List of Middlebury College alumni

The following is a list of Middlebury College alumni, including both graduates and attendees as well as fictional alumni. For a list of Middlebury faculty, refer to the list of Middlebury College faculty.

Notable alumni

Selected Middlebury Alumni

Ari Fleischer, White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush, class of 1982

John Martin Thomas, 9th President of Middlebury, 9th president of Penn State, and 12th president of Rutgers University, class of 1890

Ronald Harmon Brown, Secretary of Commerce for President Clinton, class of 1962

Vendela Vida, novelist, screenwriter, editor of The Believer magazine, and co-founder of 826 Valencia, class of 1993

Robert Theodore Stafford, 71st Governor of Vermont, United States Representative, and U.S. Senator, class of 1935

Jeff Lindsay, creator of the Dexter series, class of 1975

Samuel Nelson, US Supreme Court Justice, class of 1813

Alexander Twilight, first African American college graduate and state legislator, class of 1823

Edward John Phelps, founding member and former president of the American Bar Association, class of 1840

Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield, class of 1988

Charles V. Dyer, prominent abolitionist and stationmaster on the Underground Railroad, class of 1830

Academia

College and University presidents

• Nathan S.S. Beman 1807 – President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1845 until 1865
• Jonathan Blanchard 1832 – abolitionist and president of Knox and Wheaton Colleges
• Ezra Brainerd 1864 – President of Middlebury College from 1885 until 1908
• Martin Henry Freeman 1849 – first black president of an American college, later serving as president of Liberia College
• Edward Hitchcock 1846 (DD) – geologist; 3rd President of Amherst College (1845–1854)
• Harvey Denison Kitchel 1835 – Congregationalist minister; president of Middlebury College, 1866–1875
• Joel H. Linsley 1811 – Congregational minister and president of Marietta College
• Carolyn "Biddy" Martin (MA) – 19th President of Amherst College; Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Provost of Cornell University
• Charles S. Murkland 1884 – first elected President of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts following the college's move from Hanover to Durham
• Stephen Olin 1820 – educator and minister; first President of Randolph Macon College (1834–1837); president of Wesleyan University (1839–1851)
• John Martin Thomas 1890 – ninth president of Middlebury College, the ninth president of Penn State, and the twelfth president of Rutgers University
• David S. Wolk – President of Castleton State College, 2001–present

Professors

• Mary Annette Anderson 1899 – first black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa; later a professor at Howard University^[1][2]
• John Barlow 1895 – entomologist and college administrator, served 35 years as chairman of the Zoology Department of University of Rhode Island
• Ana Cara 1972 – creolist, translator, and Professor of Hispanic Studies at Oberlin College^[3]
• Paul O. Carrese 1989 – Professor of political science at the United States Air Force Academy, and author of the book The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (University of Chicago Press).
• Thomas Jefferson Conant 1823 – Biblical scholar
• Charles W.S. Conover – William A. Rogers Professor of Physics at Colby College
• Sarah Delaney 1999 – Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Brown University
• Edward Diller 1961 (MA) – Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Oregon
• Taylor Fravel 1993 – Associate Professor of Political Science at M.I.T.
• Scot A.C. Gould 1985 – Professor of Physics, W.M. Keck Science Department of Claremont McKenna College, Pitzer College and Scripps College
• Peter Gries – Harold J. & Ruth Newman Chair in US-China Issues and Director of the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma
• Cynthia Huntington 1983 (MA) – poet, professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College
• Edward A. Jones – African-American linguist, scholar and diplomat
• Dan M. Kahan 1986 – Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law at Yale Law School
• Nancy Kollmann 1972 – William H. Bonsall Professor of History at Stanford University
• Lawrence Kritzman (MA) – scholar, the Willard Professor of French, Comparative Literature and Oratory at Dartmouth College
• Gilbert L. Kujovich – Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at Vermont Law School
• Tamsin Lorraine 1978 – Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College
• Christopher Merrill – poet, essayist, director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa
• Joseph Nevins 1987 – Associate Professor of Geography at Vassar College
• John F. K. Oberdiek 1995 – Acting Dean and professor, Rutgers School of Law; Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Philosophy Department and Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and philosophy
• Avital Ronell 1974 – Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English at New York University
• Nicholas Sambanis – Professor of Political Science at Yale University
• Stuart B. Schwartz 1962 – George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University;^[4] Chair of the Council of Latin American and Iberian Studies;^[5] former Master of Ezra Stiles College^[6]
• David Skelly 1987 – Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University
• Suzanna Sherry 1976 – Herman O. Loewenstein Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School
• Virginia E. Swain 1964, 1965 (MA) – Professor of French at Dartmouth College
• James Reist Stoner, Jr. 1977 – Chair of the Department of Government and a professor of political science at Louisiana State University.
• Hollis Summers 1943 – poet, novelist, short story writer and editor, Professor of English at the University of Kentucky
• Anthony Julian Tamburri – Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY; Professor of Italian & Italian/American Studies^[7]
• Pamela Chasek 1983 – writer and professor in the Department of Government at Manhattan College.

