List of some notable people associated with Colorado College
Notable alumni
Arts
Film, theatre, and broadcasting
Neal Baer , television producer/writer and pediatrician
Dee Bradley Baker , voice actor
Robert Bogue , actor
Ken Curtis , singer and actor best known for his role as Festus Haggen on the long-running
CBS
western television series
Gunsmoke
Jim Dziura , film director, cinematographer, and editor
Daniel Junge ,
Academy Award -winning documentary filmmaker (
Saving Face )
Cynthia Lowen , documentary filmmaker (
Bully )
Peter Mortimer , Sports Emmy-winning filmmaker, co-founder of the REEL ROCK Film Tour
Arden Myrin , comedian and actress
Doug Pray ,
Emmy Award -winning film director (
Art & Copy )
Derek Richardson , actor
Nick Rosen , filmmaker, co-creator of the Emmy-nominated
[1] National Geographic series, First Ascent
Steve Sabol , film producer and former president of
NFL Films ,
Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee
Aaron Shure ,
Emmy Award -winning television writer, director, and producer (
Everybody Loves Raymond ,
The Office )
Marc Webb , producer and director of music videos and films such as
(500) Days of Summer and
The Amazing Spider-Man )
Dean Winters , actor
Writers, journalists and publishers
William Brangham , American journalist currently a correspondent for the
PBS NewsHour
David Burnett , photojournalist recognized for the
World Press Photo of the Year (1980), co-recipient of the
Robert Capa Gold Medal , and named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the
National Press Photographers Association
Michael Dahlie , novelist
Gregg Easterbrook , writer and contributing editor of
The New Republic and
The Atlantic Monthly
Frieda Ekotto , francophone African woman novelist and literary critic
Thomas Hornsby Ferril , poet laureate of Colorado
Mark Fiore ,
Pulitzer Prize -winning political cartoonist
Edward K. Gaylord , publisher of the Daily Oklahoman
Kaui Hart Hemmings ,
[2] novelist, author of
The Descendants and House of Thieves
Mabel Barbee Lee , writer
Reginald McKnight , short story writer and novelist, recipient of the
O. Henry Award , the
Drue Heinz Literature Prize , and the
Whiting Award
Michael Nava , attorney and writer
Artists and musicians
Herbert Beattie , operatic bass and voice teacher
Eric Bransby ,
[3] muralist
Cecil Effinger , composer, oboist, and inventor
Jo Estill , singer, singing voice specialist and voice researcher
Glenna Goodacre , sculptor
Margaret Kilgallen ,
Mission School artist and printmaker
Janet Maguire , composer
Duard Marshall , painter
Max Morath , ragtime pianist, composer, actor and author
Ann Royer , painter, sculptor
Abigail Washburn ,
Grammy Award -winning banjo player and singer
Jeremy Zucker , singer-songwriter
Economics and business
Obadiah J. Barker , founder and president of Barker Brothers
Charles Cicchetti , co-founder Madison Consulting Group, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California
Harold Thayer Davis , mathematician, statistician, and econometrician, known for the
Davis distribution
Alexander Ellis III , partner in the venture-capital firm Rockport Capital Partners
Joe Ellis , President of the
Denver Broncos
Lori Garver , General Manager of the
Air Line Pilots Association
James Heckman , winner of 2000
Nobel Prize for Economics , Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the
University of Chicago , Professor of Law at
the Law School , and director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development
Jayne Hrdlicka , CEO of
Virgin Australia , and Board President of
Tennis Australia
David Malpass , President of the
World Bank
Sebastian Suhl ,
[4] former COO of
Prada S.p.A.; CEO at
Givenchy
[5]
Amy Tucker , inventor of
Xeko
Government and politics
Patty Pansing Brooks , Nebraska State Senator
Liz Cheney ,
U.S. Representative for Wyoming, daughter of former Vice President
Dick Cheney and Second Lady
Lynne Cheney
Lynne Cheney , former
Second Lady of the United States , wife of former Vice President
Dick Cheney , novelist, conservative scholar, and former talk-show host
Mary Cheney , former campaign aide, daughter of former Vice President
Dick Cheney and Second Lady
Lynne Cheney
Matt Claman , member of the
Alaska House of Representatives
Marian W. Clarke , former
U.S. Representative for New York's 34th District
Diana DeGette ,
U.S. Representative from Colorado's 1st Congressional District, attorney
Myron Ebell , Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Randall Edwards , former
Oregon State Treasurer
Jennifer Zimdahl Galt ,
United States Ambassador to Mongolia
Lori Garver , former Deputy Administrator of
NASA
Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani , former
Prime Minister of Yemen
Harrison Loesch , former Assistant Secretary of Interior
Katherine Maraman , associate and chief justice of the
Supreme Court of Guam
Helen Stevenson Meyner , former
U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 13th District
Ted Morton , former
Minister of Energy for Alberta , former
Minister of Finance and Enterprise for Alberta , former
Minister of Sustainable Resource Development for Alberta , Former member of the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Mark Norris , Judge of the
United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee , former Majority Leader of the
Tennessee Senate , former
Tennessee State Senator
Philip Perry , former acting associate attorney general at
Department of Justice , former general counsel of
