page_title: University of North Texas
section_title: Government and public service
hierarchical_section_title: University of North Texas / Notable alumni / Government and public service
caption_attribution_description: English: Ray Roberts, US Representative from Texas
context_page_description: The University of North Texas is a public research university in Denton, Texas. It consists of eleven colleges, two schools, an early admissions math and science academy for exceptional high-school-age students from across the state, and a library system that comprises the university core. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". According to the National Science Foundation, UNT spent $44 million on research and development in 2018.
  North Texas was founded as a nonsectarian, coeducational, private teachers college in 1890 and was formally adopted by the state 11 years later. UNT is the flagship institution of the University of North Texas System, which includes additional universities in Dallas and Fort Worth. UNT also has a satellite campus in Frisco.
context_section_description: Alumni in public service include Michael C. Burgess, congressman for the 26th Texas district; Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs since April 2015, former Saudi ambassador to the United States, and former adviser to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia; Ray Roberts, former U.S. Congressman and namesake of Lake Ray Roberts; Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner who, while in office, was a pioneering supporter of organic farmers and ranchers; and Robert L. Bobbitt, who served as Texas Speaker of the House, Texas Attorney General, and chairman of the Texas Highway Department.
  Chester A. Newland, PhD (born 1930), who earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science with high honors from UNT in 1954 and also became head of the UNT Political Science Department in 1963, was appointed by Lyndon Johnson to become the inaugural director of the LBJ Library in 1968. He also served as director of the Federal Executive Institute from 1973 to 1976, and again from 1980 to 1981. In 1954, Newland was the founding president of North Texas chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, a national political science honorary organization. Jim Hightower was a student in political science at North Texas while Newland served as director. Clint Lorance, an Army officer, was convicted of second-degree murder for battlefield deaths in Afghanistan, and ultimately pardoned.
caption: Ray Roberts
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