University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Sally Smith

Former Alaska legislator, 1977-83

Juneau mayor, 2000-03

Lou Sola

Trump-appointed Federal Maritime Commissioner

Miami mega-yacht salesman

Erica Knievel Songer

Chief counsel

United States Senate

Scott Spellmon

Chief of engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

2024 Grainger College of Engineering Alumni Award for Distinguished Service

Michael Strautmanis

Vice president

Barack Obama Foundation

Frankie Sturm

Foreign service officer

U.S. State Department

George Symeonides

Vice-consul/foreign service

U.S. State Department

Joe Tanner

NASA astronaut

Flew 4 shuttle missions

Loida Tapia

Senior advisor

U.S. Office of Personnel Mgmt.

Scott Tess

Sustainability and resiliency officer

City of Urbana

Deon Thomas

UI's career scoring leader

Basketball radio analyst

Latasha Thomas

Senior counsel

Clark Hill of Chicago

Jim Thompson

Illinois’ 37th governor (1977-91)

Died in 2020 at age 84

Katie Thompson

Amazon VP

Associate general counsel

Scott Turner

9-year NFL cornerback

Former Texas state rep.

Juan Uribe

Deputy head of mission

Colombian Embassy, Spain

Anna Valencia

Chicago city clerk

Gamma Phi Beta president

Jennifer Waldinger

Central management COO

State of Illinois

Chip Walgren

Congressional staff member

U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee

Janusz Wasiolek

Section chief, Office of Chief Information Officer

Library of Congress

Larry Werries

Former state ag director

UIAA Loyalty Award

Andre Williams

Unit chief

FBI

Jill Wine-Banks

Watergate prosecutor

Led American Bar Assn.

Corinne Wood

Lt. governor, 1999-2003

Graduated Phi Beta Kappa