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{{use mdy dates|date=June 2014}}The following is a list of notable people associated with Washburn University, located in the American city of Topeka, Kansas. Arts and entertainment{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Bill Kurtis (J.D. '66; D.Lit. '85){{spaced ndash}} television journalist and producer[1]
- Kerry Livgren, primary songwriter and founding member of progressive rock band Kansas
- Larry Niven (B.A. '62; D.Lit. '84){{spaced ndash}} science-fiction writer
- James Reynolds ('69){{spaced ndash}} actor; portrays Capt. Abe Carver on the soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Bradbury Thompson (1911–1995) (B.A. '34; D.F.A. 65){{spaced ndash}} graphic artist
{{div col end}}Business{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Greg Brenneman (B.B.A. '84; DComm '99){{spaced ndash}} chief executive officer, Quiznos; former chief executive officer, Burger King; former chief operating officer, Continental Airlines
- Rich Davis{{spaced ndash}} founder, Kansas City Masterpiece; former dean, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
- John F. Kilmartin Jr.{{spaced ndash}} former chairman and chief executive officer, Mervyns
- Ronald K. Richey{{spaced ndash}} president and chief executive officer (1985–1998), Torchmark Corporation
{{div col end}}Government and politics{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Henry Justin Allen{{spaced ndash}} 21st Governor of Kansas[2]
- Georgia Neese Clark (1900–1995) (B.A. '21; D.B.A. '66){{spaced ndash}} 29th (and first female) Treasurer of the United States
- Bob Dole (J.D. '52; LLD '69){{spaced ndash}} former U.S. Senator from Kansas, Republican candidate for President (1996)[3]
- John Edward Erickson (1863–1946) (1890){{spaced ndash}} Governor of Montana and U.S. Senator[4]
- Joan Finney (1925–2001) (B.A. '82; D.P.S. '95){{spaced ndash}} 42nd Governor of Kansas (1991–95; the state's first female governor); Kansas State Treasurer (1972–86)[5]
- Arthur Fletcher (1924–2005) (B.A. '50; D.H.L. '90){{spaced ndash}}chairman, National Black Chamber of Commerce; director, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; executive director, United Negro College Fund
- Denver David Hargis{{spaced ndash}} U.S. Representatives from Kansas[6]
- John F. Hayes{{spaced ndash}} Kansas House of Representatives
- Donald R. Heath{{spaced ndash}} U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia (1952), Vietnam (1952–1955), Lebanon (1955–1957) and Saudi Arabia (1958–1961)
- Harold S. Herd{{spaced ndash}} Kansas State Senate (1965–1972), Senate Minority Leader; Mayor of Coldwater, Kansas (1950–1954)
- Delano Lewis (J.D. '63; LLD '00){{spaced ndash}} former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa; former president, National Public Radio
- Charles D. McAtee{{spaced ndash}} Director of Kansas penal institutions during the last executions held in Kansas; candidate for Congress and attorney general (Republican)
- John McCuish ('25){{spaced ndash}} 34th Governor of Kansas[7]
- Dennis Moore (J.D. '70){{spaced ndash}} U.S. House of Representatives from Overland Park[8]
- Paul J. Morrison{{spaced ndash}} Kansas Attorney General (2007–08), District Attorney of Johnson County, Kansas (1990–2007)
- Howard B. Myers, (Ph.D.){{spaced ndash}} Director, Division of Social Research, Works Progress Administration during FDR's New Deal
- Roger Noriega (B.A. '82){{spaced ndash}} Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State
- Warren W. Shaw{{spaced ndash}} Kansas State Representative (1951–1957); Candidate for Kansas Governor (1956); member of the Washburn Athletic Hall of Fame
- Jim Slattery{{spaced ndash}} Kansas House of Representatives (1973–1979); U.S. Representative from 2nd District of Kansas (1983–95); Candidate for Kansas Governor (1994), Candidate for U.S. Senate (2008)[9]
- Robert T. Stephan – Attorney General of Kansas, 1979–1995
- Robert Stone{{spaced ndash}} Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives (1915), Member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1905–1917)
- Ron Thornburgh{{spaced ndash}} Kansas Secretary of State (1995–present)
- Togiola Tulafono (J.D. 1975){{spaced ndash}} Governor of American Samoa, 2004–present
- Douglas S. Wright{{spaced ndash}} Mayor of Topeka, Kansas (1983–89)
{{div col end}}Journalism- Arthur J. Carruth Jr.{{spaced ndash}} co-owner and editor, Topeka State Journal; chairman, Washburn Board of Regents; namesake of the university's Carruth Hall
Law{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Sam A. Crow{{spaced ndash}} Senior Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas (1981–present)
- Lee A. Johnson (J.D. '80){{spaced ndash}} Kansas Supreme Court Justice (2005–present)
- Tyler C. Lockett{{spaced ndash}} Kansas Supreme Court (1983–2002); District court judge in Wichita (1977–1983); Judge, common pleas court (1971–1977)
- Marla Luckert (J.D. '80){{spaced ndash}} Kansas Supreme Court Justice (2003–present)
- J. Thomas Marten{{spaced ndash}} District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas (1996–present)
- Kay McFarland (B.A. '57; J.D. '64){{spaced ndash}} first female chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court
- Eric F. Melgren{{spaced ndash}} District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Kansas (2008–present)
- Nancy Moritz (J.D. '85){{spaced ndash}} Kansas Supreme Court Justice (2011–2014); Judge for 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (2014-present)
- Joseph Wilson Morris{{spaced ndash}} senior partner, Gable & Gotwals (1984–present); general counsel of Shell Oil (1978–1983); Chief Judge, Eastern District of Oklahoma (1974–1978); Dean, University of Tulsa College of Law (1972–1974)
- Paul J. Morrison (B.A.; J.D.){{spaced ndash}} former Attorney General for the State of Kansas
