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Columbia Law School

114 U.S. federal judges studied here. See where it ranks among law schools by judges produced.

Judges

JudgeDegreeRoleYear
Emile Henry LacombeLL.B.Judge1865
George Chandler HoltLL.B.Judge1869
LeBaron Bradford ColtLL.B.Judge1870
Charles Evans HughesLL.B.Chief Justice1884
Julius Marshuetz MayerLL.B.Judge1886
Francis Asbury WinslowLL.B.Judge1889
George Emery WellerLL.B.Associate Justice1889
Benjamin Nathan CardozoA.M.Associate Justice1890
William BondyLL.B.Judge1893
Thomas ChatfieldLL.B.Judge1896
Harlan Fiske StoneLL.B.Chief Justice1898
Mortimer W. ByersLL.B.Judge1898
John Munro WoolseyLL.B.Judge1901
Martin Thomas MantonLL.B.Judge1901
Hugh Dean McLellanLL.B.Judge1902
John Foster SymesLL.B.Judge1903
Harry Bennett AndersonLL.B.Judge1904
Ambrose O'ConnellLL.B.Associate Judge1910
Charles Francis McLaughlinLL.B.Judge1910
Alexander HoltzoffLL.B.Associate Justice1911
Harold Raymond MedinaLL.B.Judge1912
Richard HartshorneLL.B.Judge1912
John Patrick HartiganLL.B.Judge1913
James Alger FeeLL.B.Judge1914
Ira Lloyd LettsLL.B.Judge1917
Alfred Egidio ModarelliLL.M.Judge1922
Leonard Page MooreLL.B.Judge1922
Reynier Jacob Wortendyke Jr.LL.B.Judge1922
Archie Owen DawsonLL.B.Judge1923
Joseph Carmine ZavattLL.B.Judge1924
Simon Hirsch RifkindLL.B.Judge1925
William Orville DouglasLL.B.Associate Justice1925
Frederick van Pelt BryanLL.B.Judge1928
William Bernard HerlandsLL.B.Judge1928
Edmund Louis PalmieriLL.B.Judge1929
Giles Sutherland RichLL.B.Judge1929
Milton PollackJ.D.Judge1929
Charles Miller MetznerLL.B.Judge1933
Paul Raymond HaysLL.B.Judge1933
Lawrence Edward WalshLL.B.Judge1935
Carl E. McGowanLL.B.Judge1936
Harold LeventhalLL.B.Judge1936
Oscar Hirsh DavisLL.B.Judge1937
Daniel Mortimer FriedmanLL.B.Judge1940
James Edward DoyleLL.B.Judge1940
Jerre Stockton WilliamsJ.D.Judge1941
Robert Lee CarterLL.M.Judge1941
Eugene Hoffman NickersonLL.B.Judge1943
Constance Baker MotleyLL.B.Judge1946
Jack Richard MillerJ.D.Judge1946
Wilfred FeinbergLL.B.Judge1946
Lee Parsons GagliardiLL.B.Judge1947
Hugh Henry BownesLL.B.Judge1948
Jack Bertrand WeinsteinLL.B.Judge1948
Marvin E. FrankelLL.B.Judge1948
Charles L. Brieant Jr.LL.B.Judge1949
Harold R. Tyler Jr.LL.B.Judge1949
James Marshall SprouseLL.B.Judge1949
Alexander Harvey IILL.B.Judge1950
Robert Porter Patterson Jr.LL.B.Judge1950
Dickinson Richards DebevoiseLL.B.Judge1951
Miriam Goldman CedarbaumLL.B.Judge1953
Gerard Louis GoettelJ.D.Judge1955
John Daniel MahoneyLL.B.Judge1955
Mary Johnson LoweLL.M.Judge1955
Alvin K. HellersteinJ.D.Judge1956
Anita Blumstein BrodyJ.D.Judge1958
Lawrence K. KarltonJ.D.Judge1958
Lawrence M. McKennaLL.B.Judge1959
Ruth Bader GinsburgLL.B.Associate Justice1959
Charles Proctor SiftonLL.B.Judge1961
John S. Martin Jr.LL.B.Judge1961
S. Jay PlagerLL.M.Judge1961
Walter Herbert RiceJ.D.Judge1962
Robert David SackLL.B.Judge1963
Lynn S. AdelmanLL.B.Judge1965
Nathaniel M. GortonLL.B.Judge1966
Naomi Reice BuchwaldLL.B.Judge1968
U. W. ClemonJ.D.Judge1968
Richard J. HolwellJ.D.Judge1970
Nicholas GaraufisJ.D.Judge1974
Denise CoteJ.D.Judge1975
Gerard E. LynchJ.D.Judge1975
Denise Page HoodJ.D.Judge1977
Richard W. RobertsJ.D.Judge1978
Dora L. IrizarryJ.D.Judge1979
Richard G. SeeborgJ.D.Judge1981
Paul G. GardepheJ.D.Judge1982
Beryl Alaine HowellJ.D.Judge1983
Analisa Nadine TorresJ.D.Judge1984
Timothy Mark ReifJ.D.Judge1985
Joseph Frank BiancoJ.D.Judge1991
Kenneth M. KarasJ.D.Judge1991
Leo Theodore SorokinJ.D.Judge1991
Barbara LagoaJ.D.Judge1992
Jennifer Choe GrovesLL.M.Judge1998
Margaret M. GarnettJ.D.Judge2000
Nancy Lee MaldonadoJ.D.Judge2001
Cindy Kyounga ChungJ.D.Judge2002
Richard Franklin Boulware IIJ.D.Judge2002
Matthew Alexander SchwartzJ.D.Judge2003
Myrna PérezJ.D.Judge2003
Arun Srinivas SubramanianJ.D.Judge2004
Stuart Kyle DuncanLL.M.Judge2004
Anna Elizabeth Wagner St. JohnJ.D.Judge2006
Brian Edward MurphyJ.D.Judge2006
Samantha Dowd ElliottJ.D.Judge2006
Benjamin Joel BeatonJ.D.Judge2009
Andrew Bray DavisJ.D.Judge2012
Joseph CrossJudge–
Peter Keeton LeisureJudge–
Peter WoodburyJudge–
Richard Wilde WalkerJudge–
Stanley Forman ReedAssociate Justice–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-08-15. Verify against the primary source before relying.