List of Washburn University alumni

These are some of the more notable alumni of Washburn University

Arts and Entertainment

* Bill Kurtis (jd '66; d litt '85) - television journalist and producer. See [http://www.aeispeakers.com/speakerbio.php?SpeakerID=1355] .
* Larry Niven (ba '62; d litt '84) - science fiction author.
* James Reynolds ('69) - Actor who portrays Capt. Abe Carver on NBC's "Days of Our Lives."
* Bradbury Thompson (ba '34; dfa 65) - (1911-95) graphic artist.

Business

* Greg Brenneman (bba '84; d comm '99) - Chief executive officer of Quiznos, Former chief executive officer of Burger King Corporation; former chief operating officer of Continental Airlines.
* Richard Davidson (ba '66; d comm '94) - Chairman, Union Pacific Railroad formerly chief executive officer.
* Davey Lopes (bed '69) - Former manager of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. 16 year major league baseball career.

ports

* Trey Lewis WU Football now playing in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons.
* Jerry Schemmel (ba '82, jd '85) - Radio voice of the Denver Nuggets.
* Cary Williams WU Football now playing in the NFL for the Tennessee Titans.

cience and Technology

* Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (bs '37) - (1915-74) 1971 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology and Medicine.

Politics

* Bob Dole (jd '52; lld '69) - former U.S. Senator from Kansas, Republican candidate for President (1996).
* Joan Finney (ba '82; dps '95) - (1925-2001) First female to serve as governor of Kansas (1991-95); Kansas State Treasurer, 1972-86.
* Art Fletcher (ba '50; dhl '90) - (1924-2005) Served as chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, as director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as executive director of the United Negro College Fund.
* Georgia Neese Clark Gray (ba '21; dba '66) - (1900-95) First female Treasurer of the United States
* Lee A. Johnson (jd '80) - Kansas Supreme Court Justice
* Delano Lewis (jd '63; lld '00) - Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa and former president of National Public Radio.
* Charles D. McAtee, (ba '50, jd '55) - Marine Corps officer, FBI agent, Candidate for Congress and Kansas Attorney General, supervised last executions in Kansas as director of penal institutions, 1965-1969
* Kay McFarland (ba '57; jd '64) - First female chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.
* Dennis Moore (jd '70) - US House of Representatives from Overland Park.
* Paul J. Morrison (ba ; jd) - former Attorney General for the State of Kansas.
* Roger Noriega (ba '82) - Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State.
* Eric Rosen (jd '84) - Kansas Supreme Court Justice.
* Jim Slattery (ba '70; jd '75) - former U.S. Congressman from Topeka.
* Gordon Sloan (JD 1935) - former judge on the Oregon Supreme Court.

Other

* Fred Phelps (jd '62) - Disbarred civil rights attorney; Anti-homosexual pastor of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka.
* Shirley Phelps-Roper (ba, jd) - Daughter of Fred Phelps, attorney and public spokesperson for the Westboro Baptist Church.