was born and grew up in New York. He attended Georgetown University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971.
- Joyce Hens Green
Joyce Hens Green (b.1928) is a Senior United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia.
- Plato Cacheris
Plato Cacheris is an American lawyer. Cacheris is the son of a Greek immigrant. He grew up in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father co-owned a chain of restaurants including the historic downtown restaurant The Waffle Shop in Washington, D.C. In 1951, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps as an officer candidate, but left in 1953 to enter law school.
- Ron Klain
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- John Goode
John Goode, Jr. (May 27, 1829 - July 14, 1909) was a prominent Virginia Democratic politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War and then was a three-term antebellum United States Congressman, as well as the acting Solicitor General of the United States. Goode was born in Bedford County, Virginia. He was graduated at Emory and Henry College in 1848, studied law at Lexington, Virginia, and was admitted to the bar in 1851.
- Virginia Lamp Thomas
Virginia Lamp Thomas (born February 23, 1941) is the wife of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and a consultant at the conservative public policy Washington, D.C. based research institute, the Heritage Foundation. She had previously participated in the controversial Lifespring training, but later became a critic of the organization.