The University of Virginia School of Law (Virginia Law or UVA Law) was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his "academical village," the University of Virginia. Virginia Law is the fourth-oldest active law school in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating law school. The law school offers the J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees in law and hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers.
Virginia Law is perennially regarded as one of the 10 most prestigious law schools in the United States. U.S. News & World Report currently ranks Virginia Law as tied for eighth in the nation with Michigan, in 2018, and in 2011, ranked Virginia Law as sixth among major law firm recruiters. In the 2010 Super Lawyers Law School Rankings, Virginia Law ranks fourth in the nation. In the 2015 Above the Law rankings, Virginia Law ranked sixth in the nation. A 2013 Above the Law report also notes that Virginia is second in the number of graduates leading the nation's top 100 firms.
A study published in the Journal of Legal Education ranked Virginia Law fourth in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms. Virginia Law also places high in clerkships, recently ranking behind only Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. The Princeton Review ranked Virginia Law as first in "Best Quality of Life" among the nation's law schools, along with second in "Best Professors," third in "Best Classroom Experience," fifth in "Career Prospects," and seventh in "Toughest to Get Into." The 2016 QS World University Rankings for law school, places Virginia Law in the range of 51â€"100 worldwide and the 13th-best law school in U.S.
Notable alumni include U.S. Supreme Court Justices James Clark McReynolds and Stanley Forman Reed, as well as numerous members of U.S. Congress and judges on federal courts throughout the United States. The Law School has 19,984 alumni in all 50 states, more than 60 foreign countries and several U.S. protectorates, and the Law School's alumni giving rate of more than 50 percent for the past 11 years is among the highest of the nation's law schools. Virginia Law recently completed an eight-year capital campaign, raising $173.9 million to enhance the student experience.
Admissions
Virginia Law is among the most selective law schools in the nation. For the class entering in the fall of 2016, 297 out of 4,811 J.D. applicants matriculated. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2016 entering class were 164 and 170, respectively, with a median of 169. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.48 and 3.94, respectively, with a median of 3.86.
The Class of 2019 come from 39 states, the District of Columbia, and 138 undergraduate institutions. The age range was 20 to 37. 55% of the class was male, 45% female, and 24% identified themselves as people of color (including non-citizens). 59% of the class had work experience after college.
Cost of attendance
The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) for first-year law students at Virginia Law for the 2016-2017 academic year is $78,002 for Virginia residents and $81,002 for nonresidents. The Law School Transparency estimated debt-financed cost of attendance for three years, based on data from the 2015-2016 academic year, is $287,175 for residents; the estimated cost for non-residents is $293,211.
Campus
Virginia Law receives no funding from the state; instead the school depends upon the generosity of private donors, its substantial endowment (US $ 495 million) and student tuition payments. In 1995-1997, the Law School used entirely donated funds to renovate and expand its buildings on the University's North Grounds to include the former facilities of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration which built a new campus several hundred yards away.
The Arthur J. Morris Law Library holds more than 820,000 volumes, including substantial collections of federal, state, and international documents, manuscripts, archives, and online research databases.
Student organizations
The Law School maintains an extensive roster of student organizations, including chapters of the Federalist Society, the American Constitution Society and the St. Thomas More Society.
The Virginia Law Weekly, the Law School's student-run weekly newspaper, has been published since 1948. The paper has been cited in several court cases including the U.S. Supreme Court case Patterson v. New York. In addition to its news content, the VLW also contains student-submitted content which often includes humorous and creative pieces. The Law Weekly has won the American Bar Association's previous three "Best Newspaper Awards," in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
Each spring over a hundred students write, direct and perform in The Libel Show, a comedy and musical theatre production that was first organized in 1904. Its performers roast Law School professors, student stereotypes and life in Charlottesville throughout each of its three nightly showings. Professors write and sing their response to the students' jokes at the penultimate performance.
The school hosts an annual softball tournament to raise money for ReadyKids, an organization that provides care and counseling for at-risk families in Central Virginia, and the Public Interest Law Association, which provides public service internships for law students. 51 different law schools send teams to compete in men's and co-rec brackets. In 2017, $25,000 were raised.
