The University of Georgia School of Law (Georgia Law) is the law school of the

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. It was founded in 1859, making it among the oldest American university law schools in continuous operation. ''U.S. News & World Report'' consistently ranks the school among the Top Tier Law Schools in the nation. Georgia Law recent graduates include 11 governors, over 110 state and federal legislators, approximately 70 federal judges, and numerous state supreme court justices, practitioners, government officials, ambassadors, trial court judges, academics and law firm principals. Notable recent alumni of Georgia Law include former acting

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, former President Pro Tempore of the U.S. Senate Richard B. Russell Jr., former

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and present Senior Judge of the

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Larry Edmondson, and Ertharin Cousin, named to the ''TIME'' 100 most influential people in the world list and Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's

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History

The law school was founded in 1859. The founding three professors of the university's new law school included one of the United States' first state supreme court chief justices, Joseph Lumpkin, a

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alumnus. Joining him was attorney Thomas Cobb, who was the author of first enacted comprehensive codification of common law in the United States. The third original law professor was William Hull, an honors graduate of the University of Georgia, who had been a United States Attorney and a Solicitor General of the United States. Previously, law courses had been offered as part of the undergraduate curriculum of Franklin College of the university. The first classes of the Lumpkin Law School, as it was originally designated, were held at the law offices of Lumpkin and Cobb at the corner of Prince Avenue and Pulaski Street until 1873. By 1880, the curriculum included courses in equity, parliamentary law, and various commercial law studies such as partnership, insurance, tax, and tariffs. Around 1889, stricter admission standards mandated that students be at least 18 years old. Two years later, an entrance exam had been instituted. The modern method of case law instruction was ushered in during the 1920s. In December 1931, the school was granted membership in the

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. After being housed in various buildings over the years, the law school in 1932 moved into the new Hirsch Hall, named in honor of prominent attorney

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, located on historic North Campus at the University of Georgia. Hirsch Hall, expanded by many thousands of square feet over the years in connected buildings and upgrades, remains the site of law school classrooms and offices, as well as the

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and the Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. A 2012 renovation created almost 4,000 square feet of additional space, including a cafe and enclosed three story courtyard. The law school's four-story, 40,000-square-foot separate addition, Dean Rusk Hall, opened in 1996 near Hirsch Hall. Named for former

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, who was a Georgia Law professor, this building became the new home of the Dean Rusk International Law Center, founded in 1977. Dean Rusk Hall also houses additional classrooms, faculty offices, and library space, and a second law school courtroom, the James E. Butler Courtroom. In the three years up to 2020, the Law School raised an additional $61 million to add to its endowment for scholarships, teaching, clinics, and experiential offerings.

Academics

More than 300 courses, clinics, and seminars are offered at Georgia Law, including business-related law, property-related law, personal rights and public interest law, trial and appellate practice, as well as global practice preparation. Although academics, theory, and legal reasoning are primary, Georgia Law is also ranked A+ and 16th of all ABA law schools for practical training. Degrees awarded include the Juris Doctor (J.D.), the

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(LL.M.) for foreign-trained lawyers, and th
Master in the Study of Law
(M.S.L.) for those who do not want to practice law, but wish to gain an understanding of legal principles and perspectives in order to advance their careers. Students also may choose to pursue interdisciplinary coursework in other University schools and colleges, or to earn one of many dual degrees including a J.D./M.B.A. or LL.M./M.B.A. The law school is accredited by the

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(ABA), is a member of the

, has a chapter of the

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, and is host to two advocacy inns: Lumpkin Inn of Court, one of the earliest American inns of court, and E. Wycliffe Orr Sr. American Inn of Court. Both are modeled after the English inns of court. It is also an academic partner of the

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Admissions

Admission to the school is highly competitive, Georgia Law accepting 18.48% of applicants for the Class entering in 2021. For the class entering in 2022, the ''average'' LSAT score was 168 and the ''average'' undergraduate GPA was 3.87. Georgia Law's 2021 ''average'' selectivity rating was 95 out of a possible maximum of 99, Georgia Law enrolled students being in the top 4% of law school applicants. Nearly 30% of enrolled students self-identify as belonging to historically underrepresented groups. Although grades, degrees earned, and standardized test scores are important, for each applicant the admissions committee primarily considers a mandatory personal admission essay, a mandatory resume detailing the applicant's education, employment, fellowships, skills, honors, awards, community involvement, volunteer work, and other accomplishments, as well as mandatory letters of recommendation. The 2020 first year students came from 25 states, 14 countries, and 97 undergraduate institutions. Of those students, 71% received merit based scholarships.

Student support and faculty to student ratio

Georgia Law's Mentorship Program matches every law student with a faculty member mentor, an upperclassman peer mentor, a Career Development Office counselor, and an alumnus professional mentor. There are just six students for each faculty member.

Law review and journals

Georgia Law students publish four legal journals: ''Georgia Law Review'', ''Journal of Intellectual Property Law'', ''Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law,'' and ''Georgia Criminal Law Review''. These journals have frequently been cited by federal and state courts, as well as textbooks and law reviews. Membership on the journals is limited to students in their second and third years of law school. In addition to the ''Georgia Law Review,'' students publish the online component, the ''Georgia Law Review Posts,'' which features essays by students, practitioners, judges and professors focused primarily on timely legal issues in the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Alexander Campbell King Law Library

The Alexander Campbell King Law Library is the oldest and largest

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in the state of Georgia. In 1967,

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Justice Hugo Black gave the keynote address at an outdoor ceremony to dedicate a modern law library building adjacent to Hirsch Hall. Housing a collection of more than 500,000 digital and print titles, the law library is a founding member of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance and the Law Library Microform Consortium. It has been designated a

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. The library is also one of the United States' Specialized European Documentation Centres, houses the Faculty Writings Collection, the Phillips Nuremberg Trials Collection, the Rare Book Collection, and the J. Alton Hosch Collection, which includes the extensive personal library of Dean Hosch, a member of the law school faculty from 1935 to 1964. The Louis B. Sohn Library on International Relations is housed within the school's Dean Rusk International Law Center. The Sohn library is the extensive international law collection of Louis B. Sohn, who was the Woodruff Chair professor at Georgia Law and previously the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

Clinics and related initiatives

For the 2020–21 academic year, more than 450 Georgia Law students enrolled in clinical and field placement programs for approximately 94,000 hours. There are over 100 organizations, experiential learning and practical training offerings, and other additional education opportunities at Georgia Law. Some of the offerings include, without limitation, the Business Law Clinic, Civil Law Practice Externships, the

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Counsel Externship, the Environmental Law Practicum, the

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Clinic, the Atlanta Semester in Practice, Corsair Law Society (transactions and litigation in major financial markets), the

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Justice Clinic, Labor & Employment Law Association,

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Council,

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& Other

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Organization, the Mediation Clinic, the Community Health Law Partnership (HeLP) Clinic, Business Law Society, American

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Society, the Public Interest Practicum and Fellowships, Health Law Society,

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Law Society,

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Society, the Wilbanks Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation Clinic, Family Law Society, Association of Law and

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, the Criminal Defense Practicum, the Prosecutorial Justice Program, Environmental Law Association,

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Legal Services Clinic, Trial Lawyers Association, Practicum in Animal Welfare Skills,

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s Law Society, Federal Bar Association,

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Society,

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award-winning moot court, mock trial and negotiation programs (for example, in last five years members have been awarded 13 national and ten regional titles), Georgia Law-Leuven Centre Global Governance Summer School in

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, Georgia Law at the

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program, and the Capital Assistance Project. Students in the Appellate Litigation Clinic have briefed and argued before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Ninth,

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, and

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s (with students winning five times in four courts in 2020–2021). The

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Externship initiative provides global practice preparation for many students each summer, for instance past practice preparation included, without limitation, placement with law firms like DLA Piper in

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, GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB in

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, Priti Suri & Associates (PSA) in

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, Siqueira Castro Advogados in

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, and King & Wood Mallesons in China. To educate students in the benefits of public service and the functioning of the judiciary, up to 20 jurists, including

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judges, and trial judges, visit Georgia Law to teach classes.

