2006 Outstanding Alumni Gerald Bender
Judge, Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court
Attorney for Simon Wiesenthal
Nominated by: Wilbur Wright College, Illinois Joseph Gomer
Major, U. S. Air Force (Retired)
Member of Tuskegee Airmen
Nominated by: Ellsworth Community College, Iowa Leland Hartwell
President and Director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Recipient, 2001 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Nominated by: Glendale Community College, California Oscar Hijuelos
Author
Recipient, 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love Nominated by: Bronx Community College, New York Beverly O’Neill
Mayor, City of Long Beach, California
Nominated by: Long Beach City College, California John Pappajohn
Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur
Nominated by: North Iowa Area Community College Chad Pregracke
President and Founder, Living Lands and Waters
Nominated by: Black Hawk College, Illinois Jim Sinegal
President and CEO, Costco Wholesale Corporation
Nominated by: San Diego City College, California
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