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This is a partial list of individuals who have attended Columbia Law School. For a list of individuals who have attended or taught at Columbia University, see the list of Columbia University people. Government United States government Executive branch Presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt (attended, fall 1904 to spring 1907)² (posthumous J.D., class of 1907), 32nd President of the United States (1933–45) Theodore Roosevelt (attended, 1880–81)² (posthumous J.D., class of 1882), 26th President of the United States (1901–09), hero of the Spanish–American War (Medal of Honor, posthumously awarded 2001), Nobel Peace Prize (1906) Cabinet members and cabinet-level officers Bainbridge Colby (1891), United States Secretary of State (1920–21); founder of the Progressive Party (1912) Antony John 'Tony' Blinken (1988), United States Secretary of State in Biden Administration (2021–), National Security Advisor to Vice President Joseph Biden in the Administration of President Barack Obama (2009–17) Jacob M. Dickinson (attended), 44th United States Secretary of War (1909–11) James Rudolph Garfield (1888), United States Secretary of the Interior (1907–09), United States Civil Service Commission (1902–03) Eric Holder (1976), 82nd United States Attorney General, former Acting U.S. Attorney General, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Charles Evans Hughes (1884), United States Secretary of State, professor of law at Cornell Law School, Governor of New York (1907), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1910–16), Republican nominee for President of the United States (1916-against Woodrow Wilson), and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (1930–41) John Jay,¹ Acting United States Secretary of State (1789–90); Sixth President of the Continental Congress (1778–79); Second United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1784–89); Acting United States Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1789); co-author of The Federalist Papers Jeh Johnson, United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2013–) Franklin MacVeagh (1864), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1909–13) Joseph McKenna 42nd Attorney General of the United States (1897–98) (studied at Columbia Law while AG, before taking seat on U.S. Supreme Court) Frank Polk (1897), Acting United States Secretary of State (1920), Under Secretary of State (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of State) (1919–20) Oscar S. Straus (1873), United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor (1906–09), first Jewish Presidential Cabinet Secretary Russell E. Train (1948), 2nd Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (Cabinet level officer) (1973–77); Chairman, newly formed President's Council on Environmental Quality (1970–73); 1991 Presidential Medal of Freedom Frank Blake (1976), Deputy United States Secretary of Energy (2nd ranking official in the United States Department of Energy) J. Reuben Clark (1906), United States Under Secretary of State for President Calvin Coolidge (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of State from 1919 to 1972) Eric Hargan, Acting Deputy Secretary, United States Department of Health and Human Services (2nd ranking official in the Department) under President Donald Trump Harold M. Ickes, Deputy Chief of Staff in the Clinton administration George Lockhart Rives (B.A. 1868, LL.B.1873), United States Assistant Secretary of State (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of State from 1853 until 1913) (1887–89) John J. Sullivan (J.D. 1985), United States Deputy Secretary of Commerce (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of Commerce) (2008–09) under George W. Bush Harold R. Tyler, Jr. (1949), United States Deputy Attorney General (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice) (1975–77) J. Mayhew Wainwright (1886), U.S. Assistant Secretary of War (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of War until 1940) (1921–23) Lawrence Edward Walsh (1935), United States Deputy Attorney General (2nd ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice) (1957–60) Directors of Central Intelligence William Colby (1947), Medal of Honor; 10th U.S. Director of Central Intelligence for the United States Central Intelligence Agency under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford (1973–76) William Joseph Donovan (Law 1908), known as Father of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); founder and first director of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (formed during World War II, the predecessor of the CIA); U.S. Coordinator of Information (COI) under Franklin D. Roosevelt; also World War I hero, Medal of Honor; 1959 Freedom Award White House Counsel Lanny A. Breuer (B.A. 1980, J.D. 1985), Special White House Counsel (1997–99) under Clinton; helped represent President Clinton during independent counsel and congressional investigations and the impeachment hearings; Covington & Burling vice chair; former assistant Manhattan D.A. (1985–1989); U.S. Assistant A.G. for the Criminal Division (2009–2013) under Obama David B. Rivkin (J.D.), Legal Advisor to White House Counsel of then President Reagan; Deputy Director of the Office of Policy Development (OPD) Samuel Irving Rosenman (1919), first White House Counsel (1943–46) under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Charles Ruff (1963), White House Counsel under President Bill Clinton, defended President during impeachment trial in 1999 Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. (J.D.), Deputy White House Counsel under President Barack Obama Trevor Morrison (1998), Associate White House Counsel to President Barack Obama (2009–10), professor of constitutional law at Columbia Law School Benjamin Powell (1996), Associate White House Counsel and Special Assistant to the President during administration of George W. Bush; General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence (General Counsel to the first three Directors of National Intelligence) (2006–09) Presidential advisors Stephen Friedman (PFIAB) (1962), Director, President's United States National Economic Council under George W. Bush (2002–05), Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (2005–09) (replacing Brent Scowcroft) Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., personal secretary to President Ulysses S. Grant Mark Barnes (LL.M. 1991), member, National Health Care Reform Task Force in the administration of President Bill Clinton John D. Clark (1907), member of President's Council of Economic Advisors (1946–53) under President Harry S Truman Jonathan W. Daniels (failed out of the Law School), White House Press Secretary under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Lynn Forester de Rothschild, United States Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under President Bill Clinton Ken Khachigian (J.D 1969), speechwriter for President Richard Nixon, Chief speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan John Marshall Kernochan, member of President John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, which helped lead to women's rights legislation in the late 1960s Jay Lefkowitz (1987), Deputy.... Discover the John Joseph Adams Charles Yu Theodora Go popular books. Find the top 100 most popular John Joseph Adams Charles Yu Theodora Go books.