Harper Lee|Pulitzer Prize winner/author of To Kill a Mockingbird;
Everette Maddox| poet;
Ray Reach|jazz musician and Director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame;
Michelle Richmond| author;
K. Lee Scott|choral composer and conductor;
Winton M. Blount|Chairman of Blount International and former Postmaster General;
David G. Bronner| Director of Alabama Pension Systems;
Samuel DiPiazza|former Chief Executive Officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers;
James M. Fail|chairman of Bluebonnet Savings Bank;