List of University of Michigan law and government alumni

As of 2019, Michigan has placed over 100 graduates onto various State Supreme Courts.

Michigan law has placed 36 of its graduates on the state's supreme court.[71] Of those who served, 16 served as Chief Justice.

• Clark J. Adams (MLaw: 1927; On Court: 1952–1953)
• Paul L. Adams (MLaw: 1936; On Court: 1962–1962 and 1964–1972)
• Emerson R. Boyles (MLaw: 1903; On Court: 1940–1956)
• Henry M. Butzel (MLaw: 1892; On Court: 1929–1955) served as Chief Justice in 1939
• William Leland Carpenter (MLaw: 1878; On Court: 1902–1904)
• Leland W. Carr (MLaw: 1906; On Court: 1941–1963) served as Chief Justice
• John R. Dethmers (MLaw: 1927; On Court: 1946–1970), served as Chief Justice
• Louis H. Fead (MLaw: 1900; On Court: 1928–1937), served as Chief Justice
• John W. Fitzgerald (MLaw: 1954; On Court: 1974–1982), served as Chief Justice
• Richard C. Flannigan (December 15, 1859 – February 17, 1928) was an American jurist and lawyer. (served as Chief Justice)
• Claudius B. Grant (October 25, 1835 – February 28, 1921) was an American jurist, legislator, and lawyer. (served as Chief Justice)
• Robert P. Griffin (MLaw: 1950; On Court: 1987–1994)
• Frank A. Hooker (MLaw: 1865; On Court: 1893–1907) (served as Chief Justice during 3 separate periods.
• Franz C. Kuhn (MLaw: 1894; On Court: 1912–1919)
• Charles Leonard Levin (MLaw: 1947; On Court: 1973–1996)
• Lawrence B. Lindemer (MLaw: 1948; On Court: 1975–1976)
• Isaac Marston (MLaw: 1861; On Court: 1875–1883) served as Chief Justice
• Thomas F. McAllister (MLaw: 1921; On Court: 1938–1941)
• Aaron Vance McAlvay (MLaw: 1869; On Court: 1905–1915)
• John Samuel McDonald (MLaw: 1891; On Court: 1922–1933)
• John W. McGrath (MLaw: 1868; On Court: 1891–1895) served as Chief Justice
• Blair Moody (MLaw: 1952; On Court: 1977–1982)
• Joseph B. Moore, studied for 1 year at Michigan Law (On Court: 1896–1926), served as Chief Justice over several periods
• Walter Harper North (MLaw: 1899; On Court: 1927–1952) served as Chief Justice
• Russell C. Ostrander (MLaw: 1876; On Court: 1905–1919) served as Chief Justice
• William W. Potter (MLaw: 1895; On Court: 1928–1940), served as Chief Justice
• Edward MacGlen Sharpe (MLaw: 1914; On Court: 1934–1957)
• Talbot Smith (MLaw: 1934; On Court: 1955–1961)
• Ernest A. Snow (MLaw: 1896; On Court: 1926–1927)
• Theodore Souris (MLaw: 1949; On Court: 1960–1968)
• Joseph H. Steere (May 16, 1852 – December 16, 1936) was an American jurist. served as Chief Justice
• Raymond Wesley Starr (MLaw: 1910; On Court: 1941–1946)
• David Viviano (MLaw: 1996; On Court: 2013–present)
• John D. Voelker (MLaw: 1928; On Court: 1957–1959)
• Thomas Addis Emmett Weadock (MLaw: 1873; On Court: 1933–1933)
• G. Mennen Williams (MLaw: 1936; On Court: 1971–1986), served as Chief Justice

Supreme Court Justices appointed within other states or from other University of Michigan schools:

• Francis Elisha Baker (B.A.) (October 20, 1860 – March 15, 1924) was a United States federal judge. Born in Goshen, Indiana, Baker received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1882 and read law to enter the Bar in 1884.
• William H. Barnes (LLB) served as Assistant Justice on the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1885 till 1889.
• Richard H. Bernstein (B.A.), lawyer and Michigan Supreme Court justice
• Charles C. Black (LLB) was an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1904. He received a law degree from University of Michigan Law School in 1881.
• Charles Blakey Blackmar (J.D.), judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri 1982–1992; chief justice of the court 1989–1991
• Charles A. Blair (B.A.) (1854–1912) was a member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1905 until 1912.
