List of Tulane University people

This is a list of notable individuals affiliated with Tulane University, including alumni of non-matriculating and graduates, faculty, former faculty and major benefactors. Some especially notable individuals also are listed in the main university article.

Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. For alumni, the degree and year of graduation are noted when available.

Alumni
Selected Tulane people
Edward Douglass White (Law 1868), 9th Chief Justice of the United States
Newt Gingrich (M.A. 1968, Ph.D. 1971), 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
Luis Guillermo Solís (M.A. 1981), President of Costa Rica
David Filo (B.S. 1988), co-founder of Yahoo!

Academia

Arts and letters

Architecture

Film and television

Literature and poetry

Music

Non-fiction writing and journalism

Visual arts

Other

Business and economics

Government and politics

Heads of state
  • Luis Guillermo Solis, M.A. 1981, President of Costa Rica

U.S. Senators and Congressmen
  • William L. Armstrong, B 1958, former U.S. Representative and U.S. senator from Colorado; president of Colorado Christian University (R)[13]
  • Howard Henry Baker Jr., 1945, U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[14]
  • Hale Boggs, Law, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946–1972; house majority leader (D)[15]
  • Lindy Boggs, Newcomb 1935, U.S. Representative 1941–1943, 1973–1991, Tulane benefactor (D)[16]
  • Edwin S. Broussard, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (D)[17]
  • Donelson Caffery, Law, U.S. Senator, 1892–1900 (D)
  • James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, Law, Lafayette congressman and Cajun cultural spokesman (D)[18]
  • Allen J. Ellender, Law 1913, U.S. Senator, agriculture committee chair (D)[19]
  • Newt Gingrich, U.S. Representative, 1979–1998 and Speaker of the House, 1995–1998 (R)[20]
  • Tim Griffin, L '94, U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas (R)[21]
  • Felix Edward Hébert, U.S. Representatives, 1940–1977 (D)[22]
  • Bob Livingston, former U.S. Representative, 1977–1999 (R)[23]
  • John H. Overton, Law, 1897, former U.S. senator from Louisiana (D)
  • Pedro Pierluisi, B.A., 1980, Puerto Rico's member of Congress (D) former Attorney General and President, New Party for Progress
  • Cedric Richmond, L '98, U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana's 2nd congressional district (D)
  • Jared Y. Sanders Jr., U.S. Representative (D), later States Rights Party
  • Luther Strange, B.A. 1975, Law 1978, U.S. Senator from Alabama, 2017–2018 (R)
  • Gene Taylor, U.S. Representative, 1989–2011 (D-turned-R)
  • David Vitter, Law, former U.S. senator from Louisiana, 2005–2017 (R)

U.S. Governors

U.S. Cabinet Secretaries and other prominent federal officials
  • Howard Henry Baker Jr., 1945, U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[14]
  • Donald Ensenat, Law, 1973, White House chief of protocol
  • Lisa P. Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (D)[31] (2009–2013)
  • Stephen Douglas Johnson, AB '85, L '88, U.S. House Chief Counsel for Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit(1995–98) and Bush White House Senior Advisor to the Office of Federal Housing Oversight (2001–03)[32]

Diplomats
  • Howard Henry Baker Jr. (1945), U.S. Senate majority leader, White House chief of staff, U.S. ambassador to Japan (R)[14]
  • Kristie Kenney, G '79, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, former ambassador to the Philippines and Ecuador [33]
  • John Giffen Weinmann, (A&S ’50, L ’52), former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and chief of protocol in the White House
  • Clint Williamson, (L '86) U.S. Ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, UN envoy, White House policy official

Mayors

City and state officials
  • Joseph Bouie Jr., Master of Social Work, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 97 in Orleans Parish since 2014 (D)[36]
  • Timothy G. Burns, B.A. 1979, M.B.A. 1980, J.D. 1983, Louisiana state representative from St. Tammany Parish since 2004 (R)
  • Buddy Caldwell, attorney general of Louisiana since 2008; former district attorney in Tallulah (D)-turned-(R)
  • Philip Ciaccio, state representative, New Orleans City Council member, state circuit judge 1982–1998[37]
  • John Elton Coon, state representative from Ouachita Parish; mayor of Monroe 1949–1956, and state fire marshal 1956–1964 (D)[38]
  • Eddie Doucet, former state representative for Jefferson Parish[39]
  • Frank Fulco, state representative from Shreveport; leader of Italian American community in Louisiana (D)[40]
  • Cameron Henry, member of Louisiana House (R)
  • Nita Rusich Hutter, M. Ed. 1978, state representative from St. Bernard Parish (R)[41]
  • Adam Kwasman, B.A. Economics 2003, member of Arizona House of Representatives District 11; 2014 candidate for U.S. Congress (R)
  • Elwyn Nicholson, state senator from Jefferson Parish 1972–1988 (D)[42]
  • Karen Carter Peterson, state representative and candidate for United States House of Representatives from Louisiana (D)
  • Weldon Russell, state representative from Tangipahoa and St. Helena parishes 1984–1988; realtor in Amite (D)
  • Jock Scott, former state representative from Alexandria (D)-turned-(R)
  • Scott M. Simon, architect and state representative (R)
  • Eric Skrmetta, attorney from Metairie, Louisiana; Republican member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission for District 1 (R)
  • Paul Spitzfaden, B.A. 1957, mayor of Mandeville, 1984–1996 (R)[43]
  • Roy R. Theriot, Law, former Louisiana comptroller, 1960–1973 (D)
  • Tom Thornhill, postgraduate study, Slidell attorney and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1996–2000 (R)[44]
  • Joseph F. Toomy, B.A. and M.B.A., former state representative from Jefferson Parish (R)[45]
  • Chris Ullo, member of both houses of the Louisiana legislature 1972–2008 (D)

