List of Yale Law School alumni

University presidents

• Nicholas Allard (1979), president and dean of Brooklyn Law School^[1]
• Michelle Anderson (born 1967), president of Brooklyn College
• Nancy Y. Bekavac (1973), president of Scripps College
• Alfred Benjamin Butts (1930), chancellor of the University of Mississippi
• Gerhard Casper (LL.M. 1962), president of Stanford University
• Hiram Chodosh (1990), president of Claremont McKenna College
• Ronald J. Daniels (1988), president of Johns Hopkins University
• Nora Demleitner (1992), president of St. John's College - Annapolis^[2]
• JoAnne A. Epps (1976), provost, Temple University
• William R. Greiner, president of the University at Buffalo
• Ira Michael Heyman (1956), chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
• Robert Hutchins (1925), president and chancellor of the University of Chicago
• Joseph S. Iseman (1941), acting president of Bennington College
• Thomas H. Jackson (1975), president of University of Rochester
• Marvin Krislov (1988), president of Oberlin College
• Ted Landsmark (1973), president of the Boston Architectural College
• Frederick M. Lawrence (1980), president of Brandeis University
• Edward H. Levi (1938), president of the University of Chicago
• Wallace Loh, president of the University of Maryland, College Park
• Linda Lorimer, vice president of Yale University; president of Randolph-Macon Woman's College
• Cyrus Northrop, president of the University of Minnesota
• Russell K. Osgood (1974), president of Grinnell College, dean of Cornell Law School, and dean of Washington University School of Law
• Ariel Porat (1990), president of Tel Aviv University
• Robert Prichard (LL.M. 1976), president of the University of Toronto
• Wendell Pritchett, chancellor of Rutgers University–Camden, provost of the University of Pennsylvania
• Michael H. Schill (1984), president of the University of Oregon
• Clayton Spencer (1985), president of Bates College
• Stephen Joel Trachtenberg (1962), president of George Washington University
• Louis Vogel (LL.M. 1982), president of Panthéon-Assas University
• Joan Wexler, president and dean of Brooklyn Law School

Law school deans

• T. Alexander Aleinikoff (1977), dean of Georgetown University Law Center
• Mark C. Alexander, dean of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
• Michelle Anderson (1994), dean of City University of New York Law School
• Evan Caminker (1986), dean of the University of Michigan Law School
• Nora Demleitner (1992), dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
• John Hart Ely (1963), dean of Stanford Law School
• JoAnne A. Epps (1976), dean of Temple Law School
• Sarah Harding, dean of Schulich School of Law
• Robert Klonoff (1979), dean of Lewis & Clark Law School
• Anthony T. Kronman (1975), dean of Yale Law School
• Saul Levmore (1980), dean of the University of Chicago Law School
• Paul Mahoney (1984), dean of the University of Virginia School of Law
• Earl F. Martin (LL.M. 1996), dean of Gonzaga University School of Law
• Michael Meltsner (JD 1960), dean of Northeastern University School of Law
• Martha Minow (1979), dean of Harvard Law School
• Jennifer Mnookin (1995), dean of UCLA Law School
• Russell D. Niles (LL.M. 1931), dean of New York University School of Law
• Louis H. Pollak (1943), dean of Yale Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School
• Robert Post (1977), dean of Yale Law School
• Norman Redlich (1950), dean of New York University School of Law
• Richard Revesz (1983), dean of New York University School of Law
• Cristina M. Rodríguez (2000), dean of Yale Law School
• Michael H. Schill (1984), dean of UCLA Law School and University of Chicago Law School
• David Schizer (1993), dean of Columbia Law School
• Aviam Soifer (1972), dean of the William S. Richardson School of Law^[3]
• William Treanor (1985), dean of Georgetown University Law Center
• Frans Vanistendael (LL.M.), dean of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Kevin K. Washburn (1993), dean of the University of New Mexico School of Law

Legal scholars

Criminal law

• Barbara Babcock (1963), professor at Stanford Law School
• Alan Dershowitz (1962), professor at Harvard Law School
• Don Kates, professor at Saint Louis University School of Law
• Mark Osler (1990), professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law^[5] clemency advocate,^[6] and critic of capital punishment

