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• Albert Gore Jr. – Former US vice president and senator
• Tipper Gore, MA’76 – Family policy advocate; Democratic Party activist
• James Sasser, BA’58, JD’61 – Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to China
• Lamar Alexander, BA’62 – U.S. Senator from Tennessee, former Tennessee Governor and presidential candidate, former U.S. Secretary of Education
• James Bacchus, BA’71 – U.S. congressman from Florida’s 4th district and senior judge on the World Trade Organization Court of appeals, Geneva, Switzerland
• Fred Dalton Thompson, JD’71 – Actor, former U.S. Senator
• Allan Hubbard, BA’69 – Assistant to the President for Economic Policy under George W. Bush and Director of National Economic Council
• Mickey Kantor, BA’61 – Former U.S. Trade Representative and Secretary of Commerce
• Jack Watson, BA’60 – Chief of Staff under President Jimmy Carter
• James F. Neal, LLB’57 – Watergate prosecutor
• Roy Neel, BA’72 – Former campaign manager for Howard Dean, chief of staff for Vice President Gore and deputy Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton
• Bill Purcell, JD’79 – Nashville mayor
• Dr. Won Shik Chung, Peabody MA’58, PhD’66 – Prime Minister of South Korea (1991-1992)
• Maria Luiza Fontenele, G’73 – One of the first two women in Brazil’s history elected mayor of a state capital
• William “Bill” Cabaniss, BA’60 – Ambassador to Czech Republic
• K. Terry Dornbush, BA’55 – Former ambassador to The Netherlands
• Brian E. Carlson, BA’69 – Former U.S. ambassador to Latvia
• Marion Creekmore, BA’61 – Former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Republic of Maldives (1989-92)
• Thomas C. Ferguson, BA’55, JD’59 – U.S. Ambassador to Brueni  (1986-90)
• W. Robert Pearson, BA’65 – Former U.S. ambassador to Turkey
• Linda Ellen Watt, BA’73 – Former U.S. ambassador to Panama
• Hon. Frank F. Drowota III, BA’60, JD ’65 – Chief Justice, Tennessee Supreme Court
• Gilbert Merritt, JD’60 – Justice of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Martha Craig Daughtrey, BA’64, JD’68 – Justice of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
• Sheryll Cashin., BE’84 – Georgetown Law Professor, worked in White House during Clinton Administration as an advisor on urban and economic policy, former law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Abner Mikva of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Former Marshall Scholar.
• Ashley Jones Johnson BS’01, JD’04 – Clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
• James (Woodall) Rodgers, BA’12 (deceased) – Former mayor of Dallas
• Vince Davis, BA’52 (deceased) – Expert in post-WWII foreign policy, Director of Patterson School of Diplomacy
• Pauline Gore, LLB’36 (deceased) – Mother of Al Gore, Jr.; one of the VU law school's first female graduates
• Guilford Dudley Jr., BA’29 (deceased) – U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (1969-71)
• Marshall F. McCallie, BA’67 – U.S. Ambassador to Namibia (1993-96)
• James Clarke McReynolds, BS’1882 (deceased) – Justice of the Supreme Court and one of the organizers of the original Alumni Association