Prominent Alumni                                                                                                                              updated: 11/30/2007
First name Last name Category (primary) Category (secondary) Accomplishment College  Year of graduation
William Allaway Academia   Director, Education Abroad Program, University of California. Inaugurated first education abroad program at the University of California, subsequently enabling 17,000 U.C. students to study at 88 host institutions in 33 countries. The program negotiated between U.C. and Leningrad State University was the first direct exchange between a United States university and the former USSR. He was also instrumental in opening up Third World and Pacific rim countries to student exchange. LAS 1949, 1951
Strickland Arvarh Academia   Professor emeritus of history at the University of Missouri, Columbia. One of first two African Americans to earn a doctorate in history at U. of I.; first black member of faculty at UM-Columbia; first black president of Phi Alpha Theta, the professional fraternity for historians. Made monumental contribution to early formulations of African American studies in Illinois. Established Black Studies Program at UM-Columbia. LAS 1953, 1962
Emmett Bashful Academia   Chancellor Emeritus, Southern University at New Orleans. Oversaw the growth of the university from one partially constructed building, 15 faculty and 158 freshmen to a campus offering 1,000 different courses and/or sections and servicing some 3,200 students per semester. Active in youth organizations; received a citation for service to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and named one of the Ten Outstanding Citizens of New Orleans by the Institute for Human Understanding. LAS 1947
Walter Blount Academia   Physician, surgeon and faculty member at the University of Texas, Nobel Prize recipient. MED 1921, 1923
Leon Boothe Academia   President, Northern Kentucky University. Earned honors both for scholarship (diplomatic history) and community service, serving concurrently on the boards of the Cincinnati Chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, and the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. LAS 1967
Ed Cupp Academia Science and mathematics A professor and head of the Department of Entomology a Auburn University.  Developed an environmentally safe model to control and possibly eradicate river blindness -- a disease transmitted by the black fly. LAS 1969
Constantine Curris Academia   Served as past-president of Clemson University, the University of Northern Iowa, and Murray State University. He serves as president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, where he is advocate for over 15 million students and three-quarter million staff and faculty. LAS 1965
James Davis Academia   Professor emeritus of Psychology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Analyzed the process groups go through in reaching consensus and how different combinations of talents and interests influence their performance. His research has influenced business practices and Supreme Court decisions. LAS 1954
Lois DeFleur Academia   Lois B. DeFleur is the current President of Binghamton University. She came to the university after being provost at University of Missouri-Columbia. She is an authority on juvenile delinquency in Latin America and has done extensive work in the fields of deviant behavior and occupational socialization. LAS 1965
Stanley Drell Academia   Physicist, educator, arms control specialist.  Professor and Deputy Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. ENG 1947, 1949
Karl Folkers Academia   Dr. Folkers was Director of the Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Texas at Austin, as well as former President & CEO of the Stanford Research Institute.  Known for his identification of the chemical structure of vitamins, Dr. Volkers received the National Medal of Science, the Priestley Medal (nation's highest award for chemical science) and many other prestigious awards and recognitions. LAS 1928
Frank Franz Academia   Frank Franz was President of the University of Alabama at Huntsville from 1991 to 2007. ENG 1961, 1964
Charles Graham Academia   President Emeritus, St. Cloud State University.  Championed value of a liberal arts and sciences education throughout career as university faculty member, department chair, academic dean, president and state system official in Wisconsin and Minnesota.  Former president of St. Cloud State University and Hamline University.  Long committed to international education, he established a new campus in Akita, Japan, for the Minnesota State University System. LAS 1950, 1951, 1955
