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This list of George Washington University alumni includes numerous prominent politicians, including a
recent U.S. Attorney General ,
four current heads of state or government , CEOs of major corporations, scientists, Nobel laureates,
MacArthur fellows ,
Olympic athletes ,
Academy Award and
Golden Globe winners,
royalty , and
Time 100 notables.
William Greenleaf Eliot , founder of
Washington University in St. Louis
Michael K. Young , current president of
Texas A&M University , formerly president of
University of Washington
Scott Cowen , president of
Tulane University
Clinton E. Adams , president of
Rocky Vista University
Myron Augsburger , president of
Eastern Mennonite University
Bill Baroni , Republican State Senator of
New Jersey , former Assemblyman, Adjunct Professor of Law at
Seton Hall University School of Law
George F. Baughman , president of the
New College of Florida
Derek Curtis Bok , president of
Harvard University
Sissela Bok , former professor of philosophy at
Brandeis University , currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies,
Harvard School of Public Health
Hank Brown , president of the
University of Colorado ,
University of Denver , and
University of Northern Colorado
Walter M. Bortz III , president of
Hampden–Sydney College
Curley Byrd , president of
University of Maryland, College Park
Preston Cloud , eminent earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist whose work led to the development of the concept "Cambrian explosion," for which he coined the phrase "eruptive evolution"
Lotus Coffman , president of the
University of Minnesota
Bettye Collier-Thomas , founder of Mary McLeod Bethune Memorial Museum and National Archives for Black Women's History, award-winning Professor of History at
Temple University
Scott Cowen , president of
Tulane University
William Carey Crane , president of
Baylor University
Jack Edmonds , computer scientist, recipient of the
John von Neumann Theory Prize , best known for being one of the most important contributors to the field of combinatorial optimization
William Greenleaf Eliot , founder of
Washington University in St. Louis
John T. Fey , president of the
University of Vermont and the
University of Wyoming
H. Edward Flentje , president of
Emporia State University
Glenda Glover , president of
Tennessee State University
William Halal , aerospace engineer, air force officer, academic, author
Mildred Harnack , literary historian, translator, and resistance fighter in Nazi Germany who was beheaded by the
Gestapo
Andrew Hartman , Professor of History in the College of Arts and Sciences at
Illinois State University
Todd B. Hawley , founder of the
International Space University
Brooks Hays , professor at
Rutgers University , the
University of Massachusetts Amherst , and institute director at
Wake Forest University
Ricardo Jaar , president of the
University of San Pedro Sula
Michael Kammen ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning historian at
Cornell University
Ellyn Kaschak , 1968, emeritus professor of psychology,
Ohio State University
Mark Kennedy , president of
University of North Dakota
Joseph E. B. Lumbard , Islamic scholar and professor at
The American University of Sharjah ; author and general editor of
The Study Quran
Gustavo A. Mellander , president, Passaic College, Mission College, Chancellor, Inter American University, Chancellor West Valley and Mission College District; graduate Dean Emeritus, George Mason University
Gail Mellow , president of
LaGuardia Community College
Cynthia H. Milligan , dean of the College of Business Administration at the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln ; director of
Wells Fargo & Company ,
Gallup Organization , Calvert investment funds, and
W. K. Kellogg Foundation ; daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin
Maurice F. Neufeld , professor emeritus, Cornell University
Martha Lucas Pate , president of
Sweet Briar College
Roger Pilon , vice president of the
Cato Institute
Carolynn Reid-Wallace , president of
Fisk University ;
assistant secretary of education for postsecondary education
Charles P. Roland , historian of the
American Civil War and the
American South , studied at George Washington in 1947 before transferring to
Louisiana State University to obtain his PhD
[1]
John R. Ryan , chancellor of the
State University of New York and
superintendent of United States Naval Academy
Robert Ryland , president of the
University of Richmond
Peter Schweizer , president of
Government Accountability Institute
Portia Holmes Shields , president of
Albany State University , interim president of
Tennessee State University
Gary Sick , Middle East analyst and academic at the
Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs
Morris G. Steen Jr. , president of
North Florida Community College
Thomas B. Symons , president of
University of Maryland, College Park
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn , African American historian
[2]
Henry Holcombe Tucker , president of the
University of Georgia
Alexander Wetmore , 6th
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Ernest L. Wilkinson , president of
Brigham Young University
Arthur Cutts Willard , president of the
University of Illinois system
Gregory H. Williams , president of the
University of Cincinnati and the
City College of New York
John T. Wilson , president of the
University of Chicago
William Lyne Wilson , president of
Washington and Lee University
Meyrav Wurmser ,
Senior Fellow at the
Hudson Institute
Irvin D. Yalom , existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor of psychiatry at
Stanford University
Michael K. Young , president of
Texas A&M University , the
University of Washington , and the
University of Utah
Raul Yzaguirre , activist, lifetime member of the
Council on Foreign Relations , former president and CEO of the
National Council of La Raza , Professor at
Arizona State University , one of the first Hispanic fellows of the Institute of Politics at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University
Melinda Zook , Germaine Seelye Oesterle Professor of History at Purdue University
Lin Jianhai , current
Secretary-General of the
International Monetary Fund
Lee Kun-Hee , former chairman of
Samsung and one of the world's richest people
Kaushik Basu , 11th
Chief Economist of the World Bank
Dina Merrill , billionaire co-founder of
RKO Pictures
Afnan Al-Shuaiby , Secretary General of the Arab British Chamber of Commerce
Chris Anderson , CEO of
3D Robotics
Michael Beckerman , CEO of the
Internet Association
Henry Cisneros , President of
Univision
Nancy Davis , founder and CIO of Quadratic Capital Management
Charlotte M. Farmer, PhD, Chief Operating Officer of Underwriters Laboratories Research Institutes
Mindy Grossman , CEO of
Weight Watchers Intl.
Donna Hrinak , President of
Boeing Latin America
Kenneth Lay , CEO and Chairman of
Enron
Lee Kun-Hee , Chairman of
Samsung Group
Elaine Wynn , co-founder of
Mirage Resorts and
Wynn Resorts
Ellen Malcolm , founder and President of
EMILY's List and
IBM heiress
Van Toffler , President of
Viacom Media Networks
Ed Liddy , Chairman of
Allstate and
AIG
Gerardo I. Lopez , CEO of
Extended Stay America and
AMC Theatres
Nate Morris , co-founder and CEO of
Rubicon Global
Amina Al Rustamani , CEO of the
TECOM Group
William Owens , CEO of
Nortel
Pedro Heilbron , CEO of
Copa Holdings, S.A.
Clayton M. Jones , Chairman of
Rockwell Collins
Anousheh Ansari , CEO of the
X Prize Foundation
Dennis R. Wraase , CEO of
Pepco Holdings
Lawrence R. Goldfarb , CEO of
LRG Capital Group
Christopher J. Wiernicki , CEO of the
American Bureau of Shipping
Joe Rospars , CEO of
Blue State Digital
Douglas Steenland , President & CEO of
Northwest Airlines
Donald Nyrop , President & CEO of
Northwest Airlines
J. R. Claeys , CEO of the
National Association of Government Contractors
Mugo Kibati , CEO of
Telkom Kenya
Sim Shagaya , CEO of
Konga.com
Abby Joseph Cohen , managing director of
Goldman Sachs
Michael Punke , Vice President of
Amazon Web Services
Yasseen Mansour , Egyptian billionaire
Ron Baron , billionaire founder of Baron Capital; paid a record $103 million for an
East Hampton, New York property
Bill Studeman , former vice president and Deputy general manager of Mission Systems at
Northrop Grumman
James C. Boland , former vice chairman of
Ernst & Young ; board member of the
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company ,
Sherwin-Williams ,
Invacare and
DDR Corp.
Jacob Burns (1924), corporate attorney, educator and philanthropist, former board member at
Revlon
General
John T. Chain, Jr. , director at
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
L. Stanley Crane ,
[3]
Member of
National Academy of Engineering ; railroad executive; CEO of
Southern Railway and
Consolidated Rail Corporation
Linda Fisher , former Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; former Vice President of
