University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Lou Sola

Trump-appointed Federal Maritime Commissioner

Miami mega-yacht salesman

Bruce Powers

Test/evaluation engineer

U.S. Navy

Kevin Campbell

Fleet services manager

City of Chicago

John Aravosis

AMERICAblog founder

Democratic consultant

Jordan Morris

Communications director

U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks

Morgan McClain-McKinney

Foreign service officer

USAID

Steve Austin

Asst. Chief/Army Reserve

The Pentagon

Margaret Clay

Manager, U.S. Navy

Antiterrorism Program

Juan Uribe

Deputy head of mission

Colombian Embassy, Spain

Chuck Bowsher

U.S. comptroller general

Reagan appointee (1981-96)

Jim Oberweis

State senator

Chairman, Oberweis Dairy

David Adeleye

Policy specialist

Obama White House

Margaret Kealy-Machella

Chief of public affairs

U.S. Air Force

Riley Roberts

Former chief speech writer

Attorney general’s office

Arnyce Pock

Colonel (retired)

U.S. Air Force

Ngozi Okorafor

Director of employment actions

Cook County Sheriff's Department

Tom Lamont

Assistant Army Secretary

Obama Administration

Nicole Cottle

Deputy chief counsel

Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Jennifer Waldinger

Central management COO

State of Illinois

Todd Atkinson

Ex-external affairs director

USDA Farm Service Agency

Mike Hopkins

NASA astronaut

UI football captain

Joe Tanner

NASA astronaut

Flew 4 shuttle missions

Peride Blind

United Nations

Former human rights officer

Colleen Callahan

Director, Illinois Department of Natural Resources

Distinguished Service Award recipient