Alma mater

Columbia University

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Alexander Holtzoff	A.B.	Associate Justice	1908
John Patrick Hartigan	A.M.	Judge	1913
Alfred Egidio Modarelli	A.B.	Judge	1920
George Rosling	A.B.	Judge	1920
Archie Owen Dawson	A.B.	Judge	1921
William Francis Smith	Ph.G.	Judge	1922
Paul Raymond Hays	A.B.	Judge	1924
Frederick van Pelt Bryan	A.B.	Judge	1925
Milton Pollack	B.A.	Judge	1927
Charles Miller Metzner	A.B.	Judge	1931
Lawrence Edward Walsh	A.B.	Judge	1932
Lawrence Aloysius Whipple	B.S.	Judge	1933
Harold Leventhal	A.B.	Judge	1934
Daniel Mortimer Friedman	A.B.	Judge	1937
Hugh Henry Bownes	B.A.	Judge	1941
Leonard I. Garth	B.A.	Judge	1942
Charles L. Brieant Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1947
Ann Aldrich	B.A.	Judge	1948
Pauline Newman	M.A.	Judge	1948
Frank J. Magill	M.A.	Judge	1953
David G. Trager	B.A.	Judge	1959
José Alberto Cabranes	A.B.	Judge	1961
Denis Reagan Hurley	M.B.A.	Judge	1962
Maryanne Trump Barry	M.A.	Judge	1962
Walter Herbert Rice	M.B.A.	Judge	1962
Michael B. Mukasey	A.B.	Judge	1963
A. Howard Matz	A.B.	Judge	1965
Denise Cote	M.A.	Judge	1969
Shira A. Scheindlin	M.A.	Judge	1969
Paul Steven Diamond	B.A.	Judge	1974
Vincent Louis Briccetti	B.A.	Judge	1976
Sandra Segal Ikuta	M.S.	Judge	1978
Kenneth Conboy	M.A.	Judge	1980
Victor Allen Bolden	A.B.	Judge	1986
Neil M. Gorsuch	B.A.	Associate Justice	1988
Stephanos Bibas	B.A.	Judge	1989
Kirk Edward Sherriff	B.A.	Judge	1990
Maryellen Noreika	M.A.	Judge	1990
John Hyungseung Chun	B.A.	Judge	1991
Veronica Sophia Rossman	B.A.	Judge	1993
Nancy Gbana Abudu	B.A.	Judge	1996
Nusrat Jahan Choudhury	B.A.	Judge	1998
Roy Kalman Altman	B.A.	Judge	2004
Anna Elizabeth Wagner St. John	M.A.	Judge	2006
Fred Dickinson Letts		Associate Justice	–
Harold Albert Baker		Judge	–
William Daniel Murray		Judge	–

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