List of University of Texas at Arlington people
This is a list of notable people affiliated with the University of Texas at Arlington. Since its inception, the university has produced over 200,000 alumni with approximately 130,000 living in the North Texas region.
Notable UTA alumni
Arts and culture
- Keith Alcorn - cartoonist, creator of Jimmy Neutron[1]
Acting and drama
- Charles Baker - actor portraying the character Skinny Pete on Breaking Bad[2]
- Annie Ilonzeh - actress, General Hospital and the short-lived ABC reboot of Charlie's Angels
- Kristi Kang - voice actress affiliated with Funimation
- Lauren Lane - actress, The Nanny[3]
- Lou Diamond Phillips - actor, Golden Globe nominee[3]
- Morgan Woodward - actor, Golden Boot Award winner for work in Western television and movie genre[4]
Cinema
- Daryush Shokof - Iranian filmmaker and political activist
Literature
- Craig Lancaster - novelist
Music
- The 440 Alliance - cello rock group, founding members Drew Johnson, Brandon Vanderford, Andrew Walton, Nathan Keefer, and Neil Fong Gilfillan[5]
- Mitch Grassi - American singer, songwriter, and YouTube Personality with Scott Hoying on Superfruit and in a band called Pentatonix
- Ray Price - country and western singer, songwriter and guitarist, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee[4]
- Gene Summers - singer, songwriter, and musician. International recording star. Inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, 1997
Photography
- Michael Ainsworth - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer[6]
- Tom Fox - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer[6]
- Brad Loper - Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer[6]
Business
- Nicholas Barber (BBA '04) - owner and CEO of the Sigma Relocation Group, LLC .[7]
- Greg Barron (BBA '91) - CEO/President, The Barron Companies, Inc.[8]
- Mark Baum Esq. (BA '95) - Founder and CEO of Imprimis Pharmaceuticals[9]
- Herbert A. Beckwith (MS '94) - CFO, Justin Brands, Inc.[10]
- Pat Choate - economist, author, vice-presidential candidate[11]
- Stacey Dwyer (MS '89) - Executive Vice President and Treasurer, D.R. Horton, Inc.[12]
- Robert Early (MS '09) - founder and CEO of the JPS Health Network.[7]
- Jacqualyn A. Fouse (BBA '82, MA '84) - CFO and SVP, Celgene Corporation[13]
- Roland Fryer (BS '98) - economist; youngest tenured African-American professor in Harvard University's history; Time Magazine's 2009 100 List[14]
- John Goolsby (BBA '64) - Former President & CEO of Howard Hughes Corporation.[15]
- Brian Happel (BBA '83) - CEO of Fort Worth's division of BBVA Compass
- H. Ralph Hawkins (BS '73 Architecture) - Chairman and CEO, HKS, Inc.[16][17]
- Carey Hendrickson (MBA '96) - Senior Vice President/CFO, Belo Corp.[18]
- Larry Kemp (BBA '80) - CFO, Kemp & Son General Services[19]
- Roger Krone (MS '81 Aerospace Engineering) - CEO of Leidos.[20]
- Bill McWhirter (BBA '86) - Senior Vice President/CFO, Trinity Industries Inc.[21]
- Gerry Mecca (BA '82) - Chief Information Officer of the Dr Pepper Seven Up Bottling Group.[22]
- Jerome Oglesby (BS '01) - Global Chief Technology Officer, Deloitte[23]
- Eric Smith (BA '82, MBA Accounting '86) - CFO, Americas, Deutsche Bank[24]
- Andrew B. Sommerman (BA '83) - founder, the American Collegiate Moot Court Association[25]
- Bruce L. Tanner (MBA '90) - CFO, Lockheed Martin Corp.[26]
- Kelcy Warren (BS '78 Civil Engineering) - Chairman and CEO, Energy Transfer Partners; 143rd richest American in 2013[27][28]
- D. Wayne Watts (BBA '76) - Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel, AT&T[29]
- Jim Wilkinson (BBA '93) - Managing Partner, International Business and Finance, Brunswick Group LLC.; former Chief of Staff for Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson[30]
Engineering
- Kalpana Chawla - astronaut, died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster[31]
- Robert L. Stewart - former NASA astronaut; retired Army brigadier general[32]
- Wendy Okolo - NASA Engineer
Government and military
- George W. Ballance - Rear Admiral, Deputy Commander of the U.S. 7th Fleet[33]
- Walter H. Baxter III - Major General, Commander of the 3rd Air Force, 1981-1982[34]
- Richard E. Cavazos - First Mexican American four-star general of the United States Army[35]
- Phillip J. Ford - Lieutenant General, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Strategic Command, 1998-2000[36]
- Tommy Franks - General, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Central Command 2000-2003[37]
- James F. Hollingsworth - Lieutenant General, commanded the U.S. Army XXIV Corps in Vietnam[38]
- Penny Willrich - First African American woman to serve as judge on the Arizona Superior Court[39]
Politics
- Rodney Anderson (Class of 1990, Bachelor of Business Administration) - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Grand Prairie
- Cindy Burkett (Class of 2004) - Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County since 2011
- Les Eaves - Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives since 2015; a businessman from Searcy, Arkansas; attended UTA[40]
- Kent Grusendorf - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington
- Sally Kern - member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives
- Bob McFarland - Republican member of both houses of the Texas State Legislature from Arlington, 1977–1991
- Hugh Parmer - Former Texas politician and 36th Mayor of Fort Worth
- Diane Patrick - Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington; defeated Kent Grusendorf in 2006 Republican primary; denied re-nomination herself in 2014
- Betsy Price - 44th Mayor of Fort Worth[41]
- Kenneth Sheets (Class of 2001) - Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 107 in Dallas County[42]
- Steven Wayne Smith - former justice of the Texas Supreme Court[43]
- Wayne Smith (Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering) - Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Harris County since 2003[44]
- Lupe Valdez - Texas' first Hispanic female nominee for governor and Texas' first Hispanic female sheriff[45][46]
- Royce West - Democratic member of the Texas State Senate[47]
- Ann Wynia - Former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and current president of North Hennepin Community College[4]
Sports
- Lanny Bassham - 1976 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 50 m rifle[48]
- Kenny Bernstein - drag racing driver and former NASCAR owner, nicknamed the "King of Speed"[49]
- Kaleb Canales - first Mexican-American head coach in NBA history
- Michael Choice - baseball outfielder, 10th overall draft pick by the Oakland Athletics in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft[50]
- Bruce Collie - former NFL player[51]
- Jared Connaughton - Olympic 200m track athlete for Canada
- Scott Cross - basketball coach, former head and assistant men's basketball coach at UTA, and also a former player at UTA
- Roy Dewalt - Canadian Football League quarterback of the 1980s, mostly with the British Columbia Lions
- Steve Foster - pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds[52]
- Jinh Yu Frey - professional Mixed Martial Artist, current Invicta FC Atomweight Champion[53]
- Takeshi Fujiwara - Olympian in track and field representing El Salvador in Athens, 2004[54]
- Dillon Gee - pitcher for the New York Mets[55]
- Kevin Hervey - power forward for the Oklahoma City Blue
- Trey Hillman - Manager of the Kansas City Royals from 2008–2010[56]
- John Lackey - MLB pitcher, Chicago Cubs[56]
- Darryl Lewis - American football player
- Mark Lowe - MLB pitcher[57]
- Tim McKyer - former NFL cornerback[58]
- Adam Moore - baseball catcher[59]
- Cliff Odom - former NFL football player[4]
- Daniel Ortmeier - former first baseman/outfielder for the San Francisco Giants[60]
- Dave Owen - former shortstop for the Chicago Cubs[61]
- Hunter Pence - American League Baseball player, Texas Rangers[56]
- Mike Rhyner - founder of Sports Radio 1310AM The Ticket in Dallas
- Ryan Roberts - former MLB player[62]
- Douglas Russell - 1968 Summer Olympics gold medalist in 100 m butterfly and 4 × 100 m medley relay[63]
- Jimmy Thomas - San Francisco 49ers (1969-1973)[64]
Notable faculty and staff
- Ishfaq Ahmad - Professor of computer science and engineering, IEEE Fellow, and notable researcher in high-performance computing and video coding
- Dale A. Anderson - Professor of aerospace engineering; former Vice President for Research and Dean of Graduate Studies
- Joseph Bastien - Professor of anthropology; former Chair of the Anthropology department; UTA Distinguished Scholar Professor; awarded the La Cruz Andina de Oro by the Bolivian government for his research[65]
- Michael P. Buckley - Director of the Property Repositioning Program[66]
- Ramez Elmasri - Associate Chair, Computer Science and Engineering Department; holds patent for the Time Index Access Structure for Temporal Databases Having Concurrent Multiple Versions, US Patent 5,440,730 with G. Wuu Bellcore, 1995
- George Fix - American mathematician who collaborated on several seminal papers and books in the field of finite element method
- José Ángel Gutiérrez - political science professor, lawyer, and founding member and past president of the La Raza Unida Party.
