List of Southern Methodist University people

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This is a list of notable alumni, faculty, and students of Southern Methodist University. Those individuals who qualify for multiple categories have been placed under the section for which they are best known.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.

Notable alumni and attendees[]

Politics and government[]

Foreign government[]

  • Fadel Mohammed Ali (M.S. 1978) – Jordanian former director of the Royal Maintenance Corps of the Jordanian Armed Forces
  • Fahad Almubarak (B.S.) – Governor Central Bank of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia[1]
  • Catherine Bamugemereire (LL.M. 2003) – justice of the Constitutional Court and Court of Appeal of Uganda, the second-highest judicial organ in Uganda[2]
  • Gela Bezhuashvili (LL.M. 1997) – Georgian former head of the Georgian Intelligence Service, Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs[citation needed]
  • Charles Brumskine (LL.M. 1982) – Liberian leader of the Liberty Party, former President pro tempore of the Liberian Senate[3]
  • Hideo Chikusa (M.C.L. '62) – justice of the Supreme Court of Japan[citation needed]
  • Haechang Chung (M.C.L. '68) – former minister of justice and former chief of staff to the president of Korea[citation needed]
  • Mirsad Hadžikadić (PhD 1987) – professor and director of the Institute of Complex Systems at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte[4] and candidate for presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 2018 election[5][6][7][8][9]
  • Yukio Horigome – justice, Supreme Court of Japan[10]
  • Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (LL.M. 2000) – Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Sierra Leone[11][12]
  • Susan Kihika - Senator for Nakuru County, Republic of Kenya[13]
  • S. M. Krishna (LL.M. 1959) – Indian former Minister of External Affairs, Governor of Maharashtra, Chief Minister of Karnataka[14]
  • Bagir Manan – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indonesia[citation needed]
  • Shigeharu Negishi (M.C.L. '60) – justice, Supreme Court of Japan[citation needed]
  • Reynato Puno (LL.M. 1967) – 22nd Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (2007–2010), 131st Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (1993–2007)[15]
  • Manouchehr Talieh – justice Supreme Court of Iran[citation needed]
  • Gillian Triggs (LL.M. '72) – president of the Australian Human Rights Commission

U.S. government[]