Costs

The total of tuition and fees for one year at Georgia Law is $11,092 for Georgia residents and $20,471 for non-residents. The total cost of attendance (including the cost of tuition, fees and off-campus living expenses) for the 2020–21 academic year is estimated to be $30,424 for Georgia residents and $39,803 for non-residents. Non-resident students are able to obtain Georgia residency at the beginning of their second year of law school, and available are tuition reduction scholarships that allow non-residents to pay resident tuition for one or two semesters of the first year of Georgia Law. Further, over 70% of the members of the Class of 2021 received merit based scholarships funded by donors. ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked Georgia Law as a top ten law school in having the 4th best salary to debt ratio, while Georgia Law has been ranked #1 as the best value in legal education in the United States by ''the National Jurist'' for the last three straight years. UGA Law Library

Employment

Living Georgia Law graduates work in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. Those who graduated in 2021 are working in 26 states and abroad. According to ABA required disclosures, ''not including'' those choosing to open their own practices, to pursue additional education, etc., 97% of the 2021 graduating class were hired to perform high-value jobs within nine months after graduation, and 92.57% held full-time, long-term, JD-required positions at that point (Georgia Law being the nation's #1 law school for high-value jobs out of 199 ABA-approved schools). For the class graduating in 2021, Georgia Law was ranked 5th of all ABA approved law schools for the highest percentage of graduates obtaining full-time legal jobs requiring bar passage. Georgia Law was among the top law schools that sent the highest percentage of juris doctor graduates into associate positions at the largest 100 law firms in the country. Of 202 students who graduated in 2021 - ''not including'' those who opened their own practices, pursued additional education, etc. - 57 went to law firms with up to 50 attorneys, 54 to law firms with 51 to over 500 attorneys including 25 to law firms of over 500 attorneys, 5 to business organizations, 38 to government and public interest organizations (not including judicial clerkships that 38 graduates obtained) and six to academia. Serving as a judicial clerk is considered one of the most prestigious positions in legal circles, and often opens up wide-ranging opportunities in private practice, high-ranking government work, and academia. Georgia Law has had six alumni serve as judicial clerks for

of the

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since 2005. Based on the 2005-2021 graduating classes, the School of Law was ranked 14th among the nation's law schools for sending its graduates to clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court. For the class of 2021, Georgia Law placed 38 graduates in federal and state court clerkships (for 2020 Georgia Law had a top eight placement rate of all ABA approved law schools in the nation for federal court clerkships).

Rankings

For the 2022 ''Top 50 Law School Rankings,'' of the 199 ABA-approved law schools, Georgia Law was ranked #13. However, according to the study by

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, Georgia Law ranked in the top ten nationally for employment outcomes, while ''

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'' recognized Georgia law as being in the top five law schools offering the best salary-to-debt ratios in the nation. Furthermore, the law school has been ranked #13 of the top best law schools by ''the National Jurist'' as well as by Above the Law. ''U.S. News & World Report's'' 2023 ranking of #29 places Georgia Law in the top tier of all 199 ABA-approved law schools and in the top 13% of those schools, with the school additionally individually ranked in Trial Advocacy, Business/Corporate Law, Clinical Training, Constitutional Law, Contracts/Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Environmental Law, Intellectual Property Law, International Law, Healthcare Law, Legal Writing, and Tax Law. Finally, based on outcome-driven factors such as average indebtedness, bar passage, and employment, Georgia Law has been ranked #1 as the best value in legal education in the United States by ''the National Jurist'' for the last three straight years.

