Hall of Fame
(1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s)
Past Recipients of Alumni Hall of Fame Distinguished Alumni Awards
Created in 1974 by The Ole Miss Alumni Association, the Distinguished Alumni Awards recognize those alumni who have made outstanding contributions to their country, their state and The University of Mississippi through their leadership, loyal support, service and dedication, all of which perpetuate the great name of Ole Miss. Each year, not more than five alumni are selected by a seven-member selection committee from nominations received throughout the year.
2022
Teri G. Fontenot — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Dr. Dan Jones — Hazlehurst, Mississippi
Don Kessinger – Oxford, Mississippi
James Mattox Reed — Grayson, Georgia
Curtis Wilkie – Oxford, Mississippi
2021
Coolidge Ball – Oxford, Mississippi
Dan Goodgame – San Antonio, Texas
Richard C. O’Ferrall Jr. – Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
Michael H. Stewart – Oxford, Mississippi
Judy Trott – Oxford, Mississippi
2020
No inductees due to COVID-19
2019
Kimsey O’Neal Bailey – Aberdeen, Mississippi
Donald R. Cole – Oxford, Mississippi
Jake Gibbs – Oxford, Mississippi
Duncan M. Gray III – Oxford, Mississippi
Richard C. Howorth – Oxford, Mississippi
2018
Thad Cochran-Oxford, Mississippi
Howard L. Gerlach – Fairfax, Virginia
Mac Haik – Houston, Texas
Vernon R. “Randy” Kelley – Tupelo, Mississippi
James Meredith – Jackson, Mississippi
2017
Don L. Frugé – Oxford, Mississippi
Walton Gresham III – Indianola, Mississippi
James E. Keeton, M.D. – Jackson, Mississippi
Tom Papa – Jackson, Mississippi
Mary Sharp Rayner – Oxford, Mississippi
2016
David E. Brevard – Tupelo, Mississippi
Dr. James L. Cox – Atlanta, Georgia
Thomas C. Meredith – Oxford, Mississippi
Thomas J. “Sparky” Reardon – Oxford, Mississippi
Constance Slaughter-Harvey – Forest, Mississippi
2015
Mary Ann Connell – Oxford, Mississippi
Lee McCarty – Merigold, Mississippi
Dr. Alan Partin – Baltimore, Maryland
Billy Van Devender – Jackson, Mississippi
Dr. Thomas D. Wallace – Bakersfield, California
2014
James W. Davis – Oxford, Mississippi
Michael L. Ducker – Collierville, Tennessee
Peggie Gillom-Granderson – Abbeville, Mississippi
Robert Khayat – Oxford, Mississippi
Dulymus (Deuce) McAllister – Jackson, Mississippi
2013
Julia Carol Ross – Oakland, Mississippi
David W. Houston – Aberdeen, Mississippi
Stephanie Saul – Port Washington, New York
Haley Barbour – Yazoo City, Mississippi
Richard Molpus – Jackson, Mississippi
2012
Thomas W. Colbert – Flowood, Mississippi
William Nall Fry – Nashville, Tennessee
William Roberts Jordan – Columbus, Georgia
Mark Gregory Iles – Natchez, Mississippi
Maj. James E. Donald – Decatur, Georgia
2011
James H. Creekmore – Jackson, Mississippi
Wade H. Creekmore, Jr. – Jackson, Mississippi
Winfield Dunn – Nashville, Tennessee
Jim Weatherly – Brentwood, Tennessee
Scott Wegmann – Houston, Texas
2010
Jack Geary – Vicksburg, Mississippi
Jennifer Gillom – Phoenix, Arizona
Trent Lott – Pascagoula, Mississippi
Ray Mabus – Ackerman, Mississippi
Debra L. Starnes – Memphis, Tennessee
2009
John Warner Alford Jr. – Oxford, Mississippi
John “Kayo” Dottley – Vicksburg, Mississippi
George E. Hilliard – Memphis, Tennessee
William W. Parsons Jr. – Merritt Island, Florida
2008
Glen Ballard – Hollywood, California
Herbert E. Dewees Jr. (Deceased)
T. Michael Glenn – Eads, Tennessee
John Grisham – North Garden, Virginia
Edwin E. Meek – Oxford, Mississippi
Shepard Smith – New York, New York
2007
Augustus Leon Collins – Fort McPherson, Georgia
A. Wallace Conerly, M.D. – Terry, Mississippi
William F. Gaultney, Jr. – Houston, Texas
James McClure, Jr. – Sardis, Mississippi
Nancy Van de Vate – Vienna, Austria
2006
Edgar L. Caples – Plano, Texas
James E. Darnell, Jr. – Larchmont, New York
Bradford J. Dye, Jr. – Ridgeland, Mississippi
Thomas R. Ethridge – Oxford, Mississippi
James E. Sherrard III – Fort Walton Beach, Florida
2005
Verna Bailey – Portland, Oregon
Henry A. Frazer – Montgomery, Alabama
William W. Gresham Jr. – Indianola, Mississippi
W. Briggs Hopson Jr. – Vicksburg, Mississippi
Lucian S. Minor – Memphis, Tennessee
2004
Gerald M. Abdalla – McComb, Mississippi
Paul V. Hester – Hurlburt Field, Florida
Henry L. Laws – Clanton, Alabama
Rachel S. McPherson – Brooklyn, New York
James “Butch” Rosser Jr. – Port Chester, New York
2003
Ronnie Agnew – Madison, Mississippi
Robert W. Elliott Sr. – Ripley, Mississippi
Roger M. Flynt Jr. – Destin, Florida
Bernice H. Hussey – Memphis, Tennessee
2002
William R. Dunlap – McLean, Virginia
Terry C. Ewert – Short Hills, New Jersey
David L. Guyton – Baltimore, Maryland
J. Edward Hill – Tupelo, Mississippi
Sherman L. Muths Jr. – Gulfport, Mississippi
2001
Janet Griffin Farrington – Jackson, Mississippi
Samuel Bond Haskell III – Los Angeles, California
Henry Paris – Indianola, Mississippi
Aubrey B. Patterson – Tupelo, Mississippi
Gail Jones Pittman – Jackson, Mississippi
2000
Raymond L. Brown – Pascagoula, Mississippi
Larry Martindale – Atlanta, Georgia
Otis L. Sanford – Memphis, Tennessee
R. Faser Triplett Sr. – Jackson, Mississippi
William Gully Yates Jr. – Philadelphia, Mississippi
1999
Edward O. Fritts – Arlington, Virginia
Paul Edward Gray – West Windsor, New Jersey
George P. Hewes III – Jackson, Mississippi
Edith Kelly-Green – Memphis, Tennessee
Carole Lynn Meadows – Gulfport, Mississippi
1998
Phil H. Berry Jr. – Dallas, Texas
Rose Jackson Flenorl – Cordova, Tennessee
Ron A. Franklin – Austin, Texas
Gerald M. Hollingsworth – Niceville, Florida
Jim F. Ingram – Tupelo, Mississippi
1997
Barbara Kerr Beckman – Baton Rouge, Louisiana
L. Stacy Davidson – Cleveland, Mississippi
Mary Lynn Booth Kotz – Washington, D.C.
