List Of Yale Law School Alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Yale Law School, the law school of the American Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut. (For a list of notable Yale University graduates, see the list of Yale University people.) Records are kept by the Association of Yale Alumni.

All degrees listed below are LL.B. (the primary professional degree in law conferred by Yale Law School until 1971) or J.D. (the primary professional degree in law conferred since 1971), unless noted otherwise.

Yale Law's three–year J.D. ( LL.B., prior to 1971) program enrolls an incoming class of approximately 200 students, one of the smallest incoming class sizes of all top law schools.

Law and government

United States government

Executive branch

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U.S. Presidents

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* Gerald Ford (1941), 38th President of the United States, 1974–1977
* Bill Clinton (1973), 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

= U.S. Attorneys General

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* Herbert Brownell Jr. (1927), 62nd U.S. Attorney General, 1953–1957
* Homer Stille Cummings (1893), 55th U.S. Attorney General, 1933–1939
* Nicholas Katzenbach (1947), 65th U.S. Attorney General, 1965–1966
* Peter Keisler (1985), acting U.S. Attorney General, 2007
* Edward H. Levi (1938), 71st U.S. Attorney General, 1975–1977
* Wayne MacVeagh (1856), 36th U.S. Attorney General, 1881
* Michael B. Mukasey (1967), 81st U.S. Attorney General, 2007–2009
* Edwards Pierrepont (1840), 33rd U.S. Attorney General, 1875–1876
* Alphonso Taft (1838), 34th U.S. Attorney General, 1876–1877

= U.S. Solicitors General

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* Drew S. Days, III (1966), 40th U.S. Solicitor General, 1993–1996
* Walter E. Dellinger III (1966), Acting Solicitor General, 1996–1997
* Neal Katyal (1995), Acting Solicitor General, 2010–2011
* Thomas D. Thacher (did not graduate), 21st U.S. Solicitor General, 1930–1933
* Seth P. Waxman (1977), 41st U.S. Solicitor General, 1997–2001

=Other cabinet and cabinet-level officials

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* Clifford Alexander Jr. (1958), 13th Secretary of the Army, 1977–1981
* Alex Azar (1991), 24th Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2018–2021
* John R. Bolton (1974), 25th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2005–2006
* John Bryson (1969), 37th Secretary of Commerce, 2011–2012
* Hillary Clinton (1973), 67th Secretary of State, 2009–2013
* Greg Craig (1972), 33rd White House Counsel, 2009–2010
* Lloyd Cutler (1939), 25th White House Counsel, 1994
* John Danforth (1963), 24th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2004–2005
* Richard Danzig (1971), 71st Secretary of the Navy, 1998–2001
* Henry H. Fowler (1932), 58th Secretary of the Treasury, 1965–1968
* Gordon Gray (1933), 2nd Secretary of the Army, 1949–1950
* Carla Anderson Hills (1958), 5th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1975–1977
* John King Jr., Secretary of Education, 2015–2017
* Victor H. Metcalf (1876), 2nd Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1904–1906; 38th Secretary of the Navy, 1906–1908
* Robert Reich (1973), 22nd Secretary of Labor, 1993–1997
* Stanley Rogers Resor (1942), 9th Secretary of the Army, 1965–1971
* Robert Rubin (1964), 70th Secretary of the Treasury, 1995–1999
* Gene Sperling (1985), Director of the National Economic Council, 1996–2000, 2011–2014
* Alphonso Taft (1838), 31st Secretary of War, 1876
* Cyrus Vance (1942), 57th Secretary of State, 1977–1980
* Christopher A. Wray (1992), 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2017–present
* Eugene M. Zuckert (1936), 7th Secretary of the Air Force, 1961–1965

Legislative branch ( U.S. Congress)

