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Albany
Law School
Elliott Spitzer
New York Attorney General
Appalachian
School of Law
Rick Boucher
U.S. Representative from Virginia
Ave
Maria School of Law
Clarence Thomas
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
Baylor
University Law School
Prof. Larry T. Bates
Benjamin
N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva)
Sandra Day O’Connor
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
Boston
College Law School
Walter Dellinger
Former Assistant US Attorney General
Brooklyn
Law School
Reena Raggi
Judge, United States Second Circuit of
Appeals
Catholic
U., Columbus School of Law
Elaine L. Chao
U.S. Secretary of Labor
Chapman
University School of Law
Jay S. Bybee
Judge, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals
Chicago-Kent
College of Law, Ill. Inst. of Tech.
Diane P. Wood
Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Circuit
Drake
University Law School
Dennis W. Archer
President of the
American Bar Association
Duke
University School of Law
Theodore B. Olson
U.S. Solicitor General
Florida
State University College of Law
Gene Stearns
"1972 College of Law alumnus and
partner with the law firm
of Stearns, Weaver, Miller, Weissler, Alhadeff & Sitterson, P.A. in
Miami"
Franklin
Pierce Law Center
Judd Gregg
U.S. Senator from New Hampshire
George
Mason School of Law
Danny J. Boggs
Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit
George
Washington University Law School
Thomas Buergenthal
International Court of Justice Judge
Georgia
State University College of Law
Andrew Young
Former U.N. ambassador and longtime civil-rights leader
Hofstra
University School of Law
Elliott Spitzer
New York Attorney General
Lewis
& Clark Northwestern School of Law
Patricia A. Madrid
Attorney General of New Mexico
Louisiana
State University Law Center
Donna Brazile
Chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights
Institute
Loyola
University School of Law, New Orleans
Marcel Garsaud
Former Dean of the Law School
McGeorge
School of Law, University of the Pacific
Craig Manson
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife
and Parks, U.S. Interior Department
Manhattan
Law School
Terence Carter
Former U.S. Ambassador
Mercer
University Law School
Col. James P. Terry
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs
Michigan
State University College of Law
Kwame Kilpatrick
The Mayor of Detroit
Northeastern
University School of Law
Stephen B. Bright
Director of the Southern Center for Human
Rights
Northwestern
University School of Law
Joseph R. Biden
U.S. Senator - D-Del.
Ohio
Northern University, Pettit College of Law
Thomas J. Moyer
Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
Quinnipiac
College School of Law
Joette Katz
Connecticut Supreme Court Justice
Roger
Williams University School of Law
W.
Richard West, Jr.
Director
of the National Museum of the American Indian
Rutgers
School of Law - Camden
Joseph R. Biden
U.S. Senator - D-Del.
St.
John's University School of Law
P. Kevin Castel
Judge, U.S. District Court, Southern
District of New York
St.
Mary's University of San Antonio School of Law
Karen Angelini
Justice, Texas Fourth Court of Appeals
Santa
Clara University School of Law
Larry Sonsini
Chairman and CEO of Wilson Sonsini
Goodrich & Rosati
South
Texas College of Law
Thomas R. Phillips
Chief Justice, Texas Supreme
Court
Stanford
Law School
Barbara Allen Babcock
"The first director of the Public Defender
Service for the District of Columbia
and the first female professor at Stanford Law School"
Stetson
University College of Law
Charlie Crist
Florida Attorney General
Suffolk
University Law School
Robert J. Grey, Jr.
President-Elect of the American Bar Association
Mitt Romney
Governor of Massachusetts
Texas
Wesleyan University School of Law
William Suter
Clerk of the U.S. Supreme
Court
Thomas
Jefferson School of Law
Carlos R. Moreno
Associate Justice for the California
Supreme Court
Thomas
M. Cooley Law School
John T. Berry (February 2004)
Executive Director of the State Bar of
Michigan
Touro
College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Aaron Twerski
The Francis Newell DeValpine Professor of
Law at Brooklyn Law School
UCLA
School of Law
Ben Stein
Actor, Economist, Author, Journalist, Screenwriter
and Teacher
University
of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law Center
Peter T. Cahoon
President-elect of the Akron Bar
Association
University
of Alabama School of Law
Harold Ford Jr.
U.S. Representative from Tennessee
University
of Arkansas School of Law (Fayetteville)
Dale Bumpers
Former Arkansas Governor and U.S. Senator
University
of Dayton School of Law
Gerry Faust
Former Notre Dame head football coach and University of Dayton alumnus
University
of Denver College of Law
Al LaCabe Jr.
Denver manager of public safety
University
of Georgia School of Law
Leah Ward Sears
Supreme Court of Georgia Presiding Justice
University
of Iowa College of Law
Norm Coleman
U.S. Senator from Minnesota and 1976 UI
College of Law alumnus
University
of Minnesota Law School
Nadine Strossen
President of the ACLU
University
of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Tom Hyde
Executive Vice President and Senior
General Counsel for Wal-Mart
University
of Nebraska College of Law
Chuck Hagel
U.S. Senator, R-Neb.
University
of New Mexico School of Law
Bill Richardson
N.M. Governor
University
of North Dakota School of Law
Bryan Stevenson
Public Interest Lawyer
University of Richmond School of Law
Joel Holt
A "1977 graduate of the law school
and lawyer from the Virgin Islands"
University
of Southern California Law School
Bruce
Karatz
Chairman and CEO of KB Home
University
of Tennessee College of Law
Paul G. Summers
Tennessee Attorney General
University
of Toledo College of Law
Ted Turner
CNN Founder
University
of Washington School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky
USC Professor
University
of Wisconsin Law School
Cory L. Nettles
Secretary of Commerce for the State of
Wisconsin
Valparaiso
University School of Law
Randall T. Shepard
Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme
Court
Vermont
Law School
Winona LaDuke
"... an internationally acclaimed Native
American speaker, writer, and organizer on environmental justice and other
issues.
In 1996 and 2000, LaDuke was Ralph Nader's vice presidential running mate on the
Green Party ticket."
Wake
Forest University School of Law
Robert J. Grey, Jr.
The President-Elect of the American Bar
Association
Washburn University School of
Law
Paul L. Brady
Former Federal Administrative Law Judge
Western
New England College School of Law
Roderick L. Ireland
Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court
William
and Mary School of Law
Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr.
Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme
Court
William
Mitchell College of Law
Harry J. Haynsworth
Retiring Dean and President
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