The University of Virginia School of Law is a public law school in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is an incomplete list of its notable alumni.
Academia
- Stephen Bainbridge (1985) â William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Richard Bonnie (1969) â Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Hardy Cross Dillard (1927) â dean, UVA Law School; judge, International Court of Justice
- Charles M. Elson (1985) â Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, Professor of Finance, University of Delaware
- Jerry Falwell Jr. (1987) â President, Liberty University
- Patrick Finnegan (1979) â 12th academic dean of U.S. Military Academy and 25th president of Longwood University
- Gary Francione (1981) â Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers Law School
- Elizabeth Garrett (1988) â 13th president of Cornell University
- A.E. Dick Howard (1961) â White Burkett Miller Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia Law School
- John Jeffries (1973) â 12th dean and David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Andrew Leipold (1985) â Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
- M. Elizabeth Magill (1995) â provost of the University of Virginia, 13th dean of Stanford Law School
- Dayna Bowen Matthew â 20th dean of the George Washington University Law School
- Michael McCann (2002) â founding director of the UNH Law Sports and Entertainment Law Institute, University of New Hampshire School of Law
- William Ephraim Mikell (1894) â dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Blake Morant (1978) â dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor, George Washington University Law School
- James Pfander (1982) â Owen L. Coon Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- W. Taylor Reveley, III (1968) â president, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School
- W. Taylor Reveley IV (2002) â 26th president of Longwood University
- Jacob Rooksby (2007) â dean of Gonzaga University School of Law
- James E. Ryan (1992) â president of the University of Virginia
- Micah Schwartzman (2005) â Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- David Skeel (1987) â S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Paul B. Stephan (1977) â John C. Jeffries Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1877) â president of the College of William & Mary
- Joyce Vance (1985) â distinguished professor of the practice of law, University of Alabama School of Law
- Paul R. Verkuil (1967) â former president of College of William & Mary and former dean of Cardozo Law School; chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States
Business
- Donald Dell (1964) â founder of ProServ
- Eppa Hunton Jr. (1877) â founder of Hunton & Williams, president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
- Eppa Hunton IV (1927) â senior partner, chairman of the executive committee of Hunton & Williams
- Bruce Karsh (1980) â Investor, founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, Executive Board Member of Golden State Warriors
- Peter S. Kaufman (1978) â investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
- Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) â vice president and general counsel, Procter & Gamble
- Ted Mathas (1992) â chairman, president, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
- Alexander F. Mathews. (1856) â president and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte
- Thomas M. Moriarty (1989) â executive vice president, chief policy and external affairs officer, and general counsel, CVS Health
- John E. Osborn (1983) â former executive vice president and general counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- R. Hewitt Pate (1987) â general counsel, Chevron
- Craig Silliman (1994) â executive vice president global services, Verizon
Civil rights and nonprofit
Entertainment
Government
- Tillman Breckenridge (2001) - Solicitor General of Virginia
- John Bridgeland (1987) â director, USA Freedom Corps
- Mortimer Caplin (1940) â former commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
- Doug Gansler (1989) â Attorney General of Maryland
- Lee E. Goodman (1990) â chairman, Federal Election Commission
- Todd Graves (1991) â U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri
- Tim Heaphy (1991) â U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia
- Pete Holmes (1984) â Seattle City Attorney
- Brendan Johnson (2001) â U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
- Max Kennedy (1992) â board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
- Edwin Kneedler (1975) â Deputy United States Solicitor General
- Zane David Memeger (1991) â U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2010âÂÂ2016)
- David Metcalf (2012) â United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
- Robert Mueller (1973) â Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Trevor Potter (1982) â chairman of Federal Election Commission
- John N. Raudabaugh (1977) â staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; member, National Labor Relations Board 1990âÂÂ1993
- William B. Schultz (1974) â general counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Scott A. Surovell (1996) â Senate Majority Leader, Virginia State Senate
- Joyce White Vance (1985) â United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
- Peter S. Vincent (1995) â principal legal advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; acting director of ICE's Office of International Affairs, Homeland Security Investigations
- Andy Vollmer (1978) â acting general counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
- James B. Whitfield (1886) â state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
- Michael C. Wholley (1977) â general counsel, NASA
- Frank Wisner (1934) â head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s
Judiciary
- G. Steven Agee (1977) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Carol Amon (1971) â judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- John Antoon (2001, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Lewis Babcock (1998, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- Shepard Barclay (1869) - justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
- Alice M. Batchelder (1988) â chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Peter Beer (1986, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Robert Beezer (1956) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Carol A. Beier (2004, LL.M) â judge, Kansas Supreme Court
- Robert Benham (1990, LL.M) â judge, Georgia Supreme Court
- Duane Benton (1995, LL.M) â judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Susan H. Black (1984) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Pasco Bowman II (1979, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- John White Brockenbrough â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Mary Beck Briscoe (1990, LL.M) â chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- John T. Broderick Jr. (1972) â chief justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
- Janice Rogers Brown (2004, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- James O. Browning (1981) â judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
- Albert Vickers Bryan (1921) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- John D. Butzner Jr. (1941, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Consuelo MarÃÂa Callahan (2004, LL.M) â judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (1973) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Ronald D. Castille (1971) â chief justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Robert J. Conrad (1983) â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1988, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- James L. Dennis (1984) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Hardy Cross Dillard (1927) â judge, International Court of Justice; dean, UVA Law School
- Robert D. Durham (1998, LL.M) â justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- James Larry Edmondson (1990, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Richard Alan Enslen (1986, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- Orinda D. Evans (1998, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- John A. Field Jr. (1935) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Louise W. Flanagan (1988) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Paul C. Gartzke (1992) â presiding judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Julia Smith Gibbons (1975) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- John A. Gibney Jr. (1976) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Patricia Tolliver Giles (1998) - judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- John Gleeson (1980) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- George H. Goodrich (1952) â judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- Thomas B. Griffith (1985) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Asher Grunis (1972, LL.M) â President, Supreme Court of Israel
- Michael Daly Hawkins (1998, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Toby J. Heytens (2000) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Sven Erik Holmes (1980) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
- Virginia Hopkins (1977) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Lynn Nettleton Hughes (1992, LL.M) â judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Willis Hunt (1990, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Raymond Alvin Jackson (1973) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Denise R. Johnson (LL.M., 1995) â first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court
- James Parker Jones (1965) â Chief judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- Daniel Porter Jordan III (1993) â judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Barbara Milano Keenan (1992, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- James Kinkeade (1998, LL.M.) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Cynthia D. Kinser (1977) â chief justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- Jeannette Knoll (Master of Laws, 1996) â associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
- Benson Everett Legg (1973) â judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Peter K. Leisure (1958) â judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Donald Lemons (1976) â chief justice Supreme Court of Virginia
- Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. (1998, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- Kermit Lipez (1990, LL.M.) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- J. Michael Luttig (1981) â former judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co.
- Blanche M. Manning (1992, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Boyce F. Martin Jr. (1963, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Mark D. Martin (1998) â judge North Carolina Supreme Court
- James Clark McReynolds (1884) â former justice, United States Supreme Court
- Amit Priyavadan Mehta (1997) â judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Lawrence E. Meyers (1998, LL.M) â judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth
- Paul Redmond Michel (1966) â Chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Donald M. Middlebrooks (2004, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Michael P. Mills (2001, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
- Richard Henry Mills (1982, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- Norman K. Moon (1988, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- William Theodore Moore Jr. (2001, LL.M) â judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
- John T. Morton (1994) â assistant secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Diana Gribbon Motz (1968) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- J. Frederick Motz (1967) â judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Glenn Murdock (1981) â justice, Supreme Court of Alabama
- Alan Eugene Norris (1986) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Donal O'Donnell (1983, LL.M) â chief justice of Ireland, Supreme Court of Ireland
- Diarmuid O'Scannlain (1992, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- John Pelander (1998, LL.M) justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
- Cleo E. Powell (1982) â justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- William R. Quinlan (1989, LL.M) â justice, Illinois Appellate Court, Corporation Counsel to the City of Chicago
- Stanley Forman Reed (1908) â former justice, United States Supreme Court
- Carlton W. Reeves (1989) â judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Kenneth Francis Ripple (1968) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (1988, LL.M) judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- John Roll (1990, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Robert D. Rucker (1998, LL.M) â judge, Indiana Supreme Court
- Thomas G. Saylor (2004, LL.M) â judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Michael H. Schneider Sr. (2001, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- Arthur J. Schwab (1972) â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Murray Merle Schwartz (1982, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) â chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court
- G. Kendall Sharp (1963) â judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Robert J. Shelby (1988) â judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
- Randall Terry Shepard (1995 LL.M) â chief justice, Indiana Supreme Court
- Eugene E. Siler Jr. (1963) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Edward Samuel Smith (1947) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- William Lloyd Standish (1956) â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Louis L. Stanton (1955) â judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Walter King Stapleton (1984, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Myron T. Steele (1970) â chief justice, Delaware Supreme Court