Arts

Fashion

• Tiziana Domínguez – Spanish fashion designer and artist, daughter of designer Adolfo Domínguez
• Alexandra Kotur – fashion journalist, Style Director and contributing editor for Vogue; author of Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon; co-author of The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places
• Patrick Hazlewood- International model and host. As a model internationally, working in Germany, Italy, The US, England, and Spain, he has extensive experience in print, runway, and commercial modeling. The roster of clients includes a diverse listing of top designers and/or brands in each of the listed countries; hosted Guide To Cool and The Quest for "It", and Emerald Chic's "Style-Icon-At-Large", reporting on The Tribeca Film Festival, New York Fashion Week, and Miami Swim Week; son of renowned maxillofacial prosthodontist Arthur I. Hazlewood.

Fine arts

• Peter Gallo 1981 – reclusive artist and writer known for his mixed media works which often combine a variety of unconventional materials
• Robert Gober 1976 – sculptor whose works are exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Menil Collection, the Tate Modern and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• Woody Jackson 1970 – artist best known for his "Holy Cow" brand and advertising work for Ben & Jerry's ice cream
• Alison Knowles (attended) – visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, and publications; was very active in the Fluxus movement, and continues to create work inspired by her Fluxus experience
• Nancy Rosen – founded Nancy Rosen Incorporated, an organization which plans and implements public art programs and collections, including the Art-for-Public-Spaces program for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
• Timothy Rub 1974 – Director and CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art^[8]

Literature

• John W. Aldridge (summer session 1942) – writer and literary critic, professor of English at the University of Michigan, director of the Hopwood Program, and USIA Special Ambassador to Germany^[9]
• Julia Alvarez 1971 – award-winning author, poet, and writer-in-residence at Middlebury
• Stacie Cassarino 1997 – award-winning poet and author of the collection Zero at the Bone
• T Cooper 1994 – novelist
• Frances Frost – poet; novelist; mother of poet Paul Blackburn
• Dwight Garner 1988 – literary critic for The New York Times,^[10] former senior editor at the New York Times Book Review
• Patricia Goedicke 1953 – poet
• Hall J. Kelley 1814 – explorer, settler, and writer; strong advocate for U.S. settlement of the Oregon Country in the 1830s.
• Richard E. Kim 1959 – Korean-American writer and professor of literature; author of The Martyred (1964), The Innocent (1968), and Lost Names (1970); Guggenheim Fellow (1966) and was recipient of a Fulbright grant
• Peter Knobler 1968 – author, former editor-in-chief of Crawdaddy magazine
• Jeff Lindsay 1975 – playwright and crime novelist, best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan
• Judy Malloy 1964 – poet whose works inhabit the intersection of hypernarrative, magic realism, and information art
• Louise McNeill – poet, essayist, and historian of Appalachia
• Wesley McNair (MA and M.Litt) – poet, writer, editor, and professor
• Emily Mitchell (summer session 1938) – Anglo-American novelist
• Wendy Mogel 1973 – speaker and author who looks at parenting problems through the lens of the Torah, the Talmud, and important Jewish teachings
• Jacqueline S. Moore – poet and author of Moments of My Life
• Dan O'Brien – playwright whose plays include The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy, The House in Hydesville, and The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
• Joel Peckham 1992 – poet; scholar of American literature; creative writer
• John Perkins (attended) – activist and author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
• John Godfrey Saxe 1839 – poet perhaps best known for his retelling of the Indian parable "The Blind Men and the Elephant"
• Lawrence Raab 1968 – poet
• Lewis Robinson 1993 – writer, author of Officer Friendly and Other Stories
• Johan Theorin (foreign guest student 1985–86) – Swedish journalist and novelist
• Michael Tolkin 1974 – filmmaker and novelist whose screenplays include The Player (1992), which he adapted from his 1988 novel by the same name
• Vendela Vida 1993 – novelist, editor of The Believer magazine
• Anne Walker 1995 – architectural historian and author
• Carol Weston 1979 (MA) – author of twelve books, both fiction and nonfiction; the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life since the magazine's first issue in 1994^[11]

