National Hall of Fame

Alumni Hall of Fame

2016

  • Harold Mabrey ’55
  • Dr. Roy E. Cheatham ’65
  • Charles Seeney ’70
  • Romona Robinson ’81

2014

  • Joseph S. McDuffie ’47, law (posthumously)
  • Professor James E. Jones Jr. ’50, law and educator
  • Stanley S. Scott ’59, journalist (posthumously)
  • Dr. Frankie Hurt Cooper ’62, educator
  • Hon. Iris J. Goliday ’66, law
  • Col. Ishmon F. Burks ’67, military and educator

2013

  • Donald B. Corbett ’64 ’65, coach and higher education
  • Kenneth Dean ’64, college administrator and law
  • Henry Helm ’64, human resources and business
  • James Tippin ’64, attorney and law
  • Dr. Samuel H. Jimerson ’68, college administrator and education (posthumously)
  • Lawrence Eugene Walls, coach and educator

2012

  • Nathaniel Allen Sweets Sr. ’28, newspaper editor and owner (posthumously)
  • Victor Mason Barker ’41, Tuskegee Airman and educator (posthumously)
  • Major Richard C. Pullam ’52, Tuskegee Airman and college professor (posthumously)
  • Jacqulyn C. Shropshire ’57, civic and urban league executive
  • Moses Lacy ’64, educator and coach
  • Dr. James H. Mahon ’61, educator and college professor
  • Varryl K. Franklin ’73, educator and coach

2011

  • Carl Connor ’34, education
  • Robert J. Williams ’50, business
  • Dr. Floyd L. Williams ’62, education
  • Colonel Douglas C. Rose Jr. ’90, military

2010

  • Troy J. Davis ’54, businessman and entrepreneur
  • Dr. Stewart B. Fulbright, military and professor
  • Wilbur Franklin Long, military and businessman

2009

  • Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Julius F. Johnson ’64 ’72, US Army
  • Wendell Oliver Pruitt, Tuskegee Airman aviator (posthumously)
  • Ronald Townson, grammy-award winning vocalist (posthumously)

2008

  • Lloyd Lionel Gaines ’35, Missouri civil rights pioneer (posthumously)
  • Honorable George Howard Jr. ’48, United States District Court judge (posthumously)
  • Donald E. Hudson ’53, college head coach
  • Dr. Elmer P. Martin Jr. ’69, educator and creator of Blacks in Wax Museum (posthumously)
  • Major General (Ret.) Henry Stratman ’73, Third U.S. Army
  • Logan H. Westbrooks ’75, recording company executive
  • Lemar Parrish ’96, professional football player

2007

  • James M. Bailey Sr. ’39, educator and community leader
  • Alva Lee Thomas ’49, educator (posthumously)
  • Dr. Bette Spence-Dix ’51, educator and first female Alumni Association president
  • Herbert G. Ellis, Ph.D. ’56, educator and social scientist
  • Walter Jefferson, Jr. ’56, United States military aviator (posthumously)
  • Oliver E. Lake ’68, composer, musician and poet
  • Mervyn M. Dymally, Ph.D., Former State of California Lieutenant Governor

2006

  • Margaret Bush Wilson ’43, civil rights attorney
  • Dr. Cortez J. Bradley ’50, educator
  • Dorothy Martin Wallace ’51, educator
  • Dr. Henry Givens ’54, educator and college president
  • Dr. Robert W. Brown ’56, federal government executive and educator
  • Dr. Theodore (Ted) Savage Jr. ’58, MLB player and corporate executive
  • Joe Torry ’88, actor and comedian

2005

  • Mary Frances Everhart ’38, educator
  • M. Carl Holman ’42, civil rights activist
  • Evelyn Tutt Brackeen, Ph.D. ’47, educator and scientist
  • Florence Shyne Bowers ’57, medical researcher/biologist
  • Ida Mae (Ballard) Simon ’71, humanitarian and marketing executive (posthumously)

2004

  • Dr. Moddie Daniel Taylor ’35, chemist and professor (posthumously)
  • Judge Theodore McMillian ’41, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis
  • Dr. Robert Wheeler ’48, educator 
  • Dr. Julius Dix ’50, educator
  • Dr. Gus T. Ridgel ’50, educator
  • Joe Outlaw ’61, businessman and entrepreneur
  • Dwayne Crompton ’68, educator

2003

  • Dr. Julia H. Hill ’43, education and civil rights
  • Rep. Yvonne Starks Wilson ’50, education and politician
  • Zelma Lloyd Frank, Ed.D. ’57, educator
  • Dorothy Butler Gilliam ’57, journalism
  • Edward A. Rankin, M.D. ’61, medicine

2002

  • Dr. Lionel H Newsom ’38, college president and educator
  • Walter H. Sanderson ’42, business and industry
  • Dr. Charles Franklin Martin ’49, scientist and professor
  • Thomas B. Shropshire ’50, business and industry
  • Dr. James Frank ’53, college president and athletics
  • Judge Shellie F. Bowers ’57, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • Earl Wilson Jr. ’57, business and industry
  • Joseph "Jack the Rapper" Deighton Gibson Jr., pioneering disc jockey

2001

  • Jesse Hill Jr. ’47, businessman and entrepreneur
  • Clinita Arnsby Ford, Ph.D. ’48, college professor
  • Odell Nails, Ed.D. ’53, Educator
  • Ollie W. Gates ’54, businessman and entrepreneur
  • Leo E. Lewis ’56, professional football player
  • Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Donald Scott ’60, Military
  • Joseph David Johnson ’68, businessman and entrepreneur

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Misty Nunn, Class of 2000
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E: Alumni@LincolnU.edu

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