• Charles D. Breitel (B.A.) In 1950, Dewey appointed him a justice of the New York Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel Null. In December 1950, Dewey re-appointed Breitel to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ferdinand Pecora. In November 1951, he was elected on the Republican and Democratic tickets to a 14-year term, and re-elected in 1965.
• Herbert R. Brown (JD) is a lawyer and author from the U.S. State of Ohio who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court for six years, then devoted his time to writing fiction.
• Charles C. Butler Justice and Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court
• John Emmett Carland was a United States federal judge. Carland attended the University of Michigan, and read law in 1877 to enter the Bar. He was the U.S. Attorney for the Dakota Territory from 1885 to 1888, and a Justice of the Dakota territorial Supreme Court in 1888 and 1889.
• Joseph N. Carter (LLB) In 1894, Carter was named a candidate for the Supreme Court of Illinois to fill the vacancy of Simeon P. Shope. He was the youngest member of the court upon his election. He served one term as Chief Justice in 1898–1899.
• James H. Cartwright (MDNG) was an American jurist. He went to Mount Morris Seminary and University of Michigan. Cartwright served on the Illinois Supreme Court from 1895 until his death in 1924.
• Megan Cavanagh (B.E.) is an attorney who was elected in November 2018 to become an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court with a term beginning in January 2019.
• Margaret Chutich (JD) is an American lawyer and judge, who has served as an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2016, when she was appointed by Governor Mark Dayton.
• William G. Clark (MDNG) In 1976, Clark was elected to the Illinois Supreme Court and served until 1992. He served as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1985 to 1988.
• Robert N. Clinton is an American constitutional lawyer, and law professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, who sits on numerous native-American tribal appellate courts. In addition to teaching, he sits as Chief Justice of the Winnebago Supreme Court.
• Nathaniel P. Conrey (LLB) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from October 1, 1935, to November 2, 1936. His 36 years on the bench place him among the longest serving judges in California history.
• Irene Cortes was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and a law academician. She was also the first female dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law.
• Jesse W. Curtis Sr. (LLB) was an American attorney who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California from January 1, 1926 to January 1, 1945.
• Jaime Sifre Dávila (JD) was an attorney and judge in Puerto Rico, ultimately serving as an Associate Justice and briefly as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
• Robert H. Day He attended the University of Michigan for two years and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1891. On November 9, 1922, Robert Day was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court, and was seated January 1, 1923. He was re-elected in November 1928 for another 6-year term. He served until his death in Columbus, Ohio September 29, 1933.
• James R. Dean (LLB) was a Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court from 1909 to 1910, and again from 1917 to 1935.
• Richard Patrick "Pat" DeWine is an American lawyer and an Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
• Wallace B. Douglas (J.D.) (September 21, 1852 – December 9, 1930) was a lawyer, jurist, and politician and Justice of Minnesota's Supreme Court.
• David Dudley Dowd Jr. (JD) received a Juris Doctorfrom the University of Michigan Law School in 1954. He was a Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1980 to 1981. He was in private practice in Canton, Ohio from 1981 to 1982
• James B. Drew (MDNG) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
• Rebecca Duncan (JD) is an American lawyer and judge, who has been an Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court since 2017. She previously served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 2010 to 2017.
• John P. Elkin (JD 1884) Associate Justice of the Supreme court of Pennsylvania
• Franz C. Eschweiler (MDNG) was an American jurist from Wisconsin. Eschweiler studied at the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. In 1910, he was appointed a Wisconsin Circuit Court judge for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Eschweiler was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in 1916, serving until his death in 1929.
• Robert E. Evans (JD) He graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1886 and was admitted to the bar. He was elected Judge of the Supreme Court from the Third District of Nebraska in 1924. He served until his death on July 8, 1925.
• Lawrence T. Harris (LLB) was an American politician and lawyer in the state of Oregon. He was the 45th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, serving from 1914 to 1924.
• William L. Hart (LLB) was a lawyer in the U.S. State of Ohio who served as a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He taught law at university, and was president of the Ohio State Bar Association.
• Seneca Haselton (LLB) was a Vermont educator, attorney and politician. He is notable for his service as mayor of Burlington, Vermont (1891-1894), U.S. Minister to Venezuela (1894-1895), and an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1902-1906, 1908-1919).
• Paul M. Herbert (BA) served as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1963 to 1969.
• Lott R. Herrick (JD) was an American lawyer and jurist. Herrick graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1894. From 1933 until his death in 1937, Herrick served on the Illinois Supreme Court.
• Gilbert V. Indeglia (JD) is a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Indeglia is a 1959 graduate of Providence's Classical High School, a 1963 graduate of Boston College, and a 1966 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
• Orange Jacobs (MDNG) was an American lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician. His career in government centered on the Territory of Washington, for which he served as a delegate to the U.S. Congress, chief justice of the territory's supreme court, mayor of Seattle, and other roles.
• William H. King (JD) After holding local offices and serving two terms in the territorial legislature, he graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He later joined the Utah bar and practiced law. He held other territorial offices and was appointed as an associate justice of the Utah Supreme Court, serving between 1894 and 1896.
• Charles Leonard Levin (BA, LLB) was a U.S. jurist. He served as a Michigan Court of Appeals judge from 1966 to 1972 and as a justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1973 to 1996. He attended the University of Michigan where he received his B.A. in 1946 and his LL.B. in 1947 from the University of Michigan Law School.
• Isadore Levine (BA, JD) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana from January 13, 1955 to May 23, 1955. He then received a B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1920, and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1921.
• Steven Levinson (JD) an Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court, Levinson served his first term from 1992 to 2002 and was retained by the Judicial Selection Commission to serve a second ten-year term. He retired from the court, effective December 31, 2008.
• Peter J. Maassen (JD) is a justice of the Alaska Supreme Court, who was appointed in 2012
• George A. Malcolm (LLB) At age 35, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, where he would serve for 19 years. His most enduring legacy perhaps lies in his role in the establishment of the College of Law at the University of the Philippines.
• George W. Maxey (BA) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from 1930 to 1943 and Chief Justice from 1943 to 1950.
• Abner Vernon McCall (LLM) In 1943, he received an LL.M from the University of Michigan. He was appointed a Texas Supreme Court Justice in June 1956 by Governor Allan Shivers. He was also a past President of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.
• David Mills was a Canadian politician, author, poet and puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. He attended the University of Michigan School of law, graduating with honors in 1867 with an LL.B degree.
• Loren E. Murphy (LLB) Murphy received his law degree from University of Michigan Law School in 1906. From 1939 to 1948, Murphy served on the Illinois Supreme Court and was chief justice.
• Frank W. Parker (LLB) was an American judge who served on the New Mexico Supreme Court for 35 years, from its territorial period to after statehood. He earned a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School in 1880. Parker was appointed to serve on the Territorial Supreme Court on January 10, 1898 by President William McKinley, on the recommendation of territorial governor Miguel Antonio Otero. He was reappointed to the Territorial Supreme Court by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 and 1905, and by William Howard Taft in 1909. While serving as a territorial district court judge
• Rollin H. Person (LLB) He studied law at University of Michigan Law School and was admitted to the Michigan bar in 1873. Person served as Michigan circuit court judge from 1891 to 1899. Person then served on the Michigan Supreme Court from 1915 to 1917.
• Charles N. Potter (LLB) was a Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court from January 7, 1895 to December 20, 1927.
• Florenz Regalado was the 14th appointment by President Corazon Aquino to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from July 29, 1988 to October 13, 1998. He graduated magna cum laude in 1954 from the San Beda College of Law, and received his Master of Laws degree from the University of Michigan in 1963
• Albert L. Rendlen (MDNG) was judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1977 until 1992, and the Chief Justice of that Court from January 1982 until June 1985.
• John E. Richards (LLB) was an American attorney who served as an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from 1924 until 1932.
• John Sherman Robinson (B.A. 1903) (December 17, 1880 – October 9, 1951) was an American track and field athlete, lawyer, judge, and Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court.
• Marvin B. Rosenberry (JD) was an American jurist from Wisconsin. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. In 1916, he was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court and, in 1929, Rosenberry became chief justice of the supreme court serving until his retirement in 1950.
• Myra C. Selby (JD) In 1995, she was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court, where she served as both the first African American and first woman appointed to the highest state court in Indiana.
• Maria Lourdes "Meilou" Aranal Sereno) (LLM) (Tagalog: [sɛˈrɛnɔ], born Maria Lourdes Punzalan Aranal; July 2, 1960) is a Filipina lawyer and judge who served as de facto Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines from 2012 until 2018.
