This list of notable people associated with Claremont McKenna College includes matriculating students, alumni, attendees, faculty, trustees, and honorary degree recipients of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
Notable alumni
Politics
Nonprofit
Business
Academia
Entertainment
Military
Writing and journalism
Dropouts and transfers
Notable faculty
- William Ascher - Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics; dean of the faculty 2000âÂÂ2005; prolific author; winner of the G. David Huntoon, Sr., Award for Superior Teaching
- Fred Balitzer - professor of government; director of the Republican National Committee under President Ronald Reagan, chairman of Scholars for Reagan-Bush in 1984, and special emissary to the Sultan of Brunei; helped bring about diplomatic relations with China and Israel and played a leading role in preventing efforts to make the District of Columbia a state
- Roderic Ai Camp - McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim; author of 34 books on Mexico and Latin America; founding member of the Advisory Board, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2003âÂÂpresent; elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; Global Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2017âÂÂpresent; recipient of the Medal of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed to a foreigner for his contributions to Mexico
- Ross Eckert - professor of economics who dedicated his life to cleaning up the blood supply; worked on market-incentives to reduce congestion; worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation (deceased)
- Ward Elliott - researched market solutions to Los Angeles smog problem; drafted the economic-incentives of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
- Diane Halpern - former president of the American Psychological Association
- Eric Helland - professor of Economics, senior staff economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2003âÂÂ2004)
- Alan Heslop - government consultant, founding director of the Rose Institute, felon, and former dean of faculty
- Harry V. Jaffa - professor of political philosophy, scholar of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Aristotelian virtue, and the American founding; The National Review described Jaffa as "the foremost contemporary interpreter of the American political tradition"
- Charles Kesler - editor of the Claremont Review of Books and noted conservative scholar
- Jamaica Kincaid - novelist
- Kenneth P. Miller - professor of Government specializing in California politics, direct democracy, and state constitutional law; associate director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government
- Jonathan Petropoulos - historian and scholar of Holocaust-era looted art
- Mort Sahl - speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy; famed comedian
- Michael Uhlmann - former assistant attorney general to President Gerald Ford; special assistant to President Ronald Reagan; reportedly convinced Justice Clarence Thomas to join the federal judiciary
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