List of University of California, Berkeley alumni in politics and government

Royalty

• Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands, M.Jour. 1991 – Princess of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; wife of Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands and daughter of the Dutch minister of Economic Affairs, Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst and Jantien Brinkhorst-Heringa
• Prince Johan-Friso of Orange-Nassau – Prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands; second son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Prince Claus von Amsberg
• Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, B.A. 1999 – heir to the throne of Norway

  Heads of state

• Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez, B.A. 1882 – President of Colombia
• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, B.A. 1950 – President of Pakistan, Prime Minister of Pakistan, father of Benazir Bhutto
• Sun Fo, B.A. 1916 – Premier of the Republic of China, President of National Chiao Tung University, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Soochow University
• Francisco I. Madero – President of Mexico
• Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, M.A. 1966, Ph.D. 1966 – President of Costa Rica

  Governors

• Edmund G. Brown Jr., B.A. 1961 – Governor of California
• C.C. Young, B.L. 1892 - Governor of California
• James H. Budd, A.B. 1873 – Governor of California
• John Morton Eshleman, B.A. 1903, M.A. 1905 – Lieutenant Governor of California
• John Garamendi, BA 1966 – Lieutenant Governor of California
• Walter A. Gordon, B.A. 1918, J.D. 1922 – first All-American at UC Berkeley, first African American graduate of Boalt Hall, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, Federal District Judge, member of National Football Foundation Hall of Fame
• Jennifer Granholm, B.A. 1984, J.D. – Governor of Michigan, first woman to hold this position in the state of Michigan; instructor at UC Berkeley after her governorship
• Sione Manu'uli Luani – Governor of Vava'u, Tonga
• James Soong, M.A. 1967 – Governor of Taiwan Province
• Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, LL.B. 1914 – Attorney General of California, 1939–1943; Governor of California, 1943–1953; 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953–1969
• Pete Wilson, J.D. 1962 – U.S. Senator, Governor of California
• George C. Pardee, – Governor of California
• Hiram W. Johnson, – Governor of California and US Senator
• Ridwan Kamil, M.U.D. 2001 – Governor of West Java, Indonesia

  Executive council members

• Jerome Adams, M.P.H. 2000 - Surgeon General of the United States
• Andrej Bajuk, M.S. 1972 – Minister of Finance of the Republic of Slovenia, Prime Minister of Slovenia
• Ruhakana Rugunda, M.S. 1977 – Prime Minister of the Republic of Uganda
• Sandra Black, BA 1991 – member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers
• W. Michael Blumenthal, B.S. 1951 – United States Secretary of the Treasury
• Michael Boskin, B.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1971 – chair, Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, professor at Stanford University
• Mostafa Chamran, PhD 1963 – former Iranian minister of defense
• Prithviraj Chavan M.S. 1967 – Chief Minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra, Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha, currently a Minister of State in the prime minister's Office, Government of India
• Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn, B.S. 1964 – Life peer in the House of Lords ; senior unofficial member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ; senior unofficial member of the Hong Kong Executive Council ; non-executive deputy chairman of HSBC
• Laura Giuliano, PhD 2003 – adviser to White House Council of Economic Advisers
• Judith Heumann, M.P.H. 1975 – pioneer for disability rights and former Assistant United States Secretary of Education
• Raffi Hovannisian, 1977 – former Foreign Minister of Armenia
• Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti, M.A. 1966, Ph.D 1980 – former coordinating minister for economic affairs of the Republic of Indonesia; former Indonesian ambassador to the United States
• Franklin Lane, 1887 – United States Secretary of the Interior, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1902 Democratic nominee for Governor of California
• Robert McNamara, B.A. 1937 – President of World Bank, United States Secretary of Defense, President of Ford Motor Company
• Norman Mineta, B.S. 1953 – Congressman , United States Secretary of Transportation, United States Secretary of Commerce
• Widjojo Nitisastro, PhD 1961 – former Indonesian Minister for Economy, Finance and Industry
• Rodrigo Rato, M.B.A. 1974 – Spain's former Minister of Economy, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund
• Jesse Rothstein, PhD – senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers
• Dean Rusk – United States Secretary of State
• Robert Seamans, PhD – adviser to White House Council of Economic Advisers
• Jay Shambaugh, PhD 2002 – member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers
• James Stock, M.A. 1982, PhD 1983 – member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers
• Ann Veneman, M.P.P. 1971 – United States Secretary of Agriculture ; Executive Director of UNICEF

