List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in politics and government

This page lists notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year.

Notable faculty members are in the article List of UC Berkeley faculty.


See also: List of UC Berkeley School of Law alumni

Royalty

  • Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (Laurentien Brinkhorst), M.Jour. 1991 – Princess of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and daughter of the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs, Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst and Jantien Brinkhorst-Heringa
  • Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau (attended College of Engineering 1986–1988) – Prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Prince Claus von Amsberg
  • Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, B.A. 1999 – heir to the throne of Norway

Heads of state

Governors

Executive council members

The following served as cabinet-level officials.

Judges

See also: List of UC Berkeley School of Law alumni

  • Robert Peter Aguilar, B.A., 1954, J.D., 1958 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Richard G. Andrews, J.D., 1981 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
  • Stanley Nelson Barnes, A.B., 1924, J.D., 1927 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Marsha S. Berzon, J.D., 1973 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Rose Bird, J.D., 1965 – first female Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
  • Charles R. Breyer, J.D., 1966 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Allen Broussard, B.A., 1950, J.D., 1953 – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
  • Lloyd Hudson Burke, LL.B., 1940 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Edward M. Chen, B.A., 1975, J.D., 1979 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Maxine M. Chesney, B.A., 1964, J.D., 1967 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Vince Girdhari Chhabria, J.D., 1998 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • William Perry Copple, B.A., 1948, J.D., 1951 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
  • Myron Donovan Crocker, LL.B., 1940 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Eastern District of California
  • Frank C. Damrell Jr., B.A., 1961 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • George B. Daniels, J.D., 1978 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • William Denman, B.Litt., 1894 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • James Donato, B.A. 1983 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Joan Donoghue, J.D. 1978 – Judge, International Court of Justice
  • Miranda Du, J.D., 1994 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
  • Herbert Wilson Erskine, A.B., 1908 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Michael W. Fitzgerald, J.D., 1985 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • Beth Labson Freeman, B.A., 1976 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Monroe Mark Friedman, A.B., 1916, LL.B., 1920 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Lloyd D. George, J.D., 1961 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
  • Steven Gonzalez, J.D., 1991 – Associate Justice, Washington Supreme Court
  • Louis Earl Goodman, B.A., 1913 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Sherrill Halbert, A.B., 1924, J.D., 1927 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Oliver Deveta Hamlin, Jr., B.L., 1914 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Thelton Henderson, B.A., 1956, J.D., 1962 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Harry Aaron Hollzer, B.L., 1902, LL.B., 1903 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • Sandra Segal Ikuta, A.B., 1976 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Anthony W. Ishii, J.D., 1973 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • Lance Ito, J.D. 1975 – Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, presided over O.J. Simpson trial
  • D. Lowell Jensen, A.B., 1949, LL.B., 1952 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Alan Cooke Kay, LL.B., 1960 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
  • William Duffy Keller, B.S., 1956 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • David Vreeland Kenyon, B.A., 1952 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • Gerald Sanford Levin, A.B., 1927, LL.D., 1930 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • M. James Lorenz, B.A., 1957 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • Thomas Jamison MacBride, A.B., 1936, J.D., 1940 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Eastern District of California
  • Kiyo A. Matsumoto, B.A 1976 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • Linda Hodge McLaughlin, LL.B., 1966 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • Charles Merton Merrill, A.B., 1928 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Frank C. Newman, LL.B., 1941 – Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
  • Fernando M. Olguin, M.A., J.D., 1989 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • Lawrence Joseph O'Neill, B.A., 1973 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • William Horsley Orrick, Jr., LL.B., 1941 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • John B. Owens, B.A., 1993 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Richard Paez, J.D., 1972 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • John Slater Partridge, A.B., 1892, A.M., 1894 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Virginia A. Phillips, J.D., 1982 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • Harry Pregerson, LL.B., 1950 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • Edward Dean Price, A.B., 1947, LL.B., 1949 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • Jane A. Restani, B.A., 1969 – Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
  • Cruz Reynoso, LL.B., 1958 – first Latino Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
  • Edward Joseph Schwartz, A.B., 1934 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • Milton Lewis Schwartz, A.B., 1941, J.D., 1948 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • William B. Shubb, A.B., 1960, J.D., 1963 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • James Keith Singleton, Jr., A.B., 1961, LL.B., 1964 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska
  • Indira Talwani, J.D., 1988 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  • Amul Thapar, J.D., 1994 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
  • Jon S. Tigar, J.D., 1989 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Roger J. Traynor, B.A. 1923, Ph.D. 1926, J.D. 1927 – Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court (1964–1970)
  • John P. Vukasin Jr., A.B., 1950, J.D., 1956 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • John Clifford Wallace, LL.B., 1955 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • Evan Wallach, J.D., 1976 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Oliver Winston Wanger, LL.B., 1966 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 – 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1953–1969) (also listed in Governors section and Attorneys section)
  • Paul J. Watford, B.A., 1989 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • Kathryn Werdegar, B.A., 1962 – Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
  • Francis C. Whelan, LL.B., J.D., 1932 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern District of California
  • Claudia Ann Wilken, J.D., 1975 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Spencer Mortimer Williams, LL.B., 1948 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • David John Wilson, J.D., 1919 – Judge, U.S. Customs Court
  • Albert Charles Wollenberg, A.B., 1922, J.D., 1924 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • Alfonso Zirpoli, A.B., 1926, J.D., 1928 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Legislators

