University of Virginia School of Law

University of Virginia School of Law
Parent school	University of Virginia
Established	1819
School type	Public
Endowment	US $ 425 million[1]
Parent endowment	US $ 7.53 billion[2]
Dean	Paul Mahoney
Location	Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Enrollment	1,078
Faculty	203
USNWR ranking	8
Bar pass rate	89.41%
Website	law.virginia.edu
ABA profile	officialguide.lsac.org

The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law or UVA Law) was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his "academical village," the University of Virginia. Virginia Law is the fourth-oldest active law school in the United States (second oldest in the state after William and Mary Law School). The law school offers the J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees in law and hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers.

Virginia Law is perennially regarded as one of the 10 most prestigious law schools in the United States. U.S. News & World Report currently ranks Virginia Law as tied for 8th in the nation with UC Berkeley,^[3] and in 2011, ranked Virginia Law as 6th among major law firm recruiters.^[4] In the 2010 Super Lawyers Law School Rankings, Virginia Law ranks 4th in the nation.^[5] In the 2015 Above the Law rankings, Virginia Law ranked 6th in the nation.^[6]

A survey by the National Law Journal ranked Virginia Law 5th in the number of graduates hired by NLJ's top 250 firms in 2009.^[7] Virginia Law also places high in clerkships, recently ranking behind only Harvard Law School and Yale Law School.^[8]

The Princeton Review ranked Virginia Law as 1st in "Best Quality of Life" among the nation's law schools, along with 2nd in "Best Classroom Experience," 4th in "Best Professors," 5th in "Hardest to Get Into," and 7th in "Best Career Prospects"^[9]

The Law School has 18,442 alumni in all 50 states, 63 foreign countries and several U.S. protectorates, and the Law School's alumni giving rate of more than 50 percent for the past seven years is among the highest of the nation's law schools.^[10] Virginia Law recently completed an eight-year capital campaign, raising $173.9 million to enhance the student experience.^[10]

The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School operated by the United States Army is located next to UVA.

Admissions

The University of Virginia School of Law.

Clay Hall and Caplin Pavilion

Virginia Law is among the most selective law schools in the nation. For the class entering in the fall of 2014, 307 out of 5,246 J.D. applicants matriculated. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2014 entering class were 166 and 170, respectively, with a median of 169. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.57 and 3.93, respectively, with a median of 3.85.^[11]

The Class of 2015 come from 43 states, the District of Columbia, three foreign countries, and 150 undergraduate institutions. The average age was 24 (with a range from 20 to 44). 55% of the class was male, 45% female, and 21% identified themselves as minority students. 66% of the class had work experience after college and 7% had graduate degrees.^[12]

Cost of attendance

The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) for first-year law students at Virginia Law for the 2016-2017 academic year is $78,002 for Virginia residents and $81,002 for nonresidents.^[13] The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years, based on data from the 2015-2016 academic year, is $287,175 for residents; the estimated cost for non-residents is $293,211.^[14]

Campus

Spies Garden

Virginia Law receives virtually no funding from public coffers except for in-state student tuition subsidies.^[15] The Law School instead depends upon the generosity of private donors, its substantial endowment (US $ 380 million^[16]) and student tuition payments. In 1995-1997, the Law School used entirely donated funds to renovate and expand its buildings on the University's North Grounds to include the former facilities of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration which built a new campus several hundred yards away. The Law School has an operating budget of US $ 61.3 million.^[17]

The Arthur J. Morris Law Library holds more than 870,000 volumes, including substantial collections of federal, state, and international documents, manuscripts, archives, and online research databases.^[18]

Student organizations

UVA Law Library

The Law School maintains an extensive roster of student organizations, including chapters of the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society and the St. Thomas More Society.

The Virginia Law Weekly, the Law School's student-run weekly newspaper, has been published since 1948. The paper has been cited in several court cases including the U.S. Supreme Court case Patterson v. New York.^[19] In addition to its news content, the VLW also contains student-submitted content which often includes humorous and creative pieces. The Law Weekly has won the American Bar Association's previous three "Best Newspaper Awards," in 2006, 2007, and 2008.^[20]

Each spring over a hundred students write, direct and perform in The Libel Show, a comedy and musical theatre production that was first organized in 1904. Its performers roast Law School professors, student stereotypes and life in Charlottesville throughout each of its three nightly showings. Professors write and sing their response to the students' jokes at the penultimate performance.

