12 Notable alumni of Huntingdon College
Updated: June 14, 2026 EliteDegrees
Huntingdon College is ranked #4,531 in the world and #1,181 in United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 12 notable alumni from Huntingdon College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Huntingdon College won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Kirk deViere
1970-. (aged 56)
politician
Kirk Joseph deViere is a former Democratic member of the North Carolina State Senate, having representing the 19th district from 2019 to 2023. He was first elected in the 2018 elections, defeating incumbent state senator Wesley Meredith and won re-election in the 2020 elections. deViere previously served on the Fayetteville, North Carolina city council from 2015 to 2017.
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2. Kristi DuBose
1964-. (aged 62)
lawyer
judge
Kristi Kaye DuBose is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
3. Maria Howard Weeden
1846-1905 (aged 59)
poet
watercolorist
artist
Maria Howard Weeden, who signed her work and published as Howard Weeden, was an American artist and poet based in Huntsville, Alabama. After the American Civil War, she began to sell works she painted, which included portraits of many African-American freedmen and freedwomen. She exhibited her work in Berlin and Paris in 1895, where it was well received. She published...
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4. Elizabeth Hight
1955-. (aged 71)
military officer
Elizabeth Ann Hight is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who served as the vice director of the Defense Information Systems Agency. She assumed this post in December 2007. In 2008, she was nominated for appointment to the grade of vice admiral and assignment as director, Defense Information Systems Agency; commander, Joint Task Force – Global Network Operations; and...
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5. Terry Moorer
1961-. (aged 65)
judge
Terry Fitzgerald Moorer is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. He was formerly a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
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6. Thomas Sigismund Stribling
1881-1965 (aged 84)
science fiction writer
lawyer
writer
novelist
short story writer
Thomas Sigismund Stribling was an American writer. Although he acquired a law degree and practiced law for a few years, his career was mainly that of an author of fiction. Known first for adventure stories published in fiction magazines, he later published novels of social satire set mainly in the southern USA. His best-known work is the Vaiden trilogy, set...
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7. Alexis Wineman
1994-. (aged 32)
model
beauty pageant contestant
Alexis Wineman is an autism advocate who was named Miss Montana 2012. She won the "America's Choice" award at the Miss America 2013 pageant and is the first known autistic contestant to compete in the Miss America pageant.
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8. Billy C. Sanders
1936-. (aged 90)
military personnel
Billy C. Sanders is a retired senior sailor of the United States Navy who served as the fifth Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.
9. Lucille Benson
1914-1984 (aged 70)
film actor
actor
television actor
Lucille Benson was an American character actress.
10. Jeff Sessions
1946-. (aged 80)
political scientist
lawyer
politician
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in the first administration of President Donald Trump. Trump...
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11. Bob Zellner
1939-. (aged 87)
civil rights advocate
historian
John Robert Zellner is an American civil rights activist. He graduated from Huntingdon College in 1961 and that year became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as its first white field secretary. Zellner was involved in numerous civil rights efforts, including nonviolence workshops at Talladega College, protests for integration in Danville, Virginia, and organizing Freedom Schools in...
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12. Harper Lee
1926-2016 (aged 90)
musician
novelist
screenwriter
actor
prose writer
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). An earlier draft of Mockingbird, set at a later date, Go Set a Watchman, was published...
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