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Julia Brownley Julia Andrews Brownley (born August 28, 1952) is an American businesswoman and politician who has been the United States representative for California's 26th congressional district since 2013. A Democrat, she served in the California State Asse ...

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Thomas Downey Thomas Joseph Downey (born January 28, 1949) is an American attorney, lobbyist and former politician who served as a U.S. Representative for New York's 2nd congressional district from 1975 to 1993. Early life and education Downey was born in Qu ...

Gwen Graham Gwendolyn Graham (born January 31, 1963) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 2015 to 2017. She is the daughter of Bob Graham, the former United States senator and governor of Florida. A Democrat, ...

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Tim Huelskamp Timothy Alan Huelskamp (; born November 11, 1968) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 2011 to 2017. Huelskamp, a member of the Republican Party, was rated the least bipartisan member of the House during the 114th ...

Kansas Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...

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Rick Lazio Enrico Anthony Lazio (; born March 13, 1958) is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York. A Long Island native, Lazio became well-known during his bid for U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate e ...

Donald Manzullo Donald Anthony Manzullo (born March 24, 1944) is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for , from 1993 to 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. From 2001 to 2007 he served as Chairman of the Comm ...

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Betsy Markey Elizabeth Helen Markey (born April 27, 1956) is a former American politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for from 2009 to 2011. She also served as assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs in th ...

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Donald McEachin Aston Donald McEachin ( ; October 10, 1961 – November 28, 2022) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 4th congressional district from 2017 until his death in 2022. His district was based in ...

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Connie Morella Constance Morella (; née Albanese; born February 12, 1931) is an American politician and diplomat. She represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1987 to 2003. She served as Permanent Representative from the U.S. to the Organ ...

Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean t ...

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Mike Panetta Michael Joseph Panetta (born July 14, 1971) is a former District of Columbia shadow representative, having served from 2007 to 2013. Though elected by the citizens of Washington, Panetta was not recognized by Congress. A shadow representative is ...

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Loretta Sanchez Loretta Lorna Sanchez (born January 7, 1960) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1997 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she was first elected in 1996, when she defeated long-serving Re ...

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are ...

Bill Shuster William Franklin Shuster (; born January 10, 1961) is an American politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for from 2001 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party, and is a son of former Congressman Bud Shuster. In J ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

Haley Stevens Haley Maria Stevens (born June 24, 1983) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Stevens is the member–elect for the redrawn 11th district in the 2022 election, having de ...

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Paul Strauss Paul Eric Strauss (born April 11, 1964) is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States shadow senator from the District of Columbia since 1997. He succeeded Jesse Jackson, the first person to hold the elected positio ...

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Robin Tallon Robert Mooneyhan "Robin" Tallon Jr. (born August 8, 1946) is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States representative from South Carolina. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Early life and education Born in Hem ...

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Susan Wild Susan Wild (née Ellis; born June 7, 1957) is an American attorney and politician from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. A Democrat, she is a member of the United States House of Representatives from . The district is in the heart of the Lehig ...

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

William J. Boarman William Joseph Boarman (June 30, 1946 – August 22, 2021) was an American printer who served as the 26th Public Printer of the United States. Boarman was a labor union leader and government consultant, and served as senior vice-president of the ...

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– Virginia House Delegate, SPA/MA * John DiSanto - member of the

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Adam Ebbin Adam Paul Ebbin (born November 10, 1963) is an American politician who is the senator from the 30th District of the Virginia Senate since January 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the Delegate from the 49th District of the Virginia ...

– Virginia state senator; former Virginia House Delegate, '85 *

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Hugh Farley Hugh T. Farley (born November 26, 1932) is an American attorney, professor and Republican politician from Schenectady County, New York. He served as a member of the New York Senate from 1977 until his 2016 retirement. Early life and family Fa ...

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, WCL/JD '41 * Rick Gray – Mayor of

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* Michael Grieco - member of the

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, '97 *

Kim Guadagno Kimberly Ann Guadagno (; ''née'' McFadden; born April 13, 1959) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the first lieutenant governor and 33rd secretary of state of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018. Guadagno was the Republican nomine ...

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, WCL/JD '83 * Jeff Habay – Pennsylvania House of Representative, founder of AU's

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chapter, SPA/BA '88 * Lawrence Joseph Hogan – county executive of

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Tim Huelskamp Timothy Alan Huelskamp (; born November 11, 1968) is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for from 2011 to 2017. Huelskamp, a member of the Republican Party, was rated the least bipartisan member of the House during the 114th ...

– Kansas state senator; United States Representative from

Kansas Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebras ...

, SPA/PhD '95 * Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III – former

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over t ...

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Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing ...

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Muriel Humphrey * Pam Iorio – Mayor of

Tampa, Florida Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough ...

* Christopher Jacobs – former

Secretary of State of New York The secretary of state of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York who leads the Department of State (NYSDOS). The current secretary of state of New York is Robert J. Rodriguez, a Democrat. Duties The secr ...

, 2006 candidate for

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* Jason Kander – former Missouri Secretary of State * Rob Kauffman – Pennsylvania House Representative, SPA/BA * John A. Locke – Massachusetts House Representative *

Sue Lowden Suzanne "Sue" Pluskoski Lowden (; born February 8, 1952) Payment required to read article. is the former Chairwoman of the Nevada Republican Party and a former Nevada state senator. Lowden is a former businesswoman, television news anchor and kin ...

– chairwoman of the

Nevada Republican Party The Nevada Republican Party is the affiliate of the Republican Party in Nevada. The organization has a history that goes back to 1864. The party currently controls Nevada's governorship and lieutenant governorship, which are currently held by Jo ...

* Neale Lunderville - Former Vermont Secretary of Transportation and Secretary of Administration, SPA/BA *

Jack Martins Joaquim "Jack" M. Martins (born June 19, 1967) is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of the New York State Senate for the 7th district. A Republican, he previously served as mayor of Mineola, New York. Early life and e ...

– New York state senator, SPA/BA '88 * Eileen Melvin – former chairwoman of the

Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania The Pennsylvania Republican Party (PAGOP) is the affiliate of the Republican Party in the state of Pennsylvania. It is headquartered in Harrisburg. History Founding The party was founded on November 27, 1854, in Towanda ( Bradford County) b ...

, CEO of United Metal Fabricators, SPA/MPA *

Phil Mendelson Philip Heath Mendelson (born November 8, 1952) is an American politician from Washington, D.C. He is currently Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, elected by the Council on June 13, 2012, following the resignation of Kwame R. Br ...

– Washington, D.C., City Council Chairman. BA * Clinton Miller - former Virginia State Delegate and judge on the Virginia State Corporation Commission * Rebecca Millett - member of the

Maine House of Representatives The Maine House of Representatives is the lower house of the Maine Legislature. The House consists of 151 voting members and three nonvoting members. The voting members represent an equal number of districts across the state and are elected via ...

, BA, BS *

Howard Mills III Howard D. Mills III (born May 29, 1964) is an American insurance consultant and former politician from Goshen, New York. He served as New York's Superintendent of Insurance from 2005 to 2006, and previously held elective office in both the New ...

–

New York Legislature The New York State Legislature consists of the two houses that act as the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York: The New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly. The Constitution of New York does not designate an official te ...

, former New York State Superintendent of Insurance; 2004

United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and po ...

candidate A candidate, or nominee, is the prospective recipient of an award or honor, or a person seeking or being considered for some kind of position; for example: * to be elected to an office — in this case a candidate selection procedure occurs. * ...

, SPA '88 * David Moon - member of the Maryland House of Representatives, WCL/JD '04 * Kathleen Murphy (politician) - Virginia State Delegate * Mary Murphy – Minnesota House Representative *

Brianne Nadeau Brianne Nadeau (born October 11, 1980) is an American Democratic politician in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 1 since 2015. She defeated long-time incumbent Jim Graham in the Democr ...

– Washington, D.C., City Council member from Ward 1, SPA/MPP '06 * Sam Olens –

Attorney General In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general or attorney-general (sometimes abbreviated AG or Atty.-Gen) is the main legal advisor to the government. The plural is attorneys general. In some jurisdictions, attorneys general also have exec ...

of

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

* Kirill Reznik – Maryland House Delegate, SIS/MA'98, WCL/JD '03 * Eric Roe - member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

, SPA/BA '10 *

Gary Schaer Gary Steven Schaer (born September 11, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly where he represents the 36th Legislative District. He took office on January 10, 2006, and remains on the Pa ...

- member of the

New Jersey General Assembly The New Jersey General Assembly is the lower house of the New Jersey Legislature. Since the election of 1967 (1968 Session), the Assembly has consisted of 80 members. Two members are elected from each of New Jersey's 40 legislative districts f ...

* Briana Sewell - member of the

Virginia House of Delegates The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two parts of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100 members elected for terms of two years; unlike most states, these elections take place during odd-number ...

