Alma mater

Georgetown University

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
David M. Gill		Judge	1962
D. Michael Fisher	A.B.	Judge	1966
John George Koeltl	A.B.	Judge	1967
Ricardo M. Urbina	B.A.	Judge	1967
Thomas L. Ambro	B.A.	Judge	1971
John Gleeson	B.A.	Judge	1975
Judy Holzer Hersher		Judge	1975
Marcia G. Cooke	B.S.F.S.	Judge	1975
John William Kennedy	Business Administration	Judge	1977
Sean J. McLaughlin	A.B.	Judge	1977
Mark Alan Borenstein		Judge	1978
Sandra Lynn McLean		Judge	1979
David A. Thompson	Business Administration (Finance), summa cum laude	Associate Justice	1980
Marguerite Denise Downing	Foreign Service	Judge	1980
Teri Leatrice Jackson		Associate Justice	1980
Terrence George Berg	B.S.	Judge	1981
Daniel Alexander Ottolia		Judge	1982
Maurice Abraham Leiter		Judge	1982
William E. Smith	B.A.	Judge	1982
Timothy B. Taylor	magna cum laude	Judge	1984
Benita Yalonda Pearson	B.S.	Judge	1985
Kenneth M. Karas	B.A.	Judge	1986
Michael C. Small		Judge	1986
Stephen G. Larson	B.S.	Judge	1986
Joseph Normand Laplante	A.B.	Judge	1987
Joseph Frank Bianco	B.A.	Judge	1988
Halil Suleyman Ozerden	B.S.	Judge	1989
William Joseph Nardini	A.B.	Judge	1990
Michael Lawrence Brown	B.A.	Judge	1991
Thomas Sean McConville		Judge	1991
Amit Priyavadan Mehta	B.A.	Judge	1993
Sarah Ann Leilani Merriam	B.A.	Judge	1993
Richard Vernal Peel		Judge	1994
Stephanie Agli Gallagher	B.A.	Judge	1994
Tamila Ebrahimi Ipema	International and Comparative Law	Judge	1994
Daniel Desmond Domenico	B.A.	Judge	1995
Edward Albert Torpoco		Judge	1995
Jill Aiko Otake	B.S.	Judge	1995
Kevin J. Doyle	Classics and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics	U.S. Magistrate Judge	1996
Michael R. Amerian		Judge	1996
Michael Craig Martin	M.A.	Judge	1997
Anne Marie Nardacci	B.A.	Judge	1998
John Peter Cronan	B.A.	Judge	1998
Mark Kiyo Hanasono		Judge	1999
Jenna M. Whitman		Judge	2001
Sarah Elizabeth Pitlyk	M.A.	Judge	2006
Liam Patrick Hardy	cum laude	Judge	2008
Zachary Maxwell Bluestone	B.S.	Judge	2009
Jonathan J.C. Grey		U.S. Magistrate Judge	2021
Abe W. Turner		Justice	–
Alan Orantes Forst		Judge	–
Angelo Santaniello		Justice	–
Barbara Durham		Justice	–
Bruce D. Beaudin		Judge	–
Bruce E. Meyerson		Judge	–
C Ian McLachlan		Judge	–
C. Ian McLachlan		Justice	–
Charles C. Marbury		Justice	–
Charles E. Springer		Justice	–
Charles Stuart Brown		Justice	–
Dale Tursi		Judge	–
David Chavez Jr.		Justice	–
Donald Francis Shea		Justice	–
Edward E. Davis		Justice	–
Eumi Kim Lee	1999	Judge	–
F Henri Henriod		Justice	–
Francis Condon		Justice	–
Francis W. Sullivan		Justice	–
Fred Hudson Dore		Justice	–
Frederick Paul Dickerson III	Latin American Studies	Judge	–
Gene Edward Franchini		Justice	–
George L. Browning		Justice	–
George Van Hoomissen		Justice	–
H Vern Payne		Justice	–
Hall S. Lusk		Justice	–
Harry E. Stowers Jr.		Justice	–
Harry Scott Harnsberger		Justice	–
Helen E. Hoens		Justice	–
Henry P. Hughes		Justice	–
James B. Riley		Justice	–
James E. Duggan		Justice	–
James E. Edmondson		Justice	–
James E. Horan		Judge	–
James Joseph Patrick Corrigan		Justice	–
James Ronald Zazzali		Justice	–
James T. Vaughn		Justice	–
John B. McManus Jr.		Justice	–
John Terry		Judge	–
Jon R. Collins		Justice	–
Joseph A. Bevilacqua		Justice	–
Joseph P. Flynn		Judge	–
Joseph T. Walsh		Justice	–
Laura D. Stith		Judge	–
Laura Denvir Stith		Justice	–
Lawrence Henry Cooke		Judge	–
Lorie Skjerven Gildea		Justice	–
Louis Scolnik		Justice	–
Lynne A. Battaglia		Justice	–
Margaret H. Downie		Judge	–
Mark A. Sullivan		Justice	–
Mark McCormick		Justice	–
Mary Janes Bowes		Judge	–
Meagan E. Hassan		Justice	–
Michael A. Musmanno		Justice	–
Michael Buser		Judge	–
Michael Talbot		Judge	–
Patrick Brett O'Sullivan		Justice	–
Peter D. Webster		Judge	–
Randa Mcdaniel Trapp		Judge	–
Rebecca T. Christoff	magna cum laude	U.S. Magistrate Judge	–
Ricardo M. Urbina		Judge	–
Richard C. Bosson		Justice	–
Richard Critz		Justice	–
Richard E. Ransom		Justice	–
Richard H. Frank		Judge	–
Rives Kistler		Justice	–
Robert Corpening Finley		Justice	–
Robert E. Davis		Judge	–
Samuel Marion Driver		Justice	–
Stedman Prescott		Justice	–
Stephen A. Zappala		Justice	–
Thomas A. Bishop		Judge	–
Thomas B. Finan		Justice	–
Thomas L. Hayes		Justice	–
Thomas Michael Shanahan		Justice	–
Vanessa Ruiz		Senior Judge	–
Virginia Maria Hernandez Covington		Judge	–
W. St. John Garwood		Justice	–
Walter Meheula Heen		Judge	–
Welsey J. Oler Jr.		Judge	–
William J. Millard		Justice	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-09-30. Verify against the primary source before relying.