University of Cincinnati College of Law

The University of Cincinnati College of Law is the fourth oldest continually running law school in the United States

Law school in the United States

In the United States, a law school is an institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree.Law schools in the U.S...

and a founding member of the Association of American Law Schools

Association of American Law Schools

The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...

. It was started in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. Then-dean and future 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

(1880), merged it with the University of Cincinnati

University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....

in 1896.

The school is one of only seven American law schools, along with Yale Law School

Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

, Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

, Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School

Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, is one of the oldest and most prestigious law schools in the United States. A member of the Ivy League, Columbia Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Columbia University in New York City. It offers the J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. degrees in...

, the University of Virginia School of Law

University of Virginia School of Law

The University of Virginia School of Law was founded in Charlottesville in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson as one of the original subjects taught at his "academical village," the University of Virginia. The law school maintains an enrollment of approximately 1,100 students in its initial degree program...

, the William & Mary Law School and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, to have produced both a President of the United States

President of the United States

The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....

(William Howard Taft) and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all state and federal courts, and original jurisdiction over a small range of cases...

(both Taft and Willis Van Devanter

Willis Van Devanter

Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, January 3, 1911 to June 2, 1937.- Early life and career :...

). The school has also produced a Vice President of the United States

Vice President of the United States

The Vice President of the United States is the holder of a public office created by the United States Constitution. The Vice President, together with the President of the United States, is indirectly elected by the people, through the Electoral College, to a four-year term...

, Charles G. Dawes

Charles G. Dawes

Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

, a Secretary of Commerce, Charles W. Sawyer

Charles W. Sawyer

Charles W. Sawyer was United States Secretary of Commerce from May 6, 1948 to January 20, 1953 in the administration of Harry Truman....

, as well as numerous governors and U.S. congressmen.

Faculty

The UC College of Law's faculty includes several leading scholars in their fields. The faculty consists of 29 full-time employees and 27 part-time employees, creating one of the lowest student to faculty ratios in the country, 10:1. There are 10 endowed UC College of Law professorships currently. In 2005, the school announced the appointment of Louis Bilionis as Dean and Nippert Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Bilionis was formerly the University of North Carolina School of Law

University of North Carolina School of Law

The University of North Carolina School of Law is a professional school within the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Established in 1845, Carolina Law is among the oldest law schools in the nation and is the oldest law school in North Carolina. It is consistently ranked in the top-tier...

's first Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law.

Admissions

Admission to the College is quite competitive. In 2010, there were 1,823 applications and an entering class of 144 students. UC Law offers a full-time, day program only. Total enrollment is limited to 400 students. According to 2010 data, the median LSAT is a 161 and the median GPA is a 3.56. The 75th percentile for LSAT/GPA is a 162/3.80 respectively, while the 25th percentile for LSAT/GPA is a 157/3.36 respectively. There are 73 undergraduate schools represented in the 2010 incoming class. In terms of diversity, 20% of the students come from minority backgrounds.

The bar passage rate for first time Ohio bar examinees in July 2010 was 91%.

Tuition/Financial Aid

Tuition and fees for the 2010-11 academic year was $20,946 for a resident and $36,526 for a non-resident. After one year, students are able to apply for residency and obtain the in-state tuition rate.

Rankings

In the most recent U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report is an American news magazine published from Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek it was for many years a leading news weekly, focusing more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories...

rankings of top law schools (2011), UC Law was ranked 61st. From 1995 to 2002, UC Law was ranked in the top tier (top 50) of U.S. law schools by U.S. News & World Report.

