List of Capital University people

This is a list of notable individuals who currently have or previously had an association with Capital University, located in Bexley, Ohio. Capital University is a private liberal arts university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, founded in 1830. In addition to its undergraduate programs, the university also has graduate programs, as well as a law school.[1] Capital is the oldest university in Central Ohio, and one of the oldest and largest Lutheran-affiliated universities in North America.[2]

## Notable alumni

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* Hanif Abdurraqib, poet and music writer
* Ron Amstutz, Ohio state senator
* Tim Ayers, former mayor and city commissioner, Springfield, Ohio
* David F. Bowers, philosopher and Guggenheim Fellow
* C.C. Finlay, novelist (class of 1990)
* Robert S. Graetz, Lutheran pastor, openly supported Montgomery Bus Boycotts
* Jay Hottinger, Ohio state senator (R-31)
* Arnett Howard, jazz musician
* Chris Jamison, pop singer who appeared on Season 7 of The Voice
* Theodore E. Long, former president of Elizabethtown College
* Louis H. Mackey, philosopher
* Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Litton-Lodal Music Director of The American Boychoir
* Eric Norelius, Lutheran minister, church leader and writer
* Abdul Samad Rabiu, Nigerian industrialist
* Harold L. Yochum, class of 1923, theologian, district president of the American Lutheran Church, 9th President of Capital University, delegate to the World Council of Churches

## Notable faculty

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* Dorothy Gill Barnes, adjunct art instructor, 1966 to 1990
* Kevin R. Griffith, professor of English, poet
* Harold J. Grimm, professor of history and an expert on the Protestant Reformation
* Matthias Loy, elected president of Capital University in 1881
* William Morton Reynolds, president 1850 to 1853
* James Swearingen, music educator and composer
* Harvey Wasserman, liberal, anti-nuclear activist and adjunct professor in the History Department

## Law School

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### Notable faculty

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* Jack Guttenberg, legal writer; expert on professional responsibility; co-author of the authoritative source on the Ohio new law of professional conduct for attorneys, Ohio Law of Professional Conduct
* Bradley A. Smith, former commissioner and chairman of the Federal Election Commission 2000–2005

A 2008 survey of faculty scholarship conducted by Roger Williams University School of Law found Capital's faculty to be one of the most productive scholarly faculties in the nation.[3]

### Notable alumni

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* Jennifer Brunner, Ohio Secretary of State (2007–2010)
* Bruce Edward Johnson, Ohio Lt. Governor (2004–2006)
* Jim Jordan, U.S. Representative (R-OH, 2007–present)
* Greg Lashutka, mayor, Columbus, Ohio (1991–1999)
* Matthew W. McFarland, Ohio 4th District Court of Appeals judge
* Paul McNulty, United States Deputy Attorney General (2005–2007), United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (2001–2005)
* Deborah Pryce, U.S. Representative (R-OH, 1993–2008)
* Michael H. Watson, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

## References

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1. ^ "Degrees". Capital University. Archived from the original on June 17, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
2. ^ "About Capital". Capital University. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012. Retrieved July 4, 2012.
3. ^ http://law.capital.edu/uploadedFiles/Law_Multi_Site/About/Publications/08CapLawAnnualR11.pdf Archived 2013-06-06 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]