List of UC Berkeley School of Law alumni

UC Berkeley School of Law has produced many influential alumni in law, government, business, academia and society.
The following are prominent alumni of Berkeley Law. Within each category below, alumni are listed by their graduation date from the law school. Alumni may appear more than once if they hold or have held roles that encompass multiple categories. Individuals were conferred with J.D. or LL.B. degrees unless otherwise noted in parentheses.

United States government and politics

The following are Berkeley Law graduates who have served in prominent federal, state, and local government positions and/or important political roles.

Federal government

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Dean Rusk, 1940 – 54th United States Secretary of State

G. William Miller, 1952 – 65th United States Secretary of the Treasury and 11th Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Edwin Meese III, 1958 – 75th United States Attorney General and Counselor to the President
Neil Goldschmidt, 1967 – 6th United States Secretary of Transportation
Kenneth Wainstein, 1988 – 4th United States Homeland Security Advisor
Robert O'Brien, 1991 – 28th United States National Security Advisor

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State and territorial governments

Governors

Earl Warren, 1914 – 30th Governor of California
Walter Gordon, 1922 – 18th Governor of the United States Virgin Islands
Richard Lamm, 1961 – 38th Governor of Colorado
Pete Wilson, 1962 – 36th Governor of California
Neil Goldschmidt, 1967 – 33rd Governor of Oregon

State cabinet members

Earl Warren, 1914 – 20th Attorney General of California
Thomas Gill, 1951 – 3rd Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii and director of the Hawaii Office of Economic Opportunity
Richard L. Wright, 1960s – chief of staff to Governor of New Jersey Jim Florio
David B. Frohnmayer, 1967 – 12th Attorney General of Oregon
Paul Bardacke, 1969 – 26th Attorney General of New Mexico
Eni Faleomavaega, 1973 – 3rd Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa
David M. Louie, 1977 – 13th Attorney General of Hawaii
Kate Marshall, 1992 – 35th Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and 21st Nevada State Treasurer
Jahna Lindemuth, 1997 – 31st Attorney General of Alaska
Sean Reyes, 1997 – 21st Attorney General of Utah
Jessica Wooley, 1997 – director of the Hawaii Office of Environmental Quality Control
Ann O'Leary, 2005 – chief of staff to Governor of California Gavin Newsom

State and territorial legislators

Selim M. Franklin, 1883 – member of the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature ; drafted legislation that founded the University of Arizona
Albert Charles Wollenberg, 1924 – member of the California State Assembly
MacNeil Mitchell, 1929 – New York State Senator and member of the New York State Assembly ; chair of the New York State Senate Judiciary Committee; delegate to the 1960 and 1964 Republican Party National Conventions
Thomas Werdel, 1936 – member of the California State Assembly ; chair of the Judiciary Committee in the State Assembly
Robert Condon, 1938 – member of the California State Assembly
Thomas W. Caldecott, 1939 – member, California State Assembly
John J. McFall, 1941 – member of the California State Assembly
John A. Nejedly, 1941 – California State Senator ; chair of the California State Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildlife
Melvin D. Close, Jr., 1950s – Speaker, Nevada General Assembly and president pro tempore, Nevada Senate
Robert Leggett, 1950 – member of the California State Assembly
Thomas Gill, 1951 – member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
William Raggio, 1951 – Nevada State Senate Majority Leader ; chair of the State Senate Finance Committee and the Legislative Committee on Education
Jerome Waldie, 1953 – Majority Leader of the California State Assembly
Daniel Boatwright, 1959 – California State Senator and member of the California State Assembly
Richard Lamm, 1961 – member of the Colorado Senate and member of the Colorado House of Representatives
Pete Wilson, 1962 – member of the California State Assembly
Gabrielle LeDoux, 1973 – member of the Alaska House of Representatives from the 15th District ; chaired the Fisheries and the Community and Regional Affairs Committees
Sandy Haas, 1974 – member of the Vermont House of Representatives
Frank Tejeda, 1974 – Texas State Senator and member of the Texas House of Representatives
Joe Simitian, 1977 – California State Senator, member of the California State Assembly
Juan Arambula, 1981 – member, California State Assembly
Nancy Turbak Berry, 1981 – South Dakota State Senator
Paul Krekorian, 1984 – member of the California State Assembly
John Hinck, 1990 – member of the Maine House of Representatives
Jessica Wooley, 1997 – member of the Hawaii House of Representatives
Catharine Baker, 2000 – member of the California State Assembly
Jeff Waldstreicher, 2003 – Maryland State Senator and member of the Maryland House of Delegates
Jordan Cunningham, 2004 – member of the California State Assembly
Ben Allen, 2008 – California State Senator
Henry Stern, 2009 – California State Senator and former senior advisor to California State Senator Fran Pavley

Other state and territorial officials

Charles Stetson Wheeler, 1884 – Regent of the University of California and California Republican Party delegate to various Republican National Conventions in the early 20th century
Jacobus tenBroek, 1938 and 1940 – chair of the California Social Welfare Board
Spencer Mortimer Williams, 1948 – secretary of the California Human Relations Agency
Jerome Waldie, 1953 – member of the California Agricultural Relations Board
John P. Vukasin, Jr., 1956 – commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission
Richard L. Wright, 1960s – member of Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine's transition team
David B. Frohnmayer, 1967 – president of the University of Oregon
Steven Walther, 1968 – former member of the Nevada State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Eleanor Nisperos, 1971 – deputy attorney general of the Northern Mariana Islands
Eni Faleomavaega, 1973 – Deputy Attorney General of American Samoa
Michael S. Bernick, 1979 – director of the California Employment Development Department
Paul S. Edwards, 1991 and 1996 – deputy chief of staff for policy and communications for Governor of Utah Gary R. Herbert
Peter J. Aschenbrenner, 1971- Commissioner for the State of Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct

Local governments

Mayors

John J. McFall, 1941 – mayor of Manteca, California
Daniel Boatwright, 1959 – mayor of Concord, California
Pete Wilson, 1962 – 29th mayor of San Diego
Kent Mitchell, 1964 – mayor of Portola Valley, California
Neil Goldschmidt, 1967 – 45th Mayor of Portland
Warren Widener, 1967 – first African-American mayor of Berkeley, California
Robert K. Tanenbaum, 1968 – mayor of Beverly Hills, California and novelist
Gabrielle LeDoux, 1973 – mayor of Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska
Ed Lee, 1978 – 43rd and first Asian-American mayor of San Francisco

Local councils

Alfonso Zirpoli, 1928 – member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
John J. McFall, 1941 – member of the Manteca City Council
Neil Goldschmidt, 1967 – City Commissioner for the Portland City Council
Warren Widener, 1967 – member of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and member of the Berkeley City Council
Susan Leal, 1975 – member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from the 8th District
Joe Simitian, 1977 – president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and Palo Alto City Councillor
John Gioia, 1982 – supervisor, Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors
Paul Krekorian, 1984 – Los Angeles City Councilmember
John Hinck, 1990 – member of the Portland, Maine City Council
Rafael Mandelman, 2000 – member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from the 8th District
Hillary Ronen, 2003 – member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from the 9th District
Jane Kim, 2009 – member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from the 6th District

District attorneys

Earl Warren, 1914 – district attorney of Alameda County
David John Wilson, 1919 – district attorney of Weber County, Utah
John A. Nejedly, 1941 – district attorney for Contra Costa County
D. Lowell Jensen, 1952 – district attorney of Alameda County
Thomas Orloff, 1970 – district attorney of Alameda County, California who notably prosecuted the case surrounding the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant

City attorneys

Selim M. Franklin, 1883 – city attorney of Tucson, Arizona
J. Leroy Johnson, 1915 – city attorney of Stockton, California
David John Wilson, 1919 – county attorney of Weber County, Utah
George S. Ballif, 1924 – city attorney for Provo, Utah
John A. Nejedly, 1941 – city attorney for Walnut Creek, California
Spencer Mortimer Williams, 1948 – County Counsel for Santa Clara County
Mike Aguirre, 1975 – San Diego City Attorney

Other local officials

Charles Stetson Wheeler, 1884 – member of the Committee of Fifty which managed the reconstruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake
Harlan G. Palmer, 1913 – member of the Los Angeles Board of Water and Power Commissioners
Dan Siegel, 1970 – member of the Oakland Unified School District board of directors and legal advisor to Oakland, California Mayor Jean Quan
Susan Leal, 1975 – Treasurer of San Francisco and general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
Ed Lee, 1978 – city administrator of San Francisco
Michael S. Bernick, 1979 – member of the BART board of directors
Ricardo Garcia, 1995 – Public Defender for Los Angeles County
Rafael Mandelman, 2000 – member of the City College of San Francisco board of trustees

Political figures

D. Leigh Colvin, 1910s – Prohibition Party and Law Preservation Party candidate for United States Senate in 1916 and 1932, Mayor of New York City in 1917, Vice President of the United States in 1920, U.S. Representative in 1922, and President of the United States in 1936
Earl Warren, 1914 – chair of the California Republican Party
Mathew Tobriner, 1932 – California Vice Chair of President Harry Truman's 1952 reelection campaign, and chair of Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas's campaign for U.S. Senate
Thomas W. Caldecott, 1940s – chair of the California Republican Party
Frank Mankiewicz, 1955 – press secretary for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and campaign director for George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign
Richard L. Wright, 1960s – National Finance Director for the Bill Bradley 2000 presidential campaign
Jerry Brady, 1962 – Democratic Party nominee for Governor of Idaho in 2002 and 2006
Frank Fahrenkopf, 1965 – chair of the Republican National Committee and founder and co-chair of the Commission on Presidential Debates
Donald Segretti, 1966 – political operative for President Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President who was implicated in the Watergate scandal
Karen Skelton, 1984 – political strategist, documentary filmmaker, and Democratic National Convention delegate; president of the Skelton Strategies political consulting firm and former manager of the Dewey Square Group public affairs firm
Ann O'Leary, 2005 – senior advisor and transition team co-executive director for the Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign
Maya Rupert, 2006 – campaign manager for Julian Castro's 2020 presidential campaign