Law journals
The Law School is host to 10 academic journals, including the Virginia Law Review, one of the most cited law journals in the country:
- Virginia Journal of International Law, the oldest student edited international law journal in the country
- Virginia Environmental Law Journal
- Virginia Journal of Law & Technology
- Virginia Journal of Social Policy & the Law
- Virginia Law & Business Review
- Virginia Law Review
- Virginia Sports & Entertainment Law Journal
- Virginia Tax Review Association
- Virginia Journal of Criminal Law
- Journal of Law and Politics
Academics
The Law School's curricular programs include the programs in Law & Business and Law and Public Service, as well as programs in international law, legal and constitutional history, criminal law, human rights, race and law, environmental and land use law, immigration law, intellectual property, public policy and regulation, health law, law and humanities, and animal law.
The Law School also has programs that help students build skills, such as the legal writing program, courses in professional ethics, trial advocacy and public speaking, and other practical-skills courses.
Clinics
Among the more than 250 courses and seminars offered each year by the Law School, Virginia has 18 clinics:
- Appellate Litigation
- Child Advocacy
- Criminal Defense
- Employment Law
- Entrepreneurial Law
- Environmental and Regulatory Law
- Family Alternative Dispute Resolution
- First Amendment Law
- Health Law
- Immigration Law
- Innocence Project
- International Human Rights
- Litigation and Housing Law
- Nonprofit Clinic
- Patent and Licensing I
- Patent and Licensing II
- Prosecution
- Supreme Court Litigation
Study abroad
Students may participate in eight international exchange programs:
- Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany
- Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain
- Melbourne Law School in Australia
- Seoul National University in South Korea
- University of Auckland in New Zealand
- University of Sydney in Australia
- Tel Aviv University Law School in Israel
- Waseda University in Tokyo
In addition, the Law School offers rising third-year students the opportunity to obtain a dual degree from Sciences Po in Paris. Students who successfully complete this program earn a French law diploma (entitling them to sit for the French bar exam) and a J.D. degree from Virginia.
Students also may spend one semester abroad through the student-initiated study abroad program or as an external studies project. Each year one-credit courses are offered in Paris and Tel Aviv through the January Term.
Institutes and centers
The Law School includes several internationally known special programs directed by faculty members who are respected in their fields and often called upon by private and governmental organizations worldwide for their expertise.
- Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
- John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics
- Center for National Security Law
- Center for Oceans Law and Policy
- Center for Children, Families, and the Law
- Center for the Study of Race and Law
Post-graduate employment
According to Virginia Law's official 2015 ABA-required disclosures, 84.8% of the Class of 2014 obtained non-school funded full-time, long-term, JD-required employment ten months after graduation.
Law firms
Virginia Law is fourth in the number of partners in the National Law Journal's top 100 firms, and a survey by the NLJ found that the law school ranked third in the number of associates promoted to partner among the NLJ's top 250 firms in 2015. Additionally, Virginia Law is second only to Harvard in the number of alumni serving as chief legal counsel at Fortune 500 companies. Alumni from Virginia Law are also employed at 100 of the American Lawyer top 100 law firms (as of May 2016). In a 2010 study by Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Virginia ranked fifth in the number of lawyers at the top 300 U.S. law firms.
Clerkships
From 2005 to 2016, Virginia Law had the fourth-highest placement of law clerks on the United States Supreme Court, surpassed only by Yale, Harvard and Stanford. In 2016 UVA Law alumni set a school record for obtaining the most appellate court clerkships in a term.
Notable alumni
Virginia Law maintains a list of prominent alumni.
Politics
- Charles C. Adams, Jr., international arbitration lawyer, political and civic activist
- George Allen (1977) - U.S. Congressman and Senator from Virginia and Governor of Virginia
- James Lindsay Almond, Jr. (1923) - Governor of Virginia; Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Nathan L. Bachman (1903) - U.S. Senator from Tennessee
- Alben W. Barkley (1900) - U.S. Senator from Kentucky, Vice President of the United States
- Evan Bayh (1981) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Indiana
- Robert Bauer (1976) - White House Counsel, General Counsel of the Obama Campaign.
