Black Lawyers from 1993–1997 D'Army Bailey – former Circuit Court Judge in Shelby County, TN, founder of the National Civil Rights Museum, and civil rights activist Terri Bonoff – former Minnesota state senator and deputy senate minority leader, and 2016 congressional candidate (BA Psychology and Sociology 1979) David Brenerman – member of the Maine House of Representatives and ceremonial mayor of Portland, Maine (BA 1973 Government) Peng Chun Chang – High-level Chinese diplomat who played a pivotal role in the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (BA 1913, LLD 1938) Beth Edmonds – Maine State Senator (BA Geography 1972) Lauren Beth Gash – Former Illinois State Representative Matt Gilman - Massachusetts DUI lawyer (BA Government 2006) John M. Granville – USAID diplomat assassinated in Sudan Stephan Hay — member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Ellen Hughes-Cromwick – Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce (2015–17), chief global economist of Ford Motor Company, member of the Clark University Board of Trustees (2017–present) (MA International Development 1988, PhD Economics 1986) Hugh Llewellyn Keenleyside – Canadian ambassador to Mexico (1944–47) and commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1947–50); taught history at Clark (MA 1921, PhD 1923, LLD 1951) Joseph L. Kennedy – independent candidate in the United States Senate special election in Massachusetts, 2010 (BA Computer Science 1993) Kim Chung-yum – South Korean Ambassador to Japan, Chief Presidential Secretary, Minister of Commerce and Industry, and Minister of Finance (MA Economics 1959, LLD 1995) Mark MacDonald – member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Vermont Senate. (BA Government & International Relations 1972) Raymond Mariano – Mayor of Worcester, MA, 1993–2001 (MPA 1982) Floyd McKissick Jr. – North Carolina state senator, deputy senate minority leader (BA Geography) Libérat Mfumukeko – Secretary-General of the East African Community (MBA 1994) Richard T. Moore – Massachusetts State Senator (BA History 1966) Libby Pataki – First Lady of New York and wife of Republican presidential candidate George Pataki Michael P. Ross – member of the Boston City Council since 1999, representing District 8, which includes Beacon Hill, Back Bay, and the Fenway (BA 1993) Suh Sang-chul – South Korean government minister killed in the Rangoon bombing (Bachelor's 1958, master's 1959, posthumous LLD 1984) Olta Xhaçka – Albanian Minister of Defense and former Minister of Social Welfare and Youth Medicine Bruce Lerman, cardiologist; Chief of the Division of Cardiology and Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory