List of Cleveland State University College of Law alumni (original) (raw)

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.

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

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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