List of Stanford Law School alumni

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Law and government

United States government

Executive branch

David L. Anderson (1990), United States Attorney for the Northern District of California
William Baer (1975), Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, United States Department of Justice
Xavier Becerra (1984), 25th U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (2021–present), Attorney General of California (2017–2021) U.S. Congressman (1993–2017)
Geoffrey Berman (1984), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Joshua B. Bolten (1980), White House Chief of Staff (2006–2009)
Brooksley Born (1964), former chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Warren Christopher (1949), 63rd U.S. Secretary of State
Nelson Cunningham, Cofounder of Kissinger Associates, former Special Advisor to the President for Western Hemisphere affairs
Fred Dutton (1949), Special Assistant to U.S. President John F. Kennedy, managed Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign
John Ehrlichman (1951), infamous figure in the Watergate scandal
Ivan K. Fong (1987), General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security
David J. Hayes (1978), Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. Department of the Interior
Roderick M. Hills (1955), former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1975–1977) and Cofounder of Munger, Tolles & Olson
Shirley Hufstedler (1949), first U.S. Secretary of Education (1979–1981) and Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1968–1979)
Robert K. Hur (2001), United States Attorney for the District of Maryland
Peter Koski (2005), United States Department of Justice trial attorney
Reuben Jeffery III, Under Secretary for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and former Chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission
Carol Lam (1985), former United States Attorney for the Southern District of California
Michelle Kwok Lee (1992), Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Cheryl Mills (1990), Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Wendy J. Olson (1990), United States Attorney for the District of Idaho
Robert S. Rivkin, 21st General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation
John Roos (1980), United States Ambassador to Japan (2009–2013)
Tony West (1992), Associate Attorney General of the United States

Legislative branch

Max Baucus (1967), U.S. Senator (1978–2014) and former U.S. Ambassador to China
Jeff Bingaman (1968), U.S. Senator (1983–2013)
Frank Church (1950), U.S. Senator (1957–1981)
William Donlon Edwards (1939), U.S. Congressman (1963–1995)
Pablo Hernández Rivera (2017), Resident commissioner of Puerto Rico (2025–present)
Ernest McFarland (1922), U.S. Senator (1941–1953)
Charles M. Teague (1934), U.S. Congressman (1955–1974)

Judicial branch

Supreme Court

Sandra Day O'Connor (1952), first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006)
William Rehnquist (1952), 16th Chief Justice of the United States (1986–2005), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1972–1986)

Courts of Appeals

Carlos Bea (1958), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Richard Harvey Chambers (1932), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Daniel P. Collins (1988), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Benjamin Cushing Duniway (1931), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Raymond C. Fisher (1966), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Michelle Friedland (2000), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Britt Grant (2007), Judge of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Cynthia Holcomb Hall (1954), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Procter R. Hug, Jr. (1958), Judge and former Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Gilbert H. Jertberg (1922), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cheryl Ann Krause (1993), Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Steven Menashi (2008), Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Justin Miller (1914), Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
William Albert Norris (1954), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
John B. Owens (1996), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Florence Y. Pan (1993), Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Peter J. Phipps (1998), Judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Pamela Ann Rymer (1964), Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Sri Srinivasan (1995), Judge of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

District Courts

Wayne Alley (1957), Judge of the Western District of Oklahoma
D. Brook Bartlett (1962), Judge of the Western District of Missouri
Jesus Bernal (1989), Judge of the Central District of California
Rudi M. Brewster (1960), Judge of the Southern District of California
Paul G. Cassell (1984), Judge of the District of Utah
Deborah K. Chasanow (1974), Judge of the District of Maryland
Samuel Conti (1948), Judge of the Northern District of California
Christopher Reid Cooper (1993), Judge of the District of Columbia
Walter Early Craig (1934), Judge of the District of Arizona
James Donato (1988), Judge of the Northern District of California
Gary Feinerman (1991), Judge of the Northern District of Illinois
Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr. (1994), Judge of the Northern District of California
Joan B. Gottschall (1973), Judge of the Northern District of Illinois
Thomas Poole Griesa (1958), Judge of the Southern District of New York
Harry Lindley Hupp (1955), Judge of the Central District of California
Susan Yvonne Illston (1973), Judge of the Northern District of California
Rachel Kovner (2006), Judge of the Eastern District of New York
Fred Kunzel (1927), Judge of the Southern District of California
Charles A. Legge (1954), Judge of the Northern District of California
Lawrence Tupper Lydick (1942), Judge of the Central District of California
Brian Morris (1992), Judge of the District of Montana
Kimberly J. Mueller (1995), Judge of the Eastern District of California
S. James Otero (1976), Judge of the Central District of California
Halil Suleyman Ozerden (1998), Judge of the Southern District of Mississippi
Robert Francis Peckham (1945), Judge of the Northern District of California
John Rolly Ross (1926), Judge of the District of Nevada
James V. Selna (1970), Judge of the Central District of California
Fern M. Smith (1975), Judge of the Northern District of California
Christina A. Snyder (1972), Judge of the Central District of California
Gus Jerome Solomon (1929), Judge of the District of Oregon
Sunshine Sykes (2001), Judge of the Central District of California
Bruce Rutherford Thompson (1936), Judge of the District of Nevada
Vaughn R. Walker (1970), Judge of the Northern District of California
James Ware (1972), Judge of the Northern District of California
Stanley Alexander Weigel (1928), Judge of the Northern District of California
David Keith Winder (1958), Judge of the District of Utah

