Alma mater

Northwestern University

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Julius Jennings Hoffman	Ph.B.	Judge	1912
David L. Bazelon	B.S.L.	Judge	1931
Robert Arthur Sprecher	B.S.	Judge	1938
Carl Olaf Bue Jr.	Ph.B.	Judge	1951
John Francis Grady	B.S.	Judge	1952
George Wakem Lindberg	B.S.	Judge	1954
Lenore Carrero Nesbitt	B.S.	Judge	1954
Marvin E. Aspen	B.S.	Judge	1956
Walter Herbert Rice	B.A.	Judge	1958
David M. Ebel	B.A.	Judge	1962
Charles Ronald Norgle Sr.	B.B.A.	Judge	1964
Barbara A. Caulfield	B.S.	Judge	1969
Gerald Jay Buchwald		Judge	1970
Robert Lowell Miller Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1972
William Duane Benton	B.A.	Judge	1972
Phillip S. Figa	B.A.	Judge	1973
Robert S. Lasnik	M.S.	Judge	1973
James Daniel Otto		Judge	1974
Dean H. Hansell		Judge	1977
F. Dennis Saylor IV	B.S.	Judge	1977
Diane S. Sykes	B.S.	Judge	1980
Diane S. Sykes	B.S.	Justice	1980
Virginia Mary Kendall	B.A.	Judge	1984
Pamela Pepper	B.S.	Judge	1986
Stephanie Elizabeth Thornton-Harris		Judge	1990
John Fitzgerald Kness	B.A.	Judge	1991
Sarah Elisabeth Geraghty	B.A.	Judge	1996
Sunil Ramesh Harjani	B.A.	Judge	1997
Joshua Paul Kolar	B.A.	Judge	1999
April Michelle Perry	B.S.	Judge	2000
Dorothy Rebecca McLaughlin		Judge	2002
Jia Michelle Cobb	B.A.	Judge	2002
Jessica Gloria Lynn Clarke	B.A.	Judge	2005
Charles Edgar Woodward		Judge	–
Christine T. McMonagle		Judge	–
Cyrus E. Dietz		Justice	–
James C. Harten		Judge	–
Jim Jones		Justice	–
Jonathan Leo Rosenbloom		Judge	–
Joseph Gordon		Justice	–
Margaret O'Mara Frossard		Justice	–
Morell Edward Sharp		Justice	–
Oscar E. Heard		Justice	–
Paul Suttell		Chief Justice	–
Peter T. Zarella		Justice	–
S Louis Rathje		Justice	–
Simeon Rivera Acoba Jr.		Judge	–
Thomas Charles Munger		Judge	–
William Duane Benton		Justice	–
William Guild		Justice	–
William M. Farmer		Justice	–

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