List of Penn Law School alumni
This is a list of notable graduates of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. For a list of notable graduates of the University of Pennsylvania as a whole, see List of University of Pennsylvania people
Law and government
U.S. government
Executive branch
- Philip Werner Amram, Asst. Attorney General of the United States, 1939–42[1]
- Marshall Jordan Breger, Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; United States Solicitor of Labor[2]
- William H. Brown, III, Chairman, EEOC[3]
- Jonathan Z. Cannon, EPA Deputy Administrator, 2009–[4]
- Gilbert F. Casellas, Chairman, EEOC and General Counsel of the Air Force[5]
- Josiah E. DuBois Jr., U.S. State Department official, instrumental in Holocaust rescue[6]
- Thomas K. Finletter, U.S Secretary of the Air Force, 1950–1953; Ambassador to NATO, 1961–65[7]
- Lindley Miller Garrison, U.S. Secretary of War, 1913–16[8]
- William B. Gray, United States Attorney for Vermont, 1977-1981[9]
- Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44
- Raymond N. Hulser, Class of 1987, Chief (as of May of 2015), The Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, which is charged with combating political corruption at all levels of government through the prosecution of corrupt federal, state, and local elected and appointed public officials.[10]
- William M. Meredith, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1849–50
- Robert J. Walker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1840–45[11]
- George W. Wickersham, Attorney General of the United States, 1909–1913; instrumental in the breakup of Standard Oil; President of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933–36)[12]
- George Washington Woodruff, Acting U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Theodore Roosevelt[13]
- Heath Tarbert Nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development in the U.S. (2017)[14]
- Walter J. "Jay" Clayton III, Chairman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2017 - present. [15]
Judicial branch
- Arlin M. Adams, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1969–1987[16]
- Guy K. Bard, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[17]
- Harvey Bartle III, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[18]
- Michael M. Baylson, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[19]
- Ralph C. Body, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1965–73[20]
- Raymond J. Broderick, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[21]
- Margo Kitsy Brodie, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. NY
- Allison Dale Burroughs, Class of 1988, (born April 25, 1961) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts who received her federal judicial commission on December 19, 2014, and was sworn in on January 7, 2015. Judge Burroughs began her legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law alumna Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1988 to 1989 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1989 to 1995 and in the District of Massachusetts from 1995 to 2005.
- A. Richard Caputo, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa.[22]
- Tanya S. Chutkan, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C.
- Rudolph Contreras, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C.
- James Harry Covington, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C.; Co-founder of Covington & Burling[23]
- George M. Dallas, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1892–1909
- Stewart Dalzell, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[24]
- John Morgan Davis, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1964–84
- John Warren Davis, former judge for both the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[25]
- Paul S. Diamond, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[26]
- John William Ditter Jr., Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[27]
- Herbert Allan Fogel, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1973–78[28]
- James Halpern, Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1990–2005[29]
- James Hunter III, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989[30]
- Daniel Henry Huyett III, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1970–98
- Abdul Kallon, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Al.[31]
- Harry Ellis Kalodner, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977[32]
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa, 1927–58
- John C. Knox, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y., 1948–55[33]
- Charles William Kraft Jr., Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1956–2002
- Phyllis A. Kravitch, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit[34]
- Robert Lowe Kunzig, Judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1971–82
- Caleb Rodney Layton III, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1957–88[35]
- Paul Conway Leahy, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1942–66[36]
- James Russell Leech, Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1932–52[37]
- Joseph Simon Lord III, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1961–92
- Alfred Leopold Luongo, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1961–86
- Thomas Ambrose Masterson, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa, 1967–73
- James Focht McClure Jr., Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa.[38]
- Barron Patterson McCune, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa.[39]
- Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr., Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1974–99
- Gerald Austin McHugh Jr., Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 2014–
- Charles Louis McKeehan, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1923–25
- Roderick R. McKelvie, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1991–2002[40]
- Mary A. McLaughlin, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[41]
- John Bayard McPherson, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919 (Read)
- John W. Murphy, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa., 1946–62
- Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.,[42]
- Gene E. K. Pratter, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[43]
- Arthur Raymond Randolph, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit[44]
- Bruce E. Reinhart, Class of 1987, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida sworn in on March 14, 2018. Magistrate Judge Reinhart began his legal career as a law clerk for fellow Penn Law graduate Judge Norma L. Shapiro of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1988 and also served as an Assistant United States Attorney
- Owen J. Roberts, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States[45]
- Sue Lewis Robinson, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E.[46]
- Max Rosenn, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006[47]
- Juan Ramon Sanchez, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[48]
- Ralph Francis Scalera, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa.[49]
- Allen G. Schwartz, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y., 1993–2003[50]
- Murray Merle Schwartz, Chief Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E, 1974–[51]
- Norma Levy Shapiro, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa.[52]
- Patty Shwartz, Class of 1986, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, assumed office April 10, 2013
- Jerome B. Simandle, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court N.J.[53]
- Dolores Sloviter, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[54]
- Charles Swayne, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Florida, 1890–1907
- Joseph Whitaker Thompson, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1931–1946[55]
- Donald West VanArtsdalen, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1970–85[56]
- Jay Waldman, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1988–2003
- Henry Galbraith Ward, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1907–1921[57]
- Gerald Joseph Weber, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa.[58]
- Helene White, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[59]
- James Wilson, Justice, Supreme Court of the United States (Hon. LL.D); founder of the Law School; signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Scott Wilson, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1929–42[60]
- Harold Kenneth Wood, Judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa, 1959–71
Legislative branch
- Ephraim Leister Acker, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1871–93[61]
- Wilbur L. Adams, Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–35[62]
- George F. Brumm, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1929–34[63]
- Joseph Maull Carey, U. S. Senator from Wyoming, 1890–1895; Governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915; Wyoming delegate to the U.S. Congress, 1885–1890[64]
- Matt Cartwright, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 2013 - present
- Bernard G. Caulfield, Illinois representative to the U.S. Congress, 1874–77[65]
- E. Wallace Chadwick, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–49[66]
- Joseph Sill Clark, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1957–69[67]
- Joel Cook, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907–11[68]
- James Harry Covington, Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1909–14[69]
- Willard S. Curtin, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957–67[70]
- John Burrwood Daly, Pennsylvania Representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939–35[71]
- James Henderson Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–57[72]
- Joshua Eilberg, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1967–79[73]
- Clare G. Fenerty, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37[74]
- Oliver Walter Frey, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–39[75]
- Benjamin Golder, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–33[76]
- George Scott Graham, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1913–31[77]
- Francis Hopkinson, New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, (1737–1791)[78]
- Stuart E. Jones, United States Ambassador to Jordan[79]
- Everett Kent, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–25, 1927–29[80]
- William Huntington Kirkpatrick, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1921–23[81]
- Conor Lamb, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 2017-present
- James Russell Leech, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–32[82]
- William Eckart Lehman, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1860–62[83]
- John Thomas Lenahan, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907–09[84]
- Lloyd Lowndes Jr., Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1873–75[85]
- James McDevitt Magee, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1923–27[86]
- Levi Maish, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1875–79 and 1887–91[87]
- Joseph M. McDade, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1963–99[88]
- Thomas C. McGrath Jr., New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress[89]
- Edward de Veaux Morrell, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1900–07[90]
- John Murphy, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943–46[91]
- Leonard Myers, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1863–75[92]
- Robert N.C. Nix Sr., Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1958–79[93]
- Cyrus Maffet Palmer, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–29[94]
- George Wharton Pepper, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate[95]
- Albert G. Rutherford, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–41[96]
- Leon Sacks, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1937–41[97]
- Hardie Scott, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–53[98]
- John Roger Kirkpatrick Scott, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1915–19[99]
- William Biddle Shepard, North Carolina representative to the U.S. Congress, 1829–37[100]
- Edward J. Stack, Florida representative to the U.S. Congress, 1979–81[101]
- William I. Troutman, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1943–45[102]
- William H. Wilson, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37[103]
- Charles A. Wolverton, New Jersey representative to the U.S. Congress, 1927–59[104]
