Alma mater

University of Michigan

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
William Story		Judge	1864
Joseph Very Quarles	A.B.	Judge	1866
Loyal Edwin Knappen	B.A.	Judge	1873
Henry Wade Rogers	B.A.	Judge	1874
Alexis Caswell Angell	A.B.	Judge	1878
Byron Sylvester Waite	B.A.	Associate Justice	1880
Clarence W. Sessions	A.B.	Judge	1881
Francis Elisha Baker	B.A.	Judge	1882
Arthur Carter Denison	B.A.	Judge	1883
Arba Seymour Van Valkenburgh	A.B.	Judge	1884
Arthur J. Tuttle	Ph.B.	Judge	1892
Charles Casper Simons	B.L.	Judge	1898
Ralph E. Jenney	A.B.	Judge	1904
Frank Murphy	A.B.	Associate Justice	1912
Arthur Mumford Smith	A.B.	Associate Judge	1924
Carl Andrew Weinman	A.B.	Judge	1924
William W. Knox	A.B.	Judge	1932
Cecil F. Poole	A.B.	Judge	1935
Shiro Kashiwa	B.S.	Judge	1935
Bailey Brown	A.B.	Judge	1939
Horace Weldon Gilmore	B.A.	Judge	1939
Lawrence Gubow	A.B.	Judge	1940
Leroy John Contie Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1941
Daniel Henry Huyett III	A.B.	Judge	1942
Avern Levin Cohn		Judge	1943
Clarence Addison Brimmer Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1944
Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy	B.A.	Judge	1945
Douglas Woodruff Hillman	A.B.	Judge	1946
Helen Wilson Nies	B.A.	Judge	1946
James Paul Churchill	B.B.A.	Judge	1947
Albert Joseph Engel	A.B.	Judge	1948
Norma Levy Shapiro	B.A.	Judge	1948
Glenn Everell Mencer	B.B.A.	Judge	1949
Stewart Albert Newblatt	B.A.	Judge	1950
Ralph B. Guy Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1951
Richard Paul Matsch	A.B.	Judge	1951
James Byron Moran	B.A.	Judge	1952
John G. Davies	B.A.	Judge	1953
Alfred M. Wolin	B.A.	Judge	1954
Thomas Samuel Zilly	B.A.	Judge	1956
Hezekiah Russel Holland	B.B.A.	Judge	1958
Paul D. Borman	B.A.	Judge	1959
David S. Tatel	B.A.	Judge	1963
Vaughn R. Walker	A.B.	Judge	1966
Shira A. Scheindlin	B.A.	Judge	1967
David William McKeague	B.A.	Judge	1968
George Caram Steeh III	B.A.	Judge	1969
Ann Claire Williams	M.A.	Judge	1972
Victoria A. Roberts	B.A.	Judge	1973
Mark Allan Goldsmith	B.A.	Judge	1974
Frank Montalvo	M.S.	Judge	1977
Susan Bieke Neilson	A.B.	Judge	1977
Sean Francis Cox	B.G.S.	Judge	1979
Linda Vivienne Parker	B.A.	Judge	1980
Ann Marie Donnelly	B.A.	Judge	1981
Judith Ellen Levy	B.S.	Judge	1981
Jeffrey James Helmick	B.A.	Judge	1983
Pamela Ki Mai Chen	B.A.	Judge	1983
Paul Gregory Byron	A.B.	Judge	1983
Mary Margaret Rowland	B.A.	Judge	1984
Sheryl Halle Lipman	B.A.	Judge	1984
Jane Marie Beckering	B.A.	Judge	1987
Laurie Jill Michelson	A.B.	Judge	1989
Raymond M. Kethledge	B.A.	Judge	1989
Matthew Frederick Leitman	B.A.	Judge	1990
Edmond E-Min Chang	B.S.E.	Judge	1991
Jennifer Louise Rochon	A.B.	Judge	1992
Chad Andrew Readler	B.A.	Judge	1994
Susan Kim DeClercq	B.A.	Judge	1995
Brandy Renée McMillion	B.S.E.	Judge	2001
Robert Jerome White	B.A.	Judge	2007
Chase Addison Clark		Judge	–
John Emmett Carland		Judge	–
John Hazelton Cotteral		Judge	–
Wilbur Kingsbury Miller		Associate Justice	–
William Rufus Day		Associate Justice	–

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