Following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Academics
- Harvey Perlman, 1966, Chancellor, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Government
- John R. McCarl, 1903, first Comptroller General of the United States
Law
Attorney General
- Jon Bruning, 1994, attorney general of Nebraska
Solicitor General
U.S. Attorney
- Deborah R. Gilg, 1977, United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska
- Thomas J. Monaghan, 1972, United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska
- Joe Stecher, 1983, United States Attorney for the District of Nebraska
Judiciary
- C. Arlen Beam, 1965, Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- William G. Cambridge, 1955, Federal Judge
- Laurie Smith Camp, 1977, Judge on United States District Court for the District of Nebraska
- John Freudenberg, 1995, Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
- Jeffrey J. Funke, 1994, Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
- L. Steven Grasz, 1989, Federal Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Michael Heavican, 1975, Chief Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
- Harvey M. Johnsen, 1919, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Richard G. Kopf, 1972, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska
- John Coleman Pickett, 1922, Federal Judge
- William J. Riley, 1972, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Donald Roe Ross, 1948, Federal Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Mark Quandahl, 1972, Federal Judge and U.S. Senator from Nebraska
- Kenneth C. Stephan, 1973, Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
- Stephanie Stacy, 1991, Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
- Robert Van Pelt, 1922, Federal Judge
- John F. Wright, 1970, Justice, Nebraska Supreme Court
Military
- John J. Pershing, 1893, General of the Armies, Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in World War II
Politics
- Curt Bromm, 1970, Speaker of the Nebraska Legislature
- Elmer Burkett, 1893, U.S. Senator from Nebraska
- Hal Daub, 1966, U.S. Representative for Nebraska and mayor of Omaha
- James Donnewald, 1949, Illinois State Treasurer
- Stanley Knapp Hathaway, 1950, Governor of Wyoming
- George Heinke, 1908, U.S. Representative for Nebraska
- Fred Gustus Johnson, 1903, U.S. Representative for Nebraska
- Joe Kelly, 1981, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska
- Thomas F. Konop, 1904, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
- John A. Maguire, 1899, U.S. Representative for Nebraska
- Howard Shultz Miller, 1900, U.S. Representative for Kansas
- Frank Brenner Morrison, 1931, Governor of Nebraska
- Ben Nelson, 1970, Governor of Nebraska, U.S. Senator from Nebraska
- Mark Quandahl, 1972, Federal Judge and U.S. Senator from Nebraska
- Ted Sorensen, 1949, Special adviser and speechwriter to President John F. Kennedy
- Charles Thone, 1950, U.S. Representative for Nebraska, Governor of Nebraska
- Arthur J. Weaver, 1896, Governor of Nebraska
- Lee Calvin White, 9th White Council and Special Counselor to the President of the United States
- Clayton Yeutter, 1963, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture