List of University of Washington School of Law alumni
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The University of Washington School of Law is a public law school in Seattle, Washington. Following are some of its notable alumni.
- Vern Countryman (1942): professor at Yale Law School; dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law, and professor at Harvard Law School
- Joseph L. Hoffmann (1984): professor at Indiana University Mauer School of Law[1]
- Shon Hopwood (2014): bank robber turned jailhouse lawyer, D.C. Circuit law clerk, and law professor at Georgetown University Law Center
- Lucas A. Powe Jr. (1968): professor at The University of Texas School of Law[2]
Business
- Jeffrey H. Brotman (1967): co-founder of the Costco Wholesale Corporation[3]
- Bill Foley (1974): businessman and owner of the Vegas Golden Knights[4]
Judiciary
Federal
- Stanley Bastian (1983): U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Washington[5]
- William T. Beeks (1932): judge of the U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Washington[6]
- Lloyd Llewellyn Black (1912): U.S. District Court judge for the Western District and then the Eastern District of Washington
- Robert Jensen Bryan (1958): judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington[7]
- Donald R. Colvin (1945): law clerk to William O. Douglas[8]
- Carolyn R. Dimmick (1953): U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Washington; first woman on the Washington Supreme Court[9]
- Samuel M. Driver (1916): chief judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington[10]
- David Estudillo (1999): U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Washington[11]
- Joseph Jerome Farris (1958): judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[12]
- Betty Fletcher (1956): judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[13]
- Frederick G. Hamley (1932): judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Washington Supreme Court justice[14]
- Marco A. Hernandez (1986): U.S. District Court judge for the District of Oregon[15]
- Walter H. Hodge (1919): judge of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska[16]
- Richard A. Jones (1975): U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Washington[17]
- Montgomery O. Koelsch (1935): judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[18]
- Robert Lasnik (1978): chief judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington[19]
- Lucile Lomen (1944): first woman to serve as a law clerk for a U.S. Supreme Court justice[20]
- Ricardo S. Martinez (1980): U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Washington[21]
- Alan A. McDonald (1952): U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Washington[22]
- Walter T. McGovern (1950): U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of Washington
- William Fremming Nielsen (1962): U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Washington[23]
- Jill Otake (1998): U.S. District Court judge for the District of Hawaii[24]
- Charles L. Powell (1925): U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Washington[25]
- Stanley C. Soderland (1939): Supreme Court clerk to William O. Douglas; King County Superior Court judge[26]
- Jack E. Tanner (1955): U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District and Western District of Washington[27]
- Eugene A. Wright (1937): judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[28]
State courts
- Don G. Abel (1919): Washington Supreme Court justice[29]
- Gerry L. Alexander (1964): Washington Supreme Court chief justice[30]
- James A. Andersen (1951): Washington Supreme Court chief justice
- Walter B. Beals (1901): Washington Supreme Court justice[31]
- Bobbe Bridge (1976): Washington Supreme Court justice[32]
- Tom Chambers (1969): Washington Supreme Court justice[33]
- James M. Dolliver (1952): Washington Supreme Court chief justice[34]
- Walter M. French (1901): Washington Supreme Court justice[35]
- William C. Goodloe (1948): Washington Supreme Court chief justice[36]
- Frederick G. Hamley (1932): Washington Supreme Court justice and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit[14]
- Matthew W. Hill (1917): Washington Supreme Court justice[37]
- James M. Johnson (1970): Washington Supreme Court justice[38]
- Joseph A. Mallery (1926): Washington Supreme Court Justice[39]
- Colleen Melody (2009): Washington Supreme Court justice[40]
- Raquel Montoya-Lewis (1995): Washington Supreme Court justice[41]
- Hugh J. Rosellini (1933): chief justice of the Washington Supreme Court
- Richard B. Sanders (1969): Washington Supreme Court justice[42]
- Charles Z. Smith (1955): Washington State Supreme Court justice and the state's first African American justice
Local courts
- Othilia Carroll Beals (1901): justice of the peace in Seattle during World War I
Law
Government
- Jenny Durkan (1985): U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington; first openly gay U.S. attorney;[43] former mayor of Seattle[44]
- Wing Luke: Washington state assistant attorney general and first Asian American to hold elected office in Washington
- Norm Maleng (1966): longtime King County prosecuting attorney[45]
- Mark Sidran (1976): former Seattle city attorney
Private practice
- Vivian Carkeek (1901): noted Seattle attorney[46]
- William H. Gates, Sr. (1950): co-founder of law firm Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) and father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates