PhD; chair of the Department Of Psychology at the University of Mississippi for 30 years
=== Politics and government ===
Toni Atkins (1984) – First openly gay Speaker of the California State Assembly and President pro tempore of the California State Senate; former acting mayor of San Diego
Henry Bowen – elected to the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1873; served two terms in the US House of Representatives
B. B. Comer (1869) – Governor of Alabama from 1907 to 1911
John M. Fleming (1851) – Tennessee state legislator and newspaper editor
John Goode (1848) – Virginia Congressman, Solicitor General of the U.S.
Morgan Griffith (1980) – elected to the US House of Representatives in 2011 representing Virginia's 9th Congressional District; served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1994 to 2011 and was elected House Majority Leader in the House of Delegates in 2000, becoming the first Republican in Virginia to hold that position.
Joseph P. Johnson (1952) – served in the Virginia House of Delegates from …
