Fashion designer; designer to former First Lady Laura Bush
Notable and Famous Alumni
Art and Architecture
Business
Chairman of Interstate Batteries, the leading replacement brand battery in North America
Sam Moon
Owner of Sam Moon Trading Company, one of the world's leading specialty retailers of fashionable jewelry and accessories
Wende Zomnir
Co-founder and creative director for Urban Decay, a popular cosmetics company
Film/Television/Entertainment
Thomas Haden Church
Actor; Academy Award nominee for Sideways; Emmy award winner for Broken Trail
Self-help expert; host of the nationally syndicated top rated talk show Dr. Phil and best-selling author
Actor; starred in Robocop, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Buckaroo Bonzai; Director who has helmed episodes of Hawaii Five-O, Sons of Anarchy and House M.D.
Government and Politics
Former interim president and CEO of the NAACP: 35th Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007-2011).
Mary Suhm
Former City Manager, City of Dallas (2005-2013)
Health and Science
The first physician who treated President John F. Kennedy after he was fatally shot; former chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Washington and UT Southwestern Medical Center
Frank Spencer
Retired chair of surgery at New York University; created techniques that paved the way for modern cardiac surgery. He also is a former president of the American College of Surgeons and a recipient of the Navy's Legion of Merit
Music
Grammy Award-winning singer and musician; member of The Eagles and solo artist; environmental activist.
Singer-songwriter whose songs were recorded by Willie Nelson and Lyle Lovett; 2007 Texas Poet Lauraute
Sports
NFL Hall of Famer and defensive lineman for the five-time Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s (played on team from 1969-1981)
Writing and Journalism
Anchor for Dallas-Fort Worth news station WFAA, serving in one of the Top Five media markets in the nation
Author; wrote Lonesome Dove, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and numerous other bestsellers including The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment; co-wrote the screen adaptation of Brokeback Mountain for which he shared the Golden Globe for Best Screenplay and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Bill Moyers
Television journalist; former chief correspondent for CBS Reports and senior news analyst for CBS News; former press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson