List of University of North Texas alumni

The following is a list of people who have attended or taught at the University of North Texas.

Athletics

Arts and media

Science and education

Government and public service
  • Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs since 29 April 2015. He was the former ambassador to Washington, former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia
  • Dr Massouma Al-Mubarak, Kuwait's first woman Member of Parliament and former Minister of Planning and Health.
  • Dick Armey, former Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Texas District 26, which includes UNT, former economics professor and department chair at UNT
  • Robert Lee Bobbitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives (1927-1929); Attorney General of Texas (1929-1930); state court judge (1935-1937); chairman of the Texas Highway Department (1937-1943)[7]
  • Michael C. Burgess, current U.S. representative for the 26th Texas district, which includes UNT
  • Konni Burton, Texas State Senator as of 2015
  • Jack Cox, Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1962; Houston oilfield equipment industrialist
  • Tony Goolsby (Class of 1961), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Dallas County from 1989 to 2009[8]
  • Warren G. Harding, former Texas State Treasurer (1977-1983) and Dallas County Treasurer (1950-1977); former President of North Texas State University.
  • O.H. "Ike" Harris (Class of 1954), state senator (1967-1995) from Dallas County
  • Jim Hightower, populist activist and former Texas Commissioner of Agriculture
  • Joseph L. Lengyel, General, U.S. Air Force; Chief, National Guard Bureau
  • Clint Lorance (born 1984), Army officer convicted of second-degree murder for battlefield deaths; pardoned
  • Mercurio Martinez, Jr., MBA, Webb County county judge, 1991-2002[9]
  • Diane Patrick (Class of 1969 and 1999, M.A. and Ph.D.), member of the Texas House of Representatives from Arlington; former faculty member in education[10]
  • Ray Roberts, former Congressman from Denton; namesake of nearby Lake Ray Roberts
  • Gwyn Shea, former Texas secretary of state (2002-2003) and a member of the Texas House of Representatives (1983-1993) from Irving; UNT regent since 2007
  • Drew Springer, Jr., state representative from District 68 in North Texas and the eastern South Plains[11]
  • Barbara Staff, co-chairman of the 1976 Texas Ronald Reagan presidential primary campaign[12]

References
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  2. Barnes, Michael (December 4, 2017). "Texas artist Gerald Harvey Jones painted Americana". Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  3. "William Jackson Adkins". wikitree.com. Retrieved August 14, 2015.
  4. "California Death Index, 1940-1997". FamilySearch. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  5. Stanley, Autumn (1995). Mothers and Daughters of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 387. ISBN 978-0813521978. Retrieved 16 August 2015.
  6. "Curriculum Vitae: Juan L. Maldonado" (PDF). senate.state.tx.us. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2012. Retrieved May 14, 2012.
  7. "Robert Lee Bobbitt". freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
  8. "State Representative Tony Goolsby" (PDF). lrl.state.tx.us. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
  9. "2014 honoree: Mercurio Martinez, Jr.: Former councilman, county judge to receive higher education award for community work," Laredo Morning Times, February 6, 2014, p. 4D
  10. "Diane Patrick's Biography". votesmart.org. Retrieved March 9, 2014.
  11. "Weatherford grad takes his seat as state legislator, February 1, 2013". Weatherford Democrat. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  12. Julia Sweeney, "Barbara Staff picks GOP over Jamaica," the defunct Dallas Times Herald, August 20, 1976, p. E3
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