List of Penn Law School alumni

This is a list of notable people affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania Law School by virtue of attending or graduating from Penn Law. For a list of notable people who matriculated at, graduated from, taught at or governed the University of Pennsylvania as a whole, see List of University of Pennsylvania people.

Law and government

U.S. government President The three presidents who were awarded honorary doctorate of law degrees by Penn (in chronological order of being granted the honorary doctorate degrees) are:

George Washington, honorary Doctor of Law, Class of 1783,The Pennsylvania Gazette page 80 of Jan/Feb 2021 Issue 1st president of the United States Franklin Delano Roosevelt, honorary Doctor of Law, Class of 1940, 32nd president of the United States Dwight David Eisenhower, honorary Doctor of Law, Class of 1947, 34th president of the United States

Executive branch Philip Werner Amram, asst. attorney general of the United States, 1939–42 William H. Brown, III, chairman, EEOC Gilbert F. Casellas, chairman, EEOC and general counsel of the Air Force Walter Joseph "Jay" Clayton III, Penn Law Class of 1993, chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 2017–2020 Josiah E. DuBois Jr., U.S. State Department official, instrumental in Holocaust rescue Thomas K. Finletter, Penn Law Class of 1920, United States secretary of the Air Force 1950–1953; United States ambassador to NATO 1961–65http://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/finlettr.htm The Truman Libraryaf.mil U.S. Air Force, The Air and Space Power Journal Lindley M. Garrison, Penn Law Class of 1885, LLB, secretary of war under President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1916) William B. Gray, United States attorney for Vermont, 1977–1981 Earl G. Harrison, commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44 Henry Hoyt, Penn Law class of 1881, US solicitor general, 1903–1909 Shira Perlmutter, Penn Law Class of 1983, 14th Register of Copyrights; previously chief policy officer and director for international affairs at the United States Patent and Trademark Office; first associate register for Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office Melissa Rogers, Penn Law class of 1991, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under President Joe Biden Heath Tarbert, nominee for assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Markets and Development in the U.S. (2017)www.whitehouse.gov Katherine "Kathi" Vidal (née Kelly), Penn Law Class of 1996, under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Robert J. Walker, U.S. secretary of the treasury, 1840–45 George W. Wickersham, attorney general of the United States, 1909–1913; instrumental in the breakup of Standard Oil; president of the Council on Foreign Relations (1933–36) George Washington Woodruff, Class of 1895, acting U.S. secretary of the interior under President Theodore Roosevelt

Judicial branch Federal Supreme Court Owen J. Roberts, justice, Supreme Court of the United States James Wilson, justice, Supreme Court of the United States (Hon. LL.D); Penn's first law professor (1790–92); signer of the Declaration of Independence, and major participant in first and subsequent drafts of U.S. Constitution, which he signed (becoming one of only six people to sign both documents)

Federal circuit courts Arlin Adams, Penn Law class of 1947, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1969–1987 John Warren Davis, Penn Law class of 1906, former judge for both the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit James Hunter III, Penn Law class of 1939, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1971–1989 Harry Ellis Kalodner, Penn Law class of 1917,"U.S. Veterans Bureau Form 7202 Index Card", "United States Government, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940" database, National Archives and Records Administration, St. Louis, Missouri, available through FamilySearch. Note: information listed on 7202 Index Card is "Rct 2 Rct Co Pvt JAGD"."Index Record for Harry Kalodner (1896) Veterans Affairs Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem Death File", Fold3 by Ancestry.com website. Retrieved November 15, 2022. Enlistment date is listed as "23 Sep 1918" and release date is listed as "25 Apr 1919". chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1946–1977 Phyllis A. Kravitch (1920–2017), Penn Law class of 1943, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit John Bayard McPherson, Penn Law professor, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1912–1919 Max Rosenn, Penn Law class of 1932, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1970–2006 Patty Shwartz, Penn Law class of 1986, judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, assumed office 2013 Dolores Sloviter, Penn Law class of 1956, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Joseph Whitaker Thompson, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1931–1946 Helene White, Penn Law class of 1978, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (regular: 2008–2022; senior: 2022– )

