TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama awarded some 1,100 degrees at commencement ceremonies held Saturday, Dec. 18, in Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.

Millard Fuller, founder and president of Habitat for Humanity International, was the featured speaker. Fuller, an alumnus of the UA School of Law, also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony. Approximately 1,100 degrees were conferred.

With this graduating class, UA has awarded more than 191,000 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 Florence area were listed as candidates to receive degrees:

DOCTORAL DEGREE

ATHENS -- Michael Edward Stovall

MASTER’S DEGREE

CHEROKEE -- Neal McCoy Hughes

FLORENCE -- Lora Allyn Barfield, Lydia Marie Seabol

MUSCLE SHOALS -- Deidra Reid Brewer, Teresa Anne Colvin, Dayna Dewberry Willis

TOWN CREEK -- Melanie Lynette Green

TUSCUMBIA -- Chanda Lynn Matthews

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

ATHENS -- Myra Carissa Green, Joshua Miller Magnusson, Tiffany Dianne Poole, Alison Lynn Robison

CHEROKEE -- Jeffery P. Trapp

ELKMONT -- Matthew Wyn Smith

FLORENCE -- Sara Elizabeth Allgood, Michael Todd Gann, James Paul Hewett, Gary Lamar Jester, Jessica Lee Lovelace, Michael Joseph Mauter, Joseph Heath Parnell, Casey L. Stanford, Sarah E. Wickwire

MOULTON -- Joseph L. Dutton, James Kevin England, Freda Joyce Rojem, Timothy Joe Taylor

MUSCLE SHOALS -- Mandy Kay Edwards, Adam Donald Flournoy, Daniel H. Nelms, April Danielle Pitts

PHIL CAMPBELL -- Billy Benjamin Pierce

ROGERSVILLE -- Gabriel Neal Belue

TANNER -- Melanie R. Bridgeforth

TOWN CREEK -- Scott O. Harrison, Bradford Edwin Hutto