Other

Law

U.S. Supreme Court justices

Federal and state judges
  • Edith Brown Clement, Law, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)[52]
  • William Tharp Cunningham, preparatory curriculum, Law, judge of the 11th Judicial District in Natchitoches and Red River parishes, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1908–1912 (D)[53]
  • W. Eugene Davis, Law, 1960, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[54]
  • John Malcolm Duhé Jr., Law, Justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)[55]
  • Martin Leach-Cross Feldman, B.A. 1955, J.D. 1957 Federal Judge (R)[56]
  • Rufus E. Foster, Law, 1895, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit[57]
  • F.A. Little Jr., Class of 1958, former judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (R)[58]
  • Angel Martín, Law, former associate justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court
  • Tucker L. Melancon, Law, 1973, justice, 5th Circuit since 1994 (D)[59]
  • Judge Henry Mentz, U.S. federal district judge 1982–2005[60]
  • Mildred Methvin, Class of 1974, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western District of Louisiana 1983–2009, based in Lafayette (D)[61]
  • Charles B. Peatross, BBA 1963, judge 1996–2011 of the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal in Shreveport (D)
  • Bill Pryor, Law, 1987, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (R)
  • Christian Roselius, 1857, chief justice, Louisiana Supreme Court (D)
  • Alvin A. Schall, Law, 1969, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Nauman S. Scott, one of the first Louisiana U.S. District Court Judges to advocate desegregation (D)-turned-(R)
  • Elizabeth Weaver, N ’62; L ’65, Michigan Supreme Court justice
  • Jacques Loeb Wiener, justice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Stephen J. Windhorst, B.A., Law, district court judge, former state representative (R)
  • John Minor Wisdom, Law, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit (R)

Attorneys

Other
  • Adolphe Lafargue, newspaper publisher, state legislator, and judge from Marksville (D)[63]
  • A. Brown Moore, Class of 1934, lawyer, politician, businessman (D)[64]
  • George W. Reese Jr., New Orleans lawyer and Louisiana Republican political figure
  • William Suter, Law 1962, clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court 1991–present

Math, science and technology
  • Jon-Erik Beckjord, paranormal investigator and photographer
  • Ruth Benerito, Newcomb alumna and inventor of wrinkle-free cotton
  • Willey Glover Denis, 1879–1929, Newcomb A.B. 1899, Tulane M.A. 1902. Biochemist; her appointment as assistant professor at Tulane Medical School has been identified as the first appointment of a woman as a faculty member of a major medical institution in the U.S.
  • Anna Epps, microbiologist; possibly the first African-American woman with a PhD to lead a medical school.[65]
  • David Filo, B.S.C.E, co-founder of Yahoo!
  • Kurt Mislow, 1944, Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University [66]
  • Harold Rosen, B.S.E.E, 1947, engineer/inventor, famous for inventing the geostationary communications satellite
  • Dave Winer, B.A, Mathematics, 1976, Weblog and RSS pioneer, former Harvard Law School Berkman Center for Internet & Society Fellow
  • A. Baldwin Wood, B.S.M.E., 1899, engineer and inventor of the wood screw pump (1913) and the wood trash pump (1915)
  • Ilya Zhitomirskiy, 1989–2011, student, co-founder of the social network Diaspora

Medicine

Military

Royalty and religion

Sports

Faculty

Tulane presidents
President Years
Francis Lister Hawks**1847-1849
Theodore Howard McCaleb**1850-1862
University closed during the Civil War1862–1865
Thomas Hunt**1865-1867
Randell Hunt**1867-1884
William Preston Johnston1884–1899
William Oscar Rogers1899–1900 (acting)
Edwin Alderman1900–1904
Edwin Boone Craighead1904–1912
Robert Sharp1912–1913 (acting)
1913–1918
Albert Bledsoe Dinwiddie1918–1935
Douglas Smith Anderson1935–1936 (acting)
Robert Leonval Menuet1936–1937 (acting)
Rufus Carrollton Harris1937–1960
Maxwell Edward Lapham1960 (acting)
Herbert Eugene Longenecker1960–1975
Sheldon Hackney1975–1980
Eamon Kelly1980–1981 (acting)
1981–1998
Scott Cowen1998–2014
Michael Fitts2014–present
** denotes Presidents of The University of Louisiana

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