- Andy Beshear (2003) - Attorney General of Kentucky
- Kit Bond (1963) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri
- Rick Boucher (1971) - U.S Congressman from Virginia
- Debra Bowen (1979) - Secretary of State of California
- Alan Stephenson Boyd (1948) - U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- John Bridgeland (1987) - Director, USA Freedom Corps
- Harry F. Byrd, Jr. (1936) - U.S. Senator from Virginia
- Millard F. Caldwell (1924) - U.S. Congressman and Governor of Florida
- Mortimer Caplin (1940) - former Commissioner, U.S. Internal Revenue Service
- Edward M. Carmouche (1948) - chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party from 1966 to 1968; attorney in Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Robin Carnahan (1986) - Missouri Secretary of State
- James Paul Clarke (1878) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Arkansas
- John Cornyn (1995) - U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Whip, Attorney General of Texas
- Tom Davis (1975) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Frank M. Dixon (1943) - Governor of Alabama
- Luis G. Fortuño (1985) - Governor of Puerto Rico
- Tom Donilon (1985) - U.S. National Security Advisor
- Fred Fielding (1964) - White House Counsel
- William Meade Fishback (1855) - Governor of Arkansas
- Randy Forbes (1977) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Doug Gansler (1989) - Attorney General of Maryland
- Jim Gilmore (1977) - Governor of Virginia
- Virgil Goode (1973) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- Lee E. Goodman (1990) - Chairman, Federal Election Commission
- Pete Holmes (1984) - Seattle City Attorney
- William J. Howell (1967) - Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Bob Inglis (1984) - U.S. Congressman from South Carolina
- Kim Keenan (1987) - General Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- John Neely Kennedy (1977) - U.S. Senator from Louisiana.
- Max Kennedy (1992) - Political activist and author; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
- Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (1984) - Political and social activist; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
- Ted Kennedy (1959) - U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, 1980 Democratic Presidential Candidate
- Robert F. Kennedy (1951) - Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 1968 Democratic Presidential Candidate
- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (1979) - Environmental activist; son of Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy
- Angus King (1969) - U.S. Senator and Former Governor of Maine
- Sheila Jackson-Lee (1975) - U.S. Congresswoman from Texas
- Sean Patrick Maloney (1992) - U.S. Congressman from New York
- Thurgood Marshall, Jr. (1981) - Cabinet Secretary under U.S. President Bill Clinton
- Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) - Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
- Robert Mueller (1973) - Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Janet Napolitano (1983) - U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of Arizona, President of the University of California
- Bill Nelson (1968) - U.S. Senator from Florida
- Ken Paxton (1991) - Attorney General of Texas
- Matthew S. Peterson (1999) - Commissioner and former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
- W. Robert Pearson (1968) - U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
- H. Foster Pettit - Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, 1965 to 1970; mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, 1972 to 1978; practiced law in Lexington
- Heather Podesta (1997) - American lobbyist
- Trevor Potter (1982) - Chairman of Federal Election Commission
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1940) - U.S. Congressman from New York, and son of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Hugh D. Scott (1922) - U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania; Minority Leader of the United States Senate
- William B. Schultz (1990) - General Counsel, United States Department of Health and Human Services
- Charles Robb (1973) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia
- Faryar Shirzad - advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush
- Howard Worth Smith (1903) - U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- John C. Stennis (1927) - U.S. Senator from Mississippi
- John V. Tunney (1959) - U.S. Senator from California
- John Warner (1953) - U.S. Senator from Virginia
- Lowell P. Weicker (1958) - U.S. Senator and Governor of Connecticut
- Sheldon Whitehouse (1982) - U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
- Woodrow Wilson (attended 1879) - President of the United States
- Frank Wisner - Head of the Office of Strategic Services and head of the Directorate of Plans of the CIA during the 1950s
- Peter S. Vincent (1995) - Principal Legal Advisor, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Andy Vollmer (1978) - Acting General Counsel, United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Law
- G. Steven Agee (1977) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Carol Bagley Amon (1971) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- John Antoon II (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Alice M. Batchelder (1988) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Lewis Thornton Babcock (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado
- Peter Hill Beer (1986, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- Carol A. Beier (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Kansas Supreme Court
- Robert Benham (1990, LL.M) - Judge, Georgia Supreme Court
- William Duane Benton (1995, LL.M) - Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Robert R. Beezer (1956) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Susan H. Black (1984) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- John White Brockenbrough - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, founder and former Dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Mary Beck Briscoe (1990, LL.M) - Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
- John T. Broderick, Jr. (1972) - Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
- James O. Browning (1981) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Mexico
- Pasco Bowman II (1979, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Janice Rogers Brown (2004, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Albert Vickers Bryan (1921) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- John D. Butzner, Jr. (1941, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Consuelo MarÃa Callahan (2004, LL.M) - Judge United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Jack Tarpley Camp Jr. (1973) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Ronald D. Castille (1971) - Chief Justice, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Robert J. Conrad (1983) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina
- Julian Abele Cook Jr. (1988, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- James L. Dennis (1984) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Hardy Cross Dillard - Dean, UVa Law School; Judge, International Court of Justice
- Donal O'Donnell (1983, LL.M) - Justice, Supreme Court of Ireland
- Robert D. Durham (1998, LL.M) - Justice, Oregon Supreme Court
- James Larry Edmondson (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- Richard Alan Enslen (1986, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- Orinda D. Evans (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Jerry Falwell Jr. (1987) - Chancellor, Liberty University
- John A. Field Jr. (1935) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Louise W. Flanagan (1988) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Paul C. Gartzke (1992) - Presiding Judge, Wisconsin Court of Appeals
- Julia Smith Gibbons (1975) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- John A. Gibney, Jr. (1976) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- John Gleeson (1980) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Thomas B. Griffith (1985) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- Asher Grunis (1972, LL.M) - President, Supreme Court of Israel
- Michael Daly Hawkins (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Tim Heaphy (1991) - U.S. Attorney, Western District of Virginia
- Sven Erik Holmes (1980) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
- Virginia Hopkins (1977) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
- Lynn Nettleton Hughes (1992, LL.M) - Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- Willis Hunt (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Raymond Alvin Jackson (1973) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
- Brendan Johnson - U.S. Attorney, District of South Dakota
- Denise R. Johnson (LL.M., 1995) - first woman appointed to the Vermont Supreme Court
- James Parker Jones (1965) - Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- Daniel Porter Jordan III (1993) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Barbara Milano Keenan (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- James Kinkeade (1998, LL.M.) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- Cynthia D. Kinser (1977) - Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- Edwin Kneedler (1975) - Deputy United States Solicitor General
- Jeannette Knoll (Master of Laws, 1996) - Associate Justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court
- Benson Everett Legg (1973) - Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
- Peter K. Leisure (1958) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Donald Lemons (1976) - Chief Justice Supreme Court of Virginia
- Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (1998, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- Kermit Lipez (1990, LL.M.) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- J. Michael Luttig (1981) - former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and current senior vice president and general counsel at Boeing Co.
- James Clark McReynolds (1884) - former Justice, United States Supreme Court
- Blanche M. Manning (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Boyce F. Martin, Jr. (1963, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Mark D. Martin (1998) - Judge North Carolina Supreme Court
- Amit Priyavadan Mehta (1997) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- Zane David Memeger (1991) - U.S. Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2010-2016)
- Lawrence E. Meyers (1998, LL.M) - Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; based in Fort Worth
- Donald M. Middlebrooks (2004, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
- Michael P. Mills (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
- Richard Henry Mills (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- Paul Redmond Michel (1966) - Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Norman K. Moon (1988, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- John T. Morton (1994) - Assistant Secretary, United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Diana Gribbon Motz (1968) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- J. Frederick Motz (1967) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- William Theodore Moore Jr. (2001, LL.M)- Judge United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia
- Glenn Murdock (1981) - Justice, Supreme Court of Alabama