- Chester J. Straub (1961) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Richard F. Suhrheinrich (1990, LL.M) â Senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Richard Barclay Surrick (1982, LL.M) â judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Eric C. Taylor (1988) â presiding judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court
- Debra Todd (2004, LL.M) â judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Juan R. Torruella (1984, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Jamar K. Walker (2011) - judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- James B. Whitfield (1886) â state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
- Michael J. Wilkins (2001, LL.M) â Associate chief justice, Utah Supreme Court
- J. Harvie Wilkinson (1972) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Glen Morgan Williams (1948) â judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- Victor J. Wolski (1991) â judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
- James Andrew Wynn (1995, LL.M) â judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Literature and journalism
Politics
- Charles C. Adams Jr. (1973) â United States Ambassador to Finland
- George Allen (1977) â U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and 67th Governor of Virginia
- J. Lindsay Almond (1923) â 58th Governor of Virginia; judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Nathan L. Bachman (1903) â U.S. Senator from Tennessee
- Gerald Baliles (1967)- 65th Governor of Virginia
- Alben W. Barkley (1900) â U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States
- John S. Battle (1913)- 56th Governor of Virginia
- Robert Bauer (1976) â White House Counsel, general counsel of the Obama Campaign
- Evan Bayh (1981) â U.S. Senator and governor of Indiana
- Andy Beshear (2003) â governor of Kentucky (2019âÂÂpresent), Attorney General of Kentucky (2015 âÂÂ2019)
- Kit Bond (1963) â U.S. Senator and governor of Missouri
- Rick Boucher (1971) â U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Debra Bowen (1979) â Secretary of State of California
- Alan Stephenson Boyd (1948) â U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Harry F. Byrd Jr. (1936) â U.S. Senator from Virginia
- Bryan Callaghan Jr. (1874) â mayor of San Antonio, Texas for 16 years
- Millard F. Caldwell (1924) â U.S. Congressman and governor of Florida
- Edward M. Carmouche (1948) â chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Robin Carnahan (1986) â Missouri Secretary of State
- James Paul Clarke (1878) â U.S. Senator and governor of Arkansas
- John Cornyn (1995) â U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas
- John N. Dalton (1957)- 63rd Governor of Virginia
- Tom Davis (1975) â U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- S. Hubert Dent Jr., former U.S. Congressman for the 2nd District of Alabama and Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs during World War I
- Frank M. Dixon (1943) â governor of Alabama
- Tom Donilon (1985) â U.S. National Security Advisor
- Paul Erickson (1988) â conservative political operative, subject to federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Fred Fielding (1964) â White House Counsel
- William Meade Fishback (1855) â governor of Arkansas
- Randy Forbes (1977) â U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Luis G. Fortuño (1985) â governor of Puerto Rico
- Grenville Gaines (1876) â mayor of Warrenton, Virginia
- Jim Gilmore (1977) â 68th Governor of Virginia
- Mills Godwin (1940)- 60th & 62nd Governor of Virginia
- Virgil Goode (1973) â U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Albertis Harrison (1928)- 59th Governor of Virginia
- William J. Howell (1967) â Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Frederick W. M. Holliday (1848)- 38th Governor of Virginia
- Bob Inglis (1984) â U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
- John Neely Kennedy (1977) â U.S. Senator from Louisiana
- Ted Kennedy (1959) â U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic presidential candidate
- Robert F. Kennedy (1951) â Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic presidential candidate
- Angus King (1969) â U.S. Senator and former governor of Maine
- Sheila Jackson-Lee (1975) â U.S. Congresswoman from Texas
- Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) â chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Sean Patrick Maloney (1992) â U.S. Congressman from New York
- Thurgood Marshall Jr. (1981) â Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton
- Jennifer McClellan (1997) â U.S. Congresswoman from Virginia, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegates
- Donald McEachin (1986) â U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- George McMillan (1979) â lieutenant governor of Alabama, Alabama Senate, Alabama House of Representatives
- Andrew Jackson Montague (1885)- 44th Governor of Virginia
- Janet Napolitano (1983) â U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, governor of Arizona, president of the University of California
- Bill Nelson (1968) â U.S. Senator from Florida
- Kirstjen Nielsen (1999) â U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
- Chris Obenshain (2006)- Virginia State Delegate from the 41st district
- Simon Cataldo (2014) â Massachusetts State Representative for the 14th Middlesex
- Walter Tansill Oliver (1873âÂÂ1932) âÂÂ, state delegate and state senator from Virginia; mayor of Fairfax, Virginia
- Henry A. Osborn Jr. (1884âÂÂ1918) â politician
- Ken Paxton (1991) â Attorney General of Texas
- W. Robert Pearson (1968) â U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
- Matthew S. Petersen (1999) â commissioner and former chairman, Federal Election Commission
- H. Foster Pettit â Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky]
- Heather Podesta (1997) â American lobbyist
- Charles Robb (1973) â U.S. Senator and 64th Governor of Virginia
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (1940) â U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Hugh D. Scott (1922) â U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate
- Faryar Shirzad â advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
- Howard Worth Smith (1903) â U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- John C. Stennis (1927) â U.S. Senator from Mississippi
- Harry F. Stimpson Jr. â Ambassador to Paraguay
- Claude A. Swanson (1886)- 45th Governor of Virginia
- John V. Tunney (1959) â U.S. Senator from California
- John Warner (1953) â U.S. Senator from Virginia
- Tahesha Way (1996) â 3rd Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey
- Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (1958) â U.S. Senator and governor of Connecticut
- Sheldon Whitehouse (1982) â U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
- Woodrow Wilson (attended 1879) â President of the United States
Science
- Susan Kolb (dropped out) â medical doctor and author
Sports
References