Notable Alumni
More than 700 LMU alumni have entered medical or legal practice in Appalachian communities. Another 3,000 have become professional educators, serving in positions ranging from elementary school teaching to university presidencies.
Notable individual alumni include:
- Scot Shields, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Nelson Pizarro, 2007 All American, Major League Soccer player
- Ralph Stanley, American bluegrass artist (awarded the honorary doctorate of music in 1976)
- James Still, Appalachian poet, novelist and folklorist
- Jesse Stuart, author
- David M. Walker, former United States Comptroller General (awarded the honorary doctorate of public service)
- Don West, writer, civil-rights activist
- Charles Holland one of the 5 Deming Masters and Founder of QualPro, Inc.
- Autry O.V. Pete DeBusk, Founder and owner of DeRoyal Industries
- John Rice Irwin, historian, founder of the Museum of Appalachia
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