University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Nicole Cottle

Deputy chief counsel

Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Tonise Paul

President/CEO

Energy BBDO

Jennifer Waldinger

Central management COO

State of Illinois

Alex Hedlund

Film and TV producer

Urbana High grad

Mannie Jackson

Basketball Hall of Famer

CEO, Harlem Globetrotters

Angie Rieger

Senior VP

Lands’ End

Bill Smith

Champaign-born Huffy Corp. CEO

Died in 2019

Stan Ikenberry

UI’s 14th president, 1979-95

Longest-serving president

Jerrance Howard

Illini guard, coach

Now on Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks staff

Paul Stanton

Senior strategist

Google

Dan Jensen

Engineering manager

Rolls-Royce

Dan Johnson

Senior innovator

Nike

Anna Valencia

Chicago city clerk

Gamma Phi Beta president

Hillary Tennant

Illini volleyball setter

3rd-team All-American, 2010

Carolina Van Moorsel

Senior program officer

Heartland Alliance Inernational

Michael Strautmanis

Vice president

Barack Obama Foundation

Fiona Soderberg

Program manager

Google

Mohamed El-Ashry

Senior fellow

United Nations Foundation

Susan RoAne

Best-selling author

‘How to Work A Room’

Kim Clark

VP/events strategy

NBA

Debby Goldsberry

Co-founder

United Cannabis Collective

Peter Griffin

Director, Marching Illini

2006-11

Lynn Morley Martin

21st Secretary of Labor

U.S. Rep, 1981-91

Tony Frank

Colorado State University System Chancellor

Former CSU President (2008-19)