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This list of notable Cravath, Swaine & Moore employees catalogs alumni and current employees of the New York City-based law firm in different fields.
Judiciary
Deborah Batts , judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Samuel Blatchford ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
William O. Douglas , chairman of the
Securities and Exchange Commission ,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
John T. Elfvin , judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York nominated by U.S. President
Gerald Ford
Katherine B. Forrest , judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
John Gleeson , judge of the
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Robert McC. Marsh , member of the
New York State Assembly , Justice of the
New York Supreme Court
James Clark McReynolds ,
United States Attorney General ;
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court , nominated by President
Woodrow Wilson
Elijah Miller , judge in Auburn, New York; Auburn firm named partner with
William H. Seward from 1823
Rowan D. Wilson , Chief Judge of the State of New York and the New York Court of Appeals
Government service
Carol Bellamy , Director of the
Peace Corps ;
New York State Senator ; President of
New York City Council
Richard M. Blatchford, Minister Resident to the States of the Church in Rome, Italy in the administration of President
Abraham Lincoln ;
[1] early
Whig Party member
[2]
Raynal C. Bolling , U.S. Army Colonel in
World War I , first high-ranking officer killed in that war
Richard C. Breeden , activist hedge fund manager and former
United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman
Valerie E. Caproni ,
Federal Bureau of Investigation General Counsel
Joseph P. Cotton, Jr. , 8th
Under Secretary of State in
Herbert Hoover 's administration
Kenneth W. Dam , Deputy Secretary of Treasury, 2001–2003; Deputy Secretary of State, 1982–1985
Seymour P. Gilbert , Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in
Woodrow Wilson and
Warren G. Harding 's administrations
Roswell Gilpatric , Deputy Secretary of Defense, 1961–1964; Chairman, Task Force on Nuclear Proliferation, 1964
[3]
H. Struve Hensel , General Counsel in Departments of Navy and Defense 1941-1955; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in
Eisenhower administration
David Kappos , former
Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Roswell Magill , Treasury Department official
Timothy G. Massad , Chairman of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission ; former Assistant Secretary of the
Office of Financial Stability
Carlyle E. Maw , Legal Adviser of the Department of State in
Richard Nixon 's administration
John J. McCloy , former Assistant Secretary of War, former president of the
World Bank , former adviser to several U.S. presidents
G. William Miller ,
Chair of the Federal Reserve 1978-1979;
United States Secretary of the Treasury 1979-1981
Christopher Morgan , U.S. Representative from New York
Basil O'Connor , head of the
March of Dimes
John Porter , New York State Senator 1843-1846
Howard C. Petersen , Assistant Secretary of War under President
Harry S. Truman ; Special Assistant for International Trade Policy under President
John F. Kennedy
Jennifer Rodgers , former
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and
CNN legal analyst
Richard R. Rogers , Military Governor of
Panama Canal Zone under President
Theodore Roosevelt
Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. , New York City Corporation Counsel
William Seward , former U.S. Senator and Governor of New York, and U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents
Abraham Lincoln and
Andrew Johnson
Christine A. Varney , former
U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the
Antitrust Division for the
Obama Administration and
Federal Trade Commissioner for the
Clinton Administration
Dick Zimmer , former
Representative for
New Jersey's 12th congressional district and 2008 candidate for
U.S. Senate
Business
Maxwell Evarts , railroad executive for
Southern Pacific et al.
John P. Fishwick , railroad executive for
Norfolk & Western
Walker D. Hines , railroad executive and second Director General of the
United States Railroad Administration in
Wilson administration
Robert A. Kindler , vice chairman of
Morgan Stanley
Harvey M. Krueger , CEO of
Kuhn, Loeb & Co. , vice chairman of
Lehman Brothers and
Barclays
Russell C. Leffingwell , Chairman of
J.P. Morgan & Co.
Adebayo Ogunlesi , chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners
C. Allen Parker , interim CEO of
Wells Fargo
Adam Silver ,
NBA commissioner
Henry G. Walter Jr. , former CEO of
International Flavors & Fragrances
Bruce Wasserstein , chairman of
Lazard
Devin Wenig , CEO of
eBay
[4]
Julie Sweet , CEO of
Accenture
Legal practice
Thomas D. Barr , litigator who represented
IBM in a 13-year
antitrust case
Christine Beshar , partner, senior counsel in the trusts and estates department
David Boies , litigator who represented
Al Gore in
Bush v. Gore , founding partner of
Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Bruce Bromley , famous litigator in the 1950s and 1960s
Evan Chesler , renowned litigator, presiding partner 2007-2013, first chairman of the firm 2013-2021
[5]
Paul D. Cravath , corporate lawyer, Cravath firm name partner, presiding partner 1906-1940, pioneer of the
Cravath System
Lloyd Cutler , founding partner of
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
William D. Guthrie , business consolidation and reorganization lawyer, initiated and directed litigation and appeal in
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
Robert D. Joffe , antitrust and
corporate law expert, key figure behind the
AOL -
Time Warner merger
Victor Morawetz, author of the first book on modern law, The Law of Private Corporations (1882)
[6]
[7]
Harold Medina, Jr.
John H. Pickering , founding partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
John B. Quinn , founding partner of
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Academia
Anita L. Allen , Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School , Vice Provost for Faculty and professor of philosophy at the
University of Pennsylvania , and member of the
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Jack Balkin , professor at
Yale Law School
Royce de Rohan Barondes , professor at
University of Missouri School of Law
Ronald Chen , Dean at
Rutgers Law School , former Public Advocate of New Jersey
Lawrence A. Cunningham , professor at
George Washington University Law School , editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
John C. Coffee , professor at
Columbia Law School , securities law expert
Gary Francione , animal rights theorist and professor at
Rutgers Law School
John Leitner , the youngest professor in the history of
Seoul National University
[8]
Eben Moglen , professor at
Columbia Law School , founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of the
Software Freedom Law Center
Charles A. Reich , former
Yale Law School professor
Eugene V. Rostow , Dean of
Yale Law School ; Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under
President Lyndon B. Johnson
Publishing and cinema
Thomas Hauser , author
Carrie Kei Heim , writer, attorney and former child actress
Alan J. Hruska , writer, director, and producer in film, theater, and fiction
[9]
[10]
Gerald Posner , journalist
James B. Stewart , journalist and author
George Whipple III , lawyer and society reporter for
NY1
References