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Following is a list of notable members of the Order of the Coif, a legal honor society.
Academia[edit]
Presidents and chancellors[edit]
Professors[edit]
Attorney General[edit]
Attorney, government[edit]
Attorney, private practice[edit]
Business[edit]
Entertainment[edit]
Government[edit]
Judiciary[edit]
U.S. Supreme Court[edit]
State Supeme Court[edit]
U.S. Circuit Court[edit]
U.S. District Court[edit]
Court of Federal Claims[edit]
U.S. Tax Court[edit]
Other federal courts[edit]
Other state courts[edit]
Military[edit]
Politics[edit]
Name
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Chapter
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Notability
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References
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E. Almer Ames Jr.
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Washington and Lee School of Law
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Virginia Senate
|
[45]
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Lucius D. Battle
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Stanford Law School
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U.S. Ambassador to Egypt
|
[17]
|
Herbert Brownell Jr.
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Yale Law School
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United States Attorney General and New York State Assembly
|
[22]
|
Peter S. Brunstetter
|
University of Virginia School of Law
|
North Carolina Senate
|
[68]
|
M. Caldwell Butler
|
University of Virginia School of Law
|
United States House of Representatives and Virginia House of Delegates
|
[45]
|
Robert Young Button
|
University of Virginia School of Law
|
Virginia Senate and Attorney General of Virginia
|
[23]
|
Virgil Chapman
|
University of Kentucky College of Law
|
United States Senator and United States House of Representatives
|
[27][69]
|
Warren Christopher
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Stanford Law School
|
United States Secretary of State
|
[70]
|
Bennett Champ Clark
|
George Washington University Law School
|
United States Senate and U.S. circuit judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
|
[17]
|
Felix Cole
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George Washington University Law School.
|
U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, U.S. Minister to Ethiopia, and U.S. Consul General in Warsaw
|
[17]
|
James L. Connaughton
|
Northwestern University School of Law
|
George W. Bush administration environmental adviser and
chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality
|
[71]
|
Tom Davis
|
University of Maryland School of Law
|
South Carolina Senate
|
[72]
|
James L. Dennis
|
University of Virginia School of Law
|
Louisiana House of Representatives, associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court,
and senior U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
|
[73]
|
John Levering Early
|
|
Florida House of Representatives and mayor of Sarasota, Florida
|
[45]
|
John W. Eggleston
|
Washington and Lee University School of Law
|
Virginia Senate and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia
|
[74]
|
Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn
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Yale Law School
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U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland
|
[75]
|
Harrison J. Goldin
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Yale Law School
|
New York State Senate and New York City Comptroller
|
[76]
|
Carte Goodwin
|
Emory University Law School
|
United States Senator
|
[77]
|
Josh Hsu
|
Georgetown University Law Center
|
political advisor, special assistant to the president, and counsel to Vice President Kamala Harris
|
[78]
|
Mark Hutchison
|
Brigham Young University Law School
|
Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
|
[79]
|
Tim Johnson
|
University of Illinois College of Law
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United States House of Representatives
|
[80]
|
Charles R. Jonas
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University of North Carolina School of Law
|
United States House of Representatives
|
|
Russell B. Long
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Louisiana State University Law Center
|
United States Senate
|
[17]
|
Covey T. Oliver
|
University of Texas School of Law
|
U.S. Ambassador to Colombia and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs
|
[27]
|
Wyc Orr
|
University of Tennessee College of Law
|
Georgia House of Representatives
|
[81]
|
Watkins Overton
|
University of Chicago Law School
|
Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee
|
[82]
|
David Pressman
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New York University School of Law
|
U.S. Ambassador to Hungary
|
[83]
|
William P. Rogers
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Cornell Law School
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United States Secretary of State and United States Attorney General
|
[27]
|
Jack Rust
|
University of Virginia School of Law
|
Virginia House of Delegates
|
[84]
|
Nathan Sales
|
Duke University School of Law
|
Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism and
Acting Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights
|
[85]
|
Bill Seitz
|
University of Cincinnati College of Law
|
Ohio House of Representatives and Ohio Senate
|
[86]
|
Robert G. Simmons
|
University of Nebraska College of Law
|
United States House of Representatives and chief justice the Nebraska Supreme Court
|
[22]
|
Willis Smith
|
Duke University Law School
|
United States Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives
|
[27]
|
Ted Sorensen
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University of Nebraska College of Law
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speechwriter and adivsor for President John F. Kennedy
|
[22]
|
William Spong Jr.
|
University of Virginia School of Law
|
United States Senator, Virginia Sentate, and Virginia House of Delegates
|
[45][87]
|
Vernon W. Thomson
|
University of Wisconsin Law School
|
Governor of Wisconsin, United States House of Representatives, and Attorney General of Wisconsin
|
[17]
|
James Clinton Turk
|
Washington and Lee University School of Law
|
Virginia Senate and U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
|
[45]
|
Dan Walker
|
Northwestern University School of Law
|
Governor of Illinois
|
[17]
|
Benson K. Whitney
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University of Minnesota Law School
|
U.S. Ambassador to Norway
|
[88]
|
Willis Whichard
|
University of North Carolina School of Law
|
North Carolina Senate, North Carolina House of Representatives,
and associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
|
[89]
|
William R. Wooton
|
West Virginia University College of Law
|
West Virginia Senate, West Virginia House of Delegates,
and justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
|
[90]
|
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