List of Arizona State University alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Arizona State University.

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Academia

Main article: List of Arizona State University alumni in academia

The list of ASU alumni in academia includes academic administrators as well as academics in the fields of business, education, the humanities and social sciences.

Arts and media

Main article: List of Arizona State University alumni in arts and media

The list of ASU alumni in arts and media includes the fields of art (including architecture and photography), entertainment, journalism, literature and music.

Athletes

Main article: List of Arizona State University athletes

The list of ASU athletes includes players on ASU varsity sports programs. Some programs with many alumni have their own lists:

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Football
• Golf
• Swim and dive
• Track and field

Business

Business

Name	Class year	Notes	Ref.
Michael J. Ahearn	(BS, JD)	CEO of First Solar and company director	[1]
Robert Bigelow		Hotel and aerospace entrepreneur	[2]
Michael R. Burns		Vice chairman of Lionsgate Entertainment Corp.	[3]
James Chippendale		Business executive	[4]
Chris Cohan	1973	Founder of Sonic Communications, former owner of the Golden State Warriors	[5]
Chris Cookson	1970	President of Sony Pictures Technologies	[6][7]
Chris Cottrell		Businessman	[8]
Louis E. Crandall		Founder of Legend City	[9]
Diana Yazzie Devine	1999 (MBA)	Nonprofit manager	[6]
Fred DuVal	(JD)	Political consultant, businessman, member and chair of the Arizona Board of Regents	[10][11]
Vince Ferraro	(MBA)	Executive for Hewlett-Packard and Eastman Kodak	[12]
Randall C. Fowler	1965 (MSE)	Inventor	[13]
Ira A. Fulton	—	Businessman, founder of Fulton Homes (attended)	[14]
Kara Goldin	1989	Businesswoman	[3]
Barbara Grant		Executive at IBM and CEO of Siros Technologies	[15]
Christian Hageseth		Cannabis entrepreneur	[16]
Robert Hecht-Nielsen	1971	Businessman, computer developer and adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering, University of California, San Diego	[3][17]
Chad Horstman	2001	Co-founder of Yandy.com	[18]
Todd Huffman	2006 (MS)	Co-founder of 3Scan, inventor, photographer	[19]
Vani Kola	1987	Entrepreneur and venture capitalist in India	[20]
Howard Lindzon	1991 (MBA)	Author and founder of StockTwits	[21][22]
Clate Mask	1996	Co-founder and CEO of Keap	[23]
Allison Maslan		Entrepreneur and homeopath	[24]
Rex Maughan	1962	Founder and CEO of Forever Living Products, a multi-level marketing company	[6][25]
T. Allan McArtor	1971 (MSE)	Aviation executive	[3][26]
Ioanna Morfessis	1996 (PhD)	Economic development leader	[27][28]
Paige Mycoskie		Founder of the fashion brand Aviator Nation	[29]
Cheryl Najafi		Entrepreneur	[30]
Murugan Pal	(MS)	Entrepreneur and software developer	[31]
Joe Shoen	1981 (JD)	Chairman of Amerco; chairman and president of U-Haul	[32][33]
Andy Spade		Co-founder of Kate Spade New York	[34]
Kate Spade	1985	Fashion designer, business owner; co-founder of Kate Spade New York	[35]
Kim Taylor	2005	Entrepreneur	[36][37]
Gary L. Tooker	1962	Corporate executive	[3][38]
Ryan Wood	1996	Football player, co-founder of Under Armour	[32]