Emiel Hamberlin Academia   The first Chicago public schools teacher to be inducted into the National Teacher's Hall of Fame, Dr. Hamberlin's innovative work as a biology and horticulture teacher and the Urban Ecology Sanctuary he and his students established at DuSable High School earned him national press coverage and numerous awards, including a fellowship from the Golden Apple Foundation.  EDU 1977, 1983
Philip Handler Academia   Philip Handler was President of the National Academy of Sciences. LAS 1937, 1939
Freeman Hrabowski Academia   Freeman Hrabowski is President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. LAS, EDU 1971, 1975
Charlotte Herman Kerr Academia   Dr. Kerr, a faculty member at Northwestern University, was President of the American Medical Women's Association. ACES, MED 1940, 1946, 1948
David Linowes Academia   Educator, political economist, and consultant to U.S. presidents.  Boeschenstein Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois BUS 1941
Sybil Mobley Academia   Sybil Mobley PhD was dean of the School of Business at Florida A&M BUS 1964
John Niland Academia   John Niland was Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of New South Wales, Australia from 1992 to 2002. ILIR 1970
Carl Patton Academia   President of Georgia State University in Atlanta FAA, LAS 1969, 1970
Daniel Reedy Academia   Has directed more than 40 doctoral dissertations in his specialty field of Spanish-American literature and Latin American studies. His contributions to the Library of Congress' Handbook of Latin American Studies have influenced scholars worldwide. Dr. Reedy's ongoing and pivotal role in the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference is widely acknowledged as vital and indispensable. LAS 1959, 1962
Steven Sample Academia   Steven B. Sample is the 10th and current President of the University of Southern California. ENG  1962, 1963, 1965
Ruth Schmidt Academia   Former President of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta LAS 1962
David  Shulenburger Academia   Former Provost of Kansas University and current Vice President for Academic Affairs of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC). ILIR 1974
Andrew Sorensen Academia   Andrew Sorensen is President of the University of South Carolina and has focused his career on health policy, esp. AIDS LAS  1959
James Stukel Academia   First UI alumnus to serve as President of the University of Illinois.  Also served as Chancellor of the UIC campus and for many years as a faculty member. ENG 1963, 1968
Arnold Weber Academia   Arnold Weber was the fourteenth President of Northwestern University. LAS, ILIR 1950, 1951
Susan Welch Academia   Dean of College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science at Penn State University. Scholar of urban and ethnic politics and women in politics. Applied quantitative methods to examine the political consequences of different types of electoral reform. Her book, American Government, has several times won the award given by the Women's Caucus for Political Science for the textbook that provides the best coverage of minorities and women in political life. President of the Midwest Political Science Association. LAS 1965, 1966, 1970
Helena Znaniecka Lopata Academia   Professor emerita of sociology at Loyola University and director emerita of the Center for the Comparative Study of Social Roles. Work on social roles includes groundbreaking research on housewives, families and widowhood. Longtime scholar of Poland and Polish Americans, she has been honored by the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America and the Polish American Historical Association. LAS 1946, 1947
Max Abramovitz Artists and Architects   Max Abramovitz was an architect of the New York City firm Harrison, Abramovitz, & Abbe. His most prominent works include the United Nations Headquarters building, New York; Avery Fisher Hall (at Lincoln Center, originally the Philharmonic Hall, opened 1962), New York; the Corning Glass Center, Corning, New York; the U.S. Steel Tower (aka USX Tower) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the National City Tower in Louisville, Kentucky; and the Tour GAN, La Defense (Paris), France. He would go on to design three buildings for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, including the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, completed in 1969; the Hillel building; and Assembly Hall ($8.5M), at its time the world's largest edge-supported dome, which is 400 feet in diameter and rises 128 feet above the floor. FAA  1929
Henry Bacon Artists and Architects   Henry Bacon is an American Beaux-Arts architect, is best remembered for his severe Greek Doric Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (built 1915–1922), which was his final project. FAA  1884 (attended)
Carol Ross Barney Artists and Architects   Carol Ross Barney was the principal of Ross Barney Architects who designed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, replacing the Murrah Federal Building that was bombed in 1995. FAA 1971
