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American University The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...

in Washington, D.C.

Notable alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of AU. Some particularly notable individuals are also listed in the main University article. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The degree, school and year of graduation is noted when available.

Government, politics, society, royalty

* Atiaf Alwazir – Lebanese human rights activist *

Rosalie Gardiner Jones Rosalie Gardiner Jones (February 24, 1883 – January 12, 1978) was an American suffragette. She took the "Pankhursts" as role models and after hearing of the " Brown Women" she organised marches to draw attention to the suffrage cause. She was ...

- American suffragette,

DCL DCL or may refer to: * 650 in Roman numerals, see 650 (disambiguation) Computers * Data Center Linux, see Open Source Development Labs * Data Control Language, a subset of SQL * Dialog Control Language, a language and interpreter within AutoC ...

'22 *

Erik Altieri Erik Altieri is the executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML ) is a social welfare organization based in Washington, D.C., that advocates f ...

– Executive Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), CAS *

Charles R. Black, Jr. Charles R. Black Jr. (born October 11, 1947) is the Founding Chairman of Prime Policy Group, a public affairs firm which is a subsidiary of Burson-Marsteller Global Public Relations. Prime Policy Group was formed with the merger of Martin B. Go ...

– Chief Campaign Adviser for Senator

John McCain John Sidney McCain III (August 29, 1936 – August 25, 2018) was an American politician and United States Navy officer who served as a United States senator from Arizona from 1987 until his death in 2018. He previously served two terms ...

in the

2008 US presidential election The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from ...

; lobbyist for

BKSH & Associates Black, Kelly, Scruggs & Healey, also known as BKSH & Associates was a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm with principals Charles R. Black Jr., Peter G. Kelly, John F. Scruggs, and James Healey which was merged with Timmons & Company in 2010 to ...

Juan Mari Brás Juan Mari Brás (December 2, 1927 – September 10, 2010) was an advocate for Puerto Rican independence from the United States who founded the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP). On October 25, 2006, he became the first person to receive a P ...

– Puerto Rican independence advocate, founder of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, WCL *

Julie E. Cram Julie E. Cram (born January 23, 1965) is a Deputy Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Education and Environment (E3) at the United States Agency for International Development. She is a former lobbyist for DDR Advocacy and a Republican ...

– lobbyist and Republican operative * Patricia Harrison – Co-chair of the Republican National Committee, SIS * Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – politician, son of United States Vice President Hubert Humphrey * Princess Iman – daughter of King Hussein bin Talal and Queen Noor of Jordan, half-sister to King

Abdullah II of Jordan Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein ( ar, عبدالله الثاني بن الحسين , translit=ʿAbd Allāh aṯ-ṯānī ibn al-Ḥusayn; born 30 January 1962) is King of Jordan, having ascended the throne on 7 February 1999. He is a member of t ...

Paul D. Irving Paul Douglas Irving (born August 1957) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives from January 17, 2012, until January 7, 2021, succeeding Wilson Livingood in th ...

– Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States House Representatives * Sara Dunlap Jackson, National Archives and Records Administration archivist, Military Archives Division * Prince Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain – son of Prince

Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa ( ar, سلمان بن حمد آل خليفة; born 21 October 1969) is the Crown prince and the Prime Minister of Bahrain. He is also the deputy supreme commander of the Bahrain Defence Force. Early life and educat ...

, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain * Nancy Jacobson –

Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to: *Democratic Party (United States) Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party *Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea *Gabonese Democratic Party *Demo ...

fundraiser, SPA/MA *

Victor Kamber Victor Samuel Kamber (born May 7, 1943) is an American labor union activist and political consultant in the United States. A Democrat, he worked for the AFL-CIO in the 1970s before forming The Kamber Group, a public relations firm, in 1980. The ...

–

labor union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

activist and political consultant WCL/JD *

Petra Kelly Petra Karin Kelly (29 November 1947 – 1 October 1992) was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party to rise to prominence both nationally in Germany and wor ...

– founder of Germany's

Green Party A green party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of green politics, such as social justice, environmentalism and nonviolence. Greens believe that these issues are inherently related to one another as a foundation ...

, SIS/BA '70 * Pan Suk Kim - South Korean professor of public administration, researcher, scholar *

Koko Kondo Koko Tanimoto (Née , born November 20, 1944) is a prominent atomic bomb survivor, peace activist, and the eldest of at least four children of Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Methodist minister famous for his work for the Hiroshima Maidens. Both appear in Jo ...

, born Koko Tanimoto – prominent

atomic bomb A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb ...

survivor Survivor(s) may refer to: Actual survivors * *Last survivors of historical events Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Survivors, characters in the 1997 ''KKnD'' video-game series * ''The Survivors'', or the ''New Survivors Found ...

(

Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui h ...

) and international peace activist, '69 * Corey Lewandowski – campaign manager for Senator Bob Smith and Donald Trump *

Prince Joel Dawit Makonnen Prince Joel David Makonnen Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (''Yoel Dawit Makonnen Haile Selassie''; born 5 May 1982) is an Italian-born Ethiopian attorney, businessman, philanthropist, writer, and member of the Ethiopian Imperial House of Solomon. H ...

– lawyer, member of the Ethiopian imperial family *

Sarah McBride Sarah McBride (born August 9, 1990) is an American activist and politician who has been a Democratic member of the Delaware Senate since January 2021. She was previously the National Press Secretary of the Human Rights Campaign. After winning ...

– LGBT rights activist *

Alice Paul Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the main leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...

– feminist, author of the

Equal Rights Amendment The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. Proponents assert it would end legal distinctions between men and ...

, WCL/LLM '27 PhD '28 *

Yabshi Pan Rinzinwangmo Lobsang Trinley Lhündrub Chökyi Gyaltsen (born Gönbo Cêdän; 19 February 1938 – 28 January 1989) was the tenth Panchen Lama, officially the 10th Panchen Erdeni (), of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. According to Tibetan Buddhism, ...

– daughter of Choekyi Gyaltsen, the 10th Panchen Lama of Tibet *

Nicholas Sarwark Nicholas Joel Sarwark (born August 27, 1979) is an American attorney and businessman who served as the 19th chair of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), the governing body of the Libertarian Party. Prior to his election in 2014, he served on ...

– chairman of the

U.S. Libertarian Party The Libertarian Party (LP) is a political party in the United States that promotes civil liberties, non-interventionism, ''laissez-faire'' capitalism, and limiting the size and scope of government. The party was conceived in August 1971 at ...

(2014–present) *

V. Lance Tarrance, Jr. V. Lance Tarrance, Jr. is a Republican Party (United States), Republican American Opinion poll, pollster and political strategist who has conducted public opinion studies for national corporations, foundations, elected leaders of the United States ...

– leading

Republican Party Republican Party is a name used by many political parties around the world, though the term most commonly refers to the United States' Republican Party. Republican Party may also refer to: Africa *Republican Party (Liberia) * Republican Part ...

pollster and political strategist, SPA/MA *

Edward von Kloberg III Edward von Kloberg III (January 9, 1942 – May 1, 2005) was an American lobbyist, infamous for his representation of some of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century. Life Born Edward Joseph Kloberg III (he added a "van" to his name in t ...

– lobbyist, CAS *

Mindy Myers Mindy Elizabeth Myers (born April 12, 1976) is an American Democratic political strategist and campaign executive. Myers was the first female executive director Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the 2018 cycle. Raised in Lancaster, P ...

- American Democratic political strategist and campaign executive, SPA/BA '98

Foreign heads of state, deputy heads of state, and ministers

Pongpol Adireksarn Pongpol Adireksarn ( th, ปองพล อดิเรกสาร, pen name Paul Adirex; born March 23, 1942) is a Thai novelist, documentarist and former politician. Early life and education Pongpol's father, Pramarn Adireksarn, was a Major ...

– Deputy Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand * Lisiate ‘Akolo – Member of the

Legislative Assembly of Tonga The Legislative Assembly of Tonga ( to, Fale Alea ʻo Tonga) is the unicameral legislature of Tonga. The assembly has 26 members in which 17 members elected by majority of the people for a 5-year term in multi-seat constituencies via the singl ...

and

Cabinet of Tonga The Cabinet of Tonga is the cabinet ( executive branch) of the government of the Kingdom of Tonga. It is composed primarily of the ministers of government. The latter, including the Prime Minister, are appointed by the monarch. The Governor of ...

minister for Labour, Commerce and Industries * Julius Maada Bio – current president and former military head of state of Sierra Leone under the National Provisional Ruling Council

junta Junta may refer to: Government and military * Junta (governing body) (from Spanish), the name of various historical and current governments and governing institutions, including civil ones ** Military junta, one form of junta, government led by ...

government of 1996, SIS/MA *

Allen Chastanet Allen Michael Chastanet (born 20 November 1960) is a Saint Lucian businessman and politician who served as Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 2016 to 2021. He is currently the Opposition Leader of Saint Lucia and the political leader of the ...

- former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia *Sheikh

– Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain; Commander-In-Chief of the Bahrain Defense Force, SPA '92 * Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer –

President of Iraq The president of Iraq is the head of state of Iraq and "safeguards the commitment to the Constitution and the preservation of Iraq's independence, sovereignty, unity, the security of its territories in accordance with the provisions of the Con ...

under the Iraqi Interim Government of 2004–2005, Vice President of Iraq under the

Iraqi Transitional Government The Iraqi Transitional Government was the government of Iraq from May 3, 2005, when it replaced the Iraqi Interim Government, until May 20, 2006, when it was replaced by a permanent government. On April 28 it was approved by the transitional Ira ...

of 2005 *

Ousmane Issoufi Maïga Ousmane Issoufi Maïga (born 1946) was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2004 to 2007. Issoufi had previously held several ministerial posts in previous governments. Issoufi was born near Gao, in the north of Mali. He studied economics at the Univer ...

– Prime Minister of the Republic of Mali * Keith Mitchell – Prime Minister of Grenada, CAS/PhD '79 *

Samuel Lewis Navarro Samuel Lewis Navarro (born on July 15, 1957, in Panama City) was the First Vice President and Foreign Minister of Panama. He served in these posts from 1 September 2004 to 1 July 2009 during the administration of President Martín Torrijos. Lew ...

– First Vice President and

Foreign Minister A foreign affairs minister or minister of foreign affairs (less commonly minister for foreign affairs) is generally a cabinet minister in charge of a state's foreign policy and relations. The formal title of the top official varies between cou ...

of Panama, KSB/MBA '81 *

Longin Pastusiak Longin Hieronim Pastusiak (pronounced ; born August 22, 1935 in Łódź, Poland) is a Polish politician and historian. Academic career In 1959 Pastusiak earned his Master of Arts degree form Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affa ...

– Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland, '62 *

Mauricio Pimiento Mauricio Pimiento Barrera (born March 17, 1961) is a Colombian politician, former Senator of Colombia. Pimiento was arrested on February 16, 2007 after being involved in the Para-political scandal. On May 16, 2008 Colombian justice condemned Pim ...

– Senator of Colombia; Governor of the Cesar Department of Colombia, WCL

Ambassadors, diplomats, foreign ministers

Morton I. Abramowitz Morton Isaac Abramowitz (born January 20, 1933) is an American diplomat and former U.S. State Department official. Starting his overseas career in Taipei, Taiwan after joining the foreign service, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and Tur ...

– United States Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand; Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research *

Liliana Ayalde Liliana Ayalde (born March 1956) is the former United States Ambassador to Brazil and was previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) for the United States State Department with responsibility for the Offices of Caribbean Affairs, Central Ame ...

– United States Ambassador to Brazil *

Herman Jay Cohen Herman Jay "Hank" Cohen (born February 10, 1932) is an American diplomat who served as United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1989 to 1993. Career Herman Jay Cohen, born in New York City on February 10, 1932, receive ...

– United States Ambassador to Gambia and Senegal,

Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs The Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs is the head of the Bureau of African Affairs, within the United States Department of State, who guides operation of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of sub-Saharan Afric ...

, SIS/MA '62 * John B. Craig – United States Ambassador to Oman; Director of Arabian Peninsula Affairs, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs in the United States Department of State, SIS/BA * Arturo Cruz, Jr. – Ambassador of Nicaragua to the United States * David B. Dunn – United States Ambassador to Togo and Zambia, MA * Murat Salim Esenli – Ambassador of Turkey to China, SPA/BA '84 *

Marc Ginsberg Marc Charles Ginsberg (born October 18, 1950) is a U.S. lawyer and former diplomat who currently leads The Coalition for a Safer Web, a non-profit dedicated to combating cyber terrorism and Extremism, extremist incitement. Early life Ginsberg w ...

– United States Ambassador to Morocco, BA * Reno L. Harnish – United States Ambassador to Azerbaijan, SIS/MA *

Cam Henderson Eli Camden Henderson (February 5, 1890 – May 3, 1956) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Muskingum College (1920–1922), Davis & Elkins College ...

- Former Chief of Protocol of the United States * Cameron R. Hume – United States Ambassador to Indonesia *

Doreen Bogdan-Martin Doreen Bogdan-Martin (born 1966) is the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union. She was elected at the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, and as the first woman in the 157-year history of the ITU to become ...

- Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union; candidate for Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union, SIS/MA *

Abdul Ilah Khatib Abdul Ilah Mohammad Khatib or Abdelilah al-Khatib ( ; ar, عبد الإله الخطيب) (born in 1953) is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs for Jordan. On March 11, 2011 he was appointed as the UN Special envoy to Libya. Early life Marrie ...

– Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan; United Nations Special Envoy to Libya during the

2011 Libyan civil war The First Libyan Civil War was an armed conflict in 2011 in the North African country of Libya that was fought between forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi and rebel groups that were seeking to oust his government. It erupted with the Liby ...

, SIS/MA *

Carol Laise Caroline Clendening Laise (November 14, 1917 – July 25, 1991) was an American civil servant, ambassador to Nepal and the first female Assistant Secretary of State. Early life and education Born in Winchester, Virginia, to Elizabeth Frances (' ...

– United States Ambassador to Nepal, director general of the United States Foreign Service and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, SPA/BA '38 * Nizar Bin Obaid Madani – Deputy Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, SIS/MA '71, SIS/PhD '77 * Jean Elizabeth Manes - current Civilian Deputy and Foreign Policy Advisor to General

Laura J. Richardson Laura Jane Richardson (born December 11, 1963) is a four-star general in the United States Army who is the commander of United States Southern Command since October 29, 2021. Prior to that, she was the commanding general of United States Army No ...

, former United States Ambassador to El Salvador, SPA/MPA '96 * Francis E. Meloy, Jr. – United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Guatemala and Lebanon; assassinated in Beirut in 1976 * Connie Morella – United States Ambassador to the OECD, former US Representative, Professor Hamline University *

Vincent Obsitnik Vincent Obsitnik (born 1938) was sworn-in as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Slovak Republic on November 9, 2007 and served in this role until January 20, 2009. Prior to his current appointmen ...

– United States Ambassador to Slovakia; Business Executive at IBM, Unisys and Litton, KSB/MBA *

Charles Pergler Karel Pergler, known also by Anglicized Charles Pergler ( Liblín, March 6, 1882 – Washington, D.C., August 14, 1954) was a Czech-American lawyer, journalist, diplomat and politician. He was a Czechoslovak First Republic ambassador to the Unit ...

– Ambassador of Czechoslovakia to the United States and Japan, WCL/LLM * John Peurifoy – United States Ambassador to Greece, Thailand and Guatemala *

Khadija al-Salami Khadija al-Salami ( ar, خديجة السلامي; born November 11, 1966, in Sana'a, Yemen), is the first Yemeni female film producer and director. Al-Salami currently resides in Paris, France. She has been nominated and also won awards at film f ...

– Press and Cultural attaché and director of the Yemeni Information Centre at the Embassy of Yemen in Paris; first female Yemeni film producer, SOC '90 * Omar Samad – Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada, former CNN analyst *

Saeed Mohammed Al Shamsi Dr. Saeed Mohammed Al-Shamsi is a lawyer, diplomat, and a former assistant foreign minister for international organizations affairs with the rank of an ambassador. Ambassador Dr. Al Shamsi was UAE's former ambassador to Australia. He's married and ...

– Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Germany, Australia, India and New Zealand, SIS/PhD *

Kantathi Suphamongkhon Kantathi Suphamongkhon ( Thai กันตธีร์ ศุภมงคล, born 3 April 1952), a Thai diplomat, politician, university professor and a real estate developer. He served as the 39th minister of foreign affairs of Thailand from 1 ...

– Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, former Thai Member of Parliament, SIS/MA *

Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani is the Qatar, State of Qatar ambassador to the United States of America. Education Al Thani earned a Master’s degree in international relations from the American University in Washington, DC. Diplomatic car ...

– State of Qatar Ambassador to the United States of America *

Lawrence Palmer Taylor Lawrence Palmer Taylor (born April 18, 1940) was sworn in as the second U.S. Ambassador to Estonia in July 1995 and took up his posting in Tallinn in August 1995. Early life and career Ambassador Taylor was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 1 ...

– United States Ambassador to Estonia, MA * Esteban Edward Torres – Ambassador to UNESCO; United States Representative from California, '66 *

Richard Verma Richard Rahul Verma (born November 27, 1968) is an Indian-American lawyer, diplomat, and executive, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. Verma previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ...

