List of Georgetown University Law Center alumni

Federal officials

• Horace M. Albright, 1916, Director of the National Park Service (1929–1933)
• Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, '87, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1994–1997)
• Robert C. Bonner, '66, Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection (2001–2005), Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (1990–1993), judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1989), U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California (1984–1989)
• Bradford P. Campbell, Assistant Secretary of Labor (2007–2009)
• George Cortelyou, 1895, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1907–1909), U.S. Postmaster General (1905–1907), U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1903–1904)
• John Dean, '65, White House Counsel (1970–1973), convicted of involvement in the Watergate Scandal
• Charles H. Fahy, 1914, U.S. Solicitor General (1941–1945)
• Lee A. Feinstein, U.S. Ambassador to Poland (2009–2012), Principal Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State (1995–2001)
• Douglas Feith, '78, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy (2001–2005)
• Laurie S. Fulton, '89, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (2009–2013)
• Mark Gearan, '91, Director of the Peace Corps (1995–1999), White House Communications Director (1993–1995), White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy (1993)
• Mark Gitenstein, '72, U.S. Ambassador to Romania (2009–2012), former Chief Counsel to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary during the Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination
• Avril Haines, '01, Deputy National Security Advisor (2014–2017), former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the first woman to hold that post
• Mickey Kantor, '68, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1996–1997)
• Jacob Lew, '83, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2013–2017), White House Chief of Staff (2012–2013), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2010–2012)
• Robert Lighthizer, '73, United States Trade Representative (2017–present)
• Shavit Matias, LL.M. ‘91, Deputy Attorney General of Israel (2004–2013); Hoover Institution, Stanford University (2013–present)
• Don McGahn, LL.M. '02, White House Counsel (2017–present)
• Gerald S. McGowan, '74, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal (1997–2001)
• Beth Nolan, '80, White House Counsel (1999–2001), Senior Vice President and General Counsel at George Washington University (2007–present)
• Mark Paoletta, '87, Chief Counsel to Vice President Michael Pence (2017–present)
• John Podesta, '76, White House Chief of Staff (1998–2001), President of Center for American Progress (2001–2013)
• Kenneth Allen Polite Jr., '00, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana (2013–2017)
• Jerome Powell, '79, Chair of the Federal Reserve (2018–present), Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (2012–present), Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance (1992–1993)
• Michael Powell, '93, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (2001–2005)
• Jack Quinn, '75, White House Counsel (1995–1997)
• Kathryn Ruemmler, '96, White House Counsel (2011–2014)
• Barbara D. Underwood, '69, acting United States Solicitor General (2001), New York Solicitor General (2007–present)
• Christine A. Varney, '85, Federal Trade Commissioner (1994–1997), U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division (2009–2011)
• Robert Wilkie, LL.M., Acting and current United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2018–present)

Members of U.S. Congress

• William B. Bankhead, 1895, U.S. Speaker of the House during the New Deal (1936–1940), U.S. Representative from Alabama (1917–1940), member of the first University of Alabama football team, father of actress Tallulah Bankhead
• Bob Barr, '87, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1995–2003), United States Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate (2008)
• George A. Bartlett, 1894, U.S. Representative from Nevada (1907–1911)
• Herbert H. Bateman, '56, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1983–2000)
• Robert Bauman, '64, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1973–1981)
• Alan Bible, '34, U.S. Senator from Nevada (1954–1974)
• Coleman Livingston Blease, 1889, U.S. Senator from South Carolina (1925–1931), Governor of South Carolina (1911–1915)
• J. Caleb Boggs, '37, U.S. Senator from Delaware (1961–1973); Governor of Delaware (1953–1960); U.S. Representative from Delaware (1947–1953)
• Bruce Faulkner Caputo, '71, U.S. Representative from New York (1977–1979)
• Dennis Chavez, '20, U.S. Senator from New Mexico (1935–1962)
• David Cicilline, '86, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island (2011–present), first openly gay mayor of a U.S. state capitol (Providence)
• Hansen Clarke, '87, U.S. Representative from Michigan (2011–2013)
• Charles R. Clason, 1914, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1937–1949)
• L. Gary Clemente, '31, U.S. Representative from New York (1949–1953)
• Barbara Comstock, '86, U.S. Representative from Virginia (2015–present), Member of the Virginia House of Delegates (2010–present)
• Charles F. Curry, Jr., 1912, U.S. Representative from California (1931–1933)
• John Delaney, '88, U.S. Representative from Maryland (2013–present)
• John Dingell, '52, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1955–2015)
• John J. Douglass, 1896, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1925–1933)
• Robert Drinan, '50, U.S. Representative from Massachusetts (1971–1973)
• Richard Durbin, '69, U.S. Senator from Illinois (1997–present), Senate Democratic Whip (2005–present)
• John A. Durkin, '65, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1975–1980)
• Clarence D. Van Duzer, 1893, U.S. Representative from Nevada (1903–1907)
• Lane Evans, '78, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1983–2007)
• John Faso, '79, U.S. Representative from New York (2017–present), Republican candidate for the Governor of New York (2006), Minority Leader of the New York State Assembly (1998–2002)
• Lois Frankel, '73, U.S. Representative from Florida (2013–present)
• Martin Frost, '70, U.S. Representative from Texas (1979–2005)
• Mazie Hirono, '78, U.S. Senator from Hawaii (2013–present), U.S. Representative from Hawaii (2007–2013), Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1994–2003)
• Steny Hoyer, '66, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1981–present), House Majority Leader (2007–2011), House Democratic Whip (2011–present)
• Michael L. Igoe, 1908, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1935), U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois (1935–1939), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1939–1965)
• James Robert Jones, '64, U.S. Representative from Oklahoma (1983–1987), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1993–1997)
• Bill Jefferson, LL.M. '95, U.S. Representative from Louisiana (1991–2009)
• Mark Kirk, '92, U.S. Senator from Illinois (2010–2016)
• Anne McLane Kuster, '84, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (2013–present)
• John W. Langley, U.S. Representative from Kentucky (1907–1926)
• Edward L. Leahy, 1908, U.S. Senator (1949–1950), judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island (1951–1953)
• Patrick Leahy, '64, U.S. Senator from Vermont (1975–present), President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate (2012–present), Chairman or Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (2007–present)
• George Swinton Legare, 1893, U.S. Representative from South Carolina (1903–1913)
• Ted Lieu, '94, U.S. Representative from California (2015–present)
• Dan Lungren, '71, U.S. Representative from California (2005–2013)
• George Mitchell, '61, U.S. Senator from Maine (1980–1995), Senate Majority Leader (1989–1995), United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001), Chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Company (2004–2006), U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011), author of the Mitchell Report on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2001) and Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball (2007)
• Francis Rooney, '78, U.S. Representative from Florida (2017–present), U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See (2005–2008)
• Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, '97, U.S. Representative from South Dakota (2004–2010)
• Daniel S. Sullivan, '93, U.S. Senator from Alaska (2015–present), Alaska Attorney General (2009–2010)
• Chris Van Hollen, '90, U.S. Senator from Maryland (2017–present), U.S. Representative from Maryland (2003–2016)
• Pete Visclosky, LL.M. '82, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1985–present)
• James H. Webb, '75, U.S. Senator from Virginia (2007–2013), U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1987–1988), author
• Rick White, '80, U.S. Representative from Washington (1995–1999)
• Frank Wolf, '65, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1981–2015)
• Albert Wynn, '77, U.S. Representative from Maryland (1993–2008)

