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Sharon Pratt
Then: DC’s first female mayor, for one term anyway—her administration’s spending and fiscal troubles prompted Congress to resume oversight of the city’s budget and cost her a second term.
Now: Founding director of UDC’s Institute of Politics Policy and History, which connects students with the political world.
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Then: Marquee writer at the New Republic—and journalism’s most notorious plagiarist.
Now: Director of special projects at a Beverly Hills personal-injury firm. (He graduated from Georgetown Law but was never able to get barred).
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Then: George H.W. Bush–administration Veep who misspelled “potato” on national TV.
Now: Chair of a private-equity firm; in 2020, he reportedly counseled VP Mike Pence when Donald Trump sought to overturn the election.
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Then: Soccer phenom (and Olympic medalist) who made DC’s pro women’s team—and women’s soccer in general—famous.
Now: Co-owns (with Will Ferrell, among several others) a professional soccer team in LA.
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Then: Clinton confidant nailed for fraud during the Whitewater investigation.
Now: Legal-thriller writer who posts daily meditations on his spirituality blog.
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Then: White-hot basketball star at Georgetown University.
Now: Partner with Los Angeles–based cannabis company Viola. Look out for his new strain of weed.
Photographs of Pratt and Quayle by National Archives.
Photograph of Iverson by Shutterstock.
This article appears in the December 2021 issue of Washingtonian.
