TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,000 degrees at summer commencement ceremonies held Monday, Aug. 11, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.

Thomas C. Hubbard, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea and a 1965 UA graduate, was the featured speaker. During the ceremony Hubbard was given an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Also during the ceremony, Gloria Narramore Moody, a longtime patron of the arts, received the Julia and Henry Tutwiler Award, UA’s most prestigious award for volunteer service.

With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 186,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement ceremonies three times a year.

The following students from the Birmingham area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:

JURIS DOCTOR DEGREE

BIRMINGHAM -- 35205 -- Alfred Mark Bahakel, 35213 -- Thomas Claiborne Williams

DOCTORAL DEGREE

BIRMINGHAM -- 35205 -- Deneen Maria Senasi, 35209 -- John Andrew Dantzler, 35244 -- Marie B. Tylicki

HOOVER -- Holly Noel Deemer

McCALLA -- Kim Embleton Dixon

MASTER’S DEGREE

BESSEMER -- Corrie Cater Snider

BIRMINGHAM -- 35117 -- Randall N. Morgan, 35205 -- Niya Shiona Pickett, 35209 -- Susan Leigh Conner, 35210 -- Katrina Dionne Swain, 35213 -- Shari Janel Friedman, Mary Catherine Rollins, David H. Woodall, 35214 -- Richard Denton McLane, Cheryl Benita Thomas, Joanie Faye Varden, 35215 -- Kathryn Brooke Davidson, Madolyn Eve Rhea, 35226 -- Gay Myrick Cole, 35235 -- Rachel Frost Brockman, Danielle Marie Butler, 35242 -- Bedford Kyle Goodwin IV, Ashley Hope Thomson, 35243 -- Olivia Waugh Wilson, 35244 -- Brandon Blake Norberg

GARDENDALE -- Kelly Elizabeth Stephens

HELENA -- Tami Marie Genry, Meredith Katheryn Hepburn

HOMEWOOD -- Carrie Lynn Freeman

HOOVER -- Philip Bert Dublin, David Lane Legrand, Rebecca Wiley Mummert

HUEYTOWN -- Vanessa Colburn Dailey, Michael Hans Fritschi

McCALLA -- Cloyd Jefferson Obert IV

MONTEVALLO -- Angela M. Potts

PELHAM -- Jennifer A. Alexiou-Ray

PINSON -- Patricia S. Jordan, Christina Rae Sutton

STERRETT -- Karly Benson Field

TRAFFORD -- Tori Gray Ledlow

TRUSSVILLE -- Sandra B. Hoffman, Kristi D. Julian, Timothy Charles Meacham

VESTAVIA HILLS -- Michael Joshua Dogan

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

ADAMSVILLE -- Kristi Lynn Blanton, Julie Renee Stanberry

ALABASTER -- Scott Martin Dufresne, Megan Lucile Laye, Jefferson Cecil Roberts

BESSEMER -- Althea Renea Acoff, Mary Heather Beck, Le'Corlyss Rashi Bolden, Monique Dionne Gray, Rachel Gayle Schultz, Lakeysha Renee Terrell,