Civil and human rights law

• David D. Cole (1984), professor at Georgetown University Law Center
• Lani Guinier (1974), professor at Harvard Law School; the first tenured female African–American professor at Harvard Law School
• Christof Heyns (LL.M.), professor at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa
• Randall Kennedy (1982), professor at Harvard Law School
• Andrew Koppelman (1989), professor at Northwestern University
• Catharine MacKinnon (1977), professor at the University of Michigan Law School
• Tobias Barrington Wolff (1997), professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Intellectual property

• Ryan Abbott, professor at the University of Surrey School of Law
• Lori Andrews, professor at Chicago–Kent College of Law
• Susan P. Crawford, professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
• Lawrence Lessig, professor at Harvard Law School and professor at Stanford Law School, where he founded the Center for Internet and Society
• Eben Moglen (1985), professor at Columbia Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center

Other scholars

• Peter Berkowitz, professor of political science at Harvard University
• Scott Boorman (1978), professor of sociology at Yale University
• Lawrence Douglas (1989), professor at Amherst College
• Henry Louis Gates (did not graduate), professor of history at Harvard University
• Murray Gerstenhaber (1948), mathematician and professor at the University of Pennsylvania
• Austin Sarat (1988), professor of political science at Amherst College
• Ian Shapiro (1987), professor of political science at Yale University
• Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies
• Michael Woodford, professor of economics at Columbia University
• Kyu Ho Youm (M.S.L.), professor of journalism at the University of Oregon

Private sector

• Floyd Abrams (1960), attorney at Cahill Gordon & Reindel
• Douglas Arant (1923), attorney
• Michael F. Armstrong, attorney
• Francis N. Bangs (1847), founding partner of Bangs & Stetson, now Davis, Polk & Wardwell
• Thomas D. Barr (1931–2008), lawyer at Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Bouvier Beale, attorney and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
• Hunter Biden, founding partner of Oldaker, Biden & Belai son of Joe Biden
• David Boies (1966), chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner
• Ralph Cavanagh, environmental attorney and co–director of the air/energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council
• William Coblentz (1947), attorney who played an important role in California politics after World War II
• Julien Davies Cornell, attorney noted for his defense of Ezra Pound
• J. Richardson Dilworth (1942), attorney for the Rockefeller family
• Peter E. Fleming Jr. (1958), criminal defense attorney
• Bob Giuffra (1987), partner with Sullivan & Cromwell
• Charles Halpern (1964), co-founder of the Center for Law and Social Policy
• James Hamilton (1969), assistant chief counsel for the United States Senate Watergate Committee
• Whitfield Jack (1932), attorney inShreveport, Louisiana
• David E. Kendall (1971), attorney who advised Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal and the Impeachment of Bill Clinton
• George Kern (1952), partner of Sullivan & Cromwell
• Henry T. King (1943), prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials
• Arthur Kramer, founding partner of Kramer Levin
• Mark I. Levy (1975), appellate attorney
• Arthur Mag, legal counsel to Harry S. Truman
• Bessie Margolin (1933), labor attorney
• Ann Olivarius (1986), sexual harassment lawyer
• Stephen Shulman (1958), attorney most notable for representing Egil Krogh in the Watergate scandal
• Paul M. Smith (1979), attorney at Jenner & Block
• Louis W. Tompros, lawyer
• Leonard Weinglass (1958), criminal defense attorney and constitutional law advocate
• Arnold M. Zack (1956), notable arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes

U.S. attorneys general

• Mark D. Agrast (1985), Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legislative Affairs of the United States Department of Justice
• Herbert Brownell Jr. (1927), U.S. attorney general^[7]
• Homer Stille Cummings (1893), U.S. attorney general^[8]
• Nicholas Katzenbach (1947), U.S. attorney general^[9]
• Peter Keisler (1985), acting U.S. attorney general^[10]
• Edward H. Levi (1938), U.S. attorney general^[11]
• Wayne MacVeagh (1856), U.S. attorney general^[12]
• Michael B. Mukasey (1967), U.S. attorney general^[13]
• Edwards Pierrepont (1840), U.S. attorney general^[14]
• Alphonso Taft (1838), U.S. attorney general^[15]

U.S. solicitors general

• Drew S. Days, III (1966), U.S. solicitor general
• Walter E. Dellinger III (1966), acting solicitor general
• Neal Katyal (1995), acting solicitor general
• Thomas D. Thacher (did not graduate), U.S. solicitor general
• Seth P. Waxman (1977), U.S. solicitor general

