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Colleen McMahon
Colleen McMahon (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of New York, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1998.
Colleen R. Lawless
Colleen R. Lawless is an American jurist who serves as a U.S. District Judge for the Central District of Illinois. She was appointed by President Biden in 2023.
Colm F. Connolly
Colm F. Connolly is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Delaware since 2018, appointed by President Donald Trump and chief judge since 2021.
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley was an American civil rights lawyer and federal judge who won nine of ten Supreme Court arguments and helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi.
Constantin Stere
Constantin Stere (1865–1936) was a Bessarabian-born Romanian publicist, jurist, and politician, the ideologue of Poporanism, founder of Viața Românească, and president of Sfatul Țării during Bessarabia's 1918 union with Romania.
Consuelo B. Marshall
Consuelo Bland Marshall, born 1936, is a senior United States district judge for the Central District of California, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Consuelo M. Callahan
Consuelo M. Callahan, born 1950, is an American jurist serving as a judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 2003, appointed by President George W. Bush.
Corey L. Maze
Corey L. Maze, also known as Corey Landon Maze, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama since 2019.
Cori Mills
Cori Mills is an American attorney and Republican who became acting Attorney General of Alaska in May 2026, having served as deputy attorney general overseeing the Civil Division since 2021.
Cormac J. Carney
Cormac J. Carney is an American jurist who served as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, retiring on May 31, 2024.
Cornelia Sorabji
Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954), Indian lawyer and social reformer: first woman to study law at Oxford and first woman to practise law in India; Oxford BCL 1892, Court of Wards adviser from 1904, Bar 1923.
Cornelia T. L. Pillard
Cornelia T. L. Pillard, born Cornelia Thayer Livingston Pillard, is an American jurist on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2013.
Coroner
Coroner: a public official investigating sudden, unexplained, or violent deaths and holding inquests. From medieval England (1194, Richard I) to modern England and Wales (2009 Act, Chief Coroner, 80 areas) and US coroner versus medical examiner systems.
Cory T. Wilson
Cory T. Wilson, born 1970, is an American jurist serving as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit since 2020.
Craig Fitzhugh
Calvin Craig Fitzhugh (born 1950) is a Tennessee banker, lawyer, and former Air Force JAG officer who represented House District 82 as House Democratic Leader and ran for governor in 2018, losing the primary to Karl Dean.
Craig Rothfeld
Craig Rothfeld is an American prison consultant and former securities executive who founded Inside Outside Ltd. in New York after serving 18 months for financial crimes.
Cristal C. Brisco
Cristal C. Brisco, born 1981 in Merrillville, Indiana, is a US district judge for the Northern District of Indiana since 2024, the first Black woman to serve on that court.
Cristian M. Stevens
Cristian Matthew Stevens, born 1973, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Missouri since 2025, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Cristina D. Silva
Cristina D. Silva, also known as Cristina Dionne Silva, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Nevada since 2022.
Cristina Gutierrez
Maria Cristina Gutierrez (1951-2004) was a Baltimore criminal defense lawyer, counsel of record in Maryland v. Craig and Adnan Syed's trial attorney, disbarred by consent in 2001.
Critical legal studies
Critical legal studies (CLS) was a late-1970s American legal movement, led by Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz, and Roberto Unger, holding that law is indeterminate, inseparable from politics, and biased toward the status quo; it splintered into critical race theory, feminist legal thought, and law and political economy.
Crown Prosecution Service
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public prosecution service of England and Wales, a non-ministerial department created by the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, operational October 1986, headed by the DPP and applying the two-stage Code test.
Crystal Eastman
Crystal Eastman (1881-1928), American labor lawyer, suffragist, pacifist, and socialist; drafted the first US workers' compensation law, co-founded the National Woman's Party, Woman's Peace Party, and ACLU, and co-authored the Equal Rights Amendment with Alice Paul.
Curtis L. Collier
Curtis Lynn Collier, born 1949, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1995.
Cynthia A. Bashant
Cynthia A. Bashant is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2014, appointed by Barack Obama and serving as chief judge since 2025.
Cynthia M. Rufe
Cynthia M. Rufe, born 1948 in Philadelphia, is an American jurist appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, assuming senior status in 2021.
Cynthia V. Dixon
Cynthia Valenzuela Dixon, born 1969 in Tucson, Arizona, is a United States district judge for the Central District of California, nominated by President Biden and confirmed in 2024.
Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe
Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1899–1977), British lawyer, chaired the 1947 Punjab and Bengal Boundary Commissions that drew the Radcliffe Line dividing India and Pakistan in about five weeks.
Cyrus Vance Jr.
Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Manhattan district attorney 2010–2021, son of Secretary of State Cyrus Vance; led Trump Organization and Weinstein cases, bank fraud forfeitures, and prosecution reforms before Alvin Bragg succeeded him.
D. Brooks Smith
D. Brooks Smith, born David Brooks Smith in 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.