, SPA/MPA * Chris Sgro – former member of the

North Carolina House of Representatives The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, ...

* Allison Silberberg – Mayor of

Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. It lies on the western bank of the Potomac River approximately south of downtown Washington, D.C. In 2020, the population was 159,467. ...

, SIS/BA * Luiz R. S. Simmons – state delegate,

Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...

, SIS/BA '70, WCL/JD '74 *

Linda Stender Linda Stender (born July 25, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2016, where she represented the 22nd legislative district. She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the United ...

– New Jersey state assemblywoman and Congressional candidate *

Richard Tisei Richard R. Tisei (; born August 13, 1962) is an American politician and realtor from Massachusetts. A Republican, he served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court for a combined 26 years, eventually becoming Minority Leader in the ...

– Minority Leader of the

Massachusetts Senate The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the st ...

, Massachusetts House Representative; Republican nominee for

lieutenant governor A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a "second-in-comm ...

in the

2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial election The 2010 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2010. Incumbent Democratic Governor Deval Patrick was re-elected to a second term. Party primaries were held on September 14, though all four candidates ran unopposed in the ...

, BA '84 * Mitch Toryanski – Idaho state senator * Doug Turner – Republican candidate in the

2010 New Mexico gubernatorial election The 2010 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Democratic Governor Bill Richardson was term limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term. On June 1, 2010, the Republicans nominated Susana Mar ...

, SIS/BA * Don Vaughan – former member of the North Carolina State Senate and practicing attorney in

Greensboro Greensboro (; formerly Greensborough) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It is the List of municipalities in North Carolina, third-most populous city in North Carolina after Charlotte, North Car ...

, MPA '76 * David Vieira - member of the

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...

* Helene Weinstein - member of the

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Ass ...

, CAS/BA * Melissa Wells - member of the

Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...

, SPA/MPP *

Mary Margaret Whipple Mary Margaret Whipple (born May 26, 1940) is a former Democratic member of the Senate of Virginia, representing the 31st district from 1996 - 2012. Political career She was the Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus, and she was the first wom ...

– Virginia State Senate Democratic Caucus chair * Steve Wieckert – Wisconsin state assemblyman, BA, MA * Jheanelle Wilkins – Member of the

Maryland House of Delegates The Maryland House of Delegates is the lower house of the legislature of the State of Maryland. It consists of 141 delegates elected from 47 districts. The House of Delegates Chamber is in the Maryland State House on State Circle in Annapolis, ...

, MPA * Sandra Worthen - Member of the

Delaware House of Representatives The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware. It is composed of 41 Representatives from an equal number of constituencies, each of whom is ...

, BA '58 *

Drew Wrigley Drew Howard Wrigley (born October 10, 1965) is an American attorney, lawyer, and politician from North Dakota. Wrigley currently serves as the attorney general of North Dakota after being appointed to the position by Governor Doug Burgum following ...

–

Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota The lieutenant governor of North Dakota is a political office in North Dakota. The lieutenant governor's duty is to preside as President of the Senate, and is responsible for legislative relations, the state budget and agribusiness development. I ...

, WCL/JD * Eugene Yaw - Pennsylvania state senator, J.D. '73

Business and economy

* Charles T. Akre – investor, financier and businessman * Thomas G. Labrecque - former

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

,

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

, and COO of

Chase Manhattan Bank JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase Bank or often as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City, that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and fi ...

. , KSB/MBA * Adrienne Arieff – entrepreneur and author * Jordan Belfort – convicted of

securities fraud Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information, frequently resulting in lo ...

, founded

Stratton Oakmont Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York, "over-the-counter" brokerage house founded in 1989 by Jordan Belfort and Danny Porush. It defrauded many shareholders, leading to the arrest and incarceration of several executives and the ...

which inspired the film '' Boiler Room''; author of '' The Wolf of Wall Street'' and ''

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street ''Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison'' is the second non-fiction book by former stockbroker and trader Jordan Belfort. The text was initially published on February 24, 2009 by ...

'', CAS/BS '84 * Walter E. Boomer – president and CEO of

Rogers Corporation Rogers Corporation is a specialty engineered materials company headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. History In 1832, the company was founded by Peter Rogers as Rogers Paper Manufacturing Company. Today, the company is composed of two business se ...

; retired four-star

General A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". O ...

, BS '73 * Alan S. Chartock – president and CEO of WAMC Northeast Public Radio Network, MA *

Michael Chasen Michael Chasen is an American businessman. He is a co-founder and former CEO of Blackboard Inc., a position he held from 1999 to 2012. In April 2013, Chasen co-founded SocialRadar, a technology startup company developing a location-based social ...

– co-founder, president, CEO and Director of Blackboard Inc. * Richard T. Clark – president and CEO of Merck & Co., KSB/MBA '70 *

Gary Cohn Gary David Cohn (born August 27, 1960) is an American business leader who served as the 11th Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic advisor to President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2018. He managed the administration's econo ...

– president and COO,

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs () is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company. Founded in 1869, Goldman Sachs is headquartered at 200 West Street in Lower Manhattan, with regional headquarters in London, Warsaw, Bangalore, Ho ...

, KSB/BSBA '82 * Louis Dubin – New York City

real estate developer Real estate development, or property development, is a business process, encompassing activities that range from the renovation and re- lease of existing buildings to the purchase of raw land and the sale of developed land or parcels to othe ...

; President and CEO of Athena Group, WCL/JD *

Sulaiman al-Fahim Sulaiman Abdul-Karim Mohammed Al-Fahim is an Emirati television personality and businessman in the UAE real estate sector. He was involved in the deal in which the Abu Dhabi royal family obtained Manchester City F.C. Early life and education Al- ...

– CEO of UAE-based Hydra Properties and former Chairman of Manchester City F.C. *

Jeffrey Gedmin Jeffrey Gedmin (born 1958) is an American scholar and author. He is a senior fellow at Georgetown University and at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. He was president and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London from 2011 to 2014 and the forme ...

– president of

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says tha ...

, CAS/BA, CAS/MA * Avram Glazer – Owner of the

Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The cl ...

, Co-chairman of

Manchester United Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly ...

club; President and CEO of the

Zapata Corporation HRG Group, Inc., formerly Harbinger Group Inc. and Zapata Corporation, is a holding company based in Rochester, New York, having originated from an oil company started by a group including future U.S. president George H. W. Bush. In 2009, it w ...

, WCL/JD '85 *

Bryan Glazer Bryan Glazer (born October 27, 1964) is an American businessman. Together with his brothers, Joel Glazer and Edward Glazer, he owns part of the First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Football League franchise, and the Engl ...

- Owner of the

Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The cl ...

, SOC/BA '86 *

Joel Glazer Joel Glazer (born March 31, 1967) is an American businessman and sports team owner. He is part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation and HRG Group, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL), and Manche ...

- Owner of the

Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are a professional American football team based in Tampa, Florida. The Buccaneers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The cl ...

, SPA/BA '89 * Marco Gobbetti – CEO of Givenchy SA, president and managing director of Céline SA, former CEO of

Moschino Moschino () is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1983 by Franco Moschino in Milan known for over-the-top, campy designs. The company specializes in ready-to-wear, handbags, and fashion accessories. History Founding and 1990s Franco M ...

, KSB/BSBA *

Koba Gvenetadze Koba Gvenetadze (born 26 December 1971) has been Governor of the National Bank of Georgia since March 2016. Education and career Gvenetadze was educated at Tbilisi State University and graduated with a masters in economics from The American Unive ...

– governor of the

National Bank of Georgia The National Bank of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი, ''Sakartvelos Erovnuli Bank’i'') is the central bank of Georgia. Its status is defined by the Constitution of Georgia. According t ...

*

Patricia Harrison Patricia de Stacy Harrison (born 1939) is an American public relations executive and government official, currently serving as president and chief executive officer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a non-profit established by the federa ...

– president and CEO of the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is an American publicly funded non-profit corporation, created in 1967 to promote and help support public broadcasting. The corporation's mission is to ensure universal access to non-commercial, ...

, Co-chair of the

Republican National Committee The Republican National Committee (RNC) is a U.S. political committee that assists the Republican Party of the United States. It is responsible for developing and promoting the Republican brand and political platform, as well as assisting in ...

, SIS * Wilbert Hopper – president and CEO of

Petro-Canada Petro-Canada is a retail and wholesale marketing brand subsidiary of Suncor Energy. Until 1991, it was a federal Crown corporation (a state-owned enterprise). In August 2009, Petro-Canada merged with Suncor Energy, with Suncor shareholders rec ...

, BS * Jesse Itzler –

vice chairman The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the group ...

of

Marquis Jet NetJets Inc. is an American company that sells fractional ownership shares in private business jets. Founded as Executive Jet Airways in 1964, it was later renamed Executive Jet Aviation. NetJets became the first private business jet charte ...