U.S. Cabinet/White House[]
First Lady Laura Bush
  • Laura Bush (B.S. 1968) – First Lady of the United States (2001–2009), First Lady of Texas (1995–2000)[16]
  • Bill Clements (attended) – U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (1973–1977)[17]
  • Hope Hicks (B.A. 2010) – former White House Communications Director, former press secretary for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and presidential transition team[18][19]
  • Karen Hughes (B.A. 1977) – former Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Counselor to the President, White House Communications Director[20]
  • Jo Jorgensen (MBA 1980) - Libertarian Party's nominee in the 2020 election, First woman to become the Libertarian nominee and the only female 2020 presidential candidate with ballot access to over 270 electoral votes.[21][22]
  • John Lee Ratcliffe (J.D. 1989) - Director of National Intelligence,[23] former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas representing the 4th district.
  • Chad Wolf (B.A. 1998) – Acting Secretary United States Department of Homeland Security and Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Strategy, Policy, and Plans, previously, Chief of Staff of the United States Department of Homeland Security and Chief of Staff of the Transportation Security Administration[24][25]
U.S. Senate[]
US Senator John Tower of Texas
  • Bob Krueger (B.A. 1957) – former U.S. Senator and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas, U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, U.S. Ambassador to Burundi[26]
  • John Tower (M.A. 1951) – former U.S. Senator from Texas[27]
  • Rick Scott (J.D. 1978) – U.S. Senator from Florida[28]
U.S. House of Representatives[]
  • John Wiley Bryant (B.A. 1969, J.D. 1972) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[29]
  • Jim Chapman (J.D. 1970) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[30]
  • James M. Collins (B.S. 1937) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[31]
  • John Culberson (B.A. 1981) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[32]
  • Bob Franks (J.D. 1976) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey, chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee[33]
  • Ralph Hall (LL.B. 1951) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[34]
  • Bob Krueger (B.A. 1957) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas, U.S. Ambassador to Botswana, U.S. Ambassador to Burundi[26]
  • Eddie Bernice Johnson (M.P.A. 1976) – current member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[35]
  • Sam Johnson (B.B.A. 1951) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[36]
  • Dennis Moore (attended) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas[37]
  • John Lee Ratcliffe (J.D. 1989) - former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas representing the 4th district, 2015 - 2020.[23]
  • Lamar Smith (J.D. 1975) – former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas[38]
U.S. ambassadors and diplomats[]
State governors[]
Former Governor and now US Senator Rick Scott of Florida
  • Bill Clements (attended) – 42nd and 44th governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991), U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense (1973–1977)[45]
  • Rick Scott (J.D. 1978) – 45th governor of Florida (2011–2019)[28]
State legislators[]
  • Rafael Anchia (B.A. 1990) – current member of the Texas House of Representatives[46]
  • Leo Berman (B.A. 1969) – former member of the Texas House of Representatives, member of the city council of Arlington, Texas[47]
  • Dan Branch (J.D.) – former member of the Texas House of Representatives[48]
  • Raleigh Brown – member of the Texas House of Representatives; Texas State District Court judge in Abilene[49]
  • Jim R. Caldwell (M.S.) – former member of the Arkansas Senate, chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party[citation needed]
  • Mickey Dollens (B.A. 2011) – current member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives[50]
  • Charlie Geren (B.B.A. 1971) – member of the Texas House of Representatives from his native Fort Worth
  • (J.D. 1960) – member of the Texas Senate (1967–1995), President pro tempore of the Texas Senate (1973)[51]
  • Todd Ames Hunter (Law '78) – member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi (Democrat, 1989–1997; Republican, since 2009)
  • Ray Hutchison (B.A. '57, J.D. '59) – former state representative and partner in Vinson and Elkins in Dallas; husband of U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison[citation needed]
  • Jim Keet (B.B.A. 1971) – 2010 Republican nominee for Governor of Arkansas, member of the Arkansas Senate (1993–1997), member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1989–1991)[citation needed]
  • Bill Keffer (B.A. 1981) – member of the Texas House of Representatives (2003–2007)[52]
  • Sharon Keller – Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
  • (J.D. 1966) – member of the Texas Senate (1983–1991), President pro tempore of the Texas Senate (1989)[53]
  • Morgan Meyer – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 108 in Dallas County, including University Park[54]
  • Barrow Peacock – Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate from Shreveport[55]
  • E. J. Pipkin (M.S. 2014) – Republican member of the Maryland Senate (2003–2013)
  • Ana-Maria Ramos (J.D.) - current member of the Texas House of Representatives
  • Matt Shaheen – Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Plano, effective 2015; former Collin County commissioner; received master's degree from SMU[56]
  • (J.D. 2004) – Dallas attorney and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 107 in Dallas County since 2011[57]
  • Virginia Shehee – member of the Louisiana State Senate from Shreveport, 1976 to 1980; businesswoman and philanthropist; studied social work at SMU[58]
  • Burt Solomons – Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton County; received a Master of Public Administration degree from SMU in early 1970s[59]
Other state and local government[]
  • Bryan Bush – district attorney of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (1985–1990)[citation needed]
  • Dewey F. Bartlett Jr. (M.B.A. 1971) – 39th mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (2009–2016), son of former U.S. Senator Dewey F. Bartlett[60]
  • Eric V. Moyé (B.A.) State District Judge (1992–95; 2008–present)[61]
  • Martha Whitehead (B.A. 1962) – last Texas State Treasurer (1993–1996)[62]
  • (M.B.A.) – 106th Texas Secretary of State (2007–2008)[citation needed]
  • Barbara Staff (B.A.) – Texas Republican Party activist, Texas co-chairman of Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential primary campaign[63]

Military[]

Craig R. McKinley, first general of the National Guard to gain four-star rank
  • Fred E. Ellis – Air National Guard major general[64]
  • Fred E. Haynes Jr. – World War II Marine Officer and later Major General; brother of actor Jerry Haynes[65]
  • General Craig R. McKinley (B.B.A. 1974) – 26th Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2008–2012)[66]
  • Jack Miller – World War II Marine Officer; namesake of the USS Jack Miller[67]
  • Huan Nguyen – first Vietnamese-American Navy rear admiral[68]
  • Harry M. Wyatt III (B. A. in Business Administration, 1974) – attorney, retired lieutenant general of the U.S. Air Force, former Adjutant General of Oklahoma, former Secretary of Military Affairs for State of Oklahoma; J. D. from University of Tulsa School of Law (1980)

Business[]

