Government, politics, and international organizations •
Michael Anton (MA) - lecturer and research fellow at
Hillsdale College, senior fellow at the
Claremont Institute, and former deputy assistant to the president for Strategic Communications on the
United States National Security Council •
Stephen Cambone (Ph.D. 1982) - first U.S.
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence •
Tom Cotton (master's degree program) -
United States Senator and
Congressman from
Arkansas •
David Dreier (MA 1976) -
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives 1981–2013; Chairman of the
House Rules Committee 1999–2007 and 2011–2013 •
Jonathan D. Farrar (MA) - chief of mission of the
United States Interests Section in Havana, Cuba •
Kenneth J. Hagan (Ph.D. 1970) - naval historian •
Steven F. Hayward (MA/Ph.D.) - author, political commentator,
AEI policy scholar •
Teresa Patterson Hughes (Ph.D. 1973) - professor of education at
California State University, Los Angeles; California State Assembly member (1975–1992); California state senator (1993–2000) •
Susan M. Leeson (Ph.D. 1971) -
associate justice of the
Oregon Supreme Court •
Ronald F. Lehman (Ph.D. 1975) - director of the Center for Global Security Research,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; director of the
U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency;
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy;
Department of State's U.S. Chief Negotiator on (
START I); and
Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs •
Mary Parker Lewis (MA) - political consultant •
Philippe Maystadt (MA 1973) - former Belgian Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister as well as current President of
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, Belgium •
Paul O'Neill (MA 1961) -
United States Secretary of the Treasury; chairman of the
RAND Corporation •
Susan Orr (Ph.D. 1992) - head of the
Office of Population Affairs and
United States Children's Bureau •
Verne Orr (Ph.D. 2005) - 14th
Secretary of the Air Force •
Robert R. Reilly (MA 1978) - former director,
Voice of America •
Peter W. Schramm (Ph.D. 1981) - professor of political science; executive director of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs •
Jack Scott (Ph.D. 1970) - California state senator; chancellor, California Community Colleges •
Kermit Staggers (Ph.D. 1986) - professor of history, University of Sioux Falls; South Dakota senator and Sioux Falls city councilman •
Srettha Thavisin (MBA) - 30th prime minister of the Kingdom of Thailand •
Michael Uhlmann (Ph.D. 1978) - visiting professor of government in the department of politics and policy at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont McKenna College; assistant attorney general in the
Gerald Ford administration; special assistant to President
Ronald Reagan •
Jerry Voorhis (MA) - Democratic US Representative from California •
Diane Watson (Ph.D. 1988) - Democratic member of the
U.S. House of Representatives 2001–2011 •
Abdulla Yameen - president of the
Maldives, elected in 2013
Academia and science •
William Barclay Allen (MA 1968/Ph.D. 1972) - political scientist at
Michigan State University •
Joyce Appleby (Ph.D. 1966) - historian at
UCLA; President of the
Organization of American Historians and the
American Historical Association •
Larry P. Arnn (MA 1976/Ph.D. 1985) - educator and writer; 12th and current president of
Hillsdale College •
José Aybar (Ph.D. 1978) - president of
Richard J. Daley College •
Sacvan Bercovitch (Ph.D. 1965) - Americanist, literary and cultural critic; Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at
Harvard University; visiting faculty member at the
School of Criticism and Theory at
Dartmouth College •
Elizabeth Castelli (MA 1986/Ph.D. 1987) - professor of religion,
Barnard College •
Angelo Codevilla (Ph.D. 1973) - professor emeritus of International Relations at the
Pardee School of Global Studies,
Boston University •
Nicholas Cummings (MA) - psychologist and former president of the
American Psychological Association •
Jack Cuzick (Ph.D. 1974) - John Snow Professor of Epidemiology at the Wolfson Institute,
Queen Mary University of London •
Stewart Donaldson (Ph.D. 1991) - distinguished university professor known for his work on evaluation science and positive organizational psychology; executive director of the Claremont Evaluation Center and the Evaluators' Institute (TEI), and past president of the
American Evaluation Association •
Jacqueline Powers Doud (Ph.D. 1976) - president of
Mount St. Mary's College •
John C. Eastman (Ph.D.) - politician; former professor and dean at Chapman University School of Law; staff member at
the Claremont Institute; former law clerk to
Clarence Thomas; attorney for
Donald Trump during his
attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election •
Irene Eber (Ph.D.1966) - sinologist and historian, Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem •
David H. French (MA 1940) - anthropologist and linguist •
Arthur Janov (Ph.D.) - psychologist, psychotherapist, and the creator of
primal therapy •
Robert Erwin Johnson (Ph.D. 1956) - professor of history and considered "one of the finest scholars of the nineteenth century
U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard" •
David Keirsey (Ph.D. 1967) - psychologist •