State attorney general

• Rob Bonta (1998), Attorney General of California
• James M. Brown (1967), Oregon Attorney General
• Kimberly B. Cheney (1964), Vermont Attorney General
• Robert E. Cooper Jr. (1983), Tennessee Attorney General
• Robert Del Tufo (1958), New Jersey Attorney General
• Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General of Maryland
• John Wesley Wescott, Attorney General of New Jersey

Other

• * Chesa Boudin (2011), District Attorney of San Francisco
• Lloyd Cutler (1939), White House Counsel
• Tali Farhadian (born 1974 or 1975), US federal prosecutor
• Dawn Johnsen (1986), head the Office of Legal Counsel
• Robert M. Morgenthau (1948), New York County District Attorney
• Jesselyn Radack (1995), ethics adviser to the United States Department of Justice
• Danielle Sassoon (2011), United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York^[16]
• Andrea R. Wood (1998), senior counsel for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court justices

• Samuel Alito (1975), associate justice
• Henry Billings Brown (did not graduate), associate justice
• David Davis (1835), associate justice
• Abe Fortas (1933), associate justice
• Brett Kavanaugh (1990), associate justice
• Sherman Minton (1916), associate justice
• George Shiras Jr. (1853), associate justice
• Sonia Sotomayor (1979), associate justice
• Potter Stewart (1941), associate justice
• Clarence Thomas (1974), associate justice
• Byron White (1946), associate justice

Federal courts of appeals

• Robert P. Anderson (1929), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[26]
• Herschel W. Arant (1915), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[27]
• Edward R. Becker (1957), chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit^[28]
• Duane Benton (1975), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit^[29]
• Stephanos Bibas (1994), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit^[30]
• Wilbur F. Booth (1888), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit^[31]
• José A. Cabranes (1965), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[32]
• Guido Calabresi (1958), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[33]
• Charles Edward Clark (1913), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[34]
• Eric L. Clay (1972), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[35]
• Richard Clifton, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit^[36]
• R. Guy Cole Jr. (1975), chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[37]
• Steven Colloton (1988), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit^[38]
• Richard Cudahy (1955), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit^[39]
• Conrad K. Cyr (1956), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit^[40]
• William A. Fletcher (1975), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Arianna J. Freeman (2007), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Susan P. Graber (1972), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Morton Ira Greenberg (1957), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit^[41]
• Pamela Harris (1990), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[42]
• David Hamilton (1983), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit^[43]
• A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. (1952), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Stephen A. Higginson (1987), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit^[44]
• Carroll C. Hincks, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[45]
• Andrew D. Hurwitz (1972), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit^[46]
• Robert Katzmann (1980), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[47]
• Carolyn Dineen King (1962), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit^[48]
• Kermit Lipez (1967), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit^[49]
• Eunice C. Lee (1996), judge for the U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[50]
• Scott Matheson Jr. (1980), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit^[51]
• William Ernest Miller (1933), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[52]
• Jon O. Newman (1956), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[53]
• Barrington Daniels Parker Jr. (1969), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit,^[54]
• Jill A. Pryor (1988), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
• Robert Raymar (1972), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Stephen Reinhardt (1954), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Roger Robb (1931), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[55]
• Oliver Seth (1940), chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit^[56]
• Richard G. Taranto (1981), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Albert Tate Jr. (1947), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit^[57]
• William H. Timbers, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• William Kneeland Townsend, judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Patricia Wald (1951), chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
• George Thomas Washington (1932), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[58]
• Ralph Winter (1960), judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[59][60]

