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Law School Commencement Speakers (Final)

  • Akron:  Bedford Biles
  • Albany:  Jeanine Pirro (TV legal analyst; former District Attorney, Westchester County, New York)
  • American:  Stephen Breyer (Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Baltimore:  Ted Turner (media mogul)
  • Boston College:  Michael Mukasey (Attorney General, United States)
  • Boston University:  Niki Tsongas (Member, U.S. Congress)
  • Brooklyn:  George Bundy Smith (Partner, Chadbourne & Parke; retired Judge, New York Court of Appeals)
  • BYU:  Matthew Durant (Justice, Utah Supreme Court)
  • Campbell:  William Suter (Clerk, U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Capital:  Jennifer Brunner (Secretary of State, Ohio)
  • Cardozo:  Dennis Jacobs (Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit)
  • Case Western:  Stephen Ellis (Partner, Tucker, Ellis & West) (former Ohio Attorney General Mark Dann was disinvited)
  • Catholic:  Samuel Alito (Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Chapman:  Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Irvine Law School)
  • Charleston:  Jan Crawford Greenburg (Legal Correspondent, ABC News)
  • Chicago-Kent:  Lisa Madigan (Attorney General, Illinois)
  • Cincinnati:  Billy Martin (Partner, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan)
  • Columbia:  Cynthia McFadden (Co-anchor, ABC News)
  • Connecticut:  Chase T. Rogers (Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court)
  • Cornell:  John Blume (Professor, Cornell)
  • Cumberland:  Lee Rosenthal (Judge, U.S. District Court)
  • CUNY:  Juan Gonzales (Journalist, New York Daily News)
  • Drake:  Robert Ray (former Governor, Iowa)
  • Duquesne:  Richard Thornburgh (former Governor, Pennsylvania; former Attorney General, United States)
  • Duke:  William Neukom (President, ABA; Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston, Gates Ellis)
  • Faulkner:  Harold Frend See (Justice, Alabama Supreme Court)
  • Florida State:  Neil Gorsuch (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit)
  • Fordham:  Rich Ross (President, Disney Channels Worldwide)
  • George Washington:  Daniel K. Inouye (Member, U.S. Senate)
  • Georgia:  John Barrow (Member, U.S. House of Representatives)
  • Georgia State:  Robert Benham (Justice, Supreme Court of Georgia)
  • Golden Gate:  Lee Baxter (former Judge, California Superior Court)
  • Harvard:  Cory Booker (Mayor, Newark, NJ)
  • Hofstra:  Adam Liptak (Reporter, New York Times)
  • Houston:  William H. Neukom (President, ABA; Partner, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston, Gates Ellis)
  • Indiana-Bloomington:  Richard Lugar (Member, U.S. Senate)
  • John Marshall (Chicago):  Jonathan Turley (Professor, George Washington; TV legal analyst)
  • La Verne:  Thomas Girardi (Founding Partner, Girardi & Keese)
  • Lewis & Clark:  John Lewis (Member, U.S. Congress)
  • Loyola-L.A.:  David W. Burcham (Executive Vice President & Provost, Loyola)
  • Loyola-New Orleans:  Scott Turow (legal novelist)
  • LSU:  Bobby Jindal (Governor, Louisiana)
  • Maine:  Frank Coffin (Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit)
  • Miami:  Carolyn Lamm (Partner, White & Case)
  • Michigan State:  Marilyn Kelly (Justice, Michigan Supreme Court)
  • Minnesota:  Tim Pawlenty (Governor, Minnesota)
  • New England:  Larry Lucchino (President & CEO, Boston Red Sox)
  • New York Law School:  Dennis Archer (Chairman, Dickinson Wright; former ABA President and Detroit Mayor)
  • New York University:  Anne Milgram (Attorney General, New Jersey)
  • North Dakota:  Ralph Erickson (Judge, U.S. District Court)