Bob Dudley, BP executive in charge of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response
Lamar Hunt, principal founder of the American Football League and Major League Soccer
Jeffrey Skilling, CEO of Enron
  • Gerald Alley – founder, president and CEO, Con-Real[69]
  • Thaddeus Arroyo – CEO, AT&T Business Solutions and International[69]
  • Gabriel Barbier-Mueller – founder and CEO, [citation needed]
  • Harry W. Bass, Jr. – owner, Vail Resorts
  • Mark Blinn – former President and Chief Executive Officer, Flowserve Corporartion[70]
  • Thaddeus Arroyo – CEO, AT&T Business Solutions and International[69]
  • Henry L. Brandon – chairman of the board, Unocal Corporation
  • April Beasley — CEO of RCKT, Global Marketing Strategist for tech startups
  • John J Christmann IV – chairman and CEO, Apache Corporation
  • Richard L. Clemmer (MBA) – CEO of NXP Semiconductors[71]
  • Lodwrick Cook – Chairman and CEO, Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)[72]
  • C. David Cush – CEO, Virgin America
  • Trammell Crow – Founder, Trammell Crow Company[73]
  • Álex Cruz – CEO, British Airways[69]
  • Aaron Davidson – chairman of the North American Soccer League and president of Traffic Sports USA[74]
  • Aart J. de Geus – co-founder, chairman and CEO of Synopsys[75]
  • Robert H. Dedman, Sr. – founder and CEO, ClubCorp[76]
  • Robert H. Dedman, Jr. – former CEO, ClubCorp
  • David B. Dillon – president and chairman of the Kroger Co.[77]
  • Bob Dudley – CEO, BP[78]
  • Thomas Dundon (B.S. 1993) – chairman and managing partner of Dundon Capital Partners in Dallas, Texas, owner of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League and one-quarter of TopGolf[79]
  • J. Lindsay Embrey – chairman and CEO of First Continental Enterprises Inc. and Embrey Enterprises Inc.[80]
  • Martin L. Flanagan – president and CEO, Invesco[69]
  • Gerald J. Ford (B.A. 1966, J.D. 1969) – Dallas-based billionaire[81]
  • Jerry Fullinwider – founder of V–F Petroleum[82]
  • Deborah Gibbins – chief operating officer, Mary Kay, Inc.[citation needed]
  • Rob C. Holmes – CEO, President and a member of the Board of Directors, Texas Capital Bank[83]
  • Donald Holmquest – CEO, California RHIO[84]
  • Thomas W. Horton – CEO, American Airlines
  • Clark Hunt (B.B.A. 1987) – current part owner, chairman, and CEO of the Kansas City Chiefs (NFL), founding investor-owner in Major League Soccer[85]
  • Hunter L. Hunt (B.A. 1990) – current chairman and CEO of Hunt Consolidated Energy[citation needed]
  • Lamar Hunt (B.S. 1956) – principal founder of the American Football League (AFL), Major League Soccer (MLS), and Kansas City Chiefs, owner of the Kansas City Wizards, Columbus Crew, and FC Dallas[86]
  • Helen LaKelly Hunt – founder of The Sister Fund[87]
  • Ray Lee Hunt – chairman and CEO, Hunt Oil Company[88]
  • Jim Irsay (B.A. 1982) – current owner and CEO of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League[89]
  • Keith D. Jackson – president, CEO and Director of ON Semiconductor and 2020 Chair of the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) Board of Directors[90]
  • Jerry Junkins – president, chairman, and CEO of Texas Instruments (1988–1996)[91]
  • Paul B. Loyd, Jr. – former chairman and CEO of the R&B Falcon Corporation, the world's largest offshore drilling company (1997–2001); sits on the SMU Board of Trustees[92]
  • Harold MacDowell – CEO, TDIndustries[93]
  • John H. Matthews[citation needed]
  • John Santa María Otazua – CEO, Coca-Cola FEMSA[69]
  • Beth E. Mooney – CEO of Key Bank
  • Kenneth R. Morris – co-founder, PeopleSoft[69]
  • Robert Mosbacher, Jr. – Houston businessman; president of Mosbacher Energy Company, Overseas Private Investment Corporation[citation needed]
  • Erle A. Nye – chairman and CEO, TXU[citation needed]
  • William J. O'Neil – founder of the business newspaper Investor's Business Daily[citation needed]
  • Jamie Patel – Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, American Century Investments[94]
  • Marc Patrick (B.A. 1993) – Senior director for global brand communications, Nike, Inc.[95]
  • Martin W. "Bud" Pernoll – founder and CEO, Bay Mutual Financial
  • Eckhard Pfeiffer (MBA) – chairman and CEO, Compaq[96]
  • Melissa Reiff – CEO, The Container Store[69]
  • Robert Rowling – U.S. billionaire No. 45 on Forbes 400[97]
  • Edward B. Rust, Jr. (MBA) – chairman and CEO, State Farm Insurance[98]
  • George Edward Seay III – businessman; co-founder and CEO of Annandale Capital; philanthropist; conservative political activist[99]
  • Mark Shepherd – chairman and CEO, Texas Instruments[100]
  • Jeffrey Skilling – chairman and CEO of Enron[101]
  • Jeff Storey, president and chief executive officer of Level 3 Communications[102]
  • Emily Summers – interior designer
  • John H. Tyson – chairman of Tyson Foods[103]
  • John Tyson – chairman, Tyson Foods; grandson of John W. Tyson, founder of Tyson Foods[104]
  • Ray Washburne – real estate investor
  • Whitney Wolfe Herd – founder and CEO, Bumble; co-founder of Tinder[69]
  • Donald Zale – Chairman, Capitol Entertainment Group and son of Morris (M. B.) Zale, the co-founder of Zale Corporation[73]

