Notable NYU School of Law Alumni

Public Service
 
Robert Abrams '63
Former New York State Attorney General
 
The Honorable Lamar Alexander '65
U.S. Senator from Tennessee
 
Steven R. Banks '81
Attorney-in-Chief, Legal Aid Society
New York , NY
 
Helaine M. Barnett '64
President, Legal Services Corporation
Washington , D.C.
 
Carol Bellamy '68
Former Executive Director of UNICEF
Former President of New York City Council
 
Mohamed El Baradei (LL.M. '71, J.S.D. '74)
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Winner of the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize
 
The Honorable Diana L. DeGette '82
Member of Congress (D-Colorado), U.S. House of Representatives
 
Margaret Fung '78
Executive Director of the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
 
Rudolph Giuliani '68
Former Mayor of New York City
 
Robert M. Hayes '77
President, Medicare Rights Center and Founder, Coalition for the Homeless
 
Raymond Kelly (LL.M. '74)
NYC Police Commissioner

Jon Leibowitz '84
Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission

Shawn Maher '87
Staff Director and Chief Counsel,
United States Senate Committee on Banking Housing and Urban Affairs

Mario Mancuso '95
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Special Operations and Combating Terrorism,
Department of Defense

Bettina Poirier '87
Committee Staff Director and Chief Counsel for Senator Barbara Boxer

Jessica Rosenworcel '97
Senior Legal Councel, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation
 
Norman Siegel '68
Former Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union
 
Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. '76)
Mayor of Taipei and Vice Chairman of Taiwan's Nationalist Party (Kuomintang)
 
 
College Presidents/ Higher Ed
 
Richard M. Joel '75
President, Yeshiva University
 
James Milliken '83
President, University of Nebraska
 
Jeremy Travis '82
President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
 
 
Law Practice
 
David Boies (LL.M. '67)
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
 
Arthur B. Culvahouse '73
Managing Partner, O'Melveny and Myers
 
Kenneth Feinberg '70
The Feinberg Group LLP
 
Martin Lipton '55
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
 
Craig Medwick '77
Managing Partner, Clifford Chance
 
Herbert Wachtell '54
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
 
 
Sports
 
Gary Bettman '77
NHL Commissioner
 
Ethan Orlinsky '76
Senior VP and General Counsel, Major League Baseball
 
John Shaw '76
President, St. Louis Rams
 
Paul Tagliabue '65
NFL Commissioner
 
Mark Wilf '87
President, Minnesota Vikings
 
 
Finance and Industry
 
Herbert Kelleher '56
Executive Chairman and former CEO of Southwest Airlines
 
Harold Max Messmer '70
Chairman and CEO of Robert Half International
 
Michael I. Roth (LL.M. '75)
Chairman & CEO of the Interpublic Group of Companies
 
Anthony Welters '77
President & CEO of AmeriChoice Corp., a UnitedHealth Group company
 
 
Federal Judges
 
Circuit Courts
 
Pasco M. Bowman II '58
Senior Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
 
Dennis Jacobs '73
Circuit Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 
Joseph M. McLaughlin (LL.M. '64)
Senior Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
 
M. Blane Michael '68
Circuit Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Pauline Newman '58
Circuit Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
 
Alan E. Norris '60
Senior Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 
 
International Courts
 
Thomas Buergenthal '60
Judge on the International Court of Justice
 
Nabil Elaraby (LL.M. '69)
Former Judge on the International Court of Justice
 
Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (M.C.J. '52)
Judge on the International Court of Justice
 
 
Law Professors
 
John Coates IV '89
Harvard Law Professor
 
John Coffee (LL.M. '76)
Columbia Law Professor; frequent media commentator on corporate matters
 
Peter Neufeld '75
Co-founder of the Innocence Project at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
 
Judith Resnick '75
Yale Law Professor
 
David Rudovsky '67
Senior Fellow at University of Pennsylvania School of Law; former MacArthur Foundation award recipient
 
Peter Schuck (LL.M. '66)
Yale Law Professor
 
 
Investment Bankers and Fund Managers
 
William Comfort Jr. (LL.M. '64)
Chairman of private investment firm Citicorp Venture Capital
 
Robert Kindler '80
Global Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at J.P. Morgan Chase
 
Lester Pollack '57
Founder and Chairman of private investment firm Centre Partners
 
Richard Reiss Jr. '69
Founder and Chairman of private investment firm Georgica Advisors LLC
 
Lewis Steinberg ('84, LL.M. '92)
Head of Global Strategic Solutions Group at UBS Securities
 
 
Entertainment
 
Michael Fuchs '71
Former CEO of HBO, Inc.
 
Peter Guber ('67, LL.M. '68)
Hollywood producer, Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group; former Chairman & CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
 
Marvin Josephson '52
Founder of International Creative Management, Inc.
 
Marc Platt '82
Hollywood and Broadway producer
 
Michael S. Phillips '68
Hollywood producer; won Oscars for The Sting and for Taxi Driver