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Distinguished New York Law School graduates in public service, business, and the arts
- John Marshall Harlan ’24, United States Supreme Court Justice from 1955 to 1971
- Robert F. Wagner, Class of 1900, U.S. Senator from New York, 1927 to 1949; author of the National Labor Relations Act
- New York City Mayors John F. Hylan, Class of 1897 and John Purroy Mitchel, Class of 1901
- Conrad A. Johnson ’13, an immigrant from Barbados who became the first black Republican alderman in New York City
- Emilio Nuñez ’27, the first Latino judge in New York City
- James S. Watson ’13, a judge and the first African American admitted to membership in the American Bar Association
- Barbara M. Watson ’62, daughter of James S. Watson (above), the first woman to attain the rank of assistant secretary of state of the United States
- Wallace Stevens, Class of 1903, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
- Elmer Rice ’12, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
- Chester Carlson ’39, invented the xerography photocopy proces while a law student
Countless New York Law School alumni have
started their own firms, some of which rank among
the country’s most prominent
- Henry Hurlbut Abbott ’66, of Breed, Abbott & Morgan
- William Parke ’76, of Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff
- Edwin Sunderland ’86, of Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl
- Jacob Scholer ’10, of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler
- Reid Carr ’55, of Kelley, Drye, Warren, Clark, Carr & Ellis
- Albert Milbank ’45 and Walter Hope ’65, of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley
- Alfred Mudge ’73 of Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander
- Randolph E. Paul ’35 and John R. Wharton ’36, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Alfred Rose ’57, of Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn
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 Aysha Schomburg
The moment I first walked into the school, I felt comfortable. There was diversity. It was one subway stop away from my work. It worked for me. More
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