Jerry Reese
When Jerry Reese addressed graduates during UT Martin’s spring 2011 commencement, he told them 95 percent of people have the same basic skills and urged them to use “their last ... Read more
Wilma Jordan
Wilma Jordan is founder and CEO of the Jordan, Edmiston Group, the second-longest tenured investment bank on Wall Street. She’s helped negotiate more than 600 mergers and acquisitions for global ... Read more
John Fisher
Ball Corporation, now a Fortune 500 Company with more than 13,000 employees, faced possible closure shortly after World War II. But John Fisher grew it into the global leader it ... Read more
Hershel P. “Pat” Wall
Dr. Pat Wall has held many important titles at the UT Health Science Center (UTHSC) during his career that has spanned more than 50 years, but the one he is ... Read more
Condredge Holloway
“All I needed was an opportunity,” says Condredge Holloway. And UT Knoxville provided it. Holloway arrived on campus in 1971 as a three-sport phenomenon from Huntsville, Alabama. He excelled in football, basketball ... Read more
Phillip Fulmer
So, one time Phillip Fulmer gave up his beloved orange for red when he donned the Santa suit for his grandson’s first-grade class. That aside, the Hall of Fame football coach, ... Read more
Alumni in Photos, Fall 2017
Snapshots from a few of UT's 370,000 alumni worldwide.
Meet the 2017-18 Officers of the UTAA
Meet the 2017-2018 officers of the University of Tennessee Alumni Association.
James “Jim” Clayton Sr.
The Clayton name is literally a household word in East Tennessee. Clayton Homes founder Jim Clayton Sr. was born in 1934 on a sharecropper farm in a log cabin lacking plumbing ... Read more
Randy Boyd
Randy Boyd arrived at UT Knoxville knowing only that he wanted to major in business. Once he learned about the industrial management concentration, an entrepreneur was born. “I wasn’t even 20, ... Read more
Scott Kelly
Scott Kelly confessed that he spent 13 years staring out of school windows, graduated in the bottom half of his high school class, and found himself attending an unexpected college ... Read more
Max Fuller
Max Fuller might just have diesel in his blood. His father sold used cars in the 1950s and traded two Volkswagen Beetles for a tractor and trailer. He couldn’t sell ... Read more
Ruth Henderson McQueen
“I am the product of the land-grant university system.” Ruth Henderson McQueen says her joy is to give back to the UT Extension program that began investing in her when she ... Read more
Clarence Brown
Armed with two degrees in engineering and with an automobile business, Clarence Brown forged a plot twist in his life by becoming an eight-time Academy Award nominee during Hollywood’s rise ... Read more
Jimmy and Dee Haslam
Dee Haslam was just 17 when she began working in the television business for her father, cable production pioneer Ross K. Bagwell Sr. Jimmy Haslam grew up spending Saturdays working with ... Read more
Peyton Manning
By PHILLIP FULMER What could possibly be said about Peyton Manning that hasn’t been said before? Many times? Maybe a thing or two, from my perspective as one of his former ... Read more
Margaret Perry
When Margaret Perry became UT Martin’s sixth chancellor, she also began a string of firsts. She was first UT Martin alumna to serve as the institution’s chancellor and the first woman ... Read more
Reggie White
Everything Reggie White pursued, he did with intentionality, mindful of the legacy he hoped to leave behind. “Most people don’t live like how they want to be remembered,” says his daughter, ... Read more
Carol Varnadore Aebersold
Growing up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Carol Aebersold had an elf doll named Fisbee who, according to her parents, kept his eye on her for Santa. She continued the Fisbee tradition ... Read more
Davan Maharaj
Davan Maharaj approached his time at UT Chattanooga as any future journalist would: with curiosity and a focus on finding a good story. That curiosity is why he attended a different ... Read more
Everyman/Everywoman
Taken as a whole, the 370,000 living alumni of UT campuses share some characteristics that help define the “average” UT grad. Overwhelmingly, UT graduates live in Tennessee, home of 61.6 ... Read more