– United States Ambassador to India *

Richard Noyes Viets Richard Noyes Viets (born November 10, 1930) represented the United States as Ambassador to Tanzania in 1979, Jordan in 1981, and nominated to be Ambassador to Portugal in 1987 but the Senate did not act upon his nomination. While his nomination w ...

– United States Ambassador to Tanzania and Jordan * Marilyn Ware – United States Ambassador to Finland *

Dessima Williams Dessima D Williams is a Grenadian diplomat and former Ambassador to the United Nations from Grenada who was reappointed to the ambassadorship in 2008. Since 2022 she has been President of the Senate. She was a professor of sociology, develop ...

– Ambassador of

Grenada Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...

to the United Nations, PhD * Curtin Winsor, Jr. – United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, SIS/MA '64, SIS/PhD'71

United States Senators and Representatives

* Ken Bentsen, Jr. – United States Representative from Texas, SPA/MPA '85 *

James Bilbray James Hubert Bilbray (May 19, 1938 – September 19, 2021) was an American politician, lawyer, and postal executive who served as the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for Nevada's 1st congressional district from 1987 t ...

– United States Representative from Nevada; Nevada State Senator, CAS/BA '62, WCL/JD '65 *

Don Bonker Donald Leroy Bonker (born March 7, 1937 in Denver, Colorado) is an American former congressman for the state of Washington and a Democrat. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1989, representing Washing ...

– United States Representative from Washington, MA * Dave Brat – United States Representative from Virginia, Chair of the Economics Department of Randolph–Macon College, CAS/PhD '95 * Julia Brownley – United States Representative from California, MBA '79 * Robert Byrd – United States Senator from West Virginia, WCL '63 *

Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. (July 24, 1940December 7, 2005), was an American Republican Party politician who served as the 112th governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. Prior to this, he served as a member of the South Carolina Senat ...

– United States Representative from South Carolina, Governor of South Carolina, SPA/MA '85 *

Thomas Downey Thomas Joseph Downey (born January 28, 1949) is an American attorney, lobbyist and former politician who served as a U.S. Representative for New York's 2nd congressional district from 1975 to 1993. Early life and education Downey was born in Q ...

– United States Representative from New York, WCL/JD '80 *

Gwen Graham Gwendolyn Graham (born January 31, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2015 to 2017. She is the daughter of Bob Graham, the former United States senator and governor of Florida. A Democrat, ...

– United States Representative from Florida, WCL/JD '88 * Lawrence Joseph Hogan – United States Representative from Maryland, County Executive of

Prince George's County, Maryland ) , demonym = Prince Georgian , ZIP codes = 20607–20774 , area codes = 240, 301 , founded date = April 23 , founded year = 1696 , named for = Prince George of Denmark , leader_title = Executive , leader_name = Angela D. Alsobroo ...

, '65 * Tim Huelskamp – United States Representative from Kansas; Kansas State Senator, SPA/PhD '95 * Chris Jacobs - United States Representative from New York, MA *

Michael J. Kopetski Michael Joseph "Mike" Kopetski (born October 27, 1949, in Pendleton, Oregon) is an American lawyer, businessman, and former politician who served two terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. Early life a ...

– United States Representative from Oregon, BA '71 * Rick Lazio – United States Representative from New York, WCL *

Donald Manzullo Donald Anthony Manzullo (born March 24, 1944) is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for , from 1993 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. From 2001 to 2007 he served as Chairman of the Comm ...

– United States Representative from Illinois, SPA '67 * Betsy Markey – United States Representative from Colorado, MPA '83 * Donald McEachin– United States Representative from Virginia, BS '82 * Jim McGovern – United States Representative from Massachusetts, CAS/BA '81, SPA/MA '84 * Connie Morella – United States Representative from Maryland, United States Ambassador to the OECD, MA '67 *

Mike Panetta Michael Joseph Panetta (born July 14, 1971) is a former District of Columbia shadow representative, having served from 2007 to 2013. Though elected by the citizens of Washington, Panetta was not recognized by Congress. A shadow representative is ...

– United States

Shadow Representative The posts of shadow United States senator and shadow United States representative are held by elected or appointed government officials from subnational polities of the United States that lack congressional vote. While these officials are not ...

from the District of Columbia, SPA '93, '94 *

Loretta Sanchez Loretta Lorna Sanchez (born January 7, 1960) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 1996, when she defeated long-serving Repu ...

– United States Representative from California, KSB '84 * Edward Schrock – United States Representative from Virginia * Bill Shuster – United States Representative from Pennsylvania, KSB/MBA * Bud Shuster – United States Representative from Pennsylvania, PhD '67 * Haley Stevens – United States Representative from Michigan *

Paul Strauss Paul Eric Strauss (born April 11, 1964) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States shadow senator from the District of Columbia since 1997. He succeeded Jesse Jackson, the first person to hold the elected posit ...

– United States Shadow Senator from the District of Columbia, SPA '86, WCL '93 *

Robin Tallon Robert Mooneyhan "Robin" Tallon Jr. (born August 8, 1946) is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States representative from South Carolina. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Early life and education Born in Hem ...

– United States Representative from South Carolina, BA '94 * Esteban Edward Torres – United States Representative from California; Ambassador to UNESCO, '66 *

Susan Wild Susan Wild (née Ellis; born June 7, 1957) is an American attorney and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A Democrat, she is a member of the United States House of Representatives from . The district is in the heart of the Lehigh ...

– United States Representative from Pennsylvania

United States government, military

* William J. Boarman –

Public Printer of the United States The Public Printer of the United States was the head of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO). Pursuant to , this officer was nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the United States Senate. In December 2014, ...

under President Barack Obama *

Walter E. Boomer General Walter Eugene Boomer (born 22 September 1938) is a retired four-star general and assistant commandant of the United States Marine Corps and business executive. Boomer led all Marines in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm during ...

– Marine Corps general and commanding officer of all Marines in the Gulf War *

Gary Cohn Gary David Cohn (born August 27, 1960) is an American business leader who served as the 11th Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's econo ...

– director of the National Economic Council (United States) *

Cari M. Dominguez Cari M. Dominguez (born March 8, 1949) is an American who was the 12th Chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Her five-year term ...

– 12th

chair A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest. They may be made of wood, metal, or synthetic materials, and may be padded or upholstered in vario ...

of the United States' Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, SIS/BA, SIS/MA *

Kenneth Duberstein Kenneth Marc Duberstein (April 21, 1944 – March 2, 2022) was an American lobbyist who served as U.S. President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989. Early life and education Duberstein was born to a Jewish family in Br ...

– White House Chief of Staff under President

Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...

* Arthur S. Flemming – United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, SPA/MA '28 * Jacques Gansler - former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, CAS/PhD *

Faisal Gill Faisal Mahmood Gill ( ur, ) is a Pakistani-born (born June, 1972) American lawyer, administrator, and government advisor, who served as the interim chairman of the Vermont Democratic Party for several months in 2017. In July 2014, it was reveal ...

– Department of Homeland Security senior policy adviser; Republican Virginia House of Delegates candidate, BA, WCL/JD * Bo Gritz – United States Army Special Forces officer during the Vietnam War; radio host * Paul Hackett – Iraq War Veteran, 2006 United States Senate candidate from Ohio, and trial lawyer, Washington Semester *

Virginia Hall Virginia Hall Goillot DSC, Croix de Guerre, (April 6, 1906 – July 8, 1982), code named Marie and Diane, was an American who worked with the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of St ...

–

spy Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...

during World War II; only civilian woman to receive the

Distinguished Service Cross The Distinguished Service Cross (D.S.C.) is a military decoration for courage. Different versions exist for different countries. *Distinguished Service Cross (Australia) *Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) *Distinguished Service Cross (U ...

award during World War II *

Edward Lee Howard Edward Lee Victor Howard (27 October 1951 – 12 July 2002) was a CIA case officer who defected to the Soviet Union. Pre-CIA career Howard served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Bucaramanga, Colombia. There he met Mary Cedarleaf in 1973, and they ...

–

CIA The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian intelligence agency, foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gat ...

agent who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 * Anne N. Foreman - former General Counsel of the Air Force and United States Under Secretary of the Air Force, WCL *

John Albert Knebel John Albert Knebel (born October 4, 1936) is a former United States government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under President Gerald Ford. Biography Early life and education Knebel was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 4, ...

– United States Secretary of Agriculture under President

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

, WCL/JD '65 *

John Macy John Williams Macy Jr. (April 6, 1917 – December 22, 1986) was a United States Government administrator and civil servant. Biography Born in Chicago, he received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1938. In 1938 Macy moved to Washington, D.C. ...