Deans of the College of Law

Dean	Years Served
Timothy Walker Timothy Walker (judge) Timothy Walker was an American lawyer who founded the Cincinnati Law School and was its first Dean.-Biography:...	1833–1843
William S. Groesbeck William S. Groesbeck William Slocum Groesbeck was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.Born in Kinderhook, New York, Groesbeck moved with his parents to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1816.He attended the common schools and Augusta College....	1844–1869
Charles L. Telford	1844–1869
Maskell S. Curwen	1850–1868
Rotated among faculty	1869–1875
Rufus King	1875–1880
Jacob D. Cox	1880–1897
William H. Taft William Howard Taft William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...	1897–1900
Gustavus H. Wald	1900–1902
William P. Rogers	1902–1916
Albert B. Benedict	1916–1926
Merton L. Ferson	1926–1946
Frank S. Rowley	1946–1952
Roscoe L. Barrow	1952–1965
Claude S. Sowle	1965–1969
Samuel S. Wilson	1969–1970 1973* 1974–1978
Edward A. Mearns, Jr.	1970–1973
Victor E. Schwartz	1973–1974*
Jorge L. Carro	1978–1979*
Gordon A. Christenson	1979–1989
Joseph P. Tomain	1989–1990* 1990–2005
Louis D. Bilionis	2005–present

*Acting

Library Services

The Robert S. Marx Library has 437,356 volumes with 237,352 titles and a full-time staff of 13 employees. The library also has two computer labs and a wireless network that is accessible throughout the College of Law building.

Clinics, Publications, and Student Activities

UC Law is home to several journals including the Human Rights Quarterly

Human Rights Quarterly

Human Rights Quarterly is a quarterly academic journal established in 1979 covering human rights. The journal is intended for scholars and policymakers and follows recent developments from both governments and non-governmental organizations. It includes research in policy analysis, book reviews,...

, University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review

Immigration and Nationality Law Review

The Immigration and Nationality Law Review is an internationally recognized annual law journal, published by William S. Hein & Co., Inc., of New York.-Overview:...

, and The Freedom Center Journal (FCJ), a joint publication between the law school and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad. The Center also pays tribute to all efforts to "abolish human enslavement and secure freedom for all people." Billed as part of a new group of "museums of...

.

The College of Law also offers a Moot Court

Moot court

A moot court is an extracurricular activity at many law schools in which participants take part in simulated court proceedings, usually to include drafting briefs and participating in oral argument. The term derives from Anglo Saxon times, when a moot was a gathering of prominent men in a...

program.

UC Law offers a variety of legal clinics and special programs. The Center for Professional Development works to develop students' legal research and writing capacities. The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project works to free actually innocent

Innocence Project

An Innocence Project is one of a number of non-profit legal organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice systems to...

inmates. UC's Corporate Law Center develops students understanding of corporate law. The Glenn M. Weaver Institute of Law and Psychiatry provides UC Law students, mental health providers, and others opportunity to examine the legal and psychiatric systems and their implications for criminals and the justice system. Through the Center for Practice in Negotiation and Problem Solving students and practitioners can enhance their negotiation and problem-solving skills.

The College also offers joint degree

Double degree

A double-degree program, sometimes called a combined degree, conjoint degree, dual degree, or simultaneous degree program, involves a student's working for two different university degrees in parallel, either at the same institution or at different institutions , completing them in less time than...

programs in Law and Business, Community Planning, Political Science, Social Work, and Women’s Studies.

Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights

The Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights was established in 1979 to educate and train human rights lawyers and to promote and protect human rights in the international arena. It is the oldest endowed international human rights program for American law schools.

The UMI emphasizes three areas: teaching, research and service. Students have the opportunity to participate in externships that can take them around the world-standing with human rights groups around the world fighting injustice; serving as election observers in South Africa; and, working to strengthen women's rights in foreign countries.

At the core of the UMI is the Human Rights Quarterly

Human Rights Quarterly

, recognized as the leading academic journal in the human rights field. The Quarterly covers the range of human rights matters encompassed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Published by The Johns Hopkins Press, the Human Rights Quarterly is edited by the Institute's Director, Professor Bert B. Lockwood of the University of Cincinnati, College of Law.

University of Cincinnati Law Review

UC Law publishes the University of Cincinnati Law Review (founded
1927) which was the first law journal published by an Ohio law
school. The Law Review is a quarterly publication produced by second
and third-year law students. Each year, approximately 30 students are
invited to join the Law Review as Associate Members.

