Notable Alumni of University of California – Hastings College of Law [Sorted List]

1. Jane Brunner

politician

Jane Brunner is a former member of the Oakland City Council, a position she held from 1996 to 2013. Brunner is a former president of the council, a post she held for two years. She was Chair of the Community and Economic Development Committee.

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2. William P. Lawlor

1854-1926 (aged 72)

judge

William Patrick Lawlor was an associate justice of the California Supreme Court from January 3, 1915, to July 25, 1926.

3. Patricia Kernighan

politician

Patricia Kernighan, a politician and a lawyer, was a District 2 city council member in Oakland, California until 2014, noted for her advocacy of instant run-off voting in city elections.

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4. Angel G. Luévano

1949-. (aged 77)

trade unionist

Ángel Godinez Luévano is an American labor leader and activist who was the principal litigant in the class action suit Luévano v. Campbell. He is also a graduate of the Hastings College of the Law.

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5. Frank M. Angellotti

1861-1932 (aged 71)

lawyer judge

Frank Marion Angellotti, was an American attorney who served as the 17th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court from January 5, 1915 to November 1921, and as an associate justice from December 11, 1902, to January 4, 1915.

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6. Lewis F. Byington

1868-1943 (aged 75)

lawyer politician

Lewis Francis Byington was an American lawyer, author, and Democratic Party politician who served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1898–1900) and as District Attorney of San Francisco (1900–1905).

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7. William T. Jeter

1850-1930 (aged 80)

lawyer politician

William Thomas Jeter was an American Democratic politician and lawyer in Santa Cruz, California. He served as the 21st Lieutenant Governor of California.

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8. Charles Warren

1927-2019 (aged 92)

lawyer politician

Charles Hugh Warren was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served in the California State Assembly from 1963 to 1977 and held a Cabinet-level position as chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) under U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979.

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9. Edwin Alexander Forbes

1860-1915 (aged 55)

lawyer politician

Edwin Alexander Forbes, who served as the Adjutant General of California from 4 January 1911 to 18 June 1915, is known as the Father of the California Cadet Corps.

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10. James S. Hutchinson

1867-1959 (aged 92)

mountaineer explorer lawyer

James Sather Hutchinson was a lawyer in San Francisco, California, a mountaineer and an environmentalist. He was most noted for being an explorer of the Sierra Nevada.

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11. Earl Ben Gilliam

1931-2001 (aged 70)

lawyer judge

Earl Ben Gilliam was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

12. Howard J. Green

1893-1965 (aged 72)

film producer screenwriter journalist

Howard J. Green was an American screenwriter who worked in film and television. He was the first president of the Screen Writers Guild and a founder of the subsequent Writers Guild of America, West.

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13. William Edward Colby

1875-1964 (aged 89)

lawyer conservationist

William Edward Colby was an American lawyer, conservationist, and the first Secretary of the Sierra Club.

14. Ian Wallach

1966-. (aged 60)

lawyer

Ian Wallach is an American lawyer and founding partner of the Law Offices of Ian Wallach, P.C. He is a legal news commentator who has appeared on regional, national, and international television and radio shows speaking on current legal issues.

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15. Abby Ginzberg

film director film producer

Abby Ginzberg is an independent documentary film director and producer and founder of Ginzberg Productions. For the past 30 years, Ginzberg has been creating films that tackle discrimination and the legal profession.

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16. Melvin T. Brunetti

1933-2009 (aged 76)

judge

Melvin Theodore Brunetti was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

17. Dan Berkovitz

politician

Dan Michael Berkovitz was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission on April 24, 2018. He was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on August 28, 2018 and sworn into office on September 7, 2018 for a five-year term expiring on April 13, 2023.

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18. Donna Levin

1954-. (aged 72)

novelist

Donna Levin is a San Francisco-based author, editor and writing teacher. She has published the novels Extraordinary Means (Arbor House, 1987), California Street (Simon and Schuster, 1990), There’s More Than One Way Home (Chickadee Prince Books, 2017) and He Could Be Another Bill Gates (Chickadee Prince Books, 2018).

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19. John Ordway

1950-. (aged 76)

diplomat

John Malcolm Ordway is an American retired diplomat who was a Senior Foreign Service officer in the United States Foreign Service until 2008. Prior to his retirement, he served as the United States Ambassador to Kazakhstan from September 17, 2004 to September 15, 2008, and as the United States Ambassador to Armenia from November 2001 to July 2004.

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20. Charles Stetson Wheeler

1863-1923 (aged 60)

lawyer

Charles Stetson Wheeler was an American attorney who served as a Regent of the University of California, and he was a member of the Committee of Fifty working to maintain order after the devastating fire following the earthquake of 1906 in San Francisco. Wheeler was active in Republican Party politics.

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21. Anne Rachel Traum

1969-. (aged 57)

lawyer

Anne Rachel Traum is an American lawyer and academic who is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. She was a professor of law at the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2002 and again from 2008 to 2022.

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22. Stuart Hanlon

lawyer

Stuart Hanlon is an attorney based in San Francisco, California who represented San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr, Geronimo Pratt and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

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23. Dick Ackerman

1942-. (aged 84)

politician

Richard Charles Ackerman is an American Republican politician, who was a California State Senator for the 33rd District, representing inland Orange County, from 2000 to 2008.

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24. Cynthia Ann Bashant

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer judge

Cynthia Ann Bashant is the chief United States district judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of California and former judge of the San Diego County Superior Court.

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25. Patrick M. Martin

1924-1968 (aged 44)

lawyer politician

Patrick Minor Martin was an American lawyer and World War II veteran who served one term as a U.S. Representative from California from 1963 to 1965.

26. Laura de Force Gordon

1838-1907 (aged 69)

lawyer suffragette

Laura de Force Gordon was a California lawyer, newspaper publisher, and a prominent suffragette. She was the first woman to run a daily newspaper in the United States (the Stockton Daily Leader, 1874), and the second female lawyer admitted to practice in California.

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27. Oliver Jesse Carter

1911-1976 (aged 65)

lawyer judge politician

Oliver Jesse Carter was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

28. Ancer L. Haggerty

1944-. (aged 82)

lawyer judge

Ancer Lee Haggerty is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. At the time of his nomination to the federal bench by President Clinton in 1993, he was serving as an Oregon circuit court judge.

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29. Timothy Tau

novelist screenwriter film director

Timothy Tau is a Taiwanese-American writer, lawyer, law professor and filmmaker. Tau won the 2011 Hyphen Asian American Writers' Workshop Short Story Contest for his short story, "The Understudy", which was published in the Winter 2011 issue of Hyphen magazine, Issue No. 24, the "Survival Issue." Tau also won Second Prize in the 2010 Playboy College Fiction Contest for his...

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30. Alberto Torrico

1969-. (aged 57)

lawyer politician

Alberto Torrico is an American politician who was elected to the California State Assembly in 2004. A member of the Democratic Party, he served for six years, including for two years as Majority Leader.

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31. Ronald B. Leighton

1951-. (aged 75)

lawyer judge

Ronald Bruce Leighton is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington.

32. Lawrence Joseph O'Neill

1952-. (aged 74)

lawyer judge

Lawrence Joseph O'Neill is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.

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33. John Hans Krebs

1926-2014 (aged 88)

lawyer politician

John Hans Krebs was an Israeli-American politician and attorney who served two terms as a U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district from 1975 to 1979.

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34. Philip Kan Gotanda

1951-. (aged 75)

librettist playwright screenwriter university teacher film director

Philip Kan Gotanda is an American playwright and filmmaker and a third generation Japanese American. Much of his work deals with Asian American issues and experiences.

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35. Otto Lee

1967-. (aged 59)

military officer

Otto Oswald Chau Hiu Lee is a Hong Kong-born American politician, attorney, and military veteran who was a Sunnyvale, California city council member from 2003 to 2011, before which he was on the Planning Commission, which he chaired from 2000 to 2001. From 2005 to 2006 he was vice mayor, and from 2006 to 2007 he was the 57th mayor...

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36. Norman D. Shumway

1934-2022 (aged 88)

priest lawyer politician

Norman David Shumway was an American lawyer and politician who served six terms as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1991.

