List of Georgetown University alumni

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Georgetown College class of 1920 assembled on the steps of the Old North building.

Alumni of Georgetown University include matriculated students of Georgetown University's undergraduate and postgraduate academic programs who graduated or attended without graduating. Georgetown University is a private research university located in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institution of higher education in the United States. The school graduates about two thousand undergraduate and postgraduate students annually. There are nine constitutive schools, five of which offer undergraduate degrees and six of which offer graduate degrees, as two schools offer both undergraduate and graduate degrees. Just over three percent of Georgetown's 97,384 living alumni are listed in Marquis Who's Who, the fourteenth highest percentage and eighth highest raw number among American universities as of 2000. NNDB, the Notable Names Database, lists 289 notable alumni.

Legend

Note: Individuals who may belong in multiple sections appear only in one.
An empty class year or school/degree box indicates that the information is unknown.

• Col – Georgetown College

• CAS – former College of Arts & Sciences
• SLL – former School of Languages and Linguistics, now the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics within the College

• Grad – Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• Med – School of Medicine

• R – Medical residency in the School of Medicine
• W – Fellowship in the School of Medicine

• Law – Law Center (Juris Doctor or Bachelor of Laws)

• LL.M. – Master of Laws

• NHS – School of Nursing and Health Studies

• Nur – former Georgetown University Nursing School

• SFS – Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (undergraduate)

• MSFS – Master of Science in Foreign Service (graduate)
• SSP – Security Studies Program (graduate)

• Dent – School of Dentistry (defunct)
• SCS – School of Continuing Studies

• SCE – former School of Summer and Continuing Education
• CED – School of Continuing Education

• MSB – McDonough School of Business (undergraduate)

• GSB – former Georgetown School of Business
• SBA – former School of Business Administration
• MBA – Master of Business Administration (graduate)

• MPP – McCourt School of Public Policy

• GPPI – former Georgetown Public Policy Institute

* Indicates the alumnus or alumna attended but did not graduate (includes years of attendance)

Law, government, and politics

Heads of state and government

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Abdullah II bin al-Hussein	1966	MSFS	King of Jordan, 1999–present
Ricardo Arias	1935	SFS	President of Panama, 1955–56
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	1968	SFS	President of the Philippines, 2001–10
José Manuel Barroso	1998	MSFS	President of the European Commission, 2004–present; Prime Minister of Portugal, 2002–04
Laura Chinchilla	1989	MPP	President of Costa Rica, 2010–14
Bill Clinton	1968	SFS	President of the United States, 1993–2001
Alfredo Cristiani	1968	MSB	President of El Salvador, 1989–94
King Felipe VI	1995	MSFS	King of Spain, 2014–present
Lyndon B. Johnson	1934*	Law	President of the United States, 1963–69
Galo Plaza	1929	SFS	President of Ecuador, 1948–52; 4th Secretary General of the Organization of American States, 1968–75
Saad Hariri	1992	MSB	Prime Minister of Lebanon, 2009–11
Željko Komšić	1982	SFS	Tripartite President of Bosnia, 2006–present
Alfonso López Michelsen		SFS	President of Colombia, 1974–78

United States Governors

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Toney Anaya	1963	SFS	Governor of New Mexico, 1983–87
Coleman Livingston Blease	1889	Law	Governor of South Carolina, 1911–15; United States Senator, 1925–31
James Caleb Boggs	1937	Law	Governor of Delaware, 1953–60; United States Senator, 1961–73; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1947–53
John Lee Carroll		Col	Governor of Maryland, 1876–80; great-grandson of Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Michael N. Castle	1964	Law	Governor of Delaware, 1985–92; United States Representative, 1993–2011
Peter Tali Coleman	1949, 1951	Col, Law	First appointed Governor of American Samoa, 1956–61; first elected Governor of American Samoa, 1978–85, 1989–93
Mitch Daniels	1979	Law	Governor of Indiana, 2005–13; President of Purdue University
Christopher Del Sesto	1938	Law	Governor of Rhode Island, 1959–61
Michael V. DiSalle	1931	Law	Governor of Ohio, 1959–63
William S. Flynn	1910	Law	Governor of Rhode Island, 1923–25
Luis Fortuño	1982	SFS	Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 2009–14
James H. Higgins	1900	Law	Governor of Rhode Island, 1907–09
Frank Keating	1966	Col	Governor of Oklahoma, 1995–2003; President and CEO of the American Bankers Association
John H. Lynch	1978	Law	Governor of New Hampshire, 2005–13
Terry McAuliffe	1986	Law	Governor of Virginia, 2014–present; Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
Jim McGreevey	1981	Law	Governor of New Jersey, 2002–04
Steve Merrill	1972	Law	Governor of New Hampshire, 1993–97
Luis Muñoz Marín	1915	Law	First democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico, 1949–65; known as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico"
Philip W. Noel	1957	Law	Governor of Rhode Island, 1973–77
James C. Shannon	1918	Col	Governor of Connecticut, 1948–49
Pat Quinn	1971	SFS	Governor of Illinois, 2009–15
Don Siegelman	1972	Law	Governor of Alabama, 1999–2003
John Spellman	1953	Law	Governor of Washington, 1981–85

United States Executive Branch officials

Cabinet members

This includes members of the Cabinet of the United States.

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
William W. Belknap	1851	Law	Secretary of War, 1869–76
George Cortelyou	1895	Law	Secretary of the Treasury, 1907–09; first Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903–04; Postmaster General, 1905–07
Robert Gates	1974	Grad	Secretary of Defense, 2006–01; Director of Central Intelligence, 1991–93; President of the Boy Scouts of America; President of Texas A&M University, 2002–06
Alexander Haig	1961	Grad	Secretary of State, 1981–82; Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 1974–79; White House Chief of Staff, 1973–74; CEO, United Technologies
Mickey Kantor	1968	Law	Secretary of Commerce, 1996–97; U.S. Trade Representative, 1993–96
Jack Lew	1975	Law	Secretary of the Treasury, 2013–present; White House Chief of Staff, 2012–13; Director, Office of Management and Budget, 1998–2001, 2010–12; Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources, 2009–10
Donald Rumsfeld	1957*	Law	Secretary of Defense, 1975–77, 2001–06; White House Chief of Staff, 1974–75; United States Permanent Representative to NATO, 1973–74; Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, 1969–70; United States Representative from Illinois, 1963–69

Independent agency heads and subordinate officers

This includes the heads of federal independent agencies and officers subordinate to the heads of executive departments.

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Horace M. Albright	1914	Law	Director of the National Park Service, 1929–33; conservationist; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Roger Altman	1967	Col	Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, 1993–94
Bradley Belt	1984	Law	Executive Director of Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, 2004–06
Robert C. Bonner	1966	Law	Commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 2001–05; Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, 1990–93; Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 1989–90
Bradford P. Campbell		Law	Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits, 2007–09
Paul Clement	1987	SFS	Solicitor General of the United States, 2004–08
Paula Dobriansky	1977	SFS	Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, 2001–09
John J. Easton, Jr.	1970	Law	Assistant Secretary of Energy for Domestic and International Energy Policy; Vermont Attorney General, 1981–85
Douglas Feith	1978	Law	Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, 2001–05
Edwin Foulke	1993	Law	Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health, 2006–08
Mark Gearan	1991	Law	Director of the Peace Corps, 1995–99; White House Deputy Chief of Staff, 1993; President of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1999–present
Avril Haines	2001	Law	Deputy National Security Advisor, 2015–present; Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 2013–15
Maura Harty	1981	SFS	Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, 2002–08; CEO, International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children
Kim R. Holmes	1982	Grad	Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 2002–15; Vice President of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation
Elaine D. Kaplan	1979	Law	Acting Director of the Office of Personnel Management, 2013; Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims, 2013–present
Jane Holl Lute	1999	Law	Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 2009–13; CEO, Council on CyberSecurity
Michael P. Jackson	1985	Grad	Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005–07
Patrick F. Kennedy	1971	SFS	Under Secretary of State for Management, 2007–present
Robert M. Kimmitt	1977	Law	Acting U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2006; Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, 2005–09; United States Ambassador to Germany, 1991–93; Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, 1989–91
Robert Mosbacher, Jr.	1973	Col	President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation; Chairman of Mosbacher Energy Company
Andrew Natsios	1971	Col	Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, 2001–06; U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, 2006–07; Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, 2000–01; Chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party, 1980–87; Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1975–87
Michael Powell	1993	Law	Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 2001–2005; President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, 2011–present
Matthew A. Reynolds	1986	SFS	Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, 2008–09
Charles O. Rossotti	1962	Col	Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1997–2002
Michael A. Sheehan	1988	MSFS	Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities, 2011–13; Assistant Secretary-General for Mission Support, 2001–03; first United States Ambassador-at-Large for Counterterrorism, 1998–2000
Douglas Shulman	1999	Law	Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 2008–12
Harry A. Slattery			Under Secretary of the Interior, 1938–39; gave his name to the Slattery Report
Daniel Tarullo	1973	Col	Governor of the Federal Reserve, 2009–present
George Tenet	1976	SFS	Director of Central Intelligence, 1997–2004
Barbara D. Underwood	1969	Law	Solicitor General of New York, 2007–present; Acting Solicitor General of the United States, 2001; Principal Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, 1998–2001
Christine A. Varney	1986	Law	Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division, 2009–11; Federal Trade Commissioner, 1994–97
C. David Welch	1975	SFS	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, 2005–08
Richard E. Wiley	1962	LL.M.	Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, 1974–77; founding partner of Wiley Rein & Fielding
Robert L. Wilkie	1992	LL.M.	Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs, 2006–present

White House staff

This includes members of the Executive Office of the President.