Monsanto Company ; Vice President of
DuPont
Guilford Glazer , real estate developer
Alvan Macauley , President of
Packard
Stephen G. Haines , organizational theorist and management consultant
Patricia Roberts Harris , former director at
IBM
David Kellermann , acting CFO of
Freddie Mac in early 2009
Gwendolyn King , former Commissioner of the
Social Security Administration ; board member at
Lockheed-Martin ,
Countrywide Financial ,
Pharmacia , and
Monsanto Company
Lester del Rey , founder of
Del Rey Books
Mustafa Koç , President of
Koç Holding
General
Charles C. Krulak , former
Commandant of the United States Marine Corps ; board member at
ConocoPhillips ,
Phelps Dodge ,
Union Pacific ; former executive at
MBNA
Theodore Lerner , billionaire real estate developer
J. Phillip ("Jack") London , author, executive chairman and chairman of the board of CACI International Inc.
Cynthia H. Milligan , dean of the College of Business Administration at the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln , director of
Wells Fargo & Company ,
Gallup Organization , Calvert investment funds, and
W.K. Kellogg Foundation , daughter of United States Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin
Darla Moore (MBA), partner of the private investment firm, Rainwater, Inc.; founder of Palmetto Institute; married to the self-made Texan billionaire
Richard Rainwater
Robert Nichols , president and COO of the
Financial Services Forum , former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
Roy Nouhra , founder and CEO of ASIS boats
Neil Portnow , President of
The Recording Academy
Admiral
Joseph Prueher (1973), former Ambassador to China, former
Commander-in-Chief of the
United States Pacific Command , former
Vice Chief of Naval Operations ; a director of
Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc., the
New York Life Insurance Company ,
Dyncorp International, Inc. and
Fluor Corporation
John F. W. Rogers , Chief of Staff and partner at Goldman Sachs
Scott Kirby , CEO of
United Airlines
Bruce Sewell , former general counsel and senior vice president at
Apple
Sim Shagaya , founder and CEO of
Konga.com
George Uribe , founder and CEO of Guestbooker.com
Kathy J. Warden , president & CEO of
Northrop Grumman
Kaushik Basu ,
Chief Economist of the World Bank
Lin Jianhai , Secretary General of the
International Monetary Fund
David Klein (PhD '71), Governor of the
Bank of Israel
José Julián Sidaoui , Deputy-Governor of the
Bank of Mexico
Rafael Corpus , Chairman of the
Philippine National Bank
Sandra Pianalto , 10th President of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Julia Montgomery Walsh , Director of the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce , first woman to be registered with the
American Stock Exchange
Dan Berger , President and CEO of the
National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions
James A. Runde , Vice-chairman of
Morgan Stanley
Rob Nichols , President & CEO of the
American Bankers Association and the
Financial Services Forum
Marc Tucker , founder and President of the
National Center on Education and the Economy
William P. Barr , former
U.S. Attorney General
David Bernhardt , former
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
William Barr (JD '77), former
U.S. Attorney General (1991–1993; 2019–2020)
David Bernhardt (JD '94), current
U.S. Secretary of the Interior (2019–2021)
Henry Cisneros (DPA '76), 10th
U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
George B. Cortelyou (LLM 1896), 44th
United States Secretary of the Treasury , 1st
United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor
John Foster Dulles (JD 1911), 52nd
U.S. Secretary of State
Mark Esper (PhD '08), former
U.S. Secretary of Defense (2019–2020)
Dan Glickman (JD '69), 26th
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Patricia Roberts Harris (JD '60), 6th
U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development , 1st
U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services
Patrick J. Hurley (JD 1908, LLM 1913), 51st
U.S. Secretary of War
Stephen L. Johnson (MS '76), 11th
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
David M. Kennedy (MA '35, JD '37), 60th
United States Secretary of the Treasury
John Michael McConnell (MPA '86), 2nd
Director of National Intelligence
A. Mitchell Palmer , 50th
U.S. Attorney General
Colin Powell (MBA '71), 65th
U.S. Secretary of State
George W. Romney , 3rd
U.S. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
Susan Schwab (PhD '93), 15th
United States Trade Representative
John W. Snow (JD '67), 73rd
US Secretary of the Treasury
William Lyne Wilson (BA 1860), 37th
U.S. Postmaster General
Mike Young (MBA '91), acting
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (2017)
Senator
Mark Warner , former
Governor of Virginia
George W. Romney , 52nd
Governor of Michigan , father of Senator
Mitt Romney
Robert P. Casey , 42nd
Governor of Pennsylvania
Fenimore Chatterton , 6th
Governor of Wyoming
[4]
Lee E. Emerson , 69th
Governor of Vermont
Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. , 67th
Governor of Vermont
Frank L. Hagaman , 31st
Governor of Kansas
Wilford Bacon Hoggatt , 6th
Governor of the District of Alaska
Harry Hughes , 57th
Governor of Maryland
Blair Lee, III , interim
Governor of Maryland
John Garland Pollard , 51st
Governor of Virginia
Thomas Swann , 33rd
Governor of Maryland
Culbert Olson , 29th
Governor of California
George W. Romney , 43rd
Governor of Michigan
Frederic Hale Parkhurst , 52nd
Governor of Maine
James P. Coleman , 52nd
Governor of Mississippi
Mel Carnahan , 51st
Governor of Missouri
[5]
Jim Folsom , 42nd
Governor of Alabama
Ruby Laffoon , 43rd
Governor of Kentucky
Adam McMullen , 21st
Governor of Nebraska
[6]
Cal Rampton , 11th
Governor of Utah
Grant Sawyer , 21st
Governor of Nevada
Robert E. Smylie , 24th
Governor of Idaho
Frederick Perry Stanton , interim
Governor of the Kansas Territory
William Edwin Safford , 2nd
Military Governor of Guam
Frank Freyer , 14th
Military Governor of Guam
Walter Philip Leber , 15th
Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
Pedro Pierluisi , 14th
Governor of Puerto Rico
Vincent C. Gray , 7th
Mayor of the District of Columbia
Mark Warner , 69th
Governor of Virginia
Daniel Inouye , former
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
Harry Reid ,
Senate Majority Leader during most of the
Obama Presidency
Senator
J. William Fulbright , founder of the
Fulbright Program
Elizabeth Warren , current
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (2013–present)
Mark Warner , current
U.S. Senator from Virginia (2009–present)
Tammy Duckworth , current
U.S. Senator from Illinois (2017–present)
Mike Enzi , former
U.S. Senator from Wyoming (1997–2021)
Daniel Inouye , former
U.S. Senator from Hawaii ,
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
Robert Byrd , former
U.S. Senator from West Virginia ,
President pro tempore of the United States Senate
Howard Sutherland , former
U.S. Senator from West Virginia
Harry Reid , former
U.S. Senator from Nevada ,
Senate Majority Leader
Francis G. Newlands , former
U.S. Senator from Nevada (1903–1917)
J. William Fulbright ,
U.S. Senator from Arkansas , founder of the
Fulbright Program (1945–1974)
Blair Lee I , former
U.S. Senator from Maryland (1914–1917)
John Warner , former
U.S. Senator from Virginia (1979–2009)
William L. Scott , former
U.S. Senator from Virginia
John Foster Dulles , former
U.S. Senator from New York
Gordon J. Humphrey , former
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1979–1990)
Norris Cotton , former
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire (1954–1974)
Hank Brown , former
U.S. Senator from Colorado
William E. Jenner , former
U.S. Senator from Indiana
Daniel Tarbox Jewett - former
U.S. Senator from Missouri
Daniel O. Hastings , former
U.S. Senator from Delaware
Frank Moss , former
U.S. Senator from Utah (1959–1977)
Ernest W. Gibson, Jr. , former
U.S. Senator from Vermont (1940–1941)
Jean Carnahan , former
U.S. Senator from Missouri (2001–2002)
Bennett Champ Clark , former
U.S. Senator from Missouri (1933–1945)
Larry Craig , former
U.S. Senator from Idaho
William A. Harris , former
U.S. Senator from Kansas
Kent Conrad , former
U.S. Senator from North Dakota
Jeremiah Denton , former
U.S. Senator from Alabama (1981–1987)
Thomas Swann , elected to the
United States Senate but instead served as
Governor of Maryland
Mel Carnahan , posthumously elected to the
United States Senate
Rep.
Eric Cantor , former
House Majority Leader and
House Majority Whip
Rep.
Steve Israel , Chair of the
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Sitting U.S. Rep.
Susan Wild of Pennsylvania
Sitting U.S. Rep.
Darren Soto of Florida
Sitting U.S. Rep.
Julia Brownley of California
Former U.S. Rep.
Jason Altmire of Pennsylvania
Former U.S. Rep.
Gil Cisneros of California
Julia Brownley ,
U.S. Representative from California (2013–present)
Darren Soto ,
U.S. Representative from Florida (2017–present)
Neal Dunn ,
U.S. Representative from Florida (2017–present)
Susan Wild ,
U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (2018–present)
William Timmons ,
U.S. Representative from South Carolina (2019–present)
E. Ross Adair , Republican from
Indiana , 1951–1971, later Ambassador to Ethiopia
Jason Altmire (1998), Democrat from
Pennsylvania , 2007–2013
Henry Moore Baker , Republican from
New Hampshire , former state representative, 1893–1897, later a State Representative
Michael D. Barnes , Democrat from
Maryland
Bob Barr (1972), former Republican from
Georgia , 1995–2003,
Henry W. Barry , Republican from
Mississippi , former state senator, 1870–1875
James F. Battin , Republican from
Montana ,
Helen Delich Bentley , Republican from
Maryland , 1985–1995
Michael Bilirakis (1960), Republican from Florida, 1983–2007
Vincente T. Blaz , Republican from
Guam , Brigadier General, 1985–1993
Charles Harrison Brown , Democrat from
Missouri , 1957–1961
Garry E. Brown , Republican from
Michigan , 1967–1979
Hank Brown , Republican from
Colorado , former state senator, 1981–1991, later US Senator
Joel Broyhill , Republican from
Virginia , chairman of the Rules Committee, 1953–1974
Sherman Everett Burroughs , Republican from
New Hampshire , former state representative, 1917–1923
Laurence J. Burton , Republican from
Utah , 1963–1971, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
Robert Byrd (attended), Democrat from
West Virginia , former state delegate and senator, 1953–1959, US Senator
Goodloe Byron , Democrat from
Maryland , former State Delegate and Senator, 1971–1978
John L. Cable , Republican from
Ohio , 1921–1925 and 1929–1933
Gordon Canfield (1926), Republican from
New Jersey , 1941–1961
Eric Cantor (1985), Republican from Virginia, former Chief Deputy Whip, Minority Whip, 2001–2010, House Majority Leader, 2011–2014
Lewis C. Carpenter , Republican from
South Carolina , 1874–1875
Donna Christian-Christensen , Democrat from the
United States Virgin Islands , non-voting delegate, 1997–2015
Gil Cisneros , Republican from California, 2019–2021
William Henry Coleman , Republican from
Pennsylvania , 1915–1917
Frank Coombs , Republican from California, former state assemblyman and speaker, 1901–1903
John Blaisdell Corliss , Republican from
Michigan , 1895–1903
Norris Cotton , Republican from
New Hampshire , 1947–1954, later US Senator
William R. Coyle , Republican from
Pennsylvania , 1925–1927 and 1929–1933
Larry Craig , Republican from
Idaho , 1981–1991, US Senator, 1991–2009
Josiah Crudup , Republican from
North Carolina , 1821–1823
Charles F. Curry, Jr. , Republican from California, 1931–1933
Ewin L. Davis , Democrat from
Tennessee 1919–1933
Martin Dies, Jr. , Democrat from Texas; co-founder and chairman of the
House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities , 1931–1945 and 1953–1959
Donald C. Dobbins , Democrat from
Illinois , 1933–1937
John James Duncan, Jr. , Republican from Tennessee, 1988 to 2019
Clyde T. Ellis , Democrat from
Arkansas , former state representative and Senator, 1939–1943
John James Flynt, Jr. , Democrat from
Georgia , 1954–1979
John H. Foster , Republican from
Indiana , 1905–1909
J. William Fulbright , Democrat from Arkansas, 1943–1945, later US Senator
Ralph A. Gamble , Republican from New York, 1937–1957
Stephen Warfield Gambrill , Democrat from
Maryland , 1924–1938
Dan Glickman (JD 1969), Democrat from
Kansas , former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, 1977–1995, former
United States Secretary of Agriculture
Gilbert Gude , Republican from
Maryland , former state delegate and senator, 1967–1977
Orval H. Hansen , Republican from
Idaho , former state representative and Senator, 1969–1975
William A. Harris , Populist from
Kansas , 1893–1895, later a state senator and then US Senator, 1897–1903, unsuccessful candidate for governor
Franck R. Havenner , Progressive and then Democrat from California, 1937–1941 and 1945–1953
Brooks Hays , Democrat from
Arkansas , 1943–1959
George Huddleston, Jr. , Democrat from
Alabama , 1963–1965
Merlin Hull , Republican from
Wisconsin , former member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly , former Speaker, former Wisconsin
Secretary of State , 1929–1931 and 1935–1953
Henry S. Reuss , Democratic from Wisconsin
William Y. Humphreys , Democrat from
Mississippi , 1923–1925
Daniel Inouye (JD 1952), Democrat from Hawaii 1959–1963, former US Senator
Steve Israel (1985), Democrat from New York, 2001–2017
Sam Johnson , Republican from Texas, 1991 to 2019
Frank M. Karsten , Democrat from
Missouri , 1947–1969
Tom Kindness , Republican from Ohio
Amy Kuhn , state representative in Maine
[7]
Robert W. Levering , Democrat of Ohio
Albert F. Dawson , Republican from Iowa
Tim Mahoney (1983), Democrat from Florida, 2007–2009
Henry May , Democrat from
Maryland , 1853–1855 and 1861–1863
Donald H. McLean , Republican from
New Jersey , 1933–1945
Herbert Alton Meyer , Republican from
Kansas , 1947–1950
Earl C. Michener , Republican from
Michigan , chairman of the Judiciary Committee, 1919–1933 and 1935–1951
Edward Tylor Miller , Republican from
Maryland , 1947–1959, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate
Francis G. Newlands (JD 1869), Democrat from
Nevada , 1893–1903, later US Senator
William H. Parker , Republican from
South Dakota , 1907–1908
Stanford E. Parris , Republican from
Virginia , former State Delegate, 1973–1975 and 1981–1991
James T. Patterson , Republican from
Connecticut , 1947–1959
Pedro Pierluisi , Democratic
Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico to the House, 2009–2017
Nick Rahall , Democrat from
West Virginia , 1977–2015
Jim Ramstad (1973), Republican from
Minnesota , 1991–2009
Harry Reid (JD 1964), Democrat from
Nevada , former lieutenant governor, 1983–1987, former US Senator
John Merriman Reynolds , Republican from
Pennsylvania , 1905–1911; later Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
John M. Robsion, Jr. , Republican from
Kentucky , 1953–1959, unsuccessful candidate for governor
Paul Rogers , Democrat from Florida, 1955–1979
Alvah Sabin , from
Vermont , former state representative and Senator, as well as state secretary of state, 1853–1857
William L. Scott , Republican from
Virginia , 1967–1973, later US Senator
James Shannon , Democrat from
Massachusetts , 1979–1985, later
Massachusetts Attorney General
Joe Skubitz , Republican from
Kansas , 1963–1978
Gladys Noon Spellman , Democrat from
Maryland , 1975–1981
Frederick Perry Stanton , Democrat from Tennessee, chairman of the
Committee on Naval Affairs , chairman of the
Judiciary Committee , 1845–1855, later Governor of Kansas
Cliff Stearns (1963), Republican from Florida, 1989–2013
Howard Sutherland , Republican from
West Virginia , former state senator, 1913–1917
Thomas Swann , Democrat from
Maryland , former governor and mayor of Baltimore, elected to the US Senate but did not serve, 1869–1879
E. S. Johnny Walker , Democrat from
New Mexico , former state representative, 1965–1969
Francis E. Walter , Democrat of
Pennsylvania , chairman of the Committee on Un-American Activities, 1933–63
Elton Watkins , Democrat from
Oregon , 1923–1925, unsuccessful candidate for US Senate and Mayor of Portland
Guilford Wiley Wells , Independent Republican from
Mississippi , former US Attorney, 1875–1877
Robert Wexler (1985), former state senator, Democrat from Florida, 1997–2010
Compton I. White, Jr. , Democrat of
Idaho , 1963–1967
Earle D. Willey , former Delaware Secretary of State, Republican from
Delaware , 1943–1945
William Lyne Wilson , Democrat from
West Virginia , chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means , 1883–1895, later
United States Postmaster General
Jared Moskowitz , Democrat from Florida
Jill Tokuda , Democrat from Hawaii
Erin Houchin , Republican from Indiana
Vincent C. Gray ,
Mayor of Washington, D.C.
Henry Cisneros ,
Mayor of San Antonio and 10th
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Rocky Anderson ,
Mayor of Salt Lake City
David Holt , current
mayor of Oklahoma City
Vincent C. Gray , former
mayor of Washington, D.C.
Walter Nathan Tobriner , former
mayor of Washington, D.C.
Henry B. F. MacFarland , former
mayor of Washington, D.C.
W. M. Holland , former
mayor of Dallas
Adam Rak, current mayor of San Carlos, California
Nick Udall , former
mayor of Phoenix
Henry Cisneros , former
mayor of San Antonio
Harold L. George , former
mayor of Beverly Hills
George W. Guthrie , former
mayor of Pittsburgh
Rocky Anderson , former
mayor of Salt Lake City
William S. Fitzgerald , former
mayor of Cleveland
Frank E. Mann , former
mayor of Alexandria
Leroy S. Bendheim , former
mayor of Alexandria
Franklin P. Backus , former
mayor of Alexandria
Thomas Swann , former
mayor of Baltimore
James Taylor Ellyson , former
mayor of Richmond
Steven L. Abrams , former
mayor of Boca Raton
Dorothy Wilken , former
mayor of Boca Raton
Frank Willey Clancy , former
mayor of Albuquerque
John H. Logie , former
mayor of Grand Rapids
Alex Knopp , former
mayor of Norwalk
Tom Rust , former mayor of
Herndon, Virginia
John Garland Pollard , former
Williamsburg, Virginia
George B. Fitch , former mayor of
Warrenton, Virginia
William Henry Coleman , former mayor of
McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Hector De La Torre , former mayor of
South Gate, California
Skip Priest , former mayor of
Federal Way, Washington
Scott Slifka , former mayor of
West Hartford, Connecticut
Susan Bass Levin , former mayor of
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Elizabeth C. Hoffman , former mayor of
North Tonawanda, New York
Tom Van Horn Moorehead , former mayor of
Zanesville, Ohio
Tom Kindness , former mayor of
Hamilton, Ohio
Gretchen Driskell , former mayor of
Saline, Michigan
Susan W. Kluttz , former mayor of
Salisbury, North Carolina
Kenneth S. Wherry , former mayor of
Pawnee City, Nebraska
Compton I. White Jr. , former mayor of
Clark Fork, Idaho
Robert K. Goodwin , former mayor of
Redfield, Iowa
James L. Wilmeth , former mayor of
Takoma Park, Maryland
William V. Bouic , former mayor of
Rockville, Maryland
Mike Enzi , former mayor of
Gillette, Wyoming
Keith Sebelius , former mayor of
Norton, Kansas
Richard Wallach , former
mayor of Washington, D.C.