Diplomatic
- George C. Bruno, United States Ambassador to Belize[105]
- Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., United States Ambassador to Sweden[106]
- Martin J. Silverstein, United States Ambassador to Uruguay[107]
- Stuart E. Jones, Class of 1986, United States Ambassador to Iraq from 2014 to 2016,[108] and United States Ambassador to Jordan from July 21, 2011 to July 28, 2014.[109][110]
- Faith Ryan Whittlesey, United States Ambassador to Switzerland[111]
State government
Executive
- John C. Bell, Jr., Class of 1917, (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974) was the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1943–1947) before becoming the 33rd and shortest-serving Governor of Pennsylvania, serving for nineteen (19) days in 1947, 1937–37[112]
- Raymond J. Broderick, Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania[113]
- Francis Shunk Brown, Pennsylvania Attorney General, 1915–19
- Joseph M. Carey, Class of 1864, Governor of Wyoming, 1911–1915[114]
- John Morgan Davis, Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania, 1959–63[115]
- Paula Dow, Attorney General of New Jersey, 2010–2012[116]
- James Henderson Duff, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1947–51[117]
- William F. Hyland, Attorney General of New Jersey, 1974–1978[118]
- Lloyd Lowndes, Governor of Maryland, 1896–1900[119]
- John G. McCullough, Attorney General of California during the American Civil War; Governor of Vermont, 1902–1904
- Charles R. Miller, Governor of Delaware, 1913–17[120]
- Samuel W. Pennypacker, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1903–07[121]
- David Samson, Attorney General of New Jersey, 2002–03[122]
- William A. Schnader, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, 1930–34[123]
Judicial
- Thomas J. Baldrige, Pennsylvania Attorney General, Judge and President Judge of Superior Court of Pennsylvania
- John C. Bell Jr. (October 25, 1892 – March 18, 1974), Class of 1917, was a Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1950–1972), serving as Chief Justice from 1961 to 1972
- Hampton L. Carson, Pennsylvania Attorney General, 1903–07
- James Harry Covington, Chief Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court (and co-founder of Covington & Burling)[124]
- Harold L. Ervin, Pennsylvania Superior Court judge from 1954 to 1967.[125]
- Gerald Garson, NY Supreme Court Justice, convicted of bribery[126]
- Richard L. Gabriel, Class of 1987, (born March 3, 1962) was appointed in 2015 (and continues to serve after being retained in 2018) as an Associate Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Gabriel previously served on the Colorado Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2015
- Randy J. Holland, Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1986–present[127] (left bench in 2017)
- Joseph L. Kun, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.
- Peter B. Krauser, Chief Judge on the Court of Special Appeals for the state of Maryland and past Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party[128]
- Daniel J. Layton, Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, 1933–45 and Attorney General of Delaware, 1932–33
- Steve P. Leskinen, Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (Fayette County)
- Albert Dutton MacDade, Pennsylvania State Senator, 1921-1929, Judge Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas (Delaware County), 1942–1948[129]
- Robert N. C. Nix Jr., Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1984–96; the first African-American Chief Justice of any state's highest court; Justice of the Pa. Supreme Court, 1971–84[130]
- John W. Noble, Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
- Joseph B. Perskie (1885–1957; class of 1907), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1933 to 1947.[131]
- Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1996–2006[132]
- Horace Stern, Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1952–56[133][134]
- Leo E. Strine Jr., class of 1988, Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court[135] (left bench in 2019)
Legislative
- John C. Grady, Pennsylvania Senator for the 7th district from 1877 to 1903. President Pro Tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate from 1887 to 1890
Other
- John Cromwell Bell, Class of 1884, father of Penn Law Alumni, former Pennsylvania Governor and Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Supreme Court John C. Bell, Jr. and former NFL Commissioner DeBenneville Bert Bell and son in law of Penn Law alumnus and former United States House of Representatives member Leonard Myers. John C. Bell was District Attorney of Philadelphia (1903–1907) and 45th Attorney General of Pennsylvania (January 17, 1911 – January 19, 1915). John C. Bell, Sr. also served as director of Penn's athletic program, chairman of its football committee, and from 1911 onwards, was a trustee. Bell helped found the NCAA, and served on Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee, responsible for the many rules changes made in collegiate football in its early years.
- John Hanger, Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, 2008–2011; Commissioner of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 1993–1998[136]
- David Norcross, past Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee[137]
- William A. Schnader, Attorney General of Pennsylvania; drafter of the Uniform Commercial Code[138]
City government
- John Cromwell Bell, Sr., Class of 1884, was District Attorney of Philadelphia (1903–1907)
- Joseph S. Clark, Mayor of Philadelphia, 1952–56[139]
- Oscar Goodman, Mayor of Las Vegas, 1999–2011[140]
- Henry W. Sawyer, Philadelphia City Council, 1956–1960
Non-United States government
Politics
- Donald Duke, former Commissioner for Finance of Cross River State, Nigeria; former presidential candidate; Governor of Cross River State, Nigeria (1999–2007)
- John Wallace de Beque Farris, member of the senate of Canada (1937–1970); Attorney General of Vancouver (1917–1920)
- Raul Roco, former presidential candidate; Secretary of Education in the Philippines (Fellow)
Judicial
- Sir Ronald Wilson, former Justice of the High Court of Australia, the highest court in the nation
- Gerard Hogan is a justice of the Court of Appeal of Ireland.
