Robert Aderholt (1990), United States Congressman from Alabama (1997–present) Andrew L. Brasher, United States District Judge (Samford University, Harvard School of Law) Joyce Chandler - former educator and member of Georgia House of Representatives.[63] Charles Crist, former Florida governor, graduated from Cumberland School of Law Stephen Louis A. Dillard[64] (1992), Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of Georgia Jim Folsom (non-graduate), governor of Alabama from 1947-1951 and 1955-1959 Cordell Hull, 47th U.S. secretary of state (1933–44), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1945) Jody Hunt (1982), United States Assistant Attorney General (2018–present) Howell Edmunds Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1893–95) Lem Johns, U.S. Secret Service agent (1954–1976) Doug Jones, United States Senator from Alabama (2018–2021) Horace Harmon Lurton, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1909–14) Nina Miglionico (1932), Birmingham City Council, 1963-1985 Eric Motley (1996) State Department official[65][66] Michael Patrick Mulroy,[67][68] Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Secretary of Defense James Mattis Edwin L. Nelson, United States federal judge (Samford University, Cumberland School of Law - 1969) Kevin Newsom, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (2017–present) Stacey E. Pickering, State Auditor of Mississippi since 2008 John Russell Tyson (1877), Judge of Supreme Court of Alabama and U.S. Representative for the State of Alabama. Janie Shores (1992), Judge on the Supreme Court of Alabama, the first woman on that court and considered by Bill Clinton as nominee to the Supreme Court Randall Woodfin, mayor of Birmingham, Alabama (Samford University Cumberland School of Law)