Alma mater

Williams College

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Samuel Rossiter Betts		Judge	1806
Abram Baldwin Olin		Associate Justice	1835
Stephen Johnson Field	B.A.	Associate Justice	1837
Stephen Johnson Field	B.A.	Justice	1837
William Ball Gilbert	A.B.	Judge	1868
John Milton Killits	A.B.	Judge	1880
George Weston Anderson	A.B.	Judge	1886
Edward Cochrane McLean	A.B.	Judge	1924
Robert Joseph Kelleher	A.B.	Judge	1935
Lee Parsons Gagliardi	A.B.	Judge	1941
Howard Frederic Sachs	A.B.	Judge	1947
Dickinson Richards Debevoise	B.A.	Judge	1948
Joseph A. DiClerico Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1963
Paul Redmond Michel	A.B.	Judge	1963
Kenneth R. Fisher		U.S. Magistrate Judge	1974
John Lawrence Segal		Associate Justice	1982
Jeffrey S. Sutton	B.A.	Judge	1983
Alison Margaret Tucher	Economics	Presiding Justice	1984
Jon Steven Tigar	B.A.	Judge	1984
Jon Steven Tigar	B.A.	Judge	1984
Madeline Hughes Haikala	B.A.	Judge	1986
Andrew Alan Steckler		Judge	1987
Gregory Howard Woods III	B.A.	Judge	1991
Allison Marston Danner	magna cum laude	Justice	1993
Ashfaq Gani Chowdhury		Judge	1996
Benjamin R. Sheldon		Justice	–
Charles Alvin Jones		Justice	–
Charles Dewey		Justice	–
Curtis Bok		Justice	–
Donald F. Froeb		Judge	–
Karen M. Ashby		Judge	–
Rives Kistler		Justice	–
Robert M. Gross		Judge	–
Sarah Judith Heidel		Judge	–
Thomas H. Woods		Justice	–
William B. Brown		Justice	–
William H. Adkins II		Justice	–

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