Law[]

Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
  • James A. Baker (B.B.A. 1953, LL.B. 1958) – justice of the Supreme Court of Texas (1995–2002)[105]
  • Jeff Cox (Legal Law Masters in Taxation) – judge since 2005 of the Louisiana 26th Judicial District Court of Bossier and Webster parishes[106]
  • Craig T. Enoch – justice, Texas Supreme Court[citation needed]
  • David C. Godbey – federal judge
  • Robert B. Maloney – federal judge
  • Deborah Hankinson – former justice of Texas Supreme Court[citation needed]
  • Nathan Hecht – chief justice, Texas Supreme Court[107]
  • Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. – justice, Supreme Court of Missouri[108]
  • Barbara M.G. Lynn – judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas[109]
  • – judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals since 1993; resides in Fort Worth[110]
  • Harriet Miers – George W. Bush administration nominee to the United States Supreme Court[111]
  • James Latane Noel, Jr. – Attorney General of Texas
  • Michael Pryles (LL.M '68, S.J.D '70) former Commissioner, Australian Law Reform Commission; former Commissioner, United Nations Compensation Commission (Geneva); Chairman, Singapore International Arbitration Centre (2009–2012)
  • William Steger – judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas[112]
  • (BA 1996) - Judge, State of Missouri (21st Circuit - St. Louis County) [113]

Scientists[]

Donald Holmquest, NASA astronaut
Mary Ellen Weber, NASA astronaut
  • Michael Bunnell - Winner of 2010 Scientific and Engineering Academy Award® for making computer-generated characters look more real[114]
  • Donald D. Clayton – astrophysicist
  • James Cronin – Nobel Prize-winning physicist[115]
  • Robert Dennard – computing pioneer[citation needed]
  • Donald Holmquest – NASA astronaut, physician
  • Jack N. James – engineer and manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; project manager for the Mariner program[citation needed]
  • Kent Norman – cognitive psychologist and expert on computer rage[citation needed]
  • Andrés Ruzo – geothermal scientist and a National Geographic Young Explorer[116]
  • Clyde Snow – forensic anthropologist[citation needed]
  • Robert Taylor – computing pioneer
  • Mary E. Weber – NASA astronaut[117]
  • Donald J. Wheeler – expert on statistical process control and data analysis[citation needed]
  • Cindy Ann Yeilding - American geologist and former Vice President of British Petroleum, BP[118]

Academia[]

Larry Faulkner, President of the University of Texas at Austin
  • Betsy Boze (née Betsy Vogel) – President, The College of The Bahamas[119][120][121]
  • Larry Faulkner – President, University of Texas at Austin (1998–2006)[122]
  • Utpal K. Goswami - President Santa Barbara City College (SBCC)[123]
  • Herma Hill Kay – Dean, UC Berkeley School of Law
  • Lee F. Jackson – former Chancellor of the University of North Texas System (2002–2017) and the State of Texas' longest-serving chancellor at the time when he announced his retirement in March 2017.
  • Donde Plowman – Chancellor of the University of Tennessee (2019–present)[124]
  • Mary Elizabeth Moore - Dean, Boston University School of Theology
  • William C. Roberts – cardiologist; pathologist; first head of pathology for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
  • Andrea I. Robinson – master sommelier and dean of wine studies at the French Culinary Institute[125]
  • Earl Rose – Dallas County medical examiner at the time of the assassination of John F. Kennedy; pathologist at University of Iowa[126]
  • Vernon L. Scarborough (PhD 1980) – Mesoamerican archaeologist; professor and head of department in anthropology at University of Cincinnati[citation needed]
  • Thomas F. Siems – senior economist and policy advisor in the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas[citation needed]
  • Jo Jorgensen (M.B.A. 1983) – 2020 Libertarian Party Presidential Candidate and Senior Lecturer of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Clemson University[127]

Film, performing arts, television, radio, popular culture[]