Notable recent alumni

Georgia Law graduates work in all 50 states and more than 60 countries. Among recent Georgia Law graduates are 11 governors, more than 110 state and federal legislators, approximately 70 federal appeals and district court judges, multiple state trial and appeals court judges, numerous state supreme court justices, government officials, ambassadors, law firm principals, as well as other notable practitioners, leaders, authors, and academics. Some recent graduates include the following. *

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* M. Neil Andrews (LL.B. 1956), former special assistant to the Attorney General of the United States, Chief of the Trial Section of the

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, U.S. District Court * Ellis Arnall (LL.B. 1931), attorney, Am Law 200 law firm founder, former

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* R. Stan Baker (J.D. 2004), Judge, U.S. District Court *

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(J.D. 1972), former

, attorney, law firm founder * Timothy Batten (J.D. 1984), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Robert Benham (J.D. 1970), Chief Justice state Supreme Court, first African-American to serve as

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of the Supreme Court of Georgia * Charlie Bethel (J.D. 2001), Justice, state Supreme Court *

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(J.D. 1999), Justice, state Supreme Court * J. P. Boulee (J.D. 1996), former partner Jones Day, Judge, U.S. District Court * Dudley Hollingsworth Bowen Jr. (LL.B. 1965), Judge, U.S. District Court * Mike Bowers (J.D. 1974), state Attorney General * Michael Lawrence Brown (J.D. 1994), Judge, U.S. District Court *

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(J.D. 1952), senior partner at

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* Valerie E. Caproni (J.D. 1979), Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; formerly,

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* Julie E. Carnes (J.D. 1975), Judge,

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(J.D. 1999), state Attorney General *

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(J.D. 1975), investment consultant and state Senator * Jason Carter (J.D. 2004), partner Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, represents the

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, awarded the Stuart Eizenstat Lawyer Award, given by the Anti-Defamation League, for his pro bono work defending

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, state Senator * Thomas Alonzo Clark (LL.B. 1949), Judge,

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(J.D. 1993), Justice, state Supreme Court * Christian A. Coomer (J.D. 1999), Judge, state

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* Ertharin Cousin (J.D. 1982), named to the ''TIME'' 100 most influential people in the world list, Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's

* George W. Darden III (J.D. 1967), former Member U.S. House of Representatives; presidential appointee to the Board of the

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; Advisor on behalf of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs; partner, international law firm

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) * Bertis Downs IV (J.D. 1981),

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* Berry Avant Edenfield (LL.B. 1958), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Newell Edenfield (LL.B. 1938), Senior Judge, U.S. District Court * James Larry Edmondson (J.D. 1971), former Chief Judge, now Senior Judge,

* John J. Ellington (J.D. 1985), Justice, state Supreme Court * Randy Evans (J.D. 1983), attorney, partner

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, former ambassador, member

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Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives The speaker of the United States House of Representatives, commonly known as the speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the U ...

Stacey Evans Stacey Godfrey Evans (born May 5, 1978) is an American politician and Georgia State Representative for District 57 starting in 2021. She received 56.8% of the primary vote, and was uncontested in the general election. A member of the Democratic ...

(J.D. 2003), attorney and State Representative * Duross Fitzpatrick (LL.B. 1966), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Norman S. Fletcher (J.D. 1958), Chief Justice, state Supreme Court * Daisy Hurst Floyd (J.D.1980), attorney,

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

, and law school

Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ...

* Joan T.A. Gabel (J.D. 1993), American

academic An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, ...

and first female

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

of the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

* Elizabeth Gobeil (J.D. 1995), Judge, state

* Stephen S. Goss (J.D. 1986), Judge, state

* James Randal Hall (J.D. 1982), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Frank Hanna III (J.D. 1986), former corporate attorney, now

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

merchant banker A merchant bank is historically a bank dealing in commercial loans and investment. In modern British usage it is the same as an investment bank. Merchant banks were the first modern banks and evolved from medieval merchants who traded in commodi ...