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Jerry Abramson	1971	Law	White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, 2014–present; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 2011–14; Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, 1986–99, 2003–11
David Addington	1978	SFS	Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, 2005–09
Elizabeth Alexander	2008	Law	Press secretary to Vice President Joe Biden, 2009–present
Pat Buchanan	1961	Col	Advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan; White House Communications Director, 1985–87; nationally syndicated political pundit; a frequent commentator on The McLaughlin Group
Stephanie Cutter	1997	Law	Assistant to the President for Special Projects, 2010–present; Communications Director of the U.S. Treasury, 2009–10; Chief Spokesperson for the Obama-Biden Transition Project, 2008–09; Chief of Staff to Michelle Obama, 2008 Presidential general election campaign
John Dean	1965	Law	White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate affair, 1970–73
Ron Klain	1983	Col	Chief of Staff to Vice President Joe Biden, 2008–11; Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, 1995–99; U.S. Ebola Response Coordinator, 2014–15
Frederick Lawton	1920, 1934	Col, Law	Director of the Bureau of the Budget, 1950–53
Mike McCurry	1985	Grad	Press Secretary to President Clinton, 1995–98
Beth Nolan	1980	Law	White House Counsel to President Clinton, 1999–2001
Meghan O'Sullivan	1991	Col	Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan, 2005–07
Dan Pfeiffer	1998	Col	White House Communications Director, 2009–present; Senior Advisor to the President, 2013–15
John Podesta	1976	Law	Counselor to the President, 2014–15; Co-Chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, 2008–09; President and CEO, Center for American Progress, 2003–present; Chief of Staff to President Clinton, 1998–2001
Jack Quinn	1971, 1975	Col, Law	White House Counsel to President Bill Clinton, 1995–96
Kathryn Ruemmler	1996	Law	White House Counsel to President Obama, 2011–present
Charles Schultze	1948, 1950	Col, Grad	Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors in the Carter administration; Director, Office of Management and Budget, 1965–68
Frederick Lawton	1920, 1934	Col, Law	Director of the Bureau of the Budget, 1950–53

Ambassadors from the United States

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
David Manker Abshire	1959	Grad	President, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress; United States Permanent Representative to NATO, 1983–87; Co-founder, Center for Strategic and International Studies; advisor to President Ronald Reagan
Anne Slaughter Andrew	1977	Col	United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, 2009–present
Alexander A. Arvizu	1980	SFS	United States Ambassador to Albania, 2010–14
Diego C. Asencio	1952, 1953	SFS, Grad	United States Ambassador to Brazil, 1983–86; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1977–80
Christopher C. Ashby	1968	SFS	United States Ambassador to Uruguay, 1997–2001
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley	1987	Law	United States Ambassador to Portugal, 1994–97; senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright; Special Representative for Global Partnerships
Vincent M. Battle	1962	SFS	United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 2001–04
Willard L. Beaulac	1921	SFS	United States Ambassador to Paraguay, 1944–47; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1947–51; United States Ambassador to Cuba, 1951–53; United States Ambassador to Chile, 1953–56; United States Ambassador to Argentina, 1956–60
John W. Blaney	1976	MSFS	United States Ambassador to Liberia, 2002–05
Richard J. Bloomfield	1950	SFS	United States Ambassador to Portugal, 1978–82; United States Ambassador to Ecuador, 1976–78
Donald E. Booth	1976	SFS	United States Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, 2013–present; United States Ambassador to Ethiopia, 2010–13; United States Ambassador to Zambia, 2008–10; United States Ambassador to Liberia, 2005–08
Piper Anne Wind Campbell	1988	SFS	United States Ambassador to Mongolia, 2012–present
Maura Connelly	1981	SFS	United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 2010–13; United States Chargé d'Affaires a.i to Syria, 2008–10
Ivo H. Daalder	1982	Grad	United States Permanent Representative to NATO, 2009–13
Edward P. Djerejian	1960	SFS	United States Ambassador to Israel, 1993–94; United States Ambassador to Syria, 1988–91; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, 1991–93; founding director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
Thomas J. Dodd, Jr.	1957	SFS	United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1997–2001; United States Ambassador to Uruguay, 1993–97
Cynthia G. Efird	1971	SFS	United States Ambassador to Angola, 2004–07
Maurice Francis Egan	1879	Col	United States Ambassador to Denmark, 1907–18
Lee A. Feinstein	1995	Law	United States Ambassador to Poland, 2009–12
Laurie S. Fulton	1989	Law	United States Ambassador to Denmark, 2009–13
Peter W. Galbraith	1990	Law	United States Ambassador to Croatia, 1993–98; United Nations Representative in East Timor, 2000–01; Member of the Vermont Senate, 2011–15
Tatiana C. Gfoeller	1982, 1983	SFS, MSFS	United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, 2008–11
Marc Ginsberg	1978	Law	United States Ambassador to Morocco, 1994–98
Mark Gitenstein	1971	Law	United States Ambassador to Romania, 2009–12
Scott Gration	1988	Grad	United States Ambassador to Kenya, 2011–12; Major General, United States Air Force
David Hale	1983	SFS	United States Ambassador to Pakistan, 2015–present; United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 2013–15; United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, 2011–13; United States Ambassador to Jordan, 2004–08
Michael A. Hammer	1985	SFS	United States Ambassador to Chile, 2014–present; Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, 2011–present
Parker T. Hart	1940	SFS	United States Ambassador to Turkey, 1965–68; United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1961–65; United States Ambassador to Kuwait, 1962–63; United States Ambassador to Yemen, 1961–62
Maura Harty	1981	SFS	President & CEO, International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children; Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs, 2002–08; United States Ambassador to Paraguay, 1997–99
John E. Herbst	1974	SFS	United States Ambassador to Ukraine, 2003–06; United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2000–03
Stuart Holliday	1988	SFS	President and CEO of Meridian International Center, 2006–present; United States Ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs, 2003–05; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Coordinator of the Bureau of International Information Programs, 2001–03; Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel, 2001–03
Eric G. John	1982	SFS	United States Ambassador to Thailand, 2007–10
U. Alexis Johnson	1932	SFS	United States Ambassador-at-Large, 1973–77; United States Ambassador to Japan, 1966–68; United States Ambassador to Thailand, 1958–61; United States Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1953–57
James Robert Jones	1964	Law	United States Ambassador to Mexico, 1993–97; Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma, 1973–87; White House Appointments Secretary, 1968–69
John Hubert Kelly	1982	SFS Fellow	United States Ambassador to Finland, 1991–94; Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, 1989–91; United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 1986–88
William Kintner	1948, 1950	Grad, Grad	United States Ambassador to Thailand, 1973–75; Member of the Board of Directors, United States Institute of Peace
Hugo Llorens	1977	SFS	United States Ambassador to Honduras, 2008–11
Alphonse F. LaPorta	1960	SFS	United States Ambassador to Mongolia, 1997–2000
Frank Lavin	1979, 1985	SFS, Grad	Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, 2005–07; United States Ambassador to Singapore, 2001–05
Edward B. Lawson	1924, 1925	SFS, Grad	United States Ambassador to Israel, 1954–59; United States Ambassador to Iceland, 1949–54
John Maisto	1961	SFS	United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States, 2003–07; United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1997–2000; United States Ambassador to Nicaragua, 1993–96
Eileen Malloy	1975	SFS	Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs, 1997–99; United States Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, 1994–97
Richard T. McCormack	1963	Col	United States Ambassador to the Organization of American States, 1985–89; Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs, 1989–91
Jackson McDonald	1978	SFS	United States Ambassador to Guinea, 2004–07; United States Ambassador to the Gambia, 2001–04
Jack K. McFall	1929	SFS	United States Ambassador to Finland, 1952–55; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, 1949–52
Gerald S. McGowan	1968, 1974	SFS, Law	United States Ambassador to Portugal, 1997–2001
Alfred H. Moses	1956	Law	United States Ambassador to Romania, 1994–97
Stephen Mull	1980	SFS	Executive Secretary of the U.S. Department of State, 2009–12; Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, 2007–08; United States Ambassador to Poland, 2012–15; United States Ambassador to Lithuania, 2003–06
Cameron Munter	1991	SFS Rusk Fellow	United States Ambassador to Pakistan, 2010–12; United States Ambassador to Serbia, 2007–09
Richard Norland	1977	SFS	United States Ambassador to Georgia, 2012–present; United States Ambassador to Uzbekistan, 2007–10
Frank V. Ortiz, Jr.	1950	SFS	United States Ambassador to Argentina, 1983–86; United States Ambassador to Peru, 1981–83; United States Ambassador to Guatemala, 1979–80; United States Ambassador to Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, 1977–79
Manuel Rocha	1978	Grad	United States Ambassador to Bolivia, 2000–02
Francis Rooney	1975, 1978	Col, Law	United States Ambassador to the Holy See, 2005–08
David M. Satterfield	1978	Law	United States Ambassador to Lebanon, 1998–2001
David Scheffer	1978	LL.M.	First United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, 1997–2000
Thomas L. Siebert	1968, 1972	Col, Law	United States Ambassador to Sweden, 1994–98
Nancy Soderberg	1984	MSFS	U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs at the United Nations, 1997–2001; Chairperson of the Public Interest Declassification Board, 2012–15
James C. Swan		SFS	United States Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2013–present; United States Ambassador to Djibouti, 2008–11
John F. Tefft	1978	Grad	United States Ambassador to Russia, 2014–present; United States Ambassador to Ukraine, 2009–13; United States Ambassador to Georgia, 2005–09; United States Ambassador to Lithuania, 2000–03
Patrick N. Theros	1963	SFS	United States Ambassador to Qatar, 1995–98
Viron P. Vaky	1947	SFS	Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1978–79; United States Ambassador to Venezuela, 1976–78; United States Ambassador to Colombia, 1974–76; United States Ambassador to Costa Rica, 1972–74
Richard Verma	1998	Law	United States Ambassador to India, 2015–present; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs, 2009–present
Melanne Verveer	1966, 1969	SLL, Grad	United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues; Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Chief of Staff to First Lady Hillary Clinton, 1997–2001; co-founder and chair of Vital Voices Global Partnership
Richard David Vine	1949	SFS	Director of the Bureau for Refugee Programs, 1982; United States Ambassador to Switzerland, 1979–81
C. David Welch	1975	SFS	Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, 2005–08; United States Ambassador to Egypt, 2001–05; Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, 1998–2002
Melissa F. Wells	1956	SFS	United States Ambassador to Estonia, 1998–2001; United States Ambassador to Congo-Kinshasa, 1991–93; United States Ambassador to Mozambique, 1987–90; United States Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, 1976–77; United States Ambassador to Cape Verde, 1976–77

Judges

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Thomas L. Ambro	1972, 1975	Col, Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2000–present
Walter Maximillian Bastian	1913	Law	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1954–75
Richard C. Bosson	1969	Law	Chief Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court, 2002–06; Associate Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court, 2006–present
Richard J. Bowie	1826	Law	Chief Judge, Maryland Court of Appeals, 1861–67; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1849–53
Richard C. Casey	1958	Law	Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1997–2007; the nation's first blind federal trial judge
John O. Colvin	1978	Law	Chief Judge, United States Tax Court, 2006–present
Francis B. Condon	1916	Law	Chief Justice, Rhode Island Supreme Court, 1958–65; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1930–35
Charles W. Daniels	1971	LL.M.	Chief Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court, 2010–12; Associate Justice, New Mexico Supreme Court, 2007–present
Ronald Davies	1930	Law	Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, 1955–96; temporarily assigned to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas and presided over the Little Rock Integration Crisis case
Robert E. Davis	1964	Law	Chief Justice, Kansas Supreme Court, 2009–10; Associate Justice, Kansas Supreme Court, 1993–2009
Charles H. Fahy	1914	Law	Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1949–67; Solicitor General of the United States, 1941–45
D. Michael Fisher	1966, 1969	Col, Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2003–present
Arthur J. Gajarsa	1967	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1997–2011
Lorie Skjerven Gildea	1986	Law	Chief Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court, 2010–present; Associate Justice, Minnesota Supreme Court, 2006–10
Thomas M. Hardiman	1990	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2007–present
William Hitz	1900	Law	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1931–35
Helen E. Hoens	1979	Law	Associate Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court, 2006–13
Thomas F. Hogan	1960, 1966	Col, Law	Director, Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 2011–13; Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2001–08
Jerome A. Holmes	1988	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Jeffrey R. Howard	1981	Law	Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2015–present; Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2002–15
Kent A. Jordan	1984	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2006–present
Bruce E. Kasold	1900	Law	Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 2010–15
Esther Mayambala Kisaakye	1994	Law	Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Uganda, 2009–present
Rives Kistler	1981	Law	Associate Justice, Oregon Supreme Court, 2003–present
Stephen P. Lamb	1975	Law	Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1997–2009
Joseph Normand Laplante	1987, 1990	Col, Law	Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 2011–present; Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, 2007–11
Richard Linn	1969	Col, Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 1999–2012
Hall S. Lusk	1904, 1907	Col, Law	Chief Justice, Oregon Supreme Court, 1949–51, Associate Justice, Oregon Supreme Court, 1937–68; United States Senator from Oregon, 1960
M. Margaret McKeown	1975	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1998–present
Kimberly Ann Moore	1994	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2006–present
Fred I. Parker	1965	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1994–2003; Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont, 1991–94
E. Barrett Prettyman	1915	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1945–71; the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse is named in his honor
Vanessa Ruiz	1975	Law	Associate Judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1994–2011
Antonin Scalia	1957	Col	Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, 1986–present
Louis Scolnik	1952	Law	Associate Justice, Maine Supreme Judicial Court, 1983–88; Justice, Maine Superior Court, 1974–83
Dennis Shedd	1980	LL.M.	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 2002–present
Eugene Edward Siler, Jr.	1964	LL.M.	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1991–2001
John Sirica	1926	Law	Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1971–74; Time magazine "Man of the Year" 1973
Timothy C. Stanceu	1979	Law	Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of International Trade, 2014–present
Laura Denvir Stith	1978	Law	Chief Justice, Missouri Supreme Court, 2007–09; Judge, Missouri Supreme Court, 2001–present
Eugene R. Sullivan	1971	Law	Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1990–95; Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1986–2002
Edward A. Tamm	1930	Law	Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1965–85; Deputy Direct, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1930–48
George Van Hoomissen	1955, 1957	Law, LL.M.	Associate Justice, Oregon Supreme Court, 1988–2001
Edward Douglass White	1863	Col	Chief Justice of the United States, 1910–21
James R. Zazzali	1958, 1962	Col, Law	Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court, 2006–07

Members of the U.S. Senate

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
John A. Barrasso	1974, 1978	Col, Med	United States Senator from Wyoming, 2007–present
Alan Bible	1934	Law	United States Senator from Nevada, 1954–74
Dennis Chávez	1920	Law	United States Senator from New Mexico, 1935–62; first American-born Hispanic Senator; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1931–35
Richard Durbin	1966, 1969	SFS, Law	Senate Majority Whip, 2007–15; Senate Minority Whip, 2015–present; United States Senator from Illinois, 1997–present; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1983–97
John A. Durkin	1965	Law	United States Senator from New Hampshire, 1975–80
Philip A. Hart	1934	Col	United States Senator from Michigan, 1959–76; Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, 1955–59; Hart Senate Office Building named in his honor
Mazie Hirono	1978	Law	United States Senator from Hawaii, 2013–present; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 2007–13; Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, 1994–2002
Francis Kernan	1836	Col	United States Senator from New York, 1875–81; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1863–65
Mark Kirk	1992	Law	United States Senator from Illinois, 2010–present; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 2001–10
George LeMieux	1994	Law	United States Senator from Florida, 2009–11
Edward Leahy	1908	Law	United States Senator from Rhode Island, 1949–50
Patrick Leahy	1964	Law	United States Senator from Vermont, 1975–present; President pro tempore of the United States Senate, 2012–15
Joseph C. O'Mahoney	1920	Law	United States Senator from Wyoming, 1934–53
Stephen Mallory II	1869	Col	United States Senator from Florida, 1897–1907; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1891–95
William Duhurst Merrick			United States Senator from Maryland, 1838–45
George J. Mitchell	1961	Law	United States Senator from Maine, 1980–95; Senate Majority Leader, 1989–95; Deputy President pro tempore of the United States Senate, 1987–89; Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maine, 1979–80; U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland, 1995–2001; Chancellor of the Queen's University, Belfast, 1999–2009; U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, 2009–11; Chairman of the Disney Company, 2004–07
Joseph Montoya	1938	Law	United States Senator from New Mexico, 1964–77; Member of the United States House of Representatives, 1957–64; Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico, 1955–57, 1947–51
Lisa Murkowski	1980	Col	United States Senator from Alaska, 2002–present
William N. Roach		Col	United States Senator from North Dakota, 1893–99
Daniel Sullivan	1993, 1993	MSFS, Law	United States Senator from Alaska, 2015–present; Attorney General of Alaska, 2009–10; Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, 2006–09
James H. Webb	1975	Law	United States Senator from Virginia, 2007–13; U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1987–88

