Hall of Fame

The University of Alabama’s College of Communication & Information Sciences will celebrate the 23rd class of C&IS Hall of Fame inductees on Thursday, October 10, 2024.

We hope you will make plans to join us in Tuscaloosa for an incredible night of celebration.

TICKET INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON.

The 23rd Class of Inductees

Dr. Elizabeth Aversa

Dr. Elizabeth Aversa

Aversa instituted UA’s School of Library and Information Studies’ first online program in 2005 during her time as director. She also founded the UA Opera Guild in 2013 and won the American Library Association’s 2013 Beti Phi Mu award.

Bob Cohn

Bob Cohn

Cohn was a decorated journalist known for his work reporting on the Freedom Rides and other news during the Civil Rights movement. He later founded what is known today as Burson, Cohn and Wolfe, or BCW Global, an international communications firm.

Cohn will be honored posthumously.

Dr. Jesse Lewis

Dr. Jesse Lewis

Lewis is the founder of the Birmingham Times, former president of Lawson State Community College and founder of the first Black-owned PR and marketing agency in Alabama, known today as Agency 54, part of the Lewis Group.

Christi Parsons

Parsons has been a journalist for more than thirty years, reporting for CNN, LA Times and others. She currently works at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism as a faculty member and the director of Capital News Service’s Annapolis bureau.

Hall of Fame Inductees

2024

Dr. Elizabeth Aversa
Bob Cohn
Dr. Jesse Lewis
Christi Parsons

2022

Paul Finebaum
Charlie Monk
Janet Hall O’Neil
Frank M. Thompson, Jr.

2020

Nancy Parker Boyd
E. Culpepper Clark
Jan Crawford
Bryan Stevenson

2018

Jennings F. Bryant, Jr.
Rece Davis
Fred D. Gray
Houston and Voncile Pearce

2016

Rick E. Bragg
Eli L. Gold
James M. Spann
George R. Stewart

2015

Camile Maxwell Elebash
Wayne H. Gillis
Everett H. Holle
L. Edward Mullins
Annabel K. Stephens

2014

William Ossian “Bill” Bolen
Gilbert E. “Gibby” Johnston, Jr.
H. Shelton Prince, Jr.
Stanley T. Siegal
Sela Ward

2013

Harold Wayne Greenhaw
William Myatt “Billy” Harvill, Jr.
James W. “Jim” Oakley, Jr.

2012

Robert E. Luckie III
Sue O. Medina
Joe Rumore
Dolph Tillotson

2011

Joseph E. “Joe” Gibbs
Charles A. “Chuck” Gordon
James E. “Jim” Jacobson
Ruth W. Waldrop

2010

Sanford Morton “Sandy” Grossman
James E. “Jimmy” Mills
Charles Joseph “Joe” Scarborough, Sr.

2009

Winston F. Groom, Jr.
Norma S. Hanson
Raymond D. Hurlbert
S. Vincent Townsend, Sr.

2008

Nelle Harper Lee
James D. Ramer
H. Pettus Randall III

2007

James C. Barton, Sr.
William H. Melson
Charles L. Moore
Mignon C. Smith

2006

Bob Inman
Chet Simmons

2005

Albert Brewer
Ron Casey
Tom Corts
Jack Edwards
Wayne Flynt
Bailey Thomson

2004

Don Logan
F. David Mathews
Howell H. Raines

2003

Morris S. Dees, Jr.
Robert B. Ingram, Jr.
James T. Stephens
Margaret DeB. Tutwiler

2002

Gould M. Beech
Hugo L. Black
Edwin C. Bridges
Neil O. Davis
Virginia F. Durr
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth

2001

Tom H. Cherones Jr.
John J. Cochran
Betsy A. Plank
Kathryn Tucker Windham
Gay Talese

2000

H. Brandt Ayers
Bert Bank
James B. Boone, Jr.
Emory O. Cunningham
Barrett C. Shelton, Jr.
Julius E. Talton

1999

Carl A. Elliott, Sr.
Elmo I. Ellis
Annabel D. Hagood
Robert E. Luckie, Jr.
B. Carmage Walls
Edward O. Wilson

1998

Mel Allen
Graydon L. Ausmus
Harry Mell Ayers
James Buford Boone Sr.
Clarence E. Cason
Clifford Judkins Durr
Douglas Edwards
John M. Forney Jr.
Kenneth R. Giddens
Amelia Gayle Gorgas
Grover C. Hall Sr.
Victor Henry Hanson
Porter Harvey
William Bradford Huie

Emory O. Jackson
Henry P. Johnston Sr.
Helen Keller
Carroll Kilpatrick
Martin Luther King Jr.
John Luskin
Frank McGee
Charles Wesley Scarritt
Barrett C. Shelton Sr.
Hazel Brannon Smith
Frank P. Thomas Jr.