List of Tulane University Law School alumni
Following is a list of notable alumni of the Tulane University Law School.
Academia[edit]
- Winston Chang, 1992–1996 former President of Soochow University (Taiwan); former chairman, Soochow University College of Law
- Twinette Johnson, dean of the David A. Clarke School of Law
- Judith Kelleher Schafer (1942–2014), historian
Business[edit]
- Dean Lombardi, JD, President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings, specialized in labor law
- Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women (NOW)
- Peter Schloss, JD-1985, CEO of Broadwebasia
- Mike Tannenbaum, JD-1995, 47-year-old General Manager of the New York Jets, graduated with Tulane's Sports Law certificate
Government and diplomacy[edit]
- Donald Ensenat, 1973, former Chief of Protocol of the United States
- Stephen Douglas Johnson, J.D., 1988; chief counsel, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, 1995–1997; Bush White House Senior Advisor, office of Federal Housing Oversight, 2001–2003; Washington, D.C. whistle blower
- Clint Williamson, 1986, US Ambassador, United Nations envoy, and international war crimes prosecutor
Judiciary[edit]
- Peter Beer, 1952, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Nannette Jolivette Brown, 1963, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
- Patricia E. Campbell-Smith, 1992, United States Court of Federal Claims
- Edith Brown Clement, JD-1972, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)[citation needed]
- W. Eugene Davis, 1936, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Jimmy Dimos, JD-1963, Judge of 4th Judicial District of Louisiana, 1999–2006, former member and Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives (D)
- John Allen Dixon Jr. (LL.B., 1947), Chief Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court[1]
- Dee D. Drell, 1947, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
- John M. Duhé Jr., 1957, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)[2]
- Eldon E. Fallon, 1939, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
- Martin Feldman, 1957, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
- George M. Foote, 1947, city judge in Alexandria, 1955–1985[3]
- Rufus Edward Foster, LL.B.-1895, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; also served as 11th dean of the Tulane Law School[4]
- Madeline Haikala, 1964, United States District Court, Northern District of Alabama
- George W. Jack, 1898; Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana 1917–1924, based in Shreveport (D)
- Douglas I. Johnstone, J.D., 1966; Justice, Alabama Supreme Court
- Yvette Kane, 1953, United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- F. A. Little Jr., J.D., 1961; retired judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (R)
- Ángel Martín, 1953, former Associate Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court[citation needed]
- Tucker L. Melancon, 1946, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
- Patricia Head Minaldi, 1959, United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana
- Harold A. Moise, 1902, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1948–1958
- Andrew G. T. Moore II, Delaware Supreme Court and founded the Tulane Corporate Law Institute
- Walter Nixon, 1951, impeached federal judge, subject of Nixon v. United States
- William Wiley Norris, III (1936–2016), city, district, and circuit court judge from West Monroe
- William H. Pryor Jr., JD-1987, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit; former Attorney General of Alabama[5]
- L. Felipe Restrepo, 1959, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit[6]
- Wynne Grey Rogers, Louisiana Supreme Court[7]
- Eleni M. Roumel, 2000, United States Court of Federal Claims[8]
- James D. Simon, 1918, Louisiana Supreme Court (D)
- Sarah S. Vance, 1950, United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
- Jeffrey P. Victory, 1971, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court[9]
- Elizabeth Weaver, 1965, Michigan Supreme Court[10]
- Edward Douglass White, 1868, Chief Justice of the United States[11]
- Jacques L. Wiener Jr., 1961, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- John Minor Wisdom, 1929, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (R)
Law[edit]
- Jim Garrison, 1949, New Orleans District Attorney (D), played by Kevin Costner in the Oliver Stone film JFK
- Bolivar Edwards Kemp Jr., 1897, Louisiana state attorney general 1948–1952[12]
- Philip H. Mecom, J.D. former United States Attorney for the district of western Louisiana [13]
- Percy Saint, Louisiana Attorney General (1924–1932) and 23rd District Court Judge (1920–1924)[14]
- Jefferson B. Snyder, district attorney in Madison Parish (D)[15]
Literature[edit]
- Jan Crull Jr., J.D., 1990, filmmaker, Native American rights advocate, attorney, and investment banker
- Whitney Gaskell née Kelly, 1997, novelist
- Robert Harling, movie screenwriter, producer and director[16]
- Jonathan Hensleigh, JD-1985, writer of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Jumanji (1995), and Armageddon (1998)[17][18][19][20][21][22]
Military[edit]
- Whitfield Jack, attended 1930; Shreveport lawyer and officer of the United States Army in World War II and United States Army Reserve, 1946–1966 (D)
