List of Cleveland State University College of Law alumni

This is a list of notable alumni of Cleveland State University College of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. This list includes graduates of Cleveland Law School and John Marshall School of Law, which merged in 1946 to form Cleveland–Marshall, which was renamed the CSU College of Law in 2022.

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CSU Law alumni

Tim Russert of Meet the Press

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge

Federal judge Benita Y. Pearson (appointed by Barack Obama)

U.S. Representative Steven C. LaTourette

Maureen O'Connor, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio

Cleveland Mayor Frank G. Jackson.

Louis Stokes, U.S. Congressman

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Richard J. Ambrose	1987	Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas judge; former Cleveland Browns football player	[1]
John J. Babka	1908 (Cleveland Law School)	U.S. Representative from Ohio	[2]
Matt Barrett		Ohio State Representative
Jim Betts		former member of the Ohio House of Representatives	[3]
Edward J. Blythin	graduated Cleveland Law School	mayor of Cleveland, previously its law director; candidate for U.S. Senate
Elizabeth M. Boyer		lawyer, writer/publisher, and feminist founder of WEAL
Christopher A. Boyko	1979	United States federal judge	[4]
Eric Brown	1979	former Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court	[5]
Anthony O. Calabrese Jr.	1961	Ohio Court of Appeals judge and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge	[6]
Jamie Callender		attorney, college professor, former member of the Ohio General Assembly
James H. Cassidy	graduated Cleveland Law School	U.S. Representative from Ohio
Anthony J. Celebrezze, Jr.	1974	Ohio state senator, Ohio secretary of state and Ohio attorney general; candidate for Ohio governor	[7]
Frank D. Celebrezze Jr.	1983	Ohio Court of Appeals judge and Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judge	[8]
Angelin Chang		Grammy Award-winning classical pianist and attorney	[9]
Genevieve R. Cline	1921 (Cleveland Law School)	first woman to serve as a United States federal judge	[10]
Bill Coley		member of the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives
James C. Connell	1918 (John Marshall School of Law)	United States federal judge	[11]
Arthur H. Day	1916 (Cleveland Law School)	Ohio State Senator and served a six-year term as a justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Jeffrey L. Dean	1980	Ohio House of Representatives 114th General Assembly; member of the State Board of Education of Ohio; Judge, Bedford Municipal Court
Mary DeGenaro	1986	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio	[12]
Kathleen Donovan		Bergen County, New Jersey Executive; former Bergen County Clerk; represented New Jersey's 36th Legislative District in the New Jersey State Assembly ; former Chairwoman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee; former Commissioner and first Chairwoman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey	[citation needed]
Dennis E. Eckart		Democratic Congressman	[13]
Ed Feighan	1978	member of the Ohio House of Representatives; U.S. Representative from 1983 to 1993 of Ohio's 19th congressional district
Ed FitzGerald	1993	first County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Mayor of Lakewood, Ohio; Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 2014
George L. Forbes	1961	Cleveland City Council President, Cleveland NAACP President
Alan Fried		NCAA champion wrestler and 4-time Junior National Freestyle Champion, and author
Avery Friedman	1972	Civil Rights attorney, chief council of the Fair Housing Council, CNN, weekly legal correspondent
Marcia L. Fudge	1983	18th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, former Democratic congresswoman for Ohio's 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives	[14]
Mary Belle Grossman	graduated Cleveland Law School	one of first women ABA members, Ohio's first female Municipal Court judge (Cleveland, 1923)	[15]
Paul Hackett	1980	lawyer, politician, veteran of the Iraq War
Jim Michael Hansen	1980	author, attorney
Bill Hughes	1998	Chief Deputy- Yavapai County Attorney's Office and 2012 Arizona Felony Prosecutor of the Year and 2020 recipient of the Arizona State Bar Association's annual Michael C. Cudahy Criminal Justice Award	[16]
Jane Edna Hunter	1925 (Cleveland Law School)	founder of the Phyllis Wheatley Center for the poor in Cleveland, Ohio	[17]
Frank G. Jackson		Mayor of Cleveland, formerly City Council president	[18]
Peter Kirsanow	1979	attorney, writer and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Thomas Demetrios Lambros	1952	former United States federal judge
Steven C. LaTourette	1980	U.S. Representative from Ohio 1995-2013
Frank J. Lausche	graduated John Marshall Law School	U.S. Senator, Ohio governor, mayor of Cleveland	[19]
Nancy Lerner		philanthropist	[20]
John M. Manos		former judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	[21]
William D. Mason	1986	Prosecutor of Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Charles Joseph McNamee	1917 (Cleveland Law School)	United States federal judge
Robert M. Murray	graduated Cleveland Law School	attorney, banker, businessman and Democratic Congressman
Donald C. Nugent		United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio	[22]
Maureen O'Connor	1980	Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court	[23]
Terrence O'Donnell	1971	Ohio Supreme Court Justice	[24]
William O'Neill	1980	Justice on the Supreme Court of Ohio
Benita Y. Pearson	1995	District judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio; former federal magistrate judge	[25]
Tim Russert	1976	journalist, writer and longtime television broadcaster	[26]
Michael J. Skindell	1987	Ohio state Senator, former member of Ohio House of Representatives
Carl B. Stokes		first African-American mayor of a major U.S. city (Cleveland)	[27]
Louis Stokes	1953	15-term Democratic Congressman	[28]
Francis E. Sweeney Sr.	1963	Ohio Supreme Court Justice	[29]
Martin L. Sweeney	1914 (Cleveland Law School)	U.S. Representative from Ohio (and father of Robert E. Sweeney)
Robert E. Sweeney		U.S. Representative from Ohio (son of Martin L. Sweeney)
James A. Thomas	1963	former chief executive officer and principal owner of the Sacramento Kings NBA basketball team and the ARCO Arena from 1992 to 1999	[30][31]
Stanley Tolliver	1951 (John Marshall School of Law)	attorney, school board president, civil rights activist, and radio talk show host
Cheryl L. Waite	1985	Ohio Court of Appeals judge	[32]
Lesley B. Wells		former United States District Court Judge
Uncas A. Whitaker	graduated Cleveland Law School	engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur and philanthropist
George Washington White	1955	former United States federal judge	{{Alum|name= Bert Wolstein|year= 1953|nota= real estate developer; owner of indoor soccer franchise;