Music

• Cherine Anderson 2005 – Jamaican actress and dancehall/reggae vocalist
• Dispatch 1996 – indie jam band, comprising Chad Urmston, Brad Corrigan, and Pete Heimbold, formed at Middlebury
• Bill Homans (attended) – blues musician who performs under the stage name Watermelon Slim
• Anais Mitchell 2004 – folk singer-songwriter
• Oneida 1995 – Brooklyn-based noise rock band co-founded by John Colpitts '95 and Patrick Sullivan '95^[12]
• John Valby 1966 – musician and comedian

Dance

• Paul Matteson 2000 – modern dance performer and choreographer who danced for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and David Dorfman Dance; recipient of a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) in 2002; on faculty at Amherst College
• Mark Stuver 1997 – performer with Project Bandaloop aerial dance company in San Francisco, 2000–2013
• Pamela Vail 1990 – performer with Yanira Castro, 1995–present; on faculty at Franklin and Marshall College

Television and film

• Anna Belknap 1994 – actress, known for her role as Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY
• Vanessa Branch 1994 – British actress, model, former Miss Vermont, noted for her role in Orbit Gum commercials
• Roscoe Lee Brown (MA) – actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing^[13]
• Jeffrey Bushell 1994 – writer, has written for The Bernie Mac Show, Drawn Together, MADtv, What I Like About You, and Zoey 101
• Sophie Clarke 2011 – Reality television personality and winner of Survivor: South Pacific
• Kristen Connolly 2002 – actress known for her roles in The Cabin in the Woods and House of Cards
• James Cromwell (attended) – actor noted for his roles in Babe, L.A. Confidential, The Queen, and 24
• Sam Daly 2006 – actor, U.S. production of The Office
• Malaya Drew 1998 – actress known for her roles on The L Word (2008),^[14] ER (2006–2007),^[15] Las Vegas (2006–2007) and Entourage (2005)^[16]
• Cassidy Freeman 2005 – actress and singer, known for her role as Tess Mercer in Smallville
• Warren Frost – actor, 'Twin Peaks, 'Matlock, The Larry Sanders Show, and Seinfeld
• Justin Haythe 1996 – novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter, screenwriter for The Clearing and the film adaptation of Revolutionary Road
• Marissa Anschutz Hermer 2003 – reality television personality and cast member of Ladies of London
• Tessa Horst 2003 – reality television personality and winner of season 10 of The Bachelor
• Antonio Macia 2000 – screenwriter, writer of Holy Rollers^[17]
• Jason Mantzoukas 1995 – comedian, writer, and actor, known for The League and The Dictator
• Emily McLaughlin – soap opera actress
• Amanda Peterson – actress, star of Can't Buy Me Love
• Rodney Rothman 1995 – writer; screenwriter; author of Early Bird; film writer, producer (Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Year One); television writer (Late Show with David Letterman and Undeclared)
• Shawn Ryan 1988 – creator of the FX television series The Shield and CBS series The Unit
• Jessica St. Clair 1997 – actress and comedian
• Angus Sutherland 2005 – actor, Lost Boys: The Tribe
• Frank Sweeney 2011 – reality television personality, MTV's The Real World: San Diego
• John Tinker 1981 – Executive Producer of Chicago Hope; writer for L.A. Law
• Jake Weber 1986 – English actor, known for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and starring opposite Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black
• Julia Whelan 2008 – actress, Once and Again
• Becky Worley 1992 – journalist; broadcaster; tech contributor for Good Morning America; host and blogger for a web show on Yahoo! Tech

Theater

• Rob Ackerman – playwright whose plays include Tabletop, which won the 2001 Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble Performance
• William Burden 1986 – opera singer
• Eve Ensler 1975 – author, playwright, feminist theorist, and peace activist best known for her play The Vagina Monologues
• Rebecca Gilman – playwright
• Dan O'Brien – playwright
• Amanda Plummer (attended) – Tony Award-winning actress

