rights activist and attorney; successfully argued the Obergefell v. Hodges case that overturned state bans on same-sex marriage in 2015. George W. Clinton, class of 1825 - Mayor of Buffalo, District Attorney of Ontario County, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Judge of the Buffalo Superior Court Steve Culbertson, class of 1979 - President & Chief Executive Officer at Youth Service America Bruce Cutler, class of 1970 - criminal defense lawyer; attorney for John Gotti and Louis Eppolito George T. Downing, attended Marc Elias, class of 1990 - voting rights attorney, founder of Democracy Docket Bela Hubbard, class of 1834 - Michigan pioneer, writer, geologist, lawyer, lumberman William A. Jacobson, class of 1981, conservative commentator and clinical professor at Cornell Law School Ron Kim, class of 2001, member of New York State Assembly and first Korean-American ever elected in New York State. Bob Moses, class of 1956 - civil rights activist (the Algebra Project) Bill Purcell, class of 1976 - mayor of Nashville Dan Siegel, class of 1967- Labor attorney and civil rights activist Lloyd Paul Stryker, class of 1906, noted American criminal defense lawyer (defended Alger Hiss) Theodore Dwight Weld - abolitionist Hiram Wilson, class of 1832 - abolitionist, educator, worked with Josiah Henson to establish the British-American Institute, delegate to the 1843 World Anti-Slavery Convention Literature and journalism Samuel Hopkins Adams, class of 1891 - author and investigative journalist Henry Allen, class of 1963 - critic who won Pulitzer Prize for Criticism (most prominently associated with The Washington Post) Frank Baldwin, class of 1985 - author of Balling the Jack Albert Barnes, class of 1820 - theologian Josh Billings, class of 1840 (did not graduate) - pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw Terry Brooks, class of 1966 - fantasy author Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, class of 1835 - educator and author Alf Evers, class of 1928 (did not graduate) - historian Amanda Filipacchi, class of 1988 - author of Nude Men, Vapor, and Love Creeps Michael Greenspan, class of 1969—CNN correspondent and documentary filmmaker James Grinwis - poet George Wheeler Hinman, class of 1884 - newspaper publisher and writer Harry Kondoleon, class of 1977 - author and playwright, Obie Award winner Sarah J. Maas, class of 2008 - author of best-selling fantasy series Thomas Meehan, class of 1951 - wrote the books for the musicals Annie and The Producers John Nichols, class of 1962 -