; former ''Billboard'' Hot 100

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

, BA * Tom Karsch – executive vice president and

general manager A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...

,

Turner Classic Movies Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Midtown business district of ...

*

Michael Kempner Michael W. Kempner (born January 31, 1958) is an American businessman. He is the founder and CEO of MikeWorldWide, a public relations firm headquartered in New York, New York. Kempner is also known for his political contributions and fundraising ...

- Founder and CEO of MikeWorldWide; Member of the

U.S. Agency for Global Media The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), formerly the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), is an independent agency of the United States government that broadcasts news and information. It describes its mission, "vital to US nation ...

, SPA/BS '81 * Shahal M. Khan – owner of

Plaza Hotel The Plaza Hotel (also known as The Plaza) is a luxury hotel and condominium apartment building in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is located on the western side of Grand Army Plaza, after which it is named, just west of Fifth Avenue, ...

and venture capitalist *

Robert P. Kogod Robert P. Kogod is a business executive and philanthropist. Along with his brother-in-law, Robert H. Smith, Kogod led the Charles E. Smith Companies, the real estate company that developed much of the Crystal City neighborhood, just south of Wash ...

– president of

Archstone Archstone was a real estate investment trust that invested in apartments. In 2007, the company was acquired by Tishman Speyer and Lehman Brothers and, in 2013, the company's assets were acquired by Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities. ...

Real Estate company, KSB/BSBA '62 * Thomas G. Labrecque – president and CEO of

Chase Manhattan Bank JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., doing business as Chase Bank or often as Chase, is an American national bank headquartered in New York City, that constitutes the consumer and commercial banking subsidiary of the U.S. multinational banking and fi ...

, KSB/MBA * David Lereah –

chief economist Chief economist is a single-position job class having primary responsibility for the development, coordination, and production of economic and financial analysis. It is distinguished from the other economist positions by the broader scope of respons ...

of the

National Association of Realtors The National Association of Realtors (NAR) is an American trade association for those who work in the real estate industry. It has over 1.4 million members, making it one of the biggest trade associations in the USA including NAR's institutes, so ...

; Executive Vice President of Move Inc., KSB/BA *

Ross Levinsohn Ross B. Levinsohn (born 1962/1963) is an American media executive who has worked in media and technology. He is the CEO of The Arena Group and '' Sports Illustrated'', and has held senior roles at Yahoo, Fox Interactive and Tribune Publishing, ...

- American media executive who has worked in media and technology, SOC/BA '85 * M. Peter McPherson – director of Dow Jones, president of

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the first of its kind in the United States. It ...

, director of

USAID The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...

, WCL/JD '69 * Jean-Luc Migué – Canadian economist, Senior Fellow at the

Fraser Institute The Fraser Institute is a libertarian-conservative Canadian public policy think tank and registered charity. The institute describes itself as independent and non-partisan. It is headquartered in Vancouver, with additional offices in Calgary, ...

and the

Montreal Economic Institute The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) is a non-profit research organization (or think tank) based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It aims at promoting economic liberalism through economic education of the general public and what it regards as effici ...

, CAS/PhD '68 *

Lawrence Mishel Lawrence Mishel is distinguished fellow at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., a pro-labor think-tank that seeks to advance the interests of American workers. He has been at EPI since 1987, first serving as Research Director, then a ...

– president of the

Economic Policy Institute The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit American, left-leaning think tank based in Washington, D.C., that carries out economic research and analyzes the economic impact of policies and proposals. Affiliated with the labor mov ...

, CAS/MA * Erik Mollatt – CEO of M. Peterson & Søn, KSB/BSBA '67 * Mark Murphy – president and CEO of the

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the t ...

, former player for the

Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) ...

, KSB/MBA '83. * David Nason – Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions under Treasury Secretary

Henry M. Paulson Henry Merritt Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is an American banker and financier who served as the 74th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2006 to 2009. Prior to his role in the Department of the Treasury, Paulson was the Chairman a ...

; key architect of the federal response to the

financial crisis of 2007–2008 Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of ...

, KSB/BSBA '92, WCL/JD '95 * Vincent Obsitnik – president of the Systems Development Division at

Unisys Unisys Corporation is an American multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. It provides digital workplace solutions, cloud, applications, and infrastructure solutions, ...

, Vice President, International at

Litton Industries Litton Industries was a large defense contractor in the United States named after inventor Charles Litton Sr. During the 1960s, the company began acquiring many unrelated firms and became one of the largest conglomerates in the United States. A ...

; United States Ambassador to Slovakia; KSB/MBA * Terence M. O'Sullivan, Jr. – General President, Laborers' International Union of North America KSB/BSBA '74 * Mollie Orshansky – economist and statistician; developed the ''Orshansky Poverty Thresholds'', the official measure of poverty used by the United States government, MS * Matthew Pritzker - an American

investor An investor is a person who allocates financial capital with the expectation of a future return (profit) or to gain an advantage (interest). Through this allocated capital most of the time the investor purchases some species of property. Type ...

and

businessperson A businessperson, businessman, or businesswoman is an individual who has founded, owns, or holds shares in (including as an angel investor) a private-sector company. A businessperson undertakes activities (commercial or industrial) for the ...

* Steven M. Rales – billionaire

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which h ...

ist; chairman of

Danaher Corporation Danaher Corporation is an American globally diversified conglomerate with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The company designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services. The company' ...

, WCL/JD '78 * Arthur F. Ryan – CEO of

Prudential Financial Prudential Financial, Inc. is an American Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 500 company whose subsidiaries provide insurance, retirement planning, investment management, and other products and services to both retail and institutional customers t ...

* Bill Sweeney – CEO of

International Foundation for Electoral Systems The International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) is an international, non-profit organization founded in 1987. Based in Arlington, Virginia, the organization provides assistance and support for elections and electoral stakeholders in ...

, former Deputy Chairman of the

Democratic National Committee The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the governing body of the United States Democratic Party. The committee coordinates strategy to support Democratic Party candidates throughout the country for local, state, and national office, as well ...

, SPA/BA * Doug Turner – president of DW Turner, Republican candidate in the

New Mexico gubernatorial election, 2010 The 2010 New Mexico gubernatorial election took place on November 2, 2010. Democratic Governor Bill Richardson was term limited and could not seek re-election to a third consecutive term. On June 1, 2010, the Republicans nominated Susana Mar ...

, SIS/BA * Marilyn Ware – CEO of American Water, Ambassador of the United States to Finland

Sports, entertainment and media

Reporters and journalists

* Natasha Barrett – talk show host and reporter for

WJLA-TV WJLA-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Washington, D.C., affiliated with ABC. It is one of two flagship stations of Sinclair Broadcast Group (alongside dual Fox/ MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFF hannel 45in Baltimore), and is also s ...

in Washington, DC, SOC/BA '00 *

Jarrett Bellini Jarrett Bellini (born October 3, 1978) is an American writer and journalist. Career In January 2004, Bellini joined CNN in Atlanta, and in June 2006 began writing and hosting a video podcast called ''The Gryst'' on CNN.Com. On July 26, 2007, afte ...

– humorist, host of CNN.com video podcast ''News of the Absurd'', SOC '01 *

Alisyn Camerota Alisyn Lane Camerota (born June 21, 1966) is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator. She currently co-hosts CNN Newsroom from 2-4 pm with Victor Blackwell. She formerly was anchor of CNN's morning show '' New Day'' and a p ...

– CNN anchor, SOC/BA '88 *

Neil Cavuto Neil Patrick Cavuto (born September 22, 1958) is an American television news anchor, executive, commentator, and business journalist for Fox News. He hosts three television programs: '' Your World with Neil Cavuto'' and ''Cavuto Live,'' both on F ...

–

Fox News The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is o ...

commentator, WCL *

Craig Crawford Craig Crawford (born 1956) is an American writer and television political commentator based in Washington, D.C. Publisher of the news commenting forum, Trail Mix, Crawford was a columnist for ''Congressional Quarterly'', Editor-in-Chief of Nationa ...

– columnist for ''

Congressional Quarterly Congressional Quarterly, Inc., or CQ, is part of a privately owned publishing company called CQ Roll Call that produces a number of publications reporting primarily on the United States Congress. CQ was acquired by the Economist Group and combined ...

'' *

Steve Daley Steve Daley (born 15 April 1953) is an English former footballer, who played as a midfielder. His English record transfer to Manchester City in 1979 was later described as "the biggest waste of money in football history".Irish, Oliver"The 10 big ...

– former national political correspondent for the ''

Chicago Tribune The ''Chicago Tribune'' is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tribune Publishing. Founded in 1847, and formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (a slogan for which WGN radio and television ar ...