Kathy Bates, Oscar-winning actress
Brian Baumgartner, actor on The Office
Bill Fagerbakke, the voice of Patrick Star
Kourtney Kardashian attended SMU, but did not graduate.
  • Amy Acker – actress, Person of Interest, Angel[128]
  • Michael Aronov – actor, playwright
  • Antoine Ashley (a.k.a. Sahara Davenport) – female impersonator, singer, and reality show participant (RuPaul`s Drag Race)[citation needed]
  • Astronautalis (Charles Andrew Bothwell) – hip-hop artist[129]
  • Bob Banner – TV producer[130]
  • Joseph Banowetz – Grammy-nominated classical pianist; music professor[131]
  • Adam Bartley – actor notable for television's Longmire[132]
  • David Bates – artist[133]
  • Kathy Bates – Oscar-winning actress[134]
  • Brian Baumgartner – actor on The Office[135]
  • Matt Earl Beesley – TV and film director[136]
  • Andy Blankenbuehler – dancer, choreographer, Hamilton, Bandstand, In the Heights
  • Powers Boothe – Emmy Award-winning actor[137]
  • Cale Boyter – film producer, Wedding Crashers[138]
  • Edie Brickell – singer-songwriter, guitarist with The New Bohemians[139]
  • Allen Case – Broadway and television actor (The Deputy)[140]
  • Laura Claycomb – operatic soprano[141]
  • R. Jane Chu – chairperson, National Endowment for the Arts
  • Eddie Coker – children's musician[citation needed]
  • Graham Colton – pop singer, performer, songwriter[142]
  • Cristi Conaway – actress[143]
  • Paige Davis – TLC Network personality[144]
  • Mimi Davila – from the Chonga Girls[citation needed]
  • Stefanie de Roux – model, represented Panama in Miss Universe 2003 and Miss Earth 2006[145]
  • Fernando del Valle (Brian S. Skinner) – operatic tenor[146]
  • Hacksaw Jim Duggan – pro wrestler[citation needed]
  • Mary Elizabeth Ellis – actress known for portraying "The Waitress" on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia[147]
  • Amanda Dunbar – visual artist[citation needed]
  • Bill Fagerbakke – actor on Coach and voice on SpongeBob SquarePants[148]
  • Katie Featherston – lead actress in the independent horror film Paranormal Activity[149]
  • Morgan Garrett – voice actress affiliated with Funimation
  • Clarence Gilyard – actor, Walker, Texas Ranger[150]
  • Lynda Goodfriend - American actress
  • Lauren Graham – lead actress, Gilmore Girls, Parenthood, and Guys and Dolls on broadway[151]
  • Art Greenhaw – Grammy Award-winning artist, record producer and audio engineer[152]
  • Tsui Hark – film director[153]
  • Daniel Hart – musician and composer[154]
  • James V. Hart – screenwriter and author
  • Jerry Haynes - Actor, most well known as Mr. Peppermint, brother of Fred E. Haynes Jr., World War II Marine Officer and later Major General;[65]
  • Thomas Hayward – chairman of the Voice and Opera departments of the Meadows School of the Arts; named distinguished professor of voice 1990; namesake of the Thomas Hayward Memorial Award scholarship[citation needed]
  • Jerrika Hinton – actress, Grey's Anatomy
  • John Holiday – operatic countertenor
  • David Hudgins – TV writer and producer, Everwood and Friday Night Lights[citation needed]
  • Tom Hussey – photographer specializing in commercial advertising and lifestyle photography[155]
  • Jack Ingram – country music singer[citation needed]
  • Rick Jaffa – screenwriter
  • William Joyce – creator of Rolie Polie Olie and George Shrinks, Academy Award winner[156]
  • Ron Judkins – production sound mixer and writer-director
  • Kourtney Kardashian (attended) – co-owner of D-A-S-H; featured on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami, and Kourtney and Kim Take New York[157]
  • Bavand Karim – TV and film producer[158]
  • Jordan Ladd – actress and model
  • Sheryl Leach – creator of Barney & Friends children's television program[citation needed]
  • Gus Levene – arranger, composer, orchestrator, and guitarist[159]
  • Lydia Mackay – voice actress affiliated with Funimation
  • Dorothy Malone – Academy Award-winning Actress
  • Jayne Mansfield - Actress
  • Page McConnell – keyboardist for Phish[160]
  • Jay McGraw – son of Dr. Phil McGraw, "Dr. Phil"[citation needed]
  • Debra Monk – Tony Award-winning actress[161]
  • Belita Moreno – actress; Benny on the George Lopez TV series[162]
  • N'dambi – Grammy-nominated recording artist[163]
  • Jeffrey Nordling – actor, 24, Desperate Housewives, Big Little Lies, Once and Again
  • Sybil Robson Orr – film producer and former news anchor[citation needed]
  • Candice Patton – actress, The Flash[164]
  • Khary Payton – actor, The Walking Dead
  • Artemis Pebdani – actress, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia[165]
  • Lynne Strow Piccolo - operatic soprano[166]
  • D.J. Pierce (a.k.a. Shangela Laquifa Wadley) – drag queen, reality television personality reality show participant (seasons 2 & 3 of RuPaul`s Drag Race) and actor[167]
  • Patricia Richardson – actress, Home Improvement, Strong Medicine, The West Wing[168]
  • Wolfgang Rübsam – German-American organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue[citation needed]
  • Saundra Santiago – actress, Miami Vice[169]
  • Wrenn Schmidt – actress[170]
  • Sarah Shahi – actress, Person of Interest and The L Word[171]
  • Joey Slotnick – actor, Boston Public, A League of Their Own[172]
  • David Lee Smith[173] – actor, Fight Club and CSI: Miami
  • Dan Smoot – journalist, author, radio, and television commentator; figure in the anti-communist movement[174]
  • Aaron Spelling – TV and film producer[175]
  • Rawson Stovall – video game producer[citation needed]
  • Regina Taylor – playwright, director, Golden Globe-winning actress[176]
  • Cher Tenbush – actress, model, winner of reality show Indian Idol[177]
  • Carole Terry – organist, harpsichordist, and pedagogue[178]
  • Frank Ticheli – musician, composer, and professor of music composition at University of Southern California[179]
  • Craig Timberlake – stage actor and opera singer[citation needed]
  • Stephen Tobolowsky – actor[180]
  • Kellie Waymire – actor, notable for her appearances in the Star Trek franchise.
  • Alliene Brandon Webb, composer