Athletics

• Hedda Berntsen 1999 – Norwegian world champion skier and 2010 Olympic silver medalist
• John Bower – nordic combined skier who competed in the 1960s and later went on to become a coach of the American nordic skiing team for the 1976 and 1980 Winter Olympic team
• H. Adams Carter 1947 (MA) – mountaineer and language teacher
• Archibald Crowell – Director of 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
• Dorcas Denhartog 1987 – nordic skier competing at the 1988, 1992, and 1994 Winter Olympic Games
• Ray Fisher 1910 – Major League baseball player who pitched for the New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds^[18]
• Sarah Groff 2004 – triathlete, 2007 ITU Aquathlon World Champion and member of the U.S. 2012 Summer Olympic Team
• Megan Guarnier 2007 – cyclist, winner of 2016 UCI Women's World Tour and 2016 Giro d'Italia Femminile, and member of the U.S. 2016 Summer Olympic Team
• Stone Hallquist – football running back, played for Milwaukee Badgers in National Football League
• Simi Hamilton 2009 – cross country skier who has competed since 2000, member of the U.S. 2010 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team
• Steve Hauschka 2007 – NFL placekicker for the Seattle Seahawks.
• John W. Hollister (attended) – football player and coach, football coach at Beloit College
• Peter Holmes à Court 1990 – Australian businessman and a joint owner of the National Rugby League team South Sydney Rabbitohs together with Russell Crowe; son of the late billionaire businessman Robert Holmes à Court^[19]
• Thomas M. Jacobs – Olympic nordic skier who competed in the 1950s
• Andrew Johnson – Member of the U.S. 2006 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team.
• Britton Keeshan – one of the youngest people to climb the tallest mountains on all seven continents (the Seven Summits), as of May 24, 2004
• Ted King 2005 – cyclist
• Bill Kuharich 1976 – Vice President of Player Personnel for the Kansas City Chiefs
• Garrott Kuzzy 2006 – cross country skier who has competed since 2001, member of the U.S. 2010 Olympic Cross-Country Ski Team
• Kevin Mahaney 1984 – competitive and Olympic sailor who won a silver medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games in 1992
• Jacquie Phelan 1981–1994 – national mountain bicycle champion (1983, 84, 85); sustainable transit advocate and writer; feminist; founder of Women's Mountain Bike & Tea Society; opened cycling to non-athletic women of all ages; co-founded NORBA and IMBA; Alumni Achievement award winner
• Donald Rowe – former coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team
• Chris Waddell – most-decorated male skier in Paralympic history; first paraplegic man to climb Mount Kilimanjaro^[20][21]