Mercedes Schlapp , 2nd
White House Director of Strategic Communications
Eddie Farnsworth , former President pro tempore of the
Arizona Senate
Corey Johnson , former
Speaker of
New York City Council
Dennis Herrera , former
City Attorney of San Francisco
JB McCuskey , current
State Auditor of West Virginia
Tom Bossert ,
Homeland Security Advisor to President Donald Trump
Tony Sayegh , current
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
J. Edgar Hoover , 1st
Director of the FBI
Mark Felt ,
Deep Throat informant during the
Watergate scandal
Bill McGinley ,
White House Cabinet Secretary
Floretta Dukes McKenzie , Superintendent of
District of Columbia Public Schools
Mercedes Schlapp ,
White House Director of Strategic Communications
Russell Vought ,
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Lauren Vaughan ,
Secretary of the District of Columbia
Tony Sayegh ,
United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Carlos Del Toro , current
United States Secretary of the Navy
Aaron D. Ford , current
Attorney General of Nevada
Dennis Herrera , current
City Attorney of San Francisco
Corey Johnson , current
Speaker of
New York City Council
Atif Qarni , current
Virginia Secretary of Education
Dan Maffei , current Commissioner of the
Federal Maritime Commission
Eddie Farnsworth , current President pro tempore of the
Arizona Senate
José R. Rodríguez , current Minority Leader of
Texas Senate
Ram Villivalam , current member of the
Illinois Senate
Caroline Simmons , current member of the
Connecticut Senate
Karl Rhoads , current member of the
Hawaii Senate
Rob Wagner , current member of the
Oregon State Senate
Julie Raque Adams , current member of the
Kentucky Senate
Mari Manoogian , current member of the
Michigan House of Representatives
JB McCuskey , current
State Auditor of West Virginia
Charles Manatt , former Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee
William B. Black Jr. , 16th
Deputy Director of the National Security Agency
Gwendolyn King , former
Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
Frank Harris Hitchcock , former Chairman of the
Republican National Committee
Lewis Deschler , first
Parliamentarian of the United States House of Representatives
Dionel M. Aviles ,
Under Secretary of the Navy , former
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Victoria Clarke , former
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Kathleen Troia McFarland , former Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
B. J. Penn ,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy (2005–2009)
John P. Roth ,
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
Robert F. Hale ,
Under Secretary of Defense
Robert O. Work , 32nd
United States Deputy Secretary of Defense
David O. Cooke , "mayor of
the Pentagon "
Rosel H. Hyde ,
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
Tom Bossert ,
United States Homeland Security Advisor for President
Donald Trump
Charles Colson ,
White House Counsel for President
Richard Nixon
Gregory G. Garre ,
United States Solicitor General
Jack Conway ,
Attorney General of Kentucky
Kevin J. O'Connor , former
United States Associate Attorney General
Diana Josephson ,
Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
Charles James , assistant attorney general and general counsel of
Chevron-Texaco
Catherine M. Russell , chief of staff to
Jill Biden , wife of
Joseph Biden , former associate deputy attorney general
Bradley Schlozman , former head of the
United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and current
US Attorney for the
Western District of Missouri
Alexander Butterfield ,
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
Erin Houchin , member of the
Indiana Senate
Katie Walsh , former
White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Donna Lynne ,
49th Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
Kenneth W. Starr (1968),
United States Solicitor General , and
Independent Counsel during the
Whitewater and
Monica Lewinsky scandals
Ross "Rocky" Anderson (JD 1978), former mayor of
Salt Lake City , Utah
Willie Bailey , Democratic member of the
Mississippi House of Representatives
Gary J. Barczak , former Democratic member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
Bill Baroni , Republican State Senator of
New Jersey , former Assemblyman, Adjunct Professor of Law at
Seton Hall University School of Law
Edward Blackmon Jr. , Democratic member of the
Mississippi House of Representatives
Winston Bryant , former
Attorney General of Arkansas
Charlie Collins ,
Republican member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives for the 84th district
[8]
Roger Cressey , member of the
United States National Security Council
Tim Morrison , member of the
United States National Security Council
M. Jerome Diamond ,
Vermont Attorney General , 1975–1981
[9]
Randall Edwards (MBA 1990),
Oregon State Treasurer
Harland E. Everson , former Democratic member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
Sean Flaherty , Democratic member of the
Maine House of Representatives
Richard A. Flintrop , former Democratic member of the
Wisconsin State Assembly
Hillman Terome Frazier , Democratic state senator of
Mississippi , former state representative
Vivian V. Simpson , first female
Secretary of State of Maryland
Robert J. Garagiola , Democratic member of the
Maryland State Senate
James W. Gilchrist , Democratic member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Bill Guffey , former Democratic member of the
Wyoming House of Representatives
Ana Sol Gutierrez , Democratic member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Murray D. Levy , Democratic member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Christopher B. Shank , Democratic member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Karen S. Montgomery , Democratic member of the
Maryland House of Delegates
Tom Greenwell , first Republican judge of the 319th District Court in
Corpus Christi
[10]
Paul Clinton Harris , Republican former member of the
Virginia House of Delegates
David Holt , Current Mayor of Oklahoma City, OK
Raymond Johnson , Republican former member of the
Wisconsin State Senate
Rod Johnston , Republican former member of the
Wisconsin State Senate
Alex Knopp , eight-term member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives (1987–2001) and two-term mayor of
Norwalk, Connecticut (2001–2005); clinical Lecturer at
Yale Law School (since 2006)
Jared Moskowitz , former member of the
Florida House of Representatives
Gretchen Driskell , former member of the
Michigan House of Representatives
Susan Bass Levin , former Mayor of
Cherry Hill, New Jersey , former Commissioner of the
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs , current deputy executive director of the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Frank E. Mann , former Democratic member of the
Virginia House of Delegates
Jesse Martineau , Democratic member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Kenneth E. Melson , former director of the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Bill Mims , former Republican State Delegate and former member of the
Senate of Virginia , current
Attorney General of Virginia
Daniel J. O'Donnell ,
Democratic member of the
New York State Assembly
Leslie Osterman (1991), Republican member of the
Kansas House of Representatives
John Overington , Republican member of the
West Virginia House of Delegates
Jeffrey Piccola , Republican member of the
Pennsylvania State Senate
Paul G. Pinsky , former Democratic Delegate and current member of the
Maryland State Senate
John Merriman Reynolds , US Representative from Pennsylvania and then Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania
Thomas Davis Rust , Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates
James Shannon , former US Representative and
Massachusetts Attorney General
James Skoufis , Democratic member of
New York State Assembly elected to
State Senate in 2018
Harry A. Slattery , US Under Secretary of the Interior, 1938–39; the
Slattery Report
Darren Soto , Democrat,
Florida House of Representatives
Ben Stevens , former President of the
Alaska State Senate , son of
United States Senator
Ted Stevens
Nick Udall , former mayor of
Phoenix, Arizona , 1948–52, member of the
Udall family
Colin Van Ostern ,
New Hampshire Executive Council member and New Hampshire Gubernatorial candidate
Leo Wardrup , former Republican member of the
Virginia House of Delegates
Mary Margaret Whipple , former Democratic State Delegate and current member of the
Senate of Virginia
Charles W. Colson , chief counsel for US President
Richard Nixon , spent time in prison for his part in the
Watergate scandal
Harry S. Dent, Sr. (JD, 1957), Special Counsel to President
Richard Nixon ; General Counsel to the
Republican National Committee ; father of economist
Harry Dent
Elizabeth B. Drewry (BA, MA), archivist,
National Archives and the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Lori Garver , Deputy
NASA Administrator
Steven M. Goldman , New Jersey State Commissioner of Banking and Insurance
Michael Griffin ,
NASA Administrator
Kenneth R. Harding (1937), former
Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives
Heather Higginbottom , Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy in the administration of
Barack Obama
Leon Jaworski (1926),
Special Prosecutor for the
Watergate hearings
Gwendolyn King , former Commissioner of the
Social Security Administration ; board member at
Lockheed-Martin ,
Countrywide Financial ,
Pharmacia , and
Monsanto Company
Susan Bass Levin , former Mayor of
Cherry Hill, New Jersey , former Commissioner of the
New Jersey Department of Community Affairs , current deputy executive director of the
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Dominic J. Monetta , former deputy director of Defense Research and Engineering (Research and Advanced Technology) at the U.S. Department of Defense, 1991–1993; former director, Office of New Production Reactors, at the United States Department of Energy, 1989–1991
Kenneth P. Moritsugu (M.D. 1971),
Surgeon General of the United States (August 2006–present)
[11]
Robert Nichols , President and COO of the
Financial Services Forum , former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs
Patrick P. O'Carroll , Jr, Inspector General of the
Social Security Administration
Maria Pallante (1990), current U.S.
Register of Copyrights
Marybeth Peters (1971), former U.S. Register of Copyrights
Margaret Milner Richardson ,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue (or IRS Commissioner), head of the
Internal Revenue Service , former partner at
Ernst & Young
Daniel Shagoury (M.A. 1987), member of the
Maine House of Representatives
[12]
Mary Schapiro , former chairwoman of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission , former CEO of the
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority , former chairman and CEO of the
National Association of Securities Dealers , former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, former commissioner on the
Securities and Exchange Commission , currently a director of
Kraft Foods Inc, and
Duke Energy Corporation
James E. Webb (1936), second administrator of
NASA
William Lyne Wilson , 37th
United States Postmaster General , former
Ways and Means chairman in the US House of Representatives
Aldrich Ames , Soviet spy working in the
CIA as a
counter-intelligence officer
Allen Dulles (1920), director of the CIA
James W. McCord, Jr. , former CIA officer, involved in the
Watergate scandal
John A. Rizzo , Acting
General Counsel of the CIA
Bill Studeman , former
Admiral of the
United States Navy , former deputy director of the CIA, former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the
National Security Agency , and former director of
Naval Intelligence
A. Bruce Bielaski , director of the
Bureau of Investigation , predecessor to the FBI
Floyd I. Clarke , former director of the
FBI
Sibel Edmonds , former
FBI translator, founder of the
National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
W. Mark Felt (1940), associate director, FBI;
"Deep Throat" informant
Stanley Finch (JD 1908), first director of the
Bureau of Investigation
L. Patrick Gray , former acting director of the
FBI during the Watergate scandal
J. Edgar Hoover (1916, 1917, 1935), director, FBI
Eric O'Neill (JD 2003),
FBI agent whose work led to the arrest and life imprisonment conviction of
Robert Hanssen
John P. O'Neill , former top anti-
terrorism expert; former assistant director in the Federal Bureau of Investigation; head of security at the
World Trade Center ; died in the
September 11, 2001 attacks
Clyde Tolson , associate director of the FBI, protégé of FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover
Juan Guaidó , acting
President of Venezuela
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović , former
President of Croatia
Syngman Rhee , 1st
President of South Korea
Heads of state and government
Juan Guaidó (MPA '09), disputed
President of Venezuela (2019–present)
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (
F.S. '03), former
President of Croatia (2015–2020)
Faure Gnassingbé (MBA '97), current
President of Togo (2005–present)
[13]
Edward David Burt (BA '01, MS '03), current
Premier of Bermuda (2017–present)
Michael Dunkley (MS '80), 12th
Premier of Bermuda (2014–2017)
Tshering Wangchuk (LLM '03), interim
Prime Minister of Bhutan (2018)
Chimediin Saikhanbileg (LLM '02),
Prime Minister of Mongolia (2014–2016)
Syngman Rhee (BA 1907), 1st
President of South Korea (1948–1960)
Lee Myung-bak (V.S. '99), 17th
President of South Korea (2008–2013)
Chang Dae-whan (MA '76),
Prime Minister of South Korea (2002)
Song Yo Chan (BA '40),
Prime Minister of South Korea (1961–1962)
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi (MEA '83), 21st
Prime Minister of Pakistan (2017–2018)
[14]
Mandé Sidibé (MBA '74), 8th
Prime Minister of Mali (2000–2002)
Mikhail Saakashvili (LLM '94), 3rd
President of Georgia (2004–2007, 2008–2013)
Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer (MA '85),
President of Iraq (2004–2005)
Mahmud Suleiman Maghribi (PhD '73),
Prime Minister of Libya (1969–1970)
Mohammad Nahavandian , current
Vice President of Iran
Hessa Al Jaber , former
Information Minister of Qatar
S. M. Krishna , former
Foreign Minister of India
Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno , current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia
Mohammad Nahavandian , current
Vice President of Iran
Hessa Al Jaber , former
Minister of Information of Qatar
John Deng , current
Minister without Portfolio of Taiwan
Omar Ayub Khan , current
Energy Minister of Pakistan (grandson of President
Muhammad Ayub Khan )
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan , current
Minister of Maritime Affairs of Indonesia
Slim Feriani , Former
Minister of Industry, Energy, Mining, Renewable Energy and SMEs, Republic of Tunisia
Alexander Zaveryukha , former
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
Nematullah Shahrani , former
Vice President of Afghanistan
S. M. Krishna , former
Foreign Minister of India
Ashtar Ausaf Ali , former
Attorney-General for Pakistan
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi , former
Minister of Petroleum & Natural Resources of Pakistan
Lee Beom Seok , former
Foreign Minister of South Korea
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields , former
Minister for Internet Safety & Security of the United Kingdom
Jorge Alberto Uribe , former
Defense Minister of Colombia
Pedro Sánchez Gamarra , former
Energy Minister of Peru
Sérgio Paulo Rouanet , former
Minister of Culture of Brazil
Roberto Campos , former
Minister of Planning of Brazil
Marcin Święcicki , former
Minister of Economic Relations of Poland
Ali bin Abdulla Al Kaabi , former
Labour Minister of the United Arab Emirates
Mansour bin Mutaib Al Saud , former
Minister of Municipal Affairs of Saudi Arabia
Raya Haffar al-Hassan , former
Finance Minister of Lebanon
Hedayat Amin Arsala , former
Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
Géza Teleki , former
Education Minister of Hungary
Aleksandre Jejelava , former
Science & Education Minister of Georgia
Khatuna Kalmakhelidze , former
Minister of Corrections of Georgia
Yahya Kisbi , former
Jordanian Minister of Public Works and Housing.