Coaches and athletic administrators

Coaches and athletic administrators

Name	Class year	Notes	Ref.
Pete Babcock		Basketball executive	[39]
Sandra Baldwin	1962[a]	President of the United States Olympic Committee, 2000–2002	[40]
Jim Brock		Baseball coach and two-time national champion in 23 seasons at ASU	[41]
Greg Byrne	1994	Athletic director	[42]
Mike Candrea	1978	Coached Arizona Wildcats softball for 36 seasons to eight national titles and retired as the all-time winningest coach in college softball; coached Olympic softball	[43]
Gary Close	1978	Assistant college basketball coach at Stanford, Iowa and Wisconsin	[44]
Loren Dawson	1993	College and high school football coach	[45]
Kenny Dillingham	2013	Head coach of ASU football, 2023–	[32][46]
Herman Frazier	1977	Track athlete and Olympic gold medalist; graduate assistant and ASU athletic director, later of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Syracuse University	[3][47]
David Griffin	1995	Basketball executive	[48]
Derrick Hall	1991	President and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks	[49]
Kyle Hawkins		Lacrosse coach	[50]
Barbara Hedges		Athletic director at USC and Washington	[51]
Jonathan Kolb		Basketball executive	[52]
George McCaskey	1978	Chairman of the Chicago Bears	[53]
Aaron McCreary	1915	Athletic director and coach at Arizona State College at Tempe, 1923–1931; athletic director and coach at Arizona State Teachers College (now Northern Arizona University), 1931–1963	[54]
Jim Phillips	1992 (MPA)	Commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference	[55]
Greg Powers	1999	ASU men's ice hockey coach	[32]
Graham Rossini	2002	ASU athletic director, 2024–	[56]
Joel Sobotka	1993	College and high school basketball coach	[57]
Gene Taylor	1980	Athletic director at Kansas State University	[58]
Bobby Valentine	—	Baseball manager; attended courses at ASU while playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers	[59]
Linda Vollstedt	1969	ASU women's golf coach, 1980–2001	[60]
Kevin Warren	1988 (MBA)	President of the Chicago Bears, commissioner of the Big Ten Conference	[6][61][62]
Ralph Weekly	1973	Softball coach at Pacific Lutheran, Chattanooga, and Tennessee; Team USA coach	[63]
Sam Winningham	(MA)	Football coach at Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge), professor	[64][65]

Government and politics

Main article: List of Arizona State University alumni in government and politics

The list of ASU alumni in government and politics includes federal legislators and people in other federal offices; people in Arizona statewide offices, the Arizona Legislature, and other Arizona offices; people in government offices in states other than Arizona, tribal governments, and internationally; and social activists.

Law

Law

Name	Class year	Notes	Ref.
Tom Ajamie	1982	Trial lawyer	[66]
Samuel Alba	1972 (JD)	U.S. magistrate judge	[67]
Claudeen Arthur	JD (1974)	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation	[68][69]
Raymond D. Austin	1979	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation	[70]
Bridget S. Bade	1987	Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	[71]
Michael G. Bailey		United States Attorney for the District of Arizona	[72]
Rebecca White Berch	1976	Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court	[73]
Bonnie A. Bulla	1984	Judge of the Nevada Court of Appeals	[74]
Tena Campbell		Senior judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah	[75]
Charles G. Case II	1975	Judge, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona	[76]
Joshua Deahl	2003	Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals	[77]
Sarah D. Grant	1970 (JD)	Judge, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 1	[78]
Michael Daly Hawkins	1967	Senior judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	[3] [79]
Brad Hendricks		Attorney	[80]
Randall M. Howe	1985	Judge of the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 1	[81]
Natalie Hudson	1979	Chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court	[82]
Diane Humetewa	1987	Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona; first American Indian woman to serve as a federal judge	[83]
Janine M. Kern	1982	Associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court	[84]
Michael T. Liburdi	1998	Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona	[85]
John Lopez IV	1998 (JD)	Vice chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court	[86]
Mari Matsuda	1975	Lawyer and law professor	[87]
Ruth McGregor	1974 (JD)	Chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court	[3]
Gloria Navarro	1992 (JD)	Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada	[88]
Hugh R. O'Connell		Wisconsin circuit court judge; Milwaukee County District Attorney	[89]
Douglas L. Rayes	1975	Senior judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona	[90]
Craig Rothfeld		Prison consultant	[91]
Jim Rossi		Law professor	[92]
Michael D. Ryan	1977 (JD)	Associate justice of the Arizona Supreme Court	[93][94]
Roslyn O. Silver	1971 (JD)	Senior judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona	[95]
Barry G. Silverman	1973	Senior judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit	[96]
James A. Soto	1971	Senior judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona	[97]
Ann Timmer	1985 (JD)	Chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court	[98]
John J. Tuchi	1994 (JD)	Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona	[99]
Jerod E. Tufte	2002 (JD)	Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court	[100]
Jason Vanacour	2003 (JD)	Lawyer and former soccer player	[101]
Neil V. Wake	1971	Senior judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona	[102]
Pamela Scott Washington		District court judge in Alaska	[103]
Claudette White	2005 (JD)	Chief justice for the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians and member of Quechan Tribal Council	[104]
Harvey Whittemore	(JD)	Lawyer in Nevada	[105]
Mabel Walker Willebrandt	1911	U.S. Assistant Attorney General, 1921–1929, known as the "First Lady of Law"	[106][107]
David Yerushalmi	1984 (JD)	Lawyer for the American Freedom Law Center	[108]