- Fred Phelps (B.A. '62; J.D. '64){{spaced ndash}} disbarred lawyer and pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, known for its extreme views on homosexuality, Christianity, and American soldiers; he and the Westboro Baptist Church were the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court case, Snyder v. Phelps
- Shirley Phelps-Roper (B.A. '79; J.D. '81){{spaced ndash}} daughter of Fred Phelps; attorney and spokesperson for the Westboro Baptist Church
- Eric Rosen (J.D. '84){{spaced ndash}} Kansas Supreme Court Justice (2007–present)
- Gordon Sloan (J.D. '35){{spaced ndash}} former judge on the Oregon Supreme Court
- Robert Stone (B.A. 1889){{spaced ndash}} founder of Washburn Law School in 1903, Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives (1915)
- Ozell Miller Trask{{spaced ndash}} appointed by President Richard Nixon as a Federal Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (1969–1984)
{{div col end}}Science and technology{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Karl Bowman{{spaced ndash}} former chief of psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital in New York; former director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco (1954–1964), Superintendent of the Alaska Psychiatric Institute (1964–1967)
- Lauren Drain{{spaced ndash}} nurse and author known for writing the 2013 book Banished, which chronicles her experiences and eventual banishment from the controversial Westboro Baptist Church
- Karl Menninger{{spaced ndash}} psychiatrist; co-founder, the Menninger Clinic
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr. (1915–1974) (B.S. '37){{spaced ndash}} recipient, 1971 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
{{div col end}}Military service{{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Brigadier General Arthur S. Champeny{{spaced ndash}} only man in U.S. history to receive the Distinguished Service Cross in three separate conflicts: World War I, World War II and Korea
- Brigadier General Clarence T. "Curly" Edwinson{{spaced ndash}} flew 30 missions as a World War II fighter pilot; Commander, 42nd Air Division, U.S. Air Force; all conference halfback at Washburn
- Major General Kathleen E. Fick{{spaced ndash}} Director of Intelligence of the National Guard Bureau
- Brigadier General Howard S. Searle{{spaced ndash}} Assistant Division Commander, 35th Infantry Division
- Colonel Leroy W. Stutz{{spaced ndash}} U.S. Air Force pilot; shot down on his 85th mission in Vietnam; spent 2,284 days as a prisoner of war, including time at the "Hanoi Hilton" (attended WU in 1960, transferred to Air Force Academy)
{{div col end}}SportsSee also List of Washburn Ichabods head football coaches {{div col|colwidth=30em}}- Ernest Bearg{{spaced ndash}} WU football coach (1918–19, 1929–35), Nebraska coach (1925–28), Nebraska football Hall of Fame (1988), Washburn Athletics Hall of Fame (1973–74)
- Kurt Budke{{spaced ndash}} WU basketball and graduate assistant, head coach for Louisiana Tech (2002–2005) and Oklahoma State (2005–2011) women's programs
- Bob Davis{{spaced ndash}} radio broadcaster for Kansas City Royals and Jayhawks football and men's basketball teams
- Morley Fraser{{spaced ndash}} coach, Albion College (1954–1968), led school to 11 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association championships
- Jim Holtgrieve{{spaced ndash}} golfer, three-time Walker Cup champion
- Davey Lopes (B.Ed '69){{spaced ndash}} former manager, Milwaukee Brewers baseball team; 16-year Major League Baseball career
- Ron McHenry (1984) – current women's basketball coach at Washburn
- Mike Racy (B.B.A. '87) – former NCAA vice president (1993–2013); 5th commissioner of Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association
- Jerry Schemmel (B.A. '82, J.D. '85){{spaced ndash}} radio voice of NBA's Denver Nuggets
- Troy Stedman – linebacker for Kansas City Chiefs
- Dave Wiemers – college football coach
- Cary Williams ('08) {{spaced ndash}} NFL cornerback, Tennessee Titans (2008–2009), Baltimore Ravens (2009–2012), Philadelphia Eagles (2013–14), Seattle Seahawks (2014–present)
{{div col end}}See also{{portal|Kansas|Lists|Universities}}- List of people from Topeka, Kansas
{{clear}}References1. ^Bill Kurtis 2. ^{{cite web|title=Henry Justin Allen|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_kansas/col2-content/main-content-list/title_allen_henry.html|publisher=National Governors Association|accessdate= October 14, 2012}} 3. ^{{cite web|title=Bob Dole|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=d000401|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate=October 14, 2012}} 4. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_montana/col2-content/main-content-list/title_erickson_john.html|title= Montana Governor John Edward Erickson|publisher= National Governors Association|accessdate= October 10, 2012}} 5. ^{{cite web|title=Joan Finney|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_kansas/col2-content/main-content-list/title_finney_joan.html|publisher=National Governors Association|accessdate=October 14, 2012}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=Denver David Hargis|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000204|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= October 14, 2012}} 7. ^{{cite web|title=John McCuish|url=http://www.nga.org/cms/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_kansas/col2-content/main-content-list/title_mccuish_john.html|publisher=National Governors Association|accessdate=October 14, 2012}} 8. ^{{cite web|title=Dennis Moore|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m001140|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= October 14, 2012}} 9. ^{{cite web|title=Jim Slattery|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000477|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= October 14, 2012}}
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