Law school

Yale University

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

Judges

Judge	Degree	Role	Year
Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff	B.A.	Judge	1830
William Nelson Runyon	A.B.	Judge	1892
William Josiah Tilson	A.B.	Associate Justice	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
Donald Edward Lane	B.S.	Associate Judge	1931
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
Albert Tate Jr.	LL.B.	Judge	1947
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
John 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
Bruce William Kauffman	LL.B.	Justice	1959
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
John Dorsey Conley		Judge	1964
John Anthony Kline		Presiding Justice	1965
James Harvie Wilkinson III	B.A.	Judge	1967
John Watson Lungstrum	B.A.	Judge	1967
Kermit Victor Lipez	LL.B.	Justice	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
Carlos R. Moreno	B.A.	Justice	1970
James Trimble Latting		Judge	1971
Nancy Gertner	M.A.	Judge	1971
Nathan Lincoln Hecht	Philosophy, with honors	Chief Justice	1971
Andrew David Hurwitz	J.D.	Justice	1972
Richard James Burdge Jr.		Judge	1972
Denise Page Hood	B.A.	Judge	1974
Donald Carl Pogue	M.A.	Judge	1974
Amalia Lupe Meza	cum laude	Judge	1975
George B. Daniels	B.A.	Judge	1975
Holly E. Kendig		Judge	1975
Raymond Paul Moore	B.A.	Judge	1975
William Duane Benton	J.D.	Justice	1975
Dora L. Irizarry	B.A.	Judge	1976
Ellen Frances Gesmer		Associate Justice	1976
Helen Irene Bendix		Associate Justice	1976
John Arnold Kronstadt	J.D.	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
Michael Cornell Kelley		Judge	1979
Michael David Terrell		Judge	1980
Gregorio Roman		Judge	1981
Robert Christy Longstreth		Judge	1981
Vincent Joseph Chiarello		Judge	1981
Kerry R. Bensinger		Judge	1982
Ray Gerald Jurado		Judge	1982
Jeffrey W. Johnson		Associate Justice	1985
Vernon Speede Broderick	B.A.	Judge	1985
Jayne Chong-Soon Lee		Judge	1986
Jesus Gilberto Bernal	B.A.	Judge	1986
Susan Russ Walker		U.S. Magistrate Judge	1986
Robert Michael Dow Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1987
Carl Holliday Moor		Associate Justice	1988
Christopher Reid Cooper	B.A.	Judge	1988
Lisa Robin Jaskol		Judge	1988
Suzanne Ramos Bolanos		Judge	1989
Fernando Rodriguez Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1991
Haywood Stirling Gilliam Jr.	B.A.	Judge	1991
Laura Haas Parsky		Judge	1991
Victor Lamarr Wright		Judge	1991
Andrew Yuan-Sung Cheng		Judge	1992
Jennifer Hutchison Rearden	B.A.	Judge	1992
Nina Rauh Morrison	B.A.	Judge	1992
Laura Ann Seigle		Judge	1993
Linda Cheng Yee Lye	Literature	Judge	1993
Michael Jay Raphael		Associate Justice	1993
Wesley Liu Hsu	B.A.	Judge	1993
Wesley Liu Hsu	Ethics, Politics, and Economics	Judge	1993
Anthony Devos Johnstone	B.A.	Judge	1995
Cory Todd Wilson		Judge	1995
Jenna M. Whitman		Judge	1995
Margaret M. Garnett	M.A.	Judge	1995
Neomi Jehangir Rao	B.A.	Judge	1995
Nhan T. Vu		Judge	1995
Cindy Kyounga Chung	B.A.	Judge	1997
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar		Associate Justice	1997
Gabriel Patrick Sanchez	B.A.	Judge	1998
Goodwin Hon Liu		Associate Justice	1998
Jinsook Ohta	B.A.	Judge	1998
Sarah French Russell	B.A.	Judge	1998
Rebekah Evenson		Judge	1999
Jennifer Lynne Hall	M.Phil.	Judge	2000
Patrick Joseph Bumatay	B.A.	Judge	2000
Leondra Reid Kruger		Associate Justice	2001
Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong		Judge	2001
Rashida A. Adams		Judge	2001
Krissa Marie Lanham	B.A.	Judge	2002
Patrick Casey Pitts	B.A.	Judge	2003
Evan Andrew Young		Justice	2004
Holly Aiyisha Thomas	J.D.	Judge	2004
Alison Margaret Mackenzie		Judge	2005
Rebecca Liane Taibleson	B.A.	Judge	2005
Eric Chunyee Tung	B.A.	Judge	2006
Kasdin Miller Mitchell	B.A.	Judge	2007
Albert W. Barney Jr.		Justice	–
Albert W. Cretella Jr.		Judge	–
Alexander Ostroumov Bryner		Justice	–
Alok Ahuja		Judge	–
Anthony C. Epstein		Judge	–
Anthony E. Grillo		Justice	–
Anthony J. Navarro		Judge	–
Barbara Gilleran Johnson		Justice	–
Barbara R. Johnson		Judge	–
Barry R. Schaller		Justice	–
Benjamin Drake Magruder		Justice	–
Benjamin R. Sheldon		Justice	–
Charles F. Stafford		Justice	–
Charles T. Canady		Justice	–
Charles T. Donworth		Justice	–
Craig David Karlan		Judge	–
Daniel Lyman		Justice	–
Daniel S. Pearson		Judge	–
David M. Shea		Justice	–
David N. Wecht		Justice	–
Delia Trevino		Judge	–
Donn Kessler		Judge	–
Douglas A. Wallace		Judge	–
Drayton Nabers		Justice	–
Edward M. Mansfield		Justice	–
Ellen Ash Peters		Justice	–
Elmer W. Ryan		Justice	–
Ernest Alexander Inglis		Justice	–
Ernest W. Gibson III		Justice	–
Frederick A. Freedman		Judge	–
Gabriel P. Sanchez		Associate Justice	–
Geoffrey William Crawford		Justice	–
George Bundy Smith		Judge	–
George Elijah Hinman		Justice	–
Gerald B. Cope Jr.		Judge	–
Haydn Proctor		Justice	–
Herbert S. MacDonald		Justice	–
Holly Aiyisha Thomas		Judge	–
Howard Arnold Levine		Judge	–
Howard M. Kirshbaum		Judge	–
Inez Smith-Reid		Judge	–
J. Craig Wright		Justice	–
James B. Milliken		Judge	–
James C. Otis		Justice	–
James Davis Blacklock		Chief Justice	–
James E. Joanos		Judge	–
Jill Niederhauser Parrish		Justice	–
Jill T. Feeney		Judge	–
Joanne F. Kloppenburg		Judge	–
John Hamilton King		Justice	–
John M. Comley		Justice	–
John Ridley Finch		Judge	–
John Terry		Judge	–
John Van Voorhis		Judge	–
Joseph E. Daily		Justice	–
Joseph R. Grodin		Associate Justice	–
Joseph S. Longo		Justice	–
Joshua Babcock		Justice	–
Kenneth Wynne		Justice	–
Lamar W. Baker		Associate Justice	–
Margaret H. Marshall		Justice	–
Marjorie K. Allard		Judge	–
Marshall F. McComb		Justice	–
Michael R. Sheldon		Judge	–
Newell Jennings		Justice	–
Parker W. Duncan		Justice	–
Patrick Brett O'Sullivan		Justice	–
Paul L. Rudman		Justice	–
Peter Eckerstrom		Judge	–
Peter M. Keith		Justice	–
Philip A. Talmadge		Justice	–
Randall T. Shepard		Justice	–
Raymond Early Baldwin		Justice	–
Richard Forlani Neely		Justice	–
Richard Lance Gabriel		Justice	–
Rita C. Davidson		Justice	–
Robert Brett Westbrook		Judge	–
Robert E. Beach Jr.		Judge	–
Robert Francis Peckham		Judge	–
Robert L. Black		Judge	–
Robert Ladd Eastaugh		Justice	–
Robin E. Hudson		Justice	–
Ronna L. Beck		Judge	–
Samuel H. Blackmer		Justice	–
Samuel Mellitz		Justice	–
Stephen H. Glickman		Senior Judge	–
Susan P. Graber		Justice	–
Sydney Schreiber		Justice	–
Thomas Day Thacher		Judge	–
Thomas Pickens Brady		Justice	–
Thomas Tongue		Justice	–
Treat Clark Hull		Justice	–
Victor Garcia Viramontes		Judge	–
Walter F. Marcus Jr.		Justice	–
Walter Myers Jr.		Justice	–
Wilhelmina Wright		Justice	–
William C. Bieluch		Judge	–
William Mills Maltbie		Justice	–

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