rict judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182] Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey

 Productions, also graduated from the University of Michigan. A member of Starkid, actor and singer Darren Criss, is a series regular on the television series Glee.
Musical graduates include operatic soprano Jessye Norman,[167] singer Joe Dassin, jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, and Mannheim Steamroller founder Chip Davis.[167] Classical composer Frank Ticheli and Broadway composer Andrew Lippa attended. Pop Superstar Madonna[167] and rock legend Iggy Pop[167] attended but did not graduate.
Other U-M graduates include Donald Kohn (past Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), Temel Kotil (president and CEO of Turkish Airlines), current Dean of Harvard Law School Martha Minow, assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian,[167] Weather Underground radical activist Bill Ayers,[177] activist Tom Hayden,[167] architect Charles Moore,[178] Rensis Likert (a sociologist who specialized in management styles and developed the Likert scale), the Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg,[179] and Benjamin D. Pritchard (the Civil War general who captured Jefferson Davis).[180] Neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta attended both college and medical school at U-M.[181] Clarence Darrow attended law school at U-M at a time when many lawyers did not receive any formal education.[167] Frank Murphy, who was mayor of Detroit, governor of Michigan, attorney general of the United States, and Supreme Court justice was also a graduate of the Law School.[167] Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is another U-M law school graduate (J.D. 1988).[167]
Vaughn R. Walker, a federal district judge in California who overturned the controversial California Proposition 8 in 2010 and ruled it unconstitutional, received his undergraduate degree from U-M in 1966.[182]
Some more notorious graduates of the University are 1910 convicted murderer (though perhaps wrongfully so)[183] Dr. Harvey Crippen,[167] late 19th-century American serial killer Herman Mudgett,[167] and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.[167]
U-M athletes have starred in Major League Baseball, the National Football League and National Basketball Association as well as other professional sports. Notable among recent players is Tom Brady of the New England Patriots.[167] Three players have won college football's Heisman Trophy, awarded to the player considered the best in the nation: Tom Harmon (1940), Desmond Howard (1991) and Charles Woodson (1997).[150] Professional golfer John Schroeder and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps also attended the University of Michigan, with the latter studying Sports Marketing and Management. Phelps also swam competitively for Club Wolverine, a swimming club associated with the university.[184] NHL players Marty Turco, Chris Summers, Max Pacioretty, Carl Hagelin, Brendan Morrison,[167] Jack Johnson, and Michael Cammalleri[167] all played for U-M's ice hockey team. Baseball Hall of Famer, George Sisler played baseball at the university, also Barry Larkin of the Cincinnati Reds.[167]
The university claims the only alumni association with a chapter on the moon, established in 1971 when the crew of Apollo 15 placed a charter plaque for a new U-M Alumni Association on the lunar surface.[167] The plaque reads: "The Alumni Association of The University of Michigan. Charter Number One. This is to certify that The University of Michigan Club of The Moon is a duly constituted unit of the Alumni Association and entitled to all the rights and privileges under the Association's Constitution." According to the Apollo 15 astronauts, several small U-M flags were brought on the missio