Writing and journalism[]

  • Deborah Coonts – romantic, mystery, and humor novelist; lawyer
  • Robert M. Edsel – art history
  • Craig Flournoy – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist[181]
  • Beth Henley – Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright[182]
  • Monika Kørra – Norwegian author and athlete
  • Andy Sidaris – sports TV pioneer[183]
  • Jack Myers – poet laureate of the state of Texas in 2003[184]
  • Matt Zoller Seitz - Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a Pulitzer Prize in criticism finalist
  • Clifton Taulbert – author and public speaker[185]
  • – author, nicknamed Mr. SMU, founded the Creative Writing department, founded the university literary festival, co-winner of the Texas Institute of Letter's (TIL) top prize for best novel of 1968[186]

Religious[]

  • Sante Uberto Barbieri – a bishop of the Methodist Church in Latin America (earned bachelor's, master's and divinity degrees)[citation needed]
  • Kirbyjon Caldwell – UM pastor and community leader in Houston, Texas, gave the benediction at George W. Bush's first inauguration[citation needed]
  • John Wesley Hardt – a bishop of the United Methodist Church[187]
  • Robert E. Hayes Jr – a bishop of the United Methodist Church (M.Th. degree, 1972)[citation needed]
  • Rev. Dr. Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr., pastor emeritus, St. Luke Community UMC, Dallas, TX
  • Hiram "Doc" Jones – deputy chief of chaplains of the U.S. Air Force
  • Scott J. Jones – a bishop of the United Methodist Church and former McCreless Associate Professor of Evangelism and director of the Center for the Advanced Study and Practice of Evangelism, Perkins School of Theology (earned M.Th. and PhD degrees)[188]
  • Neill F. Marriott – second counselor in the Young Women's General Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (earned bachelor's degree in English literature and secondary education)[189]
  • William Clyde Martin – elected bishop to the Methodist Church, 1938[citation needed]
  • Cecil Williams – pastor of Glide Memorial Church (United Methodist) in San Francisco, California[190]

Non-profit[]

  • Eleanor Smith Morrison - 11th national commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America[191]

Athletics[]

Main article: SMU Mustangs

Football[]

Main article: SMU Mustangs football
Doak Walker, Heisman trophy winner
  • Kenneth Acker – professional football player
  • Jerry Ball – professional football player; three-time pro-bowler[192]
  • Chris Banjo – professional football player
  • Lloyd Baxter – professional football player[193]
  • Kelvin Beachum – professional football player
  • Cole Beasley – professional football player
  • Raymond Berry (B.B.A. 1955) – Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver[194]
  • Chris Bordano – professional football player[195]
  • Maury Bray – professional football player[196]
  • John Burleson – professional football player[197]
  • Michael Carter – professional football player and Olympic silver medalist[198]
  • Russell Carter – professional football player[199]
  • Putt Choate – professional football player[200]
  • Willard Dewveall – professional football player[201] first "star" to go from NFL to AFL
  • Eric Dickerson – Pro Football Hall of Fame running back[202]
  • Joe Ethridge – professional football player[203]
  • Bill Forester – professional football player; elected to Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame[204]
  • Eddie Garcia – professional football player[205]
  • Ben Gottschalk (born 1992), NFL football player[206]
  • Forrest Gregg – former NFL coach and Pro Football Hall of Fame guard[207]
  • Glynn Gregory – professional football player[208]
  • Dale Hellestrae – professional football player; Played for 3 Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl teams[209]
  • Margus Hunt (class of 2013) – Cincinnati Bengals defensive end; former world junior champion in the discus and shot put, representing his homeland of Estonia[citation needed]
  • Charlie Jackson – football player[210]
  • Craig James – football player; former commentator[211]
  • Don King – professional football player[212]
  • Josh Leribeus – professional football player
  • Zach Line – professional football player
  • Jerry LeVias – broke color barrier in the Southwest Conference; inducted into Texas Sports and College Football Hall of Fame[213]
  • Bryan McCann – professional football player for Dallas Cowboys[214]
  • Don Meredith – former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and Monday Night Football commentator[215]
  • Don Miller – professional football player[216]
  • Sterling Moore – professional football player
  • Thomas Morstead – professional football player; kicker for the New Orleans Saints[217]
  • Jerry Norton – professional football player; five-time Pro Bowler[218]
  • Uzooma Okeke – professional football player[219]
  • Taylor Reed – professional football player[220]
  • Jerry Rhome – former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and College Football Hall of Fame inductee[221]
  • John Roderick – professional football player[222]
  • Justin Rogers – All-conference defensive end; professional football player[223]
  • Kyle Rote – professional football player; four-time Pro Bowler[224]
  • Emmanuel Sanders – professional football player; Denver Broncos[225]
  • Ray Schoenke – professional football player and entrepreneur[226]
  • Courtland Sutton – professional football player
  • Taylor Thompson – professional football player
  • Ted Thompson - General Manager of the Green Bay Packers from 2005 to 2017, American professional football player and executive in the National Football League (NFL).[227]
  • Doak Walker – Heisman Trophy winner and Pro Football Hall of Fame running back[228]
  • Val Joe Walker – professional football player[229]
  • Gene Wilson – professional football player[230]
  • Zach Wood – professional football player
  • Mike Livingston — a quarterback in the American Football League and National Football League for twelve seasons with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Basketball[]