  Judges

• Robert Peter Aguilar, B.A., 1954, J.D., 1958 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Richard G. Andrews, J.D., 1981 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware
• Stanley Nelson Barnes, A.B., 1924, J.D., 1927 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Marsha S. Berzon, J.D., 1973 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Rose Bird, J.D., 1965 – first female Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
• Charles R. Breyer, J.D., 1966 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Allen Broussard, B.A., 1950, J.D., 1953 – Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
• Lloyd Hudson Burke, LL.B., 1940 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Edward M. Chen, B.A., 1975, J.D., 1979 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Maxine M. Chesney, B.A., 1964, J.D., 1967 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Vince Girdhari Chhabria, J.D., 1998 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• William Perry Copple, B.A., 1948, J.D., 1951 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona
• Myron Donovan Crocker, LL.B., 1940 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Eastern District of California
• Frank C. Damrell Jr., B.A., 1961 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• George B. Daniels, J.D., 1978 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• William Denman, B.Litt., 1894 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• James Donato, B.A. 1983 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Joan Donoghue, J.D. 1978 – Judge, International Court of Justice
• Miranda Du, J.D., 1994 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
• Herbert Wilson Erskine, A.B., 1908 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Michael W. Fitzgerald, J.D., 1985 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Beth Labson Freeman, B.A., 1976 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Monroe Mark Friedman, A.B., 1916, LL.B., 1920 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Lloyd D. George, J.D., 1961 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada
• Steven Gonzalez, J.D., 1991 – Associate Justice, Washington Supreme Court
• Louis Earl Goodman, B.A., 1913 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Sherrill Halbert, A.B., 1924, J.D., 1927 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Oliver Deveta Hamlin, Jr., B.L., 1914 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Thelton Henderson, B.A., 1956, J.D., 1962 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Harry Aaron Hollzer, B.L., 1902, LL.B., 1903 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Sandra Segal Ikuta, A.B., 1976 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Anthony W. Ishii, J.D., 1973 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• Lance Ito, J.D. 1975 – Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court, presided over O.J. Simpson trial
• D. Lowell Jensen, A.B., 1949, LL.B., 1952 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Alan Cooke Kay, LL.B., 1960 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
• William Duffy Keller, B.S., 1956 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• David Vreeland Kenyon, B.A., 1952 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Gerald Sanford Levin, A.B., 1927, LL.D., 1930 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• M. James Lorenz, B.A., 1957 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Thomas Jamison MacBride, A.B., 1936, J.D., 1940 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Eastern District of California
• Kiyo A. Matsumoto, B.A 1976 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Linda Hodge McLaughlin, LL.B., 1966 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Charles Merton Merrill, A.B., 1928 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Frank C. Newman, LL.B., 1941 – Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
• Fernando M. Olguin, M.A., J.D., 1989 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Lawrence Joseph O'Neill, B.A., 1973 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• William Horsley Orrick, Jr., LL.B., 1941 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• John B. Owens, B.A., 1993 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Richard Paez, J.D., 1972 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• John Slater Partridge, A.B., 1892, A.M., 1894 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Virginia A. Phillips, J.D., 1982 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Harry Pregerson, LL.B., 1950 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Edward Dean Price, A.B., 1947, LL.B., 1949 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• Jane A. Restani, B.A., 1969 – Judge, U.S. Court of International Trade
• Cruz Reynoso, LL.B., 1958 – first Latino Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court
• Edward Joseph Schwartz, A.B., 1934 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Milton Lewis Schwartz, A.B., 1941, J.D., 1948 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• William B. Shubb, A.B., 1960, J.D., 1963 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• James Keith Singleton, Jr., A.B., 1961, LL.B., 1964 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska
• Indira Talwani, J.D., 1988 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Amul Thapar, J.D., 1994 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
• Jon S. Tigar, J.D., 1989 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Roger J. Traynor, B.A. 1923, Ph.D. 1926, J.D. 1927 – Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
• John P. Vukasin Jr., A.B., 1950, J.D., 1956 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• John Clifford Wallace, LL.B., 1955 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Evan Wallach, J.D., 1976 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Oliver Winston Wanger, LL.B., 1966 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 – 14th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
• Paul J. Watford, B.A., 1989 – Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Kathryn Werdegar, B.A., 1962 – Associate Justice, California Supreme Court
• Francis C. Whelan, LL.B., J.D., 1932 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Southern District of California
• Claudia Ann Wilken, J.D., 1975 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Spencer Mortimer Williams, LL.B., 1948 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• David John Wilson, J.D., 1919 – Judge, U.S. Customs Court
• Albert Charles Wollenberg, A.B., 1922, J.D., 1924 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Alfonso Zirpoli, A.B., 1926, J.D., 1928 – Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

