- John Jay
John Jay (1817-94) was an American lawyer and diplomat, son of William Jay and a grandson of Chief Justice John Jay. He was born in New York City, graduated at Columbia College in 1836, and was admitted to the bar three years later. He early became intensely interested in the antislavery movement, and while still in college (1834) was president of the New York Young Men's Antislavery Society. He was active in the Free Soil Party movement, … - Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry (born 12 December 1948) was appointed the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on 7 May, 2005. He began serving as Chief Justice on 30 June, 2005. His status is currently uncertain, as he does not enjoy the privileges neither does he serve the duties of a Chief Justice. - James Watson
James Watson (April 6, 1750-May 15, 1806) was a Federalist U.S. Senator from New York. He was born in Woodbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale College in 1776. He was commissioned lieutenant in a Connecticut regiment during the American Revolutionary War and resigned as a captain in 1777. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Connecticut. - John O'Quinn
John O'Quinn (born 1941) is a legendary and controversial Texas trial lawyer and a partner at The O'Quinn Law Firm. His firm has made its business in litigation: suing breast implant manufacturers, medical facilities, tobacco companies, etc. O'Quinn received a public reprimand in 1989 from the State Bar after a lengthy investigation into allegations that his firm had wrongly solicited cases. - Gerard Brennan
Sir Francis Gerard Brennan, AC KBE, QC (布仁立爵士) (born 22 May, 1928), was an Australian lawyer, judge and 10th Chief Justice of Australia. He is father to Jesuit priest and lawyer Frank Brennan. Born in Rockhampton, he was educated at Downlands College in Queensland and in 1951 he was admitted to the Queensland Bar. Sir Gerard was appointed a QC in Queensland in 1965 and subsequently in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. - Richard White
Richard Weeks White is an Australian jurist. White, born 1954, was educated at Newington College and graduated from the University of Sydney with First-Class Honours in Law, and the University Medal, in 1976. In 1975 he was articled at Allen Allen and Hemsley to a partner, Bill Gummow, now Justice William Gummow of the High Court of Australia. From 1977 to 1978 White was an associate to Sir Nigel Bowen, the first Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Australia. - Thomas Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald (April 10 1796 - March 25 1855) was an American politician who served as a judge and state legislator in both Indiana and Michigan, and as a United States Senator from Michigan. Fitzgerald was born in Germantown, in Herkimer County, New York. His father was an Irish immigrant, and fought with the Continental Army, was wounded and received a pension. Thomas received a common school education and fought with the U.S. Army the War of 1812. - Thomas Penfield Jackson
Thomas Penfield Jackson (born January 10, 1937) was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 1982 after serving as president of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He is currently an attorney with the Jackson and Campbell, P.C., law firm. He graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1958, and from Harvard Law School in 1964. - Luther Martin
Luther Martin (February 9, 1748-July 8, 1826) was a politician and one of United States' Founding Fathers, but refused to sign the Constitution because he felt it violated states' rights. Like many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Luther Martin attended the College of New Jersey (later Princeton), from which he graduated at the head of a class of 35 in 1766. Though born in Metuchen, New Jersey, in 1748, … - Kapil Sibal
Kapil Sibal was born in Jalandhar, Punjab on August 8 1948. He obtained his M.A. in History from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, USA. He was offered appointment to the Indian Administrative Service, but declined the offer. He joined the Bar association in 1972. He was designated as a senior advocate in 1983. He has contributed articles on important issues such as security, nuclear proliferation, terrorism etc., … - Samuel Walker
Sir Samuel Walker, 1st Baronet (June 19 1832 - August 13 1911) was an Irish Liberal politician and lawyer. Born at Gore Port Finea County Westmeath, he was educated at Portarlington School and Trinity College Dublin before being called to the bar in 1855. In 1872, he was made a Queen's Counsel, and eleven years later he became Ireland's Solicitor General. The following year, he was elected Liberal Member of Parliament for County Londonderry, … - Robert McClelland
Robert McClelland (August 1, 1807 - August 30, 1880) was a U.S. statesman, serving as U.S. Representative from Michigan, Governor of Michigan, and United States Secretary of the Interior. - John Bassett Moore
John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 - November 12, 1947) was an American authority on international law who was a member of the Hague Tribunal and the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice (the "World Court"). He was born in Smyrna, Delaware, graduated at the University of Virginia in 1880, and was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1883. From 1885 to 1886 he was a law clerk at the Department of State, then an Assistant Secretary of State. - John Norton Pomeroy