Business

• Louis Bacon 1979 – hedge fund manager, one of Forbes magazine's 400 wealthiest Americans^[22]
• Joseph Beninati 1987 – real estate developer and private equity investor
• Randy Brock 1965 – Executive VP, Fidelity Investments; former Vermont Auditor of Accounts (2005–2007); Vietnam War veteran, recipient of the Bronze Star
• Willard C. Butcher (attended) – chairman and CEO of The Chase Manhattan Bank, 1980–1991^[23][24]
• Stefano Caroti – former CCO of Puma
• Sean Casten – businessman and writer known for his work on industrial energy recycling; president and CEO of Recycled Energy Development
• Maciej Cegłowski – businessman and founder of Pinboard.
• Roger Chapin – businessman-turned-fundraiser, self-described "nonprofit entrepreneur,"^[25] and founder of numerous charities variously under scrutiny for questionable ethics^[26]
• John Deere (did not graduate) – blacksmith, inventor of the steel plow and founder of John Deere & Company
• Jim Davis 1966 – Chairman of New Balance; co-founder of Major League Lacrosse^{[27][28][29][30]}
• Allan R. Dragone – CEO of Unisource Worldwide^[31]
• Patrick Durkin 1979 – former managing director of Credit Suisse First Boston
• Jack Fitzpatrick – founder of Country Curtains; Republican member of the Massachusetts State Senate
• Frederick M. Fritz 1968 – former head of the private equity and venture capital group at Bank of Boston^[32]
• Andy Goodenough – publishing executive; CEO of Summit Business Media^[33]
• Stephen J. Harasimowicz 1981 – managing director, Global Head of Trading for Columbia Threadneedle Investments, the asset management branch of Ameriprise Financial.
• Cofounder of Salesforce.com, Parker Harris (1989)^[34]
• A. Barton Hepburn 1871 – United States Comptroller of the Currency and President of Chase National Bank
• Peter Holmes à Court 1990 – Australian businessman; joint owner of the National Rugby League team South Sydney Rabbitohs with Russell Crowe; son of the late billionaire businessman Robert Holmes à Court^[19]
• Ann Williams Jackson 1974 – Group President of Real Simple, Parenting and InStyle magazines^[35]
• Catherine Lee – Head of Strategy and a member of the senior management team at Höegh Autoliners^[36]
• Bill Maris 1997 – CEO of Google Ventures
• Reuben Mark 1960 – former CEO, Colgate-Palmolive
• John E. Martin – former CEO, Taco Bell^[35]
• Terry McGuirk 1973 – chairman of Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves and vice chairman of Turner Broadcasting System, where he served as CEO from 1996 to 2001
• David R. Mittleman – Managing Partner at Convexity Capital and former Manager at the Harvard Management Company^[37]
• Garret Moran 1976 – chief operating officer of Private Equity Group and Senior managing director, The Blackstone Group^[38]
• William H. Porter – prominent New York City banker
• Carolyn Reidy 1971 – President and CEO of Simon & Schuster
• Elisabeth Robert 1978 – former President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of Vermont Teddy Bear Company^[39]
• Felix Rohatyn 1949 – President of Rohatyn Associates LLC; former partner and managing director of Lazard; Commander in the Légion d'honneur; member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
• Vivian Schiller 1984 (MA) – former President and CEO of National Public Radio; New York Times senior vice president / general manager for NYTimes.com^[40]
• Dan Schulman 1980 – President and CEO of PayPal, former CEO of Virgin Mobile USA
• John Tormondsen '82, former partner at Goldman Sachs;^[41] founding partner at currency trading firm Tormar Associates; member of the Middlebury Board of Trustees; formerly on the MBA Advisory Board of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College^[41][42][42]
• Christopher Tsai – founder of Tsai Capital; major collector of works by Ai Weiwei; son of financier Gerald Tsai

Journalism

• Elizabeth Farnsworth 1965 – journalist and co-anchor of PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• Trip Gabriel – New York Times style editor
• Ralph Gardner, Jr. – freelance journalist for the New York Times and New York Magazine^[43]
• Dwight Garner 1988 – New York Times book critic
• Mel Gussow 1955 – theater critic who wrote for The New York Times for 35 years
• W. C. Heinz 1937 – sportswriter and winner of the Red Smith Award for sports journalism
• Andrea Koppel – Director of International Communications for the Red Cross; former U.S. State Department correspondent for CNN
• Alexandra Kotur – fashion journalist, Style Director and contributing editor for Vogue; author of Carolina Herrera: Portrait of a Fashion Icon; co-author of The World in Vogue: People, Parties, Places
• Bob Lefsetz – music industry journalist
• Keely Levins – Golf Digest writer
• Dori J. Maynard – President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California
• Walter R. Mears 1956 – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
• Andrew Meldrum – journalist and former correspondent of The Economist and The Guardian in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2003.
• Jeanne Meserve – CNN correspondent
• Nina Munk 1989 (MA) – journalist and non-fiction author; Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair;^[44] author of Fools Rush In: Jerry Levin, Steve Case, and the Unmaking of Time Warner^[45]
• Mark Patinkin 1974 – columnist at the Providence Journal
• Alex Prud'homme 1984 – journalist and author of nonfiction books, including My Life in France, written in collaboration with his great-aunt Julia Child
• Andrew Purvis – journalist, John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University; former bureau chief for Time magazine's Berlin bureau
• Jane Bryant Quinn 1960 – contributing editor for Newsweek; former author of the twice-weekly column "Staying Ahead," syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group
• Robert Schlesinger – author; opinion editor for US News & World Report; Huffington Post blogger; co-founder of the blog RobertEmmet
• Frank Sesno 1977 – Washington Bureau Chief and White House correspondent for CNN; Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University and George Washington University
• Vendela Vida 1993 – novelist, journalist, and editor; co-founded and co-edits the monthly periodical The Believer
• David Wolman 1996 – author and journalist; has written for Wired, Newsweek, Discover, National Geographic Traveler, New Scientist and Outside
• Janine Zacharia 1995 – journalist, Middle East correspondent for the Washington Post; former diplomatic reporter for Bloomberg News

