- Ali Landry
Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is recognized as the Doritos Girl from her popular 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by "People" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world. - John Breaux
John Berlinger Breaux (last name pronounced BRO) was a United States senator from Louisiana from 1987 until 2005. He was also a member of the U.S. House from 1972 to 1987. He was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition. - Charlie Melancon
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Melancon (born October 3, 1947, in Napoleonville) is a Democrat who was elected in to represent Louisiana's 3rd congressional district.(map) in a December 4, 2004, general election, and re-elected in 2006. The grandson and great-grandson of sugar cane farmers, … - Charles Boustany
Charles William Boustany Jr. (born February 21, 1956) represents Louisiana's historically Democratic 7th Congressional District (map) as a Republican since 2004. Boustany (pronounced boo-STAN-ie) won an open race in 2004, when Christopher "Chris" John, the incumbent Democrat, did not seek re-election in order to run for the U.S. Senate. Boustany, two Democrats and another Republican, David Thibodaux (1953–2007), a member of the Lafayette Parish School Board, … - Kim Perrot
Kim Perrot (January 18, 1967 - August 19, 1999), was an American basketball player. She played in the WNBA for the Houston Comets. A guard who attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette), Perrot was the regular point guard for the Comets, helping them to win WNBA championships in 1997 and 1998. Her best friend was Comets star Cynthia Cooper. Perrot wore jersey number 10 with the Comets organization, … - Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet (b. 1951) is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana. In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA award, which recognizes artistic excellence, cultural authenticity and an artist's contributions, is the highest honor in U.S. folk and traditional arts. Doucet received a 1998 Grammy for work with Beausoleil. - Wadih El-Hage
Wadih el-Hage alias Abd'al Sabur alias the Manager is a former al-Qaeda member who is serving life imprisonment in the United States for his part in the 1998 United States embassy bombings. He was indicted and arrested in 1998, and convicted on all counts and sentenced to life without parole in 2001. He and some of his codefendants are currently in the supermax prison known as ADX Florence. - Brian Mitchell
Brian Keith Mitchell (born August 18, 1968 in Fort Polk, Louisiana) is a former American football player who played running back for the Washington Redskins (1990-1999), and later the Philadelphia Eagles (2000-2002) and New York Giants (2003). He was well known as a kick returner, and is the NFL's second all time leader in total yardage (23,316), thanks in large part to his 14,014 yards from kickoff returns and his 4,999 punt return yards. Both are NFL records. - Bo Lamar
Dwight "Bo" Lamar (born April 7 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is a former professional American basketball player. He attended high school in Columbus and graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As a Ragin' Cajun at Southwestern Louisiana, he was a three time collegiate All-American between 1969-1973. During his college career he averaged 31.2 points a game, a point total of 3,493 points, … - Daniel Sunjata
Daniel Sunjata Condon (b. December 30, 1971 in Evanston, Illinois) is a Tony Award nominated actor who has performed in film, television and in the theater. In 2003, he won Theatre World Award for his breakout broadway performance as a gay Major League Baseball player who comes out to the public in "Take Me Out", the Tony award-winning play, which also earned him nominations for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award. - Carl L. Bankston
Carl L. Bankston III (born August 8, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on immigration to the United States, particularly on the adaptation of Vietnamese American immigrants, and for his work on ethnicity, social capital and the sociology of education. - Eddy Raven
Eddy Raven (born August 19, 1944 in Lafayette, Louisiana) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Born Edward Garvin Futch, he learned to play the guitar from his father and by the time he was 13, he had his first band. An outstanding baseball player, he attended the University of Southwestern Louisiana on a baseball scholarship but any hopes of a Major League career were dashed by a severe injury. - Jeff Hennessy
Jeff Hennessy was the United States trampoline team coach from 1964 to 1980. During this period, he coached more trampoline and double mini-tramp world and national champions than any other person in the United States. In total, his athletes were awarded 26 world championship medals and numerous national and regional titles and medals. Hennessy was Associate Professor of Physical Education at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette, … - Yvette Girouard