, philanthropist, and

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Knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...

of the

Order of St. Gregory the Great The Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great ( la, Ordo Sancti Gregorii Magni; it, Ordine di San Gregorio Magno) was established on 1 September 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after his election as Pope. The order is one of ...

* Kenneth B. Hodges, III (J.D. 1991), Judge, state

Pierre Howard Pierre DuVinage Howard, Jr. (born February 3, 1943) is an American politician. He served as the ninth Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia. Background Howard was born into a political family, the son of Pierre DuVinage Howard (1912 ...

(J.D. 1974), attorney, Lieutenant Governor, Senator * C. Donald Johnson Jr. (J.D. 1973), attorney,

, former Congressman U.S. House of Representatives; former ambassador at the

Office of the United States Trade Representative The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency of the United States federal government responsible for developing and promoting American trade policy. Part of the Executive Office of the President, it is headed by the ...

; partner,

Francys Johnson Francys Johnson is an American civil rights attorney, pastor and educator. He is in private practice as an attorney in Statesboro, Georgia. He has lectured on constitutional and criminal law, civil rights and race and politics at Savannah State ...

(J.D. 2006),

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life o ...

attorney and academic * Steve C. Jones (J.D. 1987), Judge, U.S. District Court * Dar'shun N. Kendrick (J.D. 2007), attorney, member state

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

Clay D. Land Clay Daniel Land (born March 24, 1960) is a United States district court#Judges, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia. Education and law practice Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, Shreve ...

(J.D. 1985), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Edward H. Lindsey Jr. (J.D. 1984), attorney, law firm founder, partner in

international law firm * Beverly B. Martin (J.D. 1981), Judge,

* Leigh Martin May (J.D. 1998), Judge, U.S. District Court * Christopher J. McFadden (J.D. 1985),

Presiding Judge A chief judge (also known as presiding judge, president judge or principal judge) is the highest-ranking or most senior member of a lower court or circuit court with more than one judge. According to the Federal judiciary of the United States, th ...

, state

* Carla Wong McMillian (J.D. 1998), Justice, state Supreme Court * Peter Meldrim (LL.B. 1969), Judge,

of the

, Commissioner of the

Uniform Law Commission The Uniform Law Commission (ULC), also called the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, is a non-profit, American unincorporated association. Established in 1892, the ULC aims to provide U.S. states (plus the District of C ...

* Harold D. Melton (J.D. 1991), former Chief Justice, state Supreme Court, partner Troutman Pepper * Patrick N. Millsaps (J.D. 2000), attorney and American film producer * Tamika Montgomery–Reeves (J.D. 2006), Justice, state Supreme Court, former Chancellor,

Delaware Court of Chancery The Delaware Court of Chancery is a court of equity in the American state of Delaware. It is one of Delaware's three constitutional courts, along with the Supreme Court and Superior Court. Since 2018, the court consists of seven judges. The chie ...

, former attorney with

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is an American international law firm that specializes in business, securities, and intellectual property law. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the firm provides legal services to technology, life sciences ...

* William Theodore Moore Jr. (J. D. 1964), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Jere Morehead (J.D. 1980),

president President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

of a top 15 Public National University * Lewis Render Morgan (J. D. 1935), Judge,

* Thomas B. Murphy (J.D. 1949), attorney,

Speaker Speaker may refer to: Society and politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly * Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture * A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially: ** I ...

, state

from 1973 to 2002. * Harold Lloyd Murphy (J. D. 1949), Judge, U. S. District CourtFederal Judicial Center, http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1723&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na * Wilbur Dawson Owens Jr. (J.D. 1952), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * Charles A. Pannell Jr. (J.D. 1970), Senior Judge, U.S. District Court *

William Porter Payne William Porter Payne (born October 13, 1947) is the former chairman of Augusta National Golf Club, having served in that position from 2006 to 2017 and overseeing the introduction of the first women to the club's membership rolls. He was Managin ...

(J.D. 1973), former Managing Director of Gleacher & Company, former

Vice Chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the group ...

Bank of America The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The bank ...

and other companies, president and CEO of the Committee for the Olympic Games responsible for bringing the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

to the United States * David Ralston (J.D. 1980), attorney, former member of state Senate,

, state

* William McCrary Ray II (J.D. 1990), Judge, U. S. District Court * Brian M. Rickman (J.D. 2001), Judge, state

* Jack L. Rives (J.D. 1977),

Executive Director Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer of a non-profit organization, government agency or international organization. The title is widely used in North American and European not-for-profit organizations, though ...

and

Chief Operating Officer A chief operating officer or chief operations officer, also called a COO, is one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, composing part of the " C-suite". The COO is usually the second-in-command at the firm, especially if ...

* C. Ashley Royal (J.D. 1974), Judge, U. S. District Court * Richard B. Russell Jr. (LL.B. 1938), U.S. Senator, former

President Pro Tempore of the Senate A president pro tempore or speaker pro tempore is a constitutionally recognized officer of a legislative body who presides over the chamber in the absence of the normal presiding officer. The phrase ''pro tempore'' is Latin "for the time being". ...

* Carl Sanders (J. D. 1947), former

, founder and chairman of the multiple city national law firm of Troutman Sanders * Frank W. "Sonny" Seiler (J.D. 1957), trial attorney, leading role in the longest-standing New York Times Best-Seller, ''

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' is a non-fiction novel by John Berendt. The book, Berendt's first, was published in 1994 and follows the story of an antiques dealer on trial for the murder of a male prostitute. Subtitled ''A Savannah S ...

'' * Tilman E. Self (J.D. 1997), Judge, U.S. District Court * Marvin Herman Shoob (J.D. 1948), Senior Judge, U.S. District Court * Samuel Hale Sibley (LL.B. 1933), Judge,

* Sidney Oslin Smith Jr. (J.D. 1949), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * George T. Smith (J. D. 1948), Justice, state Supreme Court, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * Richard W. Story (J.D. 1978), Judge, U.S. District Court * Herman E. Talmadge (J.D. 1936),

, U.S. Senator * Edward J. Tarver (1991), former state Senator, attorney,

* Robert L. Vining Jr. (J.D. 1959), Chief Judge, then Senior Judge, U.S. District Court * Joe D. Whitley (J.D. 1975), youngest appointed

, then

United States Associate Attorney General The associate attorney general of the United States is the third-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice. The associate attorney general advises and assists the attorney general and the deputy attorney general in policies re ...

, first

for the

United States Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries. Its stated missions involve anti-terr ...

, Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Law School, former partner at

Alston & Bird Alston & Bird LLP is an international law firm with over 800 lawyers in 13 offices throughout the United States, Europe, the UK, and Asia. The firm provides legal services to both domestic and international clients who conduct business worldwide ...

international law firm, present partner at Baker Donelson *

Robert Whitlow Robert Whitlow is a film-maker and a best-selling author of fifteen legal thrillers. He is also a contributor to a short story ''The Rescuers'', a story included in the book ''What The Wind Picked Up'' by The ChiLibris Ring. In 2001, he won th ...

(J.D. 1979),

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attorney, best-selling

author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...

, and

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

* Lisa Godbey Wood (J.D. 1990), Chief Judge, U.S. District Court * William Robert Woodall III (J.D. 1997), member, U.S. House of Representatives * Sally Quillian Yates (J.D. 1986), partner, international law firm King & Spalding, former faculty

Georgetown University Law Center The Georgetown University Law Center (Georgetown Law) is the law school of Georgetown University, a private research university in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1870 and is the largest law school in the United States by enrollment and ...

, former

United States Deputy Attorney General The United States deputy attorney general is the second-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice and oversees the day-to-day operation of the Department. The deputy attorney general acts as attorney general during the ...

and acting

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