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The
Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a highly selective graduate fellowship in the United States for public service leadership.
[1] Created as a memorial to
Harry S Truman , it is awarded annually to between 50 and 60 students in their third year of undergraduate studies.
[2] Many notable individuals have received the fellowship.
1970s
1980s
Stephen Censky (1980),
United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture .
Robert Pape (1980), American political scientist and founder of the
Chicago Project on Security and Threats
Jeffrey Toobin (1980), former senior legal analyst for
CNN and staff writer at
The New Yorker
Jason Grumet (1981), President of
Bipartisan Policy Center
Bill de Blasio (1981), New York City Mayor
Bill Halter (1981), former Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas and U.S. Senate candidate
George Stephanopoulos (1981), former political adviser to
Bill Clinton , current Chief Anchor for
ABC News
Andra Samoa (1982), CEO of
American Samoa Power Authority
[3]
Thomas Sugrue (1982), professor of history and sociology at
New York University
G. Murray Snow (1982), federal judge for the
United States District Court for the District of Arizona .
[4]
Chris Coons (1983), U.S. Senator for
Delaware
Russ Dallen (1983), Editor-in-chief of the
Latin American Herald Tribune , and previously the
Daily Journal
Dan Gelber ,
Florida State Senator and
Florida Attorney General Candidate.
Luis Ubiñas (1983), former President of the
Ford Foundation
Lisa Cook (1984), American economist elected to the board of the
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and nominated to the
Board of Governors at the
Federal Reserve System
Carolyn N. Lerner (1984), Judge, United States Court of Federal Claims
Tanya L. Menton (1984), Assistant General Counsel, The Walt Disney Company
William W. Mercer (1984),
United States Attorney for
Montana
Daniel H. Pink (1984), author of A Whole New Mind; former chief speech writer for Vice President Gore
Susan E. Rice (1984), 24th National Security Advisor; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former Assistant Secretary of State
Wayne W. Williams (1985),
Colorado Secretary of State
Tom Malinowski (1985), United States Representative, New Jersey's 7th congressional district
Ted Deutch (1986), member of
U.S. House of Representatives from
Florida's 19th congressional district , former Democratic member of the
Florida State Senate
Mark Lemley (1986), Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Michelle Alexander (1987), Associate Professor, Ohio State University, civil rights advocate and writer
Neil Gorsuch (1987), Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States
Lucy Koh (1988), United States circuit judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Eric Liu (1988), writer and civil servant who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations
Brad Lander (1989), Member of the
New York City Council , representing the 39th Council District in Brooklyn
George Herbert Walker IV (1989), CEO of
Neuberger Berman
Jason Saul (1989), CEO of Mission Measurement, Lecturer of Social Enterprise at
Kellogg School of Management
[5]
Mary Pattillo (1989), Professor of sociology and African American Studies at
Northwestern University
[6]
1990s
Noah Feldman (1990), Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Tomiko Brown-Nagin (1991), American lawyer, historian, and academic administrator; professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School
Mark Sandy (1991), Deputy Associate Director for National Security, Office of Management and Budget, Executive office of the President, Washington, D.C.
Rich Constable (1993), former assistant U.S. attorney, Commissioner of the N.J. Department of Community Affairs
Rachel Paulose (1993),
United States Attorney for
Minnesota
Stacey Abrams (1994),
Georgia
House Minority Leader , 84th district
Hannah Beech (1994), journalist and
The New York Times Southeast Asia Bureau Chief
William J. Dobson (1994), journalist and author of
The Dictator's Learning Curve .
Amy Finkelstein (1994),
MacArthur Fellow and Professor in Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heather Mizeur (1994), former member of the Maryland House of Delegates and 2022 candidate for
Maryland's 1st Congressional District
Anjan Mukherjee (1994), former Counselor to the Secretary of the
U.S. Treasury
[7]
Cara H. Drinan (1995), professor of law at
The Catholic University of America 's
Columbus School of Law
[8]
John Cranley (1995),
Cincinnati City Councilmember
Eric Greitens (1995), 56th Governor of
Missouri (2017–2018), Founder of
The Mission Continues
Darci Vetter (1995), former Chief Agricultural Negotiator at
USTR , former Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services at
USDA , former International Trade Advisor at
Senate Finance Committee
Dayne Walling (1995), Mayor of
Flint, Michigan
Jake Zimmerman (1995),
Missouri
State Representative , 83rd district
John King Jr. (1995), 10th
United States Secretary of Education
Nicholas Thompson (1996), Editor-in-Chief of
Wired
Phil Carter (1996), Former
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs
Corine Hegland (1996), writer, The National Journal , 2006 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism
Terry Babcock-Lumish (1996), current Executive Secretary of the Truman Foundation.
Jedediah Purdy (1996), author and Professor,
Duke University School of Law
Brendan Johnson (1997),
U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota
Noam Scheiber (1997), reporter on Labor and the Workplace for
The New York Times
Jake Sullivan (1997), United States National Security Advisor
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz (1998), Deputy Assistant Secretary at
United States Department of Treasury , former Fellow and deputy director at
Brookings Institution
Maria J. Stephan (1998), political scientist and former director of the program on non-violent action at the United States Institute for Peace
Martina Vandenberg (1998), lawyer and
human trafficking activist
[9]
Dusty Johnson (1998), former chief of staff to
Governor Dennis Daugaard and chairman of the
South Dakota Public Utilities Commission , current member of the
United States House of Representatives from
South Dakota
2000s
Marcia Chatelain (2000),
Pulitzer Prize -winning historian, professor of history and African American studies at
Georgetown University , and creator of the
Ferguson Syllabus
David Haskell (editor) (2000), Editor-in-Chief of
New York Magazine ; Co-founder of
Kings County Distillery
Jon Favreau (2002), President Barack Obama's Director of Speechwriting, co-founder of
Crooked Media
Cyrus Habib (2002), 16th
Lieutenant Governor of Washington
Heidi Williams (2002),
MacArthur Fellow and Professor in Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andy Kim (2003),
U.S. Representative from
NJ-03 and former National Security Council adviser to President Barack Obama
Ryan Quarles (2005), Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky, 2016–present,
Kentucky State Representative from District 62, 2011–2016
Rob Sand (2005), Iowa State Auditor
[10]
Te-Ping Chen (2006), American journalist and author
[11]
Kesha Ram (2007), Member
Vermont House of Representatives
Warwick Sabin (2007), Member
Arkansas House of Representatives
Emily Calandrelli
[12] (2008), Host and producer for
Xploration Station
Miles Taylor (2009), American government official and
New York Times best-selling author
2010s
Greg Nance (2010), CEO of Dyad.com and Founder of
Moneythink
Michael Tubbs (2011), Former Mayor of
Stockton
Andrew J. Lewis (2011), Seattle City Council
Jacob Tobia (2013),
LGBT rights activist, writer, producer, and actor
Zach Wahls (2013), Iowa State Senator
Rana Abdelhamid (2014), Founder of MALIKAH and 2022 candidate for Congress in
New York's 12th congressional district
David Shimer (2017), American historian and foreign policy analyst
Jaz Brisack (2018), a founding labor organizer in the
Starbucks Workers United unionization campaign
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"Jason Saul – Faculty – Kellogg School of Management" .
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"Truman Scholar Listing - Wisconsin/Columbia University" .
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"Anjan Mukherjee" . The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
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"Cara H. Drinan, J.D."
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"Pomona announces historian and human rights lawyer as commencement speakers" .
The Student Life . Retrieved March 3, 2021 .
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