Hendrix College - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

• Ashlie Atkinson: film, television, and stage actress
• Douglas Blackmon: journalist and bureau chief with the Wall Street Journal; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, adapted as a PBS documentary in 2012, available online.
• Sarah Caldwell: notable opera conductor; first female conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; winner in 1996 of the National Medal of Arts
• Natalie Canerday: actress; notable roles in Sling Blade and October Sky
• Hayes Carll: country singer-songwriter; Americana Award winner
• Clint Catalyst: writer, spoken word performer, journalist
• Michael Cox: Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Bracken Darrell: President of Whirlpool Europe (2009-2012); Executive Vice President of Whirlpool Corporation; President Logitech (CEO beginning 2013)
• Alexander Dawson: Nationally-known asset manager and economics commentator
• Jay Dickey: former Congressman; author of the Dickey Amendment
• Susan Dunn: opera singer
• Timothy Davis Fox: Judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of the State of Arkansas
• Tim Griffin: United States Representative for the Second District of Arkansas, Interim United States Attorney, Justice Department official, aide to Karl Rove
• Alan W. Eastham: Senior Foreign Service Officer, Ambassador to the Republic of Congo and many other African nations, Director of Central African Affairs, Senior Fellow at Hendrix College
• Ann Die Hasselmo: president of Hendrix College 1992-2001
• Doyle Overton Hickey: Army officer who served in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War.
• Derek Lowe: Pharmaceutical researcher
• Rock F. Jones: president of Ohio Wesleyan University
• Jo Luck: former CEO of Heifer International, a world hunger organization
• Harry Meyer: Co-developed the vaccine for German Measles
• Wilbur D. Mills: former United States Representative for the Second District of Arkansas; Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, played a large role in the creation of Medicare.
• Robert L. Moore: Noted Jungian psychoanalyst, professor at the Chicago Theological Seminary
• Ben Nichols: Lead singer of Lucero
• Steven Ozment: McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History at Harvard University and author of several award-winning books, including A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People"
• Margaret Pittman: First female head of a National Institute of Health laboratory and pioneer in developing the vaccine for pertussis
• His Excellency Paul Kagame: Acted as the first Presidential Scholar at Hendrix. Currently serving as the benevolent dictator of Rwanda.
• William Ragsdale: Actor. Star of movie Fright Night and television series Herman's Head
• John E. Sanders: American Christian theologian and author.
• Benjamin Schumacher: U.S. theoretical physicist, most noted for his contributions to the field of quantum information including the development of what is now known as Schumacher compression
• P. Allen Smith: nationally-recognized garden designer
• Mary Steenburgen: Academy Award-winning American actress and wife of Ted Danson. She left during her sophomore year.
• Trenton Lee Stewart: Author of The Mysterious Benedict Society books
• Brock Thompson: Author of The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South.
• Wallace Townsend: Arkansas Republican national committeeman (1928-1961); Republican gubernatorial candidate in 1916 and 1920; Little Rock lawyer until he was ninety-two
• Joan Wagnon: former mayor of Topeka, Kansas (1997–2001) and former Kansas Secretary of Revenue
• Billy Roy Wilson: United States federal judge