Federal district courts

• Ronnie Abrams (1993), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• William Acker (1952), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
• Roy Altman (2007), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Cecilia Altonaga (1986), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Harold Baer Jr. (1957), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• David Barlow, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
• James E. Boasberg (1990), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Paul D. Borman (LL.M. 1964), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Howard C. Bratton (1947), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico
• Philip A. Brimmer (1985), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
• Ellen Bree Burns (1923), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Edward N. Cahn (1958), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Charles Hardy Carr (1926), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California and the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Paul Charlton, judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
• Frank C. Damrell Jr. (1964), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. (1966), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire
• Jan E. DuBois (1957), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Warren William Eginton (1951), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• David A. Faber (1967), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
• Eldon E. Fallon (LL.M. 1963), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
• A. Joe Fish (1968), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• Dabney L. Friedrich (1992), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• Jesse M. Furman (1998), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Nina Gershon (1965), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Nancy Gertner (1971), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Gerhard Gesell (1935), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• James Tyrone Giles (1967), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Charles S. Haight Jr. (1955), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Jean Constance Hamilton (LL.M. 1982), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
• A. Andrew Hauk (1942), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Dale Ho, judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York^[61]
• Truman McGill Hobbs (1948), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
• Marvin Katz (1954), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Bruce William Kauffman (1959), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Samuel Pailthorpe King (1940), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
• John A. Kronstadt (1976), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Morris E. Lasker (1941), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Victor Marrero (1968), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Frank Hampton McFadden (1955), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
• Richard Wellington McLaren (1942), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• Arvo Mikkanen (1986), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
• Louis F. Oberdorfer (1946), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
• James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor (1909), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• J. Paul Oetken (1991), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Jill Parrish (1985), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
• James Perry Platt (1875), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Thomas Collier Platt Jr. (1950), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Louis H. Pollak (1948), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Michael Ponsor (1975), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Michael Shea (1993), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Oliver Perry Shiras (1856), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
• Dominic J. Squatrito (1965), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Leonard P. Stark (1996), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• Edwin DeHaven Steel Jr. (1931), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• Sidney Stein (1969), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Richard J. Sullivan (1990), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Robert W. Sweet (1948), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Robert Taylor (1924), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
• Charles Henry Tenney (1936), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Edwin Stark Thomas (1895), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Alvin Thompson (1978), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• Myron H. Thompson (1972), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama
• Stefan R. Underhill (1982), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut
• William H. Walls (1957), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Henry Travillion Wingate (1972), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
• Gregory Howard Woods (1995), judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; general counsel of the United States Department of Energy
• Caleb Merrill Wright (1933), chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• William H. Yohn Jr. (1960), judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Robert Carmine Zampano (1954), judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Other U.S. courts

• Gary S. Katzmann (1979), judge for the United States Court of International Trade
• J. Rich Leonard (1976), U.S. Bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of North Carolina
• Albert Levitt (1923), judge for the District Court of the Virgin Islands
• Lyman E. Munson (1851), justice of the Territorial Montana Supreme Court^[62][63]
• William Josiah Tilson (1896, LL.M. 1897), judge for the United States Court of International Trade

State judges

• Theo Angelis (1999), associate justice of the Washington Supreme Court^[64][65]
• Christopher L. Avery (1897), associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court^[66]
• William B. Chandler III, chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
• John M. Comley (1920), associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court^[67][68]
• Rick Haselton, chief judge, Oregon Court of Appeals
• Ernest A. Inglis, chief justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
• Jeffrey W. Johnson (1985), judge, California Court of Appeal
• Leondra Kruger (2001), associate justice, California Supreme Court
• Hans A. Linde (1966), justice, Oregon Supreme Court; correspondent for CBS Evening News
• Goodwin Liu (1998), associate justice, California Supreme Court
• William M. Maltbie (1905), chief justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
• Monica Márquez (1997), associate justice, Colorado Supreme Court
• Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Marshall F. McComb (1919), associate justice, California Supreme Court
• Walter Myers Jr. (1938), associate justice, Indiana Supreme Court
• George W. Wheeler (1883), chief justice, Connecticut Supreme Court
• J. Craig Wright (1954), associate justice, Ohio Supreme Court

Local courts

• Jane Bolin (1931), judge for the New York City Domestic Relations Court; the first African–American woman to serve as a judge in the United States

Non-United States judicial figures

• Luís Roberto Barroso (LL.M. 1989), judge for the Supreme Court of Brazil
• Leo Barry (LL.M. 1968), justice for the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Daryl Dawson (LL.M. 1956), justice of the High Court of Australia
• Todd Ducharme (LL.M. 1991), Ontario Superior Court of Justice
• Enrique Fernando (1948), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• Stephan Harbarth (LL.M. 2000), president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
• Rosalyn Higgins (J.S.D. 1962), English judge and president of the International Court of Justice
• Philip Jessup (1924), judge for the International Court of Justice
• Gérard La Forest (LL.M. 1965), Puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Johnnie Lewis (LL.M. 1971), Chief Justice of Liberia
• Cecilia Muñoz-Palma (LL.M. 1954), first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the Philippines
• Shigeru Oda (J.S.D. 1953), Japanese judge for the International Court of Justice
• Ksenija Turkoviç, Croatian judge at the European Court of Human Rights