Mark Staff Brandl Artists and Architects   Mark Staff Brandl is a notable American-born artist now living primarily in Switzerland. Brandl, is active internationally as an artist since 1980, has won various awards, had many publications and had numerous exhibitions. His shows include galleries and museums in the US, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Egypt, the Caribbean; specific cities include Paris, Moscow, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. As a critic, he is a frequent contributor to London’s The Art Book and is a Contributing Editor for New York’s Art in America.  FAA  1978
Temple Hoyne Buell Artists and Architects   Temple Hoyne Buell was an American architect. He established the largest architectural firm in the Rocky Mountain area. Over 300 buildings in Colorado were designed by Buell. He designed the first ever shopping mall, Cherry Creek Shopping Center. FAA  1916
Eli Cohen Artists and Architects   Principal, Thorton-Thomasetti CMB.  "Chicago's Superstar Structural Engineer" (to quote the Chicago Tribune), highly regarded for his innovations in the design and structure of tall buildings, including the Sears Tower. ENG 1955
Michael  Colgrass, Jr. Artists and Architects   Michael Colgrass is an American-born musician, composer, and educator. He won the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his symphonic piece Déjà vu, which was commissioned and premiered by the New York Philharmonic. In addition, he received an Emmy Award in 1982 for a PBS documentary "Soundings: The Music of Michael Colgrass."  FAA  1954
W. Gene Corley Artists and Architects   Senior Vice President for Engineering, Construction Technology Laboratories, Inc.  Head of federal investigations into the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center and the 1995 collapse of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. ENG 1958, 1960, 1961
George Crumb Artists and Architects   George Crumb is an American composer of modern and avant garde music. Crumb has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1968 for his orchestral work Echoes of Time and the River and a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition in 2001 for his work Star-Child . FAA  1952
Neal Doughty Artists and Architects   Neal Doughty started the popular rock group REO Speedwagon (practiced  at the Illinois Street Residence Halls). ENG 1966 (attended)
Leslie Erganian Artists and Architects   Leslie Jeanne Erganian is an American artist. Her multi-disciplinary work is influenced by the Surrealists and often incorporates found objects and photographic images into collage and assemblage constructions and installations. The elements of waking dreams comprise the major themes of her work which include menace and loss, nature and myth, identity and discovery revealed in multiple layers. She went on to contribute to the production of numerous film and television projects for Warner Bros., MGM, DreamWorks, NBC, MTV and PBS as art director, set decorator, and prop designer. FAA 1982
Robert Falls Artists and Architects   Artistic Director of Chicago's Goodman Theatre, Bob Falls is regarded as one of the most influential individuals in contemporary American theater.  He has directed multiple Tony Award-winning and world-class Broadway productions, ranging from "Long Day's Journey Into Night" to "Walt Disney's Aida." FAA 1976
Jeanne Gang Artists and Architects   Jeanne Gang is the founder and principal of the Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang. As the leader of the design team at Studio Gang, she focuses on materials, technology and sustainability in the innovative and award-winning work of the firm. Aqua, a $300 million 82-story residential and hotel skyscraper designed by Studio Gang, is scheduled for completion in 2009. FAA 1986
Nathan Gunn Artists and Architects   Rising star at Chicago's Lyric Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera and 1995 recipient of the Beverly Sills Award FAA 1994
Jerry   Hadley Artists and Architects   Grammy Award-winning and internationally renowned opera singer FAA 1977
Billy Morrow Jackson Artists and Architects   Billy Morrow Jackson was an American Contemporary Realist Painter with works of art throughout the United States. FAA  1954
Ralph E. Johnson Artists and Architects   Ralph Johnson is a prominent Chicago-based architect and the current principle architect for Perkins+Will, where he currently serves as its national design director and a member of its board of directors. Notable Projects include: Boeing World Headquarters, Chicago, IL, Crate & Barrel Headquarter, Oak Brook, IL, Los Angeles Federal Courthouse, Los Angeles, CA, O'Hare International Airport Terminal, Chicago, IL, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Chicago, IL and Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL.
