University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Michael Strautmanis

Vice president

Barack Obama Foundation

Nicole White

Public affairs chief

U.S. Air Force

Beth Jones

COO, Hillary for America

Ex-White House director

Erin Concors

Consular officer

U.S. State Department

Leslie ‘Cap’ Dean

Foreign-service worker

Ex-General Dynamics analyst

Chris Kennedy

Chair, UI trustees

2009-15

Cathy Yu

Subcommittee staff director

House of Representatives

Scott Altman

NASA astronaut

Flew 4 shuttle missions

Lynn Morley Martin

21st Secretary of Labor

U.S. Rep, 1981-91

Nadia Ibrahim

Senior policy advisor

U.S. Dept. of Labor

Kandice Tanner

Investigator

National Cancer Institute

Stephen Moore

Heritage Foundation fellow

Former Trump advisor

Tim McCarthy

Former Secret Service agent

Retired Orland Park; police chief

Frankie Sturm

Foreign service officer

U.S. State Department

Neel Kashkari

President, Minneapolis Fed

Administrator, TARP, 2008-09

Colleen Glaser-Allen

Criminal appeals judge

Navy-Marine Corps Court

Bob Martinez

Florida governor, 1987-91

U.S. Drug Czar, 1991-93

Lee Archambault

NASA astronaut

Flew 2 shuttle missions

John McDonald

U.S. ambassador

Died in May 2019

Mandy Revisky

Air Force captain

Teaches aerospace studies