Federal district courts Guy K. Bard, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Harvey Bartle III, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Michael Baylson, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Ralph C. Body, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1965–73 Raymond J. Broderick, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Margo Kitsy Brodie, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. NY Allison D. Burroughs, judge, District of Massachusetts A. Richard Caputo, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa. Tanya S. Chutkan, class of 1987, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C. Rudolph Contreras, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C. James Harry Covington, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.C.; co-founder of Covington & Burling Stewart Dalzell (1943–2019), graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965; received Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969; United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania John Morgan Davis, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1964–84 John Warren Davis, Penn Law Class of 1906, former judge for both the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Paul S. Diamond, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. John William Ditter Jr., judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Herbert Allan Fogel, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1973–78 Jennifer L. Hall, Penn Law Class of 2004, United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware since 2024; previously United States magistrate judge of the same court 2019–2024 James Halpern, judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1990–2005 Daniel Henry Huyett III, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1970–98 Abdul Kallon, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Al. William Huntington Kirkpatrick, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa, 1927–58 John C. Knox, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y., 1948–55 Charles William Kraft Jr., judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1956–2002 Robert Lowe Kunzig, judge, U.S. Court of Claims, 1971–82 Caleb Rodney Layton III, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1957–88 Paul Conway Leahy, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1942–66 James Russell Leech, judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1932–52 Joseph Simon Lord III, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1961–92 Alfred Leopold Luongo, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1961–86 Thomas Ambrose Masterson, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa, 1967–73 James Focht McClure Jr., judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa. Barron Patterson McCune, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa. Joseph Leo McGlynn Jr., judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1974–99 Gerald Austin McHugh Jr., judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 2014– Charles Louis McKeehan, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1923–25 Roderick R. McKelvie, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E., 1991–2002 Mary A. McLaughlin, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. John W. Murphy, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, M.D. Pa., 1946–62 Thomas Newman O'Neill Jr., judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Peter Delome Overfield (1874–1959), Penn Law class of 1900, judge for district court for the Territory of Alaska (serving Fairbanks, Valdez and Anchorage) appointed in 1909 by President William Howard Taft, All-American college football player"Football: Harvard 16; Pennsylvania 0". Dubuque Sunday Herald. 1899-11-01 and professional football player for 1901 Homestead Library & Athletic Club football team"Homestead 18; Philadelphia 0". The New York Times. 1901-11-24 Gene E. K. Pratter, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Arthur Raymond Randolph, judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Sue Lewis Robinson, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E. Juan Ramon Sánchez, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Ralph Francis Scalera, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa. Allen G. Schwartz, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y., 1993–2003 Murray Merle Schwartz, chief judge, U.S. Dist. Court, D.E, 1974– Norma Levy Shapiro, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa. Jerome B. Simandle, judge, U.S. Dist. Court N.J. Charles Swayne, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, N.D. Florida, 1890–1907 Donald West VanArtsdalen, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1970–85 Jay Waldman, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa., 1988–2003 Gerald Joseph Weber, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, W.D. Pa. Harold Kenneth Wood, judge, U.S. Dist. Court, E.D. Pa, 1959–71

Other federal courts Bruce E. Reinhart, Penn Law Class of 1987, magistrate judge, Southern District of Florida Jonathan R. Steinberg (1940–2015), Penn Law Class of 1963, appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990 to be federal judge for the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, retired in 2005 but stayed on as a senior judge

Legislative branch (US) US Senate Joseph Maull Carey, U.S. senator from Wyoming 1890–1895; governor of Wyoming 1911–1915; Wyoming delegate to the U.S. Congress 1885–1890, and justice on Wyoming Supreme Court Joseph Sill Clark, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania 1957–69 James Henderson Duff, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, 1951–57 George Wharton Pepper, U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, chronicler of the Senate

US House of Representatives Ephraim Leister Acker, LL.B., Penn Law Class of 1886 and M.D., Penn Med Class of 1852, elected as a Democrat to Pennsylvania representative to the Forty-second Congress (1871–1873) Wilbur L. Adams, Delaware representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–35 George F. Brumm, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1929–34 Matt Cartwright (born 1961), Penn Law Class of 1986, United States representative from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district Bernard G. Caulfield, Illinois representative to the U.S. Congress, 1874–77 E. Wallace Chadwick, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1947–49 Joel Cook, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1907–11 James Harry Covington, Maryland representative to the U.S. Congress, 1909–14 Willard S. Curtin, Class of 1932, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1957–1967, having been elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (and his election triumphs included defeating noted author James A. Michener in the 1962 election) and respected for voting in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957, 1960, and 1964, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 John Burrwood Daly, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1939–35 Clare G. Fenerty, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1935–37 Oliver Walter Frey, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1933–39 Benjamin Golder, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1925–33 George Scott Graham, Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, 1913–31