  Legislators

• Dick Ackerman, B.A. 1964 – former California State Senate Republican Leader
• Colin Allred, J.D. 2014 – Congressman
• Sam Blakeslee, B.S., M.S. – California State Senator and former California State Assembly Republican Leader
• Robert Campbell, M.A. 1964 – former member of the state Assembly
• Stephen W. Cunningham – first UCLA graduate manager and Los Angeles City Council member, 1933–41
• Susan Davis, B.A. 1965 – Congresswoman
• Ron Dellums, M.S.W. 1962 – Congressman
• Vernon Ehlers, Ph.D. 1960 – Congressman
• John A. Elston, 1897 – Congressman
• Jesse Gabriel, California State Assemblyman
• John Garamendi, B.S. 1966 – Congressman
• Craig Hosmer, B.A. 1937 – Congressman
• Crystal Brilliant Snow Jenne – member of the Alaska Territorial House of Representatives
• William F. Knowland, B.A. 1929 – US Senator ; US Senate Majority Leader US Senate Minority Leader
• Tom Lantos, Ph.D 1953 – Congressman
• Mohammad Javad Larijani, Ph.D. – former Member of Parliament, Iran
• Barbara Lee, M.S.W. 1975 – Congresswoman
• Mel Levine, B.A. 1964 – Congressman
• Doris Matsui, B.A. 1966 – Congresswoman replacing her deceased husband, Robert Matsui
• Robert Matsui, B.A. 1963 – Congressman
• Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D. candidate – Congresswoman
• Norman Mineta, B.S. 1953 – Congressman , United States Secretary of Transportation, United States Secretary of Commerce
• Dan K. Morhaim, B.A. 1970 – Maryland legislator
• Nicole Parra, B.A. 1992 – California state Assemblywoman
• Ira Ruskin, B.A. 1968 – Democratic California State Assemblyman
• Linda Sánchez, B.A. 1991 – Congresswoman
• Dalip Singh Saund, M.A. 1922, Ph.D. 1924 – first Indian American Congressman , mathematician
• Peter F. Schabarum, B.S. 1951 – California state Assemblyman, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
• Todd Spitzer, M.P.P. 1989 – California State Assemblyman
• Roy A. Vitousek, B.S. 1912 – Member of the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives from 1922 to 1944; Speaker of the House 1931–1932, 1935–1940, and 1943-1944
• Peter Welch, J.D. 1973 – Congressman

  Directors

• Basim Elkarra – Director of Sacramento Chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations; civil rights leader; serves on the Executive Board of the California Democratic Party; former board member of the Sacramento chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union; member of Twin Rivers Unified School District Board of Trustees
• Horace Albright, B.A. 1912 – conservationist, helped establish the National Park Service, second director of the National Park Service, awarded the Medal of Freedom
• Harvey Oren Banks, Ph.D. 1964 – State Engineer of California, first Director of the California Department of Water Resources
• G. Wayne Clough. Ph.D. 1969 – 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ; former president of Georgia Tech
• Nicolle Devenish, B.A. 1994 – White House Communications Director
• Newton B. Drury, B.A. 1912 – conservationist, fourth Director of the National Park Service
• Julie Gerberding, M.P.H. 1990 – Director of the Centers for Disease Control
• Stephen Mather, 1887 – conservationist, founding director of the National Park Service
• John McCone, B.S. 1922 – director of the Central Intelligence Agency
• Marc Pachter, B.A. 1964 – director of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. ; acting director of the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.

  Mayors

• Jesse Arreguín, B.A. 2007 – Mayor of Berkeley, California
• Jerry Brown, B.A. 1961 – Mayor of Oakland
• Christopher Cabaldon, B.S. 1987 – Mayor of West Sacramento, California
• Shirley Dean, B.A. 1956 – Mayor of Berkeley, California
• Bob Holcomb, B.A. 1949 – Longest-serving mayor of San Bernardino, California
• Kevin Johnson, B.A. 1997 – Mayor of Sacramento, retired professional NBA basketball player
• Ed Lee, J.D. 1978 – 43rd Mayor of San Francisco, first Asian-American mayor in San Francisco's history
• Frank Otis, 1873 Mayor of Alameda, California
• Lionel Wilson, B.A. 1938 – first African American Mayor of Oakland, California

  Diplomats

• J. Christopher Stevens, B.A. 1982, J.D. 1989 – United States Ambassador to Libya
• Earl Anthony Wayne, B.A. 1972 – United States Ambassador to Mexico
• Julia Chang Bloch, B.A. 1964 – United States Ambassador to Nepal
• Charles Richard Bowers, B.A. 1966, M.A. 1967 – United States Ambassador to Bolivia
• Martin Brennan, B.A. 1971 – former United States Ambassador to Zambia and Uganda
• Kenneth C. Brill, M.B.A. 1973 – United States Ambassador to Cyprus, Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Ruth A. Davis, M.S.W. 1968 – United States Ambassador to Benin
• Milton Frank, B.A. 1941 – United States Ambassador to Nepal
• John Kenneth Galbraith, M.A. 1932, Ph.D. 1934 – Harvard Professor Emeritus of Economics; United States Ambassador to India
• Philip Habib, Ph.D. 1952 – United States Ambassador to South Korea, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East
• Kathryn Walt Hall, B.A. – United States Ambassador to Austria
• March Kong Fong Eu, B.S. 1943 – former California Secretary of State, former United States Ambassador to Micronesia, mother of Matt Fong, also a noted Chinese-American politician
• Michael G. Kozak, B.A. 1968, J.D. 1971 – United States Ambassador to Belarus
• Joseph Limprecht, Ph.D. 1975 – United States Ambassador to Albania
• John K. Menzies, Ph.D. – United States Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, current dean of the Whitehead School of Diplomacy at Seton Hall University
• Richard Monroe Miles, B.A. 1962 – United States Ambassador to Bulgaria, United States Ambassador to Georgia
• David Dunlop Newsom, B.A. 1938 – United States Ambassador to Indonesia, United States Ambassador to the Philippines, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
• Sadako Ogata, Ph.D. 1963 – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
• Maurice S. Parker, B.A. 1972 – United States Ambassador to Swaziland
• Gregory L. Schulte, B.A. 1980 – Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency
• Kenneth D. Taylor, M.B.A. 1959 – Canadian ambassador to Iran during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, noted for his role in the Canadian Caper which formed the basis of the Academy Award-winning film Argo
• Emeline U. Tuita, M.B.A. 1999 – Commercial Consul, Tonga Consulate General in San Francisco, Consul General at Tonga Consulate General in San Francisco, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Tonga to the People's Republic of China
• James David Zellerbach, 1913 – United States Ambassador to Italy

  Attorneys

• Zoe Baird, B.A. 1974, J.D. 1977 – attorney, President of Markle Foundation; nominated by President Clinton for United States Attorney General post
• Melvin Belli, J.D. 1929 – attorney
• Lea Brilmayer, B.A. 1970, J.D. 1976 – Professor of Law at Yale Law School
• Beth Brinkmann, B.A. 1980 – former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S. and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Morrison & Foerster
• Jerry Brown – California Attorney General
• Melinda Haag, J.D. 1987 – United States Attorney for the Northern District of California
• Bill Lockyer, B.A. 1965 – California Attorney General
• David M. Louie, J.D. 1970 – Attorney General of Hawaii
• Edwin Meese III, J.D. 1958 – United States Attorney General
• Dale Minami, J.D. 1971 – lead litigator for Fred Korematsu's legal team
• Theodore Olson, J.D. 1965 – United States Solicitor General
• Larry Sonsini, B.A. 1963, J.D. 1966 – Chair at leading Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
• Michael Tigar, B.A. 1962, J.D. 1966 – prominent litigator whose clients have included the Chicago Seven and Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols; Research Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University
• Earl Warren, B.A. 1912, J.D. 1914 – Attorney General of California, 1939–1943; 1943–1953