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37. Leo D. Hermle

1890-1976 (aged 86)

military personnel

Leo David "Dutch" Hermle was a highly decorated officer in the United States Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general. He was a recipient of Army and Navy second highest decorations, Navy Cross and Distinguished Service Cross, which he earned during his service in both World Wars.

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38. Harold S. Sawyer

1920-2003 (aged 83)

lawyer politician

Harold Samuel Sawyer was an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sawyer represented Michigan's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1985.

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39. Bob Crowell

1945-2020 (aged 75)

attorney at law lawyer politician

Robert Lamson Crowell was an American attorney and politician who served as the mayor of Carson City, Nevada, from 2009 to 2020. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

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40. Dorit Rubinstein Reiss

1973-. (aged 53)

jurist

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss is a Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey '50 Chair of Litigation at UC Hastings College of Law. She has also worked for the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli Ministry of Justice's Department of Public Law.

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41. Sean Faircloth

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Sean Faircloth is an American writer, attorney and politician from Maine. A Democrat, Faircloth is currently a member of the Maine House of Representatives from the 24th district following a 2025 special election. Previously, he served as the State Senator from the ninth district, State Representative from the 17th, 117th, and 118th districts, and as Mayor of Bangor, Maine. While...

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42. Lionel Wilson

1915-1998 (aged 83)

politician

Lionel Joseph Wilson was an American political figure and a member of the Democratic Party. He was the first Black mayor of Oakland, California, serving three terms as mayor of Oakland from 1977 until 1991.

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43. Ann M. Ravel

lawyer politician

Ann Miller Ravel is an American attorney who was a Democratic Commissioner on the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an independent regulatory agency created by Congress to administer and enforce campaign finance law.

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44. Mark Keam

1966-. (aged 60)

lawyer business executive politician

Mark Lee Keam is a Korean American lawyer. Since 2024 Keam has led the Korean American Institute. KAI is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to produce insightful and actionable research to improve decision making on issues facing Korean Americans.

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45. Richard Thalheimer

1948-. (aged 78)

lawyer entrepreneur

Richard Thalheimer is an American entrepreneur and investor. He is the founder and former CEO of the US-based consumer brand, The Sharper Image. He established The Sharper Image in 1977, after taking an interest in watches. The early watch designs were inspired by a $69 watch that he owned and advertised his watch range in Runner's World magazine. The success...

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46. Frank McGlynn Sr

1866-1951 (aged 85)

film actor stage actor film director

Frank McGlynn Sr. was an American stage and screen actor who, in a career that spanned more than half a century, is best known for his convincing impersonations and performances as Abraham Lincoln in both plays and films.

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47. John S. Herrington

1939-. (aged 87)

lawyer politician

John Stewart Herrington is an American Republican politician and businessman who served as the fifth United States secretary of energy under Ronald Reagan during his second term.

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48. Robert List

1936-. (aged 90)

lawyer politician

Robert Frank List is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 24th Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983, as Nevada Attorney General from 1971 to 1979, and as Carson City District Attorney from 1967 to 1971. Currently List practices law in Las Vegas with the law firm Kolesar & Leatham, Chtd....

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49. Abe Ruef

1864-1936 (aged 72)

lawyer

Abraham Ruef was an American lawyer and politician. He gained notoriety as the corrupt political boss behind the administration of Mayor Eugene Schmitz of San Francisco during the period before and after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

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50. Edward J. Davila

1952-. (aged 74)

lawyer judge

Edward John Davila is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. He was appointed in 2011 by President Barack Obama. Davila was previously a California state court judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2001 to 2011.

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51. Kevin Shelley

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Kevin Francis Shelley is an American politician, who was the 26th California Secretary of State from January 6, 2003, until his resignation on March 4, 2005.

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52. Tom Umberg

1955-. (aged 71)

politician

Thomas John Umberg is an American politician currently serving in the California State Senate. A Democrat, he represents the 34th district, which encompasses parts of northern Orange County and a small portion of unincorporated Los Angeles County. Previously, he served in the California State Assembly, representing the 69th District. He is a partner at Umberg Zipser LLP in Orange County.

