George Connor
Students of UT Chattanooga English professor George Connor can describe him as a friend and mentor who believed in them. UTC students dedicated the 1969 yearbook in his honor and ... Read more
Margaret Scobey
Four years ago, when retired U.S. Ambassador Margaret Scobey spoke at a UT Knoxville commencement ceremony, she said that you can always count on your “Volunteer” friends—no matter where life ... Read more
Randal Weber
Dr. Randal Weber, internationally recognized surgeon and expert in the treatment of patients with head and neck surgery, is a leader and a warrior in the fight against cancer. After ... Read more
Terry Douglass
Terry Douglass has helped shape medical technology and health-care provider businesses, impacting the lives of millions of patients. Douglass was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved to Knoxville to attend ... Read more
Waymon L. Hickman Sr.
Waymon Hickman knows firsthand how powerful a scholarship can be for a student. The moment he received his first scholarship as a freshman at UT Martin, he made the decision ... Read more
Charles C. Anderson Jr.
Charles C. Anderson Jr. is a Florence, Alabama, native who came to UT Knoxville on an athletic scholarship to play football and major in marketing. He was a three-year letterman, ... Read more
Kara Lawson
Kara Lawson, a 2008 gold-medal Olympian, a 2005 Women’s National Basketball Association champion, four-time All-SEC women’s basketball player and UT Knoxville Torchbearer, learned to put everything into whatever she does. ... Read more
Winfield Dunn
In his 2007 book, From A Standing Start: My Tennessee Political Odyssey, former Tennessee Gov. Winfield acknowledges the question he most often hears: “How in the world did a dentist ... Read more
Charlie Ergen
An avid mountain climber, Charlie Ergen has scaled Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mount Aconcagua in Argentina and reached Mount Everest base campin Nepal. In fact, Ergen has been reaching lofty ... Read more
John Cullum
John Cullum is a two-time Tony Award winner, best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayal of Holling Vincoeur on television’s Northern Exposure. He also has appeared in major network shows including ... Read more
Estes Kefauver
During the Democratic primary campaign for U.S. Senate in 1948, Memphis politician Ed Crump accused Estes Kefauver of being sympathetic to communists and compared him to a deceitful raccoon. In ... Read more
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
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
