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Jay Sekulow
Jay Alan Sekulow (born 1956) is an American attorney, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, a 12-time Supreme Court advocate for religious-liberty and free speech cases, and Donald Trump's lead personal lawyer in the Russia investigation and first impeachment defense.
Jay Treaty
Jay Treaty (Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, 1794): US-British agreement signed in London November 19, 1794, negotiated by John Jay; approved by the Senate 20-10 in 1795, it averted war but sparked fierce partisan controversy.
Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts (1789–1800)
The Jay (1789–1795), Rutledge (1795), and Ellsworth (1796–1800) Courts were the first three Supreme Court eras, spanning the founding decade, the only Senate-rejected recess appointee, and early landmark decisions.
JB McCuskey
JB McCuskey (John B. McCuskey) is an American Republican politician who has served as West Virginia's 35th attorney general since 2025, after two terms as state auditor.
Jean C. Hamilton
Jean C. Hamilton, born Jean Constance Hamilton in 1945, is an American jurist who was the first woman to serve as a U.S. district judge in the Eastern District of Missouri.
Jean Charest
Jean Charest (born 1958), Canadian politician: federal Progressive Conservative leader 1993–1998, 29th Premier of Quebec 2003–2012 for the Quebec Liberal Party, later defeated 2022 Conservative leadership candidate.
Jean de Breteuil
Jean de Breteuil (1949-1972), French count and drug dealer to rock stars; supplied Janis Joplin and, per Marianne Faithfull, Jim Morrison; died of heroin overdose in Tangier.
Jean Harris
Jean Struven Harris (1923-2012), Madeira School headmistress convicted of second-degree murder in the 1980 shooting of Scarsdale Diet doctor Herman Tarnower; 15-years-to-life sentence, 1992 clemency.
Jean Rivero
Jean Rivero (1910–2001) was a French jurist and professor of public law at Poitiers and Paris who wrote the standard Précis of administrative law and won the 1986 Balzan Prize.
Jean-Claude Romand
Jean-Claude Romand, French impostor born 1954, posed as a WHO physician for 18 years, killed his wife, two children, and parents in January 1993, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996.
Jean-Marc Connerotte
Jean-Marc Connerotte is the Belgian examining magistrate of Neufchâteau who arrested Marc Dutroux in August 1996, freed Sabine Dardenne and Laetitia Delhez, and was removed by the Court of Cassation's spaghetti arrest on 14 October 1996.
Jean-Paul Boulee
Jean-Paul Boulee (born 1971) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of Georgia since 2019, appointed by President Trump.
Jeannette Vargas
Jeannette Anne Vargas (born 1973, Flushing, NY) is a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, confirmed in 2024; formerly an SDNY assistant U.S. attorney and Sotomayor clerk.
Jeannie Suk Gersen
Jeannie Suk Gersen is an American lawyer and Harvard Law School professor known for scholarship on domestic violence, privacy, and the Title IX campus sexual assault debate.
Jed Rubenfeld
Jed Rubenfeld, Yale Law School constitutional law professor (A.B. Princeton 1980, J.D. Harvard 1986), author of Freedom and Time, Revolution by Judiciary, and the bestselling novel The Interpretation of Murder; suspended two years in 2020 after a sexual harassment investigation he denies.
Jed S. Rakoff
Jed S. Rakoff, born Jed Saul Rakoff in 1943, is a senior US district judge for the Southern District of New York, appointed by Clinton in 1996.
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah S. Purdy (Jedediah Britton-Purdy), American legal scholar, Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law at Duke Law after Columbia; author of After Nature, This Land Is Our Land, Two Cheers for Politics; writes on environmental, property, constitutional law.
Jeff Davis 8
The Jeff Davis 8, or Jennings 8, are eight unsolved murders of women, ages 17 to 30, in Jennings, Louisiana, 2005 to 2009; all were sex workers, drug users, and police informants, with no convictions.
Jeff Fort
Jeff Fort, also known as Chief Malik, cofounded Chicago's Blackstone Rangers, later the Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, led the El Rukns, took Libyan money for planned terrorism, and is serving 168 years.
Jeff Jackson (politician)
Jeff Jackson (born 1982) is a Democratic politician and Army National Guard major serving as North Carolina's attorney general since January 2025, after one term in the U.S. House for the 14th District and eight years in the state Senate.
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions (Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, born 1946) is an Alabama lawyer and Republican politician, U.S. Senator 1997–2017 and 84th U.S. Attorney General 2017–2018 under Trump, who recused himself from the Russia investigation and resigned at Trump's request.
Jeff Wall (lawyer)
Jeffrey Bryan (Jeff) Wall, American appellate lawyer, former Acting Solicitor General of the United States (March 10 to September 19, 2017), now Gibson Dunn appellate practice co-chair with more than 30 Supreme Court arguments, distinct from other namesakes.
Jeff Younger–Anne Georgulas custody battle
Jeff Younger–Anne Georgulas custody battle: Dallas County, Texas family case (case DF-15-09887) over twin boys and one child's gender identity, spanning a 2016 annulment, 2019 joint-custody ruling, 2022 Texas Supreme Court mandamus denial, and later California litigation.
Jefferson Fisher
Jefferson Fisher (Jefferson Wendell Fisher) is a Texas board-certified personal injury trial lawyer, founder of Fisher Firm, and New York Times bestselling author of The Next Conversation, known for viral car-recorded communication videos and The Jefferson Fisher Podcast.
Jeffery Lee
Jeffery Lee, Alabama death row inmate convicted of the 1998 Jimmy's Pawn Shop murders in Orrville; judge overrode his jury's 7-5 life vote; executed by lethal injection September 17, 2026 after nitrogen hypoxia was enjoined.
Jeffery P. Hopkins
Jeffery Paul Hopkins is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Ohio since 2022, appointed by President Biden.
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Jeffrey A. Rosen (Jeffrey Adam Rosen), American lawyer, 38th U.S. Deputy Attorney General (2019–2021) and acting Attorney General (Dec 2020–Jan 2021); former Deputy Secretary of Transportation who resisted 2020 election overturn pressure.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys 1978–1991, arrested July 22, 1991, sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms, killed in prison 1994.
Jeffrey Daugherty
Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty, born 1955, was an American criminal from Taylor, Michigan, executed in Florida in 1988 for the 1976 murder of hitchhiker Lavonne Sailer near Melbourne.
Jeffrey Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein, American financier, subject of the 2005 Palm Beach abuse investigation, the 2008 Florida plea under a federal non-prosecution agreement, the 2019 SDNY sex-trafficking indictment, and his 2019 jail death ruled suicide.