Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni
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Following is a list of notable alumni of the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Academia
- Diane Marie Amann, chair in International Law and faculty co-director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law[1]
- Raoul Berger, senior fellow in American Legal History at Harvard University[2]
- George Burditt, adjunct member of the faculty[3]
- G. Marcus Cole, professor of law and associate dean for curriculum at Stanford Law School[4]
- Steven Drizin, lawyer and law professor at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
- Thomas F. Geraghty, associate dean for clinical education, professor of law, and director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at the Northwestern University School of Law[5]
- Kristin E. Hickman, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the Harlan Albert Rogers Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School[6]
- Charles P. Kindregan, Jr., professor at Suffolk University Law School[7]
- James Nabrit Jr., president of Howard University and pioneering civil rights law academic and attorney[8]
- Kate A. Shaw, law professor at University of Pennsylvania Law School and ABC News Supreme Court contributor
- Jonathan Turley, Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School[9]
Advocacy and nonprofits
- Albert Goldman (J.D. 1925), socialist lawyer and political activist, personal lawyer of Leon Trotsky during his stay in Mexico City[10]
- Florence Kelley (1894), social reformer, early advocate for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights; first general secretary of the National Consumers League; helped to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Ada Kepley, advocate for women's suffrage and temperance, first American woman to obtain a law degree[8]
Business
- Matt Ferguson, president and CEO of Careerbuilder.com[11]
- Elbert Henry Gary, co-founder, president, and chairman of United States Steel Corporation; namesake of Gary, Indiana[12]
- Michael Goodkin, quantitative finance entrepreneur and founder of Arbitrage Management Company[13]
- Randy Kaplan, founder of Akamai Technologies[14]
- Marc J. Lane, founder of The Marc J. Lane Wealth Group
- Morgan E. O'Brien, co-founder and former chairman of Nextel[15]
- Jay A. Pritzker, co-founder of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and member of the Pritzker family.[16]
- Frank C. Rathje, founder of the Mutual National Bank of Chicago and president of the American Bankers Association[17]
- Howard A. Tullman, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist
Entertainment
- Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati, television talk show host[18]
Government
- Richard E. Wiley, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission[19]
Judiciary
- Simeon R. Acoba, Jr., Hawaii Supreme Court Justice[20]
- Mary Bartelme, influential pioneer in juvenile justice, the first woman elected judge in Illinois[21]
- Dalveer Bhandari, Judge at the International Court of Justice, 2012–present[22]
- Michael B. Brennan, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
- Rubén Castillo, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[23]
- Edmond E. Chang, U.S. District judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[24]
- Michael P. Drescher, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court since 2026[25][26]
- Joel Flaum, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge[27]
- Arthur Goldberg, former United States Supreme Court Justice, U.S. Secretary of Labor, and Ambassador to the United Nations[28]
- Jim Jones, Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court[29]
- Carole Kamin, first woman to become president of a state bar in the United States; Cook County Circuit Court Judge[8]
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball and U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[30]
- Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota[31]
- Joan Larsen, U.S. Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit[32]
- Joan Lefkow, U.S. District Judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[33]
- José Abad Santos, 5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines[34]
- Michael Y. Scudder, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Judge
- John Paul Stevens, United States Supreme Court Justice[35]
- Suhas Subramanyam, Member of the United States House of Representatives
- Richard Tallman, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Senior Judge[36]
- Horace Ward, challenged racial discrimination at the University of Georgia and judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia[8]
Law
- Ferdinand L. Barnett, Civil Rights activist and first African-American Assistant State's Attorney in Illinois, husband of Ida B. Wells[37]
- Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office Watergate Task Force[38]
- Salem J. Chalabi, first General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal to try Saddam Hussein[39]
- Richard Devine, Cook County Former State's Attorney[40]
- W. Neil Eggleston, White House Counsel under President Barack Obama[41]
- T. Markus Funk, law professor and attorney at Perkins Coie[42]
- Graham T. Perry, second African-American elected for assistant attorney general for the State of Illinois[8]
- Kyle Roche, cryptocurrency attorney
- Richard Terrin, legal advisor to Governor-General of the Philippines, Dwight F. Davis
- Lloyd Garrison Wheeler, first African American admitted to the bar in Illinois[43]
- Celeste Vogel, former legal executive at Credit Suisse, ABB, and Swiss Re.
Literature and journalism
- Ferdinand Lee Barnett, founder of The Chicago Conservator
- Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and co-founder of law firm Stuart G. Shepard and Robert R. McCormick (later Kirkland & Ellis)[44][45]
Politics
- George Wildman Ball (1933), former U.S. Undersecretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations[46]
- Judy Biggert (J.D. 1963), U.S. House of Representatives[47]
- William Jennings Bryan, former U.S. Secretary of State and three-time Democratic nominee for President[48]
- Dale Bumpers, former Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senator[49]
- Alfred Cilella, Illinois state legislator[50]
- Dennis Daugaard, Governor of South Dakota[51]
- William Dawson, first African American to chair a Congressional Committee, beginning in 1949[52]
- Edward Dunne, former Governor of Illinois and former Mayor of Chicago[53]
- Carl R. Feld, Wisconsin State Assembly[54]
- Robert Todd Lincoln (1866),[55] U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom (1889–1893); 35th United States Secretary of War (1881–1885)
- Wendy E. Long, Republican nominee for United States Senate from New York in 2012 and 2016
- Frank Orren Lowden, Governor of Illinois[56]
- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Assembly[57]
- Albert E. Mead, former governor of Washington[58]
- Newton Minow, former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission[59]
- Dawn Clark Netsch, first woman to be elected to a statewide constitutional office in Illinois[60]
- Cecil A. Partee, former City Treasurer of Chicago, Cook County State's Attorney, and president of the Illinois Senate
- J. B. Pritzker, Managing Partner of Pritzker Group Venture Capital, and current Governor of Illinois[61]
- Pat Quinn, former Governor of Illinois[62]
- Tom Railsback, U.S. House of Representatives[63]
- Henry T. Rainey, 40th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives[64]
- Jerry Springer, former mayor of Cincinnati and television talk show host[18]
- Seymour Stedman, Socialist Party of America nominee for vice-president of the United States (and for Mayor of Chicago)[65]
- Halvor Steenerson, former U.S. Representative[66]
- Adlai Stevenson, former Governor of Illinois, two-time Democratic Nominee for President, and Ambassador to the United Nations[67]
- Jim Thompson, former Governor of Illinois[68]
- Charles M. Thomson, former U.S. House of Representatives[69]
- Daniel Walker, former Governor of Illinois[70]
- Harold Washington, first black mayor of Chicago and U.S. House of Representatives[71]
- Paul Ziffren, Democratic National Committee chair
Sports
- Eddie Einhorn, owner of the Chicago White Sox[72]
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first Commissioner of Major League Baseball, for U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[30]
- Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls[73]
- Mark Walter, founder and CEO of Guggenheim Partners and Chairman of Los Angeles Dodgers[74]