18 Notable alumni of
Lipscomb University
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Lipscomb University is 2039th in the world, 708th in North America, and 668th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Lipscomb University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kelsea Ballerini
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- singer-songwriterguitaristsingermusicianrecording artist
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Kelsea Nicole Ballerini is an American country pop singer and songwriter. She began songwriting as a child and signed a contract with Black River Entertainment in 2014, releasing her debut studio album the following year, The First Time. Her second studio album, Unapologetically, followed in 2017.
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Pat Boone
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- singer-songwritervoice actorcomposeractormusician
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Patrick Charles Eugene Boone is an American singer, actor and composer. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films.
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Niki
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- record producersinger-songwriter
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Nicole Zefanya, known professionally as NIKI, is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. She is currently based in the United States and signed with the record label 88rising. She has released two full-length studio albums, MOONCHILD (2020) and Nicole (2022). Her debut headlining concert tour, Nicole World Tour (2022–2023), visited over 40 cities across North America, Asia, Australia, and Europe.
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David A. French
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- editor-in-chiefjuristuniversity teacherinternational forum participantwriter
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David Austin French is an American political commentator and former attorney who has argued high-profile religious liberty cases. He is a columnist for The New York Times. Formerly a fellow at the National Review Institute and a staff writer for National Review from 2015 to 2019, French is senior editor of The Dispatch, and occasionally a contributing writer for The Atlantic. French is currently a distinguished visiting professor of public policy at Lipscomb University, his alma mater.
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Fred Gray
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- juristlawyer
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Fred David Gray is an American civil rights attorney, preacher, activist, and state legislator from Alabama. He handled many prominent civil rights cases, such as Browder v. Gayle, and was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 1970, along with Thomas Reed, both from Tuskegee. They were the first black state legislators in Alabama in the 20th century. He served as the president of the National Bar Association in 1985, and in 2001 was elected as the first African-American President of the Alabama State Bar.
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Garrison Mathews
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- basketball player
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Garrison Mathews is an American professional basketball player for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is commonly known by the nickname "Gary Bird", he played college basketball for the Lipscomb Bisons and was named the ASUN Conference Player of the Year for 2019.
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Caleb Joseph
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- baseball player
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Caleb Martin Joseph is an American former professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Toronto Blue Jays from 2014 to 2020. His brother, Corban, also played in MLB.
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W. Mark Lanier
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- lawyer
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William Mark Lanier is an American trial lawyer and founder and CEO of the Lanier Law Firm. He has led a number of high profile product litigation suits resulting in billions of dollars in damages, including Johnson & Johnson baby powder and Merck & Co.'s Vioxx drug.
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Beth Harwell
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- politician
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Beth Halteman Harwell is a member of the board of directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the former Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives. She served as State Representative for Nashville and is a former chair of the Tennessee Republican Party. First elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1988, Harwell served as a Republican Minority Whip and Commerce Committee chair before being elected to the Speakership. She is the first woman to serve as Tennessee's Speaker of the House. In 2017, she announced her candidacy for governor of Tennessee in the 2018 election.
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Michael F. Adams
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- academic
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Michael Fred Adams is an American academic and retired university administrator who is currently president emeritus of the University of Georgia.
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Kerry Roberts
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- politician
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Kerry E. Roberts is a Republican member of the Tennessee Senate for the 23rd district, which includes Robertson County, Dickson County, Cheatham County, Humphreys County and Hickman County. In January 2020, Roberts left his weekly radio show on Springfield's WDBL and moved to Nashville's WLAC morning show The Tennessee Star Report. In October 2021, Roberts rode his bicycle 100 miles to raise money and awareness for Humphreys County flood victims.
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LaMar Baker
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- politician
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LaMar Baker was a Tennessee businessman and Republican political figure who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1975. Earlier, he had been a member of both houses of the Tennessee State Legislature.
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William S. Banowsky
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- academic
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William Slater Banowsky was an American academic administrator. He served as president of Pepperdine University from 1971 to 1978, then as president of the University of Oklahoma from 1978 to 1982 when he resigned to become President of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. In 1983, Banowsky returned as OU president and served for two more years. Banowsky was also a member of the Republican National Committee for the state of California from 1973 to 1975.
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Ken A. Miller
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- politician
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Kenneth A. Miller is an American educator and Republican politician from Oklahoma. Miller was the 18th Oklahoma State Treasurer, having won that position in the 2010 state election and served the maximum 2 four year terms allowed under state term limits.
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David A. Sampson
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- 1957-.. (age 67)
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- Christian ministerchief executive officer
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David Allan Sampson is the president and CEO of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA), co-headquartered in Washington, DC and Chicago, Illinois. He was born in Washington, Indiana. He joined APCIA in September 2007.
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Douglas A. Foster
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- 1952-.. (age 72)
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- theologianhistorian
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Douglas A. Foster is an American author and scholar known for his work on the history of Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.
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Michael Shane Neal
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- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Occupations
- painter
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Michael Shane Neal is an American portrait artist who currently serves as the chairman of the Portrait Society of America. In 2020, Neal's painting of Congressman John Lewis was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery as a part of their permanent exhibit entitled "The Struggle for Justice." Neal has created official portraits for the United States Capitol of U.S. Senator Arthur Vandenberg, former Majority Leader and U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, 10th Architect of the Capitol Alan Hantman, and over 400 works of art depicting various public figures. Commissions include Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor for the Sandra Day O'Connor School of Law at Arizona State University, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham for the Department of Energy, and U.S. Senator Arlen Specter for Yale Law School.
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David Wright
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- choir directormusic arrangermathematician
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David Lee Wright is a mathematics professor, barbershop arranger, and Associate Director of the Ambassadors of Harmony (AOH). He is a noted a cappella historian and arranger, especially in the barbershop style where in 12 of 18 years from 1999 to 2016, his arrangements resulted in chorus gold medals at the Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) International Contest. Wright travels the world as a barbershop historian, coach, and mathematics lecturer.
