President of the United States •
Barack Obama, served as president of volume 104.
Supreme Court Justices •
Stephen Breyer, served as articles editor of volume 77. •
Felix Frankfurter. •
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, served as editor for one year before transferring to
Columbia Law School. •
Elena Kagan, served as supervising editor of volume 99. •
John G. Roberts Jr., served as managing editor for volume 92. •
Andrew L. Brasher, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. •
Michael Boudin, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, served as president of volume 77. •
Learned Hand, late judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as an editor but later resigned. •
Harris Hartz, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, served as case and developments editor. •
Gregory G. Katsas, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, executive editor of volume 102. •
William Kayatta, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. •
Pierre Leval, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as notes editor. •
Debra Ann Livingston, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. •
Richard Posner, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, served as president of volume 75. •
Lawrence VanDyke, judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Cabinet secretaries •
Dean Acheson, Secretary of State. •
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security and former judge on
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. •
William Coleman Jr., Secretary of Transportation,
Brown v. Board of Education attorney, and first African-American Supreme Court clerk. •
Merrick Garland, 86th
United States Attorney General; Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, served as articles editor. •
Mike Pompeo, former
US Secretary of State. •
Elliot Richardson, Attorney General, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, served as president (1947).
Other U.S. government officials •
Paul Clement, former U.S. Solicitor General, served as Supreme Court editor. •
Archibald Cox, U.S. Solicitor General. •
Christopher Cox, former chairman of
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. •
Ted Cruz,
U.S. Senator from
Texas. •
Viet Dinh, former Assistant Attorney General, served as
Bluebook editor. •
Charles Evans Hughes Jr., former U.S. Solicitor General. •
Michael Froman,
U.S. Trade Representative, 2013–2017. •
Julius Genachowski, former chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission. •
Ian Gershengorn, former acting U.S. Solicitor General. •
Danielle Gray, former
Cabinet Secretary. •
Erwin N. Griswold, a dean of the Harvard Law School and
Solicitor General under presidents
Lyndon B. Johnson and
Richard M. Nixon. •
Ron Klain, Chief of staff to Vice Presidents
Al Gore and
Joe Biden, Chief of Staff to the 46th president of the United States
Joe Biden. •
Michael Leiter, former Director of the U.S.
National Counterterrorism Center, president of volume 113. •
David S. Mann, former U.S. Representative from
Ohio, served as editor. •
Mark S. Martins, Brigadier General in the
United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, Chief Prosecutor of Military Commissions. •
Bernard Nussbaum, former
White House Counsel, served as notes editor. •
F. Whitten Peters, former
Secretary of the Air Force, served as president. •
Edith Ramirez, chairwoman of the
Federal Trade Commission. •
Rod Rosenstein,
U.S. Deputy Attorney General. •
Jamie Raskin, U.S. Representative from
Maryland. •
Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio. •
Barry B. White,
United States Ambassador to Norway, 2009–2013. •
Robert L. Deitz, former
General Counsel for the
National Security Agency and Senior Counsel to the
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, served as notes editor and Supreme Court Note.
Other government officials •
Preeta D. Bansal, former New York State Solicitor General, served as supervising editor. •
Allan Gotlieb, former
Canadian Ambassador to the United States. •
Eliot Spitzer, former
Governor of New York. •
Robert Stanfield, former Premier of the
Province of Nova Scotia, and former leader of Canada's Official Opposition. He was the ''Review's'' first Canadian editor in the late 1930s.
Academics •
Stephen Barnett, legal scholar at
University of California, Berkeley School of Law who opposed the
Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970. •
Alexander Bickel, late professor at
Yale Law School. •
Derek Bok, former president of
Harvard University. •
Kingman Brewster, former president of
Yale University, served as treasurer. •
Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School, served as executive editor. •
Stephen J. Friedman, president of
Pace University. •
John H. Garvey, president of
The Catholic University of America. •
I. Glenn Cohen, professor at Harvard Law School. •
Annette Gordon-Reed, professor at Harvard Law School and winner of the
Pulitzer Prize for History. •
Robert A. Gorman (born 1937), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. •
Charles Hamilton Houston, former Dean of
Howard University Law School and NAACP Litigation Director. •
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld, professor at Yale Law School. •
John Honnold (1915–2011), law professor at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School. •
Harold Koh, former Dean of Yale Law School. •
David Leebron, president of
Rice University, served as president. •
Lance Liebman, former Dean of
Columbia Law School, served as president. •
Kenneth Mack, professor and historian at Harvard Law School. •
William C. Powers, former president of
University of Texas, served as managing editor. •
Jeannie Suk Gersen, professor at Harvard Law School. •
Matthew Stephenson, professor at Harvard Law School. •
Stephen Schulhofer (born 1942), professor of law at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School and
NYU Law School. •
John Sexton, former president of
New York University. •
James Vorenberg, former dean of Harvard Law School, served as president. •
Michael K. Young, president of
Texas A&M University.
Other attorneys •
Bennett Boskey, law clerk to Judge
Learned Hand and two U.S. Supreme Court justices. •
Joe Flom, noted M&A attorney and name partner at
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. •
John B. Quinn, founder and name partner of
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. •
Kenneth Chesebro, participant in the
January 6 United States Capitol attack, indicted by the state of Georgia in the scheme to alter results of the 2020 election for US president, the Trump fake electors plot. •
Andrew Schlafly, founder of
Conservapedia. •
Hagan Scotten, former
Assistant U.S. Attorney for the
Southern District of New York Writers and journalists •
Phil Graham, former publisher of
The Washington Post. •
Archibald MacLeish,
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. •
Cliff Sloan, former publisher of
Slate. •
Jeffrey Toobin, print and broadcast journalist. •
George Ezra Dane, co-founder of the resurrected fraternal organization "E Clampus Vitus", and author of
Ghost Town.
Other alumni •
David Bonderman, co-founder of private equity firm
TPG Capital. •
Norman Dorsen, former
American Civil Liberties Union president. •
Jeff Kindler, former CEO of
Pfizer. •
Alfred Lee Loomis, financier, scientist, and inventor. •
Rob Manfred, commissioner of
Major League Baseball, served as articles editor. •
Adebayo Ogunlesi, chairman and managing partner of
Global Infrastructure Partners. •
Harvey Schein, former president and chief executive of the
Sony Corporation of America. •
Nadine Strossen, former
American Civil Liberties Union president. ==See also==