Law

• Charles Minton Baker – served in the Wisconsin Territorial Council and the first Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1846; helped with the codification of the laws of the state of Wisconsin and served briefly as Wisconsin Circuit Court judge^[46]
• Frederick Howard Bryant 1900 – Federal judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
• John C. Churchill 1843 – lawyer and politician
• Albert Wheeler Coffrin 1941 – Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont
• Brian Concannon 1985 – Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.
• George W. F. Cook 1940 – Vermont attorney and politician; President of the Vermont State Senate; United States Attorney for the District of Vermont
• Roswell M. Field 1822 – prominent antebellum lawyer who represented Dred Scott
• Marilyn Jean Kelly 1961 (MA) – jurist in the US state of Michigan, Justice on the Michigan Supreme Court
• Samuel Nelson 1813 – US Supreme Court Justice
• Edward John Phelps 1840 – second controller of the United States Treasury; a founding member and president of the American Bar Association
• William K. Sessions III 1969 – Chief Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Vermont and Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission.
• Henry Franklin Severens 1857 – Federal judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Martha B. Sosman 1972 – lawyer and jurist from Massachusetts; Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
• Barry Sullivan 1970 – Chicago lawyer and, as of July 1, 2009, the Cooney & Conway Chair in Advocacy at Loyola University Chicago School of Law; former litigation partner at Jenner & Block LLP
• Alexandra Watson 2004 – Lawyer and Assistant District Attorney in Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Military

• Paul Eaton (MA) – retired United States Army General known for his outspoken criticisms of President George W. Bush's administration
• Frederic Williams Hopkins 1828 – Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, 1837–1852
• Henry Martyn Porter 1857 – American Civil War Union Army Officer; Colonel and commander of the 7th Vermont Infantry

Philanthropy

• Joseph Battell – publisher and philanthropist, owner of the Bread Loaf Inn, predecessor to the Bread Loaf School of English
• Nínive Clements Calegari 1993 – CEO of 826 National and the founding executive director of 826 Valencia
• Eileen Rockefeller Growald 1974 – philanthropist and fourth-generation member of the Rockefeller family; founder of the Institute for Healthcare Advancement; the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Economic Learning; the Champaign Valley Greenbelt Alliance; and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
• John B. Kassel – President of the Conservation Law Foundation^[47]
• Dana Reeve 1984 – philanthropist and actress; founder and former Chair of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation; wife of actor Christopher Reeve
• Alan Reich 1953 (MA) – founder of the National Organization on Disability
• John Wallach 1964 – founder of Seeds of Peace

Politics

Presidents and Prime Ministers

• Lado Gurgenidze (attended) – 17th Prime Minister of Georgia.

Diplomats

• Jehudi Ashmun (attended) – US representative to the Liberia colony in its second decade and its governor (1824–1828)
• John Beyrle – U.S. Ambassador to Russia under President Barack Obama^[48]
• Bradford Bishop (MA) – United States Foreign Service officer who has been a fugitive from justice since allegedly murdering five members of his family in 1976^[49][50][51]
• Edward John Phelps 1840 – Envoy to Great Britain (1885 to 1889); senior counsel for the United States before the international tribunal at Paris to adjust the Bering Sea controversy.
• Felix Rohatyn 1949 – U.S. Ambassador to France under President Clinton
• Joel Turrill 1816 – United States consul to the Kingdom of Hawaii (1845–1850)