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53. Roberta Achtenberg

1950-. (aged 76)

politician

Roberta Achtenberg is an American attorney and civil rights advocate who served as a commissioner on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She was previously assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, becoming the first openly lesbian or gay public official in the United States whose appointment to a federal position was confirmed by the...

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54. Scott Cutler

1969-. (aged 57)

businessperson

Scott Cutler is an American technology executive and is currently CEO of HealthEquity. Cutler was previously the CEO at StockX, executive vice president and head of global listings at the New York Stock Exchange, and an executive at eBay. In August 2017, Cutler was promoted to Senior Vice President, Americas, at eBay following his stint as President of StubHub, an...

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55. Clara Shortridge Foltz

1849-1934 (aged 85)

lawyer suffragette

Clara Shortridge Foltz was an American lawyer, the first female lawyer on the West Coast, and the pioneer of the idea of the public defender. The Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles was renamed after her in 2002, and is now known as the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.

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56. Roger Hedgecock

1946-. (aged 80)

radio personality politician

Roger Allan Hedgecock is an American politician and conservative talk radio host, who served as 30th mayor of San Diego between May 1983 and December 1985. His show is syndicated by Radio America.

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57. James M. Cole

1952-. (aged 74)

lawyer

James Michael Cole is an American attorney who served as United States Deputy Attorney General from December 29, 2010 to January 8, 2015. He was first installed as Deputy Attorney General following a recess appointment by President Barack Obama on December 29, 2010. He then was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 55–42 vote on June 28, 2011.

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58. Franklin Knight Lane

1864-1921 (aged 57)

lawyer

Franklin Knight Lane was an American progressive politician from California. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913 to 1920. He also served as a commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and was the Democratic nominee for Governor of California in 1902, losing a narrow race in what was then a...

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59. Donald P. Wagner

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer judge politician

Donald P. Wagner is an American politician, currently serving as a member of the Orange County Board of Supervisors for the 3rd district and chair. He previously served as mayor of Irvine, California and as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing the 68th district, which includes portions of Orange County. In 2019, Wagner won a seat as...

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60. Ilya Kaminsky

1977-. (aged 49)

translator poet literary critic university teacher

Ilya Kaminsky is a poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which have earned him several awards.

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61. Robert Matsui

1941-2005 (aged 64)

lawyer politician

Robert Takeo Matsui was an American politician from the state of California. Matsui was a member of the Democratic Party and served in the U.S. House of Representatives as the congressman for California's 5th congressional district from 1979 until his death at the end of his 13th term.

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62. Todd Spitzer

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Todd Allan Spitzer is an American attorney and politician serving as the district attorney of Orange County, California. He was elected district attorney in 2018, defeating incumbent Tony Rackauckas. Spitzer previously served as a deputy district attorney from 1990 to 1996 and as an Assistant District Attorney from 2008 to 2010.

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63. Ethan Berkowitz

1962-. (aged 64)

lawyer politician

Ethan Avram Berkowitz is an American attorney, businessman, and politician from Alaska. From 1997 to 2007 he was the Alaska State Representative for District 26, serving as the Democratic Party Minority Leader from 1999 to 2007. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006, for Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2008, and for governor in 2010. He was...

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64. Peter Buxtun

1937-2024 (aged 87)

lawyer social worker

Peter Buxtun was an American epidemiologist. He was an employee of the United States Public Health Service who became known as the whistleblower responsible for ending the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

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65. Jeff Adachi

1959-2019 (aged 60)

lawyer film director

Jeffrey Gordon Adachi was an American attorney, pension reform advocate, and politician who served as the Public Defender of San Francisco from 2003 to 2019.

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66. Gerald Posner

1954-. (aged 72)

biographer lawyer journalist

Gerald Leo Posner is an American investigative journalist and author of thirteen books, including Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which explores the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. A plagiarism scandal involving articles...

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67. Terence Hallinan

1936-2020 (aged 84)

lawyer

Terence Hallinan was an American attorney and politician from San Francisco, California. He was the second of six sons born to Progressive Party presidential candidate Vincent Hallinan and his wife, Vivian (Moore) Hallinan. Hallinan was educated at the London School of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He practiced privately in San...