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Claude I. Bakewell	1932	Col	United States Representative from Missouri, 1947–49, 1951–53
William Brockman Bankhead	1895	Law	Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 1936–40; United States Representative from Alabama, 1917–40
Herbert H. Bateman	1956	Law	United States Representative from Virginia, 1983–2000
Robert Bauman	1959	SFS	United States Representative from Maryland, 1973–81
Bob Barr	1977	Law	United States Representative from Georgia, 1995–2003
George A. Bartlett	1894	Law	United States Representative from Nevada, 1907–11
Thomas J. Bliley, Jr.	1952	Col	United States Representative from Virginia, 1981–2001
Bruce F. Caputo	1971	Law	United States Representative from New York, 1977–79
Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr.	1991	Law	United States Representative from Louisiana, 2008–09
David Cicilline	1986	Law	United States Representative from Rhode Island, 2011–present
Hansen Clarke	1987	Law	United States Representative from Michigan, 2011–13
Charles R. Clason	1914	Law	United States Representative from Massachusetts, 1937–49
L. Gary Clemente	1931	Law	United States Representative from New York, 1949–53
Henry Cuellar	1974	SFS	United States Representative from Texas, 2005–present
Charles F. Curry, Jr.	1918	Law	United States Representative from California, 1931–33
John Delaney	1988	Law	United States Representative from Maryland, 2013–present; Co-founder and CEO of CapitalSource
Matthew Denver	1892	Col	United States Representative from Ohio, 1907–1913
Debbie Dingell	1975, 1998	SFS, SCE	United States Representative from Michigan, 2015–present; President of the General Motors Foundation
John Dingell	1949, 1952	Col, Law	Dean of the United States House of Representatives, 1995–2015; United States Representative from Michigan, 1965–2015; longest serving House member in history
Dennis D. Donovan	1895	Law	United States Representative from Ohio, 1888–95
John J. Douglass	1896	Law	United States Representative from Massachusetts, 1925–35
Robert F. Drinan, S.J.	1949, 1951	Law, LL.M.	United States Representative from Massachusetts, 1971–81; first Roman Catholic Jesuit priest to serve as a voting Member of Congress; Georgetown Law professor
James P.B. Duffy	1901	Col	United States Representative from New York, 1935–37
Ed Edmonson	1947	Law	United States Representative from Oklahoma, 1953–73
Henry A. Edmundson	1947	Law	United States Representative from Virginia, 1849–61
Lane Evans	1978	Law	United States Representative from Illinois, 1983–2007
Charles J. Faulkner	1822	Col	United States Representative from Virginia, 1851–59; United States Representative from West Virginia, 1875–77; United States Minister to France, 1860–61
Mike Ferguson	1995	MPP	United States Representative from New Jersey, 2001–09
John R. Foley	1947	Law	United States Representative from Maryland, 1959–61
Ellsworth Foote	1923	Law	United States Representative from Connecticut, 1947–49
Jeff Fortenberry	1986	MPP	United States Representative from Nebraska, 2005–present
Lois Frankel	1973	Law	United States Representative from Florida, 2013–present
Martin Frost	1970	Law	United States Representative from Texas, 1979–2005; President of America Votes
William Gaston	*	Col	United States Representative from North Carolina, 1813–16; Georgetown College's first student; Gaston Hall is named after him; helped secure Georgetown University's federal charter
Milton W. Glenn	1921–1922*	Col	United States Representative from New Jersey, 1957–65
George E. Gorman	1895	Law	United States Representative from Illinois, 1913–15
Leonard W. Hall	1920	Law	United States Representative from New York, 1939–52; Chairman of the Republican National Committee, 1953–57
Forest Harness	1917	Law	United States Representative from Indiana, 1939–49; Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, 1953–55
Herbert Harris	1951	Law	United States Representative from Virginia, 1975–81
Burr Harrison	1926	Law	United States Representative from Virginia, 1946–63
Edward J. Hart	1924	Law	United States Representative from New Jersey, 1935–55
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin	1993, 1996, 1997	Col, Grad, Law	United States Representative from South Dakota, 2004–11
Lawrence Hogan	1949	Col	United States Representative from Maryland, 1969–75
Steny Hoyer	1966	Law	United States Representative from Maryland, 1981–present; Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, 1989–95; House Majority Leader, 2007–2011; House Minority Whip, 2003–07, 2011–present
Henry Hyde	1947	Col	United States Representative from Illinois, 1975–2007
Michael L. Igoe	1908	Law	United States Representative from Illinois, 1935; Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, 1939–65
William J. Jefferson	1996	Law	United States Representative from Louisiana, 1991–09; convicted of ten corruption charges
Patrick J. Kennedy	*		United States Representative from Rhode Island, 1995–2011; chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 1999–2001; son of Ted Kennedy
Paul J. Kilday	1922	Law	United States Representative from Texas, 1939–61; Judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals, 1961–68
Ann McLane Kuster	1984	Law	United States Representative from New Hampshire, 2013–present
John W. Langley	1895	Law	United States Representative from Kentucky, 1903–13
George Swinton Legaré		Law	United States Representative from South Carolina, 1903–13
Dan Lungren	1971	Law	United States Representative from California, 2005–13
Asbury Francis Lever	1901	Law	United States Representative from South Carolina, 1901–19
Sydney Emanuel Mudd II	1906, 1909	Col, Law	United States Representative from Maryland, 1915–24
Mick Mulvaney	1989	SFS	United States Representative from South Carolina, 2011–present
Charlie Norwood	1969	Dent	United States Representative from Georgia, 1995–2007
Glenn Nye	1996	SFS	United States Representative from Virginia, 2009–11
Jerry J. O'Connell	1934	Col	United States Representative from Montana, 1937–39
Patrick B. O'Sullivan	1909	Col	United States Representative from Connecticut, 1923–25
James T. Patterson	1933	Col	United States Representative from Connecticut, 1947–59
William R. Ratchford	1959	Law	United States Representative from Connecticut, 1979–85
William S. Reyburn	1904	Law	United States Representative from Pennsylvania, 1911–13
Charles Risk	1922	Law	United States Representative from Rhode Island, 1935–37, 1939–41
Angelo D. Roncallo	1953	Law	United States Representative from New York, 1973–75
Antoni Sadlak	1931	Law	United States Representative from Connecticut, 1947–59
Philip R. Sharp	1964	SFS	United States Representative from Indiana, 1975–95; President of Resources for the Future, 2005–present
J. William Stanton	1949	SFS	United States Representative from Ohio, 1965–83
William R. Thom	1916	Law	United States Representative from Ohio, 1933–39, 1941–43, 1945–47
Clarence D. Van Duzer	1893	Law	United States Representative from Nevada, 1903–07
Chris Van Hollen	1990	Law	United States Representative from Maryland, 2003–present; Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 2007–11
Pete Visclosky	1982	Law	United States Representative from Indiana, 1985–present
Charles S. Voorhees	1873	Col	United States Delegate from the Washington Territory, 1885–89
Rick White	1980	Law	United States Representative from Washington, 1995–99
Frank Wolf	1965	Law	United States Representative from Virginia, 1981–2015
Albert Wynn	1977	Law	United States Representative from Maryland, 1993–2008

Military

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Gen. John R. Allen	1983	MSFS	Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, 2011–13; Commander of U.S. Central Command, 2010; Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, 2014–present
Lt. Gen. Paul Caraway	1933	Law	High Commissioner of the United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands, 1961–64
Gen. George W. Casey, Jr.	1970	SFS	Chief of Staff of the United States Army, 2007–11; Commander of Multi-National Force – Iraq, 2004–07
Gen. Joseph Dunford	1985	Grad	Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2015–present; Commandant of the Marine Corps, 2014–15; Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, 2012–14
Maj. Gen. Michael E. Ennis	1984	Grad	Deputy Director of HUMINT of the CIA, 2006–07; Director of the Marine Corps Intelligence Command, 2000–04
Maj. Gen. John Fugh	1957	SFS	Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, 1991–93; Chairman of the Committee of 100; first Chinese-American to become a general officer in the U.S. Army
Lt. Gen. John D. Gardner	1986	Grad	Deputy Commander of United States European Command; Commander of United States Army South
Brig. Gen. Hiram "Doc" Jones	1978	Grad	Deputy Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force, 1997–99
Gen. James L. Jones	1966	SFS	National Security Advisor to President Obama, 2009–10; Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 2003–06; Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1999–2003
Gen. Louis C. Menetrey	1967	MSFS	Commander-in-Chief of United Nations Command/ROK-US Combined Forces Command
Vice Adm. Robert B. Murrett	1982	Grad	Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, 2006–10; Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, 2005–06
Gen. David Petraeus	1994–1995	SFS Fellow	Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 2011–12; Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, 2010–11; Commander of United States Central Command, 2008–10
Vice Adm. Ann E. Rondeau	1982	Grad	President of the National Defense University, 2009–12; Director of Navy Staff, 2005–06; highest ranking woman in the U.S. Navy
Gen. John J. Sheehan	1985	Grad	Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic/Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Atlantic Command, 1994–97
Vice Adm. William D. Sullivan	1990	SSP	U.S. Military Representative to NATO
Lt. Gen. Guy C. Swan III	1987	Grad	Commander of United States Army North; Commander of United States Army Military District of Washington/Joint Force Headquarters National Capital Region, 2005–07
Maj. Gen. James L. Williams	1981	Grad	Commanding General of the 4th Marine Division

Attorneys

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Jack Abramoff	1986	Law	In March 2006, sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison and ordered then to pay restitution of more than $21 million for defrauding American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials
Robert S. Bennett	1961, 1964	Col, Law	Litigator; represented President Bill Clinton in the Lewinsky scandal
Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.	1961, 1965	Col, Law	Co-founder, Patton Boggs LLP
Stephen L. Braga	1981	Law	Litigator who represented the West Memphis Three
Plato Cacheris	1953, 1956	SFS, Law	Litigator who defended numerous high-profile clients
Michael J. Callahan	1990	SFS	Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Yahoo
James C. Duff	1981	Law	Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, 2006–present; President of the Freedom Forum, which operates the Newseum, 2011–present
Andrew G. Haley	1928	Law	World's first space lawyer; president of Aerojet General, 1942–45; a founder in 1960 of the International Academy of Astronautics and International Institute of Space Law; coined the term "metalaw" (laws applied to relations with alien intelligences)
Theodore "Ted" Jones	1970	LL.M.	Louisiana lawyer, lobbyist, and political appointee
Peter McDonough	1979, 1982	Col, Law	General counsel of Princeton University; Republican New Jersey state legislator
W. Michael Murphy, Jr.	1972	Col	Morris County prosecutor; Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey
Phil Preis	1975, 1976	Law, LL.M.	Candidate for Governor of Louisiana in 1995 and 1999; Baton Rouge attorney
Jane Sullivan Roberts	1984	Law	Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop; wife of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
Stephen Edward Smith	1973, 1977	Col, Law	Vice president and general counsel, Lockheed Martin
William Shea	1929	Col	Noted New York attorney and patriarch of the New York Mets; Shea Stadium named in his honor; name partner of Shea & Gould
Brendan Sullivan	1964, 1967	Col, Law	Senior partner at Williams & Connolly; litigator who defended Lt. Col. Oliver North during the Iran-Contra affair
Genevievette Walker-Lightfoot	1995	Col	U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney
Edward Bennett Williams	1944	Law	Trial lawyer; attorney for The Washington Post and Georgetown University; owned the Washington Redskins and Baltimore Orioles; founder of Williams & Connolly

Other U.S. political figures

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Sam Arora	2010	Law	Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 2011–15
Robert Baer	1976	SFS	Author; the movie Syriana was based on two of his books; intelligence commentator; CIA case handler
Jarrett Barrios	1995	Law	President of the American Red Cross Los Angeles Chapter; president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation; member of the Massachusetts Senate, 2003–07
Jeremy Bash	1993	Col	Chief of staff to Leon Panetta at the Department of Defense and CIA
Kumar P. Barve	1980	MSB	Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1991–present
Gary Bauer	1973	Law	President of the Family Research Council, 1988–99; founder of the Campaign for Working Families PAC
Rubén Berríos	1961	MSB	President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party; Honorary President of the Socialist International; elected to the Puerto Rico Senate, 1973–77, 1985–89, 1997–2000
Andy Billig	1990	Col	Member of the Washington State Senate, 2013–present; Member of the Washington House of Representatives, 2011–13; Co-owner of the Spokane Indians
Jesus Borja	1974	Law	Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, 1994–98
John Chiang	1987	Law	California State Treasurer, 2015–present; California State Controller, 2007–15
Michael Delaney	1994	Law	New Hampshire Attorney General, 2009–15
Daniel Carroll Digges	1888	Col	Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1849; founding member of the Philodemic Society
John Farmer, Jr.	1979, 1986	Col, Law	New Jersey Attorney General, 1999–2002; Acting Governor of New Jersey, 2002
Ron Faucheux	1972	SFS	Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1976–84; political consultant and pundit from New Orleans
Frank Gaffney	1975	SFS	President and founder of the Center for Security Policy
James E. Held	1964	Law	Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1966–67
Derek Hodge	1971	Law	Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, 1987–95
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	1954*	SCE	First Lady of the United States, 1961–63
Lane Kirkland	1948	SFS	President of the AFL–CIO, 1979–95
Timothy Kraft	1967	Grad	Campaign manager for President Jimmy Carter in 1980
Dan Kubiak			Member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1969–83, 1991–98
Sam A. LeBlanc, III	1960	MSB	Member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1972–80; temporary judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, New Orleans attorney
Joseph J. Lhota	1976	MSB	Deputy Mayor for Operations of City of New York, 1998–2002; Chairman and CEO of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 2011–12
Lisa Madigan	1988	Col	Attorney General of Illinois, 2003–present
Agnes Mary Mansour	1963	Grad	Director of the Michigan Department of Social Services, 1982–87; Sister of Mercy nun who resigned her vows to remain in political office
Deborah Markowitz	1987	Law	Vermont Secretary of State, 1998–2011
William Joseph McDonough	1962	Grad	President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 1993–2003; Vice chairman of Merrill Lynch
Marc Morial	1983	Law	Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, 1994–2002; President of the National Urban League, 2003–present
John P. O'Brien		Law, LL.M.	Mayor of New York City, 1933
Ralph Oman	1973	Law	Register of Copyrights, 1985–94
Esam Omeish	1989, 1992	Col, Med	President of the Muslim American Society, 2004–08; Member of the board of directors of Dar Al-Hijrah mosque
J. Frank Raley			Member of the Maryland Senate, 1963–66; Member of the Maryland House of Delegates, 1955–59
Elliot G. Sander	1978	SFS	Executive Director and CEO of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 2007–09; Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, 1994–96
Jenny Sanford	1984	MSB	First Lady of South Carolina; investment banker; campaign manager
John Sears	1963	Law	Campaign manager for Ronald Reagan's in 1976 and 1980
Robert Shrum	1965	Col	Democratic political consultant
Sheila Simon	1987	Law	Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, 2011–15
James C. Spencer	Sometime 1940s	Law	Member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1939–41; survivor of the Bataan Death March
Michael Steele	1991	Law	Chairman of the Republican National Committee, 2009–11; Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, 2003–07
Donald K. Stitt	1977	Law	Chairman of the Republican Party of Wisconsin, 1988–89; Member of the Wisconsin State Senate, 1984–93; Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1979–84
Caren Z. Turner	1985	Law	Co-chairwoman of the super-PAC Ready for Hillary; CEO of Turner GPA
Cyrus Vance, Jr.	1982	Law	New York County District Attorney, 2010–present
Joe Slade White	1971	Grad	Democratic political consultant

Other government officials outside the United States

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Ziad Abu Amr	1980, 1986	Grad, Grad	Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Palestinian National Authority, 2007
Adel al-Jubeir	1983	Grad	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, 2015–present; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Ambassador to the United States, 2007–15
Yousef Al Otaiba	1995	SFS	United Arab Emirates Ambassador to the United States, 2008–present
Amin Mahmoud	1972		Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Jordan, 2013–15; Minister of Culture of Jordan, 1993–94, 2005; Member of the Jordanian Senate, 2010–11, 2015
Shlomo Argov	1952	SFS	Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom, 1979–82; Israeli Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1977–79; Israeli Ambassador to Mexico, 1971–74
Ricardo Alberto Arias	1961	SFS	Ambassador of Panama to the United Nations, 2004–09; Ambassador of Panama to the United States, 1994–96; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, 1996–98
Giorgi Baramidze	1998–1999	SFS Fellow	State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia, 2004–12; Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, 2003–04; Minister of Defense of Georgia, 2004
Agustín Barrios Gómez	1993	SFS	Member of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, 2012–present
Mohammed Dewji	1998	MSB	Member of the National Assembly of Tanzania, 2005–15
Simcha Dinitz	1953	SFS	Israeli Ambassador to the United States, 1973–79; political advisor to Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1969–73; Member of the Knesset, 1984–88
Stéphane Dujarric	1988	SFS	Spokesperson for United Nations Secretaries-General Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan
Francis Escudero	1996	Law	Member of the Philippines Senate, 2007–present; Minority Floor Leader of the Philippines House of Representatives, 2004–07; Member of the Philippines House of Representatives, 1998–2007
Sadegh Ghotbzadeh	1959–1963*	SFS	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, 1979–80
Aminta Granera Sacasa	1970s	Col	Director of the National Police of Nicaragua, 2006–16
Jorge Guajardo	1993	SFS	Ambassador of Mexico to China
Yehoyada Haim	1972, 1975	Grad, Grad	Ambassador of Israel to China, 2002–07; Ambassador of Israel to India, 1995–2000
Nasser Judeh	1983	SFS	Deputy Prime Minister of Jordan, 2015–present; Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2009–present
Eugen Jurzyca	1993	SFS	Minister of Education of Slovakia, 2010–present; Member of the National Council of Slovakia, 2010–present
Samuel Lewis Navarro	1979	Col	First Vice President of Panama, 2004–09; Panamanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2004–09
Alfonso López Caballero	1967	SFS	Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, 2002–06; Minister of the Interior of Colombia, 1998; Ambassador of Colombia to Canada, 1994–98; Minister of Agriculture of Colombia, 1991–93; Ambassador of Colombia to France, 1990–91; Senator of Colombia, 1990; Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, 1986–90
John Lynch-Staunton	1953	SFS	Member of the Senate of Canada, 1990–2005; first Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, 2003–04
Sadako Ogata	1953	MSFS	United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1991–2001; President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, 2003–12; Chairman of the UNICEF Executive Board
Kasit Piromya	1968	SFS	Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand, 2008–11; Ambassador of Thailand to the United States, 2004–06; Ambassador of Thailand to Japan, 2001–03; Ambassador of Thailand to Germany, 1997–2001; Ambassador of Thailand to the Soviet Union, 1991–93; Ambassador of Thailand to Indonesia, 1994–96
Oussama Romdhani			Minister of Communications of Tunisia, 2009–12; Fulbright scholar
James Soong	1974	Law	Chairman of the People First Party of the Republic of China, 2000–present; first Governor of Taiwan Province, 1993–98; Head of the Government Information Office, 1979–84
Bruno Stagno Ugarte	1991	SFS	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica, 2006–10; Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations, 2002–06; President, Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court
Zev Sufott		Grad	First Ambassador of Israel to China, Ambassador of Israel to the Netherlands
Carlos Tello Macías	1958	MSB	Ambassador of Mexico to Cuba, Portugal, and Russia; Director-General, Bank of Mexico, 1982; Secretary of Budget and Planning of Mexico, 1976–77
Ong Keng Yong	1983	Grad	Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, 2003–07; Ambassador and High Commissioner of Singapore to India and Nepal, 1996–98
Kateryna Yushchenko	1982	SFS	First Lady of Ukraine, 2005–10 (wife of Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko)

Royalty

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece	1995	MSFS	First son of Constantine II of Greece and Crown Prince
Philippos, Prince of Greece and Denmark	2008	SFS	Third son and fifth child of King Constantine II of Greece and Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark (Queen Anne-Marie of Greece, youngest daughter of King Frederick IX of Denmark and sister of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark)
Bernhard, Prince of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven	1988–1989*	SCE	Member of the Dutch Royal Family, being cousin of the former Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Guillaume, Prince of Luxembourg	1987	SFS	Third son and youngest child of Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte of Luxembourg
Prince Turki Al Faisal	1968	SFS	Son of King Faisal; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States, 2005–07; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2002–05; Director of General Intelligence of Saudi Arabia, 1979–2001
Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz	1981	SFS	Member of the House of Saud; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom and Ireland, 2005–present; Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to Italy and Malta, 1995–2005
Prince Hashim bin Hussein	2005	SFS	The younger of the two sons of King Hussein and Queen Noor of Jordan, and half-brother of the reigning King Abdullah II of Jordan
Prince Talal bin Muhammad	1989	SFS, Grad	The eldest son of Prince Muhammad bin Talal, the younger brother of King Hussein of Jordan, and the grandson of King Talal of Jordan
Princess Ghida al-Talal	1986	SFS, Grad	Member of the House of Hashemites; Chairperson of the King Hussein Cancer Foundation
Agustín, Prince of Iturbide		Col	Grandson of Don Agustín de Iturbide, the first Emperor of Mexico; became adopted son of Emperor Maximilian I and Empress Carlota of Mexico, of House of Habsburg, and as the Emperors had no children, he became heir to the throne; in exile (as Emperor Don Agustín III of Mexico, de jure) he taught Spanish and French at Georgetown for many years (died 1925)

Business

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Joseph R. Baczko	1967	SFS	President and Chief Operating Officer of Blockbuster Entertainment, 1991–93; founder and president of Toys "R" Us International, 1983–1990; CEO of Max Factor-Europe, 1979–83; Dean of the Lubin School of Business of Pace University
Denise Bode	1984	LL.M.	CEO of the American Wind Energy Association; Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner, 1997–2007
David G. Bradley	1983	Law	Founder of the The Advisory Board Company; owner of the Atlantic Media Company
Charles Bunch	1971	SFS	Chairman and CEO of PPG Industries; Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers, 2007–08
Charles Cawley	1962	Col	Chairman and CEO of MBNA
Michael Chasen	1995	MBA	Co-founder and CEO of Blackboard Inc., 1999–2012
Bud Colligan	1976	SFS	Co-Chairman of the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership; founder and CEO of South Swell Ventures; chairman and CEO of Macromedia, 1992–97
Catherine Cook	2011	MSB	Co-founder of the social networking site myYearbook
Charles Donnelly	1896	Law	President of the Northern Pacific Railway, 1920–39
William Doyle	1972	Col	President and CEO of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan, 1999–2015; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University
Mary Callahan Erdoes	1989	Col	CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, 2009–present
James A. Firestone	1976	SFS	President of Xerox North America; Executive Vice President of the Xerox Corporation
Nicholas C. Forstmann	1969	MSB	Founding partner of Forstmann Little & Company
Joe Garagiola, Jr.	1975	Law	Senior Vice President for Standards and On-Field Operations for Major League Baseball, 2011–present; Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Arizona Diamondbacks, 1997–2005
Dexter Goei	1993	SFS	CEO of Altice
James J. Greco	1980	Col	CEO of Sbarro, 2012–13; President and COO of Newk's Eatery
Jeffrey W. Greenberg	1976	Law	Chairman and CEO of Marsh & McLennan Companies, 1999–2004
Ken Hakuta	1972	MSB	TV personality known as "Dr. Fad;" CEO of Allherb.com Foundation
Luci Baines Johnson	1965–1966*	Nur	Chairwoman of the LBJ Holding Company
Jim Kimsey	1958*	Col	Founder, CEO, and chairman of America Online (AOL)
Jules B. Kroll	1966	Law	Founder of Kroll Inc.
Thomas E. Leavey	1923	Law	Co-founder of Farmers Insurance; Co-founder of the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Foundation
Doug Leeds	1996	Law	CEO of Ask.com
Ted Leonsis	1977	Col	Chairman and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment (owner of the NBA's Washington Wizards, NHL's Washington Capitals, WNBA's Washington Mystics, the Verizon Center, Baltimore-Washington Ticketmaster franchise); Vice chairman emeritus of AOL; producer of documentaries Nanking and Kicking It; chairman of SnagFilms
Jack Mohr		BSc	Research Director at Action Alerts PLUS
Michael J. Mauboussin	1986	Col	Managing director and head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse; chief investment strategist, Legg Mason
Morgan E. O'Brien	1966	Col	Founder and chairman of Cyren Call Communications, 2005–present; co-founder and chairman of Nextel Communications (now Sprint Nextel Corporation), 1987–95
Martin P. Paone	1978	Grad	Chairman of Timmons and Company, 2008–present; Secretary for the Majority of the United States Senate; Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs
Paul Pelosi	1962	SFS	Owner of Financial Leasing Services, Inc.; owner of the Sacramento Mountain Lions and United Football League; husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi; three of their children are Georgetown grads
Gary Perlin	1972	SFS	Chief financial officer of Capital One Financial Corporation, 2003–present; Chief financial officer and vice president of the World Bank
Peter J. Pestillo	1963	Law	Chairman and CEO of Visteon
Charles Prince	1983	Law	Chairman and CEO of Citigroup
Patricia Russo	1972	Col	CEO of Lucent and CEO of Alcatel-Lucent
Chris Sacca	1997, 2000	SFS, Law	Former head of special initiatives at Google; venture capital investor in Twitter and Uber
Thomas Schlafly	1977	Law	President and co-founder of the Saint Louis Brewery
Van P. Smith	1955	Law	Chairman of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Automobile Association
Marcus Wallenberg	1980	SFS	President and CEO of Investor AB; chairman of International Chamber of Commerce; Vice chairman of the Institute of International Finance
David Wehner	1990	Col	Chief financial officer of Facebook, Inc., 2014–present
Mark Weinberger	1991	LL.M.	Chairman and CEO of Ernst & Young; former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy
Ralph V. Whitworth	1985	Law	Founder and principal of Relational Investors; former chairman of Waste Management, Inc., and Apria HealthCare Group, Inc.
John B. Wood	1985	MSB	Chairman and CEO of Telos

Entertainment

Film, television, and theater

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Sara Albert	2005	Col	America's Next Top Model contestant
Kary Antholis	1989	Law	President of HBO miniseries and Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker
Pearl Bailey	1985	Col	Singer and actress; winner of the Tony Award, Daytime Emmy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
John Barrymore	1895–1897*	Col	Actor
Zal Batmanglij	2001	Col	Director and screenwriter
Tarak Ben Ammar	1970	SFS	Franco-Tunisian film producer
Michael Benz	2004	Col	Actor
Bruce Berman	1978	Law	Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures
Eileen Brennan	Sometime 1950s	Col	Actress known for Private Benjamin, for which she received an Academy Award nomination
Mike Cahill	2005	Col	Director and screenwriter
Bradley Cooper	1997	Col	Actor; winner of several Academy Awards and Tony Awards; named by People in 2011 as the "Sexist Man Alive"
Lucy Barzun Donnelly	1995	Col	Producer of Grey Gardens; winner of an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a TCA Award
Margaret Edson	1992	Grad	Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright known for Wit
Robert Gant	1993	Law	Actor
Pia Getty		Col	Independent filmmaker
John Guare	1960	Col	Five-time Tony Award-winning playwright known for The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, and Landscape of the Body
Jack Hofsiss	1971	Col	Tony Award-winning director known for The Elephant Man play on Broadway
Mitchell Hurwitz	1985	Col	Television writer and producer; creator of Arrested Development; co-creator of The Ellen Show
Nick Kroll	2001	Col	Actor and comedian known for his role in The League and starring in the Kroll Show
Wilton Lackaye	1914	Grad	Early stage and film actor; first portrayed the character of Svengali
Malcolm D. Lee	1992	Col	Director known for Undercover Brother and The Best Man
Willard Mack	1889	Col	Canadian actor, director, and playwright
Brit Marling	2005	Col	Actress and screenwriter
Marilyn Milian	1984	Law	Star and judge of The People's Court; former Florida circuit court judge
Don Murphy	1984	MSB	Producer known for Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and Natural Born Killers
Megan Mylan	1992	SFS	Documentary director known for Smile Pinki; winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Subject Documentary
Jonathan Nolan	1999	Col	Screenwriter and director known for directing Westworld and writing the short story Memento Mori
Carl Reiner	1943	SFS	Actor, director, writer, and producer; winner of nine Emmy Awards and one Grammy Award
Michael Sucsy	1995	SFS	Golden Globe Award and Emmy Award-winning director and writer known for Grey Gardens
Chris Williams	1989	Col	Actor
David Yates	1987		Director known for four Harry Potter films
John Ziegler	1989	Col	Former talk show host on KFI; documentary writer and director

Literature

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Melissa Anelli	2001	Col	New York Times bestselling author and webmaster of The Leaky Cauldron
William Peter Blatty	1950	Col	Author of the The Exorcist
Joseph Bottum	1983	Col	Author, poet, and public intellectual; contributing editor of The Weekly Standard
Bob Colacello	1969	SFS	Noted biographer
Michael Dorris	1967	Col	Author of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water and The Broken Cord, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Paul Erdman	1955	SFS	Financial author and Edgar Award-winning fiction novelist
John T. Flynn	1902	Law	Author of 20 books, including The Road Ahead; America's Creeping Revolution; columnist for The New Republic; outspoken opponent of the New Deal and the United States' entry into World War II
Iris Krasnow	1997	Grad	Author specializing in relationships and personal growth
J. D. McClatchy		Col	Poet; editor of The Yale Review; President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Dinaw Mengestu	2000	Col	Award-winning novelist known for The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears; Lannan Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University; MacArthur Fellow
James Ryder Randall	1859*	Col	Poet known for authoring Maryland, My Maryland, the official state song of Maryland
Glenn O'Brien	1970	Col	Author on fashion and style; the "Style Guy" for GQ Magazine
Greg Olear	1995	Col	Novelist known for Los Angeles Times bestseller Fathermucker
Michael Schearer	1999	MSFS	Author and computer security researcher
David Schickler	1991	SFS	Author and screenwriter known for The Dark Path and co-creating the television series Banshee

Music, art, and comedy

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Amerie	2000	Col	Rhythm and blues singer
Bob Bates	1975	Col	Computer game designer
Mike Birbiglia	2000	Col	Comedian
Ally Burguieres	2006	Col	Visual artist and designer
Jeff Civillico	2005	Grad	Juggler and comedian
Kim Coletta	1988	Col	Bass player for indie rock band Jawbox; owner of DeSoto Records
William Wilson Corcoran	1813–1814*	Col	Founder of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington's first art museum
Kate Cordsen	1992	GPPI	Photographer and contemporary artist
Bill Danoff	1968	SLL	Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter best known for "Afternoon Delight"
Michael Dellaira	1971	Col	Composer of classical music
Ahmet Ertegun	1945	Grad	Founder and president of Atlantic Records; founder and chairman of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; founder of the American Turkish Society; co-founder of the New York Cosmos
Jim Gaffigan	1988	MSB	Stand-up comedian and actor; star of the The Jim Gaffigan Show
Keith Kane	1992	Grad	Guitarist and songwriter, formerly with Vertical Horizon
John Mulaney	2004	Col	Stand-up comedian; writer for Saturday Night Live
Guy Picciotto	1988	Col	Guitarist for rock band Fugazi; former lead singer and guitarist for Rites of Spring
Gerome Ragni	*	Col	Musician and co-author known for Hair
Matt Scannell	1992	Grad	Musician and founding member of Vertical Horizon
James Johnson Sweeney	1922	Col	Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1952–60; curator of the Museum of Modern Art, 1935–46
Will Tanous	1992	Col	Music industry executive for Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group; co-creator of HBO's Reverb
Frank A. Taylor	1934	Law	Founding director of the National Museum of Natural History; Director of the National Air and Space Museum, 1969–71
Jenny Toomey	1990	Col	Indie rock musician and arts activist

Journalism and media

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Guy Adami	1986	MSB	Television personality on CNBC
Jack Anderson	1947*	Col	Investigative journalist; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
Bruce Bartlett	1976	Grad	Economist, author, and Wall Street Journal columnist
Jason Bellini	1997	Col	Journalist
Michelle Bernard	1989	Law	Political and legal analyst on MSNBC; President and CEO of the Bernard Center For Women, Politics & Public Policy
John Bersia	1979	Grad	Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; University Professor at the University of Central Florida
Joan Biskupic	1993	Law	Supreme Court reporter for USA Today and The Washington Post
David G. Bradley	1983	Law	Chairman and owner of Atlantic Media; founder of The Advisory Board Company and CEB Inc.
Chris Cillizza	1998	Col	Political reporter for the The Washington Post
Robert J. Collier	1894	Col	Editor of Collier's Weekly magazine (founded by his father); President of the Aero Club of America; married the granddaughter of William Astor
George Crile III	1968	SFS	CBS News producer (60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II) and reporter; twice awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award by the Overseas Press Club; author of the 2003 bestseller Charlie Wilson's War
Lyle Denniston	1957	Grad	Legal journalist who is known for covering the Supreme Court for SCOTUSblog, The Wall Street Journal, and The Boston Globe; professor at Georgetown Law Center
Bonnie Erbé	1987	Law	Journalist and host of To the Contrary
Jamie Gangel	1977	SFS	National correspondent on NBC's The Today Show
Lourdes Garcia-Navarro	1994	SFS	Foreign correspondent with the National Public Radio; winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award and Peabody Award
Jeffrey Gedmin	1990	Grad	President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 2007–11; President of the Londgon-based Legatum Institute, 2011–14; Senior Fellow at Georgetown University and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Stephen Glass	2001	Law	Journalist at The New Republic known for fabricating numerous stories
Linda Gradstein	1985	SFS	Correspondent with NPR, and PRI's The World
Savannah Guthrie	2002	Law	Journalist and former White House correspondent; co-anchor of The Today Show
Daniel Henninger	1968	SFS	Deputy editorial page director of The Wall Street Journal; contributor on Fox News
Quin Hillyer	1986	Col	Senior editorial writer for The Washington Times; contributor to numerous publications and news stations
Mary Jordan	1983	Col	Journalist for The Washington Post; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting
Mark Landler	1987	SFS	White House correspondent, former European economic correspondent, and Hong Kong bureau chief for The New York Times
Monica Langley	1983	Law	Senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal
Tara McKelvey	1985	Col	Correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast
Deroy Murdock	1986	Col	Columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service; contributing editor to the National Review
Condé Montrose Nast	1894, 1895	Col, Grad	Founder of Condé Nast, which publishes Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Yorker; first president of Georgetown's student government, The Yard (predecessor to the Georgetown University Student Association)
Miles O'Brien	1981	Col	Science and technology broadcast journalist for CNN
Timothy L. O'Brien	1984	Col	Author; former Sunday Business editor for the New York Times and editorial board member of Bloomberg View of Bloomberg News
Norah O'Donnell	1996, 2003	Col, Grad	Co-anchor of CBS This Morning; former Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News
Morris W. O'Kelly	1991	MSB	Syndicated radio host of The Mo'Kelly Show on KFI; columnist and BBC commentator
Walter Pincus	2001	Law	Pulitzer Prize, Emmy Award, and Polk Award-winning national security journalist for The Washington Post
Shirley Povich	1922–1923*	Law	Sports editor at The Washington Post for 41 years; winner of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award
Frank J. Prial	1951	Col	New York Times wine columnist and author
Martin Quigley, Jr.	1939	Col	Publisher of film magazines and co-author of the Motion Picture Production Code; spy for the United States Office of Strategic Services in Ireland during World War II; twice-elected mayor of Larchmont, New York
Walter Ratliff	2004	SCS	Emmy Award-winning documentary director; reporter for the Associated Press
Sumner Redstone	1944*	Law	Media executive; chairman and owner of National Amusements, the parent corporation of CBS Corporation and Viacom
Maria Shriver	1977	Col	Anchor for NBC News; winner of two Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award for coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics and for The Alzheimer's Project; former First Lady of California
Kate Snow	1993	MSFS	Host of the NBC Nightly News; co-host of the Good Morning America weekend edition
Kara Swisher	1984	SFS	Technology columnist for the Wall Street Journal
Lisa Sylvester	1992	SFS	Peabody Award and Emmy Award-winning reporter; previously on CNN's The Situation Room
Anthony Thomopoulos	1959	SFS	President of ABC Entertainment and ABC Broadcast Group
Greta Van Susteren	1979, 1982	Law, LL.M.	Fox News Channel anchor of On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren
Arick Wierson	1994	SFS	Former NYC Media general manager; former media advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Science and medicine

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
John O. Agwunobi	2000	MBA	United States Assistant Secretary for Health and Admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, 2006–07; Senior Vice President and President of the Health and Wellness Division of Walmart, 2007–14
John-David F. Bartoe	1974, 1976	Grad, Grad	NASA astronaut and astrophysicist; Research Manager for the International Space Station at the Johnson Space Center, 1995–present
Pascale Cossart	1971	Grad	Bacteriologist and Head of the Unité des Interactions Bactéries Cellules at the Pasteur Institute; recipient of the 1998 Richard Lounsbery Award
George Coyne	1962	Grad	Astronomer; Director of the Vatican Observatory, 1978–2006
Mark R. Dybul	1985, 1992	Col, Med	United States Global AIDS Coordinator of the U.S. Department of State, 2006–09
Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley	1976	Med	Surgeon General of the United States Army and Commander of U.S. Army Medical Command, 2004–07
Ulrich Kortz	1995	Grad	Professor of chemistry at Jacobs University Bremen
Antonia Novello	1975	W	Surgeon General of the United States, 1990–93
Thomas Parran, Jr.	1915	Med	Surgeon General of the United States, 1936–48
Sean P. Pinney	1994	Med	Cardiologist; Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City
Robert R. Redfield	1973, 1977	Col, Med	Virologist and HIV researcher; professor of medicine at University of Maryland, Baltimore; co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology
John J. Ring	1949, 1953	Col, Med	President of the American Medical Association, 1991–92
Vera Rubin	1954	Med	Astronomer; recipient of numerous awards for work on galaxy rotation rates; discovered the Rubin–Ford effect
Robert Silich	1993	Med	Plastic surgeon at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital; pioneered limited incision facelift techniques
Solomon H. Snyder	1959, 1962	Col, Med	Neuroscientist; University Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Pharmacology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Andrew von Eschenbach	1967	Med	United States Commissioner of Food and Drugs, 2006–09; Director of the National Cancer Institute, 2002–05

Academia

University and college presidents

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Carmen Twillie Ambar	1990	SFS	President of Cedar Crest College, 2008–present
Robert L. Barchi	1968, 1969	Col, Grad	President of Rutgers University, 2012–present; President of Thomas Jefferson University, 2004–12; Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, 1999–2004
Rev. Lawrence Biondi	1966, 1975	Grad, Grad	President of Saint Louis University, 1987–2013
Rev. Thomas Curran	1985	Grad	President of Rockhurst University, 2006–present
John J. DeGioia	1979, 1995	Col, Grad	President of Georgetown University, 2001–present
Rev. Thomas R. Fitzgerald	1938–1939*	Col	President of Fairfield University, 1973–79; President of Saint Louis University, 1979–87
Allison Garrett	1992	LL.M.	President of Emporia State University, 2016–present; former Walmart Vice President/Legal Counsel
Susan Hockfield	1979	Grad	President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004–12
George R. Houston, Jr.	1961	MSB	President of Mount St. Mary's University, 1994–2003
Rev. Brian F. Linnane	1981	Grad	President of Loyola University Maryland, 2005–present
Rev. Leo J. O'Donovan	1956	Col	President of Georgetown University, 1989–2001
Rev. Scott R. Pilarz	1981	Col	President of Marquette University, 2011–13; President of the University of Scranton, 2003–11
Rev. John Pinasco	1868–1872*		President of the University of San Francisco, 1876–80; President of Santa Clara College, 1880–83, 1888–93
Daniel R. Porterfield	1983	Col	President of Franklin & Marshall College, 2011–present
A. Kenneth Pye	1954, 1955	Law, LL.M.	President of Southern Methodist University, 1987–94
Sr. Kathleen Ross	1971	Grad	President of Heritage University; MacArthur Fellow
Debora L. Spar	1984	SFS	President of Barnard College, 2008–present
B. Joseph White	1969	SFS	President of the University of Illinois, 2005–09

Educators

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Anthony Clark Arend	1980	SFS	Professor of government and foreign service at Georgetown University; Senior Associate Dean for Graduate and Faculty Affairs of the Walsh School of Foreign Service; Director of the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program
Ian C. Ballon	1998	LL.M.	Professor of law at Stanford Law School; Executive Director of the Center for E-Commerce
Robert J. Cottrol		Law	Professor of law at George Washington University Law School; legal historian
Nora Demleitner	1994	LL.M.	Dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law, 2012–15; Dean of Hofstra University School of Law, 2007–12; Roy L. Steinheimer, Jr. Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law
Noura Erakat	2012	LL.M.	Assistant Professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, co-editor of Jadaliyya, prior Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple University Beasley School of Law
Thomas J. Healey	1964	Col	Senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University
Sam Potolicchio		Col, Grad	Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of Political Communications at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Director of Global and Custom Education at Georgetown University; President of the Preparing Global Leaders Foundation
Ed Renwick	1960	Col	Professor of political science and Director of the Institute of Politics at Loyola University New Orleans; political commentator
Edward F. Sherman	1959	Col	Dean and W.R. Irby Chair in Law at Tulane University Law School
David Vladeck	1977	LL.M.	Professor of law and Co-Director of the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown University Law Center; Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of the Federal Trade Commission, 2009–13
Mark von Hagen	1976	SFS	Director of School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University; Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, 1989–2001