The Moot Court Honor Board

UC Law's Moot Court Honor Board hosts two competitions throughout the academic year.http://www.law.uc.edu/academics/moot.shtml One is the LexisNexis Moot Court Competition, an entirely intramural competition held in the fall that serves as the basis for selecting new members to the Board. The second is the August A. Rendigs, Jr., National Product Liability Moot Court Competition held in the spring, which is open to law schools throughout the country. In addition, the Board sends teams of competitors to many regional and national moot court competitions.

The Corporate Law Center

The Corporate Law Center encourages the development of law students' and the legal and business communities' understanding of the issues involving corporate law. By developing programs to educate and train students, as well as provide assistance to attorneys, the Center positively impacts the legal and business communities-in Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Indiana and the world.
Established in the 1980s, the Center addresses issues of central concern to corporate attorneys, such as the fiduciary duties of managers, the relationship between managers and shareholders, and the relationship of the corporation to society. Central to its activities is the annual Corporate Law Symposium, which provides an opportunity for scholars, practitioners and law students from across the country to exchange ideas, debate issues, and discuss ongoing research and scholarship on current topics in the field.

Center for Practice

The Center for Practice was founded
to enhance professional education for negotiations and problem
solving. The Center's seminars, forums, workshops and courses draw
upon work from a variety of disciplines, including law, behavioral
science, and decision-science.

Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence Project

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence
Project works for positive social and legal change in Ohio, Northern Kentucky, Indiana, and beyond. Founded in the aftermath of the racial
strife and civil unrest that shook Cincinnati to its core in April
2001, the RIJ/OIP seeks to make a difference in the lives of wrongly
convicted criminals, in government rulings, or in the community.

The RIJ/OIP focuses on research project and reports, the Ohio
Innocence Project, and the Speakers Series. Participants engage in
public policy research, working with UC law professors on issues that
affect law and justice-from racism to race relations, from the
environment to economics. The Ohio Innocence Project serves as
"freedom fighters," working to free the wrongly convicted. UC Law's
program has freed three wrongly convicted persons to date. The
Speakers Series provides an opportunity to engage the public,
politicians, and others on issues affecting urban justice.

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice was founded by
Gabriel J. Chin, Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of
Law and Joseph P. Tomain, Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler
Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati Law School.

Professor Mark A. Godsey serves as the Faculty Director. Staff attorneys include Jennifer Paschen Bergeron, Karla Markley Hall, and Carrie Wood.

The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Institute for Justice/Ohio Innocence
Project is supported by Cincinnati and Ohio philanthropists.

Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic

At the ECDC, third year law students represent local small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs on transactional legal issues critical to their success. Such services include assistance and counseling on entity selection and formation; regulatory compliance and licensing; trademark and copyright protection; lease review and negotiation; contract preparation, review, and negotiation; as well as any other legal issues confronting a small business. Students perform all work at the ECDC under the supervision of its director, Professor Lewis Goldfarb. The ECDC represents clients of limited financial means, including both for-profit and non-profit organizations, which cannot afford the legal services of the private bar. The ECDC determines eligibility for its services based on a completed “Application for Pro Bono Legal Assistance.”

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice

The Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice provides experiential learning, research, and other opportunities for interdisciplinary inquiry that enhance the vibrant intellectual life at the College of Law. The Center bridges theory and practice, forgse relationships with local, national, and global communities, and prepares students to take the lead in advancing justice. The Center's programs are the Joint Degree Program in Law and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS), the Freedom Center Journal, and the Domestic Violence and Civil Protection Order Clinic.

Location

The College of Law is located in Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

which is the 62nd largest city in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

--List of United States cities by population, while the Cincinnati-Middletown metropolitan area is the 24th largest in the country by population--United States metropolitan areas. The Greater Cincinnati area is home to over 685 law firms. Notably, Cincinnati's downtown is the site for the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Kentucky* Western District of Kentucky...

courthouse, and also the courthouse for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio is one of two United States district courts in Ohio and includes forty-eight of the state's eighty-eight counties. Appeals from the court are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at Cincinnati The...

