Alumni

• Alumni population: 11,539
• Total alumni residing outside of the United States: 509
• Locations where Stanford law graduates can be found: 59 countries, 50 states, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Marshall Islands, and Guam

Notable Stanford Law Alumni

• Riley Bechtel: Bechtel Corp. CEO and Chairman
• Josh Bolten: White House Chief of Staff
• Brooksley Born: first woman named to the ABA's Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary
• Peter Bouckaert: Human Rights Watch Emergencies Director
• Warren Christopher: Former United States Secretary of State/li>
• Robert Paul Cochran: Emmy-winning TV creator and writer of "24"
• LaDoris H. Cordell: first African American female judge in Northern California and first African American Superior Court judge in Santa Clara County; Former Vice Provost and Special Counselor to the President for Campus Relations, Stanford University
• Mary B. Cranston: first female chair of a large national firm (Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP)
• David C. Drummond: Senior Vice President for Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer for Google, Inc
• Sian Elias: first female chief justice of New Zealand
• Louis P. Friedman: Managing Partner, Flexis Capital LLC
• Mi-Hyung Kim: Managing Director and General Counsel of South Korea's tenth largest conglomerate, Kumho Asiana Group
• Fred von Lohmann: Senior Copyright Counsel for Google, Inc.
• Cheryl Mills: Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Deputy White House counsel for President Clinton; Former Senior Vice President and Counselor of Operations at New York University
• William H. Neukom: Managing General Partner and Chief Executive Officer of the San Francisco Giants. Former Microsoft general counsel and partner, K & L Gates.
• Ronald K. Noble: Secretary General of Interpol
• Sandra Day O'Connor: first female appointed to U.S. Supreme Court
• Penny Pritzker: Co-Founder and Chairman, Vi (formerly Classic Residence by Hyatt), and Chairman and CEO, Pritzker Realty Group, LLC, Chairman of the Board of TransUnion
• William H. Rehnquist: Chief Justice of the United States (1986-2005)
• Anthony Romero: Executive Director of ACLU
• J. Alexander Thier: Assistant to the Administrator and Director, Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, USAID
• Phoebe L. Yang: Senior Advisor on Broadband Issues to the Federal Communications Commission Chairman; Former Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development, Discovery Communications, LLC

Stanford University Wellspring of Innovation

Stanford's entrepreneurial spirit, the result of its California location and the legacy of Leland and Jane Stanford, has helped spawn more than 3,000 companies in high technology and other fields.

Frederick Terman, provost from 1955 to 1965, is called the "academic architect" of the high-technology region known as Silicon Valley. He is credited with creating the university-industry partnerships that led to the establishment of companies key to the high-technology revolution.

Terman encouraged entrepreneurship among his students, created opportunities in California for Stanford-educated engineers, established continuing education programs for engineers in local companies and helped found the university industrial park where companies such as Hewlett-Packard could take root. Terman created an entrepreneurial culture that, today, extends to every academic discipline.

Among the companies Stanford faculty and alumni have helped create are:

• Atheros Communications
• BEA Systems
• Charles Schwab & Company
• Cisco Systems
• Cypress Semiconductor
• DNAX Research Institute
• Dolby Laboratories
• eBay
• E*Trade
• Electronic Arts
• Exponent
• Gap
• Google
• Hewlett-Packard Company
• IDEO
• Intuit
• Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
• Kiva
• Linked In
• Logitech
• Mathworks
• McCaw Cellular Communications
• MIPS Technologies
• Nanosolar, Inc.
• Netflix
• Nike
• NVIDIA
• Odwalla
• Orbitz
• Rambus
• Rational Software
• Silicon Graphics
• Solyndra, Inc.
• Sun Microsystems
• Sun Power Corp.
• Taiwan Semiconductor
• Tandem Computers
• Tensilica
• Tesla Motors
• Trilogy
• Varian Associates
• VMware
• Whole Earth Catalog
• Windham Hill Records
• Yahoo!
• Zillow