Religion, non-profit, and activism

Religious prelates and ordinaries

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Most Rev. Joseph Bernard Brunini	1930	Col	Bishop of Jackson
Most Rev. Jose Maria Cuenco		Law	First Archbishop of Jaro
Most Rev. George Henry Guilfoyle	1935	Col	Bishop of Camden
HE John O'Connor	1970	Grad	Cardinal Archbishop of New York; Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy, 1979–83
Rev. Brian Paulson	1981	SFS	Jesuit Provincial of the Chicago-Detroit Province; President of St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois
Most Rev. Thomas John Rodi	1971	Col	Archbishop of Mobile

Non-profit and activism

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Mitch Bainwol	1981	Col	Lobbyist; chairman of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers; chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America
Joseph Cirincione	1983	Grad	President of Ploughshares Fund, 2008–present; Director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Joan Claybrook	1973	Law	President of Public Citizen, 1982–2008; Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Brian Concannon	1989	Law	Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti
Alexandra Cousteau	1998	SFS	Environmentalist; founder of Blue Legacy
Nellie Gray	1959	Law	Pro-life activist; founder of March for Life
Chad Griffin	1997	SFS	Founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights; President of the Human Rights Campaign, 2012
Robert M. Hayes	1974	Col	Founder of the Coalition for the Homeless, Senior vice president of health quality at Universal American Corporation; MacArthur Fellow
Mary Ellen Iskenderian	1981	SFS	President and CEO of Women's World Banking (microfinance)
Jan Karski	1952	Grad	World War II Polish resistance fighter; Polish diplomat; professor at Georgetown University for 40 years
Tim King	1989, 1993	SFS, Law	Founder and CEO of Urban Prep Academies
Barry W. Lynn	1978	Law	Executive Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State; Ordained minister in the United Church of Christ
Olivia Mellan	1972	SLL	Money conflict resolution coach and author of books on money psychology
Richard Mudd	1921, 1922, 1936	Col, Grad, Med	Grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd; led efforts to posthumously rehabilitate his grandfather's name
Kenneth Rutherford	2000	Grad	Co-founder of the Landmine Survivors Network; activist involved with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and Convention on Cluster Munitions
Anthony Shriver	1988	Col	President and founder of Best Buddies International
Matthew VanDyke	2004	SSP	Freedom fighter and prisoner of war in the 2011 Libyan Civil War
William B. Walsh	1943	Med	Founder of Project HOPE; humanitarian aid activist; first U.S. physician on the ground in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped; recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Sports

Commissioners, owners, coaches, and managers

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Chris Antonetti	1996	MSB	President of Baseball Operations of the Cleveland Indians
Bill Bidwill	1960	MSB	Owner of the Arizona Cardinals
Walter Briggs, Jr.	1934	Col	Owner of the Detroit Tigers
Craig Esherick	1978, 1982	MSB, Law	Head coach of the Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team; scout for the 1988 U.S. Men's basketball team
Martin Mayhew	2000	Law	General manager of the Detroit Lions
Frank McCourt	1975	Col	Owner and manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Dodger Stadium; owner of the Los Angeles Marathon
Jamie McCourt	1975	SLL	CEO and co-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers; highest-ranked woman in Major League Baseball
Mark Murphy	1988	Law	President and CEO of the Green Bay Packers; former safety in the NFL Pro Bowl; two-time Super Bowl Champion with the Washington Redskins
Susan O'Malley	2007	Law	President of the Washington Wizards; first female president of an NBA franchise
Carmen Policy	1966	Law	President and CEO of the San Francisco 49ers; President and CEO of the Cleveland Browns
Jim Schwartz	1989	Col	Head coach of the Detroit Lions
Michael Slive	1966	LL.M.	Commissioner of the Southeastern Conference
Paul Tagliabue	1962	Col	Commissioner of the National Football League, 1989–2006; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University, 2009–2015; member of the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame
Jerry Vainisi		MSB	General manager of the Chicago Bears; Chairman and CEO of Forest Park National Bank & Trust Co.
Michael Vespoli	1968	Col	Head coach of the lightweight men of the 1979 U.S. National team; assistant coach of the heavyweight men of the 1980 U.S. Olympic team; rower for the champion 1972 U.S. Olympic team and 1974 World Rowing Championships team; founder and CEO of Vespoli USA
Tom Walter	1991	Col	Head coach of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons baseball team

Athletes

Name	Class year	School/ degree	Notability	Reference
Al Blozis	1942	Col	Professional football player for the New York Giants; killed in action during World War II while searching alone for missing comrades in the Vosges Mountains of France. The New York Giants retired his number, 32
Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje	2001	Col	Professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers
Alex Buzbee	2007	Col	Professional football player for the Washington Redskins
Andrew Campbell	2006	SFS	Sailor on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team
Harry Colliflower	1906	Col	Professional baseball player for the Cleveland Spiders and an umpire; coach of the Georgetown varsity basketball team, 1911–14
Patrick Ewing	1985	Col	Professional basketball player for the New York Knicks; inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008
Patrick Ewing Jr.	2008	Col	Professional basketball player for the Al Rayyan Basketball Team of the Qatari Basketball League
Eric "Sleepy" Floyd	1982	Col	Professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets
Brendan Gaughan	1997	MSB	Professional racer for the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Camping World Truck Series
Jeff Green	2004–2007*	Col	Professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics
Othella Harrington	1996	Col	Professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls
Roy Hibbert	2008	Col	Professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers and Los Angeles Lakers
Nancy Hogshead-Makar	1997	Law	Three-time gold medalist swimmer on the 1984 U.S. Olympic team
Allen Iverson	1995–1996*	Col	Professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers
Jaren Jackson	1989	MSB	Professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs
Augie Lio	1941	Col	Professional football player for the Detroit Lions
Al Matuza	1941	Col	Professional football player for the Chicago Bears
Kevin McMahon	1994	Col	Hammer thrower for the 1996 U.S. Olympic team and 2000 U.S. Olympic team
Greg Monroe	2008–2009*	MSB	Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons and Milwaukee Bucks
John Morelli	1943	Col	Professional football player for the Boston Yanks
Alonzo Mourning	1992	Col	Professional basketball player for the Miami Heat
Aimee Mullins	1998	SFS	Track and field athlete and Chief of Mission for the 2012 U.S. Olympic delegation; actress; fashion model and motivational speaker
Dikembe Mutombo	1991	SLL	Professional basketball player for the Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets
Eamonn O'Reilly	1966	Col	Former American record-holder in the Boston Marathon
Victor Page	1995–1997*	Col	NBA Development League basketball player for the Sioux Falls Skyforce
Angelo Paternoster	1943	Col	Professional football player for the Washington Redskins
George Perpich	1942	Col	Professional football player for the Washington Redskins
Jim Ricca	1951	Col	Professional football player for the Washington Redskins
Don Reid	1995	Col	Professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons and Orlando Magic
Ed Skoronski	1931*	Col	Professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers
Kyle Sweeney	2003	MSB	Professional lacrosse player in the National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse; played for the U.S. Men's National Team in the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship and Team USA in the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship
Mike Sweetney	2001–2003*	Col	Professional basketball player for the New York Knicks and Chicago Bulls
Ingrid Wells	2011	Col	Professional soccer player for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam and the United States women's national under-23 soccer team; played in the National Women's Soccer League
Jahidi White	1998	Col	Professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards
Jerome Williams	1996	Col	Professional basketball player for the New York Knicks
Reggie Williams	1987	Col	Professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers; 1983 Mr. Basketball USA
David Wingate	1986	Col	Professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers

Fictional

Name	Notability	Reference
Sterling Archer	Title character in animated series Archer
Prince Nasir Al-Subaai	Played by Alexander Siddig in Syriana
Zoey Bartlet	President's daughter played by Elisabeth Moss in The West Wing
Robert Clayton Dean	Main character played by Will Smith in Enemy of the State
Tracy Flick	Played by Reese Witherspoon in Election
Alicia Florrick	Lead character played by Julianna Margulies in The Good Wife
Will Gardner	Character played by Josh Charles in The Good Wife
Benjamin Franklin Gates	Played by Nicolas Cage in the National Treasure franchise
Spencer Hastings	Played by Troian Bellisario in Pretty Little Liars
J.J. and Honey Huan	Characters in Doonesbury
Jason Hudson	Character in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops
Brenda Leigh Johnson	Deputy Los Angeles Police Chief from the television series The Closer
Matthew Kidman	Main character played by Emile Hirsch in The Girl Next Door
Walter Larson and Haroon Raja	Main and recurring characters in The Brink
Main characters	St. Elmo's Fire
Carrie Mathison	Protagonist played by Claire Danes in Homeland
Chuck McGill	Played by Michael McKean in the television series Better Call Saul
Margaret "Maggie" O'Donnell	Played by Michelle Trachtenberg in 17 Again
David Palmer	President of the United States played by Dennis Haysbert in 24
Olivia Pope	Played by Kerry Washington in the television series Scandal
Melanie Porter	Played by Raven-Symoné in College Road Trip
Derek Reynolds	Played by Sean Patrick Thomas in Save the Last Dance
Jack Ryan	(Grad 1980); Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence and President of the United States in Tom Clancy novels
Annie Walker	Main character in Covert Affairs
Declan Walsh	Protagonist in the 1979 novel The Vicar of Christ who served as Chief Justice of the United States and later Pope
Kyle Lee Watson	Character played by Duane Martin in Above the Rim, who played for the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team under Coach John Thompson Jr.
Charlie Young	President's personal aide played by Dulé Hill in The West Wing

See also

• List of Georgetown University faculty
• List of Presidents of Georgetown University
• President and Directors of Georgetown College
• History of Georgetown University

External links

• Georgetown University Alumni Association