- Albany: Stephen Younger (President, New York State Bar Association)
- American: Stephen Zack (President, ABA)
- Arkansas-Little Rock: Minnijean Brown Trickey (One of the Little Rock Nine)
- Baylor: Ken Starr (President, Baylor University)
- Boston College: Roderick Ireland (Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court)
- Boston University: Denny Chin (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit)
- Brooklyn: Thomas Buergenthal (Judge, International Court of Justice)
- BYU: Susan Prager (Executive Director, AALS)
- California-Western: Former leaders of the Judge Advocate Corps: Army (Lt. Gen. Scott Black), Navy (Vice Adm. Bruce MacDonald) and Marines (Brig. Gen. Kevin Sandkuhler)
- Cardozo: Eric Schneiderman (Attorney General, New York)
- Charleston: Lindsey Graham (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Chicago: Debra Cafaro (Chairwoman & CEO, Ventas Inc.)
- Cincinnati: Barbara Howard (Partner, Barbara J. Howard Co., L.P.A.)
- Cleveland State: Sherrod Brown (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Columbia: George Madison (General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury)
- Cornell: Stewart Schwab (Dean, Cornell Law School)
- Colorado: Monica Márquez (Justice, Colorado Supreme Court)
- CUNY: Julian Bond (civil rights leader)
- Denver: Diana DeGette (Member, U.S. Congress)
- Duquesne: Tom Corbett (Governor, Pennsylvania)
- Drexel: Betty Anne Waters (waitress turned attorney, featured in the movie, Conviction)
- Florida International: Charles Canaday (Chief Justice, Florida Supreme Court)
- Fordham: Brian Williams (Anchor, NBC Nightly News)
- George Washington: John Snow (Former Secretary, U.S. Treasury Department)
- Georgetown: Brendan Sullivan (Partner, Williams & Connolly).
- Georgia: Kasim Reed (Mayor, Atlanta)
- Georgia State: Johnny Isakson (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Golden Gate: Jeffrey Toobin (Legal Analyst, CNN)
- Gonzaga: Steven Gonzalez (Judge, King County Superior Court, Washington)
- Harvard: Alec Baldwin (Actor)
- Hofstra: Eric Schneiderman (Attorney General, New York)
- Houston: Brad Smith (General Counsel, Microsoft)
- Indiana-Indianapolis: Vernon Jordan (Senior Counsel, Akin Gump)
- Louisville: Greg Fischer (Mayor, Louisville)
- LSU: Joel Klein (Former Chancellor, New York City Department of Education)
- Maryland: Brooksley Born (Former Chair, Commodities Futures Trading Commission)
- Michigan: Rob Portman (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Michigan State: Wallace B. Jefferson (Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court)
- Minnesota: Walter Mondale (Former Vice President, United States)
- Missouri-Kansas City: Jay Nixon (Governor, Missouri)
- Nebraska: Clarence Thomas (Justice, U.S. Suupreme Court)
- New Hampshire: Donna Edwards (Member, U.S. Congress)
- New Mexico: Elena Kagan (Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
- New York Law School: Cory Booker (Mayor, Newark, New Jersey)
- North Carolina: Teresa Wynn Roseborough (Deputy General Counsel, MetLife)
- North Dakota: John Hoeven (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Northwestern: John Paul Stevens (Former Justice, U.S. Supreme Court)
- Oklahoma: Glen Johnson (Chancellor, Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education)
- Oregon: Martha Walters (Justice, Oregon Supreme Court).
- Pace: Jonathan Lippman (Chief Judge, New York)
- Pennsylvania: Ed Rendell (Fromer Governor, Pennsylvania)
- Pepperdine: Robert George (Professor, Princeton University)
- Roger Williams: Paul Suttell (Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court)
- Rutgers-Camden: Scott Turow (Novelist)
- Rutgers-Newark: Elizabeth Warren (Special Advisor to the President of the United States)
- San Diego: Ron Parraguirre (Chief Justice, Nevada Supreme Court)
- Santa Clara: Carlos Moreno (FZormer Justice, California Supreme Court)
- Seton Hall: Paul Fishman (U.S. Attorney, New Jersey)
- South Carolina: Lindsey Graham (Member, U.S. Senate)
- South Texas: Annise Parker (Mayor, Houston)
- St. John's: Guido Calabresi (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit)
- St, Thomas U.: Miguel Diaz (U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See)
- SUNY-Buffalo: Kirsten Gillibrand (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Syracuse: Joseph Biden III (Attorney General, Delaware)
- Temple: Arlen Specter (Former Member, U.S. Senate)
- Texas: Jack Balagia Jr. (Vice President and General Counsel, Exxon Mobil)
- UCLA: Valerie Jarrett (Senior Advisor to President Obama)
- UC-Davis: Tani Cantil-Sakauye (Chief Justice, California.
- UC-Hastings: Vaughn Walker (Former U.S. District Judge)
- Vermont: Amy Goodman (Host, Democracy Now!)
- Villanova: Kelly Ayotte (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Virginia: Eric Holder (Attorney General, United States)
- Wake Forest: William Suter (Clerk, U.S. Supreme Court)
- Washington & Lee: Nina Totenberg (Legal Correspondent, NPR)
- Western State: William Robinson (President-elect, ABA)
- William & Mary: Mark Warner (Member, U.S. Senate)
- Wisconsin: Peter Neufeld (Co-founder, Innocence Project)
2011 Law School Commencement Speakers
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