List of University of Virginia School of Law alumni
The University of Virginia School of Law is a public law school in Charlottesville, Virginia. Following is an incomplete list of its notable alumni.
Academia
- Stephen Bainbridge – William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
- Richard Bonnie – Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Hardy Cross Dillard – dean, UVA Law School; judge, International Court of Justice
- Charles M. Elson – Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, Professor of Finance, University of Delaware
- Jerry Falwell Jr. – President, Liberty University
- Patrick Finnegan – 12th academic dean of U.S. Military Academy and 25th president of Longwood University
- Gary Francione – Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers Law School
- Elizabeth Garrett – 13th president of Cornell University
- A.E. Dick Howard – White Burkett Miller Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Virginia Law School
- John Jeffries – 12th dean and David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Andrew Leipold – Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
- M. Elizabeth Magill – provost of the University of Virginia, 13th dean of Stanford Law School
- Dayna Bowen Matthew – 20th dean of the George Washington University Law School
- Michael McCann – founding director of the UNH Law Sports and Entertainment Law Institute, University of New Hampshire School of Law
- William Ephraim Mikell – dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Blake Morant – dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor, George Washington University Law School
- James Pfander – Owen L. Coon Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- W. Taylor Reveley, III – president, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School
- W. Taylor Reveley IV – 26th president of Longwood University
- Jacob Rooksby – dean of Gonzaga University School of Law
- James E. Ryan – president of the University of Virginia
- Micah Schwartzman – Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- David Skeel – S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Paul B. Stephan – John C. Jeffries Jr., Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
- Lyon Gardiner Tyler – president of the College of William & Mary
- Joyce Vance – distinguished professor of the practice of law, University of Alabama School of Law
- Paul R. Verkuil – former president of College of William & Mary and former dean of Cardozo Law School; chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States
Business
- Donald Dell – founder of ProServ
- Eppa Hunton Jr. – founder of Hunton & Williams, president of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
- Eppa Hunton IV – senior partner, chairman of the executive committee of Hunton & Williams
- Bruce Karsh – Investor, founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, Executive Board Member of Golden State Warriors
- Peter S. Kaufman – investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
- Deborah Platt Majoras – vice president and general counsel, Procter & Gamble
- Ted Mathas – chairman, president, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
- Alexander F. Mathews. – president and founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte
- Thomas M. Moriarty – executive vice president, chief policy and external affairs officer, and general counsel, CVS Health
- John E. Osborn – former executive vice president and general counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- R. Hewitt Pate – general counsel, Chevron
- Craig Silliman – executive vice president global services, Verizon
Civil rights and nonprofit
- J. Richard Cohen – former president and legal director of Southern Poverty Law Center
- Kim Keenan – general counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy – manager of the nonprofit organization Citizens Energy; son of Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – chairman of Children's Health Defense; son of Robert F. Kennedy
- John N. Raudabaugh – staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; Member, National Labor Relations Board 1990–1993
Entertainment
- Lee Habeeb – conservative talk radio producer
- Laura Ingraham – radio talk–show host
- Andrew Scheinman – movie producer
- Will Shortz – crossword editor, The New York Times
- Bob Wright – former chairman and CEO of NBC
Government
- Tillman Breckenridge - Solicitor General of Virginia
- John Bridgeland – director, USA Freedom Corps
- Mortimer Caplin – former commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
- Doug Gansler – Attorney General of Maryland
- Lee E. Goodman – chairman, Federal Election Commission
- Todd Graves – U.S. Attorney, Western District of Missouri
- Tim Heaphy – U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia
- Pete Holmes – Seattle City Attorney
- Brendan Johnson – U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
- Max Kennedy – board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
- Edwin Kneedler – Deputy United States Solicitor General
- Zane David Memeger – U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- David Metcalf – United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
- Robert Mueller – Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Trevor Potter – chairman of Federal Election Commission
- John N. Raudabaugh – staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation; member, National Labor Relations Board 1990–1993
- William B. Schultz – general counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Scott A. Surovell – Senate Majority Leader,
- Joyce White Vance – United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
- Peter S. Vincent – principal legal advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; acting director of ICE's Office of International Affairs, Homeland Security Investigations
- Andy Vollmer – acting general counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
- James B. Whitfield – state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
- Michael C. Wholley – general counsel, NASA
- Frank Wisner – head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s
Judiciary
- G. Steven Agee – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Carol Amon – judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- John Antoon – judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Lewis Babcock – judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- Shepard Barclay - justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
- Alice M. Batchelder – chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Peter Beer – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Robert Beezer – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Carol A. Beier – judge, Kansas Supreme Court
- Robert Benham – judge, Georgia Supreme Court
