List of Albany Law School alumni
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This is a partial list of those who attended Albany Law School. Alumni are categorized by each alumnus or alumna's most distinguishing accomplishments.
Academics
- Alicia Ouellette, professor at Albany Law School
- Russell Conwell, founder and first President of Temple University
- James A. MacAlister, former president of Drexel University[1]
- Patricia Salkin, Dean and Professor of Law, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
Judges
- Francis Bergan, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- David Josiah Brewer, former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- John B. Cassoday, former Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court
- Amaro Cavalcanti, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Brazil, former Justice of the International Court of Justice at the Hague, former Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, author of Brazilian Constitution of 1891
- Lawrence H. Cooke, former Chief Judge of New York State
- Richard J. Daronco, former United States Judge for the Southern District of New York
- Richard K. Eaton, Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
- Domenick L. Gabrielli, associate Judge, New York Court of Appeals
- James Gibson, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- Victoria A. Graffeo, associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
- Robert H. Jackson, former U.S. Attorney General, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.
- John Franklin Kinney, County Court Judge, founding member of the Knights of Columbus and City of Rochester Bar Association.
- Moses A. Luce, Judge of the County Court of San Diego, Medal of Honor recipient
- Thomas James McAvoy, Senior United States Judge for the Northern District of New York
- Alton B. Parker, former Chief Judge of New York State; Candidate for President of the United States
- Charles J. Siragusa, Judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
- Bartlett Tripp, former Chief Justice of the Dakota Territory, former United States Ambassador to Austria
- Irving G. Vann, former associate Judge, New York State Court of Appeals
Politicians
- Warren M. Anderson, New York State Senate Majority Leader
- John Mosher Bailey, former U.S. Congressman
- Alexander Campbell Botkin, Lieutenant Governor of Montana[2]
- Kevin Cahill, New York State Assemblyman
- Joseph L. Carrigg, former U.S. Congressman
- W. Sterling Cole, former U.S. Congressman
- Edwin H. Conger, former U.S. Congressman and former Ambassador to Mexico
- Andrew Cuomo, former New York State Attorney General, current Governor of New York State.[3]
- Mary Donohue, former Lieutenant Governor of New York State
- Henry R. Gibson, former U.S. Congressman
- Martin H. Glynn, former Governor of the State of New York
- Carleton J. King, former U.S. Congressman
- Abraham Lansing, New York State Treasurer; State Senate. Delegate to International Conference for Codification of the Law of Nations.
- William Paine Lord, 9th Governor of Oregon
- David O'Brien Martin, former U.S. Congressman
- Robert C. McEwen, former U.S. Congressman
- William McKinley, 25th President of the United States
- William E. Miller, former U.S. Congressman, candidate for Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Republican National Committee
- Edwin Sylvanus Osborne, former U.S. Congressman and Major General of the National Guard
- Amasa J. Parker, Jr., former New York Assemblyman and Senator
- Frederick Walker Pitkin, 2nd Governor of Colorado
- Jeanine Pirro, former Westchester County District Attorney
- Harris M. Plaisted, former governor of Maine
- Redfield Proctor, politician, former governor of Vermont
- John Raines, former U.S. Congressman, New York State Assemblyman, New York State Senator, and Acting Lieutenant Governor of New York
- Joshua S. Salmon, represented the 4th congressional district from 1902 to 1903.[4]
- John L. Sampson, former Chairman of Senate Judiciary Committee, New York State Senator
- Hiram Y. Smith, former U.S. Congressman
- Dean P. Taylor, former U.S. Congressman
- Michele Titus, New York State Assembly
- William Freeman Vilas, former U.S. Senator
- Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, former Governor of Iowa
- Lovely A. Warren, Mayor of Rochester, New York
- Lee Zeldin, New York State Senator
Practitioners
- Stephen F. Brown, Union Army officer in the American Civil War
- Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
- James C. Matthews, First African American to graduate from Law School in New York State[5]
- James A. Murphy III, Saratoga County District Attorney
- Wheeler Hazard Peckham, former nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States
- David Soares, Albany County District Attorney
Other
- Jessica Bird, novelist
- Barry M. Costello, Navy admiral
- Kim Gannon, songwriter
- Megyn Kelly, news anchor, Fox News Channel.
- Richard Parsons, Chairman & former CEO of Time Warner; interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers
- George W. Peckham, entomologist
- Morris Silverman (philanthropist), philanthropist and businessman
- Kate Stoneman, first woman admitted to the New York State Bar
References
- ^ McDonald, Edward D. (1942). Drexel Institute of Technology 1891 – 1941. Haddon Craftsmen, Inc. p. 32. ISBN 1-4067-6374-8.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Frankenburger, David Bower (1902), General Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of the University of Wisconsin, 1849–1902, Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Press, p. 48, OCLC 27790325, retrieved 2010-10-29
- ^ Sorkin, Andrew Ross. "Andrew Cuomo Joins Law Practice in New York", The New York Times, February 17, 2001. Accessed November 3, 2007. "Andrew Cuomo, 43, who received his law degree from Albany Law School in 1982, practiced law first as an assistant district attorney and then in private practice until 1988."
- ^ Joshua S. Salmon biography, United States Congress. Accessed August 11, 2007.
- ^ J. Clay Smith, Jr., "Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer 1841–1914", 421 (1999).