– director of the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency; United States Government administrator and civil servant *

Gordon H. Mansfield Gordon Hall Mansfield (September 15, 1941 – January 29, 2013) was an American military veteran who was Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs between 2004 and 2008. Political career Mansfield was nominated to serve as Deputy Secretary of Veterans ...

– United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, WCL *

Barry McCaffrey Barry Richard McCaffrey (born November 17, 1942) is a retired United States Army general and current news commentator, professor and business consultant who served in President Bill Clinton's Cabinet as the Director of the Office of National Dru ...

– White House Drug Czar under President Bill Clinton, Retired

United States Army General In the United States military, a general is the most senior general-grade officer; it is the highest achievable commissioned officer rank (or echelon) that may be attained in the United States Armed Forces, with exception of the Navy and Coast G ...

, NBC News and MSNBC military analyst *

M. Peter McPherson Melville Peter McPherson (born October 27, 1940) is president emeritus of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. He previously served as a special assistant to President Gerald Ford, administrator of USAID under President Ronald ...

– director of the USAID Program under President

, president of

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

, director of

Dow Jones Dow Jones is a combination of the names of business partners Charles Dow and Edward Jones. Dow Jones & Company Dow, Jones and Charles Bergstresser founded Dow Jones & Company in 1882. That company eventually became a subsidiary of News Corp, and ...

, WCL/JD '69 * Warren L. Miller – director of the

U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad The U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad is an independent agency of the Government of the United States of America. It was established by . The law directs the Commission to identify and report on cemeteries, monument ...

, BA * David Nason – Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions under

Treasury Secretary The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...

Henry M. Paulson Henry Merritt Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American banker and financier who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury, Paulson was the Chairman a ...

; key architect of the federal response to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, KSB/BSBA '92, WCL/JD '95 *

Nicole Nason Nicole Robilotto Nason (born August 12, 1970) is an American government official who served as the 26th Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 2019 to 2021. Nason previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Adminis ...

– director of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, BA *

Diana Villiers Negroponte Diana Mary Villiers Negroponte (born August 14, 1947) is an English-born American trade lawyer, Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, adjunct professor of international relations at the Elliot School of Internation ...

– US trade lawyer, wife of United States Deputy Secretary of State

John Negroponte John Dimitri Negroponte (; born July 21, 1939) is an American diplomat. He is currently a James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is a former J.B. and Maurice C. Sha ...

, WCL/JD *

Ron Nessen Ronald Harold Nessen (born May 25, 1934) is an American government official who served as the 15th White House Press Secretary for President Gerald Ford from 1974 to 1977. He replaced Jerald terHorst, who resigned in the wake of President Ford's ...

– White House Press Secretary under President

* William H. Pickle – 37th

United States Senate Sergeant at Arms The Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the United States Senate (originally known as the Doorkeeper of the Senate from April 7, 1789 – 1798) is the protocol officer, executive officer, and highest-ranking federal law enforcement officer of the ...

; highly decorated Vietnam War veteran * Nitin Pradhan – US Department of Transportation chief information officer *

Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Presid ...

– United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, current president of the University of Miami, Washington Semester *

William C. Sullivan William Cornelius Sullivan (May 12, 1912 – November 9, 1977) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation official who directed the agency's domestic intelligence operations from 1961 to 1971. Sullivan was forced out of the FBI at the end of Septembe ...

– head of the

Federal Bureau of Investigation The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency. Operating under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Justice, t ...

intelligence operations, MA * Vanessa Allen Sutherland - former chairperson of the

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (USCSB), generally referred to as the Chemical Safety Board or CSB, is an independent U.S. federal agency charged with investigating industrial chemical accidents. Headquartered in Washing ...

, KSB/MBA'97 and WCL/JD '96 *

Paul Teller Paul Scott Teller (born February 21, 1971) is the executive director of Advancing American Freedom in Washington DC, Mike Pence's advocacy organization. Teller previously served under President Donald Trump as Special Assistant to the President fo ...

– executive director of the United States House of Representatives Republican Study Committee * Hugo Teufel III – Department of Homeland Security Chief Privacy Officer, WCL/JD '90 *

Desson Thomson Desson Patrick Thomson is a former speechwriter for the Obama administration and former film critic for ''The Washington Post''. He was known as Desson Howe until 2003 when he changed his name after reuniting with his birth father. Biography ...

– White House speechwriter for President Barack Obama; '' The Washington Post'' film critic, SOC/BA ’80 *

Frances Townsend Frances M. "Fran" Fragos Townsend (born December 28, 1961) is an American lawyer and business executive who served as Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush from 2004 to 2007, and was formerly the executive vice pre ...

– United States Department of Homeland Security advisor to President

George W. Bush George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he ...

, SPA/BA, CAS/BS '82 *

William J. Walker William J. Walker is a retired United States Army major general and former Sergeant at Arms of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was the 38th House Sergeant at Arms and the first African-American to hold the office. He last served as the 2 ...

– United States Army major general, commanding general, District of Columbia National Guard, former director, Office of Diversion and Chemical Control, Drug Enforcement Administration, M.A. '06 *

Rosa Whitaker Rosa Whitaker Duncan-Williams, President & CEO of The Whitaker Group (TWG), is a former US government policy leader, career diplomat, and trade negotiator with a proven record of fostering investments into Africa. She served as the first Assistant ...

– Assistant

United States Trade Representative The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government responsible for developing and promoting Trade policy of the United States, American trade ...

Office of African Affairs, BA, MA *

Brian Willson S. Brian Willson (born July 4, 1941) is a U.S. American Vietnam veteran, peace activist, and trained attorney. Willson served in the US Air Force from 1966 to 1970, including several months as a combat security officer in Vietnam. He left the Air ...

– United States Air Force veteran, lawyer, prominent anti-war activist, WCL

US state, local governments

Kristen J. Amundson Kristen J. "Kris" Amundson (born December 3, 1949) is an American politician and former delegate to the Virginia General Assembly. A Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in November 1999. ...

– Virginia House Delegate, MA '78 *

Toney Anaya Toney Anaya (born April 29, 1941) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 26th governor of New Mexico from 1983 to 1987. Early life and career Anaya was born on in Moriarty, New Mexico. He earned a Bacheor of Arts degree from ...

– Governor of New Mexico, WCL '67 * Stephen Archambault - member of the Rhode Island Senate, SPA/BA *

Owen Aspinall Owen Stuart Aspinall (September 21, 1927 – February 7, 1997) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 45th Governor of American Samoa from August 1, 1967, to July 31, 1969. He was born in Grand Junction, Colorado; his fat ...

– Governor of American Samoa, BA '55 * Elizabeth Berry - member of the Washington House of Representatives, SPA/BA * Justin Bibb - Mayor of

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...

, BA '09 *

– Nevada State Senator; United States Representative from Nevada, CAS/BA '62, WCL/JD '65 * Muriel Bowser – Mayor of Washington, D.C., former member of the

Council of the District of Columbia The Council of the District of Columbia is the legislative branch of the local government of the District of Columbia, the capital of the United States. As permitted in the United States Constitution, the district is not part of any U.S. state ...

, representing Ward 4, SPA/MPP '00 *

James T. Brett James T. Brett (born December 22, 1949, Boston) is an American former politician who is the current president and CEO of The New England Council. From 1981 until 1996, Brett was a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party member of the ...

– Massachusetts House Representative, BA * Wallis Brooks – Pennsylvania House Representative, CAS/BA '69 * Julia Brownley –

California State Assembly The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature, the upper house being the California State Senate. The Assembly convenes, along with the State Senate, at the California State Capitol in Sacramento. The A ...

woman, KSB/MBA '79 *

– Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina State Representative and United States Representative, MA * Robert A. Cerasoli – Massachusetts House of Representatives,

Inspector General An inspector general is an investigative official in a civil or military organization. The plural of the term is "inspectors general". Australia The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security (Australia) (IGIS) is an independent statutory off ...

of Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

of City of New Orleans * Sam Cho – commissioner of the

Port of Seattle The Port of Seattle is a government agency overseeing the seaport and airport of Seattle, Washington, United States. With a portfolio of properties ranging from parks and waterfront real estate, to one of the largest airports and container t ...