State and local administration

• Jerry Abramson, '71, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (2011–present), Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky (1986–2011)
• Sam Arora, '10, Member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2011–2014)
• Jesus Borja, '74, Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands (1994–1998)
• Michael N. Castle, '64, Governor of Delaware (1985–1992), U.S. Representative from Delaware (1993–2011)
• David Catania, '94, Member of the D.C. City Council (1997–present)
• John Chiang, California State Treasurer (2015–present), California State Controller (2007–2015)
• Sean Coffey, '87, Candidate for New York State Attorney General in 2010
• Peter Tali Coleman, '51, Governor of American Samoa (1956–1961, 1978–1985, 1989–1993)
• Mitch Daniels, '79, Governor of Indiana (2005–2013), Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001–2003), President of Purdue University (2013–present)
• Christopher Del Sesto, Governor of Rhode Island (1959–1961), Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court (1966–1973)
• Michael Delaney, '94, New Hampshire Attorney General (2009–2013)
• Ken Duncan, LL.M '73, Louisiana state treasurer (1996–2000)
• John J. Easton, Jr., '70, Vermont Attorney General (1981–1985)
• Pat Collier Frank, '53, Member of the Florida State Senate (1978–1999), first woman admitted to Georgetown Law
• Jim Graham, LL.M., Member of the D.C. City Council (1999–2017)
• David Grosso, '01, Member of the D.C. City Council (2013–present)
• Derek Hodge, '71, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995)
• Brad Hutto, '81, Member of the South Carolina Senate, Candidate for U.S. Senate in 2014
• Jeff Johnson, '92, Republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota in 2018 and 2014, Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (2001–2007)
• Ash Kalra, '96, California State Assembly (2016–present)
• Jason Kander, '05, Member of the Missouri House of Representatives (2009–2013), Missouri Secretary of State (2013–2017)^[3]
• John Lynch, '84, Governor of New Hampshire (2005–2013)
• Dorothy McAuliffe, First Lady of the Virginia (2014–2018)
• Terry McAuliffe, '84, Governor of Virginia (2014–2018), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (2001–2005)
• Jim McGreevey, '81, Governor of New Jersey (2002–2004)
• Vincent Orange, LL.M. '88, Member of the D.C. City Council (1988–present)
• Clay Pell, '08, Candidate for Governor of Rhode Island in 2014
• James Patrick Rossiter, 1916, Mayor of Erie, Pennsylvania (1932–1936)
• Josh Shapiro, '02, Attorney General of Pennsylvania (2017—present), Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2005–2012)
• Don Siegelman, '72, Governor of Alabama (1999–2003)
• Sheila Simon, '87, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois (2011–2015)
• John D. Spellman, '53, Governor of Washington (1981–1985)
• Cyrus Vance, Jr., '82, New York County District Attorney (2010–present)
• R. Seth Williams, '92, District Attorney of Philadelphia (2009–2017)
• Robert Zirkin, '98, Member of the Maryland State Senate (2007–present)

Other politics

Eric P. Feichthaler, ‘97, youngest ever Mayor of Cape Coral, FL. Population 200,000. Second largest city in Florida by land size. Tenth largest city in FL by population. Partner at Burandt, Adamski & Feichthaler. Board Certified in Real Estate Law.

• Jack Abramoff, '86, lobbyist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals
• Gary Bauer, '73, President of the Family Research Council (1988–1999) and conservative activist
• Tim Canova, '88, Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University Law School, Challenger to Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Florida's 23rd congressional district
• Brian Concannon, '89, founding Director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
• Stephanie Cutter, '97, political consultant and Deputy Campaign Manager for Barack Obama's 2012 presidential reelection campaign
• Sandra Fluke, '12, women's rights activist
• John E. Jackson, 1916, Louisiana Republican Party state chairman (1929–1934) and national committeeman (1934–1952); New Orleans lawyer^[4][5]
• Barry W. Lynn, '78, Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• Paul Manafort, '74, chief strategist for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016, lobbyist known for representing prominent dictators
• John Sears, '63, campaign manager for Ronald Reagan in 1976 and 1980
• Michael Steele, '91, Chairman of the Republican National Committee (2009–2011), Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (2003–2007)
• Caren Z. Turner, '85, co-chairwoman of the super PAC Ready for Hillary
• Jeff Weaver, '96, campaign manager for Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016