- Yvonne Mokgoro, Class of 1990, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Supreme Constitutional Court of South Africa)
International law
- Jasper Yeates Brinton, former U.S. Legal Advisor to Egypt; architect of the Egyptian court system and Justice of the Egyptian Supreme Court
Diplomatic
- Alfredo Toro Hardy, former Ambassador of Venezuela to the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Brazil, Chile, Ireland and Singapore
- Fisseha Yimer, Ethiopian Ambassador to Switzerland and the United Nations (LLM 1972)
Academia
University Presidents
- Janice R. Bellace, first president of Singapore Management University
- Fred Hilmer, Vice-Chancellor of the University of New South Wales
- Peter J. Liacouras, Chancellor of Temple University
- Mark Yudof, President of the University of California System
Legal academics
- Khaled Abou El Fadl, professor of law at UCLA School of Law; scholar of Islamic law, immigration, human rights, international and national security law
- Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Professor of Law at the University of Richmond; founding editor of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy; founder and president of KARAMAH: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights
- Anthony G. Amsterdam, professor of law at NYU Law School
- Loftus Becker, professor of law the University of Connecticut School of Law
- Janice R. Bellace, Director of the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the Wharton School of Business
- Francis Bohlen (1868–1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Robert Butkin, Dean of the University of Tulsa College of Law; State Treasurer of Oklahoma
- Jonathan Z. Cannon, Blaine T. Phillips Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at the University of Virginia School of Law; Deputy Administrator of the EPA[141]
- Jesse H. Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley Law School[142]
- George M. Cohen, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Virginia School of Law[143]
- Debra W. Denno, Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law at Fordham Law School[144]
- Theodore Eisenberg, Henry Allen Mark Professor of Law at Cornell Law School[145]
- Douglas Frenkel, Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Marci Hamilton, Paul R. Verkuil Chair of Public Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; constitutional law scholar
- Maryam Jamshidi, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law
- Noyes Leech (1921–2010), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- A. Leo Levin (1919–2015), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Robert J. Levy, former William L. Prosser Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota[146]
- Beverly I. Moran, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School[147]
- David G. Owen, Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Law School[148]
- Curtis Reitz (born c. 1930), Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Jennifer Rosato Perea, Class of 1987, Dean, DePaul University College of Law
- Stephen A. Saltzburg, Wallace and Beverley Woodbury University Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School[149]
- Louis B. Schwartz (1913-2003), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- M. Michael Sharlot, Wright C. Morrow Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School[150]
- Karen Tani, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; legal historian
- Jonathan D. Varat, professor of law; Dean of the UCLA School of Law (1998–2003); author of popular constitutional law casebook[151]
- Tess Wilkinson-Ryan, Professor of Law and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- James Wilson (justice) (1742–1798), First Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania, 1789 through 1798, the only person who signed the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and served as a Supreme Court Justice, during the Constitutional Convention, successfully proposed a unitary executive elected through an electoral college system and negotiated the Three-Fifths Compromise, delivered a series of lectures on law to President George Washington, Vice President John Adams, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, and numerous members of Congress with Wilson’s first lecture on law being given to aforementioned government leaders on December 15, 1789 https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/james-wilson-1742-1798/. Retrieved May 27, 2020. Missing or empty
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- Michael Yelnosky, Class of 1987, Dean, Roger Williams University School of Law, the law school of Roger Williams University
Activists
- Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in Economics in the United States; first African-American woman to graduate from Penn Law; first African-American woman to be admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar; civil rights activist; appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by President Harry S. Truman[153]
- Stuart F. Feldman, co-founder of Vietnam Veterans of America[154]
- Caroline Burnham Kilgore (LL.B.), first woman to graduate from Penn with a law degree;[155] first woman to practice law in Pennsylvania; argued for a woman's right to vote before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court; first woman in New York to earn a medical degree
Arts and entertainment
- Benjamin Glazer, Academy Award-winning screenwriter and producer
- Moe Jaffe, songwriter and bandleader
- Pam Jenoff, novelist
- Kimberly McCreight, author and lawyer
- El McMeen, guitarist
- Henry Chapman Mercer, archaeologist
- Tom Rapp, songwriter, Pearls Before Swine
- Lisa Scottoline, author of legal thrillers; New York Times best-selling author