- Susan Hekman - political science professor and director of the graduate humanities program
- Catheleen Jordan - Professor of social work
- Charles T. McDowell - Professor Emeritus and former director of the Center for Post-Soviet and Eastern European Studies
- Nils O Myklestad - Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; an authority on mechanical vibration
- Stanley Palmer - Professor of history; scholar of British history; member of the UT Arlington Academy of Distinguished Teachers (1996)
- Vasant K. Prabhu - electrical engineering professor; IEEE Life Fellow; inventor of communication system designs
- K. R. Rao - electrical engineering professor; IEEE Fellow; inventor of discrete cosine transform
- Allan Saxe - political science professor, author, philanthropist, and award winner for various achievements
- Ya'Ke Smith - arts assistant professor and filmmaker[67]
- Matthew Wright - computer scientist; known for his work in anonymity and pathfinding algorithms[68]
External links
- The University of Texas at Arlington
- UTAMavericks - fan site
- College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni
- The University of Texas at Arlington Alumni Relations
References
- ^ Uta Magazine - Keith Alcorn
- ^ IMdB - Charles Baker
- ^ a b About Our Alumni - UT Arlington
- ^ a b c d In good company Archived 2012-03-19 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Student Band Reaches Reality TV Realm Archived 2012-03-28 at archive.today
- ^ a b c Pulitzer lifts alumni to the pinnacle of photography profession Archived 2014-10-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b http://www.uta.edu/business/dean/newsevent86.php
- ^ The Barron Companies Leadership
- ^ https://www.marklbaum.com/
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/business/dean/council.html
- ^ Pat Choate, Celebrated Economist, Author and Intellectual Property Expert, Joins AIPR Board of Directors
- ^ UTA Business Week 2010 Featured Speakers
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2012-06-17.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Scientists and Thinkers: Roland Fryer
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/goolsby/about/thegoolsbys.php
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ Belo Board of Directors
- ^ http://kempandsons.net/index.php/the-team/larry-kemp-bio
- ^ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/borgwarner-appoints-roger-a-krone-to-board-of-directors-300404485.html
- ^ UTA Business Advisory Council
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/utamagazine/archive-issues/fall_2003/alumni_notebook/mecca.html
- ^ UTA Business Scholl Alumni News
- ^ "Eric Smith Joins Deutsche Bank as Chief Financial Officer, Americas". Reuters. February 7, 2011.
- ^ [3]
- ^ Bruce L. Tanner - Lockheed Martin
- ^ [4]
- ^ "Kelcy Warren". Forbes.
- ^ [5]
- ^ UTA Distinguished Alumni 2009
- ^ Astronaut Biography: Kalpana Chawla
- ^ Robert L. Stewart Biographical Data
- ^ Deputy Commander George W. Ballance
- ^ "MAJOR GENERAL WALTER H. BAXTER III". Archived from the original on 2012-07-18.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Richard Cavazos Hall of Honor
- ^ "LIEUTENANT GENERAL PHILLIP J. FORD USAF BIOGRAPHY". Archived from the original on 2012-07-21.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ UT ARLINGTON GRADUATION CELEBRATION TO FEATURE ALUMNUS TOMMY FRANKS
- ^ http://www.riley.army.mil/bigredone/commandteam/Former/ADC/Hollingsworth,%20James%20F.htm
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/publications/utamagazine/spring_2006/stories174f.html
- ^ "Leslie Dale Eaves". intelius.com. Retrieved April 3, 2015.
- ^ http://fortworthtexas.gov/mayor/bio//
- ^ "State Rep. Kenneth Sheets District 107 (R-Dallas)". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved March 21, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "State Bar of Texas: Steven Wayne Smith". texasbar.com. Retrieved December 23, 2009.
- ^ "Wayne Smith's Biography". votesmart.org. Archived from the original on June 2, 2013. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
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- ^ https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/lupe-valdez-become-first-lgbtq-latina-nominee-texas-governor-n876836
- ^ Where are they now?: Royce West (1974-75)
- ^ Lanny Bassham Hall of Honor
- ^ Not afraid to take a risk: Kenny Bernstein, UTA Magazine Online, Fall 2005
- ^ Excellent Choice: A's draft college slugger
- ^ Bruce Collie NFL.com profile
- ^ Steve Foster Statistics and History
- ^ http://www.invictafc.com/portfolio-item/jinh-yu-frey/
- ^ Player Bio: Takeshi Fujiwara - UT-Arlington Official Athletic Site
- ^ Dillon Gee UTA Profile
- ^ a b c Pence named to National League All-Star roster
- ^ Mark Lowe UTA Profile
- ^ Tim McKyer NFL.com profile
- ^ Adam Moore UTA Profile
- ^ Daniel Ortmeier stats and bio
- ^ Dave Owen Statistics and History
- ^ Ryan Roberts UTA profile
- ^ Strokes of Genius: Star swimmer inducted into hall of fame
- ^ http://www.nfl.com/player/jimmythomas/2527248/profile
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/ra/real/editprofile.php?pid=1413
- ^ The University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/art/index.php/community/faculty_staff/yake_smith/
- ^ http://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2014/11/wright-computersecurity-grant.php