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| |class_canceled=Yes
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| |temp_pass_fail_grading=Yes
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| |pass_fail_grading_notes=Mandatory pass/fail
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| |pass_fail_grading_url=https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/comments/fujsnx/gulc_goes_mandatory_passfail/
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| |type=Private non-profit
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| |established=1870
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| |parent=Georgetown University
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| |dean=William Michael Treanor
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| |street_address=600 New Jersey Ave NW
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| |city=Washington
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| |state=DC
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| |country=US
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| |geocode_fail=No
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| |full_time_students=1626
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| |part_time_students=334
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| |full_time_faculty=125
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| |adjunct_faculty=159
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| |bar_pass_rate=90.96
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| |lsat_75_percentile=172
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| |median_lsat=170
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| |lsat_25_percentile=168
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| |gpa_75_percentile=3.78
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| |median_gpa=3.67
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| |gpa_25_percentile=3.45
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| |unsubsidized_annual_tuition=45,105
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| |website=www.law.georgetown.edu
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| |aba_profile=https://officialguide.lsac.org/Release/SchoolsABAData/SchoolPage/SchoolPage.aspx?sid=54
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| '''Georgetown University Law Center''' ('''GULC''') is Georgetown University's law school. It is among the ten most selective law schools in the [[United States]] and is considered to be in the "top 14," a legal insider recognition of its reputation. [[Princeton Review]] ranks it in the top ten for "Best Career Prospects" and "Best Overall Academic Experience." Law School 100, a ranking scheme that purports to use qualitative criteria instead of quantitative, ranks the law school seventh overall, tied with Cornell, University of Virginia and others. The school is a member of the [[Association of American Law Schools]] (AALS). Its current dean is [[T. Alexander Aleinikoff]]. The law school ranked in the top 10 in 7 categories of U.S. News 2006 edition, including tax, international law, and others. The law school often emphasizes in its materials that its location in close proximity to federal government agencies, courts, and the Supreme Court offer a significant advantage in the study of law.
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| ==History==
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| [[Image:GULC sign.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The school's original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus.]]
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| Opened as Georgetown Law School in [[1870]], it was the first law school run by a [[Jesuit]] institution within the U.S. GULC has been separate from the main Georgetown campus (in the neighborhood of [[Georgetown, Washington, DC|Georgetown]]) since [[1890]], when it moved near what is now [[Chinatown, Washington, D.C.|Chinatown]]. The GULC campus is located on New Jersey Avenue, several blocks north of the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]], and a few blocks due west of [[Union Station (Washington, DC)|Union Station]].
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| ==Campus==
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| [[Image:GULC campus.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Georgetown University Law Center campus, viewed across [[I-395 (VA)|I-395]] looking east. From left to right, the Edward Bennett Williams [[Law Library]], McDonough Hall, and Gewirz Student Center.]]
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| The campus is composed of Bernard P. McDonough Hall (1971, expanded in 1997), housing classrooms and Law Center offices and designed by [[Edward Durrell Stone]], the [[Georgetown Law Library]], (housed in two buildings: the [[Edward Bennett Williams Law Library]] (1989) which houses the Law Center's United States law collection, and the [[John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library]]), the Bernard S. and Sarah M. Gewirz Student Center (1993), which provides housing to mostly first year law students, and the Eric E. Hotung International Law Center (2004). A four-level Sport and Fitness Center (2004) including a pool, fitness facilities, and cafe connects the Hotung Building to the Gewirz Student Center and completes the [[Capitol Hill]] campus.
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| ==Curriculum==
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| [[Image:McDonough Hall.jpg|thumb|right|200px|McDonough Hall, the main classroom building, facing 2nd St. NW]]
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| Georgetown Law Center's [[J.D.]] program can be completed over three years of full-time day study or four years of part-time evening study. The school offers [[LL.M.]] programs in [[tax|Taxation]], [[Securities regulation in the United States|Securities and Finance Regulation]], and [[Global Health]] Law, as well as a general LL.M. curriculum for lawyers educated outside the United States. Beginning in the 2007-08 school year, Georgetown will offer a Masters of Studies in Law ([[M.S.L.]]) degree for professional journalists.
