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Yale University

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
William Nelson Runyon	A.B.	Judge	1892
William Josiah Tilson	A.B.	Judge	1894
John Munro Woolsey	A.B.	Judge	1898
John Foster Symes	Ph.B.	Judge	1900
Thomas Walter Swan	A.B.	Judge	1900
Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr.	A.B.	Judge	1901
Thomas Day Thacher	B.A.	Judge	1904
James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor	M.A.	Judge	1910
Carroll Clark Hincks	A.B.	Judge	1911
Herschel Whitfield Arant	B.A.	Judge	1911
John Anthony Danaher	A.B.	Judge	1920
Roger Robb	A.B.	Judge	1928
[Percy] Whitman Knapp	B.A.	Judge	1931
Gerhard Alden Gesell	A.B.	Judge	1932
Charles Henry Tenney	A.B.	Judge	1933
Potter Stewart	B.A.	Associate Justice	1937
Samuel Pailthorpe King	B.S.	Judge	1937
Walter Joseph Cummings	B.A.	Judge	1937
William Horsley Orrick Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1937
Charles Mengel Allen	B.A.	Judge	1941
James Lane Buckley	B.A.	Judge	1943
Robert Workman Sweet	B.A.	Judge	1944
Alexander Harvey II	B.A.	Judge	1947
Herbert Frazier Murray	B.A.	Judge	1947
Stanley Seymour Brotman	B.A.	Judge	1947
Thomas Collier Platt Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1947
Joseph Edward Stevens Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1949
George Cheney Pratt	B.A.	Judge	1950
Louis Lee Stanton	B.A.	Judge	1950
Glenn Leroy Archer Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1951
Robert Carmine Zampano	B.A.	Judge	1951
Charles Sherman Haight Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1952
Pauline Newman	Ph.D.	Judge	1952
Peter Keeton Leisure	B.A.	Judge	1952
Guido Calabresi	B.S.	Judge	1953
Peter Collins Dorsey	B.A.	Judge	1953
William Cameron Canby Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1953
William Lloyd Standish	B.A.	Judge	1953
John C. Lifland	B.A.	Judge	1954
J[ohn] Spencer Letts	B.A.	Judge	1956
George Kendall Sharp	B.A.	Judge	1957
Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1957
Ralph K. Winter Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1957
Richard Sheppard Arnold	B.A.	Judge	1957
Stephen Fain Williams	B.A.	Judge	1958
Raymond Charles Clevenger III	B.A.	Judge	1959
William Charles Lee	A.B.	Judge	1959
James Knoll Gardner	B.A.	Judge	1962
John Mercer Walker Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1962
John Garvan Murtha	B.A.	Judge	1963
James Harvie Wilkinson III	B.A.	Judge	1967
John Watson Lungstrum	B.A.	Judge	1967
Mark Lawrence Wolf	B.A.	Judge	1968
Douglas Preston Woodlock	B.A.	Judge	1969
Jerry Edwin Smith	B.A.	Judge	1969
Myron Herbert Thompson	B.A.	Judge	1969
Nancy Gertner	M.A.	Judge	1971
Denise Page Hood	B.A.	Judge	1974
George B. Daniels	B.A.	Judge	1975
Raymond Paul Moore	B.A.	Judge	1975
Dora L. Irizarry	B.A.	Judge	1976
Kevin McNulty	B.A.	Judge	1976
William Horsley Orrick III	B.A.	Judge	1976
Geoffrey William Crawford	B.A.	Judge	1977
James O. Browning	B.A.	Judge	1978
Vernon Speede Broderick	B.A.	Judge	1985
Jesus Gilberto Bernal	B.A.	Judge	1986
Robert Michael Dow Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1987
Christopher Reid Cooper	B.A.	Judge	1988
Fernando Rodriguez Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1991
Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1991
Jennifer Hutchison Rearden	B.A.	Judge	1992
Nina Rauh Morrison	B.A.	Judge	1992
Wesley Liu Hsu	B.A.	Judge	1993
Anthony Devos Johnstone	B.A.	Judge	1995
Margaret M. Garnett	M.A.	Judge	1995
Neomi Jehangir Rao	B.A.	Judge	1995
Cindy Kyounga Chung	B.A.	Judge	1997
Gabriel Patrick Sanchez	B.A.	Judge	1998
Jinsook Ohta	B.A.	Judge	1998
Sarah French Russell	B.A.	Judge	1998
Jennifer Lynne Hall	M.Phil.	Judge	2000
Patrick Joseph Bumatay	B.A.	Judge	2000
Krissa Marie Lanham	B.A.	Judge	2002
Patrick Casey Pitts	B.A.	Judge	2003
Holly Aiyisha Thomas	J.D.	Judge	2004
Rebecca Liane Taibleson	B.A.	Judge	2005
Eric Chunyee Tung	B.A.	Judge	2006
Robert Francis Peckham		Judge	–

Source: FJC Biographical Directory. Data last verified 2026-06-28. Verify against the primary source before relying.