= Senators

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* Raymond E. Baldwin (1921), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut), 1946–1949
* Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1893), U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), 1922–1929
* Michael Bennet (1993), U.S. Senator (D-Colorado), 2009–present
* Richard Blumenthal (1973), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 2011–present
* Cory Booker (1997), U.S. Senator (D-New Jersey), 2013–present, 36th mayor of Newark, New Jersey, 2006–2013
* James L. Buckley (1950), U.S. Senator (R-New York), 1971–1977
* Hillary Clinton (1973), U.S. Senator (D-New York), 2001–2009
* Chris Coons (1992), U.S. Senator (D-Delaware), 2010–present
* John A. Danaher (1922), U.S. Senator (R-Connecticut), 1939–1945
* John Danforth (1961), U.S. Senator (R-Missouri), 1976–1995
* David Davis (1835), U.S. Senator (R-Illinois), 1877–1883
* Thomas J. Dodd (1933), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1959–1971
* Peter H. Dominick (1940), U.S. Senator (R-Colorado), 1963–1975
* Charles Goodell (1951), U.S. Senator (R-New York), 1968–1971
* Gary Hart (1964), U.S. Senator (D-Colorado), 1975–1987
* Josh Hawley (2006), U.S. Senator (R-Missouri), 2019–present
*Estes Kefauver (1927), U.S. Senator (D-Tennessee), 1949–1963
*Alfred B. Kittredge, U.S. Senator (R-South Dakota), 1901–1909
* Joseph Lieberman (1967), U.S. Senator (D/I-Connecticut), 1989–2012
* Augustine Lonergan (1902), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1933–1939
* Brien McMahon (1927), U.S. Senator (D-Connecticut), 1945–1952
* Trusten Polk (1831), U.S. Senator (D-Missouri), 1857–1862
* Julius Rockwell (1826), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts), 1854–1855
* Arlen Specter (1956), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1981–2011
* Paul Tsongas (1967), U.S. Senator (D-Massachusetts), 1979–1985
* Harris Wofford (1954), U.S. Senator (D-Pennsylvania), 1991–1995

= Representatives

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* Lewis Beach (1856), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1881–1886
* Carroll L. Beedy (1906), U.S. Representative (R-Maine), 1921–1935
* Jackson Edward Betts (1929), U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1951–1973
* Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1939), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1965–1983
* Clay Stone Briggs (1899), U.S. Representative (D-Texas), 1919–1933
* C. Pope Caldwell (1899), U.S. Representative (D-New York), 1915–1921
* Charles T. Canady (1979), U.S. Representative (R-Florida), 1993–2001
* James Colgate Cleveland (1948), U.S. Representative (R-New Hampshire), 1963–1981
* Sam Coppersmith (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Arizona), 1993–1995
* Albert W. Cretella (1921), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1953–1959
* Peter Deutsch (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Florida), 1993–2005
* Allen Ertel (1965), U.S. Representative (D-Pennsylvania), 1977–1983
* Elizabeth Esty (1985), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 2013–2018
* Richard P. Freeman (1894), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1915–1933
* Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (1941), U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey), 1953–1975
* Foster Furcolo (1936), U.S. Representative (D-Massachusetts), 1949–1952
* Edwin W. Higgins (1897), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1905–1913
* Peter Hoagland (1968), U.S. Representative (D-Nebraska), 1989–1995
* Colin M. Ingersoll, U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1851–1855
* Donald J. Irwin (1954), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1959–1961
* Stephen Wright Kellogg (1848), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1869–1875
* Ro Khanna (2001), U.S. Representative (D-California), 2017–present
*Franklin F. Korell (did not graduate), U.S. Representative (R-Oregon), 1927–1931
* William Lemke, U.S. Representative (R-North Dakota), 1932–1936
* John Lindsay (1948), U.S. Representative (R-New York), 1959–1965
* Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1859–1863
* Allard K. Lowenstein), 1969–1971
* John Miller (1964), U.S. Representative (R-Washington), 1985–1993
* Bruce Morrison (1973), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1983–1991
* Eleanor Holmes Norton (1964), Congressional delegate (D-Washington, D.C.), 1991–present
* Miner G. Norton (1880), U.S. Representative (D-Ohio), 1921–1923
* George M. O'Brien (1947), U.S. Representative (R-Illinois), 1973–1986
* Diane Pappas, U.S. Representative (D-Illinois), 2018–
* Tom Perriello (2001), U.S. Representative (D-Virginia), 2009–2011
* Aaron F. Perry, U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1871–1872
* William Scranton, U.S. Representative (D-Pennsylvania), 1961–1963
* David Skaggs (1967), U.S. Representative (D-Colorado), 1987–1999
* J. Joseph Smith (1927), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1935–1941
* Wint Smith (1922), U.S. Representative (R-Kansas), 1947–1961
* John Spratt (1969), U.S. Representative (D-South Carolina), 1983–2011
* Joseph E. Talbot (1925), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1942–1947
* Frank Tejeda (LL.M. 1989), U.S. Representative (D-Texas), 1993–1997
* John Q. Tilson (1893), U.S. Representative (R-Connecticut), 1909–1913, 1915–1932
* William H. Upson (1845), U.S. Representative (R-Ohio), 1869–1873
* Stuyvesant Wainwright (1947), U.S. Representative (R-New York), 1953–1961
* Mel Watt (1970), U.S. Representative (D-North Carolina), 1993–present
* Washington F. Willcox (1862), U.S. Representative (D-Connecticut), 1889–1893
* David Wu (1982), U.S. Representative (D-Oregon), 1999–2011
* Dick Zimmer (1969), U.S. Representative (R-New Jersey), 1991–1997