Office of Management and Budget , and former general counsel of
Department of Homeland Security
Frederick Madison Roberts , great-grandson of
Sally Hemings , member of the
California State Assembly , first African American elected to public office on the West Coast
Gregor Robertson , former
Mayor of Vancouver , former member of the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Ken Salazar ,
United States Ambassador to Mexico , former
United States Secretary of the Interior , former
United States Senator from Colorado, former
Attorney General of Colorado , former executive director of the
Colorado Department of Natural Resources
Harry H. Seldomridge , former
U.S. Representative from Colorado's 2nd District
Joe Simitian , Member of the
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors , former
California State Senator , former member of the
California State Assembly , former member of the
Palo Alto City Council
Colin M. Simpson , former House Speaker of the
Wyoming House of Representatives , former member of the
Wyoming House of Representatives
Richard H. Stallings , former Chair of the
Idaho Democratic Party , former
United States Nuclear Waste Negotiator , former
U.S. Representative from Idaho's 2nd District
Stuart Stevens , strategist
[6] for
Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign , cofounder of Washington, D.C. - based political media consultancy Stevens & Schriefer Group
Timothy Tymkovich , Chief Judge of the
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Academia
William Drea Adams , former president,
Colby College and
Bucknell University
Anne Basting , winner of 2016
MacArthur Fellowship , Professor of Theater at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Johanna Bond , dean of
Rutgers Law School
Charles L. Briggs ,
Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor of Folklore at the
University of California, Berkeley
Harold Thayer Davis , Professor of Mathematics at
Northwestern University
Frieda Ekotto , Professor of French, Comparative Literature, Afroamerican and African Studies at the
University of Michigan
Brian J. Enquist , Professor of Biology at the
University of Arizona
Paul Franco , Barry N. Wish Professor of Government and Social Studies at
Bowdoin College
Jean Halley , Professor of Sociology at the
Graduate Center of the
City University of New York
Donna Haraway , Professor of
Science and Technology Studies in the
History of Consciousness Department and the
Feminist Studies Department at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
Harlene Hayne
CNZM ,
Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Psychology at the
University of Otago
James Heckman , winner of 2000
Nobel Prize for Economics , Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the
University of Chicago and director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development
Huntington D. Lambert , dean of the
Division of Continuing Education and
University Extension at
Harvard University
Liang Shih-chiu , academic single-handedly responsible for translating the works of William Shakespeare into Chinese
Margaret A. Liu , Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the
University of California, San Francisco
Reginald McKnight ,
Hamilton Holmes Professor of English at the
University of Georgia
Ted Morton , Professor of Political Science at the
University of Calgary
John Novembre , winner of 2015
MacArthur Fellowship , Professor of Computational Biology at the
University of Chicago
David Tab Rasmussen , Professor of Anthropology at
Washington University in St. Louis
Kenneth Sims , Professor of Isotope Geology at the
University of Wyoming
Andrew Spielman , Professor of Tropical Public Health at the
Harvard School of Public Health
Pauline Turner Strong , director of the Humanities Institute at the
University of Texas at Austin
Elmo Scott Watson, Professor of Journalism at
Northwestern University
[7]
[8]
Terry Winograd , Professor of Computer Science at
Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group
William Gould Young , Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Physical Sciences at
UCLA
Science
Sarah Andrews , geologist and author
Brian J. Enquist , Biologist and Ecologist
Richard Green , chairman of the Space Sciences Institute, previously served as president and CEO of
CableLabs
Myra Keen , malacologist and invertebrate paleontologist
Frank Leverett , geologist who specialised in glaciology
Margaret A. Liu , founder and leader in
DNA vaccination , named one of the 50 most important women in science by
Discover magazine
Jane Lubchenco , marine ecologist and environmental scientist, former NOAA Administrator
Marcia McNutt ,
ForMemRS , is an American
geophysicist and the 22nd president of the
National Academy of Sciences of the
United States (NAS). She is the former
editor-in-chief of
Science , the 15th director of the
United States Geological Survey (USGS) (and first woman to hold the post), and science adviser to the
United States Secretary of the Interior .
Kenneth N. Ogle , scientist of human vision
Andrew Spielman ,
public health
entomologist
G. Harry Stine , founding figure of model rocketry, science and technology writer
William A. Welch , engineer and environmentalist
Military
Athletics
Olympics
As of the
2018 Winter Olympics , 21 Colorado College students have competed in the Olympic Games, claiming a total of seven medals (three golds, two silvers, two bronzes).
