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Previous Commencement Speakers
2008 | AUG | Judith Zaffirini (Senator, Texas State Senate) | |||
| MAY | Dale Wainwright (Justice, Texas Supreme Court) | ||||
2007 | DEC AUG MAY | Lloyd Doggett (U.S. Congress) Fred Heldenfels (Heldenfels Enterprises, Inc.) Brian McCoy (CEO, McCoy Corporation) | |||
2006 | DEC AUG MAY | Patrick Rose (Texas House of Representatives) Roger Williams (Texas Secretary of State) John Cornyn (U.S. Senate) | |||
2005 | DEC AUG MAY | James Weitzul (Mitte Foundation Board of Directors) Henry Cuellar (U.S. House of Representatives) Charles Matthews (Chancellor, The Texas State University System) | |||
2004 | DEC AUG MAY | John Beck (Dean, College of Education, Texas State) James D. Bell (Piper Professor of Management, Texas State) John Rice Carter (U.S. House of Representatives) J. Dan Bates (CEO, Southwest Research Institute®) Geoffrey S. Connor (Texas Secretary of State) Gary V. Woods (President and CEO, McCombs Enterprises) Shirley J. Neeley (Texas Commissioner of Education) | |||
2003 | DEC AUG MAY | Lynn Tyson (Vice President, Investor Relations, Dell, Inc.) Paul Cohen (Piper Professor of English, Texas State) Eduardo Sanchez, MD (Texas Commissioner of Health) Shelton Padgett (Distinguished Alumnus, Texas State) Greg Abbott (Texas Attorney General) Richard Boehm (Jesse H. Jones Distinguished Chair of Geographic Education, Texas State) Gene Stouder (Roy F. and Joanne Cole Mitte Endowed Chair of Semiconductor Manufacturing Education, Texas State) | |||
2002 | DEC AUG MAY | Dr. Nancy Feyl Chavkin (Professor of Social Work, Texas State) Charles R. Matthews (Commissioner, Texas Railroad Commission) Dr. James L. Sweatt III (Regent, The Texas State University System) Denise Trauth (President, Texas State) Jerome Supple (President, Texas State) | |||
2001 | DEC AUG MAY | Sandra M. Mayo (Director, Multicultural and Gender Studies, Texas State) Elizabeth T. Nash (Former Chairman, The Texas State University System) Pamela P. Willeford (Chair, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) Michael Hennessy (Professor of English, Texas State) Margaret E. Dunn (Professor, Texas State) Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (Professor of English, University of Texas) Richard Tankerson (President of Board of Directors, Carver Academy) | |||
2000 | DEC AUG MAY | Thomas Carter (Film Director, Alumnus of Texas State) Henry R. Cuellar (Texas House of Representatives) Gilbert M. Grosvenor (Former President, National Geographic Society) | |||
1999 | DEC AUG MAY | C. M. (Mark) Mellier-Smith (CEO, SEMATECH) Jim Nelson (Texas Commissioner of Education) Robert Junnell (Texas House of Representatives) Jerome Supple (President, Texas State) | |||
1998 | DEC AUG MAY | Craig Vittitoe (Chairman, The Texas State University System) Kay Bailey Hutchison (U.S. Senate) James Appleberry (President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities) Martha L. Brunson (Associate Dean, Texas State) | |||
1997 | DEC AUG MAY | Kenneth Armbrister (Texas State Senate) Paulette Maehara (CEO, Epilepsy Foundation of America) Thomas R. Phillips (Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court) | |||
1996 | DEC AUG MAY | Marcellus W. Alexander (Vice President & General Manager of WJZ-TV) Greg Laughlin (U.S. House of Representatives) Don Flores (Editor and Publisher, El Paso Times) Kenneth Armbrister (Texas Senate) | |||
1995 | DEC AUG MAY | Joseph R. Krier (Member, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and President, Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce) John T. Montford (Texas Senate) John B. Roberts (CEO, Busch Entertainment) | |||
1994 | DEC AUG MAY | William P. Hobby (Lt. Governor, State of Texas) Beverly Chiodo (Professor, Texas State) Norman Hackerman (President Emeritus, Rice University) | |||
1993 | DEC AUG MAY | Greg Laughlin (U.S. House of Representatives) Jerome H. Supple (President, Texas State) G.W. Bailey (Actor, Graduating Senior at Texas State) | |||
1992 | DEC AUG MAY | Libby Linebarger (Texas House of Representatives) Donald M. Carlton (President and Chairman of the Board, Radian Corporation) John Sharp (Comptroller, State of Texas, and Alumnus of Texas State) | |||