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| Students are offered the choice of two tracks for their first year of study. "Curriculum A" is similar to the traditional law curriculum taught at many schools, including courses in [[contracts]], [[United States constitutional law|constitutional law]], [[torts]], [[Property law|property]], [[criminal procedure]], [[civil procedure]], and [[Legal writing|legal research and writing]]. "Curriculum B" is a more interdisciplinary, theoretical approach to legal study, but covers largely the same content in order to prepare students to take the same upper-level classes as their Curriculum A peers. The Curriculum B courses are ''Bargain, Exchange and Liability'' ([[contracts]] and [[torts]]), ''Democracy and Coercion'' ([[United States constitutional law|constitutional law]] and [[criminal procedure]]), ''Government Processes'' ([[Administrative law#Administrative law in the United States|administrative law]]), ''Legal Justice'' ([[jurisprudence]]), ''Legal Practice'' ([[Legal writing|legal research and writing]]), ''Legal Process and Society'' ([[civil procedure]], [[criminal procedure]], and [[Professional responsibility|ethics]]), and ''Property in Time'' ([[Property law|property]]). Students in both curricula participate in a week-long introduction to [[international law]] between the fall and spring semesters.
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| ===JD, JSD, LLM Programs===
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| * [[Administrative Law]] and Government [[Regulation]]
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| * Alternative [[Dispute Resolution]]
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| * [[Antitrust Law]]
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| * [[Clinic]]s
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| * [[Commercial law|Commercial]] and Advanced [[Contract Law]]
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| * [[Communications Law]]
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| * [[Constitutional Law]] and [[Government]]
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| * [[Corporations law|Corporate Law]] and [[Securities regulation in the United States|Securities Regulation]]
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| * [[Criminal Law]] and [[Procedure]]
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| * [[Labour and employment law|Employment and Labor Law]]
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| * [[Environmental Law]]
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| * [[Family Law]]
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| * [[Health Law]], [[Policy]] and [[Bioethics]]
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| * [[Intellectual Property law|Intellectual Property]], [[Entertainment law|Entertainment]] and [[Technology Law]]
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| * [[Comparative law|International and Comparative Legal Studies]]
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| * [[International law|International]]/[[National Security Law]]
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| * [[Jurisprudence]]
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| * [[Law]] and Other Disciplines
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| * [[Legal history|Legal History]]
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| * [[Lawyer|Legal Profession]]/[[Professional Responsibility]]
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| * [[Legal Scholarship]] and [[Writing]]
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| * [[Litigation]] and the [[Legal procedure|Judicial Process]]
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| * [[Public Interest Litigation|Public Interest Law]]
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| * [[Real Estate]], [[Land Use]] and [[Urban Development]]
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| * [[Taxation]]
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| * [[Trust]]s and [[Estate]]s
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| ==Faculty==
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| [[Image:GULC south quad.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Hotung International Law Center and the GULC fitness center, seen across the south quad.]]
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| [[Image:Gewirz Student Center.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Gewirz Student Center provides student housing for mostly first-year law students.]]
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| Notable current faculty include (the following is a non-exhaustive list):
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| * [[Charles F. Abernathy]]
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| * [[Randy Barnett]]
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| * [[David D. Cole]]
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| * [[Viet D. Dinh]], former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.
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| * [[Martin D. Ginsburg]], prominent tax attorney and husband of [[United States Supreme Court]] Justice [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]
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| * [[Michael Gottesman]]
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| * [[Neal Katyal]], lead counsel in [[Hamdan v. Rumsfeld]]
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| * [[Marty Lederman]]
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| * [[Mari Matsuda]]
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| * [[Eleanor Holmes Norton]], delegate to the U.S. [[House of Representatives]]
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| * [[Julie O'Sullivan]]
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| * [[John Podesta]], former [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] [[White House Chief of Staff|chief of staff]]
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| * [[Robert Pitofsky]], former [[Federal Trade Commission]] chairman
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| * [[Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz]]
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| * [[Laurence H. Silberman]], United States Circuit Judge for the [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit]]
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| The roster of current professors also includes many former [[List of Law Clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court clerks]] and other notable legal academics and professionals.
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| Former professors include:
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| * [[William Brennan]], [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] Associate Justice
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| * Father [[Robert Drinan]], [[United States Congress|U.S. Congressman]]
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| * [[John G. Roberts, Jr.]], Chief Justice of the United States
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| * [[Antonin Scalia]], [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] Associate Justice
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| * [[Mark Tushnet]], prominent [[critical legal studies]] proponent, [[constitutional law]] scholar, and author of many books.
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| ==Publications==
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| [[Image:GULC library.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Edward Bennett Williams [[Law Library]], viewed from the campus north quad.]]