  • Northern Kentucky:  Wil Schroder (Justice, Kentucky Supreme Court)
  • Northeastern:  Stephen Breyer (Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
  • Northwestern:  Jerry Springer (TV show host; former Mayor, Cincinnati)
  • Notre Dame:  A.J. Bellia (Professor, Notre Dame; winner, Teacher of the Year award)
  • Ohio Northern:  Mike DeWine (former Member, U.S. Senate)
  • Oregon:  Elden Rosenthal (Founding Partner, Rosenthal & Greene)
  • Pace:  Theodore Jones (Judge, New York Court of Appeals)
  • Pacific McGeorge:  Doris Matsui (Member, U.S. Congress)
  • Penn State:  Michael Apfelbaum (Partner, Apfelbaum, Apfelbaum & Apfelbaum)
  • Pennsylvania:  Bill Richardson (Governor, New Mexico)
  • Pepperdine:  Kurt L. Schmoke (Dean, Howard)
  • Pittsburgh:  Debra Todd (Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court)
  • Quinnipiac:  Barry R. Schaller (Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court)
  • Richmond:  Henry Hudson (Judge, U.S. District Court)
  • Roger Williams:  Linda Greenhouse (former Supreme Court Reporter, New York Times)
  • St. Mary’s:  Tom Corbett (Attorney General, Pennsylvania)
  • San Diego:  Thomas O’Brien (U.S. Attorney, Central District of California)
  • Santa Clara:  Phyllis Hamilton (Judge, U.S. District Court)
  • Seton Hall:  Michael A. Chagares (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3d Circuit)
  • South Dakota:  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (Member, U.S. Congress)
  • Santa Clara:  Phyllis Hamilton (Judge, U.S. District Court)
  • SMU:  Antonio Garza, Jr. (U.S. Ambassador to Mexico)
  • South Texas:  Richard Anderson (CEO, Delta Airlines)
  • Stanford:  Joe Bankman (Tax Prof, Stanford; winner, Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching)
  • Suffolk:  H. Thomas Wells, Jr. (President-elect, ABA; Founding Member, Maynard, Cooper & Gale)
  • Syracuse:  Stephen Tober (Board of Governors, ABA)
  • Tulsa:  Brad Henry (Governor, Oklahoma)
  • UC-Berkeley:  Mary Schroeder (former Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Apeals, 9th Circuit) & Anne Joseph O’Connor (Professor, UC-Berkeley)
  • UC-Davis:  Gavin Newsom (Mayor, San Francisco)
  • UC-Hastings:  Willie Brown (former Mayor, San Francisco)
  • UCLA:  Morgan Chu (Partner, Irell & Manella)
  • USC:  Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Irvine Law School)
  • University of St. Thomas:  Edward Toussaint Jr. (Chief Judge, Minnesota Court of Appeals)
  • Vanderbilt:  Nicholas Zeppos (Chancellor, Vanderbilt)
  • Vermont:  Madeleine May Kunin (former Governor, Vermont)
  • Virginia:  Timothy Finchem (Commissioner, PGA Tour)
  • Wake Forest:  Jim Talent (Fellow, Heritage Foundation; former Member, U.S. Senate)
  • Washburn:  Dennis Moore (Member, U.S. Congress)
  • Washington & Lee:  William Webster (former U.S. District Judge, CIA Director, and FBI Director)
  • U. of Washington:  Sherman Alexie (author)
  • Western New England:  Reena Raggi (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit)
  • Whittier:  Linda Sánchez (Member, U.S. Congress)
  • Widener (Delaware):  Theodore McKee (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3d Circuit)
  • Widener (Harrisburg):  Roger Gregory (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit)
  • William & Mary:  Sandra Day O’Connor (retired Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
  • William Mitchell:  David B. Sentelle (Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C Circuit)
  • Wisconsin:  Thomas Barrett (Mayor, Milwaukee)
  • Yale:  Kenji Yoshino (Professor, Yale)

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