U.S. presidents

• Bill Clinton (1973), president of the United States^[72]
• Gerald Ford (1941), president of the United States

U.S. vice presidents

• JD Vance (2013), vice president of the United States^[73]

U.S. cabinet

• Daniel P. Driscoll (2014), Secretary of the Army
• Clifford Alexander Jr. (1958), Secretary of the Army
• Alex Azar (1991), Secretary of Health and Human Services
• John Bryson (1969), Secretary of Commerce
• Hillary Clinton (1973), United States Secretary of State
• Richard Danzig (1971), Secretary of the Navy
• Henry H. Fowler (1932), Secretary of the Treasury
• Gordon Gray (1933), Secretary of the Army
• Carla Anderson Hills (1958),Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• John King Jr., United States Secretary of Education^[74]
• Victor H. Metcalf (1876), United States Department of Commerce and Labor, Secretary of the Navy
• Gina Raimondo (1998), Secretary of Commerce
• Robert Reich (1973), Secretary of Labor
• Stanley Rogers Resor (1942), Secretary of the Army
• Robert Rubin (1964), Secretary of the Treasury
• Gene Sperling (1985), Director of the National Economic Council
• Alphonso Taft (1838), Secretary of War
• Cyrus Vance (1942), Secretary of State
• Christopher A. Wray (1992), Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation^[75]
• Eugene M. Zuckert (1936), Secretary of the Air Force
• Jake Sullivan (2003), National Security Advisor^[76]

U.S. Senate

• Raymond E. Baldwin (1921), U.S. Senator from Connecticut^[77]
• Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1893), U.S. Senator from Delaware^[78]
• Judah P. Benjamin (did not graduate), U.S. Senator from Louisiana, Secretary of State of the Confederate States
• Michael Bennet (1993), U.S. Senator from Colorado^[79]
• Richard Blumenthal (1973), U.S. Senator from Connecticut^[80]
• Cory Booker (1997), U.S. Senator from New Jersey, mayor of Newark, New Jersey
• James L. Buckley (1950), U.S. Senator from New York^[81]
• Hillary Clinton (1973), U.S. Senator from New York^[82]
• Chris Coons (1992), U.S. Senator from Delaware^[83]
• John A. Danaher (1922), U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• John Danforth (1961), U.S. Senator from Missouri^[84]
• David Davis (1835), U.S. Senator from Illinois^[85]
• Thomas J. Dodd (1933), U.S. Senator from Connecticut^[86]
• Peter H. Dominick (1940), U.S. Senator from Colorado^[87]
• Charles Goodell (1951), U.S. Senator from New York^[88]
• Gary Hart (1964), U.S. Senator from Colorado^[89]
• Josh Hawley (2006), U.S. Senator from Missouri
• Estes Kefauver (1927), U.S. Senator from Tennessee
• Alfred B. Kittredge, U.S. Senator from South Dakota^[90]
• Joseph Lieberman (1967), U.S. Senator from Connecticut^[91]
• Augustine Lonergan (1902), U.S. Senator from Connecticut^[92]
• Brien McMahon (1927), U.S. Senator from Connecticut
• Trusten Polk (1831), U.S. Senator from Missouri^[93]
• Julius Rockwell (1826), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts^[94]
• Arlen Specter (1956), U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania^[95]
• Paul Tsongas (1967), U.S. Senator from Massachusetts^[96]
• Harris Wofford (1954), U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania^[97]

