U.Va. Notable Alumni - Degrees/Attendance 1971-1980

Politics

George F. Allen (CLAS '74, LAW '77): Former U.S. Senator, former Governor of Virginia
Lt. Gen. David A. Deptua (CLAS '43, GSAS '76): Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
J. Randy Forbes (LAW '77): U.S. Congressman, Fourth District
Julia Gibbons (CLAS '75): U.S. District Judge, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
James S. Gilmore III (CLAS '71, LAW '77): Former Governor of Virginia and Chairman of the Republican National Committee
John Gleeson (LAW '80): Judge, U.S District Court, Eastern District of New York, Prosecutor John Gotti Trial.
Robert L. Hutchings (CLAS '79): Chairman, National Intelligence Council
Robert S. Mueller III (LAW '73): Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
L.F. Payne (DARD '73): Former Virginia Congressman, President of McGuire Woods Consulting
Rebecca W. Rimel (NURS '73): President, Pew Charitable Trusts
Charles S. Robb (LAW '73): Former U.S. Senator and Governor of Virginia 2004, Chairman of the Iraq Intelligence Commission.
Larry J. Sabato (CLAS '74): Director and founder, Center for Politics; best-selling author, Feeding Frenzy: Attack Journalism & American Politics.
George T. Yates III (CLAS '70, LAW '73): Recipient, French Legion d'Honneur award in 2002

Daryl Brewster (CLAS '79): President and CEO, Krispy Kreme
U Bertram Ellis Jr. (CLAS '75, DARD '79): Chairman & CEO, iXL Enterprises
C. Thomas Faulders III (CLAS '71): Former Chairman, CEO, LCC International, Inc., President and Chief Executive Officer of the University Alumni Association.
Paul Tudor Jones (CLAS '76): President, Tudor Investment Corp.
Martin Killgallon (DARD '72): CEO, Ohio Art Company a children's toy company that brought the Etch-A-Sketch among other toys.
Timothy Koogle (MSE '73): Former President and CEO, Yahoo Inc.
H. Eugene Lockhart Jr. (MSE '72, DARD '74): Director IMS Health, Inc., Former CEO Master Card International
Jonathan Mariner (COMM '76): Executive Vice President and CFO of Major League Baseball
Peter Quick (MSE '78): Former President, American Stock Exchange
Steven S. Reinemund (DARD '78): Director at Johnson & Johnson, Former Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo, Inc.
Mark B. Templeton (DARD '78): President & CEO, Citrix Systems, Inc.
James W. Thomas (DARD '79): Former COO & CFO, MapQuest
David Verklin (CLAS '78): CEO, Carat North America
Roger L. Werner Jr. (DARD '77): President, Chief Executive Officer of Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. and The Outdoor Channel

Denise Geolot Sherer (NURS '70, NURS '75): Director, Center for Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration

Mark Johnson (CLAS '71): Movie producer, Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Andrew M. Scheinman (CLAS '70, LAW '73): Movie producer, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, The Princess Bride
Tom Shadyac (CLAS '80): Movie director/producer, Patch Adams, Liar Liar, The Nutty Professor, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bruce Almighty
Ann Hould Ward (CLAS '78): Tony Award winner for costume design, Beauty and the Beast

Asher D. Grunis (LAW '72): Israeli Supreme Court Justice
Leroy Rountree Hassell (CLAS '77): First black Chief Justice, Virginia Supreme Court
John Charles Thomas (CLAS '72, LAW '75): First African-American Justice, Va. Supreme Court. One of twelve African-Americans out of 1,400 students in 1968.

Tim Finchem (LAW '73): Commissioner and CEO, PGA
Walter "Wally" F. Walker (CLAS '76): Former President and General manager, Seattle SuperSonics. Led U.Va. to its only ACC title and its first NCAA Tournament.

Thomas Bachhuber (EDU '73): Director of The Career Development Center at UWM, author of five books including The Best Graduate Business Schools.
Rabbi David Ellenson (GSAS '72): President, Hebrew Union College

Michael Leinbach (ARCH '76): Shuttle launch Director NASA, John F. Kennedy Space Center
Kathryn Cordell Thornton (GSAS '79): Astronaut, flew on several missions aboard the Discovery (1989) and Endeavour (1992, 1993) space shuttles.
Peter J. Wisoff (CLAS '80): Astronaut, flew on missions aboard the Endeavour (1993 and 1994), Atlantis (1997) and the Discovery (2000).

Wyatt G. Andrews (CLAS '74): CBS news correspondent
Katherine A. Couric (CLAS '79): Anchor, CBS Nightly News. She has been co-anchor of NBC's "Today Show" from 1991 through 2006.
Tyler Mathisen (CLAS '76): Managing Editor of CNBC Business News and Host of CNBC High Net Worth
George P. Rodrigue III (CLAS '78): VP/Managing editor, The Dallas Morning News; two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient
William F. Shortz (LAW '77): Crossword editor, New York Times; puzzlemaster, NPR Weekend Edition
Joan M. Stapleton (CLAS '75): Former publisher, New Republic

Claudia Emerson (CLAS '79): Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. She was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection "Late Wife" and has been a contributing editor of the literary magazine "Shenandoah."
Linda A. Fairstein (LAW '72): Former prosecutor and best-selling crime novelist, served as Chief of the Sex Crime Persecution Unit in the NY Dist Attorney office.
Lawton Fitt (DARD '79): Director, CIENA Corporation and Former Director, the Royal Academy of Arts

Javier Solana (GSAS '71): Former Secretary General of NATO (1995-1999), current Secretary General of the Council of the EU.
E. Ashley Wills (CLAS '71): U.S. Ambassador focuses on India and South Asia, Senior International Business Advisor at WilmerHale