# List of Kettering University people
## Notable alumni

| Name | Graduation year | Occupation |
| Mary Barra | 1985 | CEO and chairman, General Motors Corporation |
| Larry Burns | 1975 | Vice president, General Motors Corporation |
| Don Chaffin | 1962 | Professor of Industrial & Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan |
| Edward Nicholas Cole | 1933 | Former president, General Motors; former chairman, Checker Motors Corporation |
| Ivan Deveson | 1959 | Retired Lord Mayor of Melbourne, Australia |
| Elliott M. (Pete) Estes | 1938 | President, General Motors |
| David Hermance | 1970 | Executive Engineer, Advanced Technology Vehicles, Toyota |
| Henry Juszkiewicz | 1974 | CEO, Gibson Guitar Corporation |
| Bob Kagle | 1978 | General partner, Benchmark Capital |
| David Kenny | 1984 | Managing partner, VivaKi, Publicis Groupe |
| Aaron Kyle | 2002 | Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University |
| Ryan Mathews | 2001 | NASCAR driver |
| F. James McDonald | 1944 | Former president, General Motors Corporation |
| John Thomas Mentzer | | Chancellor's Professor and Vivienne R. Bruce Chair of Excellence in Business, University of Tennessee |
| Dane Miller | 1969 | Chairman, president, and CEO, Biomet |
| Raj Nair | 1987 | CEO, Singer |
| Rodney O'Neal | 1976 | Former President and CEO, Delphi Automotive |
| Stan O'Neal | 1974 | Former CEO, Merrill Lynch |
| William H. Osborne | 1983 | President and CEO, Federal Signal Corporation |
| Jeffrey Owens | 1978 | Former Chief Technology Officer, Delphi Automotive |
| Thomas Snyder | 1967 | President, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana |
| Sonia Syngal | 1993 | Former CEO, The Gap |
| Qasar Younis | 2004 | Co-founder of Applied Intuition |

## Honorary degree recipients

| Name | Degree | Awarded | Occupation |
| Rodney O'Neal | Honorary Doctor of Engineering | June 2015 | Retired CEO, Delphi Automotive |
| David A. Kenny | Honorary Doctor of Management | June 2014 | CEO and chairman, The Weather Channel |
| Carl Levin | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | June 2011 | United States Senator |
| Stanford R. Ovshinsky | Honorary Doctor of Engineering | December 2010 | Inventor |
| Michael M. Wood | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | June 2009 | Former United States ambassador to Sweden; Chairman, Redwood Investments LLC |
| Curtis Carlson | Honorary Doctor of Science | June 2008 | President, CEO, SRI International |
| David Hermance '70 | Honorary Doctor of Engineering (posthumous) | June 2008 | Executive Engineer, Advanced Technology Vehicles, Toyota |
| Dale E. Kildee | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | December 2007 | Member, United States House of Representatives |
| L. Brooks Patterson | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | December 2006 | County Executive, Oakland County, Michigan |
| Steve Wozniak | Honorary Doctor of Engineering | December 2005 | Co-founder of Apple Computer |
| Robert Lutz | Honorary Doctor of Management | June 2003 | Chairman, General Motors North America |
| Stan O'Neal '74 | Honorary Doctor of Management | December 2002 | CEO, Merrill Lynch |
| MaliVai Washington | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | June 2002 | Professional tennis player |
| Dean Kamen | Honorary Doctor of Engineering | December 2001 | President, DEKA Research and Development; founder, FIRST; inventor of Segway |
| Dave Bing | Honorary Doctor of Management | June 2000 | NBA player |
| John H. McConnell | Honorary Doctor of Management | December 1998 | Founder, Worthington Industries |
| John F. Smith, Jr. | Honorary Doctor of Engineering | June 1998 | President, CEO, Chairman, General Motors |
| Frank Stronach | Honorary Doctor of Management | December 1997 | Chairman, Magna International |
| Ben Carson | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | June 1997 | Neurosurgeon, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Carol Bartz | Honorary Doctor of Management | June 1997 | Chairman, president, CEO, AutoDesk |
| Arthur L. Tuuri | Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters | December 1994 | Pediatrician, Mott Children's Health Center, Flint, Michigan |
| Scott McNealy | Honorary Doctor of Engineering | June 1994 | President, Chairman, CEO, Sun Microsystems |
| Jaime Escalante | Honorary Doctor of Humanities | June 1989 | Mathematics Teacher, Garfield High School (Los Angeles County, California) |
| Paul F. Oreffice | Honorary Doctor of Management | June 1987 | Chairman, president, CEO, Dow Chemical Company |
| Roger Bonham Smith | Honorary Doctor of Management | June 1986 | Chairman, General Motors |

## Board of trustees

| Name | Occupation |
| Henio Arcangeli '86 | President, Motorsports Group Company, Yamaha Motor Corporation USA |
| Lizabeth A. Ardisana | CEO, ASG Renaissance |
| Carla J. Bailo '83 | South Lyon, MI |
| Jane E. Boon '90 | New York, NY |
| Walter G. Borst '85 | President and CEO, GM Asset Management |
| Don Chaffin '61 | R.G. Snyder Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) Industrial & Operations Engineering and Biomedical Engineering University of Michigan |
| Bruce D. Coventry '75 | Vice president, Operations, Electrovaya |
| Gary L. Cowger '70 (former chair) | Retired Group Vice President, Global Manufacturing and Labor, General Motors |
| Jacqueline A. Dedo '84 (Secretary) | President, the Piston Group |
| Neil De Koker '67 | President & CEO, Original Equipment Suppliers Association |
| Phillip Dutcher '74 | COO, Downtown Naples Campus, NCH Healthcare System |
| David S. Hoyte '71 | President, Transformation Management LLC |
| Charles F. Kettering III | President, Ridgeleigh Management Company |
| Jesse Lopez | CEO, BAE Industries Inc. |
| Robert K. McMahan | President, Kettering University |
| Michael Mansuetti | President, Robert Bosch LLC, Farmington Hills MI |
| John Moyer | President, Asahi Kasei Plastics |
| Cindy Niekamp | Senior Vice President, Automotive Coatings, PPG Industries |
| Chris Nielsen '87 | President, Toyota Motor Manufacturing |
| Jeffrey Owens '78 | President, Electronics & Safety, Delphi Corporation |
| Paul S. Peabody | CIO, Palomar Pomerado Health |
| Raymond Scott | Senior vice president and president, Global Electrical Power Systems, Lear Corporation |
| Marjorie Sorge | Executive director, Detroit Regional News Hub |
| Lyn St. James | Lyn St. James Racing LLC, Lyn St. James Foundation |
| Randy Stashick | Vice president of Engineering, United Parcel Service |
| Diana Tremblay '82 | Vice president, Manufacturing & Labor Relations, General Motors |

## Presidents

| Name | Years |
| Albert J. Sobey | 1919–1950 |
| Guy R. Cowing | 1950–1960 |
| Harold P. Rodes | 1960–1976 |
| William B. Cottingham | 1976–1991 |
| James E.A. John | 1991–2005 |
| Stanley R. Liberty | 2005–2011 |
| Robert K. McMahan | 2011–present |