Records & Rankings

Law schools that produced the most federal judges

Schools ranked by the number of federal judges (Supreme Court + Courts of Appeals) who studied there, undergraduate or law.

#	Name	Judges
1	Harvard Law School	353
2	Yale Law School	176
3	University of Virginia School of Law	145
4	University of Michigan Law School	116
5	Columbia Law School	109
6	University of Texas School of Law	105
7	Harvard University	91
8	Yale University	89
9	Princeton University	78
10	New York University School of Law	74
11	University of Michigan	74
12	Harvard College	70
13	University of Pennsylvania Law School (now Carey Law School)	67
14	Stanford Law School	64
15	Georgetown University Law Center	60
16	University of Chicago Law School	58
17	Yale College	58
18	University of Texas	56
19	Stanford University	49
20	Columbia University	47
21	University of California, Berkeley	47
22	George Washington University Law School	46
23	University of Florida College of Law (now Fredric G. Levin College of Law)	46
24	Cornell University	43
25	Dartmouth College	43

Computed from the FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-06-28. Verify against the primary source before relying.