- Sandra Day O'Connor
Born in 1930, O'Connor, grew up on an 198,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. By the time she was 8, she could mend fences, drive a truck and ride horses with the cowboys on the ranch. In 1952, she graduated from Stanford Law School in California. But law firms would not hire a woman lawyer, so she turned to public service. "In my lifetime, I have seen attitudes about women change dramatically," she told TFK. "Today, almost all occupations are open to women.
- Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist , Attorney General (State of Florida)
- Tom Ridge
Secretary Ridge explained that the Privacy Officer for the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for ensuring that the department's policies protect privacy rights of American citizens afforded by our Constitution and laws. The Privacy Officer is also tasked with ensuring that the use of technologies within the Department sustain, and do not erode, privacy protections.
- Bill Nelson
Clarence William "Bill" Nelson is the senior U.S. Senator from Florida. Nelson is a Democrat. Nelson became the second sitting member of the United States Congress to fly in space when he flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia as a Payload Specialist during NASA mission STS-61-C (January 12–18, 1986).
- David Paterson
David A. Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician and the current Lieutenant Governor of New York. He is the first African American to hold this position. He was selected as running mate by New York Attorney General and Democratic Party nominee Eliot Spitzer in the 2006 New York gubernatorial election. Paterson was born legally blind in Brooklyn in 1954. He received a BA from Columbia University in 1977 and later his law degree from Hofstra Law School.
- David Brown
David Brown is a lawyer, radio personality and journalist who hosted the nationally syndicated "Marketplace" radio program from American Public Media from September, 2003 to August, 2005. Prior to becoming host of that program, David Brown was one of its senior producers. Before joining the "Marketplac"e team, Brown worked in several roles including reporter and producer for The Christian Science Monitor newspaper's "Monitor Radio" service.
- Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Suzanne Green Baldwin (born February 11, 1962), American politician, is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing (map). Baldwin was born in Madison, Wisconsin, where she was raised, to Pamela Green. Baldwin graduated from Madison West High School in 1980. She earned a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1984, and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 1989.
- Franz Kafka
What will be my fate as a writer is very simple. My talent for portraying my dreamlike inner life has thrust all matters into the background; my life has dwindled dreadfully, nor will it cease to dwindle. Nothing else will ever sat
- Peter Fitzgerald
Peter G. Fitzgerald (born October 20, 1960) was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 1999 until 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1992 to 1998, where he was a member of the 'Fab Five' group of conservative state senators who often challenged the leadership of the Illinois Republican party. The group also included Steve Rauschenberger, Dave Syverson, Patrick O'Malley, and Chris Lauzen.
- John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 - October 14, 1911) was an American Supreme Court associate justice. He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the infamous 1896 case of "Plessy v. Ferguson", which upheld Southern segregation statutes. He was also the first Supreme Court justice to have earned a modern law degree.
- Dmitry Medvedev
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (Russian: Дмитрий Анатольевич Медведев; born September 14, 1965 in Leningrad), is a Russian politician and businessman. He was appointed first deputy prime minister of the Russian government on November 14, 2005. Formerly Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, he is also the chairman of Gazprom's board of directors, a post he has held for the second time since 2000.
- Zack Space
Zachary T. (Zack) Space (b. January 27, 1961) of Dover, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic Party and presently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio's 18th Congressional district. Space won the seat in the November 7, 2006 election, defeating state Senator Joy Padgett. Space's seat was formerly held by Republican Bob Ney, who plead guilty to conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Abramoff scandal.
- Doug Gansler
Douglas F. "Doug" Gansler (born 1962) is a Maryland politician and Attorney General of Maryland. Gansler won the Democratic nomination in the primary election on September 12, 2006, and beat Republican Scott Rolle in the general election on November 7, 2006. Gansler spent some of his early years in New Jersey before moving to the Washington area in the mid-1970's. His political ambition seems to have been incubated early.