FAA 1971
Michael Masser Artists and Architects   Composer. Received the Spirit of America Award in 1988 for --The Greatest Love of All,E the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Founding Patron Award, three Grammy nominations and an Academy Award for the theme from Mahogany. LAS 1963
Jim McNeely Artists and Architects   Jim McNeely is a Grammy-nominated jazz composer, arranger, and pianist. FAA  1975
Erie   Mills Artists and Architects   Erie Mills has performed to critical and popular acclaim throughout the world, dazzling audiences with her sparkling coloratura voice, captivating personality and vivid portrayal of roles.  FAA  1977
John David Mooney Artists and Architects   John David Mooney is an internationally recognized artist for large scale public sculptures. FAA  1965
Gunn Nathan Artists and Architects   Rising star at Chicago's Lyric Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera and 1995 recipient of the Beverly Sills Award. FAA 1994
César Pelli Artists and Architects   César Pelli is a noted architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. He has also designed the World Financial Center complex in downtown Manhattan, best known as the surrounding buildings around the now fallen World Trade Center. Pelli authored the book "Observations for Young Architects" as well. In 1991, the AIA (American Institute of Architects) listed Pelli as one of the ten most influential living American architects. He has won numerous awards, and is the recipient of the 1995 AIA Gold Medal which recognizes a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. Perhaps his most famous work are the Petronas Twin Towers, which were for a time the world's tallest buildings. FAA  1954
Gregg Philbin Artists and Architects   Gregg Philbin started the popular rock group REO Speedwagon (practiced  at the Illinois Street Residence Halls). COM 1969
Nathan Clifford Ricker Artists and Architects   Nathan Ricker was the first architect to receive a degree in Architecture from an American institution. FAA 1871
William L. Steele Artists and Architects   William LaBarthe Steele was an important architect of the Prairie School during the early twentieth century.  The Courthouse in Woodbury County, Iowa is considered his masterpiece, and is arguably the premier example of Prairie School aesthetics in the context of a public space. He collaborated with Minneapolis architects William Gray Purcell and George Grant Elmslie (also proteges of Louis Sullivan) on the design of the Courthouse, which is now a National Historic Landmark. Several of Steele's works are also on The National Register of Historic Places. FAA  1899
Lorado Taft Artists and Architects   Lorado Zadoc Taft was an American sculptor, writer and educator. history has given Taft credit for helping advancing the status of women as sculptors. In 1903 Taft published The History of American Sculpture, the first survey of the subject and a work that Taft is better known for (except perhaps in Chicago) than his many sculptures. His sculptures can be found in Chicago, IL.; Baton Rouge, LA; Washington D.C., Denver CO; Jackson MI; and The University of Illinois. FAA  1879, 1880
Scott  Altman Astronauts   Scott Douglas Altman is a NASA astronaut, United States Navy Captain, and veteran of three space shuttle missions. ENG  1981
Lee Archambault Astronauts   Lee Joseph Archambault is a Colonel in the US Air Force and a NASA astronaut, assigned as the pilot on the crew of STS-117, slated for early 2007.   ENG  1982, 1984
Dale Gardner Astronauts   Dale Allan Gardner is a former NASA astronaut who flew two missions for NASA in the early 1980s. ENG 1970
Cathy Koerner Astronauts   Cathy Koerner was a lead NASA space shuttle Mission Control flight director and is currently space shuttle program manager in the Mission Operations Directorate. After an internship at the Schaumburg office of Science Application International Corp., and a job building robots at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Koerner was hired with NASA in 1991. She's worked on more than 50 shuttle missions and was recently promoted to shuttle program manager in the Mission Operations Directorate. ENG 1987, 1989
Steven Nagel Astronauts   Steven Ray Nagel is a retired Colonel in the USAF and a former NASA astronaut. ENG 1969
Joseph Tanner Astronauts   Joseph Richard "Joe" Tanner is a NASA astronaut. Tanner flew aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-66, November 3-14, 1994, performing the Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3 (ATLAS-3) mission. Tanner performed two space walks as a member of the STS-82 crew to service the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in February, 1997. Tanner’s third mission was STS-97 aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour (November 30 to December 11, 2000), the fifth Space Shuttle mission dedicated to the assembly of the International Space Station. Tanner's fourth mission, STS-115 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis launched on September 9, 2006.  ENG  1973
Harry  Bercher Business   Harry O. Bercher was President of International Harvester Co. BUS 1928
Cheryl Berman Business   Chairman of Leo Burnett North America; Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett USA. COM 1974
Neil Bluhm Business   Neil Bluhm is President of JMB Realty Corporation in Chicago. BUS 1959
Harold Boeschenstein Business   Boeschenstein was President of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. BUS 1920
Nancy Brinker Business   Nancy Goodman Brinker s the founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Today, Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists. Fundraising events such as Komen Race for the Cure Series, the organization has invested nearly $1 billion dollars for breast cancer research, in the last 25 years. LAS 1968
Glen Brock, Sr. Business   Glen P. Brock, Sr. was President of Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. BUS 1922
Jon Burgstone Business   Jon Burgstone is an American business executive, educator and investor.  He was co-founder and CEO of SupplierMarket.com,  a business-to-business software company. The company was acquired for $1.1B in 2000 and was renamed Ariba Sourcing after the acquisition. ENG 1995
James  Cantalupo Business   James Cantalupo is Chairman and CEO of McDonalds Corp. International. CBA  1966
Doris Kelley Christopher Business   Doris Deley Christopher is founder of Pampered Chef. ACES  1967
Richard Cline Business   Former CEO of several well-known corporations, including Osco, Jewel and NICOR.  Currently serves as Chairman and Director of Hawthorne Investors, Inc.   LAS 1957
Jorge Coehlo Business   President of the Board and Managing Director of Sao Tome's Airports & Navigation.* GSLIS 2002
Jerry Colangelo Business Sports and athletics Jerry Colangelo is a respected Arizona businessman and former sports mogul. He is the former owner (or part owner) of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes. Jerry was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. AHS 1962
Roxanne Decyk Business   Senior Vice President for Corporate Affairs and Human Resources at Shell Oil Company.  She is responsible for human resources, diversity, internal and external communications, government affairs, health safety and environment, sustainable development and social responsibility, and ethics and compliance. Previously, she was vice president for corporate strategy at Shell International Ltd., where she was responsible for planning and strategy for its $220 billion Royal Dutch/Shell Group. LAS 1973
Louis Eilers Business   Louis K. Eilers is the former President and CEO of Eastman Kodak. LAS 1929
Eileen Fisher Business   Eileen Fisher owns and operates her own fashion design & retail clothing company out of New York City that bears her name. ACES  1972
George M.C. Fisher Business   George Fisher was CEO of Eastman Kodak. ENG 1962
Rich Frank Business   Rich Frank is a former President of Disney Studios. BUS 1965
John Georges Business   John Georges was the CEO of International Paper. ENG 1951
Thornton Gilchrest Business   Thornton Gilchrest was President of the National Safety Council. COM 1953
James R. Gillespie Business   Jim Gillespie is the CEO of Coldwell Banker Real Estate. AHS 1967, 1968
Stanley Golder Business   Stanley Golder was general partner at Golder, Thoma, Cressy, Rauner, Inc. BUS 1951
Sheldon Good Business   Chairman Emeritus, Sheldon Good & Company Realtors, and award-winning former President of the International Real Estate Federation. BUS 1955