'' *

Pauline Frederick Pauline Frederick (born Pauline Beatrice Libbey, August 12, 1883 – September 19, 1938) was an American stage and film actress. Early life Frederick was born Pauline Beatrice Libbey (later changed to Libby) in Boston in 1883 (some sources stat ...

– pioneering woman in American journalism; writer for the '' United States News'' and

North American Newspaper Alliance The North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) was a large newspaper syndicate that flourished between 1922 and 1980. NANA employed some of the most noted writing talents of its time, including Grantland Rice, Joseph Alsop, Michael Stern, Lothr ...

, reporter for ABC Radio and correspondent for ABC TV, where in 1946 she was promoted as the first and only woman in television news, BA '30, MA * Steven Goff –

sportswriter Sports journalism is a form of writing that reports on matters pertaining to sporting topics and competitions. Sports journalism started in the early 1800s when it was targeted to the social elite and transitioned into an integral part of the n ...

for ''

The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large n ...

'', '88 * David Gregory – ''

Meet the Press ''Meet the Press'' is a weekly American television Sunday morning talk shows, news/interview program broadcast on NBC. It is the List of longest-running television shows by category, longest-running program on American television, though the curr ...

'' moderator,

NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's v ...

, SIS *

Florence King Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in ''Natio ...

– conservative social commentator and writer for the ''

National Review ''National Review'' is an American conservative editorial magazine, focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs. The magazine was founded by the author William F. Buckley Jr. in 1955. Its editor-in-chief ...

'', and best-selling author * Jackie Kucinich - Washington bureau chief for ''

The Daily Beast ''The Daily Beast'' is an American news website focused on politics, media, and pop culture. It was founded in 2008. It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...

'' and CNN commentator, SOC/BA * Rick Leventhal – former

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ...

senior correspondent, SOC/BA '86 * Louis Lomax – first African American

television journalist Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

, CAS/MA '44 *

Barry McCaffrey Barry Richard McCaffrey (born November 17, 1942) is a retired United States Army general and current news commentator, professor and business consultant who served in President Bill Clinton's Cabinet as the Director of the Office of National ...

– NBC News and

MSNBC MSNBC (originally the Microsoft National Broadcasting Company) is an American news-based pay television cable channel. It is owned by NBCUniversala subsidiary of Comcast. Headquartered in New York City, it provides news coverage and political ...

military analyst; drug czar under President Bill Clinton; retired US Army General *

Ayman Mohyeldin Ayman ( ar, أيمن, also spelled as Aiman, Aimen, Aymen, or Eymen in the Latin alphabet) is an Arabic masculine given name. It is derived from the Arabic Semitic root () for ''right'', and literally means ''righteous'', ''he who is on the right'' ...

– correspondent for

Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English (AJE; ar, الجزيرة‎, translit=al-jazīrah, , literally "The Peninsula", referring to the Qatar Peninsula) is an international 24-hour English-language news channel owned by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which is o ...

* Asra Nomani – Indian-American Muslim journalist, author and feminist, '90 * Tony Perkins – weatherman for

WTTG WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., airing programming from the Fox network. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV outlet WDCA (channel 20). WTTG and WDCA sh ...

in Washington, D.C., SOC/BA '81 *

Nicole Petallides Nicole Anais Petallides (born September 20, 1971) is an American journalist who works as an anchor for the online-only TD Ameritrade Network, which is owned and operated by Charles Schwab Corporation as a result of their acquisition of TD Ameritr ...

–

Fox Business Network Fox Business (officially known as Fox Business Network, or FBN) is an American business news channel and website publication owned by the Fox News Media division of Fox Corporation. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenu ...

anchor An anchor is a device, normally made of metal , used to secure a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the craft from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ''ancora'', which itself comes from the Greek � ...

and

correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

, SOC '93 * Peter Plantec – contributing editor to StudioDaily.com New York and VFXWorld.com Hollywood * Emily Rooney – executive producer,

ABC News ABC News is the news division of the American broadcast network ABC. Its flagship program is the daily evening newscast '' ABC World News Tonight with David Muir''; other programs include morning news-talk show '' Good Morning America'', '' ...

' '' World News Tonight with Peter Jennings'' * Jeffrey St. Clair – editor of ''

CounterPunch ''CounterPunch'' is a left-wing online magazine. Content includes a free section published five days a week as well as a subscriber-only area called CounterPunch+, where original articles are published weekly. ''CounterPunch'' is based in the Un ...

'' *

Omar Samad Omar Samad is the former Senior Advisor to Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, the former Chief Executive of Afghanistan from 2014 to 2020. He served as the Afghan Ambassador to Canada from 2004 to 2009, and to France from 2009 to 2011. He was a Senior Central ...

– former CNN analyst, Ambassador of Afghanistan to Canada * Antoine Sanfuentes – vice president and managing editor for CNN's Washington Bureau, CAS/BA '90 *

Steve Scully Steven L. Scully (born September 17, 1960) is an American broadcast journalist. He is the former host and producer for its morning call-in show ''Washington Journal'', as well as '' The Weekly'', C-SPAN's podcast. S ...

– host, political editor, and senior producer of

C-SPAN Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network (C-SPAN ) is an American cable and satellite television network that was created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a nonprofit public service. It televises many proceedings of the United States ...

's '' Washington Journal'' *

Tom Shales Thomas William Shales (born November 3, 1944) is an American writer and retired critic of television programming and operations. He was a television critic for ''The Washington Post'' from 1977 to 2010, for which Shales received the Pulitzer Pr ...

– ''The Washington Post'' TV

critic A critic is a person who communicates an assessment and an opinion of various forms of creative works such as art, literature, music, cinema, theater, fashion, architecture, and food. Critics may also take as their subject social or gover ...

; 1988

Pulitzer Prize for Criticism The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism has been presented since 1970 to a newspaper writer in the United States who has demonstrated 'distinguished criticism'. Recipients of the award are chosen by an independent board and officially administered by ...

recipient, SOC/BA ’67 * Abbi Tatton – Internet reporter for CNN, MA * Cal Thomas – panelist for ''

Fox News Watch ''Fox News Watch'' was an American current event debate program on the Fox News Channel hosted by Jon Scott which was dedicated to discussing media bias. The show ended August 31, 2013, replaced by the similar ''MediaBuzz''. Format The show fe ...

'' on

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ...

*

Desson Thomson Desson Patrick Thomson is a former speechwriter for the Obama administration and former film critic for ''The Washington Post''. He was known as Desson Howe until 2003 when he changed his name after reuniting with his birth father. Biography ...

– ''The Washington Post'' film critic, White House

speechwriter A speechwriter is a person who is hired to prepare and write speeches that will be delivered by another person. Speechwriters are employed by many senior-level elected officials and executives in the government and private sectors. They can also b ...

for President

Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, Obama was the first Af ...

, SOC/BA ’80 *

Rohit Vyas Rohit Vyas is an independent broadcast journalist and the longest-serving Indian American journalist in ethnic print and broadcast media covering the South Asian community throughout North America. Journalism career A member of the United Nations ...

– first and longest serving Indian American journalist *

Brian Wilson Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who co-founded the Beach Boys. Often Brian Wilson is a genius, called a genius for his novel approaches to pop music, pop composition, ex ...

– anchor reporter for

Fox News The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is o ...

, SOC/MA *

Tara Palmeri Tara Palmeri (born September 1, 1987) is an American journalist. She is currently the Senior Political Correspondent for subscription news platform Puck. Previously, she served as Chief National Correspondent at ''Politico'' and host and chief ...

–

Politico ''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and intern ...

reporter and columnist; ABC contributor *

Cecilia Vega Cecilia Marcellina Vega (born January 7, 1977) is an American journalist, currently serving as host for Good Morning America, Good Morning America. She joined the network in 2011 as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. Prior to her White House as ...

– ABC anchor and White House correspondent, SOC/BA '99. *

Trey Yingst Trey Yingst (born 1993) is an American journalist who serves as a foreign correspondent for Fox News based in Jerusalem, Israel. Yingst has reported from the Gaza Strip and around the Middle East, appearing on Fox News programs. Early life and e ...

– foreign correspondent for

Fox News The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is o ...

SOC/BA '16 * Susan Zirinsky –

CBS News CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio service CBS. CBS News television programs include the '' CBS Evening News'', '' CBS Mornings'', news magazine programs '' CBS News Sunday Morning'', '' 60 Minutes'', and '' 4 ...

president

Cinema, television, radio

*

Caroline Aaron Caroline Sidney Aaron (née Abady; born ) is an American actress. She is known for her performances in films like Mike Nichols' ''Heartburn'' (1986) and ''Primary Colors'' (1998), as well as Woody Allen's '' Crimes and Misdemeanors'' (1989), ' ...

– actress and producer *

Alex Albrecht Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born August 14, 1976) is an American television personality, actor and podcaster. He is known for co-hosting the former G4techTV television program ''The Screen Savers'', an hour-long computer and technology variety ...

