Terry Brooks '85 — Author
Robert Mosbacher '47 Undergraduate '49 Law School —
Secretary of Commerce between between 1989 and 1992.
Roger Mudd '50 — Congressional Correspondent for CBS and PBS; Host on the History Channel
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. '29
Undergraduate '31 Law School — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Pat Robertson '50 — Chancellor, Regent University; founder, Christian Broadcasting Network
Tom Robbins — Author of
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. (Didn't graduate
here, but attended for two years before moving to New York to become a poet.)
Tom Wolfe '51 — Journalist (created New Journalism) and author of numerous books including The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the VanitiesIn total 27 alumni have served in the United States
Senate, 67 have served in the United States House of Representatives, 31 have served as governor of a state, and 4
have served as Supreme Court
Justices.