Robert E. Kennedy (Ph.D.) - president of
California Polytechnic State University •
Christopher Manfredi (Ph.D. 1987) - dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of Political Science at
McGill University in
Montreal •
Warren Montag (MA 1981/Ph.D. 1989) - Brown Family Professor in Literature and English,
Occidental College •
Milton C. Moreland (MA/Ph.D.) - archaeologist and president of
Centre College •
Vincent Phillip Muñoz (Ph.D. 2001) - associate professor,
Political Science,
University of Notre Dame •
Franklin Patterson (Ph.D. 1955) - first president of
Hampshire College in
Amherst, Massachusetts •
Tomas J. Philipson (MA 1985) - Daniel Levin Chair in Public Policy at the
University of Chicago •
Kathleen Ross (Ph.D.) - founding president of
Heritage University •
Jem Spectar (MA/Ph.D.) - president of the
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown •
Laurence Thompson (MA 1947) -
USC professor of East Asian/
Taiwanese languages and cultures •
William Van Cleave (MA 1965/Ph.D. 1967) - advisor to President
Ronald Reagan,
Department of Defense, and
Department of State; founder of the program of Defense and Strategic Studies at
University of Southern California and
Missouri State University •
Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran (Ph.D. 1977) - president of
Kalamazoo College •
Donald Yacovone (Ph.D. 1984) - historian and research manager at Harvard University's
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, and an associate at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at
Harvard University Business and industry •
Min-Shun "Diana" Chen (MBA 1997) - chairperson/CEO, Taipei World Financial Center (
Taipei 101) •
Rajiv Dutta (MBA 1982) - president of
Skype and
PayPal •
Nabeel Gareeb (MS) - former CEO of
MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.; sixth highest paid CEO in 2007 (with a salary of $79.6 million) •
Sandy Lerner (MA 1977) - co-founder,
Cisco Systems; founder, Urban Decay Cosmetics
Fine arts •
Lisa Adams (MFA 1980) - painter •
Bas Jan Ader (MA 1967) - Dutch conceptual artist, filmmaker, performance artist, and photographer •
Lewis Baltz (MA 1971) - visual artist; professor for Photography at the
European Graduate School in
Saas-Fee, Switzerland •
Bennett Bean (MA 1966) - ceramic artist •
Karl Benjamin (MA 1960) - painter of vibrant geometric abstractions •
Greg Colson (MFA 1980) - artist best known for wall sculptures constructed of salvaged materials •
Kim Dingle (MFA 1990) - contemporary artist working in paint, sculpture and installation •
John Frame (MFA 1980) - sculptor, photographer, composer and filmmaker •
William Hemmerdinger (MFA 1975/Ph.D.) - artist, writer, gallery owner, educator •
Ferne Jacobs (MFA) - fiber artist and basket-maker •
Adele Y. Schonbrun (MFA 1965) - ceramic artist •
David Scott (MFA) - museum director •
James Strombotne (MA 1959) - painter •
James Turrell (MA 1973) - installation artist primarily concerned with light and space •
Claire Van Vliet (MA) - fine artist, illustrator and typographer
Literature and performing arts •
Luis Aguilar-Monsalve (MA) - author and professor •
Ashleigh Brilliant (MA 1958) - author and syndicated cartoonist •
Ian Fowles (MA 2008) - musician and author •
Daniel Lewis (MA 1951) - orchestral conductor and pedagogue; professor emeritus at
University of Southern California •
Suzanne Muchnic (MFA 1963) - art critic and art writer for the
Los Angeles Times; lecturer on art history and criticism at CGU and
University of Southern California •
Edith Pattou (MA 1979) - author •
Rachel Pollack (MA) - science fiction author; comic book writer; expert on divinatory tarot •
Benjamin Saltman (Ph.D. 1967) - poet, professor of verse writing and contemporary American literature •
Michael Shermer (Ph.D. 1991) - founding publisher of
Skeptic magazine; monthly columnist for
Scientific American; author of
Why Darwin Matters,
The Science of Good and Evil, and
Why People Believe Weird Things •
Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. (MA/Ph.D.) - author, military historian and illustrator •
Steven D. Strauss (MPP) - author, columnist, and lawyer
Religion •
Bhikkhu Bodhi (Ph.D. 1972) (civilian name Jeffrey Block) - Buddhist monk, translator of important works in the
Pāli Canon, president and editor of
Buddhist Publication Society, chairman of the Yin Sun Foundation, chairperson of
Buddhist Global Relief •
Craig A. Evans (MA/Ph.D.) - theologian,
Acadia Divinity College •
David Ray Griffin (Ph.D. 1970) - professor of philosophy of religion and theology •
Nancy R. Howell (MA/Ph.D.) - professor of theology and philosophy of religion •
Marvin Meyer (Ph.D. 1979) - Griset Professor of Bible and Christian studies,
Chapman University •
George F. Regas (Ph.D. 1972) - rector emeritus,
All Saints Episcopal Church, Pasadena, California •
Deepak Shimkhada - adjunct professor, Board of Visitors of School of Religion
Others •
Bomani Jones (MA 2006) - sports writer and commentator for ESPN Radio's
The Right Time •
Carol Baker Tharp (Ph.D. 2003) - general manager and former executive director •
John G. West (Ph.D. 1992) - senior fellow at the Seattle-based
Discovery Institute; associate director and vice president for Public Policy and Legal Affairs of its
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