Yvette Girouard (born in Broussard, Louisiana) is the head coach of the LSU softball team. Girouard began coaching at Lafayette High School in Lafayette, Louisiana in 1977. In 1980, she coached at her alma mater, Comeaux High School, before starting the softball program at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). She was head coach of the USL Lady Cajuns from 1981-2000, posting an overall record of 759-250. - Adrianne Frost
Adrianne Frost (born October 16, 1972) is an American comedian, author and actress. She is best for her work on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" and VH1's "Best Week Ever." She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska. Frost grew up in the state of Louisiana. She attended school at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. In 2000, Frost married Asaf Ronen. In 2002, she became a correspondent on "The Daily Show", but left the show later that year. - Robert Dafford
Robert Dafford is an American muralist (b. May 14, 1951). He is a native and current resident of Lafayette, Louisiana. Dafford has painted over 300 murals across the United States, Canada, France, Belgium, and England. He has been painting murals and fine art paintings for 35 years. In the past fifteen years, Dafford has concentrated on working along a 1,000 mile stretch of the Ohio River, painting over two hundred large historical images of cities on their floodwalls, … - Rick Norwood
Rick Norwood (born August 4, 1942) is from Franklin, Louisiana. He flunked out of M.I.T., where he was one of four writers and editors of the early underground comic "God Comics", along with Bill Osten, Durk Pearson, and Al Kuhfeld. He eventually got his Ph.D. in mathematics, in 1979, from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, … - Dr. Mark Robson
Dr. Mark Robson is a writer who lives in Los Angeles, California. He is currently working on film projects with his production partner, Leigh Hennessy, and he also runs No Middle Name Public Relations in Los Angeles. Robson holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (formerly known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana) and was Assistant Professor of English and Theater at Graceland University in Iowa. - Elliott M. Bouillion
Elliott Bouillion Elliott Bouillion joined Murphree as a Venture Partner in July 2000 and runs the Boulder, Colorado office. He is an experienced operational officer who has managed both product development and sales and marketing, beginning with his own company, Phoenix Computer Graphics, Inc., a manufacturer of advanced interactive high-resolution raster display controllers. - Arun Lakhotia
Dr. Arun Lakhotia is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Center for Advanced Computer Studies in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Over the last twelve years he has been conducting research in reverse engineering and reengineering of software systems. His research, which started as developing aids for program comprehension, has now digressed in developing technologies for aiding security analysts analyze third-party components for security exploits. - Joe
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Carl Brasseaux Carl A. Brasseaux, the 2003 Louisiana Writer Award winner, is of Acadian/Cajun ancestry and was raised in a bilingual home in the heart of Louisiana’s French-speaking region. The author of more than thirty books, he is a professor of history and the director of the Center for Louisiana Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. - R. Baker Kearfott
- Warren Andrew Perrin
Warren A. Perrin was born of March 11, 1947 in the hamlet of Henry, located in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. The son of Henry Lolly and Ella Mae Brousssard Perrin, he graduated from Henry High School in 1965, UL Lafayette in 1969 and LSU Law School in 1972. In 1969 he married Mary Lenny Broussard; they have three children: Rebecca Perrin Ouellet, married to Jean Ouellet, Andrew Perrin, married to Coree Perrin and Bruce Perrin. - Henry Amato
Dr. Henry Amato Dr. Amato is a Professor of Managerial Sciences at the University of Nevada. He received his Ph.D in management science in 1972 from Tulane University , holds a M.S. in mathematics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a B.S. in mathematics from Southeastern Louisiana University. Prior to coming to the University of Nevada, Dr. Amato served as the founding dean of the College of Business at the University of Scranton . - Anne Marie Casey
Anne Marie Casey has been Associate Dean of Libraries at Central Michigan University (CMU) since July 2002. Prior to this, she worked for three years as Director of Off-Campus Library Services (OCLS) at CMU and earlier as an off-campus librarian for OCLS for seven and one half years, serving CMU students in the western, southern and Mid Atlantic regions of the U.S., as well as those in Canada and Mexico. - Donald G. Janelle
Donald Janelle is Research Professor and Program Director for the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science @the University of California Santa Barbara. He was @the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada from 1970 to 2000, serving as Chair of the Department of Geography (1991-96) and as Assistant Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs (1998-2000). From 1966 to 1969, he was on the geography faculty@the U.S. Air Force Academy. - Celeste Norris
