Republicans
- Donald Trump: did not go to law school
- Bill Weld: Harvard ('70)
Democrats
(In alphabetical order by surname, including all declared, even those who have not participated in debates)
- Michael Bennet: Yale ('93)
- Joe Biden: Syracuse ('68)
- Cory Booker: Yale ('97)
- Steve Bullock: Columbia ('94)
- Pete Buttigieg: did not go to law school
- Julián Castro: Harvard ('00)
- Bill de Blasio: did not go to law school
- John Delaney: Georgetown ('88)
- Tulsi Gabbard: did not go to law school
- Kirsten Gillibrand: UCLA ('91)
- Mike Gravel: did not go to law school
- Kamala Harris: UC Hastings ('89)
- John Hickenlooper: did not go to law school
- Jay Inslee: Willamette ('76)
- Amy Klobuchar: University of Chicago ('85)
- Wayne Messam: did not go to law school
- Seth Moulton: did not go to law school
- Beto O'Rourke: did not go to law school
- Tim Ryan: U New Hampshire ('00)
- Bernie Sanders: did not go to law school
- Joe Sestak: did not go to law school
- Tom Steyer: did not go to law school
- Elizabeth Warren: Rutgers ('76)
- Marianne Williamson: did not go to law school
- Andrew Yang: Columbia ('99)