International government and politics

Dobby Walker, 1942 – Observer, South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Uriel Lynn, 1960s – member of the Israeli Knesset and director general of the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure ; while the Knesset, served as chair of the committees on Constitution, Law and Justice and Traffic Accidents, and of the subcommittees on Energy and Road Safety
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, 1965 – representative, European Commission for Democracy through Law
Stephen McCaffrey, 1971 – member, United Nations International Law Commission and counselor on international law for the U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser
Andrew Drzemczewski, 1974 – head of the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Department, Council of Europe
Wissanu Krea-ngam, 1974 and 1976 – Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand and secretary general to the Cabinet of Thailand
Theresia Degener, 1988 – chair, United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Awardee, Order of the Merit of Federal Republic of Germany, 2014
Caroline Gooding, 1991 – noted British disability rights advocate who served as special adviser to the British Disability Rights Commission and as a member of Mayor of London Ken Livingstone's advisory cabinet
Cho Kuk, 1995 and 1997 – Minister of Justice of South Korea and Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs of South Korea
Wang Junfeng, 2000 and 2007 – Chinese Communist Party delegate to the 11th and 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, former member of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and department head of the China Global Law Office
Jaiveer Shergill, 2010 – Indian National Congress politician and noted lawyer who has litigated cases before the Supreme Court of India
Jan Franz Chan, 2018 – member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines for Ako Bicol

Judiciary

The following are Berkeley Law graduates who have served as appointed judges on international, federal, state and/or prominent criminal courts.

Federal courts

United States Supreme Court justices

Earl Warren, 1914 – 14th Chief Justice of the United States

Court of Appeals judges

Oliver Deveta Hamlin, Jr., 1914 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Stanley Barnes, 1925 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Harry Pregerson, 1950 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
J. Clifford Wallace, 1955 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Richard Paez, 1972 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Marsha Berzon, 1973 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Evan Wallach, 1976 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Nicole Berner, 1992 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Amul Thapar, 1994 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Ana de Alba, 2007 – judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

District Court judges

Harry Aaron Hollzer, 1903 – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Oliver Deveta Hamlin, Jr., 1914 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Monroe Mark Friedman, 1920 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Walter Gordon, 1922 – judge of the United States District Court of the Virgin Islands
Albert Charles Wollenberg, 1924 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Sherrill Halbert, 1927 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Martin Pence, 1928 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Alfonso Zirpoli, 1928 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Gerald Sanford Levin, 1930 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Francis C. Whelan, 1932 – judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Lloyd Hudson Burke, 1940 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Myron Donovan Crocker, 1940 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California
Thomas Jamison MacBride, 1941 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
William Horsley Orrick, Jr., 1941 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Milton Lewis Schwartz, 1941 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
Edward Dean Price, 1947 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
Spencer Mortimer Williams, 1948 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
William Perry Copple, 1951 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona
D. Lowell Jensen, 1952 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
John P. Vukasin, Jr., 1956 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Alan Cooke Kay, 1960 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Lloyd D. George, 1961 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Thelton Henderson, 1962 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
William B. Shubb, 1963 – chief judge of the Eastern District of California
James Keith Singleton, Jr., 1964 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
Oliver Winston Wanger, 1966 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
Maxine M. Chesney, 1967 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Charles Breyer, 1966 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Linda Hodge McLaughlin, 1966 – judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Richard Paez, 1972 – judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Anthony W. Ishii, 1973 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
Claudia Ann Wilken, 1975 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
George B. Daniels, 1978 – judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Richard G. Andrews, 1981 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
Virginia A. Phillips, 1982 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Michael W. Fitzgerald, 1985 – judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, 1986 – judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Trina Thompson, 1986 – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Karin Immergut, 1987 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
Indira Talwani, 1988 – judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
Fernando M. Olguin, 1989 – judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Jon S. Tigar, 1989 – judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Miranda Du, 1994 – chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Amul Thapar, 1994 – judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
Vince Chhabria, 1998 – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Araceli Martínez-Olguín, 2004 – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Ana de Alba, 2007 – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
Sarala Nagala, 2008 – judge, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut

Magistrate judges

Lawrence R. Leavitt, 1969 – Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
Paul Lewis Abrams, 1983 – Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California
Donna Ryu, 1986 – Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California

Other federal judges

David John Wilson, 1919 – judge of the United States Customs Court
Thomas Jamison MacBride, 1941 – judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, judge of the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals, and member of the Judicial Conference of the United States
Maurice B. Foley, 1985 – chief judge of the United States Tax Court

State courts

State Supreme Courts

State chief justices

Roger J. Traynor, 1927 – chief justice of the Supreme Court of California
Rose Bird, 1965 – chief justice of the Supreme Court of California
Walter L. Carpeneti, 1970 – chief justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska
State associate justices
Ira F. Thompson, 1909 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
Raymond E. Peters, 1920s – associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
Mathew Tobriner, 1932 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
Harry P. Glassman, 1950s – associate justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Hans A. Linde, 1950 – 79th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon
Allen Broussard, 1953 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
Cruz Reynoso, 1958 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
Kathryn M. Werdegar, 1962 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of California
Linda Hodge McLaughlin, 1966 – associate justice pro tempore of the Supreme Court of California
Walter L. Carpeneti, 1970 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska
Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr., 1971 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Colorado
Cathy Silak, 1976 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho
Brent R. Appel, 1977 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa
Daniel Winfree, 1981 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alaska
Steven Gonzalez, 1991 – associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court
John A. Pearce, 1996 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Utah
Matthew McDermott, 2003 – associate justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa

State appellate judges

James Keith Singleton, Jr., 1964 – judge of the Alaska Court of Appeals
Linda Hodge McLaughlin, 1966 – Judge pro tempore of the California Court of Appeal
Walton J. Wood, 1900s – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal
Ira F. Thompson, 1909 – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal
Raymond E. Peters, 1920s – Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal
Mathew Tobriner, 1932 – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal
John Gabbert, 1934 – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal
Thomas W. Caldecott, 1940s – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal
William W. Bedsworth, 1971 – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal
Cathy Silak, 1976 – judge of the Idaho Court of Appeals
Keith K. Hiraoka, 1983 – judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals

Superior Court judges

Walton J. Wood, 1900s – judge of the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County
Harry Aaron Hollzer, 1903 – judge of the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County
Ira F. Thompson, 1909 – judge of the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County
Oliver Deveta Hamlin, Jr., 1914 – judge of the California Superior Court of Alameda County
Monroe Mark Friedman, 1920 – judge of the California Superior Court of Alameda County
Albert Charles Wollenberg, 1924 – judge of the California Superior Court of San Francisco
Sherrill Halbert, 1927 – judge of the California Superior Court
Martin Pence, 1931 – judge of the Third Circuit Court of the Territory of Hawaii
Harry P. Glassman, 1950s – judge of the Maine Superior Court
John P. Vukasin, Jr., 1956 – judge of the California Superior Court
Royce R. Lewellen, 1957 – judge of the California Superior Court of Santa Barbara County
James Keith Singleton, Jr., 1964 – judge of the Alaska Superior Court
Linda Hodge McLaughlin, 1966 – judge of the California Superior Court of Orange County
Oliver Winston Wanger, 1966 – pro tem Judge of the Superior Court of California of Fresno County
Walter L. Carpeneti, 1970 – judge of the Alaska Superior Court
Stephen Kaus, 1973 – judge of the California Superior Court of Alameda County
Lance Ito, 1975 – judge of the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County ; presided during the O. J. Simpson criminal trial
Virginia A. Phillips, 1982 – commissioner of the California Superior Court of Riverside County
Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha, 1986 – judge of the California Superior Court of Los Angeles County
Karin Immergut, 1987 – judge of the Multnomah County, Oregon Circuit Court
Aaron Persky, 1990 – judge of the California Superior Court of Santa Clara County
Steven Gonzalez, 1991 – judge of the Superior Court of Washington for King County
Trina Thompson, 1986 – judge, Alameda County Superior Court
Jessica Delgado, 1998 – judge of the California Superior Court of Santa Clara County
Ana de Alba, 2007 – judge, Fresno County Superior Court

Other state judges

Eleanor Nisperos, 1971 – former Chief Administrative Law Judge of the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board; first Filipina admitted to practice law in California
Justin Kidd, 2009 – Justice of the Peace of Marion County, Oregon

Municipal judges

Harlan G. Palmer, 1913 – judge of the Los Angeles Justice Court
Royce R. Lewellen, 1957 – judge of the Solvang, California Justice Court
Richard Paez, 1972 – judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court

International courts

Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, 1965 – judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and Minister of Justice of Hamburg, Germany
Reynato S. Puno, 1968 – 22nd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines and 131st Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Joan Donoghue, 1981 – president of the International Court of Justice and judge of the International Court of Justice
David Caron, 1983 – Judge ad hoc of the International Court of Justice and member of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands
Sir Rabinder Singh, 1986 – the highest-ranking judge of Asian descent in British history and the first Sikh and youngest person to become a High Court judge in the United Kingdom. Served as Lord Justice of Appeal, Administrative Court Liaison Judge for Wales and the Midlands & Western Circuits, presiding judge of the South Eastern Circuit, judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Crown Court Recorder and deputy High Court judge. Member and president of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Academia

