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Previous Alumnus/na of the Year Honorees
2006: Guy (’53)(’55) & Betty (McKanna) Burton
2005:

Eugene Croarkin Sr. ('49, '52)

2004:

Dwain Horn ('50)

2003:

Calvin Roebuck ('57)

2002:

Linda Miller ('70)

2001:

Dean Rosebery ('41) & Amy (Ayres) ('43) Rosebery

2000:

Carole Kennedy ('72)

1999:

Chuck Foudree ('66)

1998:

Bud Hunter ('50)

1997:

Joseph Hasenstab ('60)

1996:

Steve Gaw ('78) & Fannie (Bowdish) Gaw ('84)

1995:

James C.C. Chen ('86)

1994:

Ruth Warner Towne ('39)

1993:

Frederick "Fritz" Lauer ('50)

1992:

Ray Bentele ('60) & Mary (Cox) Bentele ('60)

1991:

Larry Moore ('67)

2007 Alumna of the Year
 Randa Rawlins (’79)

Randa Rawlins, a 1979 Truman graduate, is General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Shelter Insurance Companies in Columbia, Missouri.

She was appointed to Truman's Board of Governors in December 1997, reappointed in March 2002 and currently serves as Chair of the Board. She is also a member of the Truman State University Foundation Board, the Capital Campaign Steering Committee, the John R. Kirk Society, and the President's Circle. In addition, she serves as Chair of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges Council of Board Chairs.

Rawlins was a Pershing Scholar while attending Truman. She was a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha and involved in Student Senate. She served as an intern in the Washington, D.C. office of Congressman Tom Coleman and in the Jefferson City office of State Representative Harry Hill.

She received her juris doctorate from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law. In 2003 the Law School presented her with the Citation of Merit, its most prestigious alumni award.

Rawlins is a member of the Missouri Bar Association, Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the International Association of Defense Counsel, The American Board of Trial Advocates, Association of Corporate Counsel and the Women Lawyers Association of Mid-Missouri. She was recently appointed to serve as a member of the Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules committee and is a member of the Columbia Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. She is also active in Missouri United Methodist Church in Columbia and recently returned from her third mission in Africa.