Judicial branch

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Supreme Court justices

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* Samuel Alito (1975), Associate Justice, 2006–present
* Henry Billings Brown (did not graduate), Associate Justice, 1891–1906
* David Davis (1835), Associate Justice, 1862–1877
* Abe Fortas (1933), Associate Justice, 1963–1969
* Brett Kavanaugh (1990), Associate Justice, 2018–present
* Sherman Minton (1916), (also graduated from Indiana University Maurer School of Law), Associate Justice, 1949–1956
* George Shiras Jr. (1853), Associate Justice, 1892–1903
* Sonia Sotomayor (1979), Associate Justice, 2009–present
* Potter Stewart (1941), Associate Justice, 1958–1981
* Clarence Thomas (1974), Associate Justice, 1991–present
* Byron White (1946), Associate Justice, 1962–1993

=Federal Court judges

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Federal courts of appeals

* Robert P. Anderson (1929), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1964–1978
* Herschel W. Arant (1915), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1939–1941
* Edward R. Becker (1957), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1998–2003; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1998–2003
* Duane Benton (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2004–present
* Stephanos Bibas (1994), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2017–present
* Wilbur F. Booth (1888), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1925–1932
* José A. Cabranes (1965), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–present
* Guido Calabresi (1958), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–2009
* Charles Edward Clark (1913), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1939–1963
* Eric L. Clay (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1997–present
* Richard Clifton, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2002–present
* R. Guy Cole Jr. (1978), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1995–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2014–2021
* Steven Colloton (1988), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2003–present
* Richard Cudahy (1955), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1979–1994
* Conrad K. Cyr (1956), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1989–1997
* William A. Fletcher (1975), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present
* Susan P. Graber (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present
* Morton Ira Greenberg (1957), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1987–present
* Pamela Harris (1990), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2014–present
* David Hamilton (1983), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2009–present
* A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1952), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1977–1993
* Stephen A. Higginson (1987), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 2011–present
* Carroll C. Hincks, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1954–1964
* Andrew D. Hurwitz (1972), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2012–present
* Robert Katzmann (1980), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1999–2020
* Carolyn Dineen King (1962), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1979–2013
* Kermit Lipez (1967), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 1998–2011
* Scott Matheson Jr. (1980), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 2010–present
* William Ernest Miller (1933), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1970–1976
* Jon O. Newman (1956), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1979–1997
* Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1969), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2001–2009
* Cornelia (Nina) T.L. Pillard (1983), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2013–present
* Jill A. Pryor (1988), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 2012–present
* Stephen Reinhardt (1954), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1980–2018
* Roger Robb (1931), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1969–1982
* Oliver Seth (1940), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1962–1984; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 1977–1984
* Richard G. Taranto (1981), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2013–present
* Albert Tate Jr. (1947), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1979–1986
* William H. Timbers, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1971–1981
* William Kneeland Townsend, Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1902–1907
* Patricia Wald (1951), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1979–1999; Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1986–1991
* George Thomas Washington (1932), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1949–1965
* Ralph Winter (1960), Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1981–2020

Federal district courts

* Ronnie Abrams (1993), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2012–present
* William Acker (1952), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 1982–1996
* Roy Altman (2007), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2019–present
* Cecilia Altonaga (1986), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, 2003–present
* Harold Baer Jr. (1957), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1994–2014
* David Barlow, Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2020–present
* James E. Boasberg (1990), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2011–present
* Paul D. Borman (LL.M. 1964), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 1994–present
* Howard C. Bratton (1947), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, 1964–1987; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, 1978–1987
* Philip A. Brimmer (1985), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, 2008–present
* Ellen Bree Burns (1923), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1978–1992; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1988–1992
* Edward N. Cahn (1958), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1974–1998
* Charles Hardy Carr (1926), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1962–1966; Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966–1973
* Paul Charlton, Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, 1911–1913
* Frank C. Damrell Jr. (1964), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, 1997–2008
* Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. (1966), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 1992–2007; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 1992–1997
* Jan DuBois (1957), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1988–2002
* Warren William Eginton (1951), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1979–1992
* David A. Faber (1967), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, 1991–2008
* Eldon E. Fallon (LL.M. 1963), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1995–present
* A. Joe Fish (1968), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 1983–2007; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, 2002–2007
* Dabney L. Friedrich (1992), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2017–present
* Jesse Furman (1998), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2012–present
* Nina Gershon (1965), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1996–2008
* Nancy Gertner (1971), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1994–2011
* Gerhard Gesell (1935), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1967–1993
* James Tyrone Giles (1967), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1979–2008
* Charles Haight (1955), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1976–1995
* Jean Constance Hamilton (LL.M. 1982), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1990–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1990–present, 1995–2002
* A. Andrew Hauk (1942), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1966; Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1966–1982; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1980–1982
* Truman McGill Hobbs (1948), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1980–1991; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1984–1991
* Marvin Katz (1954), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1983–2010
* Bruce William Kauffman (1959), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1997–2009
* Samuel Pailthorpe King (1940), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii, 1972–1984
* John A. Kronstadt (1976), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2011–present
* Morris E. Lasker (1941), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1968–1983
* Victor Marrero (1968), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1999–2010
* Frank Hampton McFadden (1955), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, 1969–1982
* Richard Wellington McLaren (1942), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1972–1976
* Louis F. Oberdorfer (1946), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1977–present
* James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor (1909), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 1940–1949
* J. Paul Oetken (1991), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2011–present
* Jill Parrish (1985), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, 2015–present
* James Perry Platt (1875), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1902–1913
* Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (1950), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1974–2001
* Louis H. Pollak (1948), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1978–1991
* Michael Ponsor (1975), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, 1994–2011
* Michael Shea (1993), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 2012–present
* Oliver Perry Shiras (1856), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa, 1882–1903
* Dominic J. Squatrito (1965), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1994–2004
* Leonard P. Stark (1996), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 2010–present
* Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr. (1931), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1958–1969
* Sidney Stein (1969), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1995–2010
* Richard J. Sullivan (1990), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2007–2019;
* Robert Sweet (1948), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1978–1991
* Robert Taylor (1924), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1950–1984; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 1961–1969
* Charles Henry Tenney (1936), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1963–1979
* Edwin Stark Thomas (1895), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1913–1939
* Alvin Thompson (1978), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1994–present
* Myron H. Thompson (1972), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1980–1998; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1991–1998
* Stefan R. Underhill (1982), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1999–present
* William H. Walls (1957), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1994–2005
* Henry Travillion Wingate (1972), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 1985–present; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, 2003–present
* Caleb Merrill Wright (1933), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1955–1973; Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, 1957–1973
* William H. Yohn Jr. (1960), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1969–1980
* Robert Carmine Zampano (1954), Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1964–1994

Other courts

* Gary S. Katzmann (1979), Judge for the United States Court of International Trade, 2016–present
*J. Rich Leonard (1976), U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina, 1992–present
* Albert Levitt (1923), Judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 1935–1968
* Lyman E. Munson (1851), Justice of the Territorial Montana Supreme Court"Pioneer Judge Breathes Last", ''The Semiweekly Billings Gazette'' (February 21, 1908), p. 2.
* William Josiah Tilson (1896, LL.M. 1897), Judge for the United States Court of International Trade

State government

=Governors

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* Jerry Brown (1964), 34th and 39th Governor of California, 1975–1983, 2011–2019
* Foster Furcolo (1936), 60th Governor of Massachusetts, 1957–1961
* Bibb Graves (1896), 38th Governor of Alabama, 1927–1931
* Henry Baldwin Harrison, 52nd Governor of Connecticut, 1885–1887
* William W. Hoppin, 24th Governor of Rhode Island, 1854–1857
* William J. Mills (1877), 19th Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1910–1912
* Gina Raimondo (1998), 75th Governor of Rhode Island, 2015–2021, United States Secretary of Commerce 2021–present.
* Raymond P. Shafer (1941), 39th Governor of Pennsylvania, 1967–1971