Politics[edit]
Governors[edit]
- Newton C. Blanchard, 1870, Governor of Louisiana (D)[23]
- Murphy J. Foster, 1871, Governor of Louisiana (D)[24]
- Alvin Olin King, Governor of Louisiana (D)[25]
- Huey Long, 1915, Governor of Louisiana (D)[26]
- Francis T. Nicholls, Governor of Louisiana (D)[27]
- Jared Y. Sanders Sr., 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)[28]
- Oramel H. Simpson, 1893, Governor of Louisiana (D)[29]
- David C. Treen, 1950, Governor of Louisiana (R)[30]
- Bob Wise, 1975, Governor of West Virginia (D)[31]
U.S. Senators[edit]
- Edwin S. Broussard, 1901, U.S. Senator (D)[32]
- Robert F. Broussard, 1889, U.S. Senator (D)[33]
- Allen J. Ellender, 1913, U.S. Senator (D)[34]
- Randall Lee Gibson, U.S. Senator (D), whom Gibson Hall is named after[35]
- John H. Overton, 1897, U.S. Senator (D)[36][12]
- Luther Strange, 1979, U.S. Senator (R)[37]
- David Vitter, 1988, U.S. Senator (R)[38]
U.S. Representatives[edit]
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- Hale Boggs, 1937, U.S. Representative, 1941–1943, 1946–1972 (D)[39]
- James "Jimmy" Domengeaux, 1931, U.S. Representative (D)[40]
- Bob Livingston, 1968, U.S. Representative, 1977–1999 (R)[41]
- Lewis L. Morgan, 1899, U.S. Representative, 1912–1917 (D)[42]
- James H. Morrison, 1934, U.S. Representative, 1943–1967 (D)[43]
- John Rarick, 1949, U.S. Representative, 1967–1975 (D)[44]
- Cedric Richmond, JD-1998, U.S. Representative, 2011–2021 (D)[45]
- Jared Y. Sanders Jr., 1914, U.S. Representative, 1934–1937, 1941–1943 (D)[46]
State[edit]
- James H. "Jim" Brown, 1966, former Secretary of State of Louisiana (D)
- Buddy Caldwell, 1973, Attorney General of Louisiana (R)
- Tom Capella, 1993, state representative and Jefferson Parish Council member; lawyer in his native New Orleans[47]
- Edward M. Carmouche, Master of Civil Law 1940, chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party 1966–1968; attorney in Lake Charles[48]
- Philip Ciaccio, state representative, New Orleans City Council member, state circuit judge 1982–1998[49]
- William Tharp Cunningham, Law, judge of the 11th Judicial District in Natchitoches and Red River parishes, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives 1908–1912[50]
- Grey Ferris, Mississippi state senator (D)
- Harvey Fields, state senator for Union and Morehouse parishes 1916–1920, former law partner and political ally of Huey Pierce Long Jr. (D)
- Alexi Giannoulias, 2003, former Illinois State Treasurer (D)
- Philip H. Gilbert, district attorney, state district court judge, state senator, lieutenant governor from Assumption Parish (D)
- John Grenier, 1953, Alabama Republican Party figure (R)
- William Pike Hall Sr., attended c. 1920, Louisiana state senator for Caddo and DeSoto parishes, 1924–1932, Shreveport attorney (D)[51]
- Lloyd Hendrick, state senator for Caddo and Desoto parishes 1940–1948[52]
- Samuel Lawrason, LL.D., 1874, state senator from St. Francisville who authored Lawrason Act of 1898 (D)[53]
- Sam A. LeBlanc III, J.D. 1963; state legislator, temporary federal appeals court judge; lawyer in New Orleans; retired to St. Francisville (D)[54]
- Samuel A. LeBlanc I, Law 1908; state legislator, state district and appeals court judge, justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 1949–1954 (D)[55]
- Walt Leger III, Law 2003; state legislator, 2008–2020; Speaker Pro Tempore, Louisiana House of Representstives, 2012–2020, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jean-Paul Morrell, 2004, member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature[56]
- George T. Oubre, member of the Louisiana State Senate from St. James Parish, 1968–1972; lost runoff election to William J. Guste in 1971 for state attorney general[57]
- Jansen Tosh Owen, 2019, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives[58]
- Keith M. Pyburn, 1936, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Caddo Parish 1948–1952 (D)[59]
- Todd Schuler, Maryland State Delegate (D)
- Jasper K. Smith (non-degreed), Louisiana state representative from Caddo Parish 1944–1948 and 1952–1964
- E. L. Stewart, 1897, state representative for Webster Parish 1904–1908[12]
- James Sutterfield, 1981, New Orleans attorney and state legislator, 1970–1972 (R)
- Roy R. Theriot, 1939, Louisiana Comptroller, 1960–1973 (D)
- Jeff R. Thompson, 1995, member of the Louisiana House from Bossier Parish and incoming 9th Judicial District Court judge (R)
- Frank Voelker Jr., chairman of the former Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission[60]
- Arthur C. Watson, 1933, State representative from Natchitoches Parish; chairman of Louisiana Democratic Party 1968–1976 (D)
Local[edit]
- Shaun Abreu, 2018, New York City Council[58]
- Ravinder Bhalla, Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey (2017–)
- Paul Capdevielle, 1868, Mayor of New Orleans, 1900–1904
- Robert Poydasheff, Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (2003–2007) (R)
- T. Semmes Walmsley, 1912, Mayor of New Orleans, 1929–1936 (D)
Other offices[edit]
- Kenneth McClintock, J.D., 1980, 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate, current Secretary of State and Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico
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