Notable Alumni

Notable Whittier College Alumni

George E. Outland '28*, United States Congressman
Richard M. Nixon '34*, 37th President of the United States
J. Stanley Sanders '63, Partner and attorney for The Sanders Firm LLP, Rhodes Scholar, former Los Angeles mayoral candidate
Abdullah Alireza '68, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Robert D. Durham '69, Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, partner in Bennett & Durham
Albert Jacquez '77, Principal, Strategic Solutions Washington; former chief executive for the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; former chief of staff for California Congressman Esteban Torres
Adrienne Cisneros '81, Director, Office of Civil Rights and Diversity, U.S. Department of Energy
Tony Strickland '93, California State Senator, 19th District

F. Lynn Blystone '57, Chairman, President and CEO of Tri-Valley Corporation (AMEX ticker: TIV)
Elden Smith '62, President and CEO, Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc.
Peter L.Harris '65, past CEO for the San Francisco 49ers, FAO Schwarz
Fred Anderson '66, Co-founder and managing director, Elevation Partners; former Executive Vice President and CFO for Apple, Inc.
A.J. Villalobos '66, Chairman and senior managing director of ARVCO Capital Research LLC., former Deputy Mayor for City of Los Angeles
Richard Gilchrist '68, President, Investment Properties Group, the Irvine Company
Joyce Brunelle '69, Chairman, Suntricity, Inc.
Richard Foos '71, Co-founder of Rhino Records, founder of Shout! Factory
Fred Wang '72, Director & Vice-Chairman of the Board, CDC Corporation
Michael Teel '74, President & CEO of Raley's/ Bel Air/ Nob Hill Foods (Supermarket chain)
Paul Bateman '79, President, Klein & Saks Group
Edwin Keh '79, Senior Vice President and chief operating officer of Global Procurement for Walmart
Edward O. Petersen '93, Co-founder and executive vice president for sales and marketing, Intelius
Shakir Husain '98, Founder and CEO for Creative Chaos (Pvt), Ltd. (Pakistan)

Martin Ortiz '48*, Pioneering Latino advocate, founder of the Center of Mexican American Affairs
Hiroko Tatebe '73, Founder & CEO, Global Organization for Leadership and Diversity (GOLD)
Melanie Brunson '76, Executive Director, American Council for the Blind
Jennifer Waltzer '80, Chief Administrative Officer, Autism Speaks
Andrea Shorter '88, Co-chair, Bayard LGBT Rustin Coalition; president, San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women; former Deputy Director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Fred Hawthorne '00, award-winning educator, author, inspirational speaker

Robert M. Zemsky '62, Founding Director, Institute for Research on Higher Education, University of Pennsylvania, Chair of The Learning Alliance for Higher Education, Former Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Christopher Cross '62, Chairman of Cross & Joftus, LLC
Raymond Erickson '63, Founding Director, Aaron Copland School of Music, former Dean of Arts and Humanities, City University of New York Graduate School
Ray Mellado '71, Founder & CEO, Great Minds in STEM
Kristine Dillon '73, President, Consortium on Financing Higher Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Ferguson '74, President, University of Maine in Orono
Sandy Thorstenson '77, Superintendent of Schools, Whittier Union High School District
Anthony S. Tricoli '78, President, Georgia Perimeter College
M. Rene Islas '00, Vice President for B&D Consulting’s National Educational Practice, former Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Education

Jessamyn West '23*, award-winning novelist, author of The Friendly Persuasion (1945)
Zilpha (Keatley) Snyder '48, Newbery award-winning children’s author
Arthur Allan Seidelman '58, Emmy-winning director and producer for television, film, and Broadway
Guy Webster '62, noted celebrity photographer; co-founder, Guy Webster-Mike Taggart Motorcycle Museum
Robert "Bob" Porter '63, discographer, writer, record producer, Blues Hall of Fame Inductee, Grammy-winner, syndicated radio host "Portraits in Blue"
Timothy Clott '70, children’s television producer and studio executive
James Nash '72, Emmy-winning broadcast news director, producer, writer (CBS), Edward R. Murrow Award and Golden Mike Award-winner
Alma Martinez '84, stage, film, and television actress
John Murdy '89, creative director (attractions, rides, annual Halloween Horror Night), Universal Studios CA
Mei-lan Stark '89, Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property, Fox Entertainment Group
Charles Bock '91, novelist, New York Times' Notable Book of the Year (2008)
Josh Freedom Du Lac '93, pop music critic for The Washington Post
Geoff Stults '97, television actor, ABC's "Happy Town," CW’s “October Road”
Henry K. Priest '98, award-winning independent film producer, film festival director, and amateur wrestling technical advisor
Adam Pava '99, television writer, producer, co-creator of Cartoon Network’s “Out of Jimmy’s Head"

Howard House '30, M.D.*, "father of modern otology," founder of House Ear Institute
James Galloway '66, Tyler Prize-winner for Environmental Achievement, American Association for the Advancment of Science Fellow, American Geophysical Union Fellow, Chair for the International Nitrogen Initiative
Nathaniel G. Pitts '69, retired director, Office of Integrative Activities, National Science Foundation
Dean Salisbury '85, M.D., Director, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, McLean Hospital, and associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Adam Rosenberg '92 , CEO, Link Medicine; principal in Faber Daeufer & Rosenberg PC
Kalina Gospodinova '04, research technician, Phoenix Mars Landing Mission

Anthony "Tony" Malinosky '32*, former Major League Baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers
Tom Tellez '55, Olympic Track & Field Coach (for Gold Medalists Carl Lewis, Joe DeLoach, Leroy Burrell, among others)
Jim Colborn '68, Coordinator of Pacific Rim Operations for Texas Rangers (American League Baseball); former Major League Baseball pitcher, pitching coach
Russ Purnell '70, Special Teams Coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars (National Football League)
Jim Skipper '73, former Assistant Head Coach, Carolina Panthers (National Football League)
Doug Locker '79, General Manager, Washington Stealth (National Lacrosse League)

*deceased