1991 | DEC AUG MAY | Tom Luce (Chairman and CEO, First Southwest Company) Lena Guerrera (Chair, Texas Railroad Commission) General Robert Rutherford (Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force) | |||
1990 | DEC AUG MAY | Gonzalo Barrientos (Texas Senate) Larry F. Wright (Vice President of Texas Operations, Dow Chemical) Kenneth H. Ashworth (Commissioner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) | |||
1989 | DEC AUG MAY | Sheila Clark (Regent, The Texas State University System) Michael Abbott (Executive Vice President, Texas State) Jerome H. Supple (President, Texas State) | |||
1988 | DEC AUG MAY | Katherine Lowry (Regent, The Texas State University System) De S. Johnson (Dean, College of General Studies, Texas State) Jack L. Martin (Regent, The Texas State University System) | |||
1987 | DEC AUG MAY | Ann Richards (Treasurer, State of Texas) Walton D. "Pete" Hardesty (Professor of Psychology, Texas State) Hilary B. Doran, Jr. (Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor, State of Texas) | |||
1986 | DEC AUG MAY | Ruben M. Escobedo (Chairman, The Texas State University System) Patrick E. Cassidy (Professor of Chemistry, Texas State) Emmie Craddock (Chairman, Texas 1986 Sesquicentennial Commission and Former Mayor of San Marcos) | |||
1985 | DEC AUG MAY | William. N. Kirby (Texas Commissioner of Education) Alton G. Brieger (Professor of History, Texas State) John B. Connally (Former Governor, State of Texas) | |||
1984 | DEC AUG MAY | Elspeth D. Rostow (Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin) Walter Richter (Former Texas Senator) J. J. "Jake" Pickle (U.S. House of Representatives) | |||
1983 | DEC AUG MAY | Larry E. Temple (Chairman, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) Henry Cisneros (Mayor of San Antonio) Mark White (Governor, State of Texas) | |||
1982 | DEC AUG MAY | Don Rains (Texas House of Representatives) Wilhelmina Delco (Texas House of Representatives) Harry J. Middleton (Director, LBJ Library) | |||
1981 | DEC AUG MAY | E. D. Walker (Chancellor, The University of Texas System) Lee Smith (President, Texas State) Don Rains (Texas House of Representatives) | |||
1980 | DEC AUG MAY | None Pete Snelson (Texas Senate) Emmie Craddock (Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program, Texas State) | |||
1979 | DEC AUG MAY | Don Rains (Texas House of Representatives) J. J. "Jake" Pickle (U.S. House of Representatives) Betty J. Kissler (Professor of History, Texas State) | |||
1978 | DEC AUG MAY | Ralph H. Houston (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Texas State) Warren G. Harding (Treasurer, State of Texas) Sara Weddington (General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture) | |||
1977 | DEC AUG MAY | Kenneth H. Ashworth (Commissioner, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) Dolph Briscoe (Governor, State of Texas) John L. Hill (Attorney General, State of Texas) | |||
1976 | DEC AUG MAY | M. L. Brockette (Texas Commissioner of Education) Mark White (Secretary of State, State of Texas) A. M. Aikin, Jr. (Texas Senate) | |||
1975 | DEC AUG MAY | W. Marvin Watson (President, Occidental International) William P. Hobby (Lt. Governor, State of Texas) Bob Krueger (U.S. House of Representatives) | |||
1974 | DEC AUG MAY | J. J. "Jake" Pickle (U.S. House of Representatives) Lee H. Smith (President, Texas State) Cecil O. Hahn (Professor of History, Texas State) | |||
1973 | DEC AUG MAY | Wilburn W. Hurt (Director of Community Services, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) John C. Stevens (President, Abilene Christian College) Patrick H. Norwood (Professor of Education, Texas State) John Poerner (U.S. House of Representatives) | |||
1972 | DEC AUG MAY | J. J. "Jake" Pickle (U.S. House of Representatives) W. E. Norris, Jr. (Dean, School of Liberal Arts, Texas State) Bryce Jordan (President, University of Texas at Dallas) | |||
1971 | AUG MAY | Lyndon B. Johnson (Former U.S. President, Alumnus of Texas State) Leland Derrick (Vice President, Texas State) | |||
1970 | AUG MAY | Morris A. Fry (Professor, Texas State) Robert A. Tampke (Professor of Philosophy, Texas State) | |||
1969 | MAY | Roy Willbern (President, Texas State Alumni Association) | |||