Isabel Atkin , 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in women's slopestyle
Trevor Barron , race walker who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Scott Driggers , handballer,
1988 Summer Olympics
Alison Dunlap , professional cyclist, former Olympian
Peggy Fleming , 1968 Olympic gold medalist in figure skating, three-time world champion figure skater (1966-1968)
Martina Franko , Canada Women's Soccer Team,
2008 Summer Olympics
Christine Haigler , U.S. figure skater
1964 Winter Olympics
David Jenkins , 1960 Olympic gold medalist in men's figure skating, three-time world champion (1957-1959)
[9]
Hayes Alan Jenkins ,
gold medalist in men's figure skating,
1956 Winter Olympics , four-time world champion figure skater (1953-1956)
[10]
Tara Nott ,
gold medalist in women's
weight lifting ,
2000 Olympics
[11]
Eliza Outtrim , U.S. Freestyle Skiing team,
2014 Winter Olympics
Hillary Wolf , U.S. Judo Team,
1996 Summer Olympics and
2000 Summer Olympics
Hockey
Over 170 Colorado College alumni have gone on to play professionally, including over 30 current and former NHL players. In addition, nine Colorado College alumni have represented their country in hockey at the Olympics.
[12]
[13]
Ryan Bach , NHL goaltender
Richard Bachman , NHL player
Art Berglund , ice hockey coach and executive,
Lester Patrick Trophy award winner
Rick Boh
Colin Chisholm
Brian Connelly ,
American Hockey League defenseman
Joey Crabb , NHL winger,
Florida Panthers
Dave Feamster
Bill Hay , former
Chicago Blackhawks centre
Jack Hillen , NHL ice hockey defenceman,
Nashville Predators
Doug Lidster , NHL defencemen, member of Team Canada at the
1984 Winter Olympics
Curtis McElhinney
Doug Palazzari ,
United States Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
Toby Petersen , right winger,
Dallas Stars
Tom Preissing , NHL player,
Hobey Baker Award finalist
Nate Prosser
Jaden Schwartz , NHL
St. Louis Blues forward, Captain Team Canada World Junior 2012
Peter Sejna , NHL ice hockey center,
2003 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships bronze medalist,
Hobey Baker Award winner
[14]
Marty Sertich , AHL ice hockey center,
Hobey Baker Award winner
[14]
Brett Sterling , NHL ice hockey player
Colin Stuart
Mark Stuart
Mike Stuart , alternate captain,
Winnipeg Jets
Brian Swanson
Lee Sweatt
Other
Carol Rymer Davis , 2004
Gordon Bennet Cup winner
Anton Krupicka , ultra-runner, two-time
Leadville 100 winner
Hilaree Nelson ,
ski mountaineer , first woman to summit two 8,000-meter peaks in a 24-hour period
Renan Öztürk , rock climber and mountaineer
Abbie Richards , TikToker
Bert Stiles , pilot and author
Jerry Wainwright , former Director of Basketball Operations for the
Marquette Golden Eagles
Al Walker (born 1959), former basketball player and college coach, now a scout for the
Detroit Pistons of the NBA
Lukas Walton , heir to the
Walton family and grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
Presidents of Colorado College
Colorado College has had about 16 presidents and acting presidents since its founding:
[15]
Rev. Jonathan Edward, 1874-1875
[16]
Rev. James G. Dougherty, 1875-1876
[16]
Edward P. Tenney, 1876-1884
William F. Slocum , Jr., 1888-1917
[16]
Clyde A. Duniway , 1917-1924
Charles Christopher Mierow - 1923-24 (acting) and 1925-1934
Charles Brown Hershey, 1933-1934 (acting) and 1943-1945 (acting)
Thurston J. Davies, 1934-1948
William H. Gill , 1949-1955
Louis T. Benezet , 1955-1963
Lloyd E. Worner, 1963-1981
Thomas Cronin , 1991 (acting)
Gresham Riley, 1981-1992
Michael Grace, 1992-1993 (acting)
Kathryn Mohrman, 1993-2002
Richard F. Celeste , 2002-2011
Jill Tiefenthaler , 2011-2020
Mike Edmonds and Robert Moore 2020-2021 (acting)
Song Richardson 2021–present
Professors
James Phinney Baxter III , historian who won the 1947
Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time
[17]
Ofer Ben-Amots ,
Israeli-American
classical composer
Florian Cajori , Swiss-American historian of mathematics
Thomas Cronin , political scientist and author
Edward Diller , German literary scholar and author
Idris Goodwin , playwright, hip hop artist, educator, and co-creator/co-host of serial radio broadcasts
[18]
J. Glenn Gray , philosopher, author and translator
Steven Hayward , Canadian author
[19] and co-creator/co-host of serial radio broadcasts
[18]
Anne F. Hyde , historian, author, 2012 Bancroft Prize winner,
[20] 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist
[21]
Dan Johnson ,
microeconomist and
entrepreneur
David Mason , poet
Jim Parco , author, businessman, and retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
Andrew Price-Smith , political scientist, author on health security, environmental security, pandemic influenza
Stephen Scott , neo-classical composer
Dennis Showalter , military historian
Christine Siddoway , geologist, Antarctica researcher
[22]
See also
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