- Robert Shapiro
Robert Leslie Shapiro, is a high-profile attorney who is most notable for being part of the defense team which successfully defended O.J. Simpson from the charges that he murdered his ex-wife Nicole and Ronald Goldman in 1994 (the trial was in 1995). He also worked for famous athletes Darryl Strawberry, José Canseco and Vince Coleman as well as other celebrities like Johnny Carson and Linda Lovelace.
- Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin, PC, LL.D, M.A., LL.B, BA (born September 7, 1943) is the Chief Justice of Canada, the first woman to hold that position.
- Theo Epstein
Theo Nathan Epstein (born December 29, 1973 in New York City) is the Executive Vice President/General Manager of the Boston Red Sox. In November 2002, the Red Sox made him the youngest GM in the history of Major League Baseball by hiring him at the age of 28. In 2004 he engineered the first World Series championship by the Red Sox in 86 years. Epstein resigned in October 2005, but was rehired as GM and Executive Vice President on January 24, 2006.
- Tzipi Livni
Tzipora Malka "Tzipi" Livni (born July 8 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is Foreign Affairs Minister, Acting Prime Minister of Israel, and a leading member of the Kadima party. Following the March 2006 Knesset election and the subsequent negotations for formation of Israel's 31st Government, some observers believed that Livni had emerged as "the second most powerful politician in Israel," after Ehud Olmert.
- John Delaney
John Adrian Delaney (born June 29, 1956) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He was the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, serving two consecutive terms from 1995 to 2003. After being succeeded by John Peyton in July 2003, Delaney was appointed president of the University of North Florida. Delaney was born in Lansing, Michigan and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His family moved to Jacksonville when he was 16.
- Dave Freudenthal
David Duane "Dave" Freudenthal (born October 12, 1950) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wyoming. A Democrat, Freudenthal is currently the governor of Wyoming, having been re-elected to a second term on 7 November, 2006. Freudenthal was born in Thermopolis, Wyoming, the seventh of eight children, and grew up on a farm north of town. He graduated from Amherst College in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in economics.
- Herb Kelleher
Herbert D. Kelleher (born March 12, 1931) is the co-founder, Chairman and former CEO of Southwest Airlines (based in the United States). Kelleher was born and raised in Haddon Heights, New Jersey. He has a bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and a Juris Doctor from New York University. At Wesleyan he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is married to the former Joan Negley and they have four children.
- Stewart Udall
Stewart was born in St. Johns in far eastern Arizona near the New Mexico line. He grew up as a farm boy, working the horse-drawn plow and cleaning out the irrigation ditch. He'll always have the southwestern high desert country in his blood. When you grow up in a small farming town and you raise your own food, Stewart has said, you are close to the ground, close to the animals: "I grew up in the Colorado plateau and I will love it always."
- John Burke
John Burke (February 25 1859-May 14 1937) was an American lawyer, jurist, and political leader from North Dakota. Burke was born in Keokuk County, Iowa and moved to the Dakota Territory. After North Dakota was admitted to the union, he served in the state's House of Representatives in 1891 and in its Senate from 1893 to 1896. He served three terms (1907-1913) as a Democratic governor at a time when the North Dakota Republican Party had little practical opposition.
- Nick Griffin
Nicholas John "Nick" Griffin (born 1959) is a British far-right politician. Since 1999 he has been the National Chairman of the British National Party (BNP).
- 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.
- W. Mark Felt
William Mark Felt, Sr. (born August 17 1913) is a former agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, who retired in 1973 as the Bureau's Associate Director. After thirty years of denying his involvement with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Felt revealed himself on May 31, 2005, to be the Watergate scandal whistleblower called "Deep Throat". Felt worked in several FBI field offices prior to his promotion to the Bureau's Washington headquarters.
- 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.
- Roger Wilkins
Roger Wilkins (born March 1932) is an American civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist. He is best known for his role as one of the journalists to expose the Watergate scandal. Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Michigan. He was educated at Creston High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and received a bachelor's degree in 1953 and a law degree in 1956 from the University of Michigan, where he interned with the NAACP.