Mihnea Motoc , former
Defense Minister of Romania
Sudirman Said , former
Energy Minister of Indonesia
Farouq Qasrawi , former
Foreign Minister of Jordan
Alaa Batayneh , former
Energy Minister of Jordan
Mohammad Nidal al-Shaar , former
Minister of Economy & Trade of Syria
Mohammad Mustafa , former
Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine
Kao Su-po , former
Minister of Mongolian & Tibetan Affairs of Taiwan
Kivutha Kibwana , former
Defense Minister of Kenya
Zhivargo Laing , former
Culture Minister of the Bahamas
Htay Aung , former
Tourism Minister of Myanmar
Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno , current Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy of Indonesia, former
Vice Governor of Jakarta ,
Indonesia
Rex Gatchalian , current Philippines
Secretary of Social Welfare and Development , former Member
Philippine House of Representatives from
Valenzuela , former Mayor of
Valenzuela
José Abad Santos , 5th
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Tshering Wangchuk , former Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Bhutan
Anwar Gargash , former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
Mauricio Vila Dosal , current
Governor of Yucatán , former
Mayor of Mérida
Najmiddin Karim , current
Governor of Kirkuk
Joanna Shields, Baroness Shields , current
Member of the House of Lords
Andrew Hastie , current member of the
Parliament of Australia
George Maior , current Romanian ambassador to the United States
İbrahim Kalın , current
Press Secretary of the
President of Turkey
Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr. , current
Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
Hsu Mo , founding judge of the
International Court of Justice
José Abad Santos (1909), Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
Philip Jaisohn , a founding father of the
Korean Independence Movement
Chung Mong-joon , Chairman of the
Liberty Korea Party
HH Prince Talal Arslan ,
Druze leader and current Head of the
House of Arslan ; founder and President of the
Lebanese Democratic Party
Joe Hung (PhD history, 1981), Taiwanese journalist (
Central News Agency ) and diplomat, Representative of Taiwan to Italy (1993–2000)
[15]
Kazuyuki Hamada , former
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Anwar Gargash , former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates
Henrique Valle , Deputy Ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
José Julián Sidaoui , Deputy Minister of Finance of Mexico
Andrew Marshall , Director of the
Office of Net Assessment
Sarah Adwoa Safo , member of the
Parliament of Ghana
Abdul Kady Karim ,
2007 candidate for President of Sierra Leone
Camillo Gonsalves ,
Permanent Representatives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
Vidar Bjørnstad ,
Member of the Norwegian Parliament
Marcin Święcicki ,
Mayor of Warsaw , Poland
Dianne Haskett ,
Mayor of London , Canada
Donald Stone Macdonald , Mayor of
Gwangju , South Korea
Jonathan Martin, Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta, Canada
[16]
Johnny Wright Sol , deputy of the
Legislative Assembly of El Salvador representing San Salvador
Michael Ratney , current
U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia
Michael Punke , former U.S. Ambassador to the
World Trade Organization , current Vice President of
Amazon Web Services
Joseph Prueher , former
U.S. Ambassador to China
Kurt Volker , former
U.S. Ambassador to NATO
Robin Bernstein , former
U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic
Rebecca Gonzales former
U.S. Ambassador to Lesotho
Michael Ratney , current
U.S. Ambassador to
Saudi Arabia
Rebecca Gonzales , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Lesotho
Robin Bernstein , former
U.S. Ambassador to the
Dominican Republic
Christine A. Elder , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Liberia
Joseph Prueher , former
U.S. Ambassador to China
Nelson T. Johnson , former
U.S. Ambassador to China and Australia
Patrick J. Hurley , former
U.S. Ambassador to China and New Zealand
James R. Lilley , former
U.S. Ambassador to China and
South Korea
Stephen W. Bosworth , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Tunisia ,
Philippines , and
South Korea
John J. Muccio , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Guatemala ,
Iceland , South Korea
Michael Punke , former
U.S. Ambassador to the
World Trade Organization
Kurt Volker , former
U.S. Ambassador to
NATO
David M. Kennedy , former
U.S. Ambassador to
NATO
William Tapley Bennett Jr. ,
U.S. Ambassador to
NATO
Catherine M. Russell , former
U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
Patricia Roberts Harris , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Luxembourg
Wiley T. Buchanan Jr. , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Luxembourg and
Austria
John Cloud , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Lithuania and Germany
Thomas A. Loftus , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Norway
Edward W. Gnehm , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Jordan ,
Kuwait and Australia
George W. Guthrie , former
U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Robert Daniel Murphy , former
U.S. Ambassador to Japan and
Belgium
Carol Z. Perez , former
U.S. Ambassador to Chile
William Miller Collier , former
U.S. Ambassador to Chile and Spain
Alexander W. Weddell , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Argentina and Spain
John H. Wheeler , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Nicaragua
Cresencio S. Arcos Jr. , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Honduras
Charles A. Ford , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Honduras
Frank Almaguer , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Honduras
Morris D. Busby , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Colombia
William Braucher Wood , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Colombia and
Afghanistan
Charles Taylor Manatt , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Dominican Republic
Raul Yzaguirre , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Dominican Republic
Donna Hrinak , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Dominican Republic ,
Bolivia , and
Venezuela
George W. Landau former
U.S. Ambassador to
Paraguay , Chile, and
Venezuela
James M. Derham , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Guatemala
Frank V. Ortiz , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Uruguay ,
Guatemala ,
Barbados ,
Peru , and
Argentina
Richard C. Brown , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Uruguay
Lyle Franklin Lane , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Uruguay
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr. , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Uruguay and
Costa Rica
Robert M. Sayre , former
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil,
Panama , and
Uruguay
Irving Bedell Dudley , former
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil and
Peru
Charles Page Bryan , former
U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Japan,
Belgium , and
Portugal
Everett E. Briggs , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Portugal
Robert J. McCloskey , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Greece ,
Cyprus , and
Netherlands
John Peurifoy , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Greece ,
Guatemala , and
Thailand
Richard Boucher , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Cyprus
Theodore Brentano , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Hungary
William Dale Montgomery ,
U.S. Ambassador to
Bulgaria ,
Serbia and Montenegro , and
Croatia
E. Ross Adair , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Ethiopia
Tibor P. Nagy , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Ethiopia
David H. Shinn , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Ethiopia and
Burkina Faso
Julius Waring Walker Jr. , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Burkina Faso
Smith Hempstone , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Kenya
Gerald Eustis Thomas , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Kenya and
Guyana
David C. Halsted , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Chad and
Uganda
Tom McDonald , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Zimbabwe
Bernadette M. Allen , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Niger
Robert Brendon Keating , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Madagascar
George Moose , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Benin and
Senegal
Robert P. Jackson , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Ghana and
Cameroon
Donald C. Johnson , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Cabo Verde ,
Equatorial Guinea , and
Mongolia
Francis Terry McNamara , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Cabo Verde ,
Gabon , and
São Tomé and Príncipe
Aubrey Hooks , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Democratic Republic of the Congo ,
Ivory Coast , and
Republic of Congo
Clare H. Timberlake , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Harmon Elwood Kirby , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Togo
Edward Peck , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Mauritania
Daniel A. Johnson , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Suriname
Walter Nathan Tobriner , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Jamaica
Walter E. North , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Vanuatu ,
Solomon Islands , and
Papua New Guinea
William A. Heidt , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Cambodia
Carol Laise , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Nepal
Edward E. Masters , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Indonesia
Ralph L. Boyce , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Indonesia and
Thailand
Sheila Gwaltney , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Kyrgyzstan
Marisa Lino , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Albania
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Malta
Richard L. Baltimore , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Oman
Ross Wilson , former
U.S. Ambassador to
Turkey
State Department officials
Colin Powell , 65th
U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles , 52nd
U.S. Secretary of State
Carol Z. Perez , current
Director General of the Foreign Service
Colin Powell , 65th
U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles , 52nd
U.S. Secretary of State
Carol Z. Perez , current
Director General of the Foreign Service
Michelle Giuda , 30th
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Tibor P. Nagy , 19th
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Richard Boucher , 6th
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
James E. Webb , former
United States Under Secretary of State
Heather Higginbottom , former
Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
Grant S. Green , former
Under Secretary of State for Management
John F. W. Rogers , former
Under Secretary of State for Management
Heather Nauert , former
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
John D. Holum , former
Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs
Robert Daniel Murphy , former
Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Carol Laise , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
Brooks Hays , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
J. Edward Fox , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Robert J. McCloskey , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
William Tapley Bennett Jr. , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Nelson T. Johnson , former
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Eileen Claussen , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
John Peurifoy , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Administration
Randall M. Fort , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
Gregory B. Starr , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security
William Braucher Wood , former
Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs
Rose Gottemoeller ,
Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation
Julius Katz , former
Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
David Marchick , former
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs
Robert M. Sayre , former
Inspector General of the State Department and
Coordinator for Counterterrorism
Nestor Mendez , current
Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States
Nestor Mendez , current Assistant Secretary General of the
Organization of American States
Kazuyuki Hamada , former
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Pearnel Patroe Charles Jr. , current
State Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade of Jamaica
Carl Lutz , Swiss diplomat credited with saving over 62,000 Jews, the largest rescue operation of Jews of
World War II
George Maior , current
Romanian ambassador to the United States
Henrique Valle , Deputy Ambassador of Brazil to the United Nations
Joe Hung , Taiwanese Ambassador to Italy
Elliott Charng , Taiwanese Ambassador to Australia, New Zealand, and
India
Camillo Gonsalves ,
Permanent Representatives of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to the United Nations
Moncrieff J. Spear , former U.S. Consul-General to the Bahamas
Richard Paul Momsen , former U.S. Consul-General to Rio de Janeiro
Guilford Wiley Wells , former U.S. Consul-General to Shanghai
Thomas Sammons , former U.S. Consul-General to Shanghai
Frank Lockhart , former U.S. Consul-General to Shanghai
Archer Blood , former U.S. Consul-General to
Dhaka ,
East Pakistan , issued the
Blood Telegram during the
Bangladesh Liberation War
An Le , current U.S. Consul to
Ho Chi Minh City
Mao Ning , current
spokesperson of the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China
Sharon Prost , current
Chief Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
John Michael Seabright , current
Chief Judge of the
United States District Court for the District of Hawaii
Sharon Prost , current
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Richard Linn , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Clyde H. Hamilton , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Kenneth Francis Ripple , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
David R. Hansen , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Barbara Milano Keenan , current Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Carlos F. Lucero , current Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Glenn L. Archer Jr. , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Randall Ray Rader , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
James P. Coleman , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Richard Dickson Cudahy , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
William Edward Doyle , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Bennett Champ Clark , former Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Albert Tate Jr. , former Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Robert Smith Vance , former Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
William K. Sessions III , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Senior Judge
Burnita Shelton Matthews , the first woman appointed to serve on a
U.S. District Court
Harry L. Carrico , 23rd
Chief Justice of the
Virginia Supreme Court
John Michael Seabright , current
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
Joyce Hens Green , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Daniel T. K. Hurley , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Cameron McGowan Currie , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Roger L. Hunt , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
William K. Sessions III , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
Gordon Jay Quist , current
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
Suzanne Mitchell , current
magistrate judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma
Tanya S. Chutkan , current Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Stephen Victor Wilson , current Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
Darrin P. Gayles , current Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Florida
Jorge Luis Alonso , current Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Catherine Eagles , current Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
Linda Vivienne Parker , current Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Alfred Adams Wheat , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Gerald Ellis Rosen , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Ernest W. Gibson Jr. , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont
James C. Cacheris , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Edward Skottowe Northrop , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
Edwin F. Hunter , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Ronald Edward Meredith , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky
James F. Battin , former
Chief Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Montana
Harold H. Greene , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Henry Albert Schweinhaut , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
James Robertson , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Burnita Shelton Matthews , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Sarah T. Hughes , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Oren Ritter Lewis , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
John Milton Killits , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Albert Morris Sames , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
Albert Sherman Christensen , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
G. Ross Anderson , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
Paul Benson , former
Senior Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota
Frederick Lincoln Siddons , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Adolph A. Hoehling Jr. , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Andrew Coyle Bradley , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
William Matthews Merrick , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
James Robert Kirkland , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
William Edward Doyle , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
Arthur Marshall Davis , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
Benjamin Franklin Keller , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
David R. Hansen , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa
Clyde H. Hamilton , former Judge of the
U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina
U.S. State Supreme Courts
Barbara Pariente , 51st
Chief Justice of the
Florida Supreme Court
Michael Kruse , current
Chief Justice of the
American Samoa High Court
Bill Mims , current Justice of the
Virginia Supreme Court
D. Frank Wilkins , current Justice of the
Utah Supreme Court
Harry L. Carrico , 23rd
Chief Justice of the
Virginia Supreme Court
Barbara Milano Keenan , Justice on the
Virginia Supreme Court
Barbara Pariente , 51st
Chief Justice of the
Florida Supreme Court
Clifford Taylor , 66th
Chief Justice of the
Michigan Supreme Court
Mary S. Coleman , 57th
Chief Justice of the
Michigan Supreme Court
A. Lee Chandler , 28th
Chief Justice of the
South Carolina Supreme Court
Taylor Hudnall Stukes , 20th
Chief Justice of the
South Carolina Supreme Court
Russell A. Anderson , 20th
Chief Justice of the
Minnesota Supreme Court
Horace W. Wilkie , 19th
Chief Justice of the
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Kathryn Werdegar , former Justice of the
Supreme Court of California
Albert Tate Jr. , former Justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court
Rankin Gibson , former Justice of the
Ohio Supreme Court
Adolph Grant Wolf , former Justice of the
Puerto Rico Supreme Court
Félix Córdova Dávila , former Justice of the
Puerto Rico Supreme Court
Mohan Peiris ,
Attorney General &
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
Hsu Mo , founding Judge of the
International Court of Justice (ICJ)
William Barr , 77th and 85th
United States Attorney General
Mohan Peiris , 41st
Attorney General of Sri Lanka
Aaron D. Ford , current
Attorney General of Nevada
Frankie Sue Del Papa , 29th
Attorney General of Nevada
Bill Mims , 45th
Attorney General of Virginia
John Garland Pollard , 21st
Attorney General of Virginia
Robert Y. Thornton , 8th
Attorney General of Oregon
Rufus L. Edmisten , 46th
Attorney General of North Carolina
Vernon B. Romney , 14th
Attorney General of Utah
Frank Willey Clancy , 1st
Attorney General of New Mexico
Jeffrey B. Pine , 70th
Attorney General of Rhode Island
M. Jerome Diamond , 22nd
Attorney General of Vermont
Joseph Foster , 29th
Attorney General of New Hampshire
Grace Berg Schaible , 20th
Attorney General of Alaska
Jack Conway , 49th
Attorney General of Kentucky
Paul Benson , 22nd
Attorney General of North Dakota
Robert E. Smylie , 21st
Attorney General of Idaho
Winston Bryant , 52nd
Attorney General of Arkansas
James P. Coleman , 33rd
Attorney General of Mississippi
John A. Carver Jr. , interim
Attorney General of American Samoa
William C. Wantland , former Attorney General of the
Seminole Nation
Belva Ann Lockwood , first woman to argue before the
U.S. Supreme Court
Andrew P. Bakaj , former
Department of Defense and
CIA official; lead counsel for the whisteblower during the
impeachment inquiry and the subsequent
impeachment of President Donald Trump
William D. Cohen ,
associate justice of the
Vermont Supreme Court
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Leon Jaworski ,
Special Prosecutor during the
Watergate scandal
Belva Ann Lockwood , first woman to argue before the
U.S. Supreme Court , first
female presidential candidate
Ira Sorkin , lead attorney for
Bernard Madoff
Joyce Hens Green ,
Presiding Judge of the
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Thomas F. Hogan ,
Presiding Judge of the
U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
William Barberie Howell ,
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Customs Court
Wilma B. Liebman , chair of the
National Labor Relations Board
Delbert Spurlock ,
General Counsel of the Army
Makan Delrahim ,
United States Assistant Attorney General for the
Antitrust Division
William K. Sessions III , chair of the
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Ken Starr , 39th
Solicitor General of the United States
Omar Ashmawy , Chief Counsel to the
Office of Congressional Ethics
Bradley Schlozman , head of the
United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Glenn Greenwald ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning legal author that exposed the
United States surveillance of foreign leaders
Flora Warren Seymour , writer, historian, author, first woman member of the
Board of Indian Commissioners
Chester Sipkin , Administrative Law Judge for the
United States Department of Justice
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Scott W. Stucky , current
Chief Judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Mark Esper , former
U.S. Secretary of Defense
General
Peter Pace , 16th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
John Shalikashvili , 13th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
John William Vessey, Jr. , 10th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
John William Vessey, Jr. , 10th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
Colin Powell , 12th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral
David E. Jeremiah , interim
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
John Shalikashvili , 13th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
Peter Pace , 16th
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
Robert T. Herres , 1st
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral
William Owens , 3rd
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral
Thad Allen (MPA),
Commandant of the Coast Guard 2006–2010
General
Earl E. Anderson (J.D.)
Rear Admiral
Richard A. Appelbaum
Captain
Edward L. Beach, Jr. (M.A.)