Bernard E. Witkin, 1928 – expert on California law and founder of the Witkin law treatise sets
George Marion Johnson, 1929 and 1938 – dean and professor, Howard University School of Law, founder of the Howard Law Review Journal, founder and first vice chancellor, University of Nigeria, professor of law, Michigan State University School of Law, and professor of law and director of Pre-Admissions, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
Jacobus tenBroek, 1938 and 1940 – professor of law and chair of the Department of Speech at UC Berkeley School of Law, noted for his legal writing on disability rights
Hans A. Linde, 1950 – professor of law, University of Oregon, UCLA School of Law, Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, University of Texas School of Law, and Willamette University; author of coursebooks in legislative and administrative legal processes
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, 1965 – professor, Bucerius Law School of Hamburg, Germany
Marc McGinnes, 1966 – professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Environmental Studies Program, and namesake of the McGinnes Environmental Law and Advocacy Scholarship at UCSB. Author of several conservation-related novels and the textbook Principles of Environmental Law
Michael Tigar, 1966 – noted criminal defense and human rights lawyer and professor emeritus of the Duke University School of Law
Oliver Winston Wanger, 1966 – co-founder, dean, and professor of the San Joaquin College of Law, professor at Humphreys College Laurence Drivon School of Law
Warren Widener, 1967 – president of the UC Berkeley Urban Housing Institute
Gerald Horne, 1970 – African-American historian. John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African-American Studies at the University of Houston
Stephen McCaffrey, 1971 – Legal academic specializing in international and environmental law; Carol Olsen Endowed Professor of International Law, McGeorge School of Law; professor, Southwestern University School of Law
Carol S. Bruch, 1972 – professor, UC Davis School of Law; famously challenged Richard A. Gardner's parental alienation syndrome theory in child custody cases in a 2001 paper
Rex R. Perschbacher, 1972 – Daniel J. Dykstra Endowed Chair, professor of law, and former dean, UC Davis School of Law; professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, University of Texas School of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, and the University of San Diego School of Law
Upendra Baxi, 1973 – dean and vice chancellor, University of Delhi, president of the Indian Society of International Law, and Professor of Law, University of Warwick, University of Sydney, Duke University, American University, New York University School of Law, the University of Toronto, the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, and the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad
Samuel R. Gross, 1973 – Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; noted for his work on false convictions and exonerations in the American judicial system, including United States Supreme Court litigation
John A. Powell, 1973 – director of the UC Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute, Robert D. Haas Chancellor's chair in Equity and Inclusion and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley School of Law, executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University, and executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty at University of Minnesota Law School
Bob Berring, 1974 – legal librarian and professor, UC Berkeley School of Law
Richard Delgado, 1974 – professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and noted expert in civil rights law and critical race theory
Andrew Drzemczewski, 1974 – professor of law, Middlesex University, Jagiellonian University, University of Notre Dame and London Metropolitan University
Linda Greene, 1974 – Evjue Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, and vice chancellor, University of California, San Diego and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher Schroeder, 1974 – professor of the Duke University School of Law
Steven Ferrey, 1975 – environmental law professor at Suffolk University
Justus Weiner, 1975 – Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, former professor at Boston University School of Law, and former senior attorney in the Israeli Ministry of Justice
Philip Alston, 1976 – John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law and co-chair of the NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, New York University School of Law, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions
Lea Brilmayer, 1976 – Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of International Law at Yale Law School
Ira J. Kurzban, 1976 – author of the influential one-volume immigration law treatise Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook; faculty member, University of Miami School of Law
Cathy Silak, 1976 – founding dean of Concordia University School of Law
Janet Cooper Alexander, 1978 – Frederick I. Richman Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
André Bertrand, 1978 – French attorney and successful author of intellectual property treatises
Eric Yamamoto, 1978 – professor of Law and Social Justice at the University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law
Rebecca S. Eisenberg, 1979 – Robert and Barbara Luciano Professor, University of Michigan Law School
James D. Gordon III, 1980 – president for planning and assessment and Marion B. and Rulon A. Earl Professor of Law, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
Theresia Degener, 1980s – professor of law, Protestant University for Applied Sciences Freiburg, visiting professor, UC Berkeley School of Law, and notable disability rights activist
Richard Hyland, 1980 – International trade law professor at Rutgers Law School
David Caron, 1983 – dean, King's College London School of Law and professor, Berkeley Law
Valerie King, 1983 – computer scientist and professor at the University of Victoria
Victoria Nourse, 1984 – Ralph V. Whitworth Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, LQC Lamar Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law, and Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, Yale Law School, and University of Maryland School of Law
Jody Armour, 1986 – Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
Harry Litman, 1986 – constitutional law and national security law professor, UCLA School of Law; professor, University of California, San Diego; author of articles on constitutional law, criminal law, and federalism
Donna Ryu, 1986 – Clinical Professor of Law, UC Hastings and associate director of the Women's Rights Employment Clinic, Golden Gate University School of Law
Sir Rabinder Singh, 1986 – Special Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham, professor of law at the London School of Economics, and lecturer at Queen Mary University of London
Michael H. Cohen, 1987 – assistant professor of Health Law and Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, assistant professor, Harvard Medical School
Kevin Quinn, S.J., 1988 – Jesuit, law professor and president of the University of Scranton
Francesco Parisi, 1988 and 1990 – legal scholar and economist specializing in economic analysis of law; Oppenheimer Wolff and Donnelly Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna, and faculty member of the University of Milan
Ugo Mattei, 1989 – Italian and international legal scholar; Alfred and Hanna Fromm Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law; Professor of Civil Law at the University of Turin
Nancy Combs, 1990s – Ernest W. Goodrich Professor, Cabell Research Professor, and director of the Human Security Law Center, William & Mary Law School
Paul S. Edwards, 1991 and 1996 – executive director, Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University and provost and executive vice president, Southern Virginia University
Mark Lemley, 1991 – IP, patent, trademark, and antitrust law expert; William H. Neukom Professor of Law and director of the Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stanford Law School; served as professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law and as the Marrs McLean and Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law; author of the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust
Kenneth L. Marcus, 1991 – Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Professor of Equality and justice, City University of New York Baruch College
Kimberly K. Smith, 1991 – noted historian and political science professor
James Cavallaro, 1992 – founder and director, International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, Mills Legal Clinic, and Stanford Human Rights Center, Stanford Law School
Jennifer Rodgers, 1995 – Columbia Law School professor, CNN legal analyst, and Assistant U.S. Attorney for the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Gloria Nevarez, 1997 – adjunct professor of sports law, University of San Francisco
Tom Ginsburg, 1997 – Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School
Robert Chao Romero, 1998 –Associate Professor at the Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA
Colleen V. Chien, 2002 – professor of IP and patent law, Santa Clara University School of Law and senior adviser Chief Technology Officer of the United States Todd Park ; noted for her research into patent assertion entities or "patent trolls"
Will Youmans, 2003 – associate professor of the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
Noura Erakat, 2005 – Palestinian-American legal scholar, human rights attorney, assistant professor at George Mason University, board member of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Trans-Arab Research Institute, and policy advisor for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network
Shawn Bayern, 2006 – professor, Florida State University College of Law and Duke Law School
Veena Dubal, 2006 – professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Aaron Perzanowski, 2006 – Thomas W. Lacchia Professor, University of Michigan Law School

Business and technology

Cyril Magnin, 1900s – chief executive, chairman, and president, Joseph Magnin Co., and general partner and chairman of Cyril Magnin Investments Ltd. and the Lilli Ann Corporation
Robert L. Bridges, 1933 – director of the Bechtel Corporation and noted construction industry lawyer
Howard Lincoln, 1965 – former chairman of Nintendo of America
Larry Hillblom, 1969 – co-founder, DHL Express
William S. Price III, 1981 – co-founder, Texas Pacific Group
Nancy R. Heinen, 1982 – general counsel and senior vice president of Apple, Inc.
Paula Boggs, 1984 – executive vice president and general counsel of Starbucks Corporation and vice president of Dell Inc.; served on President Obama's Committee on the Arts and Humanities and as a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions
Helane Morrison, 1984 – general counsel and chief compliance officer, Hall Capital Partners LLC
Mitchell Baker, 1987 – executive chair and CEO, Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation
Stephanie Dorgan, 1988—founder of The Crocodile nightclub
Louis Hsieh, 1990 – prominent Chinese businessman and attorney who serves or has served as independent director and audit chairman of direct sales corporation JD.com, chief financial officer of Chinese autonomous and electric vehicle company Nio, senior advisor, director, and president of Chinese private educational services provider New Oriental, managing director of UBS Capital Asia Pacific and Darby Asia Investors, and chief financial officer of Ario Data Networks
Linda Menghetti, 1990 – vice president of the National Association of Manufacturers, CF Industries Holding, Inc., and the Emergency Committee for American Trade
David Estrada, 1993 – chief legal officer at Nuro, former chief legal officer at Bird, Kitty Hawk Corporation, and Google X, and former vice president of government relations at Lyft
Ken DeLeon, 1998 – notable Silicon Valley philanthropist and realtor
Andrei Cherny, 2003 – CEO and co-founder of financial services company Aspiration, Inc., co-founder of progressive publication Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, chair, Arizona Democratic Party, Democratic nominee for Congress and State Treasurer of Arizona, and advisor to the Gore and Kerry presidential campaigns

Hospitality

Eugene Selvage, 1920s – founder and owner of Lucky Lager Brewing Company and General Brewing Company, president of the California Brewers Association, and sponsor of the Lucky International Open
Jess Jackson, 1955 – founder, Kendall-Jackson Wines
Royce R. Lewellen, 1957 – founder, Lucas & Lewellen Vineyards of Santa Barbara County
Richard L. Wright, 1960s – director, LaFollette Vineyard and Winery

Nonprofit and non-governmental organizations

Cyril Magnin, 1900s – president of the Port of San Francisco, president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, regional treasurer for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 reelection campaign, and finance chair of President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 campaign in the California Democratic presidential primary
Eloise B. Cushing, 1919 – major writing of the Soroptimist International's first Constitution and By-Laws
Richard M. Leonard, 1932 – environmentalist and rock climber who served as president of the Sierra Club and the Save the Redwoods League
Jacobus tenBroek, 1938 and 1940 – noted disability rights activist and legal academic who organized the National Federation of the Blind and the International Federation of the Blind
Dobby Walker, 1942 – first woman president of the National Lawyers Guild and leader in the Gray Panthers
Al Bendich, 1955 – notable ACLU civil rights lawyer
Royce R. Lewellen, 1957 – founding director, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts Foundation and the Community Bank of Santa Maria, California
Uriel Lynn, 1960s – president of the Tel Aviv and Central Israel Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce
Richard L. Wright, 1960s – executive director of Amnesty International
Alan Cooke Kay, 1960 – former director of the Legal Aid Society of Honolulu, Hawaii
Frank Fahrenkopf, 1965 – chief executive, American Gaming Association and member of the board of trustees, Economic Club of Washington and Federal City Council
Marc McGinnes, 1966 – notable environmental lawyer and legal academic who served as founding president of the Community Environmental Council, founding chief counsel of the Environmental Defense Center, and chair of the national Environmental Rights Day Conference in 1969, a precursor to the future Earth Day holiday
Warren Widener, 1967 – former president, Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Raymond Shonholtz, 1968 – founder of Community Boards and Partners for Democratic Change
Gordon C. Strachan, 1968 – general counsel to the United States Ski and Snowboard Association and member of the Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2002 Winter Games
Steven Walther, 1968 – co-chair of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights, former ABA Representative to the United Nations, former chair of the Fellows of the American Bar Association, and former president of the State Bar Association of Nevada, the Western States Bar Conference, and the National Caucus of Bar Associations
John R. Phillips, 1969 – co-director of the Center for Law in the Public Interest in Los Angeles and founder of Taxpayers Against Fraud
Michael Pack, 1970s – president and CEO of the Claremont Institute
Richard Paez, 1972 – executive director and director of litigation of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Andrew Drzemczewski, 1974 – secretary general, Association of the Friends of the International Institute of Human Rights and board member, European Human Rights Association
Barry Scheck, 1974 – co-founder of the Innocence Project
Steven Ferrey, 1975 – legal advisor, World Bank
Eva Paterson, 1975 – president and founder of the Equal Justice Society, vice president of the ACLU National Board, and chair of the California Coalition for Civil Rights; authored landmark U.S. Supreme Court lawsuits challenging state policies that prohibit race-conscious admissions
Ira J. Kurzban, 1976 – founder, Institute of Justice & Democracy in Haiti, board member, Immigrants' List, general counsel, American Immigration Lawyers Association
Cathy Silak, 1976 – president and CEO of the Idaho Community Foundation
Joan Abrahamson, 1980 – founder of the Jonas Salk Foundation and the Jefferson Institute and assistant chief of staff to Vice President George H. W. Bush
Brad Adams, 1980s – executive director of the Asian Division of Human Rights Watch
Fernando M. Olguin, 1989 – Education Program Director of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Jamie Fellner, 1990s – senior counsel, Human Rights Watch
Paul S. Edwards, 1991 and 1996 – vice president of academic affairs, Institute for Humane Studies
James Cavallaro, 1992 – president, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, founder, Global Justice Center, director, Human Rights Watch and Center for Justice and International Law office in Rio de Janeiro
Jill Escher, 1996 – president, Autism Society of America of the San Francisco Bay Area, president, National Council on Severe Autism, founder, Escher Fund for Autism
Wang Junfeng, 2000 and 2007 – former president of the All China Lawyers Commission and former director of the China Chamber of Commerce
Jeff Waldstreicher, 2003 – chair of NARAL Pro-Choice Maryland, chair of the NAACP Legal Redress Committee, and Pro-Bono counsel for the Sierra Club
Ann O'Leary, 2005 – executive director of the Center on Health, Economic, and Family Security at UC Berkeley School of Law and senior fellow, Center for American Progress
Maya Rupert, 2006 – senior director and managing director of the Washington, D.C. office of the Center for Reproductive Rights, executive director of Opportunity First PAC, and policy director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
Anne Tamar-Mattis, 2006 – legal director and founder of interACT
Heather McGhee, 2009 – president and Senior Distinguished Fellow at Demos, a progressive think-tank, and co-chair of an Americans for Financial Reform task force that helped develop the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform package

