page_title: Union University
section_title: Alumni
hierarchical_section_title: Union University / Notable people / Alumni
caption_attribution_description: English: Howell E. Jackson, Justice of the Supreme Court
context_page_description: Union University is a private evangelical Christian university in Jackson, Tennessee, with additional campuses in Germantown and Hendersonville. The university is affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention and relates to the Southern Baptist Convention. It is a union of several different schools: West Tennessee College, formerly known as Jackson Male Academy; Union University of Murfreesboro; Southwestern Baptist University; and Hall-Moody Junior College of Martin, Tennessee.
context_section_description: Dr. Bob Agee, Executive Director for the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities, and President Emeritus, Oklahoma Baptist University.
  Milton Brown (politician) (W) - U.S. Representative and co-founder of Southwestern University (now Union University) and Lambuth University both located in Jackson, Tennessee.
  John Dancy - Former NBC News Correspondent.
  Dr. Monroe E. Dodd—Pastor of First Baptist Church of Shreveport, Louisiana, 1912–1950; founder of Dodd College for Girls; and radio minister.
  Dr. Joshua F. Drake - Musicologist and hymnist at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
  Dr. Steve Gaines - Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee. President of the Southern Baptist Convention.
  Pauline LaFon Gore - mother of United States Vice President Albert Gore, attended Union and was awarded an honorary degree.
  J. D. Grey (Bachelor's degree, 1929), Southern Baptist pastor and convention president from 1952 to 1954
  Dr. George H. Guthrie - Professor of New Testament, Regent College; former Benjamin W. Perry Professor of Bible and chair of the School of Christian Studies, Union University; one of the English Standard Version (ESV) Bible Translation Review Scholars. An expert in Greek Exegesis and writer known for his analysis and expertise on the Epistle to the Hebrews.
  Eli Shelby Hammond - federal judge
  John L. Head  (attended)- basketball coach
  John W. Holland - federal judge
  Howell Edmunds Jackson - United States Supreme Court Justice
  William Hicks Jackson - Confederate general, brother of Justice Howell Edmonds Jackson
  Jim Jones - American football player
  J. Thomas McAfee - president of Hallmark Systems, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia.
  Chad McMahan, Mississippi state senator.
  Charles N. Millican - founding President for the University of Central Florida.
  Gaylon Moore - professional basketball player
  Jimmy Moore (baseball) - Major League baseball player
  W. Winfred Moore—Pastor of First Baptist Church of Amarillo, Texas (1959–1989); professor at Baylor University
  Tom J. Murray (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1943 to 1966
  David Alexander Nunn - U.S. Representative and Tennessee Secretary of State
  Luis Ortiz (baseball) - Major League baseball player
  Josephine Owino - basketball player for the Washington Mystics
  Joseph B. Palmer - Confederate general and lawyer
  Herron C. Pearson (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee
  Jeanette Brooks Priebe - Director of the Louisville Civil Service Board in Kentucky
  Chris Rice - Christian recording artist
  Eugene Rice - United States federal judge (Eastern District of Oklahoma)
  R. R. Sneed - Tennessee Secretary of State from 1913 to 1917
  Scratch Track - Indie Acoustic Hip-hop Band
  Dr. L. Thomas Strong III - Dean of Leavell College and Professor of New Testament and Greek in Leavell College at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
  John May Taylor (D) - U.S. Representative from Tennessee.
  Dr. William E. Troutt - President, Rhodes College
  Dr. Timothy Tucker - Former President of the American Pharmacists Association (APhA).  Former president of the Tennessee Pharmacists Association (TPA), president of the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy, and Speaker of the House for TPA for more than 10 years.  Winner of the Lambda Chi Alpha Order or Merit.
  Brandon Lay - Musician and recording artist
caption: Howell Jackson
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