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68. Guillermo Söhnlein

1966-. (aged 60)

businessperson

Guillermo Söhnlein is an Argentine-American businessman, best known as the co-founder of deep-sea exploration company OceanGate. Söhnlein left the company in 2013, retaining a minority stake.

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69. Thomas Mesereau

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer

Thomas Arthur Mesereau Jr. is an American attorney known for defending Michael Jackson in his 2005 child molestation trial, as well as Mike Tyson, Bill Cosby and, in 2023, Danny Masterson, a case in which Mesereau was sanctioned by the judge.

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70. Edward Mezvinsky

1937-. (aged 89)

banker lawyer diplomat politician

Edward Maurice Mezvinsky is an American politician and lawyer from Iowa. He is a former U.S. representative and felon. A Democrat, he represented Iowa's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives for two terms (1973–77).

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71. Dennis Holahan

1942-. (aged 84)

actor television actor

Dennis Holahan is an American attorney and former actor. He was a partner in the San Francisco office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, California’s largest law firm, where he specialized in entertainment, media, and intellectual property cases as well as more general matters in the firm’s commercial litigation practice. Prior to joining Lewis Brisbois in 2014, Dennis maintained one...

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72. Louis Sachar

1954-. (aged 72)

children's writer screenwriter writer

Louis Sachar is an American author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.

73. Carol Corrigan

1948-. (aged 78)

lawyer judge politician

Carol Ann Corrigan is an associate justice of the California Supreme Court. She is a former prosecutor.

74. Mary Neumayr

1964-. (aged 62)

lawyer

Mary Bridget Neumayr is an American government official, who served as the chair of the Council on Environmental Quality from 2019 to 2021. She was appointed to the position by President Donald Trump in January 2019 and confirmed by the United States Senate.

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75. Christopher Stevens

1960-2012 (aged 52)

diplomat lawyer politician

John Christopher Stevens was an American career diplomat and lawyer who served as the U.S. Ambassador to Libya from May 22, 2012, to September 11, 2012. Stevens was killed when the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi, Libya, was attacked by members of Ansar al-Sharia on September 11–12, 2012., making Stevens the eighth U.S. Ambassador to be killed while in office.

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76. Ann Veneman

1949-. (aged 77)

lawyer politician

Ann Margaret Veneman is an American attorney who served as the fifth executive director of UNICEF from 2005 to 2010. She previously served as the 27th United States secretary of agriculture from 2001 to 2005. Veneman served for the first term of President George W. Bush, and she left to take the UNICEF position. Appointed by the U.N. Secretary-General Kofi...

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77. Jackie Speier

1950-. (aged 76)

lawyer politician

Karen Lorraine Jacqueline Speier is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for California's 14th congressional district, serving in Congress from 2008 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, Speier represented much of the territory that her political mentor, Leo Ryan, represented.

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78. Christopher Darden

1956-. (aged 70)

lawyer

Christopher Allen Darden is an American lawyer, author, and lecturer. He worked for 15 years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, where he gained national attention as a co-prosecutor in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson.

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79. Willie Brown Jr

1934-. (aged 92)

podcaster lawyer dental hygienist politician

Willie Lewis Brown Jr. is an American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004 as the first African American to hold the office.

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80. McGregor W. Scott

1962-. (aged 64)

politician

McGregor William "Greg" Scott is an American lawyer and partner at the King & Spalding law firm. He served as the United States attorney for the Eastern District of California from 2017 to 2021. He was sworn in as a court-appointed U.S. attorney on December 29, 2017, after previously serving in the position from 2003 to 2009 during the George...

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81. James Francis Smith

1859-1928 (aged 69)

lawyer military officer judge politician

James Francis Smith was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Governor-General of the Philippines and an associate judge of the United States Court of Customs Appeals.

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82. Allan O. Hunter

1916-1995 (aged 79)

lawyer politician

Allan Oakley Hunter was an American lawyer and politician. Hunter, a Republican, served as the United States representative for California's 9th congressional district from 1951 to 1953 and for California's 12th congressional district from 1953 to 1955.

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83. Marvin R. Baxter

1940-. (aged 86)

judge

Marvin Ray Baxter is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California who served from January 1991 to January 5, 2015.