- Doug Lamborn
Doug Lamborn (born May 24, 1954, Leavenworth, Kansas) is a Republican politician for the U.S. state of Colorado. He currently serves in the United States House of Representatives as the Congressman for Colorado's 5th congressional district. Lamborn attended the University of Kansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism and graduated with his Juris Doctor. Lamborn practiced law as an attorney before entering politics.
- Marc Kielburger
Marc Kielburger has inspired young people around the globe to become socially involved and change the world on local, national and international levels. At a young age, life took an unexpected turn for Kielburger when he arrived in Thailand to teach English and work with AIDS patients. He realized the extent to which he could help others, especially children, around the world.
- 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.
- Elizabeth Garrett
Elizabeth Garrett is the Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Vice President for Academic Planning and Budget at the University of Southern California Law School. Garrett is also Director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics. Garrett earned her bachelor of arts in history from University of Oklahoma in 1985, and her law degree from University of Virginia School of Law in 1988.
- Chris Zorich
Christopher Robert Zorich (born March 13, 1969 in Chicago) is a retired American football player. He was a defensive tackle. An only child of African American and Croatian descent, Zorich was raised by his mother on the South Side of Chicago, where he attended Chicago Vocational High School. He received a scholarship to play football for the University of Notre Dame in 1987, and he would win multiple accolades during his tenure with the Fighting Irish, …
- Kate Brown
Kate Brown, is a Democratic American politician and attorney serving in the Oregon State Senate, and the first woman to serve as Senate Majority Leader. She has been Majority Leader since 2004. Brown represents Oregon's 21st senate district, which includes portions of Northeast and Southeast Portland and Milwaukie.
- Mike Papantonio
James Michael Papantonio (born October 24, 1953), popularly known as Mike Papantonio, is an American attorney and radio talk show host. A prominent trial lawyer, he co-hosts "Ring of Fire", a national-syndicated weekly program on Air America Radio, with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a fellow attorney. Papantonio graduated from the University of Florida and received his law degree from Cumberland School of Law.
- Buddy Mackay
Kenneth Hood "Buddy" MacKay, Jr. (born March 22, 1933) is an American politician from Florida. A Democrat, he was briefly the forty-second Governor of Florida following the death of Lawton Chiles on December 12, 1998. MacKay was born to a citrus farming family in Ocala, Florida. He served in the United States Air Force during the 1950s, and then attended the University of Florida, eventually receiving a law degree.
- Alan Mollohan
Alan Bowlby Mollohan (born May 14, 1943, in Fairmont, West Virginia) is a Democratic member of United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 1st District (map). The district encompasses the northern part of the state; it based in Wheeling and includes Parkersburg, Morgantown, Fairmont and Clarksburg. He serves on the House Appropriations Committee and was ranking Democrat on the Ethics Committee until being asked to step down in 2006.
- Matt Brown
Matt Brown is the former Secretary of State of Rhode Island, and a Democrat. Brown announced that he would be a candidate for the United States Senate in 2006, challenging Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, but dropped out on April 26, 2006. His achievements in office included the development of the first, statewide Central Voter Registration System, the first online Lobbyist Registration system, …
- Alexi Giannoulias
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias delivers his inaugural address in Springfield. ... Springfield -- Alexi Giannoulias was sworn in as the Illinois State Treasurer on Monday, the first Democrat to hold the office in 12 years.
- Michael B. Coleman
Michael B. Coleman (b. November 18, 1954) is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He is the current mayor of Columbus, Ohio. Coleman earned an undergraduate degree in political science at the University of Cincinnati and a law degree from the University of Dayton. Coleman was a member of the Columbus City Council from 1992-1999, and served as President of the City Council from 1997-1999.
- Isabelle Mercier
Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier is a professional poker player. She is known for her tenacious playing style and her striking looks. Prior to turning to a poker career, she earned an undergraduate law degree from the Université de Montréal and practiced commercial law for a year. Then moved to Paris, France and earned a Masters Degree while working as the poker room manager at the Aviation Club de France, before turning to poker full-time.