– co-host of

Revision3 Revision3 was a San Francisco-based multi-channel television network that created, produced and distributed streaming television shows on niche topics. Founded in 2005, it operated as a subsidiary of Discovery Digital Networks since 2012. The ...

's '' Diggnation'', former host of ''

The Screen Savers ''The Screen Savers'' is an American TV show that aired on TechTV from 1998 to 2005.Fost, Dan (17 May 1999)A Day in the Life of ZDTV's `The Screen Savers' '' San Francisco Chronicle'' The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV (later ...

'' on

G4techTV G4techTV was a short-lived American cable and satellite channel resulting from a merger between Comcast-owned G4 and TechTV. The network officially launched on May 28, 2004. History On March 25, 2004, Comcast announced its plans to purchase ...

* Aamir Ali – Indian television actor, BA *

Bryan Callen Bryan Callen (born January 26, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and podcaster. He studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Callen initiated his career as one of the original cast members on the sketch comedy serie ...

– actor and comedian, original cast of comedians on the

sketch comedy Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. The form developed and became popular in vaudeville, and ...

television series, ''

MADtv ''Mad TV'' (stylized as ''MADtv'') is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by ''Mad (magazine), Mad'' magazine. In its initial run, it aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox from 1995 to 2009. After a one-off reuni ...

'', CAS * Ruth Sacks Caplin – screenwriter of '' Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont'', master's of counseling and therapy 1977 *

Elizabeth Chomko Elizabeth Chomko (born 1981) is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter and actress best known for the film ''What They Had.'' Early life Chomko grew up in Chicago, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Her family moved to Belgium when she ...

, actress, director and screenwriter ('' What They Had''), BA 2004 *

Bob Edwards Robert Alan "Bob" Edwards is an American broadcast journalist, a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He hosted both of National Public Radio's flagship news programs, the afternoon ''All Things Considered'', and '' ...

– radio host and award-winning journalist; host of ''

The Bob Edwards Show ''The Bob Edwards Show'' was an American radio program broadcast from 2004 to 2014 by Sirius XM Satellite Radio every weekday morning at 8 a.m. Eastern, with repeats at 8 a.m. Central, 7 a.m. Pacific, 6 p.m. Mountain, and the next day at 7 a.m. ...

''; former host of NPR's ''

All Things Considered ''All Things Considered'' (''ATC'') is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United ...

'' *

Hallie Eisenberg Hallie Kate Eisenberg (born August 2, 1992) is an American former child actress, best known for being "The Pepsi Girl" in a series of Pepsi commercials, as Marie Alweather in ''Paulie'', and her role as Erika Tansy in ''How to Eat Fried Worms''. ...

– the "Pepsi" Girl and actress in '' Paulie'', SIS '14 *

America Ferrera America Georgina Ferrera (; born April 18, 1984) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles to Honduran parents, Ferrera developed an interest in acting at a young age, performing in several stage productions at her school. She made her featu ...

– actress * Jamie Fly - President and CEO of

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says tha ...

, SIS/BA *

Bo Gritz James Gordon "Bo" Gritz (; born January 18, 1939) is an American former United States Army Special Forces officer and presidential candidate. After serving in the Vietnam War and retiring from the military, Gritz has worked on attempted POW res ...

– radio host;

United States Army Special Forces The United States Army Special Forces (SF), colloquially known as the "Green Berets" due to their distinctive service headgear, are a special operations force of the United States Army. The Green Berets are geared towards nine doctrinal mi ...

officer during the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...

*

Gale Harold Gale Morgan Harold III (born July 10, 1969) is an American actor, known for his leading and recurring roles on '' Queer as Folk'', '' Deadwood'', ''Desperate Housewives'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', '' The Secret Circle'' and '' Defiance''. He also starr ...

– actor, Showtime's ''

Queer as Folk ''Queer as Folk'' may refer to: * ''Queer as Folk'' (British TV series), 1999–2000 * ''Queer as Folk'' (American TV series), a 2000–2005 American and Canadian version of the UK series ** ''Queer as Folk'' soundtracks, soundtrack albums from ...

'', Fox's '' Vanished'' (no degree) *

Goldie Hawn Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21, 1945) is an American actress, dancer, producer, and singer. She rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' (1968–1970), before going on to receive the Academy Award and Go ...

–

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...

-winning film actress, director and producer (dropped out) *

Clark Howard Clark Brian Howard (born June 20, 1955) is a popular consumer expert and podcast host of ''The Clark Howard Show''. Life and career Howard grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents, Bernard and Joy Garson Howard, were prominent members of Atl ...

– host of the nationally syndicated radio show, ''The Clark Howard Show'', '76 *

Star Jones Starlet Marie Jones (born March 24, 1962), better known as Star Jones, is an American lawyer, journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and women's and diversity advocate. She is best known as one of the first co-hosts on the ...

– television personality, lawyer and author; former co-host of '' The View'', former Assistant District Attorney in New York *

Barry Josephson Barry Josephson (born April 2, 1956) is an American film producer and former music manager. Life and career After attending the McBurney School in New York City, Josephson graduated from American University, Washington DC in 1978, and was an a ...

– film producer; former music manager, produced ''Enchanted''; nominated for 3 Oscars *

Andrea Kalin Andrea Kalin is an American independent filmmaker, writer, producer, and director. She is also the principal and founder of Spark Media and founder and executive director of Stone Soup Productions, a 501(c)(3) non-profit foundation. Personal lif ...

-

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independe ...

filmmaker, SPA/BA * Tamika Lamison – actress, writer, director and film producer *

Barry Levinson Barry Lee Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker, comedian and actor. Levinson's best-known works are mid-budget comedy drama and drama films such as '' Diner'' (1982); ''The Natural'' (1984); '' Good Morning, Vietnam'' (1987); ...

– film director, ''

Rain Man ''Rain Man'' is a 1988 American road movie, road Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive, selfish young wikt:wheeler-dealer, wheeler-dealer C ...

'', SOC '67 *

Christopher Leggett Christopher Leggett is an American producer of films, television, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. In 2013, Leggett joined as a partner at Delirio Films, a boutique film and commercial production company with a focus on prestige ...

- film producer * Robert Morton – Emmy award-winning TV producer, executive producer of ''Late Night with David Letterman'' *

Nancy Meyers Nancy Jane Meyers (born December 8, 1949) is an American filmmaker. She has written, produced, and directed many critically and commercially successful films including '' Private Benjamin'' (1980), '' Irreconcilable Differences'' (1984), ''Baby ...

– film writer and director, SOC '71 *

Mike O'Meara Michael Sean Patrick O'Meara (born June 22, 1959 in Glastonbury, Connecticut) is a podcast personality, the host of '' The Mike O'Meara Show'', previously a nationally syndicated radio show that returned as a podcast. Previously he was the co-ho ...

– host of '' Mike O'Meara Show''; former co-host of ''

Don and Mike Show The ''Don and Mike Show'' was an American nationally syndicated radio talk show hosted by the shock jocks Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara, which aired from December 1985 through April 11, 2008. The show debuted on WAVA-FM in 1985 as ''The Morning ...

'', nationally syndicated radio show *

Giuliana Rancic Giuliana Rancic (; ; born August 17, 1974) is an Italian-American entertainment reporter and television personality. She is a co-anchor of ''E! News'' and resides in Chicago and Los Angeles. Early life Rancic was born in Naples, Italy and immig ...

– celebrity news personality; co-host, E! network's ''

E! News Live ''E! News'', previously known as ''E! News Daily'' and ''E! News Live'', is the entertainment news operation for the cable network E! in the United States. Its former on-air weekday newscast debuted on September 1, 1991, and primarily reports ...

'' alongside

Ryan Seacrest Ryan John Seacrest (born December 24, 1974) is an American media personality and producer. He is the co-host of '' Live with Kelly and Ryan'', as well as the host of multiple media shows including ''American Idol'', ''American Top 40'', and ' ...

, SOC/MA *

Social Repose Richard Mclean Giese (born February 9, 1990), known professionally as Social Repose, is an American singer-songwriter and YouTube personality. YouTube channel and artistry Richie Giese began his YouTube channel, Social Repose, in April 2011, ...

- singer, songwriter, and YouTube personality, SOC '12 * Maggie Rodriguez – co-anchor of CBSs ''

The Early Show ''The Early Show'' is an American morning television show that aired on CBS from November 1, 1999 to January 7, 2012, and the ninth attempt at a morning news-talk program by the network since 1954. The program aired Monday through Friday from ...

'' *

Khadija al-Salami Khadija al-Salami ( ar, خديجة السلامي; born November 11, 1966, in Sana'a, Yemen), is the first Yemeni female film producer and director. Al-Salami currently resides in Paris, France. She has been nominated and also won awards at film f ...

