Law School Commencement Speakers (Final)

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

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