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| Albert Zachary Baker attended UT Knoxville from 1909 to 1910. He was president and chairman of the Cleveland (Ohio) Union Stockyards, chairman of the National City Bank of Cleveland, deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and president of Rotary International. (deceased) Donna Banks (Knoxville ’79, ’80) is senior vice president for global innovation of the Kellogg Company. George B. Carmack (Knoxville ’27) was editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel (1937-40), the Houston Press (1946-64), and the Albuquerque Tribune (1966-73). (deceased) John Compton (Knoxville '83) is chief executive officer for North America with PepsiCo. He is former president and CEO of Quaker Tropicana Gatorade. Joseph C. Cook Jr. (Knoxville ’65) is chairman
of the board of Amylin
Pharmaceuticals in San Diego. Previously he was a vice president of
Eli Lilly. He also serves as chairman of the board of Microbia, Inc.,
a Cambridge, Mass.,- based biotechnology company. Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. (Knoxville ’70) is chairman
of O’Melveny &
Myers, an international law firm of more than 900 lawyers. From 1987
to 1989, he was chief White House counsel to President Ronald Reagan.
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings
Institution and general counsel to the John F. Kennedy Center for
the Performing Arts. G. Mack Dove (Knoxville ’58) is president and CEO of AAA Cooper Transportation in Dothan, Alabama. Gill Duff (Knoxville ’83) is president and CEO
of Publicis in New York, one of the world’s largest advertising
and public relations agencies. Charles Ergen (Knoxville ’74) started EchoStar
Communications Corporation in 1980. EchoStar launched DISH
Network in 1996. He has been named to Forbes magazine’s Top
Ten CEOs list. Rebecca Flick (Knoxville ‘87) is vice president and treasurer of Home Depot. She is a former assistant vice president of credit products for Bank of America. John Dickson Harper (Knoxville ’33) was president and CEO of ALCOA. (deceased) James A. Haslam II (’52) is chairman of the board of Pilot Travel Centers LLC and chairman of the board and president of Pilot Corp., both headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 2006, he and his wife, Natalie (’52), made a $32.5 million gift to the university. Charles L. “Jerry” Henry (Chattanooga ’63) is former president and CEO of Johns Manville Corp. Charles O. “Chad” Holliday
(Knoxville ’70) is chairman and CEO of DuPont.
In September 2002, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve
on the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. He was also elected chairman
of the Business Council in 2002. He is a member of the UT Development
Council. In 2004, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Gene Koonce (Knoxville ’54) is the retired chairman, president, and CEO of United Cities Gas Company. He is a board member of Atmos Energy Corporation. Dennis R. Hendrix (Knoxville ’62) is former chairman of the board of PanEnergy Corporation in Houston, Texas. Clayton M. “Clay” Jones (Knoxville ’71)
became chairman, president, and CEO of Rockwell
Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2002. John B. McKinney, who attended UT Knoxville between 1936 and 1939, was president, chairman, and CEO of ITT. Tom Morgan (Knoxville ’76) is president and CEO of Hughes Supply Inc., an Orlando, Fla.-based distributor of construction and industrial materials. He formerly was CEO for EnfoTrust Networks in Atlanta, Value America in Charlottesville, Virginia, and U.S. Office Products in Washington, D.C. Adolph S. Ochs, who attended the college preparatory department at East Tennessee University (UT’s forerunner) in 1872, was publisher of the New York Times and owner and publisher of the Chattanooga Times. George W. Ochs, 1880, was mayor of Chattanooga and general manager of the Chattanooga Times. He was also editor and publisher of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. (deceased) Alan Mims Thomason attended UT in Knoxville from 1926 to 1931. He was president, general manager, and director of United Press International from 1962 to 1972. (deceased) Ronald L. Turner (Knoxville ’68) is chairman, president, and CEO of Ceridian Corporation, a provider of human resource services. He is the 2004 chairman of the Electronic Industries Alliance Board of Governors. Bill Wade (Knoxville ’65) is retired president of ARCO. Christopher Whittle (Knoxville ’69) is the founder
and CEO of Edison