– first female Yemeni film producer; press and

cultural attaché A cultural attaché is a diplomat with varying responsibilities, depending on the sending state of the attaché. Historically, such posts were filled by writers and artists, giving them a steady income, and allowing them to develop their own creat ...

and director of the Yemeni Information Centre at the Embassy of Yemen in Paris, SOC '90 *

Benjamin Salisbury Benjamin David Salisbury (born October 19, 1980) is an American actor and dancer best known for playing the role of Brighton Sheffield on the CBS television sitcom ''The Nanny'' from 1993 to 1999. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on October 19 ...

– actor, ''

The Nanny ''The Nanny'' is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashionista from Flushing, Queens, New York, who becomes the nanny of three ch ...

'' *

Willard Scott Willard Herman Scott Jr. (March 7, 1934 – September 4, 2021) was an American weather presenter, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC br ...

– NBC's ''

The Today Show ''Today'' (also called ''The Today Show'' or informally, ''NBC News Today'') is an American news and talk morning television show that airs weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on NBC. The program debuted on January 14, 1952. It ...

'' * Judy Sheindlin – former New York family court prosecutor and judge; lawyer; television court show judge, ''

Judge Judy ''Judge Judy'' is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by former Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show featured Sheindlin as she adjudicated real-life small-claims disputes within a simulated courtr ...

'', SPA '63

Sports

*

David Aldridge David Aldridge (born ) is an American sports journalist who works as a writer for '' The Athletic''. He was previously a reporter for Turner Sports, contributing to their NBA and MLB coverage. Other outlets that Aldridge has written and contr ...

– TNT sportscaster and columnist; former journalist for ''The Washington Post'', co-host of '' The Tony Kornheiser Show'' * Nur B. Ali –

Pakistani American Pakistani Americans ( ur, ) are Americans who originate from Pakistan. The term may also refer to people who also hold a dual Pakistani and U.S. citizenship. Educational attainment level and household income are much higher in the Pakistani-Am ...

racing driver Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organise ...

in the

ARCA Racing Series The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three nationa ...

, SIS/BA '98 * James "Bus" Cook – NFL sports agent * Gabriella Csépe – swimmer at the

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

and

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment building in Amsterdam after two of its engin ...

Olympics * Jamie Erdahl --

CBS Sports CBS Sports is the sports division of the American television network CBS. Its headquarters are in the CBS Building on W 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with programs produced out of Studio 43 at the CBS Broadcast Center on W ...

/ SEC on CBS sideline reporter *

Steve Farr Steven Michael Farr (born December 12, 1956) is a former professional baseball player who pitched primarily as a closer in the Major Leagues from 1984 to 1994. Farr graduated from DeMatha High School outside Washington in 1974 and then played col ...

– MLB baseball player, reliever on 1985 world champion Kansas City Royals * Josh Glenn –

professional wrestler Professional wrestling is a form of theater that revolves around staged wrestling matches. The mock combat is performed in a ring similar to the kind used in boxing, and the dramatic aspects of pro wrestling may be performed both in the ring o ...

,

NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges ...

Champion and three-time All-American * Steven Goldstein – Latin American

racing driver Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organise ...

, Formula 2000 champion, KSB/BA * Savannah Graybill - American skeleton racer who competes on the Skeleton World Cup circuit, BA/SOC '10 *

Frank Herzog Frank Herzog is a former American sportscaster known for his role as a play-by-play announcer for Washington Redskins radio broadcasts from 1979 to 2004, where he teamed with Sam Huff and Sonny Jurgensen. In addition to his Redskins work, Herzog ...

– voice of the Washington Redskins 1979–2004, longtime sportscaster and TV personality in Washington, D.C. * Frederik Hviid – swimmer at the

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone o ...

and

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

Olympics *

Andre Ingram Andre Ingram (born November 19, 1985) is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for American University, where he finished his four-year career as the school's fifth all-time leading scorer with 1,655 points. Ing ...

– NBA G League/NBA Lakers point guard *

Avery John Emery Avery John CM (born 18 June 1975) is a Trinidad and Tobago former professional footballer who played as a defender. Career Youth and College John was born in Point Fortin. He attended Vessigny ntillesGovernment Secondary School and ...

– Trinidadian

football (soccer) Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player, who currently plays as a defender for the

New England Revolution The New England Revolution is an American professional soccer club based in the Greater Boston area that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), in the Eastern Conference of the league. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having compe ...

of

Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Cana ...

and the

Trinidad and Tobago national football team The Trinidad and Tobago national football team, nicknamed the " Soca Warriors", represents the twin-island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in international football. It is controlled by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association, which is a ...

, KSB '99 * Kurt Kuykendall - retired American goalkeeper who played professionally in the

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League may refer to: *North American Soccer League (1968–1984), a former Division I league *North American Soccer League (2011–2017) The North American Soccer League (NASL) was a professional men's soccer league ba ...

* Howard Lassoff (1955–2013) - American-Israeli basketball player *

Sergio López Miró Sergio López Miró (born August 15, 1968) is a former international top swimmer from Spain, who won the bronze medal in the 200 meters breaststroke at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. He competed in college for Indiana University and American ...

– swimmer at the

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

Olympics, placing third in the 200 meters

breaststroke Breaststroke is a human swimming, swimming style in which the swimmer is on their chest and the torso does not rotate. It is the most popular recreational style due to the swimmer's head being out of the water a large portion of the time, and ...

* Mark Murphy – president and CEO of the

Green Bay Packers The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the t ...

, free safety with the

Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) ...

1977–84, KSB/MBA '83 * Arthur Perry - basketball player and coach *

Mohammed bin Sulayem Mohammed Ahmad Sultan Ben Sulayem ( ar, محمد بن سليم; born 12 November 1961) is an Emirati former rally driver and current president of the FIA (Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile). He is one of the Arab world's leading mot ...

– UAE

racing driver Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. Auto racing has existed since the invention of the automobile. Races of various sorts were organise ...

champion, SPA/BA *

R. V. Truitt Reginald Van Trump Truitt (August 12, 1890 – April 11, 1991) was an American zoologist, Army officer, and college field lacrosse, lacrosse player and coach. He spent his professional career studying the oyster habitat in the Chesapeake Bay. Tru ...

– first head

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensiv ...

coach at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

; National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee, MS '21, PhD '29 * Kermit Washington – NBA basketball player with five teams, Associated Press 1st team All-American 1972–73, first-round draft choice of the Los Angeles Lakers 1973 *

Ron Weber Ronald F. Weber (born September 10, 1933) is the former radio play-by-play announcer for the NHL's Washington Capitals for 23 years. He is best known for his streak of calling the Capitals' first 1,936 games, starting in 1974 with their inaug ...

– original voice of the Washington Capitals 1974–97, honored in the broadcasters' wing at the Hockey Hall of Fame * Warner Wolf – longtime radio and TV sportscaster in Washington and New York

Law

* Arthur Monty M. Ahalt – Circuit Court Judge,

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; founder and CEO of VirtualCourthouse.com, WCL/JD '67 *

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–

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of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina; nominee for the

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(US Senate confirmation vote pending), WCL/JD * Michael Cohen – lawyer and spokesperson for President Donald Trump, BA 1988 *

Adrian Cronauer Adrian Joseph Cronauer (September 8, 1938 – July 18, 2018) was a United States Air Force SergeantGood Morning, Vietnam ''Good Morning, Vietnam'' is a 1987 American war comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, wh ...

'' * Charles Bernard Day –

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; withdrawn

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nominee to the

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, WCL/JD *

Claude M. Hilton Claude Meredith Hilton (born December 8, 1940) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Education and career Born in Scott County, Virginia, Hilton spent his earliest ch ...

–

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for the

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, WCL/JD '66 *

Henry E. Hudson Henry Edward Hudson (born July 24, 1947) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Early life and education Born in Washington, D.C., Hudson was raised in Arlington, Vi ...

- Federal Judge on the

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, BA '69, WCL/JD '74 * Hubert Horatio "Skip" Humphrey III –

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's 27th

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and former

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; son of

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Hubert Humphrey Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American pharmacist and politician who served as the 38th vice president of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing ...

and

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Muriel Humphrey * Stephen Latchford – aviation expert and lawyer; diplomat during the administrations of Roosevelt and Truman * Juliane Kokott – Advocate General at the

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* Gerald Bruce Lee –

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Judge,

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CAS/BA '73, WCL/JD '76 *

Sharon Prost Sharon Prost (born May 24, 1951) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Education Prost was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell Univ ...

