List of Washington and Lee University people

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Below is a list of notable associated people of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. The year after each name designates the graduation year, if the person is an alumnus.

Law and politics[]

John Paul "Jay" Monahan III (January 9, 1956 - January 24,1998) Class of 1977. Lawyer (did not gain law degree at his school), Legal commentator for NBC, MSNBC,among other major news networks, and the first and late husband of broadcast journalist Katie Couric. He and Ms. Couric, who were married in 1989, had two daughters, Elinor Tully "Ellie" Monahan (born 7/23/1991 in Washington D.C.; 2013 graduate of Yale University), and Caroline Couric "Carrie" Monahan (born 1/5/1996 in New York City; 2018 graduate of Stanford University). ),

Business[]

  • Drew Baur 1966 - businessman and owner of St. Louis Cardinals
  • Berry Boswell Brooks - cotton broker and big-game hunter
  • Christopher Chenery 1909 - industrialist and horse breeder of Secretariat
  • Richard L. Duchossois - industrialist, investor, and director of Churchill Downs
  • Kenn George 1970 - businessman/investor and former member of the Texas House of Representatives
  • Rupert H. Johnson 1962 - vice chairman of Franklin Resources; donor of $100 million, the largest gift in Washington and Lee's history, mostly directed to honors scholarships
  • Julius Kruttschnitt 1873 - Southern Pacific Railroad executive
  • H. F. Lenfest 1953 - philanthropist and CEO of Lenfest Group; gave the second largest donation in W&L's history, a $33 million challenge gift requiring a 1:1 match, on March 21, 2007 (As of December 31, 2009, over $20 million of the $33 million goal had been met[44])
  • Sydney Lewis 1940, Law 1943 - Virginia businessman; art collector; founder of Best Products; recipient with his wife, Frances, of 1987 National Medal of the Arts[citation needed]
  • Bill Miller 1972 - chairman and former chief investment officer of Legg Mason Capital Management

Academia[]

  • George A. Baxter - President of W&L and Hampden-Sydney College
  • J. Bowyer Bell 1953 - historian, artist and art critic
  • John Chavis 1799 - educator and Presbyterian minister, among the first U.S. college graduates of color
  • John DiPippa, Law 1978 - former Dean of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law[45]
  • Charles A. Graves, Law 1872 - professor at W&L Law and at the University of Virginia School of Law[46]
  • William B. Hesseltine 1922 - history professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Milton W. Humphreys - alumnus; introduced the Roman pronunciation of Latin at Washington and Lee as a professor; first Professor of Latin and Greek at Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas at Austin; taught at the University of Virginia; President of the American Philological Association, 1882-1883
  • Robert Huntley 1950, Law 1957 - former Dean of W&L Law, former President of Washington and Lee University, former President, Chairman, and CEO of Best Products[citation needed]
  • John Malcolm McCardell, Jr. 1971 - Vice-Chancellor of Sewanee University and president emeritus of Middlebury College
  • William Swan Plumer 1825 - professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1854-1862); Professor of Didactic and Polemic Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary(1867-1875); Professor of Pastoral, Casuistic, and Historical Theology at Columbia (1875-1880)
  • John Thomas Lewis Preston 1828 - founder of Virginia Military Institute[47]
  • Henry L. Roediger III 1969 - cognitive psychologist and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Kenneth P. Ruscio 1976 - President of Washington and Lee University
  • Jeffrey L. Seglin, (1978), writer of weekly column "The Right Thing," faculty member, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
  • Robert Shepherd 1959, Law 1961 - professor emeritus of law at the University of Richmond School of Law[48]
  • Robert Waymouth 1982 - professor of chemistry at Stanford University
  • William R. Vance, Law 1869 - professor at Yale Law School; Dean of W&L Law, George Washington University Law School, and the University of Minnesota Law School[49]
  • Charles M. Williams 1937 - Harvard Business School professor

Literature and journalism[]

John Paul "Jay" Monahan. See the Law and Politics section of this list.

  • Roger Mudd 1950 - Congressional Correspondent for CBS and PBS; host on the History Channel; member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity
  • Mark Richard 1986 - author and winner of the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award
  • Tom Robbins - author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (did not graduate; attended for two years before moving to New York to become a poet)
  • Tom Wolfe 1951 - writer (creator of New Journalism); author of The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities, with I Am Charlotte Simmons chronicling college life; former trustee; in 2005, became the only outside speaker in recent times to deliver the undergraduate commencement address

Science and technology[]

  • Jennifer Dowd 1996 - social scientist and public health researcher
  • Joseph L. Goldstein 1962 - won Nobel Prize for Medicine for research in cholesterol metabolism and discovery that human cells have low-density lipoprotein (LDL) receptors that extract cholesterol from the bloodstream
  • William Wilson Morgan 1924-26 undergraduate classes (graduated from University of Chicago 1927) - astronomer; co-developed the MK system for the classification of stars, and classification systems for galaxies and clusters; Director of Yerkes Observatory

Art, entertainment, and athletics[]

  • Rob Ashford 1982 - choreographer and director; eight-time Tony Award nominee (winning one), five-time Olivier Award nominee, Emmy Award winner, Drama Desk winner, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner
  • Fielder Cook 1946 - three-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer; director of The Homecoming (TV, 1971), which begat series The Waltons
  • Kate Cordsen 1986 - photographer and contemporary artist; first female graduate of W&L
  • Dom Flora 1958 - basketball standout
  • Warren Giles - executive in Baseball Hall of Fame
  • Jay Handlan 1952 - basketball standout who once scored 66 points in a single game
  • Mike Henry - writer, comedian, producer, Family Guy
  • T. C. Lin - Taiwanese filmmaker, photographer, and writer
  • Walt Michaels 1951 - head coach of NFL's New York Jets, 1977-1982; fullback for Generals, led them to 1951 Gator Bowl against Wyoming
  • Meagan Miller 1996 - opera singer
  • W. Stanley Proctor - sculptor
  • Mike Pressler 1982 - head lacrosse coach at Bryant University; former coach at Duke University who resigned during Duke lacrosse case
  • Gordon P. Robertson, Law - CEO of the Christian Broadcasting Network
  • Cy Twombly 1953 - abstract artist
  • Justin Walker - actor, Christian Stovitz in the 1995 comedy film Clueless
  • Ted Bauer 1974 - U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame
  • 1974 - U.S.Lacrosse Hall of Fame
  • 1974 - U.S.Lacrosse Hall of Fame
  • 1977 - U.S.Lacrosse Hall of Fame

Faculty[]

Trustees and benefactors[]

  • Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical reaper; founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which became part of International Harvester Company
  • George Washington, first President of the United States, General of the Continental Army

Presidents[]

See List of Presidents of Washington and Lee University.

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