Parham H. Williams Jr. – Orange, California
Robert J. “Ben” Williams Jr. – Jackson, Mississippi
1996
John G. Adler – Boca Raton, Florida
James L. Barksdale – Ridgeland, Mississippi
Frank O. Crosthwait Jr. – Indianola, Mississippi
Will A. Hickman – Oxford, Mississippi
Paul H. Moore Sr. – Pascagoula, Mississippi
1995
Reuben V. Anderson – Jackson, Mississippi
David W. Arnold – Yazoo City, Mississippi
Blair E. Batson – Jackson, Mississippi
Evelyn Gandy – Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Dan S. Wilford – Sugar Land, Texas
1994
Michael T. Aiken – Urbana, Illinois
W. Emmett Marston – Memphis, Tennessee
Howard L. McMillan – Jackson, Mississippi
Norman C. Nelson – Brandon, Mississippi
1993
Louis K. Brandt – Houston, Texas
Patrick E. McNarny – Logansport, Indiana
J. Lucian Smith – Atlanta, Georgia
George M. Street – Oxford, Mississippi
Louis L. Sulya – Jackson, Mississippi
1992
Charles A. Conerly Jr. – Clarksdale, Mississippi
Max D. Cooper – Birmingham, Alabama
Charles L. Overby – Brentwood, Tennessee
Michael S. Starnes – Memphis, Tennessee
1991
James N. Butler – Oxford, Mississippi
James L. McDowell Jr. – Jackson, Mississippi
Anna Keirsay McLean – Tupelo, Mississippi
Charles E. Noyes – Oxford, Mississippi
Thomas K. Swayzee – Oxford, Mississippi
1990
Porter L. Fortune Jr. – Oxford, Mississippi
Daniel P. Jordan Jr. – Charlottesville, Virginia
Patrick D. Smith – Merritt Island, Florida
John H. Vaught – Oxford, Mississippi
1989
Frank A. Anderson – Oxford, Mississippi
Hardy M. Graham – Union City, Tennessee
Hunter Lee Little – Palo Alto, California
William F. Winter – Jackson, Mississippi
1988
Henry C. Brevard Jr. – Tupelo, Mississippi
Joseph Cerny III – Berkeley, California
Josephine Ayres Haxton – Jackson, Mississippi
Charles Stanley Locke – Lake Forest, Illinois
1987
George A. Garrett – Menlo Park, California
Frederick M. Glass – New York, New York
Robert P. Guyton – Atlanta, Georgia
H.F. McCarty Jr. – Magee, Mississippi
John N. Palmer – Jackson, Mississippi
1986
David Cottrell Jr. – Gulfport, Mississippi
Frank R. Day – Jackson, Mississippi
Thomas F. Frist Sr. – Nashville, Tennessee
Thomas K. McCraw – Boston, Massachusetts
Lenore L. Prather – Columbus, Mississippi
1985
Charles Clark – Jackson, Mississippi
Lynda Lee Mead Shea – Memphis, Tennessee
Larry M. Speakes – Arlington, Virginia
Jamie L. Whitten – Washington D.C.
Clifford G. Worsham – Corinth, Mississippi
1984
Chester H. Curtis – Clarksdale, Mississippi
Lucy Somerville Howorth – Cleveland, Mississippi
Samuel D. McIlwain – Alexandria, Virginia
Paul W. Murrill – Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1983
Charlotte Capers – Jackson, Mississippi
Hugh N. Clayton – New Albany, Mississippi
Verner S. Holmes – Jackson, Mississippi
Archie Manning – New Orleans, Louisiana
Tally D. Riddell – Quitman, Mississippi
1982
Charles D. Fair – Louisville, Mississippi
Beckett Howorth – Jackson, Mississippi
Sarah McGehee Isom – Oxford, Mississippi
George McLean – Tupelo, Mississippi
1981
James A. Autry – Des Moines, Iowa
John Brademas Jr. – New York, New York
Mary Ann Mobley Collins – Beverly Hills, California
Frank Edgar Everett Jr. – Vicksburg, Mississippi
Claude Ferrell Varner – Memphis, Tennessee
1980
Harold Burson – Scarsdale, New York
Mark F. Ethridge – Moncure, North Carolina
William C. Faulkner – Oxford, Mississippi
Frank Manning Kinard – Oxford, Mississippi
David S. Pankratz – Oxford, Mississippi
1979
William Alton Bryant – Oxford, Mississippi
Thomas D. Clark – Lexington, Kentucky
James O. Eastland – Doddsville, Mississippi
Alfred Hume – Oxford, Mississippi
1978
George H. Kimmons – Knoxville, Tennessee
Julius Levine – Hayward, California
Arthur B. Lewis – Oxford, Mississippi
Harvey Lee Morrison – Okolona, Mississippi
John W. Wade – Nashville, Tennessee
1977
George Payne Cossar – Charleston, Mississippi
Victor A. Coulter – Oxford, Mississippi
James Daniel Hardy – Jackson, Mississippi
Girault M. Jones – Nashville, Tennessee
Ortho R. Smith – Meridian, Mississippi
1976
Woodard Davis Becham – New Orleans, Louisiana
James P. Coleman – Ackerman, Mississippi
James D. Hardy – Woodbridge, Connecticut
George William Healy Jr. – New Orleans, Louisiana
Myres S. McDougal – New Haven, Connecticut
1975
Robert J. Farley – Oxford, Mississippi
Arthur C. Guyton – Jackson, Mississippi
E. Wilson Lyon – Claremont, California
Fred B. Smith – Ripley, Mississippi
John Davis Williams – Oxford, Mississippi
Past Recipients of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award
Created in 2001 by The Ole Miss Alumni Association’s Young Alumni Council, this award honors graduates from the past fifteen years who have made significant contributions to The University of Mississippi, to their community and to their profession.
