Duke Divinity School - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Edwin Charles Boulton (M.Div. 1953) - a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • Ernest A. Fitzgerald (B.D. degree, 1951) - retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • Vergel L. Lattimore (M.Div. 1977) - Air National Guard Brigadier General
  • Gregory V. Palmer (M.Div. 1979) - former president of the United Methodist Council of Bishops (2008-2010).
  • Andrew Purves (Th. M. degree) - holds the Hugh Thomson Kerr Chair in Pastoral Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
  • Mack B. Stokes (B.D. degree, 1935) - retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  • Randall Wallace (Did not graduate, but did attend) - Hollywood Screenwriter, producer and director, involved with Braveheart, The Man in the Iron Mask, Pearl Harbor, and We Were Soldiers
  • Roy Kinneer Patteson, Jr., Th.M, 1964; Ph.D Graduate Studies in Religion 1967. Noted ancient language scholar, authority on the origin of the alphabet and former president of Southern Virginia University and King College
  • Sandra Steiner Ball (M.Div. 1987) - a Bishop of the United Methodist Church

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