Law journals

The Law School is host to 10 academic journals, including the Virginia Law Review, one of the most cited law journals in the country:^[21]

• Virginia Journal of International Law, the oldest student edited international law journal in the country
• Virginia Environmental Law Journal
• Virginia Journal of Law & Technology
• Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law
• Virginia Law & Business Review
• Virginia Law Review
• Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
• Virginia Tax Review Association
• Virginia Journal of Criminal Law
• Journal of Law and Politics

Academics

The Law School's curricular programs include the programs in Law & Business and Law and Public Service, as well as programs in international law, legal and constitutional history, criminal law, human rights, race and law, environmental and land use law, immigration law, intellectual property, public policy and regulation, health law, law and humanities, and animal law.

The Law School also has programs that help students build skills, such as the legal writing program, courses in professional ethics, trial advocacy and public speaking, and other practical-skills courses.

Clinics

Supreme Court Clinic

Among the more than 250 courses and seminars offered each year by the Law School, Virginia has 20 clinics:

• Advocacy for the Elderly
• Appellate Litigation
• Capital Post-Conviction
• Child Advocacy
• Criminal Defense
• Employment Law
• Environmental Law and Conservation
• Family Mediation
• First Amendment Law
• Immigration Law
• Innocence Project
• International Human Rights
• Litigation and Housing Law
• Mental Health Law
• Nonprofit Clinic
• Patent and Licensing I
• Patent and Licensing II
• Prosecution
• Supreme Court Litigation
• Transactional Law

Study abroad

Students may participate in eight international exchange programs:

• Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany
• Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain
• Melbourne Law School in Australia
• Seoul National University in South Korea
• University of Auckland in New Zealand
• University of Sydney in Australia
• Tel Aviv University Law School in Israel
• Waseda University in Tokyo

In addition, the Law School offers rising third-year students the opportunity to obtain a dual degree from Sciences Po in Paris. Students who successfully complete this program earn a French law diploma (entitling them to sit for the French bar exam) and a J.D. degree from Virginia.

Students also may spend one semester abroad through the student-initiated study abroad program or as an external studies project. Each year one-credit courses are offered in Paris and Tel Aviv through the January Term.^[22]

Institutes and centers

The Law School includes several internationally known special programs directed by faculty members who are respected in their fields and often called upon by private and governmental organizations worldwide for their expertise.

• Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
• John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
• Center for National Security Law
• Center for Oceans Law and Policy
• Center for Children, Families, and the Law
• Center for the Study of Race and Law

Post-graduate employment

According to Virginia Law's official 2014 ABA-required disclosures, 84.8% of the Class of 2014 obtained non-school funded full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation.^[23]

Law firms

Virginia Law is 4th in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms,^[24] and a survey by the NLJ found that the law school ranked 5th in the number of graduates hired by NLJ's top 250 firms in 2009.^[7] Additionally, Virginia Law is 2nd only to Harvard in the number of alumni serving as chief legal counsel at Fortune 500 companies.^[25] Alumni from Virginia Law are also at 99 of the American Lawyer top 100 law firms (as of May 2014).^[25] Virginia ranked second in the number of associates promoted to partner among the National Law Journal's top 250 firms in 2011,^[26] and in a 2010 study by Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Virginia ranked fifth in the number of lawyers at the top 300 U.S. law firms.^[27]

Clerkships

From 2000 to 2010, Virginia Law had the fifth-highest placement of law clerks on the United States Supreme Court (tied with Columbia), surpassed only by Yale, Harvard Law School, University of Chicago and Stanford. Virginia is fourth in placing clerks on the U.S. Supreme Court from 2005 to 2012. Five alumni from the Classes of 2010-12 have clerked or are currently clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court.^[25]

Notable alumni

Virginia Law maintains a list of prominent alumni.

Politics

• Charles C. Adams, Jr., international arbitration lawyer, political and civic activist^[28]
• George Allen (1977) - U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and Governor of Virginia^[29]
• James Lindsay Almond, Jr. (1923) - Governor of Virginia; Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit^[30]
• Nathan L. Bachman (1903) - U.S. Senator from Tennessee
• Alben W. Barkley (1900) - U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States^[31]
• Bill Baroni (1998) - Deputy Executive Director, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
• Evan Bayh (1981) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Indiana^[32]
• Robert Bauer (1976) - White House Counsel, General Counsel of the Obama Campaign.^[33]
• Andy Beshear (2003) - Attorney General of Kentucky
• Kit Bond (1963) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri^[34]
• Rick Boucher (1971) - U.S Congressman from Virginia^[35]
• Debra Bowen (1979) - Secretary of State of California
• Alan Stephenson Boyd (1948) - U.S. Secretary of Transportation^[36]
• John Bridgeland (1987) - Director, USA Freedom Corps^[37]
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1936) - U.S. Senator from Virginia
• Millard F. Caldwell (1924) - U.S. Congressman and Governor of Florida
• Mortimer Caplin (1940) - former Commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
• Edward M. Carmouche (1948) - chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana^[38]
• Robin Carnahan (1986) - Missouri Secretary of State^[39]
• James Paul Clarke (1878) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Arkansas
• John Cornyn (1995) - U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas^[40]
• Tom Davis (1975) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia^[41]
• Frank M. Dixon (1943) - Governor of Alabama^[42]
• Luis G. Fortuño (1985) - Governor of Puerto Rico^[43]
• Tom Donilon (1985) - U.S. National Security Advisor^[44]
• Fred Fielding (1964) - White House Counsel^[45]
• William Meade Fishback (1855) - Governor of Arkansas
• Randy Forbes (1977) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia^[46]
• Doug Gansler (1989) - Attorney General of Maryland^[47]
• Jim Gilmore (1977) - Governor of Virginia^[48]
• Virgil Goode (1973) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia^[49]
• Lee E. Goodman (1990) - Chairman, Federal Election Commission
• Pete Holmes (1984) - Seattle City Attorney^[50]
• William J. Howell (1967) - Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
• Bob Inglis (1984) - U.S. Congressman from South Carolina^[51]
• Kim Keenan (1987) - General Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People^[52]
• Max Kennedy (1992) - Political activist and author; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
• Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1984) - Political and social activist; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
• Ted Kennedy (1959) - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic Presidential Candidate^[53]
• Robert F. Kennedy (1951) - Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic Presidential Candidate^[54]
• Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (1979) - Environmental activist; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy^[55]
• Angus King (1969) - U.S. Senator and Former Governor of Maine^[56]
• Sheila Jackson-Lee (1975) - U.S. Congresswoman from Texas^[57]
• Sean Patrick Maloney (1992) - U.S. Congressman from New York^[58]
• Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (1981) - Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton^[59]
• Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) - Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission^[60]
• Robert Mueller (1973) - Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation^[61]
• Janet Napolitano (1983) - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of Arizona, President of the University of California^[62]
• Bill Nelson (1968) - U.S. Senator from Florida^[63]
• Ken Paxton (1991) - Attorney General of Texas^[64]
• Matthew S. Peterson (1999) - Commissioner and former Chairman, Federal Election Commission^[65]
• W. Robert Pearson (1968) - U.S. Ambassador to Turkey^[66]
• H. Foster Pettit - Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1965 to 1970; mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, 1972 to 1978; practiced law in Lexington^[67]
• Heather Podesta (1997) - American lobbyist^[68]
• Trevor Potter (1982) - Chairman of Federal Election Commission^[69]
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1940) - U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Hugh D. Scott (1922) - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate^[70]
• William B. Schultz (1990) - General Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services
• Charles Robb (1973) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia^[71]
• Faryar Shirzad - advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
• Howard Worth Smith (1903) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia^[72]
• John C. Stennis (1927) - U.S. Senator from Mississippi^[73]
• John V. Tunney (1959) - U.S. Senator from California^[74]
• John Warner (1953) - U.S. Senator from Virginia^[75]
• Lowell P. Weicker (1958) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut^[76]
• Sheldon Whitehouse (1982) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island^[77]
• Woodrow Wilson (attended 1879) - President of the United States^[78]
• Frank Wisner - Head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s
• Peter S. Vincent (1995) - Principal Legal Advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• Andy Vollmer (1978) - Acting General Counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Law