Main article: SMU Mustangs men's basketball

Baseball[]

Golf[]

Soccer[]

Other athletics[]

  • Jack Adkisson – professional wrestler better known as "Fritz Von Erich"[246]
  • Kajsa Bergqvist – Olympic high jump bronze medalist for Sweden[247]
  • Roald Bradstock – Olympian javelin thrower for Great Britain and an artist nicknamed "Olympic Picasso"
  • Libor Charfreitag – Olympic hammer thrower for Slovakia[citation needed]
  • Corrie Clark – Pan Am silver medalist swimmer[248]
  • Jim Duggan – professional wrestler[249]
  • Sten Ekberg – Olympic decathlon athlete for Sweden[250][251]
  • Florence Ezeh – hammer thrower for France and Togo[252]
  • Lars Frölander – Olympic gold medalist swimmer[253]
  • Jerry Heidenreich – Olympic gold medalist swimmer[254]
  • Nastia Liukin – world gymnastics champion; Olympic gold medalist[255]
  • Steve Lundquist – Olympic gold medalist swimmer[256]
  • Martina Moravcová – Olympic silver medalist swimmer[257]
  • Ricardo Prado – Olympic silver medalist swimmer for Brazil[258]
  • Mike Richardson – Professional football player[259]
  • Robert Richardson – Race car driver[citation needed]
  • Richard Saeger – Olympic gold medalist swimmer[260]
  • Teri Steer – Olympic shot putter[citation needed]
  • Isabella Tobias (2020) – American-born Olympic ice skater for Lithuania
  • Jason Tunks – Olympic discus thrower for Canada[citation needed]
  • Nina Rangelova – Bulgarian Olympic swimmer[261]
  • Mark Vines - former tennis player [262]

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Notable faculty members[]

Current faculty

  • Willie Baronet – Film Director of We Are All Homeless
  • Ravi Batra – best-selling economist; awarded medal of the Italian Senate by Italian Prime Minister for predicting the downfall of Soviet communism
  • Caroline Brettell, cultural anthropologist and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • John D. Buynak – developed compounds to help fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria
  • Frederick R. Chang – former director of research at the National Security Agency
  • Bill Dillon – associate dean, Cox School of Business[263]
  • Delores M. Etter – Fellow, National Academy of Engineering; former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for research, development, and acquisition
  • Rick Halperin – chair, Amnesty International USA
  • Eugene Herrin – co-developed a seismic system that detects underground nuclear detonations worldwide
  • Choon Sae Lee – developed a new form of antenna
  • Larry Shampine – his work was recognized by New Media Magazine as "one of the nine best digital projects on the planet"
  • Brian Stump – co-developed a seismic system that detects underground nuclear detonations worldwide