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| Georgetown University Law Center has ten student-run law journals and a weekly student-run newspaper, the [[Georgetown Law Weekly]]. The journals are:
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| * [[Georgetown Law Journal]]
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| * [[American Criminal Law Review]]
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| * [[Georgetown Immigration Law Journal]]
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| * [[Georgetown International Environmental Law Review]]
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| * [[Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law]]
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| * [[Georgetown Journal of International Law]]
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| * [[Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy]]
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| * [[Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics]]
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| * [[Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy]]
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| * [[The Tax Lawyer]]
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| ==Notable alumni==
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| {|
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| ! bgcolor=#EEEEEE |Name
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| ! bgcolor=#EEEEEE |Degree and year received
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| ! bgcolor=#EEEEEE |Accomplishments
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| |width=150px |[[William W. Belknap]]
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| |width=75px |1851
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| |[[United States Secretary of War]] (1869-76)
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| |valign=top|[[George Cortelyou]]
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| |valign=top|1895
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| |valign=top|[[United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor|U.S. Secretary of Commerce and Labor]] (1903-04), [[United States Postmaster General|U.S. Postmaster General]] (1905-07), [[Treasury Secretary of the United States|U.S. Secretary of the Treasury]] (1907-09)
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Hall S. Lusk]]
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| |valign=top|1907
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Senator]] from [[Oregon]] (1960), Chief Justice of the [[Oregon Supreme Court]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Dennis Chavez]]
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| |valign=top|1920
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Senator]] from [[New Mexico]]
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| |valign=top|[[Joseph A. Cantrel]]
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| |valign=top|1922
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| |valign=top|Spoke at the Law Center's 50th Anniversary Celebration in 1920, stating "Law is but the means - Justice is the end."
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| |valign=top|[[John Sirica]]
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| |valign=top|1926
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| |valign=top|Chief Judge, [[U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[J. Caleb Boggs]]
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| |valign=top|1937
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Senator]] from [[Delaware]]
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| |valign=top|[[Edward Bennett Williams]]
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| |valign=top|1944
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| |valign=top|Founder of law firm [[Williams & Connolly]] LLP; owner of the [[Washington Redskins]] and [[Baltimore Orioles]]
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| |valign=top|[[John Dingell]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1952
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Representative]] from [[Michigan]]
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| |valign=top|[[John D. Spellman]]
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| |valign=top|1953
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| |valign=top|[[Governor]] of [[Washington]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Van P. Smith]]
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| |valign=top|1955
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| |valign=top|Chairman of the [[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[George J. Mitchell|George Mitchell]]
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| |valign=top|1961
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Senator]] from [[Maine]], Democratic [[Party Leaders of the United States Senate|Senate Majority Leader]] (1989-95); chairman of the board of the [[Walt Disney Co.]], board of directors of the [[Boston Red Sox]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Michael N. Castle]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1964
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Representative]] from [[Delaware]]
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| |valign=top|[[Robert E. Davis]]
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| |valign=top|LL.B., 1964
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| |valign=top|[[Kansas Supreme Court]] Justice
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Patrick Leahy]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1964
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Senator]] from [[Vermont]]; [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] Chairman (effective Jan. 2007)
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| |valign=top|[[John Dean]]
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| |valign=top|1965
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| |valign=top|[[White House Counsel]] to President [[Richard Nixon]] and key figure in [[Watergate]] scandal
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Frank Wolf]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1965
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Congressman]] from [[Virginia]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Thomas Hogan]]
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| |valign=top|1966
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| |valign=top|Chief Judge, [[U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Steny Hoyer]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1966
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Representative]] from [[Maryland]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Michael Slive]]
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| |valign=top|1966
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| |valign=top|Commissioner of the [[Southeastern Conference]]; first commissioner of Conference USA and Great Midwest Conference
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Brendan Sullivan]]
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| |valign=top|1967
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| |valign=top|Senior partner of the law firm [[Williams & Connolly]] LLP
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Mickey Kantor]]
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| |valign=top|1968
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] (1996-97)
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Keith Stroup]]
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| |valign=top|1968
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| |valign=top|Executive Director of the [[National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Richard C. Bosson]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1969
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| |valign=top|Chief Justice of the New Mexico Supreme Court
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Richard Durbin]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1969
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| |valign=top|U.S. Senator from Illinois, Democratic Whip
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| |valign=top|[[D. Michael Fisher]]
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| |valign=top|1969
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| |valign=top|Judge on U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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| |valign=top|[[Martin Frost]]
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| |valign=top|1970
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Texas
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Ricardo M. Urbina]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1970
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| |valign=top|Judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
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| |valign=top|[[Dan Lungren]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1971
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from California
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Don Siegelman]]