John Norton Pomeroy (1828-1885) was an American lawyer and legal writer, born in Rochester, N. Y., where he practiced law for many years following his graduation from Hamilton College (1847) and his admittance to the state bar in 1851. He interrupted his law practice from 1864 to 1868 to serve as professor of law and political science and dean of the law faculty at the University of New York, … - Edward King
Edward King (born January 31, 1794; died May 8, 1873) was a prominent 19th century lawyer and jurist, perhaps best known today as having twice been unsuccessfully nominated to the United States Supreme Court. King was born in Philadelphia and admitted to the Pennsylvania bar in 1816. Soon after, he entered politics, initially as a Federalist and later as a Democrat, eventually rising to leader of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania. - Wong Yan Lung
Wong Yan Lung <small>,SC,JP</small> (born 1963) is currently the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from October 20,2005. Before his appointment, he was barrister in private practice. He sat as Deputy High Court Judge of the Court of First Instance in July and August in 2003, and was a Council member of the Council of the Hong Kong Bar Association from 1989 to 1990, … - Charles E. Freeman
Charles E. Freeman (born 1933) is an American attorney, judge and member of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was elected to his position on the court on November 6, 1990, becoming its first African-American justice. He served as chief justice from May 12, 1997 to January 1, 2000. His political affiliation is Democratic, and his home city is Chicago. - 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., … - Robinson O. Everett
Robinson O. Everett was born in Durham, North Carolina, March 18, 1928 to a family of lawyers: his grandfather and both of his parents being noted North Carolina attorneys. His father, Reuben Oscar Everett, was one of the first five law students at Duke and practiced law for 66 years until his death, in his law office, at age 92. His mother was one of the first women to graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she ranked at the head of her class, … - Jan Schlichtmann
Jan Richard Schlichtmann (16 March 1951-) is an American attorney specializing in personal injury law and toxic torts. He was educated at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, B.A., and Cornell University, J.D., and was admitted to the bar in 1977. - Anthony Clarke
Sir Anthony Peter Clarke, QC (born 13 May 1943) is a British Judge who has been Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice since 3 October 2005. Clarke was educated at Oakham School and King's College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar (Middle Temple) in 1965. In 1979 he became a Queen's Counsel and then a Recorder sitting in both criminal and civil courts. He was made a Judge of the High Court in 1993, and in April that year succeeded Mr. - William Cox
William John Ellis Cox, LL.B, AC, RFD, ED (born April 1 1936, Hobart, Tasmania) has been Governor of Tasmania since 15 December 2004, prior to which he was the state's Chief Justice. Born to the Hon. William Ellis Cox, CBE, MC (d. 1970) and Alice Mary Mulcahy Cox (d. 1983), William John Ellis Cox was educated at St. Virgil's College, Hobart, Xavier College, Melbourne and the University of Tasmania. He was graduated from the University of Tasmania (B.A., … - J. Lee Rankin
James Lee Rankin was the 31st U.S. Solicitor General, from 1956 to 1961. In 1952, Rankin managed the Dwight Eisenhower for President campaign in Nebraska and in 1953, Eisenhower selected Rankin to serve as United States Assistant Attorney General. Known for his straightforward, quiet, and friendly demeanor, Rankin (known to his friends and colleagues as Lee), loved to tend roses, play the piccolo, and was an enthusiastic amateur photographer. - Edmund Rice
Edmund Rice (February 14, 1819 - July 11, 1889) was an American politician. He was born in Waitsfield, Vermont and moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan in November 1838 to study law. He was admitted to the bar association in 1842 and commenced practice in Kalamazoo. Rice enlisted to serve in the Mexican-American War in 1847 and commissioned first lieutenant of Company A, First Regiment, Michigan Volunteers. He was the brother of Henry Mower Rice. - Richard Henderson
Richard Henderson (1734-1785) was an American pioneer/ merchant who attempted to create a colony called Transylvania just as the American Revolutionary War was starting. - Elizabeth Odio Benito
Elizabeth Odio Benito (born 15 September 1939) is a Vice-President of the International Criminal Court. She previously served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and in her home country of Costa Rica was twice appointed Justice Minister, later becoming Vice-President of the Republic. Her background is as an academic lawyer, specialising in the administration of justice and human rights, in particular the rights of women. - Norman Pearlstine