- Michael A. Smerconish, Class of 1987, (born March 15, 1962), broadcasts The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM POTUS Channel (124), hosts a CNN and CNN International program, Smerconish, at 9:00 a.m. ET on Saturdays, writes a column for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and authored seven books
- Jan Buckner Walker, cruciverbalist (crossword puzzle creator), author and games creator
- Natalie Wexler, novelist and legal scholar
- Roger Wolfson, writer for Saving Grace, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Closer', and Century City
Business
- Randall Boe, Class of 1987, CGC of AOL
- Safra A. Catz, Class of 1986, CFO, Oracle Corporation; Forbes' list of Most Powerful Women
- David N. Feldman, Class of 1985, Wall Street financial legal expert; author of Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO
- Sam Hamadeh, co-founder of Vault.com
- Charles A. Heimbold, Jr., former Chairman and CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Bill Koenig, Class of 1987, President of National Basketball Association NBA Global Content & Media Distribution, responsible for the domestic and international media businesses for the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League and USA Basketball
- Murray Kushner, Class of 1976, real estate developer
- Gerald Levin, former CEO of AOL Time Warner
- Reenie McCarthy, Class of 1988, Chief Executive Officer, Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp, NASDAQ stock exchange symbol MITO, an innovative biopharmaceutical company developing therapies to treat mitochondrial dysfunction associated with genetic mitochondrial diseases and common diseases of aging
- Paul Presburger, Class of 1987, Chief Executive Officer of Pantelion Films, created in 2010 by Televisa and Lionsgate with the goal to bring wider theatrical distribution of movies aimed at Latino audiences
Media and journalism
- Renee Chenault-Fattah, co-anchor of NBC 10 News in Philadelphia
- Adrian Cronauer, former radio disc jockey; Special Assistant to the Director of the POW/MIA Office at the Department of Defense; inspiration for the film Good Morning, Vietnam
- Mark Haines, host of CNBC's Squawk Box
- Alberto Ibarguen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald
- Norman Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer of Bloomberg L.P.; former Editor-in-chief of Time
- Michael A. Smerconish, Class of 1987, (born March 15, 1962), broadcasts The Michael Smerconish Program on SiriusXM POTUS Channel (124), hosts a CNN and CNN International program, Smerconish, at 9:00 a.m. ET on Saturdays, writes a column for The Philadelphia Inquirer, and authored seven books
- Van Toffler, President, MTV Networks
- Lynn Toler, judge of the television series Divorce Court
Sports
- Irving Baxter, winner of two gold medals and three silver medals at the 1900 Paris Olympics
- Anita DeFrantz, 1976 women's eight-oared shell bronze medalist; first woman and first African-American to represent the United States on the International Olympic Committee; IOC's first female vice president; chair of the Commission on Women and Sports
- Marvin Goldklang, minority owner of the New York Yankees
- John Heisman, football and rugby football player, Class of 1892; coach of football, basketball, and baseball, namesake of the Heisman Trophy
- Sarah Elizabeth Hughes, Class of 2018, (born May 2, 1985) a former American competitive figure skater who is the 2002 Winter Olympics Gold Medalist Champion and the 2001 World bronze medalist in ladies' singles.
Other
- Daniel Barringer, first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on earth, and namesake of the Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona
- James Harry Covington, co-founder of Covington & Burling; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
- John G. Johnson, lawyer (noted by many to be one of the greatest attorneys in U.S. history) who argued 168 cases before the Supreme Court; twice turned down an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court
- William Draper Lewis, founder and first director of the American Law Institute
- Edward J. Normand, Counsel, Lloyd's of London
- George Wharton Pepper, founder of Pepper Hamilton LLP, a firm with more than 500 lawyers
- Bernard Segal, past President of the American Bar Association
- Gigi Sohn, founder of Public Knowledge
- John Thomas Taylor, congressional lobbyist for the American Legion
- George W. Wickersham, co-founder of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Attorney General of the United States; President of the Council on Foreign Relations
Attended but did not graduate
- Thomas Clinton, executive at Deutsche Bank; key figure in the formation of the US Presbyterian Church
- William Radford Coyle, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–27, 1929–33
- George B. McClellan, U.S. Civil War General; Governor of New Jersey
- George Washington who attended lectures by James Wilson who tought law class in 1789 to President Washington and all the members of his cabinet, which at that time included
- Thomas Jefferson as first Secretary of State
- Alexander Hamilton as first Secretary of Treasury
- Henry Knox as first Secretary of War
- Edmund Randolph as first United States Attorney General
Fictional alumni
- Andrew Beckett: gay, HIV-positive lawyer portrayed by Tom Hanks in the 1993 movie Philadelphia; his former boss says he hired him upon his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Anthony "Tony" Judson Lawrence portrayed by Paul Newman, a graduate of University of Pennsylvania Law School, in the 1959 film, The Young Philadelphians based on 1956 novel The Philadelphian by Richard P. Powell.
Notes
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