–

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on the

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, WCL/JD '79 *Irma S. Raker – Maryland Court of Appeals judge, WCL/JD '72 *Warren M. Silver – Maine Supreme Judicial Court Judge, Justice, WCL '73 *Adam Streisand – trial attorney notable for litigation over prominent celebrity estate (law), estates, WCL/JD *Reggie Walton – Federal Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, WCL/JD '74

Arts, sciences, academia and literature

*Ann Beattie – author and educator; List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1978, 1978 Guggenheim Fellow, CAS/BA '69 *Ilan Berman – Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council *Jon Bowermaster – oceans expert, six-time National Geographic (magazine), National Geographic Expeditions Council grantee, SPA/MA '77 *Jeffrey T. Bury – political scientist and geographer; Professor of Environmental Studies at University of California at Santa Cruz, SIS/MA '95 *Eleanor Coerr – author of ''Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes'', CAS/BA *Robin Davis – historian, rock bassist *Miguel A. De La Torre – Professor of Social Ethics and Latino Studies at Iliff School of Theology, SPA/MA *Amos Eiran - Israeli President of the University of Haifa *John Fahey (musician), John Fahey – guitarist and composer *Murray Feshbach – Cold War era scholar of Demographics of the Soviet Union and later Demographics of Russia; Sovietologist-in-Residence, in the Office of the Secretary General of NATO and senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, PhD *Ann B. Friedman, founder Planet Word, a language arts museum in Washington, D.C., '1998 *Adriane Fugh-Berman, professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, CAS/BA *Nick Galifianakis (cartoonist), Nick Galifianakis – cartoonist for ''The Washington Post''; cousin of comedian Zach Galifianakis *Dominic Giampaolo – software engineer, developed the Be File System, CAS *Jeff Gill (academic), Jeff Gill – Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis, SPA/PhD '96 *Edmund W. Gordon – scholar of African American studies; Professor of Psychology Emeritus of Yale University and Interim Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University, CAS/MA *Bhante Henepola Gunaratana – Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and philosopher, author of ''Mindfulness in Plain English'' *K. David Harrison – linguist, director of research at the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages *Frederick Hart (sculptor), Frederick Hart – sculptor noted for his public monuments and works in bronze, marble, and clear Acrylic glass, acrylic *Donald Harward – philosopher, University President, President of Bates College *Michael Hendricks – psychologist, suicidologist, and an advocate for the LGBT community *Mimi Herbert – painter and sculptor, CAS/MA '83 *Davoud Hermidas-Bavand – Iranian intellectual; political science, political scientist, SIS/PhD '63 *Solange Hertz - Catholic author *Carol M. Highsmith – photographer and author who donated her life's work of more than 100,000 images to the Library of Congress, which established a rare one-person archive for her work * Jesse Itzler – ''Billboard'' Hot 100

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; Vice chairman of

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, BA *Ronald Jensen – mathematician active in Europe, working in mathematical logic and set theory, CAS/BA '59 *Robert Kagan – Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Scholar and ''

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'' columnist, PhD *Stephen A. Kent – Sociology, sociologist and researcher of new and alternative religions in Canada; Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta, CAS/MA '73 *Cornelius M. Kerwin – president of American University, SPA/BA '71 *

Florence King Florence Virginia King (January 5, 1936 – January 6, 2016) was an American novelist, essayist and columnist. While her early writings focused on the American South and those who live there, much of King's later work was published in ''Natio ...

– novelist, BA '57 *Susan Cohn Lackman – composer of contemporary classical music; Professor of Music Theory and Compositional methods, Composition at Rollins College, CAS/MA *Matthew Lesko – author on government grants *Greg Lukianoff – president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education *Arnošt Lustig – Czech author and Holocaust survivor *William Moulton Marston – inventor and cartoonist, invented the polygraph and produced ''Wonder Woman'' *Edith T. Martin – artist and museum professional *Dan Mathews – Senior Vice President of PETA; author of ''Committed: A Rabble-Rouser's Memoir'' *Mariana Matthews – Chilean photographer, curator, and visual artist * M. Peter McPherson – president of

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; Director of the

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Program under President

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; Director of Dow Jones, WCL/JD '69 *Mishlawi – American-Portuguese rapper *Valentine Moghadam – feminist scholar, sociologist, activist, and author; Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women's Studies Program at Purdue University, CAS/PhD '86 *Severino Montano – Philippine playwright, director, actor and theater organizer; Dean of Instruction of the Philippine Normal University, CAS/MA, SPA/PhD *Dambisa Moyo, Baroness Moyo, Dambisa Moyo – economist and author of The New York Times Best Seller list, ''New York Times'' best seller ''Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working And How There Is a Better Way for Africa'' CAS/BS, KSB/MBA *Susan B. Neuman – literacy researcher, educator and author; US Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education, BA '68 * Asra Nomani – journalist, author, feminist and activist in the Liberal movements within Islam, Muslim reform and Islamic feminism, Islamic feminist movements; Professor of Journalism at Georgetown University, SOC/MA '90 *Lisa Norris – author; Professor of English and Creative Writing at Central Washington University, CAS/MFA *John P. O'Neill – counter-terrorism expert and Special Agent in Charge in the

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; head of security of the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center and killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks, CAS/BA '74 *Anne-Imelda Radice – art historian and museum director *Kathy Reichs – author and forensic anthropologist CAS/BA '91 *Stanley Renshon – psychoanalyst and Professor of Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, SIS/MA *Monica Richards – singer, songwriter, artist and writer known within the gothic subculture *Henry Rollins – vocalist, Black Flag (band), Black Flag (attended in 1979, but did not graduate) *Montserrat Sagot - sociologist *Bruce Schneier – author, leading internet security advisor *Margo Seibert – Drama Desk Award-nominated actress; the original Adrian in ''Rocky the Musical'' on Broadway *Zaid Shakir – Western scholar of Islam, SIS/BA *

Donna Shalala Donna Edna Shalala ( ; born February 14, 1941) is an American politician and academic who served in the Carter and Clinton administrations, as well as in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021. Shalala is a recipient of the Preside ...

– president of the

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, former

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*Alice Sheldon – novelist, BA '59 *Leo Suryadinata – Chinese Indonesian sinology, sinologist; Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore; Director of the Chinese Heritage Center at Nanyang Technological University, PhD *Dana Thomas – author of the ''New York Times'' bestseller ''Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster'' *Ernest Thompson – playwright, actor, Academy Award winner, CAS '71 *George S. Tolley - agricultural economist at the University of Chicago, CAS/BA '47 *Jagath Weerasinghe – Sri Lankan contemporary artist *Tanekeya Word – artist *Joe Chambers - artist *Oliver Reynolds Wulf - chemist and physicist; 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, MS '22 *Virginia Cleaver Bacon - Oregon State Librarian, MA '24

Other

*Maria Butina * Jacksfilms, Jack Douglass - YouTuber *Yannis Pappas - stand-up comedian & podcaster

Notable professors and staff

This is a list of notable AU professors and staff, past and present, listed in alphabetical order.

Politicians and public servants

*Akbar S. Ahmed – former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United Kingdom *Anita Alpern – former assistant commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service *Walter K. Andersen –

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Analyst and specialist in Indian and Indian Ocean affairs *Nancie Caraway – First Lady of Hawaii; political scientist, feminist and author *Joe Clark – Prime Minister of Canada between June 4, 1979, and March 3, 1980 *Max Cleland – former

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from

Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also refer to: Places Historical states and entities * Related to the ...

*Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi – Argentinian lawyer, diplomat and judge; International Criminal Court judge *Abe Fortas - former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States *James Fyfe – Police Administrator and lieutenant in the New York Police Department; noted academic in criminology *Edward M. Glick – Public Affairs Officer for the

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other na ...

; Professor of Communications *Claudio Grossman – Chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture; Dean Emeritus of the Washington College of Law *Frank William La Rue – UN Special Rapporteur; 2004 Nobel Peace Prize nominee *Robert Lehrman – former White House Chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore; novelist *Allan Lichtman – historian, 2006 candidate for Maryland State Senate, Department of History *Charles Malik – former president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council *Constance Morella – United States Representative from Maryland; Ambassador in Residence for the Women & Politics Institute *Hamid Mowlana – former professor, adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran *Ralph Nader – political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney; five-time candidate for President of the United States, including as Green Party of the United States, Green Party nominee in 1996 United States presidential election, 1996 and 2000 United States presidential election, 2000 *Jackie Norris – political scientist; Chief of Staff under First Lady of the United States, First Lady Michelle Obama *Manfred Nowak – Austrian human rights lawyer; Austrian delegate to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights *Susan Orr – Commissioner of the United States Children's Bureau *Robert Pastor – United States National Security Advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean *Anthony C. E. Quainton – United States Ambassador to the Central African Empire, Kuwait, Nicaragua, and Peru; United States Coordinator for Counterterrorism *Jim Ramstad – United States Representative from Minnesota *Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer – United Nations diplomat; journalist; doctor of laws *Jamie Raskin – United States Representative from Maryland, former Maryland State Senator *Jehan Sadat – First Lady of Egypt; wife of President Anwar Sadat *Sally Shelton-Colby – Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of State for Latin America; United States Ambassador to the Caribbean; Assistant Administrator for

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; Deputy Secretary General of the OECD; wife of Director of the Central Intelligence Agency William Colby

Nobel laureates

*Herbert Spencer Gasser – 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine *Robert S. Mulliken – 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fulbright Scholars

*Patricia Aufderheide – film, video and radio academic *Naomi Baron – author; president of the Semiotic Society of America; Professor of Linguistics *C. Stanley Lewis – artist and art professor *Stephen Silvia – professor, School of International Service; affiliate professor, Department of Economics

Guggenheim Fellows

*Patricia Aufderheide – List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1994, 1994 recipient; film, video and radio academic *Naomi Baron – author; president of the Semiotic Society of America; Professor of Linguistics *Robert Griffith (historian), Robert Griffith – List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1980, 1980 recipient; historian; author *Michael Kazin – historian and author *C. Stanley Lewis – artist and art professor *Richard McCann – fiction, nonfiction and poetry writer *Julian Simon – environmental economics academic and author

Pulitzer Prize recipients

*David Garrow – 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, Pulitzer Prize for Biography *Henry S. Taylor – 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

Other

*Alida Anderson – author and researcher at American University School of Education *Kenneth Anderson (jurist), Kenneth Anderson – research fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Professor of Law *George Ayittey – president of the Free Africa Foundation; political economics professor *Robert Bausch – fiction writer, novelist and 2009 Dos Passos Prize in Literature; author of ''Almighty Me,'' released in film as ''Bruce Almighty'' *Upendra Baxi – legal scholar; Vice Chancellor of the University of Delhi, Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute and President of the Indian Society of International Law *Betty T. Bennett – Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1985–1997) and Professor of Literature *Michael Berenbaum – Holocaust scholar, writer and filmmaker; deputy director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust; Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum *Richard E. Berendzen – Department of Physics Professor, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences *Barbara Bergmann – feminist economics academic; professor emerita of economics *Alan Berman – psychologist, psychotherapist, and suicidologist *Julian Bond – Chairman of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP; distinguished professor in residence, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs *David Bosco – journalist; author; assistant professor of international politics *Richard Breitman – Distinguished Professor of History, American University *Norma Broude – Art historian and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita *James B. Conant – President of Harvard University; chemist *Laura DeNardis – author and Internet governance scholar; School of Communications Professor *Elizabeth Eisenstein – author and historian on the French Revolution and early printing *Samih Farsoun – Founding Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Sharjah and the American University of Kuwait; professor emeritus of sociology *Charles Ferster, Charles B. Ferster – Department of Psychology, behavioral psychologist, co-author with B. F. Skinner of ''Schedules of Reinforcement'' (1957) *Lee Francis – Laguna Pueblo-Anishinaabe poet and educator; Professor and Interim Director of Native American Studies department and the American Studies program *Herbert Fuchs – former member of various communist cells during the 1930s and 1940s; Professor of Law *Mary Garrard – Art historian and feminist scholar, Professor Emerita *Walter Gautschi – mathematician and expert in numerical analysis *Edmund Ghareeb – author and expert on the Kurds, Iraq, and media issues; Professor of Middle East history and politics *Lesley Gill – Latin America researcher and author; Department of Anthropology *Louis W. Goodman – Dean Emeritus of the School of International Service *Ross Gunn – nuclear physicist; Principal in the Manhattan Project and the United States' nuclear submarine program *Jane Hall (journalist), Jane Hall – former ''Los Angeles Times'' reporter, ''

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'' panelist; School of Communications *Consuelo Hernández – Latin America scholar and poet; Professor of Latin American Studies *Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy - Dean, American University School of Education *Andrew Holleran – Author, Creative Writing Program *Louis C. Hunter – Professor of economic history; author of ''Steamboats on the Western Rivers, an Economic and Technological History'' *

Victor Kamber Victor Samuel Kamber (born May 7, 1943) is an American labor union activist and political consultant in the United States. A Democrat, he worked for the AFL-CIO in the 1970s before forming The Kamber Group, a public relations firm, in 1980. ...

– Labor union activist and political consultant *Mary King (political scientist), Mary King – political scientist and expert in peace and conflict resolution; Distinguished Scholar, Center of Global Peace *Ellis O. Knox – desegregation champion and Chairman of Education for the NAACP; Professor of Education *Iris Krasnow – School of Communications, Academic Director of Washington Journalism Semester *Stephen G. Kurtz – historian, principal of Phillips Exeter Academy *Charles R. Larson (scholar), Charles R. Larson, US scholar of African literature *Jennifer L. Lawless – political scientist *William Leap – Department Chair for Anthropology *William M. LeoGrande – Dean of the School of Public Affairs and professor in the Department of Government *Charles Lewis (journalist), Charles Lewis – former investigative producer for

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and CBS's 60 Minutes; founder of the Center for Public Integrity; School of Communications Professor and Executive Editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop * Andrew Lih – author and new media researcher; professor in the School of Communication *Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker – academic; Professor of Far Eastern Studies *Eugene Lukacs – statistician and Director of Statistics in the Office of Naval Research *Charles F. Marsh – economist; academic; President of Wofford College *Colman McCarthy – journalist; peace activist; columnist for ''

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'' *Howard E. McCurdy – expert on space policy and NASA; Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History; Professor of Public Affairs *Pamela Nadell – former president of the Association for Jewish Studies (2015 - 2017); Scholar of Jewish-American Women's History; Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women's and Gender History *Candice Nelson (political scientist), Candice Nelson – political theorist, director of the Campaign Management Institute recipient (former professor) *Karen O'Connor (professor), Karen O'Connor – political scientist, Department of Government *Marshall Poe – historian and author on the Grand Duchy of Moscow *Arturo C. Porzecanski – Distinguished Economist-in-Residence; Professor and Program Director of the MA in International Economic Relations; wall street veteran *Jamin Raskin – professor, constitutional law; co-director, Program on Law and Government and Marshall-Brennan Fellows Program; author of ''The Supreme Court versus the American People''; Maryland State Senator *John M. Richardson (professor), John M. Richardson – director of the Center for Teaching Excellence; Department of International Development *Floyd M. Riddick – Department of Political Science *Aubrey Eugene Robinson, Jr. – United States federal judge *David H. Rosenbloom – distinguished professor, Department of Public Administration & Policy *Abdul Aziz Said – founder of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace; founder and Director of the Center for Global Peace; School of International Service, Department of International Peace and Conflict Resolution; author; professor *Stephen Silvia – expert on the German economy, labor markets and industrial relations; Professor and Director of MA in International Relations online degree *Sally Liberman Smith, Sally Smith – author; special education activist; founder of the Lab School of Washington for students with learning disabilities; Education Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Special Education 1976–2007 *Gregory H. Stanton – president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars *Ben Stein – actor, writer, lawyer and commentator on political and economic issues *Leonard Steinhorn – author; specialist in American politics and culture; Professor of Communications *Charles C. Tansill (1890–1964) – Professor of History at American University from 1921 to 1937 *James A. Thurber – director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies; Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs *Michael Tigar – Defense (legal), criminal defense attorney noted for representing high-profile clients; Professor of Law *Lloyd Ultan (composer), Lloyd Ultan – composer of contemporary classical music; Professor and Chairman of the Department of Music *Sanford J. Ungar – president emeritus of Goucher College and director of Voice of America; Dean of the American University School of Communication *Franak Viacorka – Belarusian political activist, film maker, journalist. *Perry Wallace – trial attorney at the United States Department of Justice and Environmental Policy advisory council of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency; professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers; first African-American varsity basketball player in the Southeastern Conference *Celeste A. Wallander – professor; specialist on military and energy in Russia/Eurasia region; member of the Council on Foreign Relations *Caroline F. Ware – cultural history, cultural historian *Paul R. Williams (professor), Paul R. Williams – Executive Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee; School of International Service and Washington College of Law *Vivian Maria Vasquez, Vivian M. Vasquez, Ph.D. - Multi-award-winning Professor of Education and author of a dozen books. *Ivan L. Rudnytsky (1919–1984) — Ukrainian-Canadian historian, Political science, political scientist, Public intellectual

Chancellors and presidents of American University

This is a listing of the chancellors and presidents of American University, listed together with dates of life and service, as well as concurring notable AU events.

Trustees

Notable trustees of American University, past and present: * William Jennings Bryan – United States Secretary of State to President Woodrow Wilson * Michael D. Capellas – president and CEO of MCI Inc., MCI * Dwight D. Eisenhower – 34th president of the United States * Warren G. Harding – 29th president of the United States * Herbert Hoover – 31st president of the United States *

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– president of the Charles E. Smith real estate corporation * William McKinley – 25th president of the United States * Theodore Roosevelt – 26th president of the United States * Wiley Rutledge – U.S. Supreme Court Justice (WCL) * Harry S. Truman – 33rd president of the United States

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