Military

Military

Name	Class year	Notes	Ref.
William P. Acker	1959 (MA)	U.S. Air Force major general	[109]
John J. Batbie Jr.	1973	U.S. Air Force major general	[110]
Stanley C. Beck	—	U.S. Air Force major general (attended)	[111]
Philip M. Breedlove	1991 (MS)	U.S. Air Force four-star general	[112]
Ryan Cleckner	2008	Army sniper, veterans activist	[113]
John F. Goodman	1970	U.S. Marine Corps three-star general	[3]
Terry Holdbrooks		Guard at Guantanamo Bay detention camp	[114]
John C. Keegan	1975	Army soldier and Naval Reserve commander; justice of the peace, Arizona state representative	[115]
Robert Maloy	—	U.S. Air Force major general (attended)	[116]
John L. Piotrowski	—	U.S. Air Force four-star general (attended)	[117]
Michael A. Ryan	1981	U.S. Army brigadier general	[118][119]
Jeremy Staat	2009	U.S. Marine Corps, served in Iraq; football player, drafted 1998	[120][121]
Margaret H. Woodward	1982	U.S. Air Force major general	[122]
Daniel Yoo	1980	U.S. Marine Corps, Commander of MARSOC	[3]

Science and technology

Main article: List of Arizona State University alumni in science and technology

The list of ASU alumni in arts and media includes the fields of mathematics, medicine, engineering, science, and technology.

Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Name	Class year	Notes	Ref.
Brittany Bell	2009	Miss Arizona USA winner	[123]
Eric Bennett	2006 (M.Ed.)	Paralympic archer	[124]
Korban Best	—	Track medalist at the 2024 Summer Paralympics (attended)	[124]
Billy Boat		Racing driver	[125]
Martin Boonzaayer	(MA)	Judoka and real estate agent	[126]
Shona Brownlee		British para athlete	[127]
Emma Broyles	2024	Miss America 2022	[128][129]
Nestor Ceja		Major League Baseball umpire	[130]
Hailey Davidson	2014	Golfer	[131]
Clarence Dixon	—	Convicted murderer (attended)	[132]
Allison DuBois		Psychic	[133]
Robelyn Garcia	2011 (MS)	Basketball player, metaphysical practitioner	[134]
Jessica Hardy	2016	2012 Olympic medalist in swimming	[135]
Ariana Hilborn	2003	Distance runner	[136]
Scott Hogsett		Wheelchair rugby player	[137]
David Imonitie	(MS)	Nigerian tennis player	[138]
Peter M. Johnson	(PhD)	First African-American man named a general authority seventy in the LDS Church	[139]
Steven Jones		Professional poker player	[140]
Laura Lawless	2005 (JD)	Miss Arizona 2002	[141][142]
Mary Kay Letourneau	—	Convicted child rapist (attended)	[143][144]
Kevin Nee	2007	Professional strongman	[145]
Scott Peterson	—	Convicted murderer (attended)	[146]
Mohammed Qahtani		Public speaker	[147]
Frank Shankwitz	—	Co-founder of the Make-A-Wish Foundation (attended)	[148]
Jimmy Siemers		Professional water skier, two-time world champion	[149]
Benny Silman		Bookmaker involved in a point shaving scandal in ASU men's basketball in 1994	[150][151]
David Spangler	—	Spiritual philosopher (attended)	[152]
Taylor Swanson	2016	Paralympic track and field athlete	[124]
James S. Wall		Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup	[153]
Alena Analeigh Wicker	2023	Youngest Black person accepted into medical school and youngest person to intern at NASA	[154][155][156]
Chris Young	2022	Professional baseball outfielder and TV analyst	[157]

Notes

1. Baldwin had previously claimed to have received a doctorate from ASU in 1967, which was inaccurate and led to her resignation from the USOC.^[40]