Private law practice

Charles Stetson Wheeler, 1884 – notable San Francisco-based attorney who served as partner at Bishop, Wheeler and Hoefler LLP and Wheeler Bovie LLP.; represented various well-known clients including the Bank of British North America and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Walton J. Wood, 1900s – first public defender in United States history
Melvin Belli, 1929 – a prominent attorney known informally as "The King of Torts"
Annie Coker, 1929 – first African-American woman attorney in California
Richard M. Leonard, 1932 – founding director and general counsel, Varian Associates
Mathew Tobriner, 1932 – noted labor lawyer who founded Tobriner, Lazarus, Brundage and Neyhart LLP and represented the American Federation of Labor
Whitney Robson Harris, 1933 – Nuremberg Trials prosecutor, United States Navy attorney, and namesake of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at the Washington University School of Law
Dobby Walker, 1942 – labor and criminal attorney who served as founding partner of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein LLP who notably represented individuals accused of crime for being Communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee and whistleblower John W. Powell; served on the defense team of Angela Davis during her murder trial
Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray, 1945 – civil rights activist, women's rights activist, lawyer, and writer; first Black woman ordained as an Episcopalian priest
Merrill Kenneth Albert, 1955 – noted lawyer and author
John S. Martel, 1960 – noted San Francisco trial lawyer who consulted during the O. J. Simpson and Lyle and Erik Menendez trials
Tony Serra, 1961 – civil rights lawyer who defended Huey Newton, Chol Soo Lee, and Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow in criminal court cases; notable for his involvement in tax resistance organizing
Gary J. Aguirre, 1966 – noted United States Securities and Exchange Commission investigator and whistleblower
Larry W. Sonsini, 1966 – chairman of the Silicon Valley law firm Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati
Steven Walther, 1968 – co-founder of Maupin, Gox and LeGoy LLP
Dan Siegel, 1970 – civil rights attorney at the Oakland, California law firm Siegel and Yee and general counsel for Pacifica Radio
Dale Minami, 1971 – leader of legal team that overturned the wrongful conviction of Fred Korematsu
John L. Burris, 1973 – noted civil rights attorney
Jack Palladino, 1975 – San Francisco-based private investigator and attorney notable for his work with the Peoples Temple tragedy, his defense of John DeLorean, whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, singer Courtney Love, and musician R. Kelly
Ira J. Kurzban, 1976 – noted immigration and civil rights lawyer; partner at the firm Kurzban Kurzban Tetzeli, P.A.; litigated several high-profile immigration cases before the United States Supreme Court and previously represented and prosecuted prominent Haitian government leaders
Zoë Baird, 1977 – executive director of the Markle Foundation and former partner at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.; President Bill Clinton's first unsuccessful nominee for United States Attorney General in 1993
Carl E. Douglas, 1980 – notable sports lawyer who defended O. J. Simpson in his murder case, rappers Tupac Shakur and Sean "Puffy" Combs, and actor Todd Bridges
Eric Yamamoto, 1978 – litigator in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Korematsu v. United States
Frederick Hertz, 1981 – notable San Francisco Bay Area attorney
Kelly Moore, 1982 – lawyer who notably represented Guess (clothing) model and Playboy Playmate of the Year Anna Nicole Smith in several estate cases that went before the U.S. Supreme Court
Marlys Edwardh, 1983 – high-profile Canadian civil rights and criminal attorney and member of the Order of Canada
Harry Litman, 1986 – personal counsel for CFPB Director Richard Cordray and Pittsburgh Mayor Thomas J. Murphy, Jr., and counsel to the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign and the 2008 Obama-Biden presidential campaign
Sir Rabinder Singh, 1986 – co-founder of Matrix Chambers and King's Counsel
Michael H. Cohen, 1987 – founder, Cohen Healthcare Law Group
Kenneth Wainstein, 1988 – partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and former litigation co-chair of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Mark Lemley, 1991 – noted IP, computer and internet, patent, trademark, antitrust, and remedies lawyer; founding partner of Durie Tangri LLP.
Robert O'Brien, 1991 – managing partner of Arent Fox LLP, and founding partner of Larson O'Brien LLP.; represented Buzz Aldrin and the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, and served as counsel to Governor Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign and advisor to Senator Ted Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign
Ellen Leonida, 1996 – criminal defense attorney who notably served in the murder trial of Scott Dyleski
Jahna Lindemuth, 1997 – managing partner, Dorsey & Whitney's Anchorage office, noted for her defense of the Fairbanks Four
Wang Junfeng, 2000 and 2007 – global chair and founding partner of King & Wood Mallesons, the largest international law firm based outside of the United States and the United Kingdom
Matthew McDermott, 2003 – president of the Bellin McCormack P.C. law firm in Des Moines, Iowa.; represented the State of Iowa, the Iowa Republican Party and Governor of Iowa Kim Reynolds
Ann O'Leary, 2005 – partner at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Pratik A. Shah, 2011 – co-director of Akin Gump's U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, who argued 13 cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, including ''United States v. Windsor''

