- United States Secretary of Agriculture; 40th Governor of Iowa Jim Walden, class of 1988 - lawyer, former federal prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York Judicial branch Charles F. Amidon, class of 1882 - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota Charles Holland Duell, class of 1871 - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Randolph Moss, class of 1983 - Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia David Aldrich Nelson, class of 1954 - Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Alfred W. Newman, class of 1857 - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Charles Prentiss Orr, class of 1879 - Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania Glenni William Scofield, class of 1840 - Judge of the United States Court of Claims Augustus Sherrill Seymour, class of 1857 - Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Roger Gordon Strand, class of 1955 - Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Arizona Amos Madden Thayer, class of 1862 - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit John Curtiss Underwood, class of 1832 - lawyer, abolitionist politician, judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia William James Wallace, class of 1857 - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Hiram Wilson, class of 1832 - Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Diplomats John B. Emerson, class of 1975 - United States Ambassador to Germany (2013 - present) Philip Jessup, class of 1917 - diplomat, international law scholar, ambassador Sol Linowitz, class of 1935 - attorney, diplomat; negotiated return of the Panama Canal William H. Luers, class of 1951 - U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983–86) Arnold Raphel, class of 1964 - U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1987–88) Edward S. Walker, Jr., class of 1962 - former Ambassador to Israel, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates, Middle East Institute president, Hamilton professor State and city politicians, attorneys, activists, and other Dean Alfange, class of 1922 - politician; founding member of the Liberal Party of New York; Greek-American; Zionist activist Mary Bonauto, class of 1983 - gay