.

Furthermore, Cincinnati is home to 10 Fortune 500

Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...

companies including being the headquarters for Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

, Fifth Third Bank

Fifth Third Bank

Fifth Third Bank is a U.S. regional banking corporation, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio and is the principal subsidiary of holding company Fifth Third Bancorp ....

, GE Aviation

GE-Aviation

GE Aviation, a subsidiary of General Electric, is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio . GE Aviation is the top supplier of aircraft engines in the world, and offers engines for the majority of commercial aircraft. GE Aviation is part of the General Electric conglomerate, which is one of the world's...

, Macy's, Inc. and Kroger

Kroger

The Kroger Co. is an American supermarket chain founded by Bernard Kroger in 1883 in Cincinnati, Ohio. It reported US$ 76.7 billion in sales during fiscal year 2009. It is the country's largest grocery store chain and its second-largest grocery retailer by volume and second-place general retailer...

.

In their annual list, the Partners for Livable Communities has continued to name Cincinnati as one of the top ten most livable cities in the United States.

The College of Law is located at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Calhoun Street in the Heights neighborhood of Cincinnati.

Notable alumni

The period from 1925 to 1929 was a golden era for the school's alumni. During this time, UC Law alumni had significant influence in all three branches of the federal government. Charles G. Dawes was Vice President (and therefore also President of the Senate), Nicolas Longworth was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and William Howard Taft was Chief Justice of United States. Also during this time, alumnus Miller Huggins managed the New York Yankees to World Series

World Series

The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball, played between the American League and National League champions since 1903. The winner of the World Series championship is determined through a best-of-seven playoff and awarded the Commissioner's Trophy...

championships in 1927 and 1928.

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! Name
! Year of Graduation
! Notable Accomplishments
|-
|John D. Altenburg

John D. Altenburg

Major General John D. Altenburg Jr. is a former Green Beret and a lawyer for the U.S. Army. In December 2003,...

|1973
|Major General

Major General

Major general or major-general is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. A major general is a high-ranking officer, normally subordinate to the rank of lieutenant general and senior to the ranks of brigadier and brigadier general...

and military lawyer (U.S. army ret.) appointed authority for military commissions covering detainees at Guantanamo
|-
|Helen Elsie Austin

Helen Elsie Austin

Helen Elsie Austin was an attorney, US Foreign Service Officer, and member of the Bahá'í National Spiritual Assemblies in the United States and North West Africa. She was among the first African Americans admitted to the practice of law in the United States.-Personal life:Austin was born in Alabama...

|1930
|A U.S. Foreign Service Officer and the first black woman to graduate from UC Law
|-
|William M. Barker

William M. Barker

William Michael Barker was Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995-2009....

|1967
|Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Tennessee Supreme Court

The Tennessee Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the state of Tennessee. Cornelia Clark is the current Chief Justice.Unlike other states, in which the state attorney general is directly elected or appointed by the governor or state legislature, the Tennessee Supreme Court appoints the...

|-
|Michael Ryan Barrett

Michael Ryan Barrett

Michael Ryan Barrett is a United States federal judge in Ohio. Barrett practiced law for nearly 30 years before he was nominated by President George W. Bush and approved by the Senate to the federal courts system in 2006.-Education:...

|1977
|District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

|-
|Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Shank Beckwith is an American judge, the first woman to sit on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio....

|1968
|Chief Judge and the first woman to sit on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

|-
|Theodore Ted Berry

Ted Berry

Theodore M. Berry , an American politician of the Charter Party of Cincinnati, Ohio, was the first African American mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.-Early life and education:...

|1931
|First African-American mayor of Cincinnati, has been called "Mr. Cincinnati", advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and pivotal attorney in the Civil Rights Movement

Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for equality before the law occurring between approximately 1950 and 1980. In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance. In some situations it was...

for the NAACP
|-
|Joseph Gurney Cannon

Joseph Gurney Cannon

Joseph Gurney Cannon was a United States politician from Illinois and leader of the Republican Party. Cannon served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1903 to 1911, and historians generally consider him to be the most dominant Speaker in United States history, with such...

|attended, 1859
|U.S. Congressman

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal government of the United States, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Congress meets in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C....

and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, or Speaker of the House, is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives...