=State politicians

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* Peter H. Behr (1940), member of the California State Senate, 1970–1978
* Asa S. Bloomer (1916), member of the Vermont House of Representatives, 1937–1945, and Speaker of the House, 1943–1945; member of the Vermont Senate, 1947–1963, and President Pro Tem, 1949, 1955, 1959–1963
* Rob Bonta (1998), Attorney General of California, 2021–present
* James M. Brown (1967), Attorney General of Oregon, 1980–1981
* Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1824), Connecticut State Senator, 1838–1840, Connecticut State Representative, 1834–1838
* John A. Busterud (1949), California State Assembly, 1956–1962
* Kimberly B. Cheney (1964), Attorney General of Vermont, 1973–1975
* Robert E. Cooper Jr. (1983), Attorney General of Tennessee, 2006–2014
* Robert Del Tufo (1958), Attorney General of New Jersey, 1990–1993
* Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), member of the New York State Assembly from the 68th district, 1997–2001
* Matthew Denn (1991), lieutenant governor of Delaware, 2009–present
* Tilton E. Doolittle (1846), Speak of the House of the Connecticut House of Representatives, and US Attorney for the district of Connecticut
* John R. Dunne (1954), member of the New York Senate from the 6th district, 1966–1989
* Daniel C. Esty (1986), commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, 2011–2014
* Shirley Adele Field, member of the Oregon House of Representatives, 1956–1960, 1962–1966
* Tom Foley, Secretary of Labor and Industry of Pennsylvania, 1991–1994
* Ammi Giddings, member of the Connecticut Senate, 1858–1864
* Harrison Goldin (1960), member of the New York Senate, 1966–1973
* Cyrus Habib, 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington, former State Senator from Washington state, 2014–2016, former member of the Washington House of Representatives, 2012–2014
* L. W. Housel (1900), member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1900–1902
* Michael Johnston, member of the Colorado Senate from the 33rd district, 2009–present
* Daniel Kagan, member of the Colorado House of Representatives, 2009–present
* Jeff King, member of the Kansas Senate from the 15th district, 2011–present
* Kris Kobach (1995), 31st Secretary State of Kansas, 2001–present
* John Latta (1859), 1st Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 1875–1879
* Frederick Lippitt (1946), member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, 1961–1983
* J. Edward Meyer (1961), member of the Connecticut Senate, 2005–present
* Robert W. Naylor (1969), member of the California State Assembly for the 20th district, 1978–1986; chair of the California Republican Party, 1987–1989
* Charles R. Nesbitt (1947), 9th Attorney General of Oklahoma, 1963–1967; Secretary of Energy of Oklahoma, 1991–1995
* Larry Obhof, President of the Ohio Senate from 2017 to 2020, State Senator for the 22nd district, 2011–2020
* Edwin Archer Randolph, the first African-American to graduate from the law school, Randolph served in both houses of the Virginia Legislature
* James Paull, president of the West Virginia Senate, 1943–1945
* Jamie Pedersen from the 43rd district, 2007–present
* Charles B. Perry, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1929
* Stephen Sachs, Attorney General of Maryland, 1979–1987
* Shirley Adelson Siegel (1941), Solicitor General of New York, 1979–1982
* Bryan Townsend, member of the Delaware Senate, 2012–present
* Francis W. Treadway (1892), 30th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1909–1911
* Ralph E. Van Norstrand (1961), minority leader of the Connecticut General Assembly, 1979–1985; Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives, 1985—1987
* Anthony Van Wyck (1844), member of the Wisconsin State Senate 1864–1865, 1868–1869
* John Wesley Wescott, Attorney General of New Jersey, 1914–1919

=State judges

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* William B. Chandler III, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1985–1996
* John M. Comley (1920), Associate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, 1963–1965"John M. Comley, Ex-Justice, Dies", ''Hartford Courant'' (December 15, 1974), p. 3.
* Rick Haselton, Chief Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals, 2012–present; Judge, Oregon Court of Appeals, 1994–2012
* Ernest A. Inglis, Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1953–1957; Associate Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court, 1950–1953
* Jeffrey W. Johnson (1985), Judge, California Court of Appeal, 2009–present
* Hans A. Linde (1966), Justice, Oregon Supreme Court

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