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John Clarence Bolinger Jr. (Knoxville ’43) was president of East Tennessee Natural Gas Company, president and director of Houston National Bank, chairman and president of Mississippi River Transmission Corporation, co-founder, chairman, and president of Colonial Natural Gas Company, and served on the boards of directors of several other companies. Jim Clayton (Knoxville ’57, ’64) is founder and chairman of Clayton Homes, headquartered in Knoxville. Clayton received the Coopers and Lybrand Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1988, the Horatio Alger Award in 1991, and the Wall Street Transcript Gold Award in 1987, 1988, 1990 and 1992-1994. Jim Copley (Knoxville ’81) is president and CEO of the Crom Corp. of Gainesville, Fla., a leading builder of circular, prestressed concrete tanks in use throughout the Southeast and the Caribbean. John Bogle Cox (Knoxville, 1893) worked with General Electric, where he installed Europe’s first multiple train unit at the Paris Exposition of 1900, wired underground systems for the London subway, and electrified street railways in Lisbon and Havana. (deceased) Condessa Curley (Knoxville ’04) is vice president and chief medical officer of Project Africa, which provides medical, educational, and humanitarian services to the people of Africa. She is a faculty member at the University of Southern California family practice residency program and a faculty scholar of the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care. As a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, she served in Operation Iraqi Freedom. She graduated from UT’s Physician Executive MBA program. Richard L. “Rick” Federico (Knoxville ’76) is CEO of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Inc. He has been an executive of such restaurants as Macaroni Grill, Bennigan’s, and Steak and Ale. He was co-founder/partner and vice president of Grady’s Goodtimes restaurants. John W. Fisher (Knoxville ’38) is chairman emeritus of the Ball Corporation. He is past chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers and former chairman of the UT Development Council. Henry C. Goodrich (Knoxville ’43), is the retired chairman of SONAT and former president and CEO of Inland Container Corporation. He won the Nathan Dougherty Award in 1973. Wilma Jordan (Knoxville ’70) is founder and CEO
of Jordan, Edmiston
Group Inc. in New York, N.Y., an investment bank serving the media
industry. She also is a founding general partner and CEO of JEGI Capital,
a venture capital affiliate of Jordan, Edmiston. The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville named her its 1999 Volunteer of the Year. Min Kao (Knoxville ’75, ’77) is CEO and director of Garmin Ltd., the world’s largest manufacturer of GPS devices. He co-founded the company in 1989. Paul Mountcastle Sr. (Knoxville ’14) was president and CEO of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company in Nashville, chairman and president of WLAC in Nashville, and president of WATE in Knoxville. Ronald Nutt ( Knoxville ’61, ’62, ’69)) founded CTI Molecular Imaging Inc. in Knoxville and served as its president and CEO. In 2005, he became chief scientific advisor to Siemens Medical Solutions Molecular Imaging. Nutt invented an imaging device that Time magazine ranked as medical invention of the year in 2000. Milton B. Ochs, 1885, was managing editor of the Chattanooga Times and owner of the Nashville American. (deceased) John W. Pope Jr. (Knoxville ’54) was president of Western Union Telegraph. Bill Rhodes (Martin ’87) is president and CEO of automotive parts retailer AutoZone, headquartered in Memphis. Ron Rice (Knoxville ’64) is founder and CEO of
Hawaiian Tropic.
Christy Lin Cooper Shaffer (Martin ’81, Health
Science Center ’85) is president and CEO of Inspire
Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Durham, N.C. She has been named North Carolina
Business Woman of the Year. McGregor Smith (Knoxville ’21) was president and chairman of Florida Power and Light Company and a director of the Federal Reserve Board (Atlanta) from 1958 to 1966. (deceased) Richard Snead (Knoxville ’73) is president of
Carlson Restaurants Worldwide headquartered in Dallas. Carlson includes
almost 800 restaurants worldwide, with T.G.I.
Friday’s as the core brand. William B. Stokely III (Knoxville ’63) was president and CEO of Stokely-Van Camp Inc. and chairman and president of the Stokely Company. Art Stolnitz (Knoxville ’52) was executive vice
president for business and financial affairs of Lorimar Television and
of Warner Brothers Television. He was also a television producer. Barney Tucker (Knoxville ’37) was president and general manager of Burley Belt and Southeast Chemical Companies, director and chairman of the Cincinnati Branch Federal Reserve Bank, president of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, chairman of the Kentucky Council on Public Higher Education, and chairman of the Kentucky State Board of Regents. James M. Tuholski (Health Science Center ’48) was president and CEO of Mead Johnson and Co. and president of the Bristol-Myers Health Care Corp. He was a director of the Federal Reserve Board, St. Louis district. (deceased)
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