- Duane Benton – judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Susan H. Black – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Pasco Bowman II – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- John White Brockenbrough – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Mary Beck Briscoe – chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- John T. Broderick Jr. – chief justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
- Janice Rogers Brown – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- James O. Browning – judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
- Albert Vickers Bryan – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- John D. Butzner Jr. – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Consuelo María Callahan – judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Ronald D. Castille – chief justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Robert J. Conrad – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- Julian Abele Cook Jr. – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- James L. Dennis – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Hardy Cross Dillard – judge, International Court of Justice; dean, UVA Law School
- Robert D. Durham – justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- James Larry Edmondson – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Richard Alan Enslen – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- Orinda D. Evans – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- John A. Field Jr. – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Louise W. Flanagan – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Paul C. Gartzke – presiding judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Julia Smith Gibbons – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- John A. Gibney Jr. – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Patricia Tolliver Giles - judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- John Gleeson – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- George H. Goodrich – judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
- Thomas B. Griffith – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Asher Grunis – President, Supreme Court of Israel
- Michael Daly Hawkins – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Toby J. Heytens – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Sven Erik Holmes – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
- Virginia Hopkins – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Lynn Nettleton Hughes – judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Willis Hunt – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Raymond Alvin Jackson – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Denise R. Johnson – first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court
- James Parker Jones – Chief judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- Daniel Porter Jordan III – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Barbara Milano Keenan – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- James Kinkeade – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Cynthia D. Kinser – chief justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- Jeannette Knoll – associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
- Benson Everett Legg – judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Peter K. Leisure – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Donald Lemons – chief justice Supreme Court of Virginia
- Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- Kermit Lipez – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- J. Michael Luttig – former judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co.
- Blanche M. Manning – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Boyce F. Martin Jr. – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Mark D. Martin – judge North Carolina Supreme Court
- James Clark McReynolds – former justice, United States Supreme Court
- Amit Priyavadan Mehta – judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Lawrence E. Meyers – judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth
- Paul Redmond Michel – Chief judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Donald M. Middlebrooks – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Michael P. Mills – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
- Richard Henry Mills – judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- Norman K. Moon – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- William Theodore Moore Jr. – judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
- John T. Morton – assistant secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Diana Gribbon Motz – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- J. Frederick Motz – judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Glenn Murdock – justice, Supreme Court of Alabama
- Alan Eugene Norris – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Donal O'Donnell – chief justice of Ireland, Supreme Court of Ireland
- Diarmuid O'Scannlain – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- John Pelander justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
- Cleo E. Powell – justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- William R. Quinlan – justice, Illinois Appellate Court, Corporation Counsel to the City of Chicago
- Stanley Forman Reed – former justice, United States Supreme Court
- Carlton W. Reeves – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Kenneth Francis Ripple – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- John Roll – judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Robert D. Rucker – judge, Indiana Supreme Court
- Thomas G. Saylor – judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Michael H. Schneider Sr. – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- Arthur J. Schwab – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Murray Merle Schwartz – judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
- Leah Ward Sears – chief justice, Georgia Supreme Court
- G. Kendall Sharp – judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Robert J. Shelby – judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
- Randall Terry Shepard – chief justice, Indiana Supreme Court
- Eugene E. Siler Jr. – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Edward Samuel Smith – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- William Lloyd Standish – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Louis L. Stanton – judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Walter King Stapleton – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Myron T. Steele – chief justice, Delaware Supreme Court
- Chester J. Straub – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Richard F. Suhrheinrich – Senior judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Richard Barclay Surrick – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Eric C. Taylor – presiding judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court
