Senator (D), Arkansas Christopher Dodd (JD 1972) – former U.S. Senator (D), Connecticut James B. Edwards (DMD 1955) – former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Governor of South Carolina Charles R. Farnsley (LL.B. 1926) – Kentucky General Assembly 1936–40; Mayor of Louisville 1948–53; U.S. House of Representatives 1965–67 Gina Haspel – Director of CIA (BA 1978) Henry D. Hatfield (DMD 1900) – former U.S. Senator and Governor of West Virginia David L. Huber – former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky Addison James – United States Representative from Kentucky Thomas Lee Judge – 18th governor of Montana John A. Logan (JD 1851) – Union General in the Civil War, won Medal of Honor at Vicksburg, led Union forces at Battle of Atlanta, Senator for Illinois Romano Mazzoli (JD 1960) – representative for KY's 3rd US Congressional District 1971–95 Mitch McConnell (BA 1964) – U.S. Senator and Majority Leader (R), Kentucky Louie Nunn (JD 1950) – Governor of Kentucky (1967–71) Jim Smith – member of the Indiana Senate Evan B. Stotsenburg – President Pro Tempore of the Indiana Senate; Indiana Attorney General (1915–1917) Ben Waide (BS) – member of the Kentucky House of Representatives Religion Aryeh Kaplan (BA 1961) – American Orthodox rabbi, author, and translator known for his knowledge of physics and kabbalah Science and engineering James Gilbert Baker (BA 1935) – winner of Presidential Award for Merit, developed the Baker-Schmidt telescope, pushed for U2 spy plane development Lawrence F. Dahl (BS 1951) – professor emeritus of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Keith Fitzgerald (BA 1994) – political scientist and immigration policy pundit Thomas L. Maddin (1826–1908) – Confederate physician, professor of medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine David Meade – book author Renã A. S. Robinson (B.S. 2000) – spectrometry, proteomics, Alzheimer's disease and aging Gary Sullivan (B.S. 1982, MEng 1983) – researcher and standardization leader in video compression technology including H.264/AVC and HEVC Chang-Lin Tien (MEng 1957) – UC Berkeley chancellor 1990–97; engineering scholar Notable faculty William Burke Belknap – economist; hardware manufacturer; philanthropist; horse breeder; Professor of Economics at the University of Louisville Jim Chen – legal scholar and expert on constitutional law Colin Crawford – legal scholar and dean of the University of Louisville School of Law Paul W. Ewald – evolutionary biologist credited as one scientist who devised the Trade-Off Hypothesis Agnes Moore Fryberger – first director of music appreciation