Carolina Alumni Award
Outstanding Black Alumni Award
Past Recipients

The Black Alumni Council presents this award to an alumnus or alumna distinguished in his or her chosen field.

1981  Oliver Washington
1982  Janie Shuler Fulton
1983  Luther J. Battiste, III
1984  T. R. McConnell, CPA
1985  Dorothy A. Manigault
1986  I.S. Leevy Johnson
1987  James Solomon, Jr.
1988  Heyward Bannister
1989  Paul Livingston
1990  Clente Fleming
1991  Charles P. Austin
1992  Henrie Monteith Treadwell
1993  Rick C. Wade
1994  Abigail R. Rogers
1995  Willie Lee Catoe
1996  Vermelle Jamison Johnson
1997  Larry Lebby
1998  Sterling Sharpe
1999  Aretha B. Pigford
2000 John K. Waddell
2002 Traci Young Cooper
2003 Charles E. Jones Jr.

2004

Dr. Saundra Glover

The 2004 Outstanding Black Alumni Award recipient is working to combat health problems among African Americans in South Carolina. Moore School Alumna Dr. Saundra Glover, now a member of the faculty of the Arnold School of Public Health, heads a $3 million project funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Her research into the higher incidence disease in the black community is motivated by a desire to give back to the community and to help improve people’s lives. Dr. Glover foresees her work serving as a national model for addressing minority health disparities.
 

2005

Michael L. Thurmond, ’78 law, is commissioner of the Georgia Department of Labor. Thurmond was the first African-American elected to the Georgia General Assembly from Clarke County since Reconstruction. During his legislative tenure, he was the only African-American legislator elected from a majority white district. In 1994, then Georgia Gov. Zell Miller selected Thurmond to direct Georgia’s historic Workfirst program, which helped more than 90,000 welfare-dependent Georgia families move into the workforce. Thurmond also is a distinguished lecturer in the University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government.
 

2006

Reginald "Reggie" Lloyd, '93 law, is the first African American in more than 100 years to be named South Carolina's U.S. attorney, the state's highest ranking federal prosecutor. He is responsible for prosecuting federal crimes and representing the United States in civil cases. Ebony magazine has named The Honorable Reginald I. Lloyd one of the one-hundred most influential blacks in America. A recipient of the University of South Carolina School of Law's Compleat Lawyer Award, Mr. Lloyd joined the firm of Nexsen, Pruit, Jacobs and Pollard before moving on to the South Carolina Attorney General's office. He has served as Director of Research and Chief Counsel to the Judiciary Committee for the South Carolina House of Representatives.