  Military

• Bertram A. Bone, 1917 - Brigadier General, United States Marine Corps
• Jimmy Doolittle, 1922 – aviator, United States Army Lieutenant General
• George Fedoroff, B.A. 1967 – Office of Naval Intelligence Senior Intelligence Officer, Russia
• Monte Melkonian, B.A. 1978 – Armenian Commander in the Nagorno-Karabakh War
• Murrey L. Royar, 1916 – Vice Admiral, United States Navy
• Oliver Prince Smith, 1916 – Major General, United States Marine Corps

  Activists

• Howard Adams, PhD 1966 – Canadian Metis political activist, author of Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View
• Richard Aoki, B.A. 1968, M.S.W. 1970 – co-founder of the Black Panther Party
• Gordon Belcourt – former Executive Director of the Montana-Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council
• Joan Blades, B.A. 1977 – political activist, co-founder of liberal political advocacy group MoveOn.org
• Betty Friedan – feminist activist, author of The Feminine Mystique, founder of the National Women's Political Caucus
• George Horse-Capture, B.A. 1974 – Native American activist, museum curator, Plains Indian Museum and the National Museum of the American Indian
• David Horowitz, M.A. 1961 – conservative political activist and commentator, founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture
• Keith Kerr – military general and gay rights activist
• James Robertson, 1923 – National Chair of the Trotskyist Spartacist League
• R.J. Rushdoony, B.A. 1938, M.A. 1940 – prominent author of the Christian Right
• Eveline Shen, M.P.H. – executive director and board president of West Coast-based reproductive justice nonprofit, Forward Together
• Mario Savio – political activist, key member of Berkeley Free Speech Movement

  Other

• Damir Arnaut, B.A. 1997, M.A. 1998, J.D. 2002 – Adviser for Legal and Constitutional Affairs to Haris Silajdzic, member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Jesse Arreguin, B.A. 2003 – Berkeley City Councilmember
• Mario Bergara, PhD 1998 – President of the Central Bank of Uruguay, appointed Minister of Economy and Finance
• Bernice Brown, 1928 - First Lady of California, Wife of Governor Pat Brown
• Josh Brown, B.A. 2003 – Kitsap County Commissioner, Washington state
• Peter Brown, M.A. – At-Large Houston Houston City Council Member
• Mike Casey, B.A. 1980 – trade union leader
• Rachelle Chong, B.A. 1981 – first Asian American Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission and first Asian American Commissioner of the California Public Utilities Commission
• Tarak Nath Das, M.A. 1914 – Indian revolutionary, Indian-American scholar and internationalist
• Tony Daysog, B.A. 1989, M.C.P. 1998 – Alameda City Council member and Alameda Vice Mayor
• William Dudley, PhD 1982 – President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Maria Echaveste, J.D. 1980 – White House Deputy Chief of Staff
• Nadine Burke Harris, B.S. 1996 - first Surgeon General of California
• H. Robert Heller, PhD 1965 – Governor of the Federal Reserve System and President of VISA USA
• Ida Louise Jackson, B.A. 1922, M.A. 1923 – education and public-health pioneer
• Ellis O. Knox, B.A. 1922 – civil rights and education activist, first African American PhD on West Coast, former chairman of NAACP Education Division
• Bruno Mégret, M.S. 1974 – French far-right politician, member of the French National Assembly, member of the European Parliament and candidate in the 2002 French presidential election
• Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.P.H. 1975 – Acting Surgeon General of the United States
• Jayaprakash Narayan – Indian freedom fighter, social reformer, politician
• Richard Neustadt, B.A. 1939 – political historian and advisor to several U.S. presidents
• Troy A. Paredes, B.A. 1992 – Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Nick E. Smith, B.A. 2003 – Chair/member of Commission on Labor ; member of Housing Advisory Commission, City of Berkeley
• Kevin Starr, M.L.S. 1974 – California State Librarian Emeritus
• Nicolle Wallace, B.A. 1994 - White House Communications Director for President George W. Bush
• Frederick C. Weyand, 1939 – Chief of Staff of the Army