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 Mobile area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:
MASTER’S DEGREE
ANDALUSIA — Christine Borison Smith.
BUTLER — Stephanie Suzanne Hensleigh.
DEMOPOLIS — Sean Michael Smith.
GROVE HILL — Holly Alicia Hinson.
LINDEN — Shenavia Wilkerson Howell.
MOBILE — Katherine Elizabeth Backes, Deborah Roh Blakely, Mary Beyer Davis, Sam Longmire, Emily Luckett McMurphy, Jennifer Motlow Powell, Geraldine Wells.
OPP — Samuel Jason Catrett.
BACHELOR’S DEGREE
ANDALUSIA — James Matthew Burgess, Laura Shay Popwell.
ARLINGTON — James David Ross II.
ATMORE — Mallory King Maxwell.
BREWTON — Robin Tamika Mallard, John Douglas O’Neil, Jeffery Morgan Wilson.
BUTLER — Bonnie Jean Faile.
CAMDEN — Jennifer Paige Cameron.
CHICKASAW — Amy Nicole Head.
CODEM — Angelo Carmen Depaola.
DEMOPOLIS — Cinnamon Travis Cramer, Rhonda Leigh Lloyd, John Webb Reynolds.
ELBERTA — Robert Wade Jenkins.
FAIRHOPE — Douglas Brett Turnbull, Lee Alan Yankie.
GRAND BAY — Janna Lenae Warden.
GREENVILLE — Walton Ward Hickman.
GULF SHORES — Rachelle Deanne Barnes.
JACKSON — Robert Larry Jones.
LINDEN — Patricia Shanell Bell.
McKENZIE — Patricia Nicole Piggott.
MOBILE — William Jason Allen, Steve Chryst Clikas III, Lucille Ross Fields, George Howard Garner, Mehdi Hejazi, Michael Charles Hoffman Jr., Kristy Elizabeth Lollar, Victor Britt Long, Margaret Walsh Lott, Maryella Gainer Matthews, Jason Patrick Scruggs, Alisha Nicole Steele, Johnathan Wade Thurber.
MONROEVILLE — Alison Faye Lowery.
POINT CLEAR — Scott Hall Cooper.
ROBERTSDALE — David Eric Archer, Jessica Nicole Baggett.
SARALAND — Treasure Ann Green, Jonathan Brandt Wilson.
SPANISH FORT — Jason David Gray.
THEODORE — Jason Mitchell Blakeney, Thomas Matthew Loper.
Contact
Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325, lhill@ur.ua.edu