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This list of notable people associated with Claremont McKenna College includes matriculating students , alumni , attendees, faculty, trustees , and honorary degree recipients of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California .
Name
Class year
Notability
Degree
Reference
Steve Bullock
Class of 1988
Governor of Montana (2013–present); Attorney General of Montana (2009–2013); Democrat
B.A.
[ 1]
Ken Cheuvront
Class of 1983
Member, Arizona State Senate ; Democrat
B.A.
[ 2]
Patrick J. Conroy
Class of 1972
60th Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives
B.A.
[ 3]
Chuck DeVore
Class of 1985
Member, California State Assembly , candidate for U.S. Senate ; Republican
B.A.
David Dreier
Class of 1975
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California and Chairman of the House Rules Committee ; Republican
B.A.
Johnny Ellis
Class of 1982
Minority Leader, Alaska State Senate; Democrat
B.A.
Sean Elsbernd
Class of 1997
Member, San Francisco Board of Supervisors; Democrat
B.A.
Thomas B. Hofeller
Political consultant
B.A.
[ 4]
Rob Hurtt
Class of 1966
California State Senate Republican Leader, 1995–1998
B.A.
Adam Kokesh
Class of 2006
Political activist, talk radio host
B.A.
Tom Leppert
Class of 1977
Former chief executive officer of Kaplan, Inc , mayor of Dallas, Texas (2007–2011)
B.A.
Tyler Olson
Class of 1998
House member for the 38th district of Iowa
B.A.
[ 5]
Surin Pitsuwan
Class of 1972
Secretary-General, Association of Southeast Asian Nations , former Thai Minister of Foreign Affairs
B.A.
Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah
Class of 1978
Prime Minister of the State of Kuwait
B.A.
Simon Salinas
Class of 1978
Monterey County Supervisor, former member of the California State Assembly
B.A.
Name
Class year
Notability
Degree
Reference
Michael Arrington
Class of 1992
Internet entrepreneur, founder of Techcrunch , co-founder of CrunchFund
B.A.
Sloane Citron
Class of 1978
Magazine publisher
B.A.
Robert Addison Day
Former chairman and chief executive officer of Trust Company of the West ; chairman and President of the W. M. Keck Foundation
B.A.
Michael S. Jeffries
Class of 1966
Chairman and CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
B.A.
Michael Larson
Class of 1980
Chief investment officer of Cascade Investment , the investment vehicle for the Gates Foundation and the Gates' personal wealth
B.A.
Patrick Lencioni
Class of 1987
Best-selling management book author, corporate speaker
B.A.
Tom Leppert
Class of 1977
Former chief executive officer of Kaplan, Inc , mayor of Dallas, Texas (2007–2011)
B.A.
Ihab "Joe" Massoud
Class of 1989
Private investor, managing director of Anholt USA, founder and former CEO of Compass Diversified Holdings
B.A.
Ashwin Navin
Class of 1999
President and co-founder of BitTorrent, Inc. , founder of The Claremont Independent
B.A.
Augie Nieto
Class of 1980
Founder of Life Fitness and Augie's Quest
B.A.
Douglas Peterson
Class of 1980
S&P Global president and CEO
B.A.
[ 6]
Thomas Pritzker
Class of 1972
Executive chairman, Hyatt Corporation
B.A.
[ 7]
George R. Roberts
Class of 1966
Founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
B.A.
Julie Sweet
Chief executive officer of Accenture
B.A.
Peter Thum
Class of 1990
Founder of Ethos Water , and social entrepreneur
B.A.
Peter Weinberg
Class of 1979
CEO of Goldman Sachs 1999–2005, founder of Perella Weinberg Partners
B.A.
Name
Class year
Notability
Degree
Reference
Orley Ashenfelter
Class of 1964
Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University; former editor of the American Economic Review
B.A.
Tibor R. Machan
Class of 1965
Former editor of Reason magazine, Stanford Hoover Institution fellow and professor at Chapman University
B.A.
Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Class of 1993
Tocqueville Associate Professor of Religion & Public Life in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame
B.A.
[ 8]
Harriet Nembhard
Class of 1988
President of Harvey Mudd College , 2023–
Jack L. Stark
Class of 1957
Former CMC president
B.A.
Francisco Vázquez
Class of 1972
Professor and director of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma State University
B.A.