Norman Pearlstine (born October 4 1942, in Philadelphia) is the former editor in chief of Time Inc.. He served as editor in chief between January 1 1995, and December 31, 2005. At the end of his tenure, he was responsible for the content of Time Inc's 154 publications. Through 2006, he served as a senior advisor to Time Warner. In September 2006, he joined The Carlyle Group as a senior advisor to the firm's telecommunications and media group. - Horace Gray
Horace Gray (March 24, 1828 - September 15, 1902) was an American jurist who ultimately served on the United States Supreme Court. - Stephen Adams
Stephen Adams (October 17, 1807 - May 1, 1857) was a United States Representative and Senator from Mississippi. Born in the Pendleton District, South Carolina, he moved with his parents to Franklin County, Tennessee in 1812. He attended the public schools, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1829, and was a member of the Tennessee Senate in 1833-1834. - Philip Hart
Philip Aloysius Hart (December 10, 1912-December 26, 1976) was a Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 until 1976. He was nicknamed the "Conscience of the Senate". He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and attended Waldron Academy and parochial schools. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1934 and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1937. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1938 and practiced law in Detroit. - Dennis Byron
Sir Charles Michael Dennis Byron was born in 1943 in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, the first of four children to Vincent and Pearl Byron. Having won the Leeward Islands Scholarship, Dennis, as he is usually called, went on to read law at the world-renowned Cambridge University, U.K., in 1962, before being called to the Bar at the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple as Barrister-at-Law of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales. - Brien McMahon
Brien McMahon (b. October 6 1903, Norwalk, Connecticut - d. July 28 1952, Washington, D.C.) was born James O'Brien McMahon. McMahon was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate (as a Democrat from Connecticut) from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission, through his authorship of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (the McMahon Act). - Isaac Thomas
Isaac Thomas was an American politician representing Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives. He was born in Sevierville, Tennessee on November 4, 1784. After the death of his parents, he moved to Winchester, Tennessee in 1800. He was self-educated, and he studied law. He was admitted to bar in 1808 and practiced in Winchester. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fourteenth Congress, which lasted from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817. - Robert Lansing
Robert Lansing (October 17, 1864 - October 30, 1928) served in the position of Legal Advisor to the State Department at the outbreak of World War I where he vigorously advocated against Britain's policy of blockade and in favor of the principals of freedom of the seas and the rights of neutral nations. He then served as United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson between 1915 and 1920. - John Catron
John Catron (January 7, 1786 - May 30, 1865) was an American jurist who served as a Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865. Little is known of Catron's early life, but he served in the War of 1812 under Andrew Jackson. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1815 and established a land law practice in Nashville in 1818. He served on the Tennessee Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals from 1824 until 1834, being elevated to Chief Justice of that court in 1831. - Arabella Mansfield
Arabella Mansfield née Belle Aurelia Babb, became the first female lawyer in the United States when she was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1869. - Horace Binney
Horace Binney (January 4, 1780 - August 12, 1875) was an American lawyer. Binney was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from Harvard College in 1797; he then studied law in the office of Jared Ingersoll (1749 - 1822), who had been a member of the Constitutional convention of 1787, and who from 1791 to 1800 and again from 1811 to 1816 was the attorney-general of Pennsylvania. - Otto Schily
Otto Georg Schily was Federal Minister of the Interior of Germany from 1998-2005, in the cabinet of former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Born in Bochum as the son of a mining plant director, he grew up in a family of anthroposophists. His younger brother is Konrad Schily, an academic and also a politician. In 1962, he passed his second state exam after having studied law and politics in Munich, Hamburg, and Berlin, thus being admitted to the bar; a year later, … - Neville Wran
Neville Kenneth Wran AC QC (born 11 October 1926) was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991 - Peter Detkin
Peter N. Detkin is a managing partner for Intellectual Ventures. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S.E.E. in 1982 and J.D. in 1985. He worked as a patent attorney for Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati of Palo Alto, becoming a partner in 1992. Following this, he worked as Vice President and assistant general counsel in charge of patents, litigation, licensing and antitrust/competition law for Intel, …
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