Judiciary Committee by the numbers

Something in one of Grassley's rants struck me: although he's the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, he does not hold a law degree.

This piqued my interest, so I looked again at the makeup of this all-important committee:

10 out of 11 Republicans on the committee are white men (Cruz is the sole source of diversity for the Repubs).
7 out of 11 Republicans have JDs.

4 of the 10 Democrats on the committee are women; 3 of the 10 Democrats on the committee are POC.
9 of the 10 Democrats on the committee have JDs (only Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Dem, never went to law school).

To me, the difference between Cory Booker and Maisie Hirono and Kamala Harris and Thom Tillis, Chuck Grassley, and Jeff Flake is significant, and particularly resonant since so much of what this committee is going to decide will impact all Americans (regardless of gender or race) for years to come.

Chuck Grassley, Iowa, Chairman - no law degree
Orrin Hatch, Utah - law degree, University of Pittsburgh
Lindsey Graham, South Carolina - law degree, University of South Carolina
John Cornyn, Texas - LLM, UVA
Mike Lee, Utah - law degree, BYU
Ted Cruz, Texas - law degree, Harvard
Ben Sasse, Nebraska - no law degree
Jeff Flake, Arizona - no law degree
Mike Crapo, Idaho - law degree, Harvard
Thom Tillis, North Carolina - no law degree
John Neely Kennedy, Louisiana - law degree, UVA

Dianne Feinstein, California, Ranking Member - no law degree
Patrick Leahy, Vermont - law degree, Georgetown
Dick Durbin, Illinois - law degree, Georgetown
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island - law degree, UVA
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota - law degree, UChicago
Chris Coons, Delaware - law degree, Yale
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut - law degree, Yale
Mazie Hirono, Hawaii - law degree, Georgetown
Kamala Harris, California - law degree, Hastings (Former CA AG)
Cory Booker, New Jersey - law degree, Harvard