Law School Commencement Speakers

• Akron:  Betty Sutton (Member, U.S. House of Representatives)
• Alabama:  Richard Shelby (Member, U.S. Senate)
• Albany:  Jonathan Lippman (Chief Judge. New York Court of Appeals) 
• American: Seth Waxman (Partner, Wilmer Hale)
• Arkansas-Fayetteville:  William Sutton (Partner, Friday, Eldredge & Clark)
• Ave Maria:  Adam Cardinal Maida (Archbishop Emeritus, Detroit)
• Baltimore: Ted Turner (Founder, CNN)
• Baylor:  Harriet O'Neill (Justice, Texas Supreme Court)
• Boston College:  Ben Bernanke (Chair, Federal Reserve)
• Boston University:  Howard Dean (former Chair, Democratic National Committee)
• Brooklyn:  Paul Volcker (former Chair, Federal Reserve)
• BYU:  Jeffrey S. Sutton (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit)
• California-Western:  Mary Anne Fox (Chancellor, University of California-San Diego)
• Campbell:  Robert Edmunds (Justice, North Carolina Supreme Court)
• Capital:  Jeffrey S. Sutton (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit)
• Cardozo:  Rosalie Abella (Justice, Supreme Court of Canada)
• Case Western:  Robert Duncan (fromer Judge, Ohio Supreme Court, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, United States Court of Military Appeals)
• Catholic:  Mark Shields (Pundit, CNN)
• Charleston:  Jim Clyburn (Member, U.S. House of Representatives)
• Charlotte:  Allyson Duncan (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit)
• Cincinnati:  Cris Collinsworth (Football Analyst, NBC's Sunday Night Football)
• Columbia:  Gray Davis (former Governor, California)
• Connecticut:  Sheila Bair (Chair, FDIC)
• Cleveland State:  Valerie Caproni (General Counsel, FBI)
• DePaul:  Larry Rogers (Partner, Power, Rogers & Smith)
• Drake:  Mark Bennett (Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa)
• Drexel:  Rudy Giuliani (former New York City Mayor)
• Duke:  David Sentelle (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit)
• Elon:  David Gergen (Pundit, CNN, U.S. News & World Report)
• Faulkner:  W. Keith Watkins (Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama)
• Florida International:  Stanley Fish (Professor, Florida International)
• Fordham:  Joel Klein (Chancellor, New York City Schools)
• Franklin Pierce:  James Baker (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces)
• George Mason:  Jim Webb (Member, U.S. Senate)
• George Washington:  Gregory Garre (former U.S. Solicitor General)
• Georgetown:  David Vladeck (Co-Director, Institute for Public Representation; Director, Center on Health Regulation and Governance)
• Georgia:  Lisa Godbey Wood (Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia)  
• Georgia State:  Leslie Turner (General Counsel, Coca-Cola)
• Harvard: Elena Kagan (U.S. Solicitor General)
• Howard:  Eric Holder (U.S. Attorney General)
• Idaho:  N. Randy Smith (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
• Illinois:  Ray LaHood (U.S. Secretary of Transportation)
• Indiana-Bloomington:  Michael Maurer (Chairman, National Bank of Indianapolis)
• Indiana-Indianapolis:   John Pistole (Deputy Director, FBI)
• Iowa:  David Wilkins (Professor, Harvard Law School)
• Lewis & Clark:  Robert Bennett (Skadden, Washington, D.C.)
