Alma mater

Columbia University in the City of New York

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Phillip R. Miller		Judge	1931
Elihu M. Berle		Judge	1969
Terry Lee Smerling	with honors	Judge	1970
Carol Robinson Edmead		Presiding Justice	1974
Jo-Lynne Quong Lee		Judge	1974
Stanford Emil Reichert		Judge	1977
Monica Bachner		Judge	1981
Elizabeth K. Lee		Judge	1983
Thadd A. Blizzard	Medieval Philosophy	Judge	1983
Charles Sentman Crompton III		Judge	1984
David Justin Cowan		Judge	1984
Joshua D. Wayser		Judge	1984
Yvette Marie Palazuelos		Judge	1987
Andrew Yuan-Sung Cheng		Judge	1989
Ruben N. Garcia		Judge	1990
Lynne Monique Hobbs		Judge	1992
Michael Patrick Allen		Judge	1992
Peter Keller Southworth		Judge	1992
Gerardo Campos Sandoval		Judge	1995
Justin Brett Busby		Justice	1998
Sarah Beth Landau		Justice	1998
Herman N. Johnson Jr.		U.S. Magistrate Judge	1999
Ashfaq Gani Chowdhury		Judge	2000
Taryn A. Merkl		U.S. Magistrate Judge	2000
Abram Elkus		Judge	–
Arthur T. Vanderbilt		Justice	–
Benjamin Kaplan		Justice	–
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo		Judge	–
Bond Almand		Justice	–
C Thomas Schettino		Justice	–
C. Thomas Schetting		Justice	–
Charles David Breitel		Judge	–
Charles L. Weltner		Justice	–
Christopher Warner Dybwad		Judge	–
Clyde Siler		Justice	–
Corey G. Lee	Social Work	Judge	–
Edward S. Godfrey		Justice	–
Flemming L. Norcott Jr.		Justice	–
Forrest H. Anderson		Justice	–
Frank C. Newman		Justice	–
Frederick E. Crane		Judge	–
George L. Ingraham		Judge	–
Guy H. Sturgis		Justice	–
Irving Lehman		Judge	–
James B. Drew		Justice	–
James B. Riley		Justice	–
James Marshall Sprouse		Justice	–
Jeffrey S. Cohen-Laurie		Judge	–
John Ridley Finch		Judge	–
John Robinson		Justice	–
John W. King		Justice	–
Lindsey Miller-Lerman		Justice	–
Marie Louise Garibaldi		Justice	–
Randall B. Kester		Justice	–
Robert Nathan Wilentz		Justice	–
Robert Sherlock Smith		Judge	–
Roderick L. Ireland		Justice	–
Rose Spector		Justice	–
Sheila Abdus-Salaam		Judge	–
Stanley H. Fuld		Judge	–
Thomas G. Saylor		Justice	–
Willard Bartlett		Judge	–

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