SIS/BA '13 *Ulysses Currie – Maryland Senate, Maryland State Senator *Chris Danou – Wisconsin State Assemblyman, SIS/MA '91 *Jim Dillard – Virginia House Delegate, SPA/MA *John DiSanto - member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, KSB/BBA *Adam Ebbin – Senate of Virginia, Virginia state senator; former Virginia House Delegate, '85 *Bill Emmerson – California State Senate, California State Senator, former

man, SPA *Hugh Farley – New York State Senate, New York state senator, WCL/JD *Eileen Filler-Corn - List of Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates, Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, WCL, JD '93 *Richard A. Flintrop – Wisconsin state assemblyman *Robert L. Floyd – Mayor of Miami, WCL/JD '41 *Rick Gray (Pennsylvania politician), Rick Gray – Mayor of Lancaster, Pennsylvania *Michael Grieco - member of the Florida House of Representatives, '97 *Kim Guadagno – former lieutenant governor of New Jersey and concurrently Secretary of State of New Jersey, WCL/JD '83 *Jeff Habay – Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Pennsylvania House of Representative, founder of AU's Delta Tau Delta chapter, SPA/BA '88 * Lawrence Joseph Hogan – county executive of Prince George's County, Maryland, United States Representative from Maryland, '65 *Yumi Hogan – First Lady of Maryland, MA '10 * Tim Huelskamp – Kansas State Senate, Kansas state senator; United States Representative from Kansas, SPA/PhD '95 * Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – former Minnesota state senator and Minnesota Attorney General, attorney general; son of United States Vice President, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Senator Muriel Humphrey *Pam Iorio – Mayor of Tampa, Florida *Christopher Jacobs (politician), Christopher Jacobs – former Secretary of State of New York, 2006 candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York, lieutenant governor *Jason Kander – former Missouri Secretary of State *Rob Kauffman (politician), Rob Kauffman – Pennsylvania House Representative, SPA/BA *John A. Locke (Massachusetts politician), John A. Locke – Massachusetts House Representative *Sue Lowden – chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party *Neale F. Lunderville, Neale Lunderville - Former Vermont Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Administration, SPA/BA *Jack Martins – New York state senator, SPA/BA '88 *Eileen Melvin – former chairwoman of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania, CEO of United Metal Fabricators, SPA/MPA *Phil Mendelson – Council of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., City Council Chairman. BA *Clinton Miller - former Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia State Delegate and judge on the Virginia State Corporation Commission *Rebecca Millett - member of the Maine House of Representatives, BA, BS *Howard Mills III – New York Legislature, former New York State Administration (government), Superintendent of Insurance; 2004 United States Senate candidate, SPA '88 *David Moon (politician), David Moon - member of the Maryland House of Representatives, WCL/JD '04 *Kathleen Murphy (politician) - Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia State Delegate *Mary Murphy (politician), Mary Murphy – Minnesota House of Representatives, Minnesota House Representative *Brianne Nadeau – Washington, D.C., City Council, City Council member from Ward 1 of the District of Columbia, Ward 1, SPA/MPP '06 *Sam Olens – Georgia Attorney General, Attorney General of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia *Kirill Reznik – Maryland House of Delegates, Maryland House Delegate, SIS/MA'98, WCL/JD '03 *Eric Roe - member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, SPA/BA '10 *Gary Schaer - member of the New Jersey General Assembly *Briana Sewell - member of the Virginia House of Delegates, SPA/MPA *Chris Sgro – former member of the North Carolina House of Representatives *Allison Silberberg – Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, SIS/BA *Luiz R. S. Simmons – state delegate, Maryland House of Delegates, SIS/BA '70, WCL/JD '74 *Linda Stender – New Jersey General Assembly, New Jersey state assemblywoman and Congressional candidate *Richard Tisei – Minority Leader of the Massachusetts Senate, Massachusetts House Representative; Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, lieutenant governor in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2010, 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, BA '84 *Mitch Toryanski – Idaho Senate, Idaho state senator *Doug Turner – Republican candidate in the New Mexico gubernatorial election, 2010, 2010 New Mexico gubernatorial election, SIS/BA *Don Vaughan (North Carolina politician), Don Vaughan – former member of the North Carolina State Senate and practicing attorney in Greensboro, North Carolina, Greensboro, MPA '76 *David Vieira (politician), David Vieira - member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives *Helene Weinstein - member of the New York State Assembly, CAS/BA *Melissa Wells (politician) , Melissa Wells - member of the Maryland House of Delegates, SPA/MPP *Mary Margaret Whipple – Virginia State Senate Democratic Caucus chair *Steve Wieckert – Wisconsin State Assembly, Wisconsin state assemblyman, BA, MA *Jheanelle Wilkins – Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, MPA *Sandra Worthen - Member of the Delaware House of Representatives, BA '58 *Drew Wrigley – Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, WCL/JD *Eugene Yaw - Pennsylvania state senator, J.D. '73

Business and economy

*Charles T. Akre – investor, financier and businessman *Thomas G. Labrecque - former President (corporate title), President, Chief executive officer, CEO, and Chief operating officer, COO of Chase Manhattan Bank. , KSB/MBA *Adrienne Arieff – entrepreneur and author *Jordan Belfort – convicted of securities fraud, founded Stratton Oakmont which inspired the film ''Boiler Room (film), Boiler Room''; author of ''The Wolf of Wall Street (book), The Wolf of Wall Street'' and ''Catching the Wolf of Wall Street'', CAS/BS '84 *

– president and CEO of Rogers Corporation; retired four-star rank, four-star General (United States), General, BS '73 *Alan S. Chartock – president and CEO of WAMC, WAMC Northeast Public Radio Network, MA *Michael Chasen – co-founder, president, CEO and Director of Blackboard Inc. *Richard T. Clark – president and CEO of Merck & Co., KSB/MBA '70 *

– president and COO, Goldman Sachs, KSB/BSBA '82 *Louis Dubin – New York City real estate developer; President and CEO of Athena Group, WCL/JD *Sulaiman al-Fahim – CEO of UAE-based Hydra Properties and former Chairman of Manchester City F.C. *Jeffrey Gedmin – president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, CAS/BA, CAS/MA *Avram Glazer – Owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Co-chairman of Manchester United F.C., Manchester United Association football, football club; President and CEO of the Zapata Corporation, WCL/JD '85 *Bryan Glazer - Owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, SOC/BA '86 *Joel Glazer - Owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, SPA/BA '89 *Marco Gobbetti – CEO of Givenchy, Givenchy SA, president and managing director of Céline (brand), Céline SA, former CEO of Moschino, KSB/BSBA *Koba Gvenetadze – governor of the National Bank of Georgia * Patricia Harrison – president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Co-chair of the Republican National Committee, SIS *Wilbert Hopper – president and CEO of Petro-Canada, BS *Jesse Itzler – vice chairman of Marquis Jet; former Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 rapper, BA *Tom Karsch – executive vice president and general manager, Turner Classic Movies *Michael Kempner - Founder and CEO of MikeWorldWide; Member of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, SPA/BS '81 *Shahal M. Khan – owner of Plaza Hotel and venture capitalist *Robert P. Kogod – president of Archstone Real Estate company, KSB/BSBA '62 *Thomas G. Labrecque – president and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, KSB/MBA *David Lereah – chief economist of the National Association of Realtors; Executive Vice President of Move (company), Move Inc., KSB/BA *Ross Levinsohn - American media executive who has worked in media and technology, SOC/BA '85 *

– director of

, president of

, director of USAID, WCL/JD '69 *Jean-Luc Migué – Canadian economist, Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and the Montreal Economic Institute, CAS/PhD '68 *Lawrence Mishel – president of the Economic Policy Institute, CAS/MA *Erik Mollatt – CEO of M. Peterson & Søn, KSB/BSBA '67 *Mark Murphy (safety, born 1955), Mark Murphy – president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, former player for the Washington Redskins, KSB/MBA '83. * David Nason – Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions under

; key architect of the federal response to the financial crisis of 2007–2008, KSB/BSBA '92, WCL/JD '95 *

– president of the Systems Development Division at Unisys, Vice President, International at Litton Industries; United States Ambassador to Slovakia; KSB/MBA *Terence M. O'Sullivan, Jr. – General President, Laborers' International Union of North America KSB/BSBA '74 *Mollie Orshansky – economist and statistician; developed the ''Orshansky Poverty Thresholds'', the official measure of poverty used by the United States government, MS *Matthew Pritzker - an American investor and businessperson *Steven M. Rales – billionaire venture capitalist; chairman of Danaher Corporation, WCL/JD '78 *Arthur F. Ryan – CEO of Prudential Financial *Bill Sweeney (CEO), Bill Sweeney – CEO of International Foundation for Electoral Systems, former Deputy Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, SPA/BA *Doug Turner – president of DW Turner, Republican candidate in the New Mexico gubernatorial election, 2010, SIS/BA * Marilyn Ware – CEO of American Water (company), American Water, Ambassador of the United States to Finland