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| |valign=top|1972
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| |valign=top|Governor of Alabama
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Gary Bauer]]
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| |valign=top|1973
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| |valign=top|Conservative activist and Reagan Administration official
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Thomas L. Ambro]]
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| |valign=top|1975
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| |valign=top|Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
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| |valign=top|[[James H. Webb]]
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| |valign=top|1975
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| |valign=top|U.S. Secretary of the Navy; noted author and senator from Virginia
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[John Podesta]]
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| |valign=top|1976
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| |valign=top|White House Chief of Staff under President Bill Clinton
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Bob Barr]]
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| |valign=top|1977
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Georgia from 1995 to 2003
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Robert M. Kimmitt]]
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| |valign=top|1977
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| |valign=top|Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Albert Wynn]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1977
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Maryland
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| |valign=top|[[Lane Evans]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1978
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1983 to 2007
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Douglas Feith]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1978
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| |valign=top|Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy in the [[George W. Bush]] Administration
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Mazie Hirono]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1978
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Representative]]-elect from [[Hawaii]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Francisco Besosa]]
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| |valign=top|1979
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| |valign=top|Judge, United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Mitch Daniels]]
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| |valign=top|1979
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| |valign=top|Governor of Indiana, director of Office of Management and Budget
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Greta Van Susteren]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1979<br>LL.M., 1983
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| |valign=top|Anchor of ''On the Record'' on the [[Fox News Channel]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Rick White (politician)|Rick White]]
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| |valign=top|1980
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Washington
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Jeffrey R. Howard]]
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| |valign=top|1981
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| |valign=top|U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Rives Kistler]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1981
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| |valign=top|[[Oregon Supreme Court]] justice
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Jim McGreevey]]
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| |valign=top|1981
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| |valign=top|Governor of New Jersey
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Peter Visclosky]]
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| |valign=top|LL.M., 1982
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Indiana
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Marc Morial]]
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| |valign=top|1983
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| |valign=top|Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Bradley Belt]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1984
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| |valign=top|Former Executive Director of the [[Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|Gov. [[John Lynch]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1984
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| |valign=top|Governor of [[New Hampshire]]
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| |valign=top|[[Terry McAuliffe]]
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| |valign=top|1984
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| |valign=top|Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Marilyn Milian]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1984
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| |valign=top|Current host of [[The People's Court]] and former Florida circuit court judge
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Jack Abramoff]]
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| |valign=top|1986
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| |valign=top|Lobbyist, political fundraiser
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Chris Van Hollen]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1990
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Maryland
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| |valign=top|[[Michael S. Steele]]
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| |valign=top|1991
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| |valign=top|Former lieutenant-governor of Maryland, candidate for U.S. Senate (lost to democratic candidate [[Ben Cardin]].)
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| |valign=top|[[Mark Kirk]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1992
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| |valign=top|[[U.S. Representative]] from [[Illinois]]
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| |-
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| |valign=top|[[Michael Powell (politician)|Michael Powell]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1993
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| |valign=top|Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission
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| |valign=top|[[David Catania]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1994
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| |valign=top|Washington, D.C. councilmember
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| |valign=top|[[Ted Lieu]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1994
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| |valign=top|California State Assembly member
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| |valign=top|[[Adam G. Ciongoli]]
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| |valign=top|1995
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| |valign=top|Advisor to U.S. Attorney General [[John Ashcroft]], clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Samuel Alito]]
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| |valign=top|[[Bill Jefferson]]
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| |valign=top|LL.M., 1995
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from Louisiana
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| |valign=top|[[Stephanie Herseth Sandlin]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 1997
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| |valign=top|U.S. Representative from South Dakota
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| |valign=top|[[Stephen Glass]]
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| |valign=top|J.D., 2000
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| |valign=top|Journalist infamous for fabricating stories
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| |}
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| <!--graduation dates of the following individuals are unknown; include them in the above table when those dates are found-->
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| ===Also attended===
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| *[[Lyndon Johnson]], took classes for a few months in [[1934]]
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| *[[Donald Rumsfeld]], in [[1957]] then dropped out that same year
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| *[[David Cicilline]], mayor of Providence, RI and first openly gay mayor of a U.S. capital
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| ==External links==
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| * [http://www.law.georgetown.edu Georgetown University Law Center official site]
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