Writing and journalism [ edit ]
Dropouts and transfers [ edit ]
Name
Class year
Notability
Degree
Reference
Mike Feuer
N/A
Los Angeles City Attorney, former California Assemblyman and L.A. City Councilman (transferred to Harvard, where he got his BA and JD)
N/A
Blake Gottesman
N/A
Personal aide to President George W. Bush
N/A
Wes Parker
N/A
Baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers
N/A
Robin Williams
Actor and comedian
N/A
[ 15]
William Ascher - Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics; dean of the faculty 2000–2005; prolific author; winner of the G. David Huntoon, Sr., Award for Superior Teaching
Fred Balitzer - professor of government; director of the Republican National Committee under President Ronald Reagan , chairman of Scholars for Reagan-Bush in 1984, and special emissary to the Sultan of Brunei ; helped bring about diplomatic relations with China and Israel and played a leading role in preventing efforts to make the District of Columbia a state
Roderic Ai Camp - McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim; author of 34 books on Mexico and Latin America; founding member of the Advisory Board, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 2003–present; elected member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; Global Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center, 2017–present; recipient of the Medal of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor bestowed to a foreigner for his contributions to Mexico
Ross Eckert - professor of economics who dedicated his life to cleaning up the blood supply; worked on market-incentives to reduce congestion; worked to rescue the U.S. Laws of the Sea from degradation (deceased)
Ward Elliott - researched market solutions to Los Angeles smog problem; drafted the economic-incentives of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
Diane Halpern - former president of the American Psychological Association
Eric Helland - Professor of Economics, Senior Staff Economist, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2003–2004)
Alan Heslop - government consultant, founding director of the Rose Institute, felon, and former dean of faculty[ 16] [ 17]
Harry V. Jaffa - professor of political philosophy, scholar of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Aristotelian virtue, and the American founding; The National Review described Jaffa as "the foremost contemporary interpreter of the American political tradition"
Charles Kesler - editor of the Claremont Review of Books and noted conservative scholar
Jamaica Kincaid - novelist
Kenneth P. Miller - professor of Government specializing in California politics, direct democracy, and state constitutional law; associate director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government
Jonathan Petropoulos - historian and scholar of Holocaust-era looted art[ 18]
Mort Sahl - speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy ; famed comedian
Michael Uhlmann - former Assistant Attorney General to President Gerald Ford ; special assistant to President Ronald Reagan ; reportedly convinced Justice Clarence Thomas to join the federal judiciary
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^ "Judge Ken Cheuvront" . www.justicecourts.maricopa.gov . Retrieved 2024-06-21 .
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^ Wines, Michael (2018-08-21). "Thomas Hofeller, Republican Master of Political Maps, Dies at 75" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-04-26 .
^ "Tyler Olson Biography" . Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved March 27, 2010 .
^ "Investor Relations Overview - S&P Global" .
^ "#559 Thomas Pritzker - The World's Billionaires 2009" . Forbes.com . 2009-03-11.
^ "Vincent Phillip Muñoz" . Department of Political Science . University of Notre Dame. Retrieved March 29, 2017 .
^ Sandra Brennan (2012). "Movies: Biography forPaul Brickman" . Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . Archived from the original on 2012-11-02.
^ "The latest cultural evolution of SlamBall" . Insidesocal.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015 .
^ "Claremont McKenna College - Academic Experience, Past Performance, Policies, Academic Calendar Apply4Admissions.com" . Apply4admissions.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015 .
^ "Kansas City Royals: Front Office" . Kansascity.royals.mlb.com. Archived from the original on August 12, 2007. Retrieved 14 June 2015 .
^ "Charlie Rose - charlierose.com" . Charlierose.com. Retrieved 14 June 2015 .
^ "Michael D. Shear - The New York Times" . www.nytimes.com . Retrieved 2020-04-26 .
^ The Playboy Interviews: The Comedians , edited by Stephen Randall, 2007, p.342
^ Nelson, Joe (30 June 2014). "Rose Institute founder sentenced in bribery, kickback case" . San Bernardino Sun . Retrieved 1 September 2020 .
^ Gruszecki, Debra (11 July 2014). "Former professor sentenced to 21 months for scheme to siphon Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians funds" . Press Enterprise . Retrieved 1 September 2020 .
^ Boehm, Mike (2008-04-15). "Prof ensnared in case of Pissarro looted by Nazis" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2008-07-27 .
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