General Mike Holmes, named commander of the US Air Force’s Air Combat Command in March, first came to UT as a student when he was only five years old—but not as the youngest freshman ever.
Government and Military
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Justice Wade was appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals in 1987, and was elected and served as Presiding Judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals from 1998-2006. He was…
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Justice Lee served as the city attorney for several Tennessee cities, and was appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals in 2004. In 2008, she was appointed to the Tennessee…
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Chief Judge Curtis Wagner, Jr., has been an Administrative Law Judge at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) since 1974, and has been Chief Judge since 1978. He has received numerous…
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Col. Akin is the first female officer selected for the rank of Brigadier General for the program here at the University. She is also one of only 22 female general…
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Van Hilleary was a Representative of Tennessee for four consecutive terms (1995-2003). In 2002, he chose not to seek re-election and instead ran for Governor of Tennessee.
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Matthew G. Smith (1909) was an attorney and bankruptcy judge in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Clyde M. York (1935) was president of the Tennessee Farm Bureau and state commissioner of agriculture. The Clyde M. York Veterinary Teaching Hospital on the agricultural campus at Knoxville is…
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Jessie Wooten Harris (1908) was dean of the UT College of Home Economics in Knoxville. She was chief of the community nutrition division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and…
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Edward Terry Sanford, who graduated in 1883, was a U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1923 to 1930.