Major General
Thomas A. Benes
Brigadier General
Vincente T. Blaz
Major General
Robert D. Bohn
Lieutenant General
Arnold W. Braswell ,
United States Air Force ,
MBA , 1967
Rear Admiral
F. Taylor Brown
Major General
George William Casey, Sr.
General
John T. Chain, Jr. , former
Commander of the Strategic Air Command
Rear Admiral
Sandy Daniels
Major General
Sharon K.G. Dunbar , U.S. Air Force
Captain
Frank Freyer , 14th
Naval Governor of Guam and Chief of Staff of the
Peruvian Navy
General
John Fugh , the first Chinese American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army, former
Judge Advocate General
General
Charles A. Gabriel , 11th Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
Admiral
John B. Hayes (M.A.), Commandant of the Coast Guard (Ret.) 1978–1982
General
Robert T. Herres , first
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Admiral
David E. Jeremiah , former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and also Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General
Charles C. Krulak , former
Commandant of the United States Marine Corps
Major General
Bruce M. Lawlor (B.S., J.D., D.Sc.), first commander of
Joint Task Force-Civil Support and first Chief of Staff at the
Department of Homeland Security
Brigadier General
Gavin Marks
Brigadier General
Michael A. McAuliffe
Lieutenant General
Thomas McInerney
Lieutenant General
John N. McLaughlin , Marine Corps service in three wars and spent three years as a
POW
General
Merrill A. McPeak , former Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force and
United States Secretary of the Air Force
Major General
Billy Mitchell (1919, but received degree as part of "class of 1899", having dropped out to serve in the
Spanish–American War ), advocate of air power in the military
Lieutenant General
Hal Moore , author of
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young
Major General
Spurgeon Neel , father of Army aviation medicine
Major General
Peter George Olenchuk
Major General
Edwin P. Parker Jr. , Class of 1912, Commander of the
78th Infantry Division during
World War II (August 1942 – November 1945)
General
Frank E. Petersen , United States Marine Corps, first black Marine general, first black Marine aviator, first black commanding officer of a fighter squadron, an air group, and a major base.
Major General
Herman Poggemeyer Jr. , United States Marine Corps
Brigadier General
Paul D. Phillips , United States Army; former oldest living West Point graduate.
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Vice Admiral
John R. Ryan , former
Superintendent of United States Naval Academy ,
Chancellor of the
State University of New York
Major General
Michael P. Ryan , United States Marine Corps, Co-founded
Marine Corps Marathon
Brigadier General
Henry J. Stehling
Major General
William W. Stickney , United States Marine Corps, Director of Marine Corps Reserve
Bill Studeman , former
Admiral of the
United States Navy , former deputy director of the
Central Intelligence Agency , former acting director of Central Intelligence, former director of the
National Security Agency , and former director of
Naval Intelligence
Brigadier General
Dennis B. Sullivan
Colonel
John Tweedale (LL.B.),
Medal of Honor recipient, 1868
Brigadier General
James P. Ulm
Major General
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr.
Rear Admiral
Sidney A. Wallace
General
Larry D. Welch , the 12th
Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force ,
Commander, Strategic Air Command
Major General
Don S. Wenger
Major General
Charles F. Widdecke (
M.A. ); recipient of
Navy Cross during
World War II
Brigadier General
Hugh E. Wild
Brigadier General
David W. Winn
Reena Ninan on CBS News
Bob Woodward ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning editor for the
Washington Post
Kasie Hunt , host of
MSNBC 's
Kasie DC
Reena Ninan ,
CNN Veteran Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Mainstream Media Outlet Anchor
Chris Anderson , editor-in-chief of
Wired
Dana Bash ,
CNN White House correspondent
Kate Bolduan ,
CNN correspondent
Hadas Gold , media and business reporter for
CNN and
CNN International
Diana B. Henriques , reporter for the
New York Times
Kasie Hunt , host of
MSNBC 's
Kasie DC
Jeff Jacoby , columnist for The Boston Globe
Matt Katz , reporter for
WNYC and
New Jersey Public Radio .
Michael Kinsley , political commentator and journalist, former co-host of CNN's
Crossfire
Sally Kohn ,
CNN and
Fox News commentator
Brian Williams , former
NBC Nightly News anchor
Doug McKelway ,
Fox News journalist
Marianne Means ,
White House correspondent
Nazenin Ansari ,
Voice of America correspondent
Margaret Carlson , journalist; columnist for
Bloomberg News ; first woman columnist at
Time
Mona Charen , political analyst and best-selling author
Victoria Clarke ,
CNN analyst, former
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Bob Considine , journalist with
United Press International and author
Geovanny Vicente , political strategist and columnist for
CNN
Rowland Evans (1951), news commentator from
CNN 's Evans, Novak, Hunt and Shields
Steve Benen , lead blogger of
The Washington Monthly
Bill Gertz reporter and analyst for
The Washington Times and
Fox News
Glenn Greenwald , former attorney and current political and legal blogger, and columnist at
Salon
Kathleen Troia McFarland , former Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs ,
Fox News commentator
Philip Klein , executive editor of the
Washington Examiner
Michael Moran , author of The Reckoning ; producer of the documentary series Crisis Guides
Glenn R. Simpson , journalist for
Wall Street Journal
Lieutenant General
Thomas McInerney , Fox News pundit
Mosheh Oinounou , executive producer of
CBS News
Mark Olshaker , author who collaborates with FBI agent, John E. Douglas in books regarding criminal and investigative psychology
Michael Punke , writer, novelist, professor, policy analyst, policy consultant, attorney best known for writing the novel
The Revenant (2002), which was adapted into film as
The Revenant (2015)
Josh Rogin , CNN political analyst
Hilary Rosen , on-air contributor for
CNN ; consultant, political director and Washington editor at large for
The Huffington Post ; former CEO of the
RIAA
Sydney Sadick , television personality and publisher of Spotlight Magazine
Bhaskar Sunkara , founding editor and publisher of
Jacobin
Chuck Todd (1991),
NBC News political director
Murray Waas , award-winning journalist and author,
The New Yorker ,
The Los Angeles Times ,
The Nation ,
The Village Voice ,
The National Journal , and
The Boston Globe
Bob Woodward , editor at
The Washington Post , famous for reporting on the
Watergate scandal
Glenn Greenwald , winner of the 2014
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his work on U.S.
Global surveillance based on disclosures by
Edward Snowden
Anders Gyllenhaal , Chairman of the
Pulitzer Prize Board
Emily Green , One of the inaugural recipients of the
Pulitzer Prize for Audio Reporting in 2020 for her work with This American Life concerning the personal impact of the "
Remain in Mexico " policy
Glenn Greenwald , winner of the 2014
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Diana B. Henriques , winner of the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Bob Woodward , winner of the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and the 1973
Pulitzer Prize for Public Service
Deborah Solomon , winner of the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
Ginger Thompson , winner of the 2001
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
William McPherson , winner of the 1973
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
Michael Kammen , winner of the 1973
Pulitzer Prize for History
George D. Beveridge , winner of the 1957
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting
Alex Pacheco , co-founder and Chairman of
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Tom Fitton , current President of
Judicial Watch
Raul Yzaguirre , President & CEO of the
National Council of La Raza
Henry Berg-Brousseau , transgender rights activist
Roslyn Brock , Chairman of the
NAACP
Tom Fitton , current President of
Judicial Watch
Alex Pacheco , co-founder and Chairman of
PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Jonathan D. Katz (BA '81), founder of
Queer Nation
Kati Marton , chairwoman of the
International Women's Health Coalition
Paul Shapiro , vice president of the
Humane Society of the United States
A. L. Steiner , co-founder of
Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.)