- Alan Eugene Norris (1986) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Diarmuid O'Scannlain (1992, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- John Pelander (1998, LL.M) Justice, Supreme Court of Arizona
- Cleo E. Powell (1982) - Justice, Supreme Court of Virginia
- William R. Quinlan(1989, LL.M)- Justice, Illinois Appellate Court, Corporation Counsel to the City of Chicago
- Stanley Forman Reed (1908) - former Justice, United States Supreme Court
- Carlton W. Reeves (1989) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
- Kenneth Francis Ripple (1968) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- Judith Ann Wilson Rogers (1988, LL.M) Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
- John Roll (1990, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Arizona
- Robert D. Rucker (1998, LL.M) - Judge, Indiana Supreme Court
- Thomas G. Saylor (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Michael H. Schneider, Sr. (2001, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- Arthur J. Schwab (1972) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Leah Ward Sears (1995, LL.M) - Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
- G. Kendall Sharp (1963) - Judge, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida
- Robert J. Shelby (1988) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Utah
- Randall Terry Shepard (1995 LL.M) - Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
- Walter King Stapleton (1984, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- W. Taylor Reveley, III (1968) - President, The College of William and Mary, former dean and law professor at William & Mary Law School
- Arthur J. Schwab (1972) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Edward Samuel Smith (1947) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- William Lloyd Standish (1956) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- Murray Merle Schwartz (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the District of Delaware
- Randall Terry Shepard (1995, LL.M) - Chief Justice, Indiana Supreme Court
- Louis L. Stanton (1955) - Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Myron T. Steele (1970) - Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
- Chester J. Straub (1961) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Richard F. Suhrheinrich (1990, LL.M) - Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Richard Barclay Surrick (1982, LL.M) - Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Debra Todd (2004, LL.M) - Judge, Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Juan R. Torruella (1984, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Joyce White Vance (1985) - United States Attorney, Northern District of Alabama
- Paul R. Verkuil (1967) - Chairman, Administrative Conference of the United States; former President of College of William & Mary and former Dean of Cardozo Law School
- James B. Whitfield (1886) - State Attorney General, Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida
- Michael J. Wilkins (1901, LL.M) - Associate Chief Justice, Utah Supreme Court
- J. Harvie Wilkinson (1972) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Glen Morgan Williams (1948) - Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
- Victor J. Wolski (1991) - Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
- James Andrew Wynn (1995, LL.M) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- Eugene E. Siler, Jr. (1963) - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Academia
- Patrick Finnegan (1979) - 12th Academic Dean, U.S. Military Academy and 25th President, Longwood University
- Elizabeth Garrett (1988) - President, Cornell University
- M. Elizabeth Magill (1995) - Dean, Stanford Law School
- Paul B. Stephan (1977) - University of Virginia Law School
- Michael V. Hernandez - Dean, Regent University School of Law
Media
- Louis Auchincloss (1941) - Novelist
- David Baldacci (1986) - Novelist
- Linda Fairstein (1972) - Novelist
- Emily Giffin (1997) - Novelist
- Lee Habeeb (1991) - Conservative talk radio producer
- Laura Ingraham (1991) - Radio talk-show host
- N. Scott Momaday (1959) - Novelist and Pulitzer Prize recipient
- Andrew Scheinman (1973) - Movie producer
- Will Shortz (1977) - Crossword Editor, New York Times
- Evan Thomas (1977) - Editor, Newsweek
Business
- Donald Dell (1964) - Founder of ProServ
- Tim Finchem (1973) - Commissioner and CEO, PGA TOUR
- Peter S. Kaufman (1978) - Investment banker, president of the Gordian Group LLC
- Bowie Kuhn (1950) - Former Major League Baseball Commissioner
- Deborah Platt Majoras (1989) - Vice President and General Counsel, Procter & Gamble
- Ted Mathas (1992) - Chairman, President, and CEO, New York Life Insurance Company
- Alexander F. Mathews, M.A. 1856 - President and Founder of Bank of Lewisburg and First National Bank of Ronceverte
- John E. Osborn (1983) - Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Cephalon, Inc.; former member U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy
- Michael Slive (1965) - Current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and formerly the first commissioner of both Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
- DeMaurice Smith (1989) - Executive Director, National Football League Players' Association
- Michael C. Wholley (1977) - General Counsel, NASA
- Bob Wright (1968) - Former Chairman and CEO of NBC
- Don Yee (1987) - NFL sports agent
Notable Faculty
- Risa L. Goluboff - Dean, Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, Professor of History
- A.E. Dick Howard - White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs
- John Jeffries (1973) - dean emeritus, Fmr. Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.
- Paul Mahoney - dean emeritus
- Frederick Schauer - constitutional law, philosophy of law
References
External links
- University of Virginia School of Law