Directors

Mayors

Diplomats

  • J. Christopher Stevens, B.A. 1982, J.D. 1989 – United States Ambassador to Libya (2012)
  • Earl Anthony Wayne, B.A. 1972 – United States Ambassador to Mexico (2011–present)
  • Julia Chang Bloch, B.A. 1964 – United States Ambassador to Nepal (1989–1993)
  • Charles Richard Bowers, B.A. 1966, M.A. 1967 – United States Ambassador to Bolivia (1991–1994)
  • Martin Brennan, B.A. 1971 – former United States Ambassador to Zambia and Uganda[33]
  • Kenneth C. Brill, M.B.A. 1973 – United States Ambassador to Cyprus (1996–1999), Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (2001–04)
  • Ruth A. Davis, M.S.W. 1968 – United States Ambassador to Benin (1992–1995)
  • Milton Frank, B.A. 1941 – United States Ambassador to Nepal (1988–89)
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, M.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1934 – Harvard Professor Emeritus of Economics; United States Ambassador to India
  • Philip Habib, Ph.D. 1952 – United States Ambassador to South Korea (1971–74), U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East (1981–1983)
  • Kathryn Walt Hall, B.A. – United States Ambassador to Austria (1997–2001)
  • March Kong Fong Eu, B.S. 1943 – former California Secretary of State, former United States Ambassador to Micronesia, mother of Matt Fong, also a noted Chinese-American politician
  • Michael G. Kozak, B.A. 1968, J.D. 1971 – United States Ambassador to Belarus (2000–2003)
  • Joseph Limprecht, Ph.D. 1975 – United States Ambassador to Albania (1999–2002)
  • John K. Menzies, Ph.D. – United States Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina (1996–1996), current dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University
  • Richard Monroe Miles, B.A. 1962 – United States Ambassador to Bulgaria (1999–2002), United States Ambassador to Georgia (2002–2005)
  • David Dunlop Newsom, B.A. 1938 – United States Ambassador to Indonesia (1974–1977), United States Ambassador to the Philippines (1977–1978), Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1978–1981)
  • Sadako Ogata, Ph.D. 1963 – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (1991–2001)
  • Maurice S. Parker, B.A. 1972 – United States Ambassador to Swaziland (2007–present)
  • Gregory L. Schulte, B.A. 1980 – Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (2005–09)
  • Kenneth D. Taylor, M.B.A. 1959 – Canadian ambassador to Iran (1977–1979) during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, noted for his role in the Canadian Caper which formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Argo[34]
  • Emeline U. Tuita, M.B.A. 1999 – Commercial Consul, Tonga Consulate General in San Francisco (1990–1992), Consul General at Tonga Consulate General in San Francisco (1996–1999), Ambassador of the Kingdom of Tonga to the People's Republic of China (2005–2008)
  • James David Zellerbach, 1913 – United States Ambassador to Italy
  • Tonika Sealy-Thompson, MA 2019 - Barbadian ambassador to Brazil
    Tonika Sealy-Thompson appointed Ambassador to Brazil

Attorneys

See also: List of UC Berkeley School of Law alumni

Military

Activists

Other

See also

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