Stephanie K. Meeks , CEO of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Leah Soibel , executive director of
Fuente Latina
Nicholas Eftimiades , founder of the Federation of Galaxy Explorers
Marc Garlasco , senior military expert for
Human Rights Watch
Bari Lurie , chief of staff at the
Clinton Foundation
Amien Rais , leader of the
Indonesian reform movement
Jason Franklin , urban policy activist
Margery E. Goldberg , public arts activist
Nikolas Schiller , cannabis reform activist
Mercedes Schlapp ,
Tea Party movement activist
Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush , political activist
Jeanne Henriquez , women's rights activist
Ida Hinman ,
suffragette and feminist activist
Arlene Raven , feminist activist
Rita Banerji , gender activist
Watson Davis , science education activist
Richard Cizik , environmental activist
Jane Briggs Hart , anti-war activist
Brittany Lewis , domestic violence activist
Omega Silva ,
universal health care activist
Ángel Lozada , HIV activist
Kim A. Snyder ,
chronic fatigue syndrome activist
Peggy Cooper Cafritz , civil rights activist
David A. Clarke , civil rights activist
Kivutha Kibwana , Kenyan human rights activist
Kraisak Choonhavan , Thai human rights activist
Wong Chin Foo , Chinese-American activist
Raul Yzaguirre , president & CEO of the
National Council of La Raza
Alec Baldwin ,
Golden Globe -winning actor
Dan Glickman , Chairman & CEO of the
Motion Picture Association of America
Courteney Cox , actress
Alec Baldwin , actor (did not graduate)
Casey Affleck , actor (did not graduate)
Courteney Cox (
Mt. Vernon alumni), actress
Kerry Washington (1998), actress
Rachel Zoe , celebrity fashion stylist
Ina Garten , host of
Barefoot Contessa
Dan Glickman (JD 1969), current president of the
Motion Picture Association of America
T.J. Miller , actor and stand-up comedian,
Silicon Valley
Angela Aki , singer-songwriter (
Final Fantasy XII )
Patricia Altschul , socialite and art collector
William Peter Blatty , writer and filmmaker who wrote the novel
The Exorcist (1971) and the
subsequent screenplay version for which he won an
Academy Award
Reem Bassous , visual artist
Irvin Bomb , artist
Warren Brown , TV host on the
Food Network
Christopher Pearse Cranch , writer and artist
Merce Cunningham (attended), dancer and choreographer
Manish Dayal , actor, known for
90210
Lester del Rey , author, founded
Del Rey Books
Donna Dixon , actress, wife of
Dan Aykroyd
Haddaway ,
Trinidadian singer most famous for "
What Is Love " single
Kevin Peter Hall , actor,
Predator
Haroon , graduate in Business Administration, Pakistani singer, composer, musician and engineer
Reona Ito , music conductor (alumnus of the Elliott School)
Chris Kilmore , turntablist for the band
Incubus
Ross Martin , Television-Film-Radio actor-Most famous for his role on TV in the
Wild, Wild West
Rooney Mara (attended), actress,
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Dina Merrill , actress and socialite
Isaac Fitzgerald , writer
Naeto C , Nigerian rapper
Lee Phillip , Korean American actor
Adam Richman (attended for one year),
indie pop singer-songwriter
Mark Russell , satirist and comedian
Annika Sharma , author
Whitney Sudler-Smith , television personality and socialite
Clay Travis , sports columnist and author
Bill Westenhofer ,
Academy Award -winning visual effects artist
Nathan Hale Williams , film and television producer, entertainment lawyer
Scott Wolf (1991), actor
Emily Axford , actor
Taylor Hale , winner of
Big Brother 24 ,
Miss Michigan USA 2021
Eliza McLamb , singer-songwriter and podcast host (did not graduate)
Ned Bittinger , portrait painter and illustrator
Adam Friedland , stand-up comedian, talk-show host and podcaster
Andrew Weitz , fashion stylist and former talent agent
First Lady
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
L. Ron Hubbard , founder of the
Church of Scientology
Bernard P. Brockbank , member of the
First Quorum of the Seventy of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
J. Reuben Clark , member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Matthew Cowley , member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Frank Joseph Dewane ,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Venice, Florida
Violet L. Fisher , Bishop of the
United Methodist Church
Jonathan Hausman , Rabbi of
Ahavath Torah
L. Ron Hubbard , founder of the
Church of Scientology
George V. Murry ,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Youngstown
Gregory V. Palmer , Bishop of the
United Methodist Church
Richard G. Scott , member of the
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Marc Stanley , Chairman of the
National Jewish Democratic Council
William C. Wantland ,
Episcopal Bishop of Eau Claire
Michael Griffin , 11th
Administrator of NASA
Jennifer Boykin , president of
Newport News Shipbuilding
[21]
Julius Axelrod ,
Nobel Prize -winning biochemist
Patch Adams , physician and comedian portrayed in a
1998 movie
Yousef Alhorr , environmentalist known for his work in the field of sustainable built environment and climate actions
Ralph Alpher , "father of the
Big Bang theory "
Anousheh Ansari (M.S., 1992), chairwoman and co-founder of Prodea Systems;
patroness of private space flight ; first female
space tourist
Paul Antony , Chief Medical Officer of
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Serena M. Auñón , American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut.
Julius Axelrod ,
biochemist who won a share of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1970 along with
Bernard Katz and
Ulf von Euler
Neal D. Barnard , physician, author, clinical researcher, founding president of the
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Jessie G. Beach ,
paleontologist and museum aid.
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Patricia Wilson Berger , president of the
American Library Association
Dr.
Lisa Bowleg , professor of Applied Social Psychology
L. Ron Hubbard , writer of Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health, a science of the mind.
Jennifer Boykin , president of
Newport News Shipbuilding
[21] and vice president of
Huntington Ingalls Industries
[23]
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James Carroll , president of the
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Peter Caws , president of the
International Society for the Systems Sciences
Captain
Michael Coats (1977),
astronaut and
Space Shuttle Commander
Charles Critchfield , physicist of the
Manhattan Project
Frederick D. Gregory , interim
Administrator of NASA
Michael Griffin , 11th
Administrator of NASA
Todd B. Hawley , co-founder of the
International Space University
Nancy B. Jackson , president of the
American Chemical Society
Howard Judd ,
menopause expert and medical researcher
Albert Freeman Africanus King (MD 1861), personal physician to President
Abraham Lincoln
Allenna Leonard , president of the
International Society for the Systems Sciences
Hans Lineweaver (B.A. 1930, M.A. 1933),
physical chemist who developed the
Lineweaver–Burk plot
Marcus Ward Lyon Jr. , president of the
American Society of Mammalogists
James Morhard , 14th
Deputy-Administrator of NASA
Constance Tom Noguchi ,
sickle cell disease researcher,
NIDDK
Wanda Peters , Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs at
NASA and member of
Senior Executive Service
Matthew Stirling ,
ethnologist and
archaeologist who discovered and excavated many pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sites
James E. Webb , second
Administrator of NASA
Ashani Weeraratna , cancer researcher
Abe Pollin , owner of the
Washington Wizards and
Washington Capitals
David Haggerty , current President of the
International Tennis Federation
Elana Meyers , medalist at the
2018 Winter Olympics and
2014 Winter Olympics
Red Auerbach , coach for the
Boston Celtics
Brendon Ayanbadejo (MBA, 2013), football player, Super Bowl champion,
Baltimore Ravens
Mike Brey (1982), current head coach, Notre Dame men's basketball team
Moti Daniel (1987), Israeli, played in the
Israeli Basketball Premier League and for the
Israel national basketball team
Yinka Dare (attended 1993–1994), basketball player,
New Jersey Nets
David Falk (J.D., 1975), sports agent
John Flaherty (1988), former
Major League Baseball player
Mike Hall (2006), basketball forward,
Washington Wizards and overseas leagues,
free agent
Ray Hanken (1911–1980),
football player
Wayne Hart (1912), member of the All-South Atlantic football team for four years; coached
Washington Vigilants and
Clemson Agricultural College
Lubomir Kavalek (1975), Chess Grandmaster
Tuffy Leemans (1936), football running back, Pro Football Hall of Fame,
New York Giants
Ivan Leshinsky (born 1947), American-Israeli basketball player
Larry MacPhail ,
National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
Pops Mensah-Bonsu (2006), basketball forward,
Galatasaray S.K.
Ronnie Nunn , former referee for the
National Basketball Association
Michael O'Connor (2002), baseball pitcher,
Washington Nationals
Sam Perlozzo (1973), former manager,
Baltimore Orioles ; current third base coach,
Seattle Mariners
J. R. Pinnock (2006), basketball guard
Justin Prinstein , inaugural player in the
Israel Baseball League
Gregg Ritchie (1987), former MLB hitting coach,
Pittsburgh Pirates ; head coach
George Washington Colonials baseball since 2013
William W. Skinner , head football coach for
University of Maryland, College Park and
University of Arizona
Mike Sommer (1958), member of college football team, played in the
NFL with the
Washington Redskins ,
Baltimore Colts , and the
Oakland Raiders
Jim Tennant , former MLB player
Jack Toomay , former
Major League Baseball player
Yuta Watanabe , Japanese NBA player
Bernie Wolfe (born 1951), NHL hockey player
Seth Rudolph , professional soccer player
Tom Walter , head baseball coach for
Wake Forest University
Jonquel Jones , basketball center for the
Connecticut Sun and 2021
WNBA MVP
Theodore N. Lerner (1948), owner of the
Washington Nationals
Abe Pollin (1945), owner of the
Washington Wizards and
Washington Capitals
Jerry Reinsdorf (1957), owner of the
Chicago White Sox and
Chicago Bulls
Randy Levine (B.A., 1977), President of the
New York Yankees
Red Auerbach (1940, 1941), President of the
Boston Celtics
David Haggerty , current President of the
International Tennis Federation
Jeffrey Pollack , Commissioner of the
World Series of Poker
Chet Simmons , 1st Commissioner of the
United States Football League
Joel Segal ('86), sports agent, 2016 "The NFL's 100 Most Important People" and
Forbes "World's Most Powerful Sports Agents"
Elana Meyers (BS '06, MA '11), bobsledder at the
2018 Winter Olympics and
2014 Winter Olympics
Patricio Garino , basketball player at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Pops Mensah-Bonsu , basketball player at the
2012 Summer Olympics
Alice Schmidt , runner at the
2008 Summer Olympics and
2012 Summer Olympics
Aquil Abdullah , rower at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Sameera Al-Bitar , swimmer at the
2008 Summer Olympics and the
2004 Summer Olympics
Álvaro Fortuny , swimmer at the
2004 Summer Olympics and the
2000 Summer Olympics
Chad Senior , pentathlete at the
2004 Summer Olympics and the
2000 Summer Olympics
Ugo Oha , basketball player at the
2004 Summer Olympics
Ben Stevens , President of the
2001 Special Olympics World Winter Games
Dallas Shirley , basketball player at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Josiah Henson , wrestler at the
1952 Summer Olympics
Gerald F. Russell , runner at the
1940 Summer Olympics
Roger Stone ,
opposition researcher for the
Republican National Committee
Anwar al-Awlaki , terrorist and principal member of
al-Qaeda
John Calder Brennan (Law, 1937), historian
Barbara Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), First Lady of the United States
George Herbert Walker Bush (honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), President of the United States
Robert L. Dale , pilot for the National Science Foundation
Cathryn S. Dippo ,
statistician
Harrison Howell Dodge (1852–1937), appointed as resident superintendent of
Mount Vernon in 1885, serving 52 years in the position until his death
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Alfred McAdams , painter
Gustavo A. Mellander (AB, MA, PhD History 1966), university dean for 15 years; College president for 20 years.
Mona Al Munajjed , United Nations official
Frank Robinson (Honorary Doctor of Public Service degree), Baseball Hall of Famer, manager of the
Washington Nationals
Jackie Ronne , Antarctic explorer, first woman in the world to be a working member of an Antarctic expedition
Nikolas Schiller , mapmaker
Roger Stone ,
opposition research consultant for the
Republican National Committee
Harry Aubrey Toulmin Sr. (1882),
patent attorney to the
Wright Brothers
Geovanny Vicente ,
CNN columnist and political strategist.
John Appleton Wilson , architect
Patrick O'Connell , three-star Michelin chef at
The Inn at Little Washington (the only three-star Michelin restaurant in the region) and National Humanities Medalist
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