- Debra Todd – judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Juan R. Torruella – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Jamar K. Walker - judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- James B. Whitfield – state attorney general, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
- Michael J. Wilkins – Associate chief justice, Utah Supreme Court
- J. Harvie Wilkinson – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Glen Morgan Williams – judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- Victor J. Wolski – judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
- James Andrew Wynn – judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Literature and journalism
- Louis Auchincloss – novelist
- David Baldacci – novelist
- Linda Fairstein – novelist
- Emily Giffin – novelist
- Philip K. Howard – writer
- Robert Wood Lynn – poet and winner of Yale Younger Poets Prize
- Lucien D. Starke Jr. – president and publisher of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
- Evan Thomas – editor, ''Newsweek''
Politics
- Charles C. Adams Jr. – United States Ambassador to Finland
- George Allen – U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and 67th Governor of Virginia
- J. Lindsay Almond – 58th Governor of Virginia; judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Nathan L. Bachman – U.S. Senator from Tennessee
- Gerald Baliles - 65th Governor of Virginia
- Alben W. Barkley – U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States
- John S. Battle - 56th Governor of Virginia
- Robert Bauer – White House Counsel, general counsel of the Obama Campaign
- Evan Bayh – U.S. Senator and governor of Indiana
- Andy Beshear – governor of Kentucky, Attorney General of Kentucky
- Kit Bond – U.S. Senator and governor of Missouri
- Rick Boucher – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Debra Bowen – Secretary of State of California
- Alan Stephenson Boyd – U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Harry F. Byrd Jr. – U.S. Senator from Virginia
- Bryan Callaghan Jr. – mayor of San Antonio, Texas for 16 years
- Millard F. Caldwell – U.S. Congressman and governor of Florida
- Edward M. Carmouche – chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Robin Carnahan – Missouri Secretary of State
- James Paul Clarke – U.S. Senator and governor of Arkansas
- John Cornyn – U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas
- John N. Dalton - 63rd Governor of Virginia
- Tom Davis – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Frank M. Dixon – governor of Alabama
- Tom Donilon – U.S. National Security Advisor
- Paul Erickson – conservative political operative, subject to federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
- Fred Fielding – White House Counsel
- William Meade Fishback – governor of Arkansas
- Randy Forbes – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Luis G. Fortuño – governor of Puerto Rico
- Grenville Gaines – mayor of Warrenton, Virginia
- Jim Gilmore – 68th Governor of Virginia
- Mills Godwin - 60th & 62nd Governor of Virginia
- Virgil Goode – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Albertis Harrison - 59th Governor of Virginia
- William J. Howell – Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Frederick W. M. Holliday - 38th Governor of Virginia
- Bob Inglis – U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
- John Neely Kennedy – U.S. Senator from Louisiana
- Ted Kennedy – U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic presidential candidate
- Robert F. Kennedy – Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic presidential candidate
- Angus King – U.S. Senator and former governor of Maine
- Sheila Jackson-Lee – U.S. Congresswoman from Texas
- Deborah Platt Majoras – chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Sean Patrick Maloney – U.S. Congressman from New York
- Thurgood Marshall Jr. – Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton
- Jennifer McClellan – U.S. Congresswoman from Virginia, Virginia Senate, Virginia House of Delegates
- Donald McEachin – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- George McMillan – lieutenant governor of Alabama, Alabama Senate, Alabama House of Representatives
- Andrew Jackson Montague - 44th Governor of Virginia
- Janet Napolitano – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, governor of Arizona, president of the University of California
- Bill Nelson – U.S. Senator from Florida
- Kirstjen Nielsen – U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security
- Chris Obenshain - Virginia State Delegate from the 41st district
- Simon Cataldo – Massachusetts State Representative for the 14th Middlesex
- Walter Tansill Oliver –, state delegate and state senator from Virginia; mayor of Fairfax, Virginia
- Henry A. Osborn Jr. – politician
- Ken Paxton – Attorney General of Texas
- W. Robert Pearson – U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
- Matthew S. Petersen – commissioner and former chairman, Federal Election Commission
- H. Foster Pettit – Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, mayor of Lexington, Kentucky]
- Heather Podesta – American lobbyist
- Charles Robb – U.S. Senator and 64th Governor of Virginia
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. – U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Hugh D. Scott – U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate
- Faryar Shirzad – advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
- Howard Worth Smith – U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- John C. Stennis – U.S. Senator from Mississippi
- Harry F. Stimpson Jr. – Ambassador to Paraguay
- Claude A. Swanson - 45th Governor of Virginia
- John V. Tunney – U.S. Senator from California
- John Warner – U.S. Senator from Virginia
- Tahesha Way – 3rd Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey
- Lowell P. Weicker Jr. – U.S. Senator and governor of Connecticut
- Sheldon Whitehouse – U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
- Woodrow Wilson – President of the United States
Science
- Susan Kolb – medical doctor and author
Sports
- Griff Aldrich – head men's basketball coach, Longwood University
- Tim Finchem – commissioner and CEO, PGA TOUR
- Bowie Kuhn – former Major League Baseball commissioner
- Doug Perlman – founder and CEO of Sports Media Advisors, former EVP, Media for the NHL
- Matt Simpson – Paralympic goalball player
- Michael Slive – former commissioner of the Southeastern Conference, and formerly the first commissioner of both Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
- DeMaurice Smith – executive director, National Football League Players' Association
- Mike Sullivan – general counsel and director of policy & compliance, Professional Disc Golf Association
- Don Yee – NFL sports agent