List of Harding University alumni

Following is a list of notable alumni of Harding University.

Academia edit

C. Leonard Allen, historian and college administrator
James D. Bales, professor and administrator
Martin Doyle, ecologist at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University
Clifton L. Ganus Jr., theologian, educator, and president of Harding College
George Howard, Hebraist and professor emeritus and head of the Department of Religion and Hebrew at the University of Georgia
E. H. Ijams, president of Lipscomb University
Annie May Alston Lewis, theological librarian
Ed Madden, poet, gay rights activist, professor of English, and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina^[1]
J. Stanley Marshall, college administrator, was president Florida State University
Bruce McLarty, academic, minister, and president of Harding University
Carroll D. Osburn, Professor Emeritus at Abilene Christian University and leading New Testament textual critic
Edward Granville Sewell, American mathematician and professor at University of Texas, El Paso^[2]
Rubel Shelly, writer, minister, professor, and former president of Rochester College^[3]
Richard Felix Staar, political scientist, historian, and fellow at Stanford
Jason R. Wiles, associate professor of biology at Syracuse University

Roxanne Beck, actress and screenwriter
Stephen Mark Brown, American opera tenor
David Ray Campbell, screenwriter and producer
Verna Howard, founder of the radio International Gospel Hour, originally based in Texarkana, Texas^[4]
Khalil Jahshan, political analyst, media commentator, and executive director of Arab Center Washington DC, a nonprofit think tank
Jerry W. Mitchell, investigative reporter and recipient of a "genius grant" from the MacArthur Foundation
Willie Robertson, star of A&E's Duck Dynasty as well as CEO of Duck Commander^[5]
Korie Robertson, star of A&E's Duck Dynasty and wife of Willie Robertson
W. Stephen Smith, voice teacher and author, Northwestern University Professor of Voice and Opera^[6]
Ray Walker, singer with The Jordanaires

Jeremy Kernodle, United States District Judge
Ken Starr, attorney, judge, U.S. Solicitor General, Special Prosecutor for the Impeachment of Bill Clinton

Tamera Alexander, author
Ed Madden, poet, gay rights activist, professor of English, and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina^[1]
Jerry Mitchell investigative reporter formerly with The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi,
Farrell Till, activist and editor of The Skeptical Review

Tim Barnes, Democratic politician from Tennessee
George S. Benson, missionary, college administrator, and conservative political activist
Mary Elizabeth Bentley, Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives^[7]
Keith Brooks, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Jim R. Caldwell, first Republican member of the Arkansas State Senate in the 20th century
Jonathan Dismang, politician
Timothy Chad Hutchinson, attorney and former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
David Porter, Texas Railroad Commissioner
Harmon Seawel, former member of the Arkansas House of Representatives
Thomas Philip Watson, politician
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma state secretary of education
Carlton Wing, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives

George S. Benson, missionary, college administrator, and conservative political activist
Charles Coil, evangelist
Roger Duke, theologian
Gary Holloway, executive director of the World Convention of Churches of Christ
Larry M. James, minister, social worker, and CEO of the Dallas housing enterprise CitySquare

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^ "Rochester College Selects Dr. John Tyson As Next President". Rochester College.
^ "Verna Elisha Howard (1911-2000)". Restoration History. Archived from the original on December 25, 2013. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
^ "Duck Dynasty". harding.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-04-10.
^ "W. Stephen Smith". Northwestern Bienen School of Music. Retrieved 2018-12-04.
^ "Mary Bentley's Biography". Project Vote Smart. Retrieved April 12, 2015.