Former faculty

  • Robert Theodore Anderson – organist, composer, and pedagogue
  • Lev Aronson – cellist, Holocaust survivor
  • Lewis Binford – Archaeologist and Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
  • José Antonio Bowen – former dean of the SMU Meadows School of the Arts, President of Goucher College, and jazz musician[264]
  • David J. Chard – Founding Dean of the SMU Simmons School of Education and Human Development, President of Wheelock College, Dean ad interim of the Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development[265]
  • Jesse Lee Cuninggim – Methodist clergyman; served as head of the Department of Religious Education at SMU; received honorary degree from SMU
  • Steven C. Currall – former provost of SMU, president of University of South Florida[266]
  • Hesham El-Rewini – former chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, within the Lyle School of Engineering, dean, University of North Dakota College of Engineering and Mines[267]
  • Craig Flournoy – Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
  • Elaine Heath – former McCreless Professor of Evangelism in the SMU Perkins School of Theology, former dean of the Duke Divinity School[268]
  • William Andrew Irwin – scholar of the Old Testament
  • Michael K. McLendon – former Harold and Annette Simmons Centennial Chair in Higher Education Policy and Leadership at the SMU Simmons School of Education and Human Development, former provost ad interim, Baylor University, former dean of the [269]
  • Geoffrey Orsak – former dean of the SMU Lyle School of Engineering, former president of the University of Tulsa[270]
  • Laurence Perrine – author of Sound and Sense
  • Ellen S. Pryor – former associate provost and the Homer R. Mitchell Endowed Professor of Law at the SMU Dedman College, founding associate dean for academic affairs at the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law[271]
  • György Sándor – pianist and writer
  • Laura J. Steinberg – former chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, within the Lyle School of Engineering, special assistant for strategy to vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, former dean of the Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science[272][273]
  • Jeffrey W. Talley – former professor and chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Bobby B. Lyle Professor of Leadership and Global Entrepreneurship and the Founding Director of the Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity, within the Lyle School of Engineering, Retired United States Army General and a Global Fellow for the IBM Center for the Business of Government, former president and CEO of Environmental Technology Solutions (ETS Partners), in Phoenix, Arizona[274][275][276] Since 2017, he has also been a Professor of Practice in the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.[277]
  • William Tsutsui – former dean of the SMU Dedman College, president of Hendrix College[278]
  • Paul van Katwijk - former dean of the SMU School of Music
  • P. Gregory Warden – former university distinguished professor emeritus of art history and associate dean for research and academic affairs at the SMU Meadows School of the Arts, president of Franklin College Switzerland[279]
  • David J. Weber – Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • Fred Wendorf – archaeologist and Fellow, National Academy of Sciences
  • Lori S. White – former SMU vice president for student affairs, vice chancellor for students at Washington University in St. Louis[280]

Chairpersons of the board of trustees[]

The board of governors served as an executive committee of the 75-member board of trustees. Because of the group's size, most of the real governing was done by the 21-member board of governors. In the aftermath of the 1987 Football 'Death penalty' against SMU, the board of governors was eliminated and replaced with a smaller and more efficient board of trustees. The changes were also designed to increase the independence and authority of the university president. The new structure called for a board of trustees of 40 members and meeting four times a year instead of twice.

Chairpersons of the board of trustees

Name Years
Robert H. Dedman Jr. 2018–present
Michael M. Boone 2014–2018
Caren H. Prothro 2010–2014
Carl Sewell 2006–2010
Gerald J. Ford 2002–2006
Ruth Sharp Altshuler 2000–2002
William R. Howell 1996–2000
Robert H. Dedman Sr. 1992–1996
Ray Lee Hunt 1987–1992
Edwin L. Cox, Sr. 1976–1987

Chairpersons of the board of governors

Name Years
William L. Hutchison 1986–1987
Bill Clements 1983–1986
Bill Clements 1967–1973
Eugene McElvaney 1952–1956

Honorary degree recipients[]

Honorary degree recipient George H. W. Bush
  • George H. W. Bush (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1992) – 41st president of the United States
  • Gerald R. Ford (Doctor of Laws, 1975) – 38th president of the United States
  • Juan Carlos I (Doctor of Arts, 2001) – King of Spain
  • Jack Kilby (Doctor of Science) – Nobel Prize winner; inventor of the integrated circuit
  • Bob Hope (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1967) – actor
  • H. Ross Perot (Doctor of Humane Letters, 1991) – billionaire and former presidential candidate
  • William McFerrin Stowe (Doctor of Laws, 1965) – bishop of the Methodist Church

Other SMU affiliates (non-alumni)[]

  • U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was a diplomat-in-residence at SMU's John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies in March 1996. Later that year, Cheney was named to the SMU Board of Trustees, resigning in August 2000 when he became the Republican candidate for U.S. Vice President.
  • General Colin Powell in 1997 received the first Medal of Freedom Award given by SMU's John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences.
  • Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher in 1999 received the second Medal of Freedom Award, presented to her by Colin Powell, the recipient of the first medal.
  • Senator and candidate for the Republican nomination for US President John McCain received the Tower Center's Medal of Freedom Award in 2005.
  • Former British prime minister Tony Blair received the Medal of Freedom Award in 2008.

SMU presidents[]

Name Years
Robert Stewart Hyer 1911–1920
Hiram Abiff Boaz 1920–1922
Charles Claude Selecman 1923–1938
Umphrey Lee 1939–1954
Willis M. Tate 1954–1972
Paul Hardin 1972–1974
James Zumberge 1975–1980
L. Donald Shields 1980–1986
A. Kenneth Pye 1987–1994
R. Gerald Turner 1995–present

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