Sports, entertainment and media

Reporters and journalists

*Natasha Barrett (television reporter), Natasha Barrett – talk show host and reporter for WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, SOC/BA '00 *Jarrett Bellini – List of humorists, humorist, host of CNN.com video podcast ''News of the Absurd'', SOC '01 *Alisyn Camerota – CNN anchor, SOC/BA '88 *Neil Cavuto – Fox News political commentator, commentator, WCL *Craig Crawford – columnist for ''Congressional Quarterly'' *Steve Daley (journalist), Steve Daley – former national political correspondent for the ''Chicago Tribune'' *Pauline Frederick (journalist), Pauline Frederick – pioneering woman in American journalism; writer for the ''U.S. News & World Report, United States News'' and North American Newspaper Alliance, reporter for American Broadcasting Company, ABC Radio and correspondent for American Broadcasting Company, ABC TV, where in 1946 she was promoted as the first and only woman in television news, BA '30, MA *Steven Goff – sportswriter for '' The Washington Post'', '88 *David Gregory (journalist), David Gregory – ''Meet the Press'' moderator, NBC News, SIS *Florence King – conservative social commentator and writer for the ''National Review'', and best-selling author *Jackie Kucinich - Washington bureau chief for ''The Daily Beast'' and CNN commentator, SOC/BA *Rick Leventhal – former Fox News Channel senior correspondent, SOC/BA '86 *Louis Lomax – first African American television journalist, CAS/MA '44 *

– NBC News and MSNBC military analyst; drug czar under President Bill Clinton; retired US Army General *Ayman Mohyeldin – correspondent for Al Jazeera English *Asra Nomani – Indian-American Muslim journalist, author and feminist, '90 *Tony Perkins (meteorologist), Tony Perkins – weatherman for WTTG in Washington, D.C., SOC/BA '81 *Nicole Petallides – Fox Business Network News presenter, anchor and correspondent, SOC '93 *Peter Plantec – contributing editor to StudioDaily.com New York and VFXWorld.com Hollywood * Emily Rooney – executive producer, ABC News' ''ABC World News, World News Tonight with Peter Jennings'' *Jeffrey St. Clair – editor of ''CounterPunch'' * Omar Samad – former CNN analyst, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada *Antoine Sanfuentes – vice president and managing editor for CNN's Washington Bureau, CAS/BA '90 *Steve Scully – host, political editor, and senior producer of C-SPAN's ''Washington Journal'' *Tom Shales – ''The Washington Post'' TV critic; 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism recipient, SOC/BA ’67 *Abbi Tatton – Internet reporter for CNN, MA *Cal Thomas – panelist for ''Fox News Watch'' on Fox News Channel *

– ''The Washington Post'' film critic, White House speechwriter for President Barack Obama, SOC/BA ’80 *Rohit Vyas – first and longest serving Indian American journalist *Brian Wilson (news correspondent), Brian Wilson – anchor reporter for Fox News Channel, Fox News, SOC/MA *Tara Palmeri – Politico reporter and columnist; American Broadcasting Company, ABC contributor *Cecilia Vega (anchor), Cecilia Vega – ABC anchor and White House correspondent, SOC/BA '99. *Trey Yingst – foreign correspondent for Fox News SOC/BA '16 *Susan Zirinsky – CBS News president

Cinema, television, radio

*Caroline Aaron – actress and producer *Alex Albrecht – co-host of Revision3's ''Diggnation'', former host of ''The Screen Savers'' on G4techTV *Aamir Ali – Indian television actor, BA *Bryan Callen – actor and comedian, original cast of comedians on the sketch comedy television series, ''MADtv'', CAS *Ruth Sacks Caplin – screenwriter of ''Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont'', master's of counseling and therapy 1977 *Elizabeth Chomko, actress, director and screenwriter (''What They Had''), BA 2004 *Bob Edwards – radio host and award-winning journalist; host of ''The Bob Edwards Show''; former host of NPR's ''All Things Considered'' *Hallie Eisenberg – the "Pepsi" Girl and actress in ''Paulie'', SIS '14 *America Ferrera – actress *Jamie Fly - President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, SIS/BA * Bo Gritz – radio host; United States Army Special Forces officer during the Vietnam War *Gale Harold – actor, Showtime (TV network), Showtime's ''Queer as Folk (2000 TV series), Queer as Folk'', Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox's ''Vanished (TV series), Vanished'' (no degree) *Goldie Hawn – Academy Award-winning film actress, director and producer (dropped out) *Clark Howard – host of the nationally radio syndication, syndicated radio show, ''The Clark Howard Show'', '76 *Star Jones – television personality, lawyer and author; former co-host of ''The View (U.S. TV series), The View'', former Assistant District Attorney in New York *Barry Josephson – film producer; former music manager, produced ''Enchanted''; nominated for 3 Oscars *Andrea Kalin - Americans, American independent film, independent filmmaker, SPA/BA *Tamika Lamison – actress, writer, director and film producer *Barry Levinson – film director, ''Rain Man'', SOC '67 * Christopher Leggett - film producer *Robert Morton (producer), Robert Morton – Emmy award-winning TV producer, executive producer of ''Late Night with David Letterman'' *Nancy Meyers – film writer and director, SOC '71 *Mike O'Meara – host of ''Mike O'Meara Show''; former co-host of ''Don and Mike Show'', nationally radio syndication, syndicated radio show *Giuliana Rancic – celebrity news personality; co-host, E! network's ''E! News Live'' alongside Ryan Seacrest, SOC/MA *Social Repose - singer, songwriter, and YouTube personality, SOC '12 *Maggie Rodriguez – co-anchor of CBSs ''The Early Show'' *

– first female Yemeni film producer; press and cultural attaché and director of the Yemeni Information Centre at the Embassy of Yemen in Paris, SOC '90 *Benjamin Salisbury – actor, ''The Nanny (TV series), The Nanny'' *Willard Scott – NBC's ''Today (NBC program), The Today Show'' *Judy Sheindlin – former New York family court prosecutor and judge; lawyer; television court show judge, ''Judge Judy'', SPA '63

Sports

*David Aldridge – Turner Network Television, TNT sportscaster and columnist; former journalist for ''The Washington Post'', co-host of ''The Tony Kornheiser Show'' *Nur B. Ali – Pakistani American racing driver in the ARCA Racing Series, SIS/BA '98 *James "Bus" Cook – NFL sports agent *Gabriella Csépe – swimmer at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 Olympics *Jamie Erdahl -- CBS Sports / SEC on CBS sideline reporter *Steve Farr – Major League Baseball, MLB baseball player, reliever on 1985 world champion Kansas City Royals *Josh Glenn – Professional wrestling, professional wrestler, NCAA Wrestling Team Championship, NCAA Champion and three-time All-American *Steven Goldstein (driver), Steven Goldstein – Latin American racing driver, U.S. F2000 National Championship, Formula 2000 champion, KSB/BA *Savannah Graybill - American skeleton racer who competes on the Skeleton World Cup circuit, BA/SOC '10 *Frank Herzog – voice of the Washington Redskins 1979–2004, longtime sportscaster and TV personality in Washington, D.C. *Frederik Hviid – swimmer at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000 Olympics *Andre Ingram – NBA G League/NBA Lakers point guard *Avery John – Trinidadian football (soccer) player, who currently plays as a defender (soccer), defender for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer and the Trinidad and Tobago national football team, KSB '99 *Kurt Kuykendall - retired American goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League (1968–1984), North American Soccer League * Howard Lassoff (1955–2013) - American-Israeli basketball player *Sergio López Miró – swimmer at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 Olympics, placing third in the 200 meters breaststroke *Mark Murphy (safety, born 1955), Mark Murphy – president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, free safety with the Washington Redskins 1977–84, KSB/MBA '83 *Arthur Perry (basketball), Arthur Perry - basketball player and coach *Mohammed bin Sulayem – United Arab Emirates, UAE racing driver champion, SPA/BA *R. V. Truitt – first head lacrosse coach at the University of Maryland; National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, MS '21, PhD '29 *Kermit Washington – NBA basketball player with five teams, Associated Press 1st team All-American 1972–73, first-round draft choice of the Los Angeles Lakers 1973 *Ron Weber – original voice of the Washington Capitals 1974–97, honored in the broadcasters' wing at the Hockey Hall of Fame *Warner Wolf – longtime radio and TV sportscaster in Washington and New York

