- Shimon Agranat: President of the Israeli Supreme Court 1965-1976
- John Ashcroft: Former U.S. Senator, Governor of Missouri, and Attorney General of the United States
- Alfred C. Aman, Jr.: Dean of Suffolk University Law School and Indiana University School of Law
- Russell Baker: founder of the international firm Baker & McKenzie
- Laird Bell
- Danny Julian Boggs: Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
- Robert Bork: Former Solicitor General of the United States, acting Attorney General of the United States, and Judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court
- Carol Moseley Braun: U.S. Senator from Illinois; first (and only) African-American female U.S. Senator; sought 2004 Democratic Party presidential nomination
- Sophonisba Breckinridge: first woman to graduate from the Law School in its first class
- John E. Cashman: Wisconsin State Senator
- Elizabeth Cheney: head of the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG) and daughter of former U.S. Vice President Richard Cheney
- Marvin Chirelstein: Professor at Columbia Law School
- Norton Clapp: Former president and chairman of Weyerhaeuser, former president of Boy Scouts of America
- Ramsey Clark: Former Attorney General of the United States
- James Comey: Former Acting Attorney General of the United States, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, and former United States Attorney (for the Southern District of New York)
- Richard Cordray: Former Attorney General and State Treasurer of Ohio, presently the first Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- James I. Dolliver: Former U.S. Representative
- Frank Hoover Easterbrook: Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- Jerome Frank: Former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
- E. Harold Hallows, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- James C. Ho: Former Solicitor General of Texas
- James Hormel: First openly gay United States Ambassador (to Luxembourg)
- Harold L. Ickes: United States Secretary of the Interior
- Douglas H. Ginsburg: Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; unsuccessfully nominated to the Supreme Court
- Mary Ann Glendon: Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University; US Ambassador to the Holy See
- Jan Crawford Greenburg: ABC News legal correspondent (well known for Supreme Court coverage)
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- Phillip E. Johnson: Founder of the Intelligent Design movement
- David Aaron Kessler: Former FDA Commissioner, former Dean of the Yale School of Medicine, and current Dean of the University of California, San Francisco Medical School
- Amy Klobuchar: U.S. Senator from Minnesota
- Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, the Head of the Far Eastern Republic (1920 to 1921)
- Rex E. Lee: Former Solicitor General of the United States and President of Brigham Young University
- Edward H. Levi: Former Attorney General of the United States
- Harvey Levin: Popular purveyor of celebrity gossip and legal commentary
- Michael W. McConnell: Judge on the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- David M. McIntosh: Former U.S. Congressman from Indiana (1994–2001)and Co-Founder of the Federalist Society. Indiana Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2000
- Patsy Mink: Former U.S. Representative
- Abner J. Mikva: Former U.S. Congressman from Illinois and Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- Jonathan Mitchell: Solicitor General of Texas and Professor at George Mason Law School
- Lisa S. Neubauer: Judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Sir Geoffrey Palmer: 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
- John Pickler, member of the United States House of Representatives
- Nicholas J. Pritzker: Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Hyatt Development Corporation
- Thomas Pritzker: Chairman and CEO of Global Hyatt Corporation
- Abraham Ribicoff: U.S. Senator from Connecticut
- Lee H. Rosenthal: Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- David M. Rubenstein, Founder, The Carlyle Group
- Kyle Sampson, former Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
- Mary M. Schroeder: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- Adam Silver: NBA Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer
- Milan Dale Smith, Jr.: judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,
- Barbara Snyder: President of Case Western Reserve University
- Jim Talent: Former U.S. Congressman and U.S. Senator from Missouri
- David S. Tatel: Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Studs Terkel Notable Chicago Radio Personality, Journalist and Author
- Julian Seesal Waterman: Founder and first Dean of University of Arkansas Law School
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