List of University of California, Los Angeles School of Law alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

Academia

• Drucilla Cornell – professor in political science, comparative literature, and women's studies at Rutgers University; professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; and Rutgers School of Law–Newark
• Dorothy Wright Nelson – dean of the University of Southern California School of Law and senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Joshua Dressler – professor at the Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University
• Richard D. Freer – professor at Emory University School of Law
• Eric Goldman – professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law
• Richard L. Hasen – professor at the UCLA School of Law and University of California, Irvine School of Law
• George David Kieffer – president of the Board of Governors, California Community Colleges and chair, Regents of the University of California
• Laurie L. Levenson – professor of the Loyola Law School; TV legal commentator, gained fame during Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials
• Dorothy Wright Nelson – dean of the University of Southern California School of Law and senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Susan Westerberg Prager – president of Occidental College, dean of the UCLA School of Law and Southwestern Law School, provost of Dartmouth College
• Dean Spade – associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law
• Eugene Volokh – UCLA Law professor

Business

• Ann Baskins – general counsel of Hewlett-Packard (2000–2006)
• Lowell Milken – co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation
• Antonia Hernández – president and CEO of the California Community Foundation, former president and general counsel, MALDEF
• Brian Lee – founder of LegalZoom and The Honest Company
• Abraham M. Lurie, developer of Marina del Rey
• Stewart Resnick – president and CEO of The Wonderful Company
• Michael Rich – president and CEO, RAND Corporation
• Nelson Rising – real estate development executive, former CEO of Catellus Development Corporation
• Martine Rothblatt – co-founder of PanAmSat and Sirius Satellite Radio, founder of United Therapeutics
• David P. Steiner – CEO of Waste Management, Inc

Government

• Stewart Baker – Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• John Howard – director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Janet Dhillon – member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Rachel Goslins – executive director, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities
• Andrei Iancu – Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Susan Liebeler – commissioner and chairman of the United States International Trade Commission
• James E. Rogan – director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, and U.S. House of Representatives
• Joshua D. Wright – commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission

Entertainment

• Sondra E. Berchin – executive vice president for MCA Universal
• Thomas Bliss – motion picture producer with credits on over 30 films, including The Hurricane and Air Force One
• Joe Brown – star of court show Judge Joe Brown
• Jeff Cohen – child actor in The Goonies (1985)
• Blye Pagon Faust –- Academy Award-winning film producer best known for Spotlight (2015)
• Robert Fitzpatrick – entertainment attorney, film producer, and music executive; president of Allied Artists International
• Cynthia Gouw – television show host, news anchor, reporter, actress, and model
• Chip Johannessen – writer and producer for several popular television shows
• William B. Keene – presiding judge on the court show Divorce Court.
• John Kerr – Tony Award-winning actor best known for Tea and Sympathy
• Kalyanee Mam – director and producer of the award-winning documentary A River Changes Course
• George Mastras – Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of Breaking Bad
• Stephan Pastis – creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
• Kelly Perdew – winner of Season 2 of The Apprentice
• Stacey Snider – former co-chair or chair of three film studios: 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks, and Universal
• Howard K. Stern – entertainment lawyer who was the former domestic partner, attorney, and agent of model and actress Anna Nicole Smith
• Lauren Woodland – Emmy Award-nominated actress
• Ken Ziffren – entertainment attorney, L.A. film czar

Judiciary

• Percy Anderson – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• John Arguelles – associate justice, Supreme Court of California
• Stanley Blumenfeld – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Kevin Brazile – judge, Superior Court of Los Angeles County; first African American man to serve as presiding judge of the same court
• Janice Rogers Brown – former judge, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals; former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
• David O. Carter – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Audrey B. Collins – associate justice of the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District and judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Dale A. Drozd – judge on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and Chief United States Magistrate Judge of the same court
• Dolly M. Gee – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Andrew Guilford – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Philip S. Gutierrez – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Sandra Ikuta – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Robert Clive Jones – chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
• William Duffy Keller – judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Alex Kozinski – chief judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Jeffrey T. Miller – senior judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Salvador Mendoza Jr. – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington
• Dorothy Wright Nelson – senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and dean of the University of Southern California School of Law
• Jacqueline Nguyen – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Central District of California
• Fred W. Slaughter – judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Kim McLane Wardlaw – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
• Paul J. Watford – judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Law

Government

• Gil Garcetti – Los Angeles County District Attorney (1992–2000)
• Casey Gwinn – San Diego City Attorney, (1996–2004)
• Alicia Limtiaco – United States Attorney of Guam

Nonprofit

• Stewart Kwoh – founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center
• Karen I. Tse – international human rights attorney, activist and director on global nonprofit

Private practice

• Leslie Abramson – criminal defense attorney who defended Lyle and Erik Menéndez and Phil Spector
• Harland Braun – criminal defense attorney who defended John Landis and George Folsey Jr. against manslaughter charges in the Twilight Zone: The Movie case
• Leo Terrell – civil rights attorney, talk radio host and television personality
• John Branca – entertainment lawyer who specializes in representing rock and roll acts, as well as independent investors, music publishing catalogs, and independent music labels

Literature and journalism

• Vincent Bugliosi – author of non-fiction works as Helter Skelter
• Robert Rotstein – novelist

Fine Arts

• Ragen Moss – artist

Politics

• Howard Berman – U.S. House of Representatives from California
• Peter Carlisle – Mayor of Honolulu and Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu
• Anna Caballero – California State Assembly and Secretary of the California State and Consumer Services Agency
• Lou Correa – California State Assembly, California State Senator, and U.S. House of Representatives from California
• David Dawson – Iowa House of Representatives
• Roger Dickinson – California State Assembly
• Mike Eng – California State Assembly
• Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher - California State Assembly
• Kirsten Gillibrand – United States Senator from New York
• José Huizar – Los Angeles City Council who was arrested and indicted on June 23, 2020, on federal corruption charges.
• Jerry M. Patterson – U.S. House of Representatives from California
• James E. Rogan – U.S. House of Representatives from California, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property. and director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Linda Sánchez – U.S. House of Representatives from California
• Henry A. Waxman – U.S. House of Representatives from California
• Jack Weiss – Los Angeles City Council

Sports

• Val Ackerman – former basketball player, first female president of USA Basketball, and president of the WNBA
• Cara Dunne-Yates – blind Paralympic athlete
• Julie Heldman – tennis player
• Larry Nagler – tennis player