2020s Commencement Speakers

Commencement speakers dating from Fall 2025 back to Spring 2020 can be found here.

Ceremony	Speaker Name	Profession
Fall 2025	Stanhope A. Kelly	Director on Public and Private Boards
Spring 2025	Admiral Daryl L. Caudle	Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command
Fall 2024	Rashida A. Hodge	Corporate Vice President, Data and AI Customer Success, Microsoft
Spring 2024	Dr. David W. C. MacMillan	Nobel Prize-winning Chemist
Fall 2023	Debbie Antonelli	ESPN and CBS College Basketball Analyst
Spring 2023	General Anthony J. Cotton	Commander, United States Strategic Command
Fall 2022	Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young	USDA Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics
Spring 2022	Mohamed L. Mansour	Chairman, Mansour Group & ManCapital
Fall 2021	Mark Templeton	President and CEO, Citrix Systems [retired]
August 2021 *	Cindy Eckert	Founder and CEO, The Pink Ceiling
Spring 2021	Russell Wilson	Super Bowl Champion and Quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks
Fall 2020 ^	Christina Hammock Koch	NASA Astronaut
Spring 2020 +	N/A	N/A

* This in-person ceremony recognized graduates of the Class of 2020
^ This virtual ceremony recognized graduates of the Class of 2020
+ No ceremony due to COVID-19 pandemic

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