(1903-1911)
|-
|Samuel Fenton Cary

Samuel Fenton Cary

Samuel Fenton Cary was a congressman and significant temperance movement leader in the nineteenth century. Cary became well-known nationally as a prohibitionist author and lecturer.-Life:...

|1837
|U.S. Congressman

United States Congress

representing Ohio

Ohio

in the U.S. House of Representatives (1867-1869), United States Vice Presidential candidate, prohibitionist
|-
|Stan Chesley
|1960
|Nationally recognized attorney of Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley Co., L.P.A., well-known for his expertise with class action lawsuits; has been referred to as "The Prince of Torts"
|-
|Norton Parker Chipman
|1859
|Chief JAG Prosecutor at Andersonville, Secretary of the District of Columbia, U.S. Congressman, Author, and First Presiding Justice of the California Third District Court of Appeal
|-
|Donald D. Clancy

Donald D. Clancy

Donald D. Clancy was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He represented the 2nd District of Ohio from 1961 until 1977.-Early life and education:...

|1948
|Former U.S. Congressman representing Ohio in the House of Representatives (1961-1977) and former mayor of Cincinnati
|-
|James Beauchamp Clark

James Beauchamp Clark

James Beauchamp Clark best known as Champ Clark was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party from the 1890s until his death. A Representative of Missouri from 1893 to 1895 and from 1897 to 1921, he served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919...

|1875
|U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1911-1919)
|-
|Cris Collinsworth

Cris Collinsworth

Anthony Cris Collinsworth is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for eight seasons in the 1980s. He played college football for the University of Florida, and thereafter, he played his entire professional career for...

|1991
|Former wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals

Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...

and current television sportscaster for NBC Sunday Night Football

NBC Sunday Night Football

NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color...

|-
|Charles G. Dawes

Charles G. Dawes

|1886
|30th Vice President of the United States

Vice President of the United States

(1925-1929) and Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...

recipient
|-
|James W. Denver

James W. Denver

James William Denver was an American politician, soldier, lawyer, and esteemed actor. He served in the California state government, as an officer in the United States Army in two wars, and as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from California, as well as playing lead...

|1844
|Governor of the Kansas Territory

Kansas Territory

The Territory of Kansas was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Kansas....

(1857-1858), Secretary of State of California (1853-1855) and namesake of Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

|-
|Joe Deters

Joe Deters

Joseph T. "Joe" Deters is an American politician of the Republican party who currently serves as Prosecuting Attorney for Hamilton County, Ohio. He is a 1975 graduate of St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati.-Career:...

|1982
|Ohio State Treasurer

Ohio State Treasurer

-List of Ohio State Treasurers:...

(1999-2005), Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio (2005-present)
|-
|Richard P. Ernst

Richard P. Ernst

Richard Pretlow Ernst was a U.S. Senator from Kentucky who served from 1921 to 1927. He was a Republican. Ernst graduated from Centre College in 1878 and got his law degree from the Cincinnati Law School in 1880. That year, he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Cincinnati, Ohio...

|1880
|U.S. Senator

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

from Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

(1921-1927)
|-
|Judson Harmon

Judson Harmon

Judson Harmon was a Democratic politician from Ohio. He served as United States Attorney General under President Grover Cleveland and later served as the 45th Governor of Ohio....

|1870
|Attorney General of the United States (1895-1897), Governor of Ohio

Ohio

(1909-1913)
|-
|John David Holschuh

John David Holschuh

John David Holschuh was a United States federal judge.Born in Ironton, Ohio, Holschuh received a B.A. from Miami University in 1948 and a J.D. from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 1951. He was in private practice in Columbus, Ohio from 1951 to 1952. He was a law clerk, Hon. Mell G....