Federal court

• Jesse Corcoran Adkins, LL.B. 1899, LL.M. 1900, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1930–1955)
• Thomas L. Ambro, '75, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2000–present)
• Michael M. Anello, '68, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (2008–present)
• Robert Armen, '73, judge on the United States Tax Court
• William G. Bassler, '63, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1991–2006)
• Walter Bastian, 1913, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1954–1975)
• Terrence G. Berg, '86, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (2012–present)
• Francisco Besosa, '79, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (2006–present)
• James K. Bredar, '82, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2010–present)
• Lynn J. Bush, '76, judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims (1998–present)
• Richard C. Casey, '58, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1997–2007)
• Thomas Clary, 1924, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1950–1977)
• Robert N. Chatigny, '78, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2004–present)
• David Chávez, 1922, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1947–1950), Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1960–1968)
• Pamela K. Chen, '86, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2013–present)
• Carolyn Chiechi, JD '69, LL.M. '71, judge on the United States Tax Court (1992–2007)
• Charles N. Clevert, Jr., '72, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (1996–present)
• John David Clifford, Jr., 1913, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine (1947–1956), U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine (1933–1947)
• John O. Colvin, LL.M. '78, judge on the United States Tax Court (1998–present, Chief Judge 2006–present)
• Patrick Anthony Conmy, '59, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota (1985–present, Chief Judge 1985–1992)
• Julian Abele Cook, Jr., '57, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1979–present, Chief Judge 1989–1996)
• Virginia M. Hernandez Covington, '80, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (2004–present)
• Ronald Davies, '30, judge for U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota (1955–1985) who while on temporary assignment in Little Rock, Arkansas presided over the Little Rock Integration Crisis in 1957
• Robert N. Davis, '78, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (2004–present)
• John T. Elfvin, '47, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York (1974–2009), U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York (1972–1975)
• Charles H. Fahy, 1914, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1950–1979)
• Walter Heen, '55, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii (1981), U.S. Attorney for the District of Hawaii
• John M. Facciola, '69, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1997–present)
• D. Michael Fisher, '69, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2003–present), Attorney General of Pennsylvania (1997–2003)
• Arthur J. Gajarsa, '67, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1997–2012)
• Marvin J. Garbis, LL.M. '62, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (1989–present)
• Ashley Mulgrave Gould, 1884, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1902–1921), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1901–1902)
• Thomas Hardiman, '90, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2007–present)
• George J. Hazel, '99, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2014–present)
• Judith C. Herrera, '79, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico (2003–present)
• William Hitz, 1900, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1931–1935)
• Michael Robert Hogan, '71, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (1991–2012, Chief Judge 1995–2002)
• Thomas F. Hogan, '66, judge on the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (2009–present), judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1982–present, Chief Judge 2001 – 2008)
• Ellen Lipton Hollander, '74, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2010–present)
• Jerome A. Holmes, '88, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (2006–present)
• Jeffrey R. Howard, '81, judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (2002–present)
• Brian Anthony Jackson, LL.M. '00, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana (2010–present)
• Kent A. Jordan, '84, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (2006–present)
• Norma Johnson, '62, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1980–2003, Chief Judge 1997–2001), first African-American woman to serve as Chief Judge of a U.S. District Court
• Elaine D. Kaplan, '79, judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2013–present), acting Director of the U.S Office of Personnel Management (2013)
• Richmond Keech, LL.B. 1922, LL.M. 1923, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1947–1986, Chief Judge 1966)
• Charles B. Kornmann, '62, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota (1995–present)
• Bruce E. Kasold, LL.M. '82, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (2003–present)
• Paul Kilday, 1922, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1961–1968)
• Mark R. Kravitz, '75, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (2003–2012)
• Joseph Normand Laplante, '90, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (2007–present)
• Bolitha James Laws, LL.B. 1913, LL.M. 1914, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1938–1958, Chief Judge 1945–1958)
• Joseph Patrick Lieb, 1924, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (1962–1971, Chief Judge 1966–1971)
• Richard Linn, '69, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2000–present)
• Frank J. Magill, '55, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1986–2013), father of Stanford Law School Dean M. Elizabeth Magill
