Allen Franklin
CEO of Georgia Power

Sandra L. Melnick
Chief of the analytic epidemiology research branch of the National Cancer Institute

Dr. Regina M. Benjamin
The first African-American woman and the first person under 40, to be elected to the American Medical Association Board of Trustees

Vonetta Flowers
The first African-American to win a gold medal in a winter Olympics (bobsled)

Larry J. DeLucas
Director of UAB's Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering. Was a payload specialist on a 1992 voyage of the space shuttle Columbia

Michael E. Stephens
Executive director of the internationally-renowned Lakeshore Rehabilitation Hospital in Birmingham

Charles A. Nooney
Instrumental in the launching of the Toon Disney television network