| 2022 | Nicole Tisdale Washington, DC |
| 2021 | Hunter Howell Beaumont, Texas |
| 2020 | No inductee due to COVID-19 |
| 2019 | Sly Lee Los Angeles, California |
| 2018 | Shaquinta Morgan Madison, Alabama |
| 2017 | Candie L. Simmons Ridgeland, Mississippi |
| 2016 | Patrick Woodyard Nashville, Tennessee |
| 2015 | Hunter Carpenter Dallas, Texas |
| 2014 | Kelly English Memphis, Tennessee |
| 2013 | Lucy P. Priddy Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| 2012 | Dr. Jillian James Foster Olive Branch, Mississippi |
| 2011 | Thomas Patrick Krutz Marietta, Georgia |
| 2010 | Maj. Sheldon A. Morris Jacksonville, Florida |
| 2009 | Tamara Yvette Crawford Arlington, Texas |
| 2008 | Brian W. Sanderson Ocean Springs, Mississippi |
| 2007 | Markeeva A. Morgan Huntsville, Alabama |
| 2006 | Daniel Eric Kimbrough Tupelo, Mississippi |
| 2005 | Amy H. Herring Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| 2004 | Brian K. Roberson Vienna, Virginia |
| 2003 | Samuel J. Sliman Washington, D.C. |
| 2002 | Donald B. Bedell Sikeston, Missouri |
| 2001 | Robyn M. Tannehill Oxford, Mississippi |
Past Recipients of the Alumni Service Award
Created in 2002 by The Ole Miss Alumni Association, this award recognizes those individuals who have been members of the Alumni Association for 25 years or more and who have consistently demonstrated extraordinary commitment, dedication, leadership, and service to the advancement of The University of Mississippi and the Alumni Association.
| 2022 | Edith Hickonbotton Kelly-Green Memphis, Tennessee |
| 2021 | Bill Gates Oxford, Mississippi |
| 2020 | No inductee due to COVID-19 |
| 2019 | David Orris McCormick Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| 2018 | Warner Alford Oxford, Mississippi |
| 2017 | The Hon. William F. Winter Jackson, Mississippi |
| 2016 | T. Michael Glenn Eads, Tennessee |
| 2015 | Suzan B. Thames Jackson, Mississippi |
| 2014 | Lanny Griffith Alexandria, Virginia |
| 2013 | Janet G. Farrington Ridgeland, Mississippi |
| 2012 | George T. Lotterhos Germantown, Tennessee |
| 2011 | James M. Ely Oxford, Mississippi |
| 2010 | William L. Freeman Jr. Newton, Mississippi |
| 2009 | David E. Brevard Tupelo, Mississippi |
| 2008 | Carole Lynn Meadows Gulfport, Mississippi |
| 2007 | Harold C. Kelly Yazoo City, Mississippi |
| 2006 | Robert E. Seibels III Montgomery, Alabama |
| 2005 | Jimmy L. Hill Ripley, Mississippi |
| 2004 | Charles D. Galey Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
| 2003 | Charles Farris Jr. New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2002 | David W. Arnold Yazoo City, Mississippi |
Past Recipients of the Honorary Alumni Award
This award was established to honor outstanding individuals who, though not graduates of The University of Mississippi, have consistently demonstrated extraordinary commitment, moral and financial support, dedication, loyalty, leadership or service that have enriched the substance and contributed to the advancement of the university’s or its Alumni Association’s missions, reputation or prestige.
| 2022 | Robert Dorsey, Tucson, Arizona William B. Rayburn, Oxford, Mississippi Dennis S. Tosh, Oxford, Mississippi |
| 2021 | Gloria Dodwell Kellum Oxford, Mississippi |
| 2019 | Vaughn L. Grisham Oxford, Mississippi |
| 2011 | Fredrick W. Smith Memphis, Tennessee |