• G. Steven Agee (1977) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[79]
• Carol Bagley Amon (1971) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York^[80]
• John Antoon II (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida^[81]
• Alice M. Batchelder (1988) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[82]
• Lewis Thornton Babcock (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado^[83]
• Peter Hill Beer (1986, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
• Carol A. Beier (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Kansas Supreme Court^[84]
• Robert Benham (1990, LL.M) - Judge, Georgia Supreme Court^[85]
• William Duane Benton (1995, LL.M) - Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit^[86]
• Robert R. Beezer (1956) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit^[87]
• Susan H. Black (1984) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit^[88]
• John White Brockenbrough - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
• Mary Beck Briscoe (1990, LL.M) - Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit^[89]
• John T. Broderick, Jr. (1972) - Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court^[90]
• James O. Browning (1981) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico^[91]
• Pasco Bowman II (1979, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit^[92]
• Janice Rogers Brown (2004, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[93]
• Albert Vickers Bryan (1921) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[94]
• John D. Butzner, Jr. (1941, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[95]
• Consuelo María Callahan (2004, LL.M) - Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (1973) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia^[96]
• Ronald D. Castille (1971) - Chief Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court^[97]
• Robert J. Conrad (1983) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina^[98]
• Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1988, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• James L. Dennis (1984) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit^[99]
• Hardy Cross Dillard - Dean, UVa Law School; Judge, International Court of Justice^[100]
• Donal O'Donnell (1983, LL.M) - Justice, Supreme Court of Ireland
• Robert D. Durham (1998, LL.M) - Justice, Oregon Supreme Court^[101]
• James Larry Edmondson (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit^[102]
• Richard Alan Enslen (1986, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
• Orinda D. Evans (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
• Jerry Falwell Jr. (1987) - Chancellor, Liberty University
• John A. Field Jr. (1935) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[103]
• Louise W. Flanagan (1988) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina^[104]
• Paul C. Gartzke (1992) - Presiding Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals^[105]
• Julia Smith Gibbons (1975) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[106]
• John A. Gibney, Jr. (1976) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia^[107]
• John Gleeson (1980) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York^[108]
• Thomas B. Griffith (1985) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[109]
• Asher Grunis (1972, LL.M) - President, Supreme Court of Israel
• Michael Daly Hawkins (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit^[110]
• Tim Heaphy (1991) - U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia^[111]
• Virginia Hopkins (1977) - Judge United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama^[112]
• Lynn Nettleton Hughes (1992, LL.M) - Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas^[113]
• Willis Hunt (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia^[114]
• Raymond Alvin Jackson (1973) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia^[115]
• Brendan Johnson - U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota^[116]
• Denise R. Johnson (LL.M., 1995) - first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court^[117]
• James Parker Jones (1965) - Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia^[118]
• Daniel Porter Jordan III (1993) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi^[119]
• Barbara Milano Keenan (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[120]
• James Kinkeade (1998, LL.M.) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas^[121]
• Cynthia D. Kinser (1977) - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia^[122]
• Edwin Kneedler (1975) - Deputy United States Solicitor General^[123]
• Jeannette Knoll (Master of Laws, 1996) - Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court^[124]
• Benson Everett Legg (1973) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland^[125]
• Peter K. Leisure (1958) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York^[126]
• Donald Lemons (1976) - Chief Justice Supreme Court of Virginia
• Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri^[127]
• Kermit Lipez (1990, LL.M.) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit^[128]
• J. Michael Luttig (1981) - former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co.^[129]
• James Clark McReynolds (1884) - former Justice, United States Supreme Court^[130]
• Blanche M. Manning (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois^[131]
• Boyce F. Martin, Jr. (1963, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[132]
• Mark D. Martin (1998) - Judge North Carolina Supreme Court
• Amit Priyavadan Mehta (1997) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
• Lawrence E. Meyers (1998, LL.M) - Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth^[133]
• Donald M. Middlebrooks (2004, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
• Michael P. Mills (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
• Richard Henry Mills (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois^[134]
• Paul Redmond Michel (1966) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit^[135]
• Norman K. Moon (1988, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia^[136]
• John T. Morton (1994) - Assistant Secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
• Diana Gribbon Motz (1968) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[137]
• J. Frederick Motz (1967) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland^[138]
• William Theodore Moore Jr. (2001, LL.M)- Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
• Alan Eugene Norris (1986) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[139]
• Diarmuid O'Scannlain (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit^[140]
• John Pelander (1998, LL.M) Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
• Cleo E. Powell (1982) - Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
• Stanley Forman Reed (1908) - former Justice, United States Supreme Court^[141]
• Carlton W. Reeves (1989) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi^[142]
• Kenneth Francis Ripple (1968) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit^[143]
• Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (1988, LL.M) Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit^[144]
• John Roll (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona^[145]
• Robert D. Rucker (1998, LL.M) - Judge, Indiana Supreme Court^[146]
• Thomas G. Saylor (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Michael H. Schneider, Sr. (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas^[147]
• Arthur J. Schwab (1972) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) - Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court^[148]
• G. Kendall Sharp (1963) - Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida^[149]
• Robert J. Shelby (1988) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
• Randall Terry Shepard (1995 LL.M) - Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court^[150]
• Walter King Stapleton (1984, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit^[151]
• W. Taylor Reveley, III (1968) - President, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School^[152]
• Arthur J. Schwab (1972) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania^[153]
• Edward Samuel Smith (1947) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit^[154]
• William Lloyd Standish (1956) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania^[155]
• Murray Merle Schwartz (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware^[156]
• Randall Terry Shepard (1995, LL.M) - Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court^[150]
• Louis L. Stanton (1955) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York^[157]
• Myron T. Steele (1970) - Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
• Chester J. Straub (1961) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit^[158]
• Richard F. Suhrheinrich (1990, LL.M) - Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[159]
• Richard Barclay Surrick (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania^[160]
• Debra Todd (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Juan R. Torruella (1984, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit^[161]
• Joyce White Vance (1985) - United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama^[162]
• Paul R. Verkuil (1967) - Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; former President of College of William & Mary and former Dean of Cardozo Law School^[163]
• James B. Whitfield (1886) - State Attorney General, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
• Michael J. Wilkins (1901, LL.M) - Associate Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court^[164]
• J. Harvie Wilkinson (1972) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[165]
• Glen Morgan Williams (1948) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia^[166]
• Victor J. Wolski (1991) - Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
• James Andrew Wynn (1995, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit^[167]
• Eugene E. Siler, Jr. (1963) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit^[168]

