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Distinguished Alumni

  LONNIE JOHNSON
   inventor, engineer,
   entrepreneur

LIONEL RICHIE
singer, songwriter,
entertainer

ALICE COACHMAN
 Olympics athlete,
 gold medal winner

TOM JOYNER
syndicated radio
host, entertainer

GENERAL DANIEL
 "Chappie" JAMES JR.

 1st Black 4-Star General

RALPH ELLISON
author, scholar,
literary writer

AMELIA BOYNTON
ROBINSON

civil rights pioneer

KEENAN IVORY WAYANS
film/television actor
entertainer, producer

HERMAN J. RUSSELL
construction executive,
entrepreneur 

MARVALENE HUGHES
former President of
Dillard & Cal. State Univ.

BILL WINSTON
Bill Winston Ministries,
entrepreneur

ROBERT BENHAM
1st Black Georgia
Supreme Court Judge 

THEODORE COHN
2013-2014 President of
Amer. Vet. Med. Asso. 

BELVIN PERRY JR.
Chief Judge, 9th Circuit
Osceola County, FL 

DANIELLE SPENCER
television actress,
entertainer, veterinarian

DAVID WILSON
President of
Morgan State Univ.

MILTON C. DAVIS
attorney, former Ala.
Asst. Attorney Gen.

ROSCOE MOORE
Rear Admiral,
veterinarian

ELIZABETH WRIGHT
founder of
Voorhees College

WILLIAM SAUNDERS
retired Colonel,
 USAF pilot

MACK C. GASTON
retired Rear Admiral.
U.S. Navy 

PTOLEMY A. REID
former Prime Minister
of Guyana, veterinarian

RANDOLPH BAXTER
retired Federal Judge,
U.S. Bankruptcy Court 

PEBBLIN WARREN
state representative,
Bd. of Trustees member

RAY NAGIN
former Mayor of
New Orleans, LA

THOMAS M CAMPBELL
first United States
extension agent

MARILYN MOSBY 
Baltimore City
State's Attorney

PEYTON WILLIAMS 
Asst. State School
Superintendent-Georgia

ALEXANDER GREEN
U.S. Congressional Rep.
9th Dist.-Houston, Texas

CHARLES E. WILLIAMS
U.S. Army General (ret.)
former Chair-Bd of Trustees

This list is compiled by the Tuskegee University Office of Communications, Public Relations and Marketing and is on-going. Please e-mail or send suggestions, changes, biographies, photos and quotes from these and other distinguished Tuskegee University alumni to the Office of Communications, Public Relations and Marketing, 221 Kresge Center, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL 36088 or e-mail us at marketing@mytu.tuskegee.edu.