Law

*Arthur Monty M. Ahalt – Circuit Court Judge,

; founder and CEO of VirtualCourthouse.com, WCL/JD '67 *Terrence Boyle – United States federal judge, Federal Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina; nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (US Senate confirmation vote pending), WCL/JD *Michael Cohen (lawyer), Michael Cohen – lawyer and spokesperson for Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, BA 1988 *Adrian Cronauer – lawyer and former radio disc jockey, inspiration for the film ''Good Morning, Vietnam'' *Charles Bernard Day – United States magistrate judge, Magistrate Judge; withdrawn Obama Administration nominee to the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, WCL/JD *Claude M. Hilton – United States federal judge, federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, WCL/JD '66 *Henry E. Hudson - Federal Judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, BA '69, WCL/JD '74 * Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – Minnesota's 27th Minnesota Attorney General, attorney general and former state senator; son of United States Vice President, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and U.S. Senator Muriel Humphrey *Stephen Latchford – aviation expert and lawyer; diplomat during the administrations of Roosevelt and Truman *Juliane Kokott – Advocate General at the European Court of Justice *Gerald Bruce Lee – United States District Court Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Eastern District of Virginia CAS/BA '73, WCL/JD '76 *Sharon Prost – Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, WCL/JD '79 *Irma S. Raker – Maryland Court of Appeals judge, WCL/JD '72 *Warren M. Silver – Maine Supreme Judicial Court Judge, Justice, WCL '73 *Adam Streisand – trial attorney notable for litigation over prominent celebrity estate (law), estates, WCL/JD *Reggie Walton – Federal Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, WCL/JD '74

Arts, sciences, academia and literature

*Ann Beattie – author and educator; List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1978, 1978 Guggenheim Fellow, CAS/BA '69 *Ilan Berman – Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council *Jon Bowermaster – oceans expert, six-time National Geographic (magazine), National Geographic Expeditions Council grantee, SPA/MA '77 *Jeffrey T. Bury – political scientist and geographer; Professor of Environmental Studies at University of California at Santa Cruz, SIS/MA '95 *Eleanor Coerr – author of ''Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes'', CAS/BA *Robin Davis – historian, rock bassist *Miguel A. De La Torre – Professor of Social Ethics and Latino Studies at Iliff School of Theology, SPA/MA *Amos Eiran - Israeli President of the University of Haifa *John Fahey (musician), John Fahey – guitarist and composer *Murray Feshbach – Cold War era scholar of Demographics of the Soviet Union and later Demographics of Russia; Sovietologist-in-Residence, in the Office of the Secretary General of NATO and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, PhD *Ann B. Friedman, founder Planet Word, a language arts museum in Washington, D.C., '1998 *Adriane Fugh-Berman, professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, CAS/BA *Nick Galifianakis (cartoonist), Nick Galifianakis – cartoonist for ''The Washington Post''; cousin of comedian Zach Galifianakis *Dominic Giampaolo – software engineer, developed the Be File System, CAS *Jeff Gill (academic), Jeff Gill – Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, SPA/PhD '96 *Edmund W. Gordon – scholar of African American studies; Professor of Psychology Emeritus of Yale University and Interim Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University, CAS/MA *Bhante Henepola Gunaratana – Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and philosopher, author of ''Mindfulness in Plain English'' *K. David Harrison – linguist, director of research at the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages *Frederick Hart (sculptor), Frederick Hart – sculptor noted for his public monuments and works in bronze, marble, and clear Acrylic glass, acrylic *Donald Harward – philosopher, University President, President of Bates College *Michael Hendricks – psychologist, suicidologist, and an advocate for the LGBT community *Mimi Herbert – painter and sculptor, CAS/MA '83 *Davoud Hermidas-Bavand – Iranian intellectual; political science, political scientist, SIS/PhD '63 *Solange Hertz - Catholic author *Carol M. Highsmith – photographer and author who donated her life's work of more than 100,000 images to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive for her work *Jesse Itzler – Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 rapper; Vice chairman of Marquis Jet, BA *Ronald Jensen – mathematician active in Europe, working in mathematical logic and set theory, CAS/BA '59 *Robert Kagan – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Scholar and '' The Washington Post'' columnist, PhD *Stephen A. Kent – Sociology, sociologist and researcher of new and alternative religions in Canada; Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, CAS/MA '73 *Cornelius M. Kerwin – president of American University, SPA/BA '71 *Florence King – novelist, BA '57 *Susan Cohn Lackman – composer of contemporary classical music; Professor of Music Theory and Compositional methods, Composition at Rollins College, CAS/MA *Matthew Lesko – author on government grants *Greg Lukianoff – president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education *Arnošt Lustig – Czech author and Holocaust survivor *William Moulton Marston – inventor and cartoonist, invented the polygraph and produced ''Wonder Woman'' *Edith T. Martin – artist and museum professional *Dan Mathews – Senior Vice President of PETA; author of ''Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir'' *Mariana Matthews – Chilean photographer, curator, and visual artist *

– president of

; Director of the USAID Program under President

; Director of

, WCL/JD '69 *Mishlawi – American-Portuguese rapper *Valentine Moghadam – feminist scholar, sociologist, activist, and author; Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Purdue University, CAS/PhD '86 *Severino Montano – Philippine playwright, director, actor and theater organizer; Dean of Instruction of the Philippine Normal University, CAS/MA, SPA/PhD *Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo, Dambisa Moyo – economist and author of The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best seller ''Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is a Better Way for Africa'' CAS/BS, KSB/MBA *Susan B. Neuman – literacy researcher, educator and author; US Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, BA '68 *Asra Nomani – journalist, author, feminist and activist in the Liberal movements within Islam, Muslim reform and Islamic feminism, Islamic feminist movements; Professor of Journalism at Georgetown University, SOC/MA '90 *Lisa Norris – author; Professor of English and Creative Writing at Central Washington University, CAS/MFA *John P. O'Neill – counter-terrorism expert and Special Agent in Charge in the

; head of security of the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center and killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, CAS/BA '74 *Anne-Imelda Radice – art historian and museum director *Kathy Reichs – author and forensic anthropologist CAS/BA '91 *Stanley Renshon – psychoanalyst and Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, SIS/MA *Monica Richards – singer, songwriter, artist and writer known within the gothic subculture *Henry Rollins – vocalist, Black Flag (band), Black Flag (attended in 1979, but did not graduate) *Montserrat Sagot - sociologist *Bruce Schneier – author, leading internet security advisor *Margo Seibert – Drama Desk Award-nominated actress; the original Adrian in ''Rocky the Musical'' on Broadway *Zaid Shakir – Western scholar of Islam, SIS/BA *

– president of the University of Miami, former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services *Alice Sheldon – novelist, BA '59 *Leo Suryadinata – Chinese Indonesian sinology, sinologist; Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore; Director of the Chinese Heritage Center at Nanyang Technological University, PhD *Dana Thomas – author of the ''New York Times'' bestseller ''Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster'' *Ernest Thompson – playwright, actor, Academy Award winner, CAS '71 *George S. Tolley - agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, CAS/BA '47 *Jagath Weerasinghe – Sri Lankan contemporary artist *Tanekeya Word – artist *Joe Chambers - artist *Oliver Reynolds Wulf - chemist and physicist; 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, MS '22 *Virginia Cleaver Bacon - Oregon State Librarian, MA '24

Other

*Maria Butina * Jacksfilms, Jack Douglass - YouTuber *Yannis Pappas - stand-up comedian & podcaster

Notable professors and staff

This is a list of notable AU professors and staff, past and present, listed in alphabetical order.

Politicians and public servants

*Akbar S. Ahmed – former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Kingdom *Anita Alpern – former assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service *Walter K. Andersen – United States Department of State Analyst and specialist in Indian and Indian Ocean affairs *Nancie Caraway – First Lady of Hawaii; political scientist, feminist and author *Joe Clark – Prime Minister of Canada between June 4, 1979, and March 3, 1980 *Max Cleland – former United States Senator from Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia *Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi – Argentinian lawyer, diplomat and judge; International Criminal Court judge *Abe Fortas - former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States *James Fyfe – Police Administrator and lieutenant in the New York Police Department; noted academic in criminology *Edward M. Glick – Public Affairs Officer for the United States Department of State; Professor of Communications *Claudio Grossman – Chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture; Dean Emeritus of the Washington College of Law *Frank William La Rue – UN Special Rapporteur; 2004 Nobel Peace Prize nominee *Robert Lehrman – former White House Chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore; novelist *Allan Lichtman – historian, 2006 candidate for Maryland State Senate, Department of History *Charles Malik – former president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council *Constance Morella – United States Representative from Maryland; Ambassador in Residence for the Women & Politics Institute *Hamid Mowlana – former professor, adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran *Ralph Nader – political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney; five-time candidate for President of the United States, including as Green Party of the United States, Green Party nominee in 1996 United States presidential election, 1996 and 2000 United States presidential election, 2000 *Jackie Norris – political scientist; Chief of Staff under First Lady of the United States, First Lady Michelle Obama *Manfred Nowak – Austrian human rights lawyer; Austrian delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights *Susan Orr – Commissioner of the United States Children's Bureau *Robert Pastor – United States National Security Advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean *Anthony C. E. Quainton – United States Ambassador to the Central African Empire, Kuwait, Nicaragua, and Peru; United States Coordinator for Counterterrorism *Jim Ramstad – United States Representative from Minnesota *Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer – United Nations diplomat; journalist; doctor of laws *Jamie Raskin – United States Representative from Maryland, former Maryland State Senator *Jehan Sadat – First Lady of Egypt; wife of President Anwar Sadat *Sally Shelton-Colby – Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of State for Latin America; United States Ambassador to the Caribbean; Assistant Administrator for USAID; Deputy Secretary General of the OECD; wife of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Colby