US Senators and Representatives

• Eli Porter Ashmun 1807 – Federalist United States Senator from Massachusetts, 1816–1818^[52]
• Elbert S. Brigham 1903 – U.S. Representative from Vermont^[53]
• Titus Brown 1811 – United States Representative from New Hampshire^[54]
• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck 1807 – U.S. Representative from Vermont^[55]
• Alexander W. Buel 1830 – former United States Congressman from Michigan^[56]
• Davis Carpenter 1824 – former United States Representative from New York^[57]
• Calvin C. Chaffee 1835 – doctor and former United States Representative from Massachusetts, outspoken opponent of slavery^[58]
• Bill Delahunt 1963 – United States Congressman from Massachusetts^[59]
• John Dickson 1808 – U.S. Representative from New York^[60]
• Solomon Foot 1826 – former U.S. Senator and President pro tempore of the United States Senate during the Civil War^[61]
• Calvin T. Hulburd – former United States Representative from New York^[62]
• Rollin Carolas Mallary 1805 – former U.S. Representative from Vermont^[63]
• James Meacham 1832 – United States Representative from Vermont^[64]
• Frank Pallone 1973 – U.S. Congressman from New Jersey^[65]
• John Mason Parker 1828 – U.S. Representative from New York
• Samuel B. Pettengill 1908 – U.S. Representative from Indiana, nephew of William Horace Clagett
• Charles Nelson Pray (attended) – U.S. Representative from Montana
• Albio Sires 1985 (MA) – member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey's 13th congressional district^[66]
• Robert Stafford 1935 – 71st Governor of Vermont, United States Representative, and U.S. Senator^[67]
• John Wolcott Stewart 1846 – U.S. Senator and Representative from Vermont, and from the family for whom Stewart Dorm on the Middlebury campus is named^[68]
• Stanley R. Tupper 1943 – U.S. Representative from Maine
• James Wilson II 1820 – U.S. Representative from New Hampshire^[69]
• Silas Wright 1815 – former Chairman of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, Democratic Senator, and Governor of New York

Governors

• Carlos Coolidge 1811 – 19th Governor of Vermont, relative of President Calvin Coolidge^[70]
• Jim Douglas 1972 – 80th Governor of Vermont^[71]
• Horace Eaton 1825 – 18th Governor of Vermont^[72]
• William Alanson Howard 1839 – Member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan and Governor of the Dakota Territory^[73]
• Lyman Enos Knapp 1862 – Governor of the District of Alaska from 1889 to 1893^[74]
• John Mattocks 1832 – 16th Governor of Vermont^[75]
• Stephen Royce 1807 – 23rd Governor of Vermont^[76]
• William Slade – 17th Governor of Vermont^[77]
• John Wolcott Stewart 1807 – 33rd Governor of Vermont^[78]
• James Tufts 1855 – United States politician and acting governor of Montana Territory in 1869^[79]

State Senators and Representatives

• Claire D. Ayer – Democratic member of the Vermont State Senate, representing the Addison senate district, majority leader of the Vermont Senate as of Fall 2006
• James K. Batchelder 1864 – lawyer and five-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives, including one term as Speaker, 1884–1886^[80]
• Michael P. Cahill 1983 – politician who represented the 6th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003^[81]
• Merritt Clark 1823 – Democratic politician from Vermont; he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1832–33, 1839, and 1865–66, and to the Vermont Senate in 1863–64 and 1868–69, as well as the 1870 Vermont Constitutional Convention
• Barbara Comstock 1981 – Republican member of the Virginia House of Delegates; formerly a spokesperson, lobbyist, political consultant, and a founding partner and co-principal of public policy and public relations firm Corallo Comstock
• George W. F. Cook 1940 – Vermont attorney and politician; President of the Vermont State Senate; United States Attorney for the District of Vermont
• Luther Day – Republican politician in Ohio; was in the Ohio Senate; judge on the Ohio Supreme Court
• George Z. Erwin 1865 – former member of the New York State Senate
• Jack Fitzpatrick – founder of Country Curtains and Republican member of the Massachusetts State Senate
• Emory A. Hebard 1938 – member of the Vermont House of Representatives, 1961–1977 and Vermont State Treasurer, 1977–1989
• Brett Hulsey 1982 – Wisconsin consultant and Democratic politician, elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly's 77th district in 2010
• Rand Knight – ecologist; businessman; Democratic Party politician in Georgia
• Sylvester Nevins – Republican member of the Wisconsin State Senate
• William M. Straus 1978 – member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
• Alexander Twilight 1823 – first African American to graduate from an American college; first African American elected to public office, serving as a Representative in the Vermont House of Representatives
• Lindsey Holmes 1995 – member of the Alaska House of Representatives