U.S. House of Representatives

• Lewis Beach (1856), U.S. representative from New York^[98]
• Carroll L. Beedy (1906), U.S. representative from Maine^[99]
• Jackson Edward Betts (1929), U.S. representative from Ohio^[100]
• Jonathan Brewster Bingham (1939), U.S. representative from New York^[101]
• Clay Stone Briggs (1899), U.S. representative from Texas^[102]
• C. Pope Caldwell (1899), U.S. representative from New York^[103]
• Charles T. Canady (1979), U.S. representative from Florida^[104]
• James Colgate Cleveland (1948), U.S. representative from New Hampshire^[105]
• Thomas C. Coffin, U.S. representative from Idaho^[106]
• Sam Coppersmith (1982), U.S. representative from Arizona^[107]
• Albert W. Cretella (1921), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[108]
• Peter Deutsch (1982), U.S. representative from Florida^[109]
• Allen Ertel (1965), U.S. representative from Pennsylvania^[110]
• Elizabeth Esty (1985), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[111]
• Richard P. Freeman (1894), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[112]
• Peter Frelinghuysen Jr. (1941), U.S. representative from New Jersey^[113]
• Foster Furcolo (1936), U.S. representative from Massachusetts^[114]
• Edwin W. Higgins (1897), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[115]
• Peter Hoagland (1968), U.S. representative from Nebraska^[116]
• Colin M. Ingersoll, U.S. representative from Connecticut^[117]
• Donald J. Irwin (1954), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[118]
• Stephen Wright Kellogg (1848), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[119]
• Ro Khanna (2001), U.S. representative from California^[120]
• Kevin Kiley (2012), U.S. representative from California
• Franklin F. Korell (did not graduate), U.S. representative from Oregon^[121]
• William Lemke, U.S. representative from North Dakota^[122]
• John Lindsay (1948), U.S. representative from New York^[123]
• Dwight Loomis (1847), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[124]
• Allard K. Lowenstein (1954), U.S. representative from New York^[125]
• John Miller (1964), U.S. representative from Washington^[126]
• Bruce Morrison (1973), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[127]
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (1964), U.S. representative from Washington, D.C.^[128]
• Miner G. Norton (1880), U.S. representative from Ohio^[129]
• George M. O'Brien (1947), U.S. representative from Illinois^[130]
• Tom Perriello (2001), U.S. representative from Virginia^[131]
• Aaron F. Perry, U.S. representative from Ohio^[132]
• William Scranton, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania^[133]
• David Skaggs (1967), U.S. representative from Colorado^[134]
• J. Joseph Smith (1927), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[135]
• Wint Smith (1922), U.S. representative from Kansas^[136]
• John Spratt (1969), U.S. representative from South Carolina^[137]
• Joseph E. Talbot (1925), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[138]
• Frank Tejeda (LL.M. 1989), U.S. representative from Texas^[139]
• John Q. Tilson (1893), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[140]
• William H. Upson (1845), U.S. representative from Ohio^[141]
• Stuyvesant Wainwright (1947), U.S. representative from New York^[142]
• Mel Watt (1970), U.S. representative from North Carolina^[143]
• Washington F. Willcox (1862), U.S. representative from Connecticut^[144]
• David Wu (1982), U.S. representative from Oregon^[145]
• Dick Zimmer (1969), U.S. representative from New Jersey^[146]

Governors

• Jerry Brown (1964), Governor of California ^[147]
• Foster Furcolo (1936), Governor of Massachusetts^[148]
• Bibb Graves (1896), Governor of Alabama^[149]
• Henry Baldwin Harrison, Governor of Connecticut
• William W. Hoppin, Governor of Rhode Island^[150]
• William J. Mills (1877), Governor of New Mexico Territory
• Gina Raimondo (1998), governor of Rhode Island, United States Secretary of Commerce^[151]
• Raymond P. Shafer (1941), Governor of Pennsylvania^[152]

State politicians

• Peter H. Behr (1940), California State Senate
• Asa S. Bloomer (1916), Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate
• Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1824), Connecticut State Senate, Connecticut House of Representatives
• John A. Busterud (1949), California State Assembly
• Wilson Hart Clark (1845), Connecticut State Senate^[153]
• Nelson Antonio Denis (1980), New York State Assembly
• Matthew Denn (1991), Lieutenant Governor of Delaware
• Tilton E. Doolittle (1846), Speaker of the House of the Connecticut House of Representatives and United States Attorney for the district of Connecticut
• John R. Dunne (1954), New York Senate
• Daniel C. Esty (1986), commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
• Shirley Adele Field, Oregon House of Representatives
• Tom Foley, Pennsylvania Secretary of Labor and Industry
• Ammi Giddings, Connecticut Senate
• Harrison J. Goldin (1960), New York Senate
• Cyrus Habib, 16th lieutenant governor of Washington, Washington State Senate, Washington House of Representatives
• L. W. Housel (1900), Connecticut House of Representatives
• Michael Johnston, Colorado Senate
• Daniel Kagan, Colorado House of Representatives
• Jeff King, Kansas Senate
• Kris Kobach (1995), Secretary of State of Kansas, Kansas Attorney General
• John Latta (1859), Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
• Frederick Lippitt (1946), Rhode Island House of Representatives
• J. Edward Meyer (1961), Connecticut Senate
• Robert W. Naylor (1969), California State Assembly; chair of the California Republican Party
• Charles R. Nesbitt (1947), Attorney General of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Secretary of Energy
• Larry Obhof, President of the Ohio Senate^[154]
• Edwin Archer Randolph, Virginia House of Delegates, Virginia Senate; the first African-American to graduate from the law school
• James Paull, president of the West Virginia Senate
• Jamie Pedersen, majority leader of the Washington State Senate, Washington House of Representatives^[155]
• Charles B. Perry, Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly
• Shirley Adelson Siegel (1941), solicitor general of New York
• Bryan Townsend, Delaware Senate
• Francis W. Treadway (1892), 30th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
• Ralph E. Van Norstrand (1961), minority leader of the Connecticut General Assembly; Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives^[156]
• Anthony Van Wyck (1844), Wisconsin State Senate
• Portia Wu (1998), secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor

Local politics

• Luke Bronin (2006), Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut
• Richard Buery (1997), Deputy Mayor of New York City
• George Williamson Crawford (1903), second black graduate of the Law School and Corporation Counsel of the City of New Haven
• David Hansell (1983), commissioner of the New York City Administration for Children's Services^[157]
• Bruce Harris, mayor of Chatham Borough, New Jersey
• Robert J. Harris, Mayor of Ann Arbor, Michigan
• John Lindsay (1948), Mayor of New York City
• Charles Phelps Taft II (1921), Mayor of Cincinnati
• Caroline Van Zile (2012), Solicitor General of Washington, D.C.

Other U.S. offices

• Meade Alcorn, chairman of the Republican National Committee
• Dillon Anderson (1929), National Security Advisor
• Joe Andrew (1985), chairman of the Democratic National Committee
• Michael Barr (1992), Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions of the United States Department of the Treasury
• Rubén Berríos (1961), Senate of Puerto Rico
• Matthew Berry, General Counsel to the United States House of Representatives
• Alan Bersin (born 1946), United States Attorney for the Southern District of California, California Secretary of Education, Commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, US Department of Homeland Security Secretary for International Affairs, and INTERPOL vice president^[158]
• Boris Bershteyn (2004), Associate White House Counsel
• William L. Borden (1947), executive director of United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
• Beth Brinkmann (1985), Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General
• Antonia Handler Chayes (did not graduate), United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
• William S. Culbertson (1910), president of the United States Tariff Commission
• Michael Harrington, chairman of Democratic Socialists of America
• William Thaddeus Coleman III, General Counsel of the Army
• Brian Deese, director of the National Economic Council
• Mathea Falco (1968), Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
• Roswell Gilpatric (1931), Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Fred T. Goldberg Jr. (1973), Commissioner of Internal Revenue
• Stephen Hadley (1972), National Security Advisor
• Coleman Hicks (1968), General Counsel of the Navy
• Steven S. Honigman (1973), General Counsel of the Navy
• Jerry MacArthur Hultin (1972), Under Secretary of the Navy
• Reed Hundt (1974), chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
• Rashad Hussain (2005), United States Special Envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
• Harrison Loesch (1939), Assistant Secretary of the Interior
• Malcolm A. MacIntyre, United States Under Secretary of the Air Force
• Burke Marshall (1951), United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
• Joe Miller (1995), United States Senate from Alaska
• Roderic L. O'Connor (1947), Assistant Secretary of State for Security and Consular Affairs
• Stephen A. Oxman, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs
• Troy A. Paredes, commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Michael Pertschuk (1959), chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
• Randal Quarles (1984), Under Secretary for Domestic Finance
• Eugene Rostow (1937), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Usha Vance (2013), Second Lady-designate of the United States
• Kevin K. Washburn (1993), Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
• Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury,
• R. James Woolsey Jr. (1968), 16th Director of Central Intelligence
• Adam Yarmolinsky, political appointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations
• David Yassky, New York City Council

Non-United States political figures

International organization figures

• Stavros Lambrinidis (J.D. 1988), European Union Special Representative for Human Rights
• Johan C. Verbeke (LL.M. 1978), head of the United Nations United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
• Josefina Phodaca-Ambrosio (LL.M. 1957), first Asian and only Filipino to become president of Federacion Internacional de Abogadas