State judiciary

Barbara Durham (1968), Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court (1995–1998)
Ronald M. George (1964), Chief Justice of California (1996–2011)
Patricia Guerrero (1997), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (2022–present)
Elizabeth A. Grimes, Associate Justice of the California Second District Court of Appeal, Division Eight
Rhoda V. Lewis (1929), Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court and first woman to serve on the Court (1959–1967)
Carlos R. Moreno (1975), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (2001–2011)
Frank K. Richardson (1938), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1974–1983)
Homer R. Spence (1915), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1945–1960)
Delbert E. Wong (1949), first Chinese-American judge in the continental United States

Non-United States government

Chen Show Mao (1992), Member of Parliament, Singapore
Sian Elias (JSM 1972), Chief Justice of New Zealand
Ronald Kenneth Noble (1982), Secretary General of Interpol and law professor

Other government

Edward C. DuMont (1986), Solicitor General of California
Dana K. Chipman (1986), Judge Advocate General of the United States Army
Matt Gonzalez (1990), Ralph Nader's 2008 vice presidential running mate, former president of San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Charles F. Lettow (1968), Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims
Dick Murphy, 33rd mayor of San Diego, California
Chuck Reed (1978), mayor of San Jose, California
Gordon Rosenmeier (1932), former Minnesota State Senator
William A. Sutherland (1898), former California State Assemblyman
John Van de Kamp (1959), 28th Attorney General of California
Jenifer Rajkumar (2008), current District Leader in Lower Manhattan and candidate for the New York State Assembly's 65th District

Academia

Kerry Abrams (1998), Dean of Duke University Law School
Michelle Alexander (1992), associate professor of law at Ohio State University and author of The New Jim Crow
H. Verlan Andersen (1946), former professor of law and business at Brigham Young University
Douglas G. Baird, professor of law and former Dean at the University of Chicago Law School
Bernard Bell, professor of law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Stuart Banner, legal historian and professor of law at the UCLA School of Law
Lillian BeVier, constitutional law scholar and professor emerita at the University of Virginia Law School
Brian W. Casey, president of DePauw University and former associate dean for academic affairs at Harvard University
Cara H. Drinan, professor of law at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law
Aaron Edlin, scholar of law and economics; professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley
Lia Epperson, civil rights lawyer; professor of law at American University Washington College of Law
Robin Feldman, legal scholar and professor of law at UC Hastings College of Law
Laura E. Gomez, former president of the Law and Society Association and law professor at the UCLA School of Law
Joseph Grundfest, scholar of corporate law, corporate governance, securities regulation, and professor at Stanford Law School
Chris Guthrie (1994), Dean of Vanderbilt University Law School
Gillian K. Hadfield, professor of law and economics at the University of Southern California
Michael Heller, real estate law scholar and professor of law at Columbia Law School
C. Scott Hemphill, antitrust and intellectual property scholar and professor of law at New York University Law School
Daniel P. Kessler (1993), health law scholar and professor at Stanford Law School and Stanford Business School
Michael Klarman (1983), constitutional law scholar and Harvard Law School professor
Gillian Lester (1998), Dean of Columbia Law School
David F. Levi (1980), former Dean of Duke University Law School and former Judge of the Eastern District of California
Sanford Levinson, constitutional law scholar and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law
Bernadette Meyler, constitutional law scholar and professor of law at Stanford Law School
Naomi Mezey, civil procedure scholar and professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center
Antony Page (1997), Dean of the Florida International University College of Law
Nathaniel Persily, election law and constitutional law scholar and professor at Stanford Law School
Gary R. Roberts, professor of law and former Dean of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Catherine Sandoval (1990), professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and first Hispanic commissioner in the California Public Utilities Commission
Gregory Shaffer, international trade law scholar and law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law
Norman Spaulding, civil procedure scholar and professor of law at Stanford Law School
Richard Harold Steinberg, international law scholar and professor of law at the UCLA School of Law
Allen S. Weiner, international legal scholar and co-director of the Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation at Stanford Law School
Robert Weisberg, criminal law scholar and professor of law at Stanford Law School
Paul R. Williams, president of the Public International Law & Policy Group and law professor at the American University Washington College of Law
Kimberly Yuracko (1998), professor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and former Dean
Graham J. Zellick CBE QC, Ford Foundation Fellow (1970–71), Vice Chancellor of the University of London (1997-2003)

Activism

Maya Harris (1992), Vice President for Peace and Social Justice at the Ford Foundation
Denis Hayes (1985), Founder, Earth Day Network
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
Edward Michael Keating (1950), newspaper publisher, journalist, author; founder and publisher of Ramparts (magazine) and activist within the New Left movement
Rebecca Love Kourlis (1976), Executive Director at the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
Anthony Romero (1990), Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (2001–present)
Marc Rotenberg, President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center
John D. Trasviña (1983), President of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)

Business

Chuck Armstrong (1967), president of the Seattle Mariners
Michael Arrington (1995), Internet journalist and entrepreneur
Riley Bechtel (1977), billionaire, Chairman and CEO, Bechtel Corporation
Orlando Bravo (1997), billionaire, co-founder and managing partner of private equity firm Thoma Bravo
James Crown (1980), President of Henry Crown and Company
David C. Drummond (1985), Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google
Bill Franke (1961), Chairman of Wizz Air and Frontier Airlines
Joel Greenblatt (1981, dropped out), hedge fund manager and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Gotham Asset Management
Larry Irving, former Vice President of Global Government Affairs for the Hewlett-Packard Company and President and CEO of the Irving Information Group
Richard Jencks, television executive and counsel, former President of CBS Broadcast Group
Fred von Lohmann, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google
Alex Karp (1992), billionaire and co-founder of Palantir Technologies
Daniel Lubetzky(1993), billionaire and co-founder of Kind
William Neukom (1967), first General Counsel at Microsoft, president of the American Bar Association
Daniel Ninivaggi (1991), CEO of Lordstown Motors and Chairman of Garrett Motion, former CEO of Icahn Enterprises
Mark Oldman, Cofounder of Vault.com and wine critic
Penny Pritzker (1984), billionaire and CEO of Pritzker Realty
Peter Thiel (1992), founder of PayPal
Kent Walker (1987), Senior Vice President for Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google
Dennis Woodside (1995), COO of Dropbox (service)

Media and journalism

Raymond Bonner (1967), investigative reporter for The New York Times and the International Herald Tribune
Amanda Brown, author of Legally Blonde
Ailsa Chang, journalist for NPR and a host on "All Things Considered"
Robert Cochran (1974), creator of the television shows 24 and La Femme Nikita
Jami Floyd (1996), broadcast journalist and legal analyst, hosting "All Things Considered," for WNYC New York Public Radio
Christy Haubegger (1992), founder of Latina magazine and film producer
Dahlia Lithwick (1995), Senior Editor at Slate
David Margolick, Contributing Editor at Condé Nast Portfolio, former Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair
Twist Phelan, author
Carlos Watson (1995), television host and journalist
Katharine Weymouth (1992), Publisher of The Washington Post
Michael G. Wilson (1966), Producer of James Bond films

Other

H. Verlan Andersen (1946), former member of the Utah State Legislature and former member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
Quentin L. Cook (1966), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)
Harry Usher, General Manager of the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee
Bill Walton (never graduated), former NBA basketball player
W. Richard West, Jr. (1971), Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
Lance B. Wickman (1972), General Counsel of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)

References

Drouet, Jessica (June 5, 2018). "Antony Page named dean of FIU's College of Law". Miami's Community News.
Liberatore, Paul (2014-07-11). "Retired CBS president Richard Jencks of Mill Valley dies at 93". Marin Independent Journal. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-29.
Driscoll, Sharon (November 9, 2016). "Lawyering at the Edge of Innovation: A Conversation With Kent Walker, Google's General Counsel and Senior Vice President". Stanford Lawyer. Retrieved 26 October 2018.

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