Notable Alumni

Gerald Lee Baliles was a Virginia lawyer and Democratic politician whose career spanned great social and technological changes in his native state. 第65任弗吉尼亚州州长(1986年至1990年), the native of Patrick County previously served as the Commonwealth's attorney general (1982–85). Baliles directed the nonpartisan Miller Center of Public Affairs associated with his alma mater, 弗吉尼亚大学(2006-2014). 他以彬彬有礼和两党合作著称, Baliles also oversaw the publication of more than a dozen transcript volumes of White House tapes from the John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. 并培养了它的口述历史项目.

In the summer of 2021, Judge Alvin Wong was elected President of the Council of State Court Judges of Georgia, becoming the first Asian-American to serve as president of any judicial council in the state of Georgia. Gambrell and Stolz(现为Baker Donelson)前合伙人, Judge Wong had 21 years of experience as a corporate and trial attorney before running for office. He chaired the State Bar of Georgia’s Investigative Panel for disciplinary action against unethical practices by Georgia attorneys. 他的心在社区, 他曾多次获得公民身份, leadership, and trailblazing.

On December 21, R. Keith Shackleford, Esq. 宣誓就任北卡威克森林镇专员. 沃伦，沙克尔福德的成员 & Thomas PLLC, 他的法律生涯一直从事民事诉讼的实践, 人身伤害与刑法. He currently focuses on estate planning, probate administration and civil litigation. A Fishburne Trustee since 2007, Keith has also served as a trustee for Wake Technical & Community College, a director for the Wake Forest Chamber of Commerce and a director of the Wake County Bar Association.

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尤金·佩恩是美国政治漫画家和作家. 为夏洛特观察家报工作, he won the 1967 Sigma Delta Chi Award for a cartoon of President Lyndon B Johnson on a bus holding a crying baby labeled “Vietnam War” while the bus driver said “Dr. 金说，你能挪到车后面去吗.” The cartoon implied that the Vietnam War was secondary to civil rights issues in America. In 1968 Payne won the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons focusing on the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Issues.

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William Richard (Rich) Stevens was a Northern Rhodesia-born American author of computer science books, 特别是万豪在线娱乐UNIX和TCP/IP的书籍. After attending Fishburne, he received a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering and later acquired a master's degree and PhD in Systems Engineering. 他曾担任Health Systems International计算服务副总裁. 1990年，他开始了作家和顾问的职业生涯. An avid pilot and a part-time flight instructor, Stevens died in 1999 (age 48). 2000年，他被追授Usenix终身成就奖.

Glen McClung, M.D. is a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine doctor whose passion is supporting high school athletes. 他喜欢教授预防伤害的方法, 以及在受伤后尽快开始恢复过程. 他专门治疗肘部, hip, knee, and shoulder injuries, including fractures and has been voted to the Cincinnati Magazine Top Doctors list every year since 2015.

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John Noonan is an American conservative national security commentator and analyst. He was the national security policy advisor to Jeb Bush during his presidential campaign, 2012年担任米特·罗姆尼的外交政策顾问和演讲稿撰写人. He was a principal defense writer for The Weekly Standard and a policy director of the Foreign Policy Initiative. Before moving to the FPI, the then Captain Noonan served in the United States Air Force’s Global Strike Command as a Minuteman III launch officer.

2018年毕业典礼演讲:约翰·努南