• Kiyo A. Matsumoto, '81, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2008–present)
• Roslynn R. Mauskopf, '82, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York (2007–present), U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (2002–2007), Inspector General of the State of New York (1995–2002)
• Steven J. McAuliffe, '73, judge on U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire (1992–present), widower of astronaut Christa McAuliffe
• Joseph McGarraghy, 1921, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1965–1975)
• M. Margaret McKeown, '75, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1998–present), first female partner at Perkins Coie
• Sean J. McLaughlin, '80, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (1994–2013, Chief Judge 2013), General Counsel and Vice President of the Erie Insurance Group (2013–present)
• Mildred Methvin, '76, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Lafayette, 1983 to 2009^[6]
• Kimberly Ann Moore, '94, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2006–present)
• Frank Jerome Murray, 1929, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1967–1995)
• Frank Herbert Norcross, 1894, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (1928–1952), Justice of the Supreme Court of Nevada (1904–1916)
• Daniel William O'Donoghue, LL.B. 1899, LL.M. 1900, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1932–1948)
• Fred I. Parker, '65, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1994–2003)
• Jaime Pieras, Jr., '48, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1982–2011)
• David Andrew Pine, 1913, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1940–1970, Chief Judge 1959–1961), U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia (1938–1940)
• E. Barrett Prettyman, 1915, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1945–1971, Chief Judge 1958–1960)
• Robert Renner, '49, Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota (1980–2005), U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota (1969–1977)
• James L. Robart, '73, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington (2004–present)
• K. Gary Sebelius, '74, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas (2003–present), husband of former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services and Governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebellius
• Patricia Seitz, '73, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (1998–present)
• Thomas Michael Shanahan, '59, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska (1993–2004), Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court (1983–1993)
• Edward F. Shea, '70, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (1997–present)
• Eugene Edward Siler, Jr., LL.M. '64, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (1991–present)
• John Sirica, 1926, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1957–1974, Chief Judge 1971–1974); presided over the Watergate trials; named TIME magazine's Man of the Year in 1973
• John Lewis Smith, Jr., LL.B. '38, LL.M. '39, judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia (1966–1992, Chief Judge 1981–1982)
• William E. Smith, '87, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, Chief Judge (2013–present)
• Timothy C. Stanceu, '79, judge on the U.S. Court of International Trade (2003–present)
• George Clinton Sweeney, 1922, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1935–1966, Chief Judge 1948–1965)
• Edward Allen Tamm, '30, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (1965–1985)
• Robert Timlin, '59, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1994–present)
• Roger W. Titus, '66, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (2003–present)
• Ricardo M. Urbina, '70, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (1994–2012)
• James A. Walsh, 1928, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (1952–1991, Chief Judge 1961–1972)
• David C. Westenhaver, 1886, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio (1917–1928)
• Ashton Hilliard Williams, 1915, judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of South Carolina (1952–1962)
• Douglas P. Woodlock, '75, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1986–present)
• Jennifer Guerin Zipps, '90, judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (2011–present)

State court

• Richard C. Bosson, '69, Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (2002–present)
• J. J. P. Corrigan, '25, Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1969–1976)
• Robert E. Davis, '64, Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1993–present), Chief Justice (2009–2010)
• Gene Franchini, '60, Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court (1990–2002, Chief Justice 1997–1999)
• Lorie Skjerven Gildea, '86, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court (2006–2010), Chief Justice (2010–present)
• Henry P. Hughes, 1927, Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1948–1951)
• Rives Kistler, '81, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court (2003–present), first openly gay state Supreme Court justice in the United States
• Stephen P. Lamb, '75, Delaware Court of Chancery Vice Chancellor
• Frank G. Mahady, 1964, Judge of the Vermont District Court (1982–1992), Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1987–1988)^[7]
• Bill Mims, LL.M. '86, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia (2010–present), Attorney General of Virginia (2009–2010)
• Vanessa Ruiz, Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals (1994–2011)
• Joseph T. Walsh, '54, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court (1985–2005)
• Robert A. Zarnoch, '74, judge on the Maryland Court of Special Appeals (2008–present)

Foreign courts

• Judith M. Woods, LL. M. '78, Justice of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal (2016–present)