• John Allen Shauck (LLB) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1895–1914.
• Elwyn Riley Shaw (LLB) was a United States federal judge. Shaw received an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1910, and immediately entered private practice in Freeport, Illinois. He was a judge on the Supreme Court of Illinois from 1933 to 1942, serving as Chief Justice from 1938 to 1939.
• John W. Shenk (LLB) was a city attorney in Los Angeles, California, a Superior Court judge and a member of the California Supreme Court.
• Joseph J. Simeone (SJD) was judge on the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1978 until 1979.
• Talbot Smith (JD He received a Juris Doctor from University of Michigan Law School in 1934. He was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan from 1955 to 1961.
• Oliver Starr (LLB) was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana from January 1, 1945 to January 1, 1951. Starr received an A.B. from Indiana University in 1905, and an LL.B. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1908.
• Clifford Taylor (B.A.), Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court 2005–2009
• Raymond Wesley Starr (LLB) Starr received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Michigan Law School in 1910. He was in private practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan from 1910 to 1937, and was then Attorney General of Michigan from 1937 to 1938, thereafter returning to private practice until 1941. He was a Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1941 to 1946.
• William Story (B.A.) was a United States federal judge and later the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, serving from 1891 to 1893 under John Long Routt. He was a judge of the Second Judicial Circuit Court of Arkansas from 1867 to 1871, sitting as a "special Chief Justice" on the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1869.
• John Charles Tarsney (LLB) was appointed by U.S. President Grover Cleveland to serve as associate justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma Territory in 1896 and served until 1899.
• Samuel R. Thurman (LLB) was a Justice of the Utah Supreme Court from 1917 to 1929, serving as Chief Justice from 1927 to 1929.
• Walter L. Tooze (JD) was an American attorney and politician in Oregon. He served as the 66th Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court and as a state district court judge.
• Alfred Wallin (JD) was an American judge who served one of the first three Justices of the Supreme Court of North Dakota from 1889 to 1902.
• Martha Lee Walters (BA) is an American labor attorney and the 43rd Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.
• J. Stanley Webster (LLB) was a congressman from Eastern Washington, a professor of law at Gonzaga University School of Law, a Washington State Supreme Court justice, and a federal judge
• Kurtis T. Wilder (AB, JD) He attended the University Michigan, graduating in 1981 with a A.B. degree in political science, and earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1984. On May 9, 2017, Governor Snyder appointed Wilder to the Michigan Supreme Court. Wilder will complete his predecessor Robert P. Young Jr.'s term in December 2018.
• Roy Hughes Williams (JD) was a lawyer from the U.S. State of Ohio who served as a prosecutor, local and appellate judge, and was a justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio from 1934 until his death.
• Allen Zollars (LLB) was a politician and judge in Indiana who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana from January 1, 1883 to January 7, 1889.

• Paul L. Adams, member of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1962 and 1964–1972; mayor of Sault Ste. Marie 1938–1942; Attorney General of Michigan in 1957; member of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1962
• Eugene F. Black (1903–1990), elected Michigan Attorney General as a Republican in 1945
• Charles A. Blair (1854–1912), member of the Michigan Supreme Court from 1905 until 1912; held several public offices including prosecuting attorney for Jackson County; elected Attorney General of Michigan in 1902
• Steven G. Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the United States for the Office of Legal Counsel, 2005–2009
• Clarence Addison Brimmer, Jr., state attorney general of Wyoming 1971–1974
• Wilber Marion Brucker, assistant attorney general of Michigan, 1927–1928; Michigan Attorney General, 1928–1930
• Warren Booth Burrows, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives 1925–1927, member of Connecticut Senate 1927–1928; state attorney general of Connecticut 1931–1935
• Charles Burson, served almost a decade as Tennessee Attorney General; became Gore's Chief of Staff in 1999
• Pamela Carter, first black woman to serve as a state's attorney general
• Mike Cox, Michigan's 52nd Attorney General
• Marc Dann, Attorney General of Ohio from 2007 until his resignation in 2008
• Harry M. Daugherty (LAW), Attorney General of the United States under Presidents Harding and Coolidge
• Ulysses G. Denman, Republican politician from Ohio; Ohio Attorney General 1908–1911
• John R. Dethmers, Chairman of the Michigan Republican Party 1942–1945; delegate to the 1944 Republican National Convention; Michigan Attorney General 1945–1946
• Tyrone C. Fahner, lawyer; received his bachelor's degree from U-M; Illinois Attorney General 1980–1983
• Charles E. Gibson Jr., Vermont Attorney General[72]
• Horace Weldon Gilmore, member of the Michigan Board of Tax Appeals in 1954; deputy state attorney general of Michigan 1954–1956; judge on the 3rd Judicial Circuit of Detroit 1956–1980
• Alexander J. Groesbeck, Attorney General; 30th Governor of Michigan
• Shiro Kashiwa, first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959
• Franz C. Kuhn, probate judge; Michigan Attorney General in 1910
• Cary D. Landis, 25th Florida Attorney General, (1931–1938)
• George A. Malcolm, acting attorney-general for the Philippines as of 1911
• Dwight May, Michigan Attorney General; served from 1869 to 1873 under Governor Henry P. Baldwin
• Frank Millard, Michigan Attorney General, 1951–1954
• William J. Morgan, Wisconsin Attorney General 1912–1923, Republican
• Frank Murphy, United States Attorney General 1939–40
• Dana Nessel, Michigan's 54th attorney general, is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Michigan. She is the first openly LGBTQ person elected to statewide office in Michigan.
• William W. Potter, Michigan Attorney General 1927–1928
• Charles Byron Renfrew, nominated by President Richard Nixon to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; confirmed by the United States Senate on December 2, 1971, and received his commission on December 9; served until 1980, when he resigned to become United States Deputy Attorney General, serving in that post until 1981
• John W. Reynolds, Sr., Attorney General of Wisconsin 1927–1933; Republican
• Stephen John Roth, Attorney General of Michigan 1949–1950
• Kenneth Salazar; U.S. Senator; Attorney General of Colorado 1999–2005
• John M. Sheets, Republican politician; Ohio Attorney General 1900–1904
• Winfield Smith, Attorney General of Wisconsin 1862–1866; Republican
• Robert Stafford, deputy attorney general of Vermont 1953–1955; attorney general 1955–1957
• Raymond Wesley Starr, Attorney General of Michigan 1937–1938
• James M. Swift, lawyer; District Attorney of Massachusetts Southern District; Attorney General of Massachusetts
• Cyrus Nils Tavares, deputy attorney general of Hawaii 1927–1934 before returning to private practice in Honolulu, 1934–1941; during World War II he was the special deputy attorney general of Hawaii for war matters, 1941–1942; the assistant attorney general of Hawaii, 1942–1943; and the Attorney General of Hawaii, 1944–1947
• Larry Thompson, lawyer; deputy Attorney General of the US under President George W. Bush until 2003
• Paul W. Voorhies, Michigan lawyer; Wayne County Prosecutor; Michigan Attorney General
• Robert Wefald; 26th North Dakota Attorney General 1981–1984

• Anderson W. Atkinson was a Major General in the United States Air Force.
• Rear Adm. Mike Bernacchi grew up in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Detroit with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and holds master's degrees from University of Michigan in nuclear engineering and industrial engineering.
• Benjamin N. Bellis is a retired American Air Force lieutenant general who was vice commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe,
• William Clarence Braisted was an American surgeon. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1883.
• Erroll M. Brown, retired rear admiral in the US Coast Guard; first African-American promoted to flag rank in the Coast Guard
• Arleigh Burke (COE: MSE), United States Navy admiral; World War II hero; Chief of Naval Operations (1955–1961)
• James B. Currie was a major general in the United States Air Force.
• James E. Dalton is a former General and former Chief of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.
• Terrance T. Etnyre (BA 1970), US Navy vice admiral; Commander, Naval Surface Forces
• Elon Farnsworth (1858), Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War; cavalry commander; killed at Gettysburg
• Charles D. Griffin, four-star admiral in the US Navy; commander in chief of US Naval Forces Europe 1963–1965; commander in chief of Allied Forces Southern Europe 1965–1968
• Arthur E. Henn, retired vice admiral in the US Coast Guard; Vice Commandant 1994–1996
• James W. Houck, retired US Navy vice admiral; 41st Judge Advocate General of the US Navy 2009–2012
• Ali S. Khan, (University of Michigan Health System residency in internal medicine and pediatrics); Rear admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention[74]
• Robert E. Kramek, retired US Coast Guard admiral; 20th Commandant of the US Coast Guard 1994–1998
• Robert T. Marsh was a retired United States Air Force four-star general who served as Commander, Air Force Systems Command (COMAFSC) from 1981 to 1984.
