U.Va. Notable Alumni - Degrees/Attendance 1951-1970

Politics

Christopher S. Bond (LAW '63): U.S. Senator for Missouri
Elaine R. Jones (LAW '70): Retired president and director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Brereton C. Jones (COMM '61): Former Governor of Kentucky
Edward M. Kennedy (LAW '59): U.S. Senator for Massachusetts
Robert F. Kennedy (LAW '51): Former U.S. Senator for New York; former U.S. Attorney General
Author S. King Jr. (LAW '69): Former Governor of Maine
John Nau (CLAS '68): Chairman, Federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Bill Nelson (LAW '68): U.S. Senator, Astronaut
John Snow (GSAS '66): U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
John V. Tunney (LAW '59): Former U.S. Senator for California
Lowell Weicker (LAW '58): Former U.S Senator and Governor of Connecticut
George T. Yates III (CLAS '70, LAW '73): Recipient, French Legion d'Honneur award in 2002

James A. Bear Jr. (CLAS '43, GSAS '52): Former Director, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Alfred R. Berkeley III (CLAS '66): Former President and Vice Chairman, NASDAQ
George David (DARD '67): Chairman & CEO, United Technologies Corp.
Carl W. Smith (CLAS '51): Founder, Amvest Corporation
A. Thomas Young (CLAS '61): Former president, Martin Marietta, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Corp

Vivian W. Pinn MD (MED '67): Director, Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
Denise Geolot Sherer (NURS '70, NURS '75): Director, Center for Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration

Andrew M. Scheinman (CLAS '70, LAW '73): Movie producer, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride
Richard A. Tuggle (CLAS '70): Screenwriter, Escape from Alcatraz, Tightrope
Stanley Winston (CLAS '68): Motion picture special effects expert.
Paul J. Witt (CLAS '63): Movie producer, Three Kings, Dead Poets Society; television producer

Francis S. Collins MD, PhD (CLAS '70): Director, National Human Genome Research Institute

Albert (Al) Groh (COMM '66): Head coach for University of Virginia Football team. Former head coach of the New York Jets.
Sonny Randle (EDU '59): Four-time all-pro player with St. Louis Cardinals. Coached the U.Va. Cavaliers from 1974-1975.

John T. Casteen III (CLAS '65, GSAS '66, GSAS '70): President, University of Virginia
Jerome P. Keuper (GSAS '52): Founder and President Emeritus of Florida Institute of Technology

Bill Nelson (LAW '68): U.S Senator and Astronaut. Flew on a mission aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle in 1988.

Frederic W. Barnes Jr. (CLAS '65): Executive editor of The Weekly Standard, co-host of The Beltway Boys and also regularly appears on Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume.
E. Thayer Bigelow Jr. (DARD '67): Director, Crane Co., Former president, Time Warner Cable; former president, HBO
C. Shelby Coffey III (CLAS '68): Former President, CNN Business News and CNNfn; former editor, U.S. News and Report, The Dallas Times Herald, and the Los Angeles Times
Brit Hume (CLAS '65): Anchor of Special Report with Brit Hume, Managing Editor Fox News
Bob Wright (LAW '68): Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, GE Chairman, NBC Universal

Bruce Brandfon (CLAS '69): VP and Publisher of Scientific American
N. Scott Momaday (LAW '59): Author, House Made of Dawn, The Bear; Pulitzer Prize recipient
Henry S. Taylor (CLAS '65): Pulitzer Prize- winning Author, A Flying Change

Yasushi Akashi (GSAS '56): Former undersecretary, US Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
William Lyons Brown Jr. (CLAS '58): U.S. Ambassador to Austria
Edward E. Elson (CLAS '56): Former Ambassador to Denmark
William S. Farish III (CLAS '62): U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James
Charlie Glazer (COMM '65): US Ambassador
W. Nathaniel Howell (CLAS '61, GSAS '65): Former U.S. Ambassador to Kuwait
Alton G. Keel Jr. (MSE '66, MSE '70): Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
W. Robert Pearson (LAW '68): Director General, Foreign Service and Director, Human Resources U.S. Department of State