|1951
|Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

|-
|Miller Huggins

Miller Huggins

Miller James Huggins , nicknamed "Mighty Mite", was a baseball player and manager. He managed the powerhouse New York Yankee teams of the 1920s and won six American League pennants and three World Series championships....

|
| Manager of the New York Yankees

New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
|-
|Henry Thomas Hunt

Henry Thomas Hunt

Henry Thomas Hunt was the reform-minded mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio from 1912 to 1913. Hunt, 33 years old when he took office, quickly became known as the Boy Mayor...

|1903
|Mayor of Cincinnati (1912-1913)
|-
|Charles Keating

Charles Keating

Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. is an American athlete, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, and financier, most known for his role in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s....

|1948
|Founding partner of Keating, Muething & Klekamp; appointed to one of Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

's Presidential Commissions
|-
|William J. Keating

William J. Keating

William John Keating is a former American politician of the Republican party.Keating served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974 representing Ohio's 1st congressional district. He was the brother of financier Charles H Keating Jr. and later was Chairman CEO & Publisher...

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

, The Joseph P. Kinneary U.S. Courthouse dedicated in 1998
|-
|Nicholas Longworth

Nicholas Longworth

Nicholas Longworth IV was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century...

|1894
|U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1925-1931)
|-
|Charlie Luken

Charlie Luken

Charles J. Luken is an American politician of the Democratic party who was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio and served in the Ohio's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Luken's uncle, labor leader James T. Luken, also served as mayor of Cincinnati...

|1976
|U.S. Congressman and mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

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(1984-1991, 1999-2006)
|-
|Harold G. Maier

Harold G. Maier

Harold G. Maier is a noted scholar in the field of international law, international civil litigation, and conflict of laws. After receiving his undergraduate education at the University of Cincinnati, he obtained his law degree from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He also earned an...

|1963
|International Law Scholar; former Counselor on International Law, U.S. Department of State
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|William "Billy" Martin

Billy Martin (lawyer)

William R. "Billy" Martin is an attorney with Dorsey & Whitney in the Washington, D.C. office . Martin joined the firm in 2011. His notable past clients have included NBA stars Allen Iverson and Jayson Williams, Monica Lewinsky's mother, and Chandra Levy's parents...

|1976
|Prominent defense attorney of Washington D.C.; represented Marcia Lewis during the Lewinsky scandal

Lewinsky scandal

The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in 1998 from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a 25-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The news of this extra-marital affair and the resulting investigation eventually led to the impeachment of...

, the parents of Chandra Levy

Chandra Levy

Chandra Ann Levy was an American intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., who disappeared in May 2001. She was presumed murdered after her skeletal remains were found in Rock Creek Park in May 2002...

, former Atlanta mayor Bill Campbell

Bill Campbell (mayor)

Bill Campbell , is a former American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and served as the 57th Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., from 1994 to 2002. Campbell was the fifty-seventh mayor in the city's history and the third African American to hold the office...

, former NBA player Jayson Williams

Jayson Williams

Jayson Williams is an American former professional basketball player. Standing 6 feet, 10 inches tall, he played for the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. In 2010, he pled guilty to assault in the shooting death of a limousine driver...

, and most recently NFL Quarterback Michael Vick

Michael Vick

Michael Dwayne Vick is an American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League...

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|Lawrence Maxwell, Jr.

Lawrence Maxwell, Jr.

Lawrence Maxwell Jr. was born to parents Lawrence and Alison on May 4, 1853 in Glasgow, Scotland.After immigrating to America, Maxwell graduated from the University of Michigan in 1874. In addition, he received an honorary masters and law degree from the university, in 1893 and 1904, respectively...

|1875
|United States Solicitor General

United States Solicitor General

The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...

(1893-1895)
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|Edwin P. Morrow

Edwin P. Morrow

Edwin Porch Morrow was an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Kentucky from 1919 to 1923. He was the only Republican elected to this office between 1907 and 1927. He championed the typical Republican causes of his day, namely equal rights for African-Americans and the use of...

|1902
|Governor

Governor of Kentucky

The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of the executive branch of government in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Fifty-six men and one woman have served as Governor of Kentucky. The governor's term is four years in length; since 1992, incumbents have been able to seek re-election once...

of Kentucky

Kentucky

(1919-1923)
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|Edward F. Noyes

Edward F. Noyes

Edward Follansbee Noyes was a Republican politician from Ohio. Noyes served as the 30th Governor of Ohio.-Biography:...

|1858
|Governor of Ohio

Ohio

(1872-1874)
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|Atlee Pomerene

Atlee Pomerene

Atlee Pomerene was a Democratic Party politician from Ohio. He represented Ohio in the United States Senate from 1911 until 1923.-Early life and career:...

|1886
|Lieutenant Governor of Ohio (1910-1911) and United States Senator (1911-1923)
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|Todd Portune

Todd Portune

Todd Portune is an American politician of the Democratic Party, who currently serves as a commissioner for Hamilton County, Ohio. Before holding that position, Portune was a councilman for the city of Cincinnati....

|1983
|Cincinnati City Council (1993-2000); Hamilton County Commissioner (2000-Present)
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|William S. Richardson

William S. Richardson

William Shaw Richardson was an American attorney, political figure, and chief justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court from 1966 to 1982. Prior to his service as the top jurist in Hawaii, Richardson was lieutenant governor under John A. Burns...

|1943
|Former Chief Justice

Chief Justice

The Chief Justice in many countries is the name for the presiding member of a Supreme Court in Commonwealth or other countries with an Anglo-Saxon justice system based on English common law, such as the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Court of Final Appeal of...

of the Hawaii Supreme Court (1966 - 1982); The University of Hawaii's William S. Richardson School of Law

William S. Richardson School of Law

The William S. Richardson School of Law is a public, co-educational institution of the University of Hawaii at Mānoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. Named after the beloved Hawaii State Supreme Court Chief Justice William S. Richardson, it is the only law school in the State of Hawaii...

is named after him for his dedication to its establishment
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|Thomas M. Rose

Thomas M. Rose

Thomas Michael Rose is a United States federal judge.Born in Circleville, Ohio, Rose received a B.S. from Ohio University in 1970, where he was an Ohio University ROTC from 1966 to 1970. He was in the United States Army Reserve from 1970 to 1978, and received a J.D. from the University of...

|1973
|District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

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|Charles W. Sawyer

Charles W. Sawyer

Charles W. Sawyer was United States Secretary of Commerce from May 6, 1948 to January 20, 1953 in the administration of Harry Truman....

|1911
|Secretary of Commerce (1948 to 1953)
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|David M. Smolin

David M. Smolin

David Mark Smolin is a professor of law at Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the Harwell G...

|1986
|children's/human rights

Human rights

Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...

activist and law professor at Cumberland School of Law

Cumberland School of Law

Cumberland School of Law is an ABA accredited law school at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. The 11th oldest law school in the United States, it is 160 years old and has more than 11,000 graduates. Its alumni include two United States Supreme Court Justices; Nobel Peace Prize recipient...

, Director of Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics

Cumberland School of Law's Center for Biotechnology, Law, and Ethics

The Center for Biotechnology, Law and Ethics is a bioethics, biotechnology, and biotechnology law research center of Cumberland School of Law located on the Samford University campus in Birmingham, Alabama...

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|Bob Taft

Bob Taft

Robert Alphonso "Bob" Taft II is an Ohio Republican Party politician. He was elected to two terms of office as the 67th Governor of the U.S. state of Ohio between 1999-2007. After leaving office, Taft started working for the University of Dayton beginning August 15, 2007.-Personal background:Taft...

|1976
|Governor of Ohio

Ohio

(1999-2007)
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|William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

|1880
|27th President of the United States

President of the United States

(1909-1913), 10th Chief Justice of the United States

Chief Justice of the United States

The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...

(1921-1930) and United States Solicitor General

United States Solicitor General

(1890-1892)
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|Willis Van Devanter

Willis Van Devanter

Willis Van Devanter was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, January 3, 1911 to June 2, 1937.- Early life and career :...

|1881
|Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1911-1937)
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