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William Gascoigne
Sir William Gascoigne (c. 1350–1419), Yorkshire lawyer and Chief Justice of the King's Bench under Henry IV; famed, though largely by Tudor legend first recorded in 1531, for committing Prince Henry to prison.
William H. Albritton III
William H. Albritton III, also known as William Harold Albritton III, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
William H. Alsup
William H. Alsup, born 1945 in Jackson, Mississippi, is a former US district judge for the Northern District of California, appointed by Bill Clinton in 1999.
William H. Hastie
William Henry Hastie (1904–1976), American jurist and civil rights lawyer; first Black federal judge (Virgin Islands, 1937), first Black federal appeals judge (Third Circuit, 1949), Howard Law dean, Virgin Islands governor, 1943 Spingarn Medalist.
William H. Orrick III
William H. Orrick III, also known as William Horsley Orrick, III, is an American jurist serving as a senior US district judge in Northern California since 2023.
William H. Pryor Jr.
William H. Pryor Jr. (born 1962, Mobile, Alabama) is chief judge of the Eleventh Circuit (since 2020), former Alabama attorney general 1997-2004 who prosecuted Roy Moore, recess-appointed in 2004, confirmed 2005, and a 2016 Trump Supreme Court shortlister.
William H. Steele
William H. Steele, born in 1951, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
William H. Webster
William H. Webster (1924–2025), American federal judge and the only person to head both the FBI (1978–1987) and CIA (1987–1991); also namesake of the 1988 Supreme Court case Webster v. Doe.
William Hague
William Hague, Baron Hague of Richmond, is a British Conservative politician who led the Conservative Party from 1997 to 2001 and was Foreign Secretary from 2010 to 2014.
William Heirens
William George Heirens, the "Lipstick Killer," confessed at 17 in 1946 to three Chicago murders, pleaded guilty, got three consecutive life terms, recanted, earned Illinois' first prisoner BA degree, and died in prison in 2012 after 65 years.
William J. Brennan Jr.
William J. Brennan Jr. (1906-1997), U.S. Supreme Court associate justice 1956-1990, Eisenhower recess appointee from New Jersey, author of Baker v. Carr, New York Times v. Sullivan, and Texas v. Johnson, and the Warren Court's leading liberal.
William J. Crain
William J. Crain, born in 1961, is an American jurist who served on the Louisiana Supreme Court from 2019 to 2025 before becoming a federal district judge.
William J. Kayatta, Jr.
William J. Kayatta, Jr. is an American jurist on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Obama in 2013 and taking senior status in 2024.
William J. Martinez
William J. Martinez, born 1954 in Mexico City, is a United States district judge in Colorado, appointed by Barack Obama in 2010 and taking senior status in 2023.
William J. Martini
William J. Martini, born 1947 in Passaic, New Jersey, is a federal district judge in New Jersey since 2002 who earlier served as a US representative from 1995 to 1997.
William J. Nardini
William Joseph Nardini, born 1969, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Second Circuit since 2019, appointed by President Donald Trump.
William J. Zloch
William J. Zloch, born in 1944, is a senior United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President Reagan in 1985.
William K. Sessions III
William K. Sessions III, born in 1947, is a senior United States district judge of the District of Vermont, appointed by President Clinton in 1995.
William K. Suter
William K. Suter, American lawyer and retired Army Major General, served as 19th Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1991 to 2013, succeeding Joseph F. Spaniol Jr. and being succeeded by Scott Harris after more than 1,700 arguments heard.
William Kemmler
William Kemmler (William Francis Kemmler), Buffalo vegetable vendor convicted in 1889 of murdering Matilda Ziegler; first person executed by electric chair, Auburn Prison, August 6, 1890, in a botched two-jolt electrocution upheld in People ex rel. Kemmler v. Durston and In re Kemmler.
William King Hale
William King Hale (1874–1962), the "King of the Osage Hills," was a Texas-born Oklahoma cattleman who orchestrated murders of Osage Nation members for oil headrights; convicted of Henry Roan's murder in 1929, paroled 1947.
William Kunstler
William Moses Kunstler (1919–1995), American radical lawyer and ACLU director, co-founded the Center for Constitutional Rights, defended the Chicago Seven, and argued flag-burning cases before the Supreme Court.
William L. Campbell, Jr.
William L. Campbell, Jr., also known as William Lynn Campbell, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Tennessee since 2018.
William L. Osteen, Jr.
William L. Osteen, Jr., also known as William Lindsay Osteen, Jr., is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in North Carolina since 2007.
William Leonard Pickard
William Leonard Pickard (born 1945) is an American chemist, once a Harvard and UCLA drug policy researcher, convicted in 2003 in the largest DEA LSD lab seizure (Wamego, Kansas) and granted compassionate release in 2020.
William M. Conley
William M. Conley, also known as William Martin Conley, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin since 2010.
William M. Ray II
William M. Ray II, also known as William McCrary Ray, II, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in Georgia since 2018.
William M. Skretny
William M. Skretny, born 1945, is an American jurist who served as a United States district judge in the Western District of New York from 1990.
William McMahon
Sir William (Billy) McMahon (1908–1988), Australia's 20th prime minister (March 1971–December 1972), Liberal member for Lowe 1949–1982, long-serving treasurer, defeated by Whitlam, remembered as one of Australia's weakest prime ministers.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (1705–1793), Scottish-born Lord Chief Justice of King's Bench 1756–1788, founder of English commercial law, whose 1772 Somerset v Stewart ruling freed James Somerset and shaped abolition.