Jerome Gore Business   Chairman Emeritus, Hartmarx Corporation BUS 1941
William W. Grainger Business   William Grainger was the Founder of W.W. Grainger, an electric motor wholesaling business based on mail-order catalog sales. By 1937, when annual sales hit $1 million, the company had sales offices around the country. ENG 1919
Harry Gray Business   Former Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation COM 1941, 1947
Donald Grimes Business   Donald C. Grimes was President of the Independent Grocers Alliance Distributing Co. LAS 1928
Everette Harris Business   Everette B. Harris was President of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. LAS 1935
Leonard Hoeft Business   Leonard Hoeft was Chairman of the Board at Wm. H. Ziegler Co., Inc. BUS 1947
Mark Hogan Business   Mark Hogan is President of Magna International Inc. and was general manager of GM North America. BUS 1973
Clifford Hood Business   Clifford F. Hood was appointed President and Chief Operating Officer in 1953 for United States Steel Corporation, sharing overall responsibility for the company with board chairman Fairless and Enders W. Voorhees. ENG 1915
Mannie Jackson Business Sports and athletics Mannie Jackson was owner of The Harlem Globe Trotters. AHS  1960
Robert L. Johnson Business Sports and athletics Robert Johnson is co-Founder and CEO of Black Entertainment and first black majority owner of a major league sports team. LAS 1968
Sheila C. Johnson Business   Sheila Johnson is co-Founder and CEO of Black Entertainment. FAA  1970
Wayne Johnston Business   Wayne A. Johnston was Chairman of Illinois Central Industries and Illinois Central Railroad.   1919 (attended)
William Karnes Business   William G. Karnes was President of Beatrice Foods Co. BUS 1933
George  Keck Business   George Keck was President of United Air Lines, Inc. BUS 1932
Herman Krannert Business   Chairman of the Board, Inland Container Corp.  Herman Krannert and wife Ellnora provided funding for construction of the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum and world-class Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.  ENG 1912
Michael Krasny Business   Michael Krasny is the founder and former CEO of CDW Corporation, a direct seller of technical gadgets including computers and networking equipment.  BUS 1975
Robert Latzer Business   Robert L. Latzer was Chairman of the Board, Pet Milk Co. ACES 1908
George Lesch Business   Former Chairman of the Board, Colgate-Palmolive Company BUS 1931
Judd Malkin Business   Judd Malkin is Chairman of JMB Realty Corporation in Chicago. BUS 1959
Jeffrey Margolis Business   Jeff Margolis is chairman and CEO of the TriZetto Group, Inc. BUS 1984
William  Marsteller Business   William Marsteller was Chairman of the Board, Marsteller, Inc. COM 1937
David Matlock Business   Founder of Econics Corporation (a leader in the field of energy optimization) and Prelude Computer Corporation. Consultant on financing, developing and marketing of new products and services.  LAS 1962
H. Richard McFarland Business   President & Owner, McFarland Foods Corporation ACES 1952
Lester McKeever Business   Lester McKeever, Jr. is managing partner at Washington, Pittman and McKeever. BUS 1955
Edward McMillan Business   Edward McMillan is a retired President and CEO of Purina Mills, Inc. ACES  1969
Steven Miller Business   Steven Miller was Chairman, President and CEO of Shell Oil (1999-2002). LAS 1967
Lee Morgan Business   Retired Chairman & CEO, Caterpillar, Inc. ACES 1941
Tom Murphy Business   Tom Murphy is a retired Chairman of General Motors. BUS 1938
Dorothy Hunt Needham Business   Dorothy Hunt Needham was President of the North American Benefit Association. LAS 1922
Matthew Paul Business   Matthew H. Paul is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of McDonalds Corporation. LAS, BUS 1972, 1975
Tonise Paul Business   President & CEO, BBDO Chicago COM 1979, 1980
Ron Popeil Business   Ronald M. Popeil is an inventor and marketing personality, best known for his direct response marketing company Ronco where he invented the Ronco Veg-o-matic. BUS 1954 (attended)
Allen Rider Business   Past-President of New Holland North America ENG, ACES 1973
Carol Hillsman Sagers