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People 319 Award winners

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Stacy Marks

Big Ten Medal of Honor

Sr. director, Accruent

Diane Wolfe Marlin

Urbana mayor since 2017

Coordinator, UI Family Resiliency Program (2000-10)

Nancy Thies Marshall

1972 Olympic gymnast

Illini Athletics HOF

Jose Martinez

Cornell professor

Distinguished Alumni Award

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Oscar nominee for 1986's 'The Color of Money'

Played Gina Montana in ‘Scarface’ in first movie role

Janet Hoffman Mathis

2021 ACES Award of Merit recipient

President/CEO, Elevate Illinois

Jason Mazzone

UI Albert E. Jenner Jr. Professor of Law

Director, Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law

Ann McBrien

First woman to serve as VP/sales at Procter & Gamble

Started UIAA Comeback program, Illini Pride founding board member

Tim McCarthy

Former Secret Service agent

Retired Orland Park; police chief

Mary McDowell

Polycom CEO

Distinguished Alumni Award

Tatyana McFadden

Record-breaking Paralympian

17 Summer Games medals

Alice B. McGinty

Children’s book author

Urbana Adult Ed instructor

Lester McKeever

Former chairman

Federal Reserve of Chicago

Jim McNeely

Won 2001 Grammy

Jazz pianist, composer

Edna Greene Medford

Lincoln Laureate

2013 LAS Alumni Award

Ray Mentzer

Retired from ExxonMobil

Purdue visiting professor

Betty Mohlenbrock

President, Reading Legacies

Alumni Humanitarian Award

John David Mooney

Chicago-based artist

Mooney Studio

Ashley Morgan

Development and events coordinator

Crisis Nursery

Dr. Julie Morita

Executive VP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health (2015-19)

Lynn Morley Martin

21st Secretary of Labor

U.S. Rep, 1981-91

Rev. Craig Mousin

DePaul University ombudsperson

2019 UI Law distinguished alumnus

Bill Nack

Sports Illustrated legend

Died in April 2018

Susan Nagele

Medal of Valor winner

Maryknoll Lay Missioner