Other political figures

• Adrian Benepe 1978 – Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation^[43]
• Ron Brown 1962 – former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Clinton
• Brian Deese 2000 – member of the National Economic Council and special assistant to President Barack Obama for economic policy^[82]
• Charles V. Dyer – Chicago abolitionist; Stationmaster on the Underground Railroad
• Ari Fleischer 1982 – White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush; field director for the National Republican Congressional Committee
• Andrew Friendly 1991 – personal aide to President Bill Clinton
• Beriah Green 1819 – reformer and noted abolitionist
• David G. Hooker 1853 – Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
• Henry Hitchcock (did not graduate) – first Attorney General of Alabama; grandson of Ethan Allen
• Ben LaBolt 2003 – assistant White House Press Secretary under President Obama since 2012^[83]
• Richard P. Mills 1966 – Commissioner of Education for Vermont and New York
• Lord Ivar Mountbatten – Deputy Lieutenant of Devon and the younger son of the David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
• Torie Osborn 1972 – community organizer, LGBT rights activist and politician
• Zina Pitcher 1822 – president of the American Medical Association, a two-time mayor of Detroit and a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan.
• Waitstill R. Ranney – Vermont doctor and politician; Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, 1841–1843
• Raymond J. Saulnier 1929 – economist; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) under President Eisenhower
• Dugald Stewart 1842 – Vermont politician; former state Auditor of Accounts

Religion

• Irah Chase 1814 – Baptist clergyman
• Reuben Post 1814 – Presbyterian clergyman; served two separate terms as Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives (1824 and 1831); served as Chaplain of the Senate of the United States (1819)
• Jeremiah Rankin 1848 – abolitionist, champion of the temperance movement, minister of Washington's First Congregational Church, and correspondent with Frederick Douglass
• Enoch Cobb Wines 1827 – 19th-century Congregational minister and prison reform advocate
• Miron Winslow 1813 – Congregationalist missionary in Ceylon
• Hiram Bingham 1839 – missionary in Hawaii

Science

• Robert Adamec 1966 – neuropsychologist professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland known for research on factors influencing anxiety and PTSD
• Louis Winslow Austin 1889 – physicist known for his research on long-range radio transmissions
• Myrtle Bachelder 1930 – chemist and Women's Army Corps officer, noted for her secret work on the Manhattan Project atomic bomb program, and for the development of techniques in the chemistry of metals
• Arthur H. Bulbulian – pioneer in the field of facial prosthetics
• Roger L. Easton 1943 – principal inventor and designer of GPS; recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation
• Donald M. Elliman, Jr 1967 – Executive Director, Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology, University of Colorado Medical School^[84]
• Stanley Fields 1976 – biologist and HHMI investigator known for pioneering two-hybrid screening for discovering protein–protein interactions
• Edwin James 1816 – botanist on the Long Expedition, U.S. Army surgeon, and first white person to climb Pikes Peak
• Walter D. Knight 1941 – physicist, known for the discovery of Knight shift
• William H. Prescott 1967 - geophysicist investigating crustal deformation associated with tectonic plate boundaries, earthquakes and volcanoes. Former President of UNAVCO.
• Henry Schoolcraft – geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, and for his "discovery" in 1832 of the source of the Mississippi River
• Jill Seaman 1974 – physician specializing in infectious diseases for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) and winner of a 2009 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Award"
• Don Yeomans – planetary scientist and manager of NASA's Near-Earth Objects Program Office at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world (2013)^[85]

Fictional alumni

The First Wives Club, whose three main characters met while students at Middlebury

• Snake Jailbird – character and criminal on the animated television series The Simpsons who repaid his Middlebury College student loans after robbing Springfield landmark Moe's Tavern. Voiced by Hank Azaria.
• Brenda Cushman, Elise Elliot, and Annie Paradis – the three main characters in Olivia Goldsmith's first novel The First Wives Club (1992). The women, who in the novel met while students at Middlebury College (class of 1969), were portrayed by Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton in the 1996 film adaptation.
• Mr. Wolfe – A teacher in George Lucas' 1973 film American Graffiti. The character, played by Terry McGovern, is a confidant of Curt Henderson's, played by Richard Dreyfuss. In their one conversations together, Mr. Wolfe tells Curt that he "got drunk as hell the night before" going to college, and that he "barfed on the train all next day." When Curt asks him where he went to school, Mr. Wolfe replies, "Middlebury, Vermont... On a scholarship... [I stayed only] one semester. After all that, I came back here... I guess I just wasn't the competitive type."
• Ruth Cole, protagonist of John Irving's A Widow for One Year
• James Novak, journalist on ABC's political drama Scandal, played by Dan Bucatinsky; theater major at Middlebury
• Rand Elliot, character in Gillian Flynn's book and film, Gone Girl

References

External links

Media related to Alumni of Middlebury College at Wikimedia Commons

• Alumni Achievement Award Winners