Celeste Norris is the vice president for human resources at Baptist Health Care of Pensacola. She is credited with driving the complex process that resulted in Baptist Health Care’s four consecutive appearances on FORTUNE magazine’s annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. - Quincy C. Hilliard
Quincy Hilliard was born in Starkville, Mississippi , in September 22, 1954. He is a widely known composer, conductor, businessman, professor, author, lecturer, and consultant throughout the United States. As a business man, he runs a business of his own. He is the president of Hilliard Music Enterprise Inc., a personal consulting firm which has a corporate board of distinguished music educators (Dr. Quincy Hilliard 9). - Glen M. Pilie
Mr. Pilie serves as common counsel for a group of companies regarding the PAB Superfund Site in Abbeville, Louisiana and has worked representing clients in various EPA or state led remediations. Mr. Pilie also served as the principal coordinator of Adams and Reese's multidisciplinary team for the joint defense of twelve corporate defendants in class action litigation arising out of the Combustion Inc. Waste Site in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. - Edwin A. Theriot
Dr. Theriot received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in microbiology from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He holds a Doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Massachusetts. He has received numerous awards, including the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Award, the Director - Subrah S. Iyar
Mr. Iyar has been an innovator in the high tech industry for over 19 years, previously holding senior positions with Intel, Apple Computers, Quarterdeck, and Teleos Research. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. - Johnny Navarro
Johnny Navarro , Director at Large Johnny graduated in 1997 with a degree in political science but did so by completing two classes while attending the University of Louisiana, Lafayette (formerly known as the University of Southwestern Louisiana). His goal had been to attain a PhD in political theory. However, that goal was postponed when the opportunity arose to move back to California and purchase the house in which he was reared. - Chris Anne Rodgers Arthur
Chris Anne Rodgers Arthur , Ph.D., CHES. Dr. Arthur received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Special Education from The Ohio State University and is a certified health education specialist (CHES). She served as faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at both The University of Iowa and the University of Southwestern Louisiana before joining the UMC Department of Family Medicine in 1998 as the medical educational specialist. - Richard Dubois
Richard Dubois was honored by the Erath 4th of July Celebration to serve as the 1981 Parade Grand Marshal. Dubois is a 1953 graduate of Erath High School. While a student at Erath High, Dubois was a member of the first football squad organized at Erath High. The squad was a six man team, under the direction of Coach Bob Segura. After graduating from Erath High School, Dubois went on to attend the University of Southwestern Louisiana, now UL Lafayette. - Ralph Veatch Jr
Ralph Veatch, Jr . This month's alumnus, Dr. Ralph Veatch, Jr . has been a long time associate of The University of Tulsa. Ralph's father had been head of the Mathematics Department at TU for over 25 years, and Ralph received all three of his degrees (B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.) from TU. - Scott Geyer
Scott Geyer Vice President of Technical Operations Scott Geyer joined Cerimon in April 2007 as its Vice President, Technical Operations. Mr Geyer has over 26 years of experience in biopharmaceutical development and manufacturing. He joined Cerimon from Xencor, Inc, where he held the position of Vice President, Technical Operations. - Carroll Smith
Carroll Smith – Senior Writer Carroll Smith is a veteran agricultural journalist with more than 17 years of experience. She is editor of Rice Farming and senior writer for Cotton Farming , as well as Special Projects manager for all publications owned by One Grower Publishing. She worked on the magazines in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and rejoined the staff in 2005 when One Grower Publishing purchased the magazines. - Glen M. Pilie
Mr. Pilie serves as common counsel for a group of companies regarding the PAB Superfund Site in Abbeville, Louisiana and has worked representing clients in various EPA or state led remediations. Mr. Pilie also served as the principal coordinator of Adams and Reese's multidisciplinary team for the joint defense of twelve corporate defendants in class action litigation arising out of the Combustion Inc. Waste Site in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. - John Pierret
John Pierret Executive Vice President, Western Region John joined Temple-Inland in 1986. In 1991, he established a residential development division in the Dallas, Texas area, which grew to encompass Houston, Denver, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Diego and Tampa. Today, John’s responsibilities include land development operations across Texas and the western region of the country.
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