BIRMINGHAM -- 35206 -- Cristal Megan Hawkins, 35207 -- Brytannia Rakeisha Moore, Adrian Latrice Moultrie, 35208 -- Karla Lecher Ross, Angela Jeanese Winston, 35209 -- Catherine Stuart Lee, Timothy Drew McAbee, 35210 -- Erika Kristine Rentschler, Shelley Rebecca Wirt, 35211 -- Brooke Evonne Adams, Darien D'Rell Chatman, Selena Nichole Tarrant, Carlton Niles Williamson, Brian Demetrius Yarbrough, 35213 -- Marianne Hardin Alverson, Mary Ruth Bates, Joseph Truett Cobb, Margaret Davis Dreher, Jacob Bryant Marsh, James Weston Moore IV, 35214 -- Joycelyn Denise Haywood, Teryn Renay Witherspoon, 35215 -- Deidra Collett Collier, John Zachary Dover, Gordie Rashad Flowers, Malick Joof, Omisha Devon Myree, Tiffanie Nicole Wilson, 35216 -- Hunter Charles Martin, 35221 -- Alicia Nicole Beasley, 35222 -- Stephen Matthew Sullivan, 35223 -- Blair Rodgers Badham, David Joseph Callahan III, Katherine McNeill Kirk, Stephen Arrington Oakes, Marissa Mandi Shelsky, Angela Lane Turley, Elizabeth Whitton Ward, 35226 -- Christopher James Barnes, Kimberly Ann Golden, Andrew James Grundhoefer, Jacqueline Lee Wright, Lindsay Moore Zannis, 35228 -- Tinita Denise Hamilton, Aisha Kashaun Jackson, 35231 -- Clifford Bernard Jones, Kourtlawn Duval Richardson, 35235 -- Alishia Essie Davis, Lindsey Brooke Foushee, Brandon Tremain Harper, Bethany Mariah Huguenard, Stacia Leigh Self, Arnold Tafadzwa Takundwa, 35242 -- Gregory Neil Garner, Jeremy Scott Harris, Joshua Bryant Harris, Jacob Daniel Hill, Brandon Robert Lazarre, Brett Combs Macdonald, Leslie Paige McDonald, Anna Leigh McGuire, Shaun Thomas Meyer, Carla Michelle Parker, Bradley P. Reed, Catherine Ann Roden, Taylor Melissa Silvio, Amy Lee Sipe, Andrew Lee Smith, Christopher David Thompson, Brooke Maree Watts, 35243 -- Annette Kathryn Beauchamp, Jonathan George Boohaker, Lucian Chad Chappelle, Steven Paul Radford, Clayton Birdis Wellman II, 35244 -- Kyle Wayne Anderson, Michael Douglas Maxwell, Scott William Salmon, Brant Wood Youngblood

FAIRFIELD -- Tamika Lashun Samples

GARDENDALE -- Richard Adam Bradley, Gene Mark Calhoun, Amy Leigh Petrov, Holly Sheree Wordell

HELENA -- Leah Bennett Bailey, Laura Brady Galyean, Nicholas William Morgan, Michael John Sarran

HOMEWOOD -- David Jonathon Canupp

HOOVER -- Abbey Lane Blalock, April Melissa Bowling, Jason Oliver Cobb, Nancy Elizabeth Deadman, Jason Warren Green, Katie Jo Kinney, Jeffrey Wachs Lamaster, Kelly Ann Pace, Jeffrey William Sutton, John Arthur Thomas

HUEYTOWN -- Claudia Jill Cox, Dana Marie Hall

INDIAN SPRINGS -- Ryan Anthony Henley

LEEDS -- James Matthew Falkner

McCALLA -- Lance Reid Findlay, Bryan Eugene Marchant, Lizabeth Reese Moody, Eric Daniel Mullins, Cam Leona White

MIDFIELD -- Michael Wayne Lowe

MONTEVALLO -- Dusti Amber Bagwell, Mary Christina Evans, Ryan William Hanson, Allison Marie Hoff, Shawn Derek Payne

MORRIS -- Michelle Linda Letcher

MOUNT OLIVE -- Carla Nicole Kilgore, Kevin Russ Parker, Sharon Joyce Stephens

PINSON -- William Scott Bromley, Jessica Nicole Fikes

PLEASANT GROVE -- Ashley Nicole Jones, Robert Todd McLellan, Tara Leigh McLellan, Laura Virginia Rector, Stacey Vick Thompson

TRUSSVILLE -- Wallace Newton Bice Jr., Kimberly Rae Hazel, Bryan Christopher Lokey, David Markham Whitson

VESTAVIA HILLS -- Joseph Jenkins Gribbin Jr., Monica Gurtu, Katharine Faith McLure

VINCENT -- Kathryn Stine Deloach

WARRIOR -- Dwayne Benton, Mandy Lynn Lawrence, Connie May Richardson