Nobel laureates

*Herbert Spencer Gasser – 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine *Robert S. Mulliken – 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fulbright Scholars

*Patricia Aufderheide – film, video and radio academic *Naomi Baron – author; president of the Semiotic Society of America; Professor of Linguistics *C. Stanley Lewis – artist and art professor *Stephen Silvia – professor, School of International Service; affiliate professor, Department of Economics

Guggenheim Fellows

*Patricia Aufderheide – List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1994, 1994 recipient; film, video and radio academic *Naomi Baron – author; president of the Semiotic Society of America; Professor of Linguistics *Robert Griffith (historian), Robert Griffith – List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1980, 1980 recipient; historian; author *Michael Kazin – historian and author *C. Stanley Lewis – artist and art professor *Richard McCann – fiction, nonfiction and poetry writer *Julian Simon – environmental economics academic and author

Pulitzer Prize recipients

*David Garrow – 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Pulitzer Prize for Biography *Henry S. Taylor – 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Other

*Alida Anderson – author and researcher at American University School of Education *Kenneth Anderson (jurist), Kenneth Anderson – research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Professor of Law *George Ayittey – president of the Free Africa Foundation; political economics professor *Robert Bausch – fiction writer, novelist and 2009 Dos Passos Prize in Literature; author of ''Almighty Me,'' released in film as ''Bruce Almighty'' *Upendra Baxi – legal scholar; Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi, Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute and President of the Indian Society of International Law *Betty T. Bennett – Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) and Professor of Literature *Michael Berenbaum – Holocaust scholar, writer and filmmaker; deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust; Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum *Richard E. Berendzen – Department of Physics Professor, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences *Barbara Bergmann – feminist economics academic; professor emerita of economics *Alan Berman – psychologist, psychotherapist, and suicidologist *Julian Bond – Chairman of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP; distinguished professor in residence, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs *David Bosco – journalist; author; assistant professor of international politics *Richard Breitman – Distinguished Professor of History, American University *Norma Broude – Art historian and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita *James B. Conant – President of Harvard University; chemist *Laura DeNardis – author and Internet governance scholar; School of Communications Professor *Elizabeth Eisenstein – author and historian on the French Revolution and early printing *Samih Farsoun – Founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Sharjah and the American University of Kuwait; professor emeritus of sociology *Charles Ferster, Charles B. Ferster – Department of Psychology, behavioral psychologist, co-author with B. F. Skinner of ''Schedules of Reinforcement'' (1957) *Lee Francis – Laguna Pueblo-Anishinaabe poet and educator; Professor and Interim Director of Native American Studies department and the American Studies program *Herbert Fuchs – former member of various communist cells during the 1930s and 1940s; Professor of Law *Mary Garrard – Art historian and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita *Walter Gautschi – mathematician and expert in numerical analysis *Edmund Ghareeb – author and expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues; Professor of Middle East history and politics *Lesley Gill – Latin America researcher and author; Department of Anthropology *Louis W. Goodman – Dean Emeritus of the School of International Service *Ross Gunn – nuclear physicist; Principal in the Manhattan Project and the United States' nuclear submarine program *Jane Hall (journalist), Jane Hall – former ''Los Angeles Times'' reporter, ''Fox News Watch'' panelist; School of Communications *Consuelo Hernández – Latin America scholar and poet; Professor of Latin American Studies *Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy - Dean, American University School of Education *Andrew Holleran – Author, Creative Writing Program *Louis C. Hunter – Professor of economic history; author of ''Steamboats on the Western Rivers, an Economic and Technological History'' *

– Labor union activist and political consultant *Mary King (political scientist), Mary King – political scientist and expert in peace and conflict resolution; Distinguished Scholar, Center of Global Peace *Ellis O. Knox – desegregation champion and Chairman of Education for the NAACP; Professor of Education *Iris Krasnow – School of Communications, Academic Director of Washington Journalism Semester *Stephen G. Kurtz – historian, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy *Charles R. Larson (scholar), Charles R. Larson, US scholar of African literature *Jennifer L. Lawless – political scientist *William Leap – Department Chair for Anthropology *William M. LeoGrande – Dean of the School of Public Affairs and professor in the Department of Government *Charles Lewis (journalist), Charles Lewis – former investigative producer for ABC News and CBS's 60 Minutes; founder of the Center for Public Integrity; School of Communications Professor and Executive Editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop * Andrew Lih – author and new media researcher; professor in the School of Communication *Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker – academic; Professor of Far Eastern Studies *Eugene Lukacs – statistician and Director of Statistics in the Office of Naval Research *Charles F. Marsh – economist; academic; President of Wofford College *Colman McCarthy – journalist; peace activist; columnist for '' The Washington Post'' *Howard E. McCurdy – expert on space policy and NASA; Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History; Professor of Public Affairs *Pamela Nadell – former president of the Association for Jewish Studies (2015 - 2017); Scholar of Jewish-American Women's History; Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History *Candice Nelson (political scientist), Candice Nelson – political theorist, director of the Campaign Management Institute recipient (former professor) *Karen O'Connor (professor), Karen O'Connor – political scientist, Department of Government *Marshall Poe – historian and author on the Grand Duchy of Moscow *Arturo C. Porzecanski – Distinguished Economist-in-Residence; Professor and Program Director of the MA in International Economic Relations; wall street veteran *Jamin Raskin – professor, constitutional law; co-director, Program on Law and Government and Marshall-Brennan Fellows Program; author of ''The Supreme Court versus the American People''; Maryland State Senator *John M. Richardson (professor), John M. Richardson – director of the Center for Teaching Excellence; Department of International Development *Floyd M. Riddick – Department of Political Science *Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr. – United States federal judge *David H. Rosenbloom – distinguished professor, Department of Public Administration & Policy *Abdul Aziz Said – founder of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace; founder and Director of the Center for Global Peace; School of International Service, Department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution; author; professor *Stephen Silvia – expert on the German economy, labor markets and industrial relations; Professor and Director of MA in International Relations online degree *Sally Liberman Smith, Sally Smith – author; special education activist; founder of the Lab School of Washington for students with learning disabilities; Education Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Special Education 1976–2007 *Gregory H. Stanton – president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars *Ben Stein – actor, writer, lawyer and commentator on political and economic issues *Leonard Steinhorn – author; specialist in American politics and culture; Professor of Communications *Charles C. Tansill (1890–1964) – Professor of History at American University from 1921 to 1937 *James A. Thurber – director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies; Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs *Michael Tigar – Defense (legal), criminal defense attorney noted for representing high-profile clients; Professor of Law *Lloyd Ultan (composer), Lloyd Ultan – composer of contemporary classical music; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Music *Sanford J. Ungar – president emeritus of Goucher College and director of Voice of America; Dean of the American University School of Communication *Franak Viacorka – Belarusian political activist, film maker, journalist. *Perry Wallace – trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice and Environmental Policy advisory council of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency; professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers; first African-American varsity basketball player in the Southeastern Conference *Celeste A. Wallander – professor; specialist on military and energy in Russia/Eurasia region; member of the Council on Foreign Relations *Caroline F. Ware – cultural history, cultural historian *Paul R. Williams (professor), Paul R. Williams – Executive Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee; School of International Service and Washington College of Law *Vivian Maria Vasquez, Vivian M. Vasquez, Ph.D. - Multi-award-winning Professor of Education and author of a dozen books. *Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984) — Ukrainian-Canadian historian, Political science, political scientist, Public intellectual

Chancellors and presidents of American University

This is a listing of the chancellors and presidents of American University, listed together with dates of life and service, as well as concurring notable AU events.

Trustees

Notable trustees of American University, past and present: * William Jennings Bryan – United States Secretary of State to President Woodrow Wilson * Michael D. Capellas – president and CEO of MCI Inc., MCI * Dwight D. Eisenhower – 34th president of the United States * Warren G. Harding – 29th president of the United States * Herbert Hoover – 31st president of the United States * Robert P. Kogod – president of the Charles E. Smith real estate corporation * William McKinley – 25th president of the United States * Theodore Roosevelt – 26th president of the United States * Wiley Rutledge – U.S. Supreme Court Justice (WCL) * Harry S. Truman – 33rd president of the United States

References

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