• Thomas P. Meek, US Navy officer; rear admiral; commander of the Navy Cyber Forces since 2010
• Ronald J. Rábago, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral, in 2006 became the first Hispanic American to be promoted to flag rank
• Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega, Rear Admiral
• John H. Sides
• Willard J. Smith In 1973 he became admiral of the Great Lakes Maritime Academy in Traverse City, Michigan and held
• Miguel Ángel Barberena Vega On September 20, 1984, he was promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral by President de la Madrid. He was positioned by the Institutional Revolutionary
• James A. Watson, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral
• Donald C. Winter, Secretary of the Navy

• Gladeon M. Barnes was a United States Army major general who, as Chief of Research and Engineering in the Ordnance Department, was responsible for the development of 1,600 different weapons.
• Dwight E. Beach (MDNG) (July 20, 1908 – July 22, 2000) commanded the United States Forces Korea from 1965–1966 and U.S. Army, Pacific from September 1966 to July 1968.
• John Biddle (MDNG), a career US Army officer; Major General; superintendent of the United States Military Academy
• Henry Patrick Birmingham was a surgeon and an American brigadier general active during World War I.
• Peter J. Boylan (MS 1970) – United States Army major general; President of Georgia Military College
• Margaret A. Brewer (BA 1952) – United States Marine Corps brigadier general, Director of Women Marines (1973–1977); first woman to be promoted to a general officer rank in the Marine Corps
• Wilber Marion Brucker (BA 1916), Secretary of the Army under President Eisenhower
• James B. Currie (1958), United States Air Force major general
• Elon J. Farnsworth (July 30, 1837 – July 3, 1863) was a Union Army cavalry general in the American Civil War, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg. Expelled before graduation.
• Alfred B. Fitt, lawyer; General Counsel of the Army 1964–1967
• Roy K. Flint was a Brigadier General in the United States Army, Dean of the Academic Board at the United States Military Academy, and a president of the Society for Military History.
• Lawrence J. Fuller was an American army major general who served as the deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
• Henry James Hatch (April 28, 1869 – December 31, 1931) was a United States Army officer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He served in World War I and received the Distinguished Service Medal among other awards.
• Charles H. Jacoby Jr. (MA), US Army General; fifth Commander, US Northern Command; 22nd Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command
• Paul J. Kern (master's degrees in mechanical and civil engineering 1973), former US Army general; Commanding General of the United States Army Materiel Command 2001–2004
• Theodore C. Lyster, M.D. (10 July 1875, Kansas – 5 August 1933, California) was a United States Army physician and aviation medicine pioneer.
• Orrin L. Mann was an American soldier and politician who served as an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
• William James Mayo, M.D., FACS, physician and surgeon; one of the seven founders of the Mayo Clinic; promoted to Brigadier General, 1918
• Frank Millard (LAW: 1916), appointed by President Eisenhower as the General Counsel of the U.S. Army in 1955
• William M. Morrow, enlisted in the US Army in 1888; served for more than 40 years until his retirement in 1930; decorated for his service in World War I; Brigadier General
• Jasper Packard was a U.S. Representative from Indiana and brevetted brigadier general.
• David G. Perkins (C.O.E. MSME), US Army Lieutenant General; Commander of the United States Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
• Samuel C. Phillips was a United States Air Force four-star general who served as Director of NASA's Apollo Manned Lunar Landing Program from 1964 to 1969
• Benjamin D. Pritchard (LAW: JD 1860), Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis; served two terms of office as State Treasurer of Michigan 1880–1884; organized the First National Bank of Allegan in 1870 and served as its president until 1905; founded the First State Bank, which was the first bank in the county to be designated as a state depository, the first savings bank, and the first bank to install safety deposit boxes
• Eric B. Schoomaker (COM: MD, Ph.D.), 42nd Surgeon General of the US Army; Commanding General, US Army Medical Command; practicing hematologist
• Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr. (M.S. mechanical engineering), US Army lieutenant general; Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers 2007–2011