Fashion designer; designer to former First Lady Laura Bush
Nine-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist and songwriter
Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, as well as The Last Picture Show and Terms of Endearment, and co-writer of the Oscar-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain.
Self-help expert; host of the nationally syndicated top rated talk show Dr. Phil and best-selling author
Fashion designer; designer to former First Lady Laura Bush
Chairman of Interstate Batteries, the leading replacement brand battery in North America
Owner of Sam Moon Trading Company, one of the world's leading specialty retailers of fashionable jewelry and accessories
Co-founder and creative director for Urban Decay, a popular cosmetics company
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.
Former interim president and CEO of the NAACP: 35th Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007-2011).
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
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
Grammy Award-winning singer and musician; member of The Eagles and solo artist; environmental activist.
Running back for the Dallas Cowboys (2012-2017); running back for the Los Angeles Rams (2017-present)
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)
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.
Television journalist; former chief correspondent for CBS Reports and senior news analyst for CBS News; former press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson
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