Academia

• Elizabeth Garrett (1988) - President, Cornell University
• M. Elizabeth Magill (1995) - Dean, Stanford Law School
• Paul B. Stephan (1977) - University of Virginia Law School ^[169]

Media

• Louis Auchincloss (1941) - Novelist
• David Baldacci (1986) - Novelist
• Linda Fairstein (1972) - Novelist
• Emily Giffin (1997) - Novelist
• Lee Habeeb (1991) - Conservative talk radio producer
• Laura Ingraham (1991) - Radio talk-show host
• N. Scott Momaday (1959) - Novelist and Pulitzer Prize recipient
• Andrew Scheinman (1973) - Movie producer
• Will Shortz (1977) - Crossword Editor, New York Times
• Evan Thomas (1977) - Editor, Newsweek

Business

• Donald Dell (1964) - Founder of ProServ
• Tim Finchem (1973) - Commissioner and CEO, PGA TOUR
• Peter S. Kaufman (1978) - Investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
• Bowie Kuhn (1950) - Former Major League Baseball Commissioner
• Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) - Vice President and General Counsel, Procter & Gamble
• Ted Mathas (1992) - Chairman, President, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
• Alexander F. Mathews, M.A. 1856 - President and Founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte^[170]
• John E. Osborn (1983) - Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
• Michael Slive (1965) - Current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and formerly the first commissioner of both Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
• DeMaurice Smith (1989) - Executive Director, National Football League Players' Association
• Michael C. Wholley (1977) - General Counsel, NASA
• Bob Wright (1968) - Former Chairman and CEO of NBC
• Don Yee (1987) - NFL sports agent

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