Mobile Area Residents Among UA Graduates

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,100 degrees at commencement ceremonies held Saturday, Dec. 18, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.

Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, was the featured speaker. Fuller, an alumnus of the UA School of Law, also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony. Approximately 1,100 degrees were conferred.

With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 191,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement ceremonies three times a year.

The following students from the Mobile area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:

JURIS DOCTOR DEGREE

DAPHNE — John Wesley Bell

ORANGE BEACH — Michael Adrian Hart

MASTER’S DEGREE

GULF SHORES — Matthew Seth Burgess

JACKSON — Andrew Wesley Warren

MOBILE — Allyson R. Ard, Ella Lipsey Harvey, Amanda Marie Kirchler

OPP — Crystal Gale Stephens

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

ANDALUSIA — Beth Ann Brannon, Matthew Scott Prater, Genevieve Darling Spurlin, Rebekah L. Wilkes

ATMORE — Ashley Shane Gibbs, Ryan D. Green, Stephanie Nicole Roberts

BAY MINETTE — Kerri Danielle Arnette, Clara Nicole Mackinnon

BEATRICE — Patrick D. Odom, Melvin Maurice Stallworth

BREWTON — Candance S. Coleman

BUTLER — Mary-Kathryn Hutchinson

CHATOM — Deborah L. Hooks

DAPHNE — Ashleigh Michelle Jackson, Ellyson Sommer Smith, Matthew Ryan Thomason, Wesley Ryan Vaughn, Jodi Shael Welborn

DEMOPOLIS — James Brady Dearman

EAST BREWTON — Allen Hunter Hamric

ELBERTA — Robert Wade Jenkins

FAIRHOPE — Reba Lyons Cunningham, Katherine Sungmee Lee, Carolyn E. Pritchett, Philip Daniel Roshetko

GEORGIANA — Leslie R. Morgan

GILBERTOWN — Nora Leigh Carlisle

GREENVILLE — Ashley J. Brannon, Pamela Lynn McNeil

GROVE HILL — Jesse Daniel Creel, Seth Ericson Curtis, Joshua F. Dixon, Mistica Dawn Maples, John Scott Roe

HUXFORD — Amy Catherine Ridgeway

JACKSON — Mary Elizabeth Bedwell, Andrea Helen Stewart

LEROY — Jason Leigh Webster

LINDEN — Abram Arnoldrous Hinson, Veronica Laticia Jackson

LOCKHART — Kathryn Amanda Bryan

LOXLEY — Casie Elizabeth Godwin, John Gregory Saad

MILLRY — Shakillia Lesha Johnson

MOBILE — Rachel M. Ankersen, Andrew Davis Banks, Robert Peter Brannon III, Henry Pell Brown III, Aeana Lea Calametti, Amanda Paige Carlisle, Thomas L. Carlton, Mitchell James Collier, Kristen Nicole Coward, Douglas Burton Davis, William Lloyd Fonde Jr., Lauren Ellery Francez, Jennifer Michelle Garratt, Sam Seraphim Haginas, Amy Michele Hawkins, August Nicole Holland, Patricia Ann Hooks, Leah Delmaris Hunte, Frances Whiting Inge, Holly Marie Johnson, Emily Anne Kellen, Jason Bret Largue, Mary Ross Little, Patrick Brett Loper, Ryan Charles Marks, William Mark Roberts, Dennis Nelson Savage Jr., Mary-Margaret Slaton, Wendy L. Sommer, Olivia Tinisha Sumlin, Heekun Peter Uhn, Jonathan Corey White, Julia Fox White, Ashley Y. Williams, Elizabeth Berkley Yance, Jeffrey Galloway Zundel

MONROEVILLE — Leslie Clare Hines

OPP — Betsy S. Prior

ORANGE BEACH — Andrew Dale Burgess

PRICHARD — Khelyn E Mickles

ROBERTSDALE — Krystal Cherie Keenan

SILVERHILL — Leah Marie Byrne, Crystal Marie Pearson

ST. STEPHENS — Jonathan Melton Adams

SWEET WATER — Kindra Lashaye Washington

THEODORE — Tracy Elizabeth Campbell

THOMASVILLE — Darnisha Wilson Dickinson, Crystal Ann Johnson

URIAH — Tabitha Barber Odom

WHATLEY — Liquita Januel Mobley

WILMER — Jami Michelle Alford