Sports

Walter Gordon, 1922 – first All-American football team member at UC Berkeley and the first African American graduate of Berkeley Law
Kent Mitchell, 1964 – rowing coxswain who competed in the 1960 Olympics and 1964 Olympics, where he won a gold medal and a bronze medal, respectively
Roy Eisenhardt, 1965 – former president, Oakland Athletics
Howard Lincoln, 1965 – former CEO of the Seattle Mariners
Billy Hunter, 1971 – former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association and former wide receiver for the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins of the National Football League
Leigh Steinberg, 1973 – notable sports agent
Michele A. Roberts, 1980 – executive director, National Basketball Players Association
Rod Gilmore, 1986 – college football analyst for ABC Sports and ESPN
Terdema Ussery, 1987 – former president and CEO of the Dallas Mavericks and former president of Nike Sports Management
Gloria Nevarez, 1997 – Mountain West Conference commissioner, West Coast Conference commissioner, and senior sports commissioner at the Pac-12 Conference, University of Oklahoma, UC Berkeley, and San Jose State University
Greg Genske, 1998 – noted sports lawyer who serves as executive director, president, and lead negotiator of the Legacy Agency's baseball division
Colin Allred, 2014 – linebacker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League

Writing, radio, and television

Entertainment

Michael Raffetto, 1925 – actor who starred in NBC Radio series One Man's Family and I Love a Mystery
Jonathan Shapiro, 1990 – award-winning television writer and producer of Boston Legal and The Practice and creator of the television show Goliath
Will Youmans, 2003 – hip-hop artist and Arab-American television personality
Timothy Tau, 2017 – writer, filmmaker and law professor
Jeff Rake, 1993 – television writer and creator of the shows Manifest and ''The Mysteries of Laura''

Journalism

Motoyuki Negoro, 1903 – strike leader and journalist for the Nippu Jiji and Hawaii Hochi
Harlan G. Palmer, 1913 – publisher and owner of the Hollywood Citizen
Frank Mankiewicz, 1995 – president of National Public Radio
Jerry Brady, 1962 – president and publisher of the Post Register
Andrew Drzemczewski, 1974 – legal correspondent for The London Times
Jim Lobe, 1974 – Washington Bureau Chief, Inter Press Service
Gary Pruitt, 1982 – president and CEO of the Associated Press and former CEO, president, and board chairman of McClatchy
Harry Litman, 1986 – contributing columnist and opinion writer, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal; legal commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News; founder of the podcast Talking Feds
Jennifer Rubin, 1986 – notable conservative columnist for The Washington Post, Commentary, PJ Media, Human Events, and The Weekly Standard
Jami Floyd, 1989 – award-winning broadcast journalist and legal analyst; host of All Things Considered for WNYC New York Public Radio
Paul S. Edwards, 1991 and 1996 – editor, Deseret News
Jess Bravin, 1997 – United States Supreme Court correspondent and California Editor, Wall Street Journal, and notable reporter for The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Harper's Bazaar, and Spy magazine
Susan J. Elliott, 2003 – media commentator and author
Heather McGhee, 2009 – political commentator, strategist, and contributor to NBC News and MSNBC
Jonathan Singer, 2010 – progressive blogger for MyDD

Literature

John S. Martel, 1960 – New York Times best-selling novelist
David M. Alexander, 1970 – author of science fiction and mystery novels
Leslie S. Klinger, 1971 – award-winning literary editor and annotator of classic genre fiction who also practices tax, real estate and business law
Kelly Moore, 1982 – New York Times bestselling author of the books Deadly Medicine and Amber House
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, 2009 – NAACP Image and American Library Association award-winning author featured in The New York Times and Parade magazine