TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,000 degrees at the summer commencement ceremony held Monday, Aug. 12, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.
Dr. Thomas E. Corts, Samford University president, gave the commencement address. Corts also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony. Corts has recently gained attention in his role as chairman of Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform, a nonprofit, public interest organization devoted to updating the state constitution.
With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 182,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement ceremonies three times a year.
The following students from the Huntsville area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
DOCTORAL DEGREE
ALBERTVILLE — J. Bruce Powell Jr.
MASTER’S DEGREE
ALBERTVILLE — Jonathan Walter Woolley.
ATHENS — Atina Blakely English, Trudi D. Frankel, Amy Leanne James, Melissa Kay Nelson.
BOAZ — Amanda Elizabeth Metheny.
DECATUR — Nancy Thomaston Brewer, Allison Michelle Lowery.
GURLEY — Diana B. Reynolds.
HARVEST — Lorna Denise Howell.
HAZEL GREEN — Susan Gorman Lawless.
HUNTSVILLE — Matthew Joel Chatham, David Benjamin Cooke, Magdalena Dina Elkins, Helen Plummer Lee, Angela Denise Lenski, Kelly Elizabeth Patterson, Laura Diane Prozan, David Louis Smith, Lance Jay Young.
MADISON — Cindy Nichole Butler, Angelia Melissa King.
NEW HOPE — Patrica Bush Collier.
PISGAH — Jeffrey Nathaniel Monroe.
SCOTTSBORO — Virginia Huey-Jong Lei.
SOMERVILLE-Carrie Helena Hollaway.
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ALBERTVILLE — Andy Paul Cornelius, James Horace Dougan, Howard Taft Reeves IV.
ARAB — Janna Leigh Coker, John William Hallman Jr.
ATHENS — Allison Brooke Anderson, Grant Nelson Lauderdale, Jessica Jane Mansell, Anthony Alfred Moore, Demetrius Venard Peoples, Jennifer Elizabeth Plunk.
DECATUR — Melanie Nicole Breeding, Jennifer Elaine Edmundson, Kevin Ray Garrison, Wendy Shantel Garth, Katherine Irons Green, Amanda Lee Houser, Tobia Nicholas Joseph Jr., Lisa Dawn Mitchell, Rhett Lee Norris, Madelyn Gray Troyanek, Bruce Owen Wilhite.
FLAT ROCK — Jason Charles Bowen.
GUNTERSVILLE — Skyler Leann Austin, Leslie Hudson Mastin, Janice Lee Stewart.
HARTSELLE — Ty Seth Cooper, Michael Paul Palik.
HARVEST — Amy Michelle Nelson.
HUNTSVILLE — Donessa Dawn Cockman, Laura Nicole Collins, Matthew Raymond Dodson, David Thomas Eagles, Steven Bradley Fowler, Anna Leigh Goodwin, Travelle Angelete Hawthorne, Jessica Ruffin Jacob, Kathryn Dean Johnson, Jameel Mohammad Khan, John Randall Lehman, Christopher Morris Messervy, Miriam Gail Morris, Jeffrey Wallace Simpson, John Michael Steakley, Kamisha Zaneta Sullivan, William Bryan Thames, David Carl Williams Jr., Carrie April Wilson.
MADISON — Janie Leigh Burns, Madeline Alaina Sandlin, Charles Daniel Sendral, Lorei Velazco, Lisa Michelle Wilkerson.
NEW MARKET — John Houston Taylor III.
OWENS CROSSROADS — Rahul Arora, Brandie Nicole Shelor.
SOMERVILLE — Stephen Dwaine Taylor.
UNION GROVE — Heather Rebecca McKoy.
Contact
Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu