12 Notable alumni of
University of the District of Columbia
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The University of the District of Columbia is 2590th in the world, 908th in North America, and 860th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from the University of the District of Columbia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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John Thompson
- Occupations
- sports commentatorbasketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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John Robert Thompson Jr. was an American college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.
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Kojo Nnamdi
- Occupations
- radio personalityjournalist
- Biography
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Rex Orville Montague Paul, better known as Kojo Nnamdi, is a Guyanese-born American radio journalist based in Washington, D. C. He is the host of The Kojo Nnamdi Show and The Politics Hour on WAMU, and hosted the Evening Exchange broadcast on WHUT-TV from 1985 to 2011.
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Euphemia Haynes
- Occupations
- mathematicianeducator
- Biography
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Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was an American mathematician and educator. She was the first African American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, which she earned from the Catholic University of America in 1943.
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Cathy L. Lanier
- Occupations
- police officerchief of police
- Biography
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Cathy Lynn Lanier is a former chief of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia (MPDC). Lanier was appointed by Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in January 2007, replacing outgoing police chief Charles H. Ramsey. She is the first woman to hold the position. In May 2012, Mayor Vincent C. Gray agreed to retain Lanier as police chief under a new five-year contract. Lanier accepted a third appointment from Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2016, making her the first chief of police in MPD history to serve three mayors. Violent crime dropped 23 percent over the years Lanier was chief, and homicides plunged to a half-century low in 2012. On August 16, 2016, it was announced that Lanier had accepted a position as the senior vice president of security with the National Football League. Her last day as police chief was September 15, 2016, when she was succeeded by her deputy, Peter Newsham. Lanier was the longest serving Chief of Police in the history of the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia.
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Lennox Yearwood
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Lennox Yearwood, Jr. is a minister and community activist who is also an influential member of political hip hop. Yearwood currently serves as president of the Hip Hop Caucus, a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that empowers young people to participate in elections, policymaking and service projects. Yearwood has led or been involved in a number of high-profile campaigns to engage young voters, as well as working on human rights issues in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina.
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Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosalind Patricia-Anne Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids COG is a British Labour politician, who formerly served as member of the House of Lords.
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Norma Holloway Johnson
- Occupations
- journalistjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Norma Holloway Johnson, born Normalie Loyce Holloway, was a former United States district judge who served as the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and was the first African-American woman in U.S. history to serve as chief judge of a United States district court. Notably, Johnson presided over the grand jury investigation into President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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Kenneth B. Ellerbe
- Years
- Died in 2022
- Biography
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Kenneth B. Ellerbe was an American firefighter who served as the fire chief of the District of Columbia Fire & EMS Department from January 1, 2011 to July 2, 2014. He was chosen by mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray in December 2010.
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Jet Lowe
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- architectural photographerphotographer
- Biography
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John T. "Jet" Lowe is an American photographer. He is one of the photographers employed by the U.S. National Park Service on the Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) projects, and was the supervisor of engineering photography for HAER until his retirement in July 2013. His book, Industrial Eye: Photographs by Jet Lowe from the Historic American Engineering Record was published in 1986 by the Preservation Press.
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H. R. Crawford
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hazle Reid Crawford was an American real estate developer and Democratic politician in Washington, D.C.
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Tawanna P. Gaines
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tawanna Phyllis Gaines was an American politician who represented District 22 in the Maryland House of Delegates from December 2001 to October 2019. She resigned in the face of federal corruption charges and in 2020 was sentenced to six months in prison.
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Nick Charles
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nicholas Patrick Charles II is an American politician who has served as a member of the Maryland Senate representing District 25 since 2023. He previously represented the district in the Maryland House of Delegates from 2019 to 2023.
