Where Judges Went to Law School: Federal Appellate Judges

Law School # Judges

1 

Harvard University

41

2 

Yale University

26

3 

University of Michigan Ann Arbor

17

4 

Georgetown University

12

5 

University of Virginia

12

6 

University of Texas Austin

8

7 

University of Chicago

7

8 

George Washington University

6

9 

Stanford University

6

10 

Columbia University

5

11 

New York University

5

12 

Tulane University

5

13 

University of California Los Angeles

5

14 

University of Florida

5

15 

University of Notre Dame

5

16 

Emory University

4

17 

University of California Berkeley

4

18 

University of Pennsylvania

4

19 

University of Wyoming

4

20 

Cornell University

3

21 

Indiana University Bloomington

3

22 

Marquette University

3

23 

Northwestern University

3

24 

University of Arkansas Fayetteville

3

25 

University of Minnesota Twin Cities

3

26 

University of Southern California

3

27 

University of the Pacific

3

28 

Vanderbilt University

3

29 

Arizona State University

2

30 

Boston University

2

31 

Brigham Young University

2

32 

Duke University

2

33 

Fordham University

2

34 

Howard University

2

35 

Syracuse University

2

36 

Temple University

2

37 

University of Akron

2

38 

University of Alabama

2

39 

University of Denver

2

40 

University of Detroit Mercy

2

41 

University of Mississippi

2

42 

University of Montana

2

43 

University of Nebraska Lincoln

2

44 

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

2

45 

University of Pittsburgh

2

46 

University of South Carolina

2

47 

University of Washington

2

48 

American University

1

49 

Baylor University

1

50 

Chicago-Kent College of Law (IIT)

1

51 

College of William and Mary

1

52 

DePaul University

1

53 

Hofstra University

1

54 

Louisiana State - Baton Rouge

1

55 

Loyola University New Orleans

1

56 

New York Law School

1

57 

Ohio State University

1

58 

Penn State University (Dickinson)

1

59 

Rutgers State University Newark

1

60 

Samford University

1

61 

Seton Hall University

1

62 

University at Buffalo

1

63 

University of Arizona

1

64 

University of California Hastings

1

65 

University of Colorado Boulder

1

66 

University of Georgia

1

67 

University of Houston

1

68 

University of Idaho

1

69 

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

1

70 

University of Iowa

1

71 

University of Kansas

1

72 

University of Missouri Columbia

1

73 

University of North Dakota

1

74 

University of Oklahoma

1

75 

University of Oregon

1

76 

University of South Dakota

1

77 

University of Tennessee Knoxville

1

78 

University of Toledo

1

79 

University of Utah

1

80 

Villanova University

1

81 

Washington University in St Louis

1

82 

West Virginia University

1

83 

Willamette University

1
 

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