• LSU:  W. Eugene Davis (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit)
• Louisville:  Mitch McConnell (Minority Leader, U.S. Senate)
• Loyola-L.A.:  Ruth McGregor (Chief Justice, Arizona Supreme Court)
• Loyola-New Orleans:  Neal Kaytal (Deputy U.S. Solicitor General; Professor, Georgetown)
• Maryland:  Elijah Cummings (Member, U.S. House of Representatives)
• Miami:  Denny Chin (Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York)
• Michigan:  Gregory Garre (former U.S. Solicitor General)
• Michigan State:  Michael McConnell (former Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Professor, Stanford)
• Minnesota:  Michael Davis (Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota)
• Nebraska:  Theodore Sorenson (former Special Counsel to President Kennedy)
• UNLV:  Shelley Berkley (Member, U.S. House of Representatives)
• New England:  Margaret Marshall (Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• New York Law School:  Gregory Williams (President, City College of New York)
• North Carolina:  Michael Mukasey (former U.S. Attorney General)
• North Dakota:  Peter Pantaleo (Managing Partner, DLA Piper, New York)
• Northeastern:  Stephen Oleskey (Partner, WilmerHale; co-lead counsel, Boumediene v. Bush)
• Northwestern:  Richard Tallman (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
• Oklahoma:  Tom Colbert (Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court)
• Oklahoma City:  Vicki Miles-LaGrange (Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma)
• Oregon:  Stephen Wax (Federal Public Defender, Oregon)
• Pace:  Nina Totenberg (former Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR)
• Penn:  Jennifer Yvonne Mokgoro (Judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa)
• Penn State:  Lewis Katz (Owner, New Jersey Nets)
• Pittsburgh:  Benjamin Jealous (President, NAACP)
• Richmond:  Rick Klau (Business Product Manager, Google)
• Roger Williams:  Federico Hernández Denton (Chief Justice, Puerto Rico Supreme Court)
• Rutgers-Newark:  Freda Wolfson (Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey)
• St. John's:  Dennis Jacobs (Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit)
• St. Thomas (MN):  Patricia Wald (Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit)
• San Diego:  Steven R. Altman (President, Qualcomm) 
• San Francisco:  Marian Wright Edelman (President, Children's Defense Fund)
• Santa Clara:  Bryan Stevenson (Executive Director, Equal Justice Initiative)
• South Dakota:  Daryl Hecht (Judge, Court of Appeals)
• South Texas:  Bill White (Mayor, Houston)
• Southern Illinois:  Vanita Banks (Past President, National Bar Association)
• Stanford:  Pamela Karlan (Professor, Stanford)
• Stetson:  John Lewis (Member, U.S. House of Representatives) 
• SUNY-Buffalo:  Raila Amolo Odinga (Prime Minister, Kenya)
• Syracuse:  Everett Gillison (Deputy Mayor, Philadelphia)
• Temple:  Ed Rendell (Governor, Pennsylvania)
• Texas Tech:  Karl Rove (former Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush)
• Thomas Cooley:  Wallace Riley (former ABA President)
• Thomas Jefferson:  Margaret McKeown (Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit)
• Tulsa:  Claire Eagan (Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma)
• UC-Berkeley:  Erwin Chemerinsky (Dean, UC-Irvine)
• UC-Hastings:  Jackie Speier (Member, U.S. House of Representatives)
• UCLA:  Kamala Harris (District Attorney, San Francisco)
• USC:  Edmund Brown (Attorney General, California)
• Utah:  Hauwa Ibrahim (Human Rights Lawyer, Nigeria)
• Valparaiso:  Robert Rucker (Justice, Indiana Supreme Court)
• Vermont:  Frances Beinecke (President, Natural Resources Defense Council)
• Villanova:  Wilton D. Gregory (Archbishop, Atlanta) 
• Virginia:  Evan Thomas (Assistant Managing Editor, Newsweek)
• Wake Forest:  Robert Ehrlich (former Maryland Governor and Member of the U.S. House of Representatives)
• Washburn:  Kay E. McFarland (former Chief Justice, Kansas Supreme Court)
• University of Washington:  Rob McKenna (Attorney General, Washington)
• Washington & Lee:  Addison Phillips (President, Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
• Wayne State:  Marilyn Kelly (Chief Justice, Michigan Supreme Court)
• West Virginia:  Joyce McConnell (Dean, West Virginia)
• Western New England:  Pauline Schneider (Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe)
• Whittier:  David Carter (Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California)
• Willamette:  Virginia Linder (Justice, Oregon Supreme Court)
• William & Mary:  Tom Brokaw (NBC News)
• William Mitchell:  Lori Swanson (Attorney General, Minnesota)
• Wisconsin:  Russ Feingold (Member, U.S. Senate), Louis Butler (former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court)
• Wyoming:  Alan Simpson (former U.S. Senator)

See 2008 Law School Commencement Speakers.