84. Chip Pashayan

1941-. (aged 85)

lawyer politician

Charles Sahag "Chip" Pashayan Jr. is an American lawyer and politician from California. He served as a Republican Congressman from the Fresno area in California's Central Valley from 1979 to 1991.

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85. George Moscone

1929-1978 (aged 49)

politician

George Richard Moscone was an American attorney and politician who served as the 37th mayor of San Francisco from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978.

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86. Clair Engle

1911-1964 (aged 53)

lawyer politician

Clair Engle was an American politician who served as a United States senator from California from 1959 until his death in 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, he is best remembered for participating in the vote breaking the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the U.S. Senate while partially paralyzed and unable to speak, shortly before...

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87. Gregg Jarrett

1955-. (aged 71)

pundit lawyer journalist

Gregory Walter Jarrett is an American conservative news commentator, author and attorney. He joined Fox News in November 2002, after working at local NBC and ABC TV stations for over ten years, as well as national networks Court TV and MSNBC.

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88. Robert Hertzberg

1954-. (aged 72)

lawyer politician

Robert Myles Hertzberg is an American politician who previously served in the California State Senate. A Democrat, he represented the 18th Senate District, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley.

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89. Troy L. Nunley

1964-. (aged 62)

lawyer judge

Troy Lynee Nunley is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.

90. Christine Pelosi

1966-. (aged 60)

political adviser

Christine Paule Pelosi is an American Democratic Party political strategist from California. She is the daughter of Nancy Pelosi, the former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and businessman Paul Pelosi and sister of Alexandra Pelosi. She is running for California State Senate.

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91. Kamala Harris

1964-. (aged 62)

jurist lawyer writer presidential candidate prosecutor

Kamala Devi Harris is an American politician and attorney who served as the 49th vice president of the United States from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden. She is the first female, first African American, and first Asian American vice president, and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U.S. history. Harris represented California in the U.S. Senate...

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92. Andrew Phillips

lawyer

Andrew Phillips is a deaf lawyer, and an advocate for equal access.

93. William E. Dannemeyer

1929-2019 (aged 90)

lawyer journalist judge politician

William Edwin Dannemeyer was a conservative American politician, activist, and author, known for his opposition to LGBT rights. He served seven terms as U.S. Representative from the 39th Congressional District of California from 1979 to 1993.

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94. Terry Francois

1921-1989 (aged 68)

lawyer

Terry A. Francois was an African American attorney, civil rights activist, and politician. He served as the San Francisco chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and became the first African American to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

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95. Ed Case

1952-. (aged 74)

lawyer politician

Edward Espenett Case is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district since 2019, which covers the urban core of Honolulu. He represented the 2nd district, which covers the rest of the state, from 2002 to 2007.

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96. William Raggio

1926-2012 (aged 86)

lawyer politician

William Raggio was an American politician and a former Republican member of the Nevada Senate. He represented Washoe County's 3rd district from 1972 until his retirement in 2011. He is the longest-serving member in the history of the State Senate.

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97. James David Santini

1937-2015 (aged 78)

justice of the peace lawyer judge politician

James David Santini was an American attorney, politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Nevada's at-large congressional district from 1975 to 1983. He was a member of the Democratic Party until 1986, when he joined the Republican Party.

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98. Richard Bryan

1937-. (aged 89)

politician

Richard Hudson Bryan is an American retired politician and attorney who served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989 and as a United States senator representing Nevada from 1989 until 2001. A Democrat, Bryan previously served as the state's attorney general and a member of the State Senate.

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99. Jasmin Darznik

1973-. (aged 53)

writer

Jasmin Darznik is a novelist and academic. She is the New York Times bestselling author of four books: the memoir The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life, and the novels Song of a Captive Bird, The Bohemians, and the forthcoming American Goddess, set in old Hollywood.

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100. Katrina Swett

1955-. (aged 71)

politician talk show host

Yvonne Katrina Swett is an American educator. She was chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2012 to 2013, and then in 2014 to 2015. She ran unsuccessfully as the Democratic candidate for Congress in New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, which is the same district that her husband Richard Swett occupied, during the 2002 United States midterm...

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