EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Albuquerque, NM

Founding Date:
1889

Motto:
Lux Hominum Vita

Team:
Lobos

Enrollment:
24,000

Official Website:
http://www.unm.edu/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Edward Abbey	Author	29-Jan-1927	14-Mar-1989	Desert Solitaire
Rudolfo Anaya	Author	30-Oct-1937		Bless Me, Ultima
Jerry Apodaca	Politician	3-Oct-1934		Governor of New Mexico, 1975-79
Oscar L. Chapman	Government	22-Oct-1896	8-Feb-1978	US Secretary of the Interior, 1949-53
Edward L. Chavez	Judge	c. 1956		New Mexico Chief Justice
Martin Chavez	Politician	1952		Mayor of Albuquerque
Joe F. Colvin	Business	c. 1942		Nuclear Energy Institute
Robert Creeley	Poet	21-May-1926	30-Mar-2005	Founded Black Mountain Review
Henry Crumpton	Government	?		Coordinator for Counterterrorism, 2005-07
Mel Daniels	Basketball	20-Jul-1944	30-Oct-2015	ABA Hall-of-Famer
Diane Denish	Politician	c. 1950		Lt. Governor of New Mexico
Pete Domenici	Politician	7-May-1932		US Senator from New Mexico, 1973-2009
Richard W. Douglas	Business	c. 1947		The Staubach Company
Lois Duncan	Author	28-Apr-1934	15-Jun-2016	I Know What You Did Last Summer
Larry EchoHawk	Politician	2-Aug-1948		Head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
Joy Harjo	Poet	9-May-1951		The Last Song
Martin Heinrich	Politician	17-Oct-1971		Congressman, New Mexico 1st
Tony Hillerman	Novelist	27-May-1925	26-Oct-2008	Mystery novels set at Navajo reservation
Shirley Hufstedler	Judge	24-Aug-1925	30-Mar-2016	US Secretary of Education, 1979-81
David Iglesias	Government	c. 1962		US Attorney, New Mexico, 2001-06
William H. Itoh	Diplomat	30-May-1943		US Ambassador to Thailand, 1996-99
Gary Johnson	Politician	1-Jan-1953		Governor of New Mexico, 1995-2003
L. Daniel Jorndt	Business	c. 1941		CEO of Walgreens, 1998-2002
Bruce King	Politician	6-Apr-1924	13-Nov-2009	Three-time Governor of New Mexico
Brian Levant	Film Director	6-Aug-1952		Jingle All the Way
Edward Lewis	Publisher	15-May-1940		Founder of Essence magazine
Ben R. Luján	Politician	7-Jun-1972		Congressman, New Mexico 3rd
Joe Maloof	Business	15-Nov-1955		Las Vegas entrepreneur
Penny Marshall	Actor	15-Oct-1942		Laverne on Laverne and Shirley
Jerry McNerney	Politician	18-Jun-1951		Congressman, California 11th
Robert L. Mercer	Business	11-Jul-1946		Hedge fund billionaire
N. Scott Momaday	Novelist	27-Feb-1934		House Made of Dawn
Francine I. Neff	Government	6-Dec-1925	9-Feb-2010	US Treasurer, 1974-77
James E. Oberg	Historian	7-Nov-1944		Space exploration historian
E. J. Peaker	Actor	22-Feb-1944		Hello, Dolly!
Louis A. Pérez, Jr.	Historian	5-Jun-1943		Cuba Between Empires, 1878-1902
Henry M. Rivera	Attorney	25-Sep-1947		FCC Commissioner, 1981-85
Frank Shorter	Track and Field	31-Oct-1947		Marathon runner
James P. Simmons	Business	9-Nov-1924	7-Aug-2013	James P. Simmons & Associates
Kim Stanley	Actor	11-Feb-1925	20-Aug-2001	Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Jeffry E. Sterba	Business	c. 1954		CEO of PNM Resources
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend	Politician	4-Jul-1951		Lt. Governor of Maryland, 1995-2003
Gloria Tristani	Government	20-Dec-1953		FCC Commissioner, 1997-2001
Tom Udall	Politician	18-May-1948		US Senator from New Mexico
Brian Urlacher	Football	25-May-1978		Chicago Bears linebacker
Linda E. Watt	Diplomat	c. 1951		US Ambassador to Panama, 2002-05
Walter Jon Williams	Novelist	15-Oct-1953		Hardwired
Joel-Peter Witkin	Photographer	13-Sep-1939		Photographer of the macabre
Douglas Woolf	Novelist	23-Mar-1922	18-Jan-1992	Fade Out
Ken Zangara	Business	c. 1952		Albuquerque car dealer

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Rudolfo Anaya	Author	30-Oct-1937		Bless Me, Ultima
Edward L. Chavez	Judge	c. 1956		New Mexico Chief Justice
Jerome Corsi	Activist	31-Aug-1946		Co-Author, Unfit for Command
William C. Dowling	Educator	5-Apr-1944		Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris
Peter B. Evans	Sociologist	2-Jun-1944		Embedded Autonomy
Fred R. Harris	Politician	13-Nov-1930		US Senator from Oklahoma, 1964-73
Christian Herter, Jr.	Government	29-Jan-1919	16-Sep-2007	First Chairman, New York Urban Coalition
Tony Hillerman	Novelist	27-May-1925	26-Oct-2008	Mystery novels set at Navajo reservation
Jerry L. Jordan	Economist	12-Dec-1941		Council of Economic Advisers, 1981-82
Peter Kolchin	Historian	3-Jun-1943		American Slavery, 1619-1877

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jerry Apodaca	Politician	3-Oct-1934		Governor of New Mexico, 1975-79
Louis Caldera	Government	1-Apr-1956		US Secretary of the Army, 1998-2001
Mary Sue Coleman	Educator	2-Oct-1943		President, University of Michigan
Jane E. Henney	Doctor	c. 1947		FDA Commissioner, 1998-2001
David J. Schmidly	Educator	1943		President, University of New Mexico

COACHES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Steve Alford	Basketball	23-Nov-1964		Head Coach, UCLA
Dennis Franchione	Football	28-Mar-1951		Texas A&M Head Coach, 2003-07
Marv Levy	Football	3-Aug-1925		NFL, CFL, and NCAA coach
Marvin Lewis	Football	23-Sep-1958		Head Coach, Cincinnati Bengals
Bronco Mendenhall	Football	21-Feb-1966		Football Coach, University of Virginia
Joe Morrison	Football	21-Aug-1937	5-Feb-1989	NY Giant, Gamecocks Coach
Gary Patterson	Football	13-Feb-1960		Head Coach, Texas Christian

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