Notable Alumni
Corporate General Counsel
Anne E. Chwat ’87
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
Andrew D. Hendry ’72
Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Colgate Palmolive Company
Scott Hoffman ’87
Managing Director and General Counsel, The Lazard Group LLC
Randal Milch ’85
Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Verizon Communications
Sara E. Moss ’74
Executive Vice President/General Counsel and Secretary, Estée Lauder Inc.
Corporate Leaders
John A. Carrig ’78
President and COO, ConocoPhillips
Herbert Kelleher ’56
Co-founder, Executive Chairman Emeritus, and Former CEO, Southwest Airlines
Harold Max Messmer ’70
Chairman and CEO, Robert Half International
Michael I. Roth (LL.M. ’75)
Chairman and CEO, Interpublic Group of Companies
Anthony Welters ’77
Executive Vice President, UnitedHealth Group
President, Public and Senior Markets Group
Entertainment
Jonathan Dolgen ’69
Former Chairman, Paramount Pictures
Peter Guber ’67 (LL.M. ’68)
Hollywood producer, Chairman and CEO, Mandalay Entertainment Group; Former Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Marvin Josephson ’52
Founder, International Creative Management, Inc.
Marc Platt ’82
Hollywood and Broadway Producer
Marc Turtletaub ’70
Partner and Producer, Big Beach Films
Finance
William Comfort Jr. (LL.M. ’64)
Chairman, Court Square Capital Partners
Stephen Kaplan ’83
Principal, Oaktree Capital Management
Richard Ketchum ’75
Chairman & CEO, Financial Industry Regulation Authority
Robert Kindler ’80
Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
Lester Pollack ’57
Founder and Chairman, Centre Partners
Foundations
Florence
Davis ’79
President, The Starr Foundation
Allen M. Greenberg ’81
President, The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Rita E. Hauser ’59
President, The Hauser Foundation
Dennis S. Hersch ’70
President, N.A. Property, Inc., and Advisor to The Wexner Foundation
Joshua S. Wyner ’93
Executive Vice President, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
Government
Lamar Alexander ’65
U.S. Senator from Tennessee
Former Governor of Tennessee
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
Diana L. DeGette ’82
Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado
Raymond Kelly (LL.M. ’74)
New York City Police Commissioner
Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76)
President of Taiwan
Anne Milgram ’96
Former Attorney General, State of New Jersey
Senior Fellow, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law
Higher Education Administration
John B. Attanasio ’79
Judge James Noel Dean and Professor of Law, and William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Manuel J. Fernos (LL.M. ’73)
President, Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Richard M. Joel ’75
President, Yeshiva University
James Milliken ’83
President, University of Nebraska
Jeremy Travis ’82
President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Judiciary
Thomas Buergenthal ’60
Judge, International Court of Justice
Dennis Jacobs ’73
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Judith Kaye ’62
Former Chief Judge, State of New York Court of Appeals
Jonathan Lippman ’68
Chief Judge, State of New York Court of Appeals
Daniel Nsereko (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’75)
Judge, International Criminal Court
Law Practice
Sheila Birnbaum ’65
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
David Boies (LL.M. ’67)
Chairman and Managing Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Evan Chesler ’75
Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP
Martin Lipton ’55
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Herbert Wachtell ’54
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Law Professors
John Coates IV ’89
John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
John C. Coffee Jr. (LL.M. ’76)
Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Anne M. Coughlin ’84
Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law; Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Sylvia Law ’68
Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, NYU School of Law
Codirector, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program, NYU School of Law
Judith Resnik ’75
Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Public Interest
Helaine M. Barnett ’64
Former President, Legal Services Corporation (Washington, D.C.)
Carol Bellamy ’68
Former Executive Director, UNICEF
Mohamed ElBaradei (LL.M. ’71, J.S.D. ’74, LL.D. ’04)
Former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Karen Freedman ’80
Executive Director, Lawyers for Children
Charles O. Lorensen (LL.M. ’91)
Secretary, Department of Revenue, State of West Virginia
Marcia Robinson Lowry ’69
Executive Director, Children’s Rights, Inc.
Real Estate Developers
Jay Furman ’71
Principal, RD Management Corporation
Ronald Moelis ’82
CEO, L & M Development Partners
Stephen Ross (LL.M. ’66)
Founder, CEO, and Chairman, The Related Companies
Peter D. Sudler ’73
President and CEO, Sudler Management Company
Leonard Wilf (LL.M. ’77)
President, Garden Homes Development
Vice Chairman, Minnesota Vikings
Sports
Gary Bettman ’77
Commissioner, National Hockey League
Joel Litvin ’85
President, League and Basketball Operations, National Basketball Association
Ethan Orlinsky ’89
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Major League Baseball
Paul Tagliabue ’65
Former Commissioner, National Football League
Mark Wilf ’87
President, Minnesota Vikings
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