1960
Joseph E. Worsham (’69 English, Ed.) was inducted into the Washington State Football Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame.
1970
Terry Van Allen (’76 Phys. Ed.) received the Knowledge and Understanding Deliver Optimum Service award and was named one of the top federal employees in the nation by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service.
Dan Castles (’78 Fin.) received the WSU Alumni Achievement Award. In 1998, Castles founded the digital media company Telestream, which pioneered video content software.
1980
Tom Besser (’86 PhD Vet. Microbiol.), a professor emeritus in the Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology at WSU, received the Tom Thorne and Beth Williams Memorial Award from the Wildlife Disease Association.
Bob Ledford (’86 Busi.) was appointed to the board of directors for Orion Group Holdings, Inc., a specialty construction company in Houston. Ledford is president and CEO of Prime Electric, an electrical construction contractor in Bellevue.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu appointed David Nagahiro (’86 Arch.), president of Boston design firm CBT, to the city’s Civic Design Commission.
Doug Call (’87 Wildland Rec., ’97 PhD Zool.), a senior vice provost and Regents’ Professor in the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health at WSU, is president of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Debbie Gracio (’88, ’95 MS Elec. Eng.) is the director of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland.
Jill Valley (’88 Comm.) was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Silver Circle Honor Society for the northwest region. Valley was a reporter for WOWL-TV in Florence, Alabama, and an anchor for KECI-TV and KPAX-TV in Missoula, Montana.
Khursheed Mama (’86 Vet. Sci., ’89 DVM) heads the Department of Clinical Sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Colorado State University.
1990
J. D. Baser (’94 Ag. Ed., ’05 MED Higher Ed. Admin.), an associate professor in the crop and soil sciences department at WSU, was awarded an honorary American FFA degree.
Tiffany Barbre (’96 Accounting) is the senior vice president, corporate controller, and principal accounting officer for Costco.
Sean Wells (’96 Civ. Eng.) is Pullman’s city administrator. He had been the city’s public works director since 2023.
Jerry Glover (’97 Soils Sci., ’98 Phil., ’01 PhD Soils Sci.) is chief of staff for the International Rice Research Institute.
Arrick Jackson (’97 MA Crim. Jus., ’01 PhD Poli. Sci.) is chancellor of Indiana University Northwest.
Christine Hoyt (’98 Hum.) retired as vice president for the Office of Strategy, Planning, and Analysis at WSU.
Kim Jorgensen (’99 Nursing) is the chief nursing officer for Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Courtney Meehan (’99 MA Anthro., ’05 PhD Anthro.) is the dean of the WSU College of Arts and Sciences.
2000
The New Orleans Saints honored Steve Gleason (’00 Bus.) with its inaugural Courage Award. Gleason joined the Saints’ 2025 Hall of Fame class.
Phung Quang Hung (’02 MBA) is CEO of One Mount Group, one of Vietnam’s largest technological companies.
Jeff Pierce (’03 Busi.) is president of Johnson Wealth Inc., a subsidiary of Johnson Financial Group.
Idaho Governor Brad Little appointed Amanda Ulrich (’03 Poli. Sci.) as district judge to the Seventh Judicial District.
Colin White (’03 Busi.) has opened Spokane Valley Montessori, a nonprofit preschool.
Lucia Strader (’04 PhD Molec. Plant Sci.) is a professor and the holder of the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology at Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego.
2010
Victor Fuentes (’12 Elec. Eng.) is CEO and general manager of the Franklin Public Utility District.
Phung Le (’14 Accounting) is senior vice president and controller at Riverview Bancorp, Inc. in Vancouver.
Allyssa Sheppard (’15 Hosp. Busi. Mgmt., Psych.), executive chef of catering services at WSU, was the chief chili curator for Pullman’s 2025 National Lentil Festival.
Kadie Svrcek (’15 Soc. Sci.) received the Chancellor’s Cornerstone Award from Texas State Technical College. Svrcek is the statewide senior director for college pathways and enrichment at TSTC.
Jacqui Gordón Núñez (’16 MS Hort. Sci.) is vice president of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association.
Trevor Bond (’17 PhD History) is dean of WSU Libraries.
Nicole Jones (’17 Psych.) is a certified nurse-midwife in the obstetrics and gynecology clinic at TriState Health in Clarkston.
Ana Robles (’18 Nursing) is an advanced nurse practitioner on the cardiology team at Prosser Memorial Health.
Andreia Todd (’18 Mktg.) is vice president of global brand marketing at Zefr, a brand suitability and contextual advertising platform.
2020
Annie Alley (’22 Degree), co-owner of Firmani + Associates in Seattle, received the 2025 Public Relations Professional of the Year award from the Public Relations Society of America’s Puget Sound chapter.
Cedar Cunningham (’22 Finance) competed with Team USA in the World Rowing Championships in Shanghai. The men’s eight earned a bronze medal, and the team finished fourth in the men’s quadruple sculls, the best result for the US since 1998.
Yang Lee (’23 Soc. Sci.) is an assistant coach for the women’s tennis program at Harvard University. Lee was WSU tennis team captain.
Jadon Hawkins (’24 Busi.) is the program coordinator for veteran and military-affiliated students at WSU’s Global Campus.
Madisyn Holland (’24 Digi. Tech. & Cult.) is a marketing